Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-08-01
rax aEDAs AND rHs xAtaKorr.


Tbrse now fa,aaus tew4r., thai mss lie
said Ia guard the gasfs Of Seb 4stepal, ase al.
rsstv t.ays shs Se~ York Express, esisbrs-
tsd far deeds AMI salss, on sss psrt Of orb
k~sieger. and tesisyed, hist nimost risai
,i,oes which Old Homer tells nf btferc The
walls Of Tray thousands Of years ago.
Tbs dfst Of these sswtrs. the iss,dan, u 4
hue s.n,ieireuiaf earth. work, forming in
f.s.i a rars OF yic rna.,s fertiSestipns on thy
lard side Of the ciiy jast outside tie salis.
II sas originally 81 ssoa-, has since thsin-
vrrtsusat of thr cry hs ti,e Rrpsch and Eng
lish immcnse eaTsh.works have been adIsd
20 IL.
The Nslakoa Tower j. next nsrsh and fast
OF tbs Reslsn; betw en- kern are the Och akoo
rasine and eurtbworks. The Aaiakof stands
upon the low ground, pc,r the head oil the
Iaferniaz Bay, b1s on the southern ard west,
era sid. The Mains.on s'ands four hundred
ward. IN font Of If, IN more commanding
pesinen, AMI when !, was taken by the
Preach this Russiai hauieI ID IL dips ous Of
the bay, as they VIE exposed 10 tac guns Of
the Aamtian 10 the hands 81 the FRI nea.
Thess three NO Us we're in fset siluns-
wark-, aid have been throsn up since ti,e
e,mmenepm Ut of The sirze, a.mos, IN prr--
esce Of the Fresch and Epgiish, but sin
they may lie considered as forming part Of
ti,e main defencs OF the city; whist the
Nam lion, alb nsh important from its com
inandisg position, VI !. nevertheless detacb.
ell ~ork. ,rperats aud distinct frsm the Rus.
sian main ne Of defence.
A correspondent; Of the Boston Post gives
tn. following relating To Tie Nalssof:
"Tbat Malakon Tpw4r. by The way, mus,
be considered ens Of The most wonderful
achievements OF moiern sngipery. During
the suspension 81 armsfer tho burial OF the
dead nftsr The bate or the Sth Of June the
Engl,,h and French engineers hnd m oppor-
tuaity FOR thu first time Of examining tho.
roughly the construction Of it's works. They
describe the tiayerses ns Wonderful, fully
eighteen feet in height, md the mass OF the
earth which had been raised TO give sol.iity
ioshe work to be ike tbs huge cmbankment
OF = rai.way. When II 10 remembered that
this enormous extension of The fortiiicnsions
OF Ssbns,opal was begun nj the close Of the
winter, and that IL has been completed in
spite OF the fire Of apowaffnl enemy and of
the rocky nature OF the soil, the result does
the highest hone, to the skill, daring, and in
dustry OF tho garrison. 1t sc ms pretty
clear th u the last boinbarGmant established
the sup riority OF the fire of the Allies, for.
while the Russian einbrasurps were Knocked
dowa and many of their guns dismounted,
neither farapet nor gun WIS DESTROYED on
the side Of the Allies. II there was half the
military gfnins outside that there is inside
Sebastopol, the place could be taken in d fort
night
lisa noteworthy fact that the unsucce.s-
full assault on the par, Of the Allies made on
the 18th Of juno, the anniversary Of the bat
tie Of Waterloo. Possibly the purpose was
30 cement still closer the union of England
and trance by sinking the msmories of that
memorable day in the stormisg and rcduc-
tien of Sebastopol-a happy thought, per.
haps. bus terminating in melancholy dis
appointment.