Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-10-05
. I.oss of ThIrry Thousand Lives.


couo, ,su;tb q loss of thirty thousand lives; )"
80 +ho glory Of the achievement, if be really &C
oor,rlshed. will be rather enhanced than leSsened
by the carnage, for, strangely enough we all Oh uS
toke great interest in such things, and have sor'
of troubled pleasure in learning OF vast ueS'lu0'ol
Of life. Thirty thousand men torn ana rent anu
mangled-thirty thousand souls sent TO thelr long
account. Thirty thousand human beings "scortched
with the death thirst and writing IN pam 1hlfy
thousand fathers brothers, sons or HUSBANDS, 1ang
bv the hands of other fathers brothers, sons or nus
hands There are contained in that short sentence all
know or dream or fear OF agony, OF wldowhood' OF
ornhanape and all this goes TO make up "a glorious
,;ctorv }, Take one conscript from the sunny fields
o vineclad hills of France, the hope perhaps, OF
widowed mother-the support OF aged and helpless
,,arents, the betrothed of village maden-fol-
low him through the scenes OF soldiers hte-hls
moor little dreams of glory succeeding the first pas
aonate outbreak of sorrow at his departure from all
tho humble objects of his love-his hard toll in the
trarches bequiled by recollectons of home and its
lowlv oys the dance the village green, the stroll
with the village girls, even the toll sweetened by
dear companionshp, until the rushing tide OF memo
nv causes the teardrop to start to his eye In dreams
he reyisits those scenes again. But his dream is
rudely broken by the call which summons him to kill
and to be killed The battle is fought and won" Sc
bastopol has fallen with loss of thirty thousand
lives" "a glorious victory" Torn, mutilated, dis
torted beyond the hope of recognition, by thu
mother who bore him or the woman who loved him
lies that conscript, of thirty thousand lives los
that Sebastopol mis- ht be taken. In many a home
There is a voice of wall
And woman'S eye is wet, mans check is pale
Tnythe homes of Russia, of England, Ireland, Scot
land France and Italy, there is sorrow and desolatio
not to be soothed by NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. not to b
wiped away by grand bulletin or the smooth lies
Royal speech
And this is war and glory.
Erou, Euroue-ArrIv0I of the America-Reporte
Capture of SebostOpOI.
Telegraphic dispatches from New York, dated tn
9th inst, yesterday, announce the arrival of tn
steamship America at Halifax, with one week late
from Europe. The most important item of her new
is the reported fall of Sebastopo with loss of hi
ty thousand lives. There u.s. no doubt, some founde
ton for the report. 1t mag be all true, but we d
not think that it is. After the reported fall of Swes
borg, all but the civilizations, we must take first +,
mors with many grains of allowance. These advic,
are only week later than those already in our DO
session, and according to them, although the allie
had certainly made progress, yet the main defence
of the city were still intact, and its strength great
than at any former period That such series
Notifications, the work of years, whose mere gu
works had kept two nations at bay for year. shou
all fall in one brief week, seems incredible unle
there be some exhaustion of resources of which
have been ignorant, The only indication of cayil
in demonstrated by the garrison, has been the co
struction of bridge across the harbor to the nor
side, with the view of having facilities for retrea
in that direction if necessary.
We must await fuller details; but when these
arrive-and that will hardly be for some time-r
~antI,re to say that they will show some impoua
ADVANCES. but no such complete and signal success
Tennrted. One thing is always confrmed-the suf
inrs and deaths Of the solders.-DaiIy Jour-, %