Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-10-20
HORRIBLE SCENES WITHIN sEBAsTopoL.


have been presented to the world the hospital of
Sebastopo presents the most horrible, heartrendng,
and revolving It cannot be described, and the I'M
agination of Fuseli cound not conceive any thing
at all like untoit How the poor human body can
be mutilated and yet hold its soul Within when every
limb is shattered and every vein and artery is pour
ing out the life stream, one might study here at
every STEP and at the same time wonder what little
will kill. The building used hospital is one OF
the noble piles inside the dockya wall, and is stu
aed in the centre of the row, at right angles to the
line of the Redan.
The whole row was peculiarly exposed to the &C,
ton of shot and shell bounding over the 'Redan and
to the missiles directed at the Barrack Battery, and
it bears in Sides roofs, windows and DOORS frequent
and destructive proofs of the severity OF the cannon
ade Entering one OF these doors oeheio sucn a
sight as few men, thank God, have ever witnessed!
In long low room, supported by square pillars,
arched at the top, and dimly lighted through shat.
tered and unglaZed window-frames, lay the wounded
Russians who had been abandoned to our mercies
by their general. The wounded did l say? No,
but the dead the rotten and fostering corpSes OF the
soldiers who left to die in their extreme agony
INTENDED, uncared for, packed close as they can
be slowed, some on the floor, others on wretched
trestles and bedsteads or pallets of straw sopped
and saturated with HOOD which oozed and trickled
through upon the floor, mingled with the droppnSs
of corruption
With the roar ofexpoding fortresses in their ears
with shell and shot forcing through the roof and
sides of the rooms in which they lay with the crack
ling and kissing of fire around them, these poor TEL
lows, who had served their loving friend and master
the Car but well, consigned to their ter
rbile fate. Many might have been saved by ordi-
nary care. Many lay yet alive, with maggots crawl
ing about their wounds. Many, nearly mad by the
around them seeking escape from in their
EXTREMIST agony, had rolled away under the beds,
and gared out the heart-stricken spectators-oh!
with such looks! Many, with legs and arms broken
and twisted, the jagged splnters sticking through
the flesh, mplored aid, water, food, or pity, or,
deprived of speech by the approach of death, or by
X,
the leathal spot.
Many seemed bent alone on making their peace
with Heaven. The attitudes of some were so hide
ously fantastic to appal and root one to the
ground by scat of dreadful fascination. Could
that bloody mass of clothing and white bones ever
have been human being, or that burnt black mass
of flesh have ever been a human soul? 1t was fear
full to think what the answer must be. The bodies
of numbers of men swollen and boated to an
incredible degree, and the features distended to a
gigantic sze with eyes protruding from the sockets,
and the blackened tongue long out OF the mouth,
compressed tightly by the teeth which had set upon
it in the death rattle, made one shudder and reel
round.
In the midst of one of these chambers of horrors
for there were many of them-were found some
dead and some living English soldiers. and among
them poor Captain Eaug han, of the Goth, who has
since succumbed 10 his wounds l confess it was
impossible for to stand the sight, which horrihed
our most experienced surgeonS-the deadly, clanlmy
stencil, the smell of gangrened wounds of CORFU pied
blood, of rotten flesh, were intolerable and odouS
beyond endurance. But what must the wounded
have felt who obliged to endure all this, and
who passed away without hand to give them cup
of water, a voice to say kindly word to them!
Most of these men were wounded on Saturday
many perhaps on the Friday before; indeed it is
impossible to say how long they might have been
there In the hurry of their retreat the MuscoviteS
seem have carried in dead men to get them out of
the way, and to have put them upon pallets in hor
rid m ockery. So thatthis retreat was secured the
enemy cared but little for the wounded. On Mon |
ply how ayJh6 mt
to them during a brief armistice for the purpose, |
which was, | believe, sought by ourselves our |
overcrowded hospitals could not contain, and our |
overworked surgeons could not attend to any more.
The Great Redan next visited. Such scene |
of wreck and ruin! All the houses behind it mass
of broken stones-a clock turret, with shot right
through the clock-a pagoda in ruins-another clock
tower with all the clocks destroyed the dial, |
with the words Barwsc, London thereOn-cook- !
houses where human blood running among the |
utensils in place shell had odgcd in the boiler
and blown it and its contents, and probably its at
PENDANTS, to pieces; everywhere wreck and dcstruc
ton. This evidently Qeau quarter once.
The oldest nhabitant could not recognise it now. |
Climbing up the Redan, which was fearfuy cum
bered with the dead, we witnessed the scene of the
desperate attack and defence which cost both sides
so much blood. The ditch outside made sick; |
it was piled up with English dead, of them
scorched and blackened by the explosion and others
lacerated beyond recognition. The quantity Of bro
ken gabions and gun carriages here cxtraordi- |
nary; the ground covered with them. The !
bomb proofs the in the MalakoH, and |
in one of them music book found, with wo-
mans name in it, and a canary bird and vase of |
flowers outside the entrance"
The following extract from a speech delivered by
Hon. A. Ii. Stephens, before great Mass Meeting
Of the Democrats in Georgia, is emnently worthy |
Of profound consideration
Mr.. Stephens said he wanted the people to hear
mis- words and remember them. He came to speak
not to their passions but to their reason-not to
heir hearts but to their heads. He had confidence
in the people and their capacity to govern them
selves. They needed secret dictators and he
had no fears for the result when he them, as
then, feeling interest in public affairs and deter
mined to examine into them. The question was
merely this. Were they willing to live under the
Constitution of their fathers or did they want
but now the difference about form Of go0era-
sent The know-nothngs propose to substitute I
heir supreme council for the present Government
country. Let the people choose. Which would |
hey have-the Constitution Of their Fathers or
hat of the know nothing Councils? That was the
'ea; question. He had the know-nothing Constitu-
ion in his hand. 1t was genuine, and he knew it. |
It declared that the Supreme National Council
should decide all matters appertaining to National
politics. " that it should have power to tax" and
power to punish" without Limitation restriction.
This more power than was claimed for Con-
,ress
Our forefathers guarded our liberty with checks
Ind balances. 1t made the Senate check upon the
aouse-the President check upon the Senate, and
he Judiciary a check upon the President But this
'arty claimed all these powers for its Nation.