Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-23
TIE SmoE or SEBAsrogoL.

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I ces
BEFORE SEsAsTopoL. July Ell have Just
/ eft the picketand this is the second night have
passed without sleep. Last night sent
| 10 the ravne Of the karabeaaiu. where oecp-
/ py n reserved position. We were occupied in
/ platoon firing the whole night in order 10 divert
/ the attention Of the enemy, while our men were
/ completing the grand mortar batteries, which are
! to fire the fleet. You have doubtless seen the
order Of the day relative to the sortie Of the lth
! and 18th Of this month, tits by that same raYine
| that the Russians tried TO tnrn our guards, aud
! chen rush ON the Mamelon, which they desired To
/ take They were received with smart fire and
/ a bayonct charge and had to return, after leay
ing great number of dead bodies on the ground
| The whole Of the dead wore the uniform OF the
| Guard. who he'd arrived, it is snid, only short
time before II was one of the most serious at
tacks of the sortcs aud yet our loss was quito in
significant. On the left we have had nothing ex-
traordnary of late. We are on all sides rs near
ns possible to- the Russian batteries; tudeed so
close that we could pitch stones in with our hands.
Once takcn--und this is inc viiable from all we
have done-wc can take in reverse all the battle
ries which command the works attack, aud
then there will be Il great chance OF sue
cess.
The above letter is FROM II French writer. An
English correspondence writes, under the same
date:
The health of the men is till &c allent, and
their spirits do not in the least suffer by the
Tenth and wearsomeness of the siege. The sum
mcr is cool, and, as the Russians of late make
very fow sorties, the nights passed without
much hardship in the trenches When formed in
marching order to descend the oft.trodden ravines
which lead TO the batters there is neither
dependency nor unwillingness; the laugh and
the Joke accompany their steps; their air is brisk
and alert. How different from their appearance
in the gloomy season of last December.
The noise Of kttles is to be heard every
side, and the regimenta bands, with sadly dimin-
ished numbers indeed but still effective for amuse-
mcnt, give the various popular airs TO which we
are accustomed ut home. Cathcaat's hill is ev-
cry evening the lounge of hundreds of idlers,
who, stretched at length on the dried grass,
sitting on the piles of stones which enclose many
an honofcd grave, look down on the beleagured
city, and watch the flashes which burst forth from
Mameon, MalakolI, or Redan, with lazy indif-
ference.
CAMP BEFORE SEBASToPoL July 2l.-Amd
the returning heat which has followed the stormy
weather of last week, the operations of the siege
are being pressed forward by the French on our
right with interchangeable industry. There is moth
ing in what goes forward which can strike a
stranger: stagnation seems TO reign in camp ond
trenches; even the heavy firing ola few days
since has for the most part died away; yet every
day an advance is made, aud every day the
allies nearer tho crest of the Malakof which it
will wv require all the courage and tcnacity of
the Russians to hold.
The day before yesterday, however, a few
Russians struggled out here and there, making
their way by dodging behind clumps of earth
and bushes, until they had reached about 50
yards from the parapet when they threw them
selves on their faces and began digging up earth
for cover The French seemingly did not OBJ
serve this movement. and our people, not catch.
ing sight of the vcnturesome Muscoyites until
they were actually fixed in the position they
wished to attain, fanoied them to be French
BY this means the Russians have estab she'd
rifle pits in front of the French sap, where they
will do the usual amount of damages unless they
are speedily driven out.
\ private letter from kamieseh Of the 2Ist ult.
states that the French works have been carried
to within sixty yards of'hc Mnlakof Tower
General Pelissier Is said to b. determined not to
make another assault until he is certain of sue
cess. He examines every inch of ground. and
has decided to leave nothing to chance.
PROPOSED RAISING or THE SIEGE.
The Paris Constitutional, in an article descrp.
tive of KamieSoh and the wondrous transto ma
ton wrought IN the place since 1t has been occu-
pied by the French, enlarges thus upon the vast
Importance of the Notifications IN course of
completion there.
"Now that it is assured of such formidable
of movement, which it had not at the beginning
of the campaign. In every possible contingency
the possession of Kamesch fortified it now is
will aid in the accomplishment of the object with
which the war in the Crimea was undertaken
Sebastopol. commanded by kamesch. which
holds it, to speak, by the throat, can never
| henceforth be of any use TO the Gar.
ION the supposiion that events should call the
army to fresh points of the Russian territory, who
does not see that the presence of a few French
! and English ships at Kamesch would suffice to
nullify the entire offensive power of Sebastopol!
! Therefore, the possibility of the moblisaton of
the allied army and of the notification of Sebas-
topol of the two grand results of the transfer
nation of Kamiesch into place of war. 1t is
now the sentinel-the keeper of the Russian cta-
! del, France now knows that with
out abandoning its conquest it may at will send
an army of lO0,O0O men to any point where the
glorious cause for which it is fighting by the side
of England may call for their services
On this the European Times remarks
''rhis looks as if it were desired to prepare the
public mind for the possibility of such an event
as raising the siege of Sehastopo Should this
be done, must not be dishearened, and must
not attach undue importance to phrases. Rails
ing the siege is not the same thing as renounc-
ing the siege. Ii it should turn out that the next
attack (generaly thought to be eminent) should
he failure, or only partially successful or it. Cd
further consideration, it should be thought that
another attack. under present circumstances.
would only involve great loss Of life for no ade-
| quate advantages, the change of tactics limited
| by the Constitutional might we'll be merely such
backward step as is described in the French
proverb, recuie pour meeur Sauter.
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