The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-05-26

Hsw the Dombaramens Proceeded.
EXTRACTS IRON TIE SPECIAL cRlNEA co1Rxs-
PoHDEHcE OF THE LONDON TINES.
CAMP BEFORE SEsAsToPoL,
Thursday Apri! IL. 1860
The siege goes on as usual-that lie, there
are many guns fred every day, tons Of pow
der are discharged, hundreds of thousands
of tons of shot and shell are hurled against
the Russian batteries, and the French are
making some progress in establishing them
selves in front Of their lines towards the
enemy's batteries, and have gained q bit Of
vantage ground from them in front Of the
Flagstaff battery. A ship steals close into
the entrance of the roads at night, fires her
broadside at the town, and departs. The
railway groans beneath the weight of the
trucks.fulI of ammunition sent up by IL; and
the electric wire cable has been landed ut
ST. Georges to convey the news of our
grand success to Cape Kalafst, when we are
fortunate enough to achieve it.
AMMUNITION IN sEsAsrofoL.
The Russians last night showed Us that
they had plenty OF guns and men to man
them, ali along their lines, that as yet
they have ample supplies Of ammunition and
round shot. Their shells seem to be used
more psrsimoniously than they were when
our FIRE fret re.opened. II lie little short OF
marvellous how they have kept up their sup
plies SO long; the stores Of Sebastopol can
not be like the widows cruise, and one would
think they had been pretty well cleared out
BY this time. Where the Russians get
their shot and she'll from il is not easy to
determine, and still less can it be ascertained
how they carry such prodigious loads OF ma
terial into the city. The real strength Of
the corps Of Osten.Sacken and Liprandi,
which extend outside ss far ss below Baidar
and the Belbek, cannot be exactly discovered
but steps will shortly be taken to beat up
their quarters with the Turkish reinforce
ments, and an offensive movement may be
expected against the enemy's right flank in
a few days.
The French developing that high degree
of military science for which they are ceIe.
brated, use all the means Of attack known in
modern sieges with considerable success, and
advance their works daily towards the ene-
my whom they lombard and cannonade and
discharge rockets at necessarily. The sap
and the mine are at work eating their way
slowly into the outer defences Of the place,
but the cannon will never take Sebastopol.
II is besides, abestos-like; its buildings will
not burn even if we could set them on fire,
and in fact, our batteries are TOO far from
the public edi6ces in that part Of the city to
which they are opposed to reach them, al.
ways excepting those portions of them armed
with large mortars, which as yet, however,
have not produced any effect appreciable to a
civilian outside the town.
We have however, made q much more
serious impression on the town and the bat.
teries than we did last year, and our allies,
instead Of being "snuffed out" BY the Rus.
slams, have established to certain exient q
superiority of FIRE, and have maintained a
vigorous cannonade and bombardment
against the place without remission or feeble
ness since this day week, inficting thereby
great loss Of life and damage to the enemy's
stronghold.
RUSSIAN sHARP.sHooIISe.
The lighthouse batteries are nearly silent
now, but the riAemen on both sides keep up
a constant fire on each other from the caves
and rocks on each side Of the valley where
it's sides contract at Iukermsnn. Sometime
ago I was watching three French Chasseurs
"poiting away" at Russian who was sitting
with his legs dangling over the side OF
precipice, and now and then returning their
fire. The French knew the man quite well,
and admitted that he was so good shot they
did not care to expose themselves too freely
All their balls fell short Of the man, and
after he had received three or four rounds
from each he raised his rifle, down went
the Chssseurs and somebody else -
"ping" few the ball through the air, and
"plop" il came against the rock behind
which the foremost Chssseur was crouching.
The Frenchman picked up the piece of lead,
quite tlattsned out and broken, and showed
il 10 his comrades, and then they resumed
their practice, the result OF which did not
wait to ascertain. Many OF the Russian
rihemen are excellent shots, but the majority
Of them are not equal to our own or to the
French Chasseurs.
An amateur in one Of the batteries. anx.
ious to see what hind of shooting the enc
my would make. held his "wides wake" Just
above the parapetI in q moment two bullets
went through il, and one of them took
fancy to the gentleman's fore-inger and to
biz Of another finger, and carried them
away with it. 30 that the unfortunate ex.
perimentaIis will be able to speak with au.
thority on the question Of Russian sharp
shooting. This is, by the way, in order to
show the dssagrenens of work in the trenches
without reference to the chance of round
shot and she'll. Poor General BLOT, of the
French Engineers, fell victim to his con.
tempt of the enemy's riHemen, and it is
wonderful how he escaped so long. for he
was accustomed to walk about the advanced
trenches with a conspicuous little red skull
cap. all embroidered with gold lace, on HE
head, right under the enemy's eyes. Our
soldiers are but little exposed 70 rifemen,
but nothing exasperates Jack 80 much as
the bee.lke hum Of Liege ball, as il Hies
past his head; and, if he were in the advanced
work, he would soon be food for the worms.
HARD FIGHT.