The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-05-30
Phi BoaBARDMENT.

-6orchakoHis account OF the bombare
ment Of the 18TH and By telegraph th
Russian e&cial accounts are brouph
down to the Gath of April. Prime
Gorchakof describes the c~anuonad
which Has opened by the allies on tn
? 9Th as tremendous its object being evi
identity to dismount the Russian guns
The beseiged replied with success an,
on the 10th in less than four hou s 81
fenced SO of their opponents guns
From this circumstance Prince Gorcha
Rof Judges that the loss of the enem,
have been considerable. Some o
the Russian guns and gun-carriage'
were ~dismounted but were immediately
replaced by others, and all the damag,
done to the epanlemcnts and batterie.
were successfully repaired. From the
llth to the 15th," he says, " notwith.
standing that the enemy continue to eau
nonade the fortress with the greatest
energy during the day, and to lombard
IL during the night, we have not had
many guns dismounted, owing to the
Notifications having a sufficient number
of trayerses and to the batteries being
sheltered by blindages. All our dam
age is actively repaired during the night /;
the ~dismounted guns are replaced by
new ones and the losses of the garrison
made good by reinforceinents, SO that
on the 18th Sebastopol was as strong as
before the bombardment." The allies,
he states, mount $50 guns, of which so
are mortars. He also states that the
skirmishes undertaken to defeat the
trench aud mining operations of the be-
siegers have been generally successful,
and that they are 'quiet to the taste "
of the Russian volunteers, MS they offer
them an opportunity Of displaying their
valor. The garrison, he says, is inter
pid aud even gay. The loss sustained
by the garrison from the IIth to the 18th
OF April, IS set down at 2 subaIterns,
aud 436 men killed, aud 6 superior aud
"a subaltern officers and 1899 men
wounded. In his dispatch of the gath.
Prince Gorchakoff says The fire OF
the enemy continues bu: is stacker
The damage doue to our Notifications
and the losses of the garrison are also
less in proportion.
ENGLIsH AND FRENCH coU
The official dispatches from Lork Rag
Ian are to the 18th April only, and from
Gen. Canrobert to the 10th. Lord
Raglan states that the condition of the
army before Sebastopol continued 10 i'm
prove, and mortality from disease to de-
Z crease. Pie FIRE of both the English
and Frcpch armies had been continued
upon SebastopoI; but though superior
To that of the enemy, Lord Raglan ad-
mits that it had not produced that effect
which might have been anticipated from
its constaIcy, power and accuracy
TIE list of casualties is moi heavy. The
correspondence which has come to hand
since our last, gives a description of the
furious sortic from the Flagstaff Bate
ry upon the French lines on the 18th
8 A long aud desperate struggle took
-placea-TBice the Russians succeeded
IA entering the parallel in.adYance of
the battery,-arid twice they were repuls-
ed-the secoLd time with such los; as to
compel az, immediate retreat. The
French made 40 attempt at pursuit, as
the cnemy were within a stones throw of
their own batteries. : General Blot was
wounded IN this affair, and having been
struck also with a chance bullet alter the
close of the fight; has since died. In
this sortie the French lost between fifty
and sixty killed and wounded, the Rus
sans are a far greater number. =,
On the l4th the French fred three .
minies under the Flagstaff Battery with
partial success. The Russians tearing
an assault opened a furious canIoCade
along the whole line. Ga the night of
the 18th the French succeeded in max
ing a Judgement in one portion of the
Battery, but en- the 18th they were COM
PEELED to yield their position. {
81 = SUSPENSION CT THE SIEGE.
aTelegraphs from Setastopol to the !
2Sth ult- state that on tat day the al ,
lied commaHjers end suspended their ,
fire so as not to exhaust their ammuni- ,
tion,- and that they were awaiting rein :
forcements which were hourly expected. !
A Russian dispatch however, dated the .
evening Of the 2sth, says: 1.-THE fire :,
of the enemy is moderate. Their APP h
proaches progress slowly. We have es- :
tablished at 100 yards from bas;ion No. +
a, a row of ride pits which serve to form
q continuous branch of COMMUNICATIONS
The information with regard to the 8
gathering of the Russian reInforcemenfs !
is obtained from a telesraphic dispatch !.
Lord Raglan. The dispatch itself =
has not been published but it was start. =
ed in the House of Commons on the :
of the tst, that it contained an :
announcements or the Russian army ia :
the neighborhood of Sebastopol between =
Balak,Ya and Mackenzie farm. bavinp :.
been reinforced by two 1ivif3n of fresh :
troops, According to the statement Of :
two Polish deserters there are 100, 900 I
Russians in the vicinity of Sebas;o2ol,
90, COO of whom have arrived from Sim :.
pheropol. n
rAESsE E~xPEsDfTURE OF AMMUNITION. o
Daring the first week the lombard. q
mentId The English treuches all fred /.
away betxsenI5.CO0 aud ", 600 80 aud !
sc pounds shot Al d she'll; $500 / inch !.
shells and 1900 10 inch shells max :
ing in all about 1900 tuns-o! shot and 7
300 tuRs#of powder. The Engli b !
mounted on the 18th, IO4 =
guns and mortars; the French ESQ; so =
that during the fret weeks lombard !;
nent abeut 5000 turs of shot and slell, =
l,50ostuus of powder were expend =
ID. u
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e. The Detroit Adrertisey says IS
THE Rev. DIR. i. j. Breckenridge, of q
Kentucky, probably the ablest divine in :"
hat State, has. written a very long let
taking strong grounds in favor of
he American party" h