The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-11-01

nun aHu oHol' WHICH may pOsSiOly COu-
tain, however, several thousand guns -
In addition to the main stream Of carts
there are always many divergent GU.
rents and small streams of vehicles pro
ceedlng between various stations on the
north side and Mackenze's Farm, by
different paths through the brushwood
and communicating with the detached
camps spread all over the face of the
slopes between lnkermaGn anl the 3 j.
btk.
At daybreak on the morning of the
22d, saw through the mist on the Mac.
kenzie ridge numerous line of watch,
fires, and later, in the early light, strong
column Of the Russian infantry was visi
bic in bIvouac to our right Of the teIe
graphic station. and to the left OF the Spur
Battery, near The Mackenzie road. Par
OF these have marched away again in the
course Of the day. The others remain
in the same place, and are busy butjng
themselves, an operation which they per.
form with eatsklII and alacrity. They
were encamped in sort Of chaparal, and
they have already cleared good bit Of
it, and connected the branches into the
sides and coverings Of their hus. Their
arms were piled when they first came.
but in three hours aGer tine men arrived
the glistening barrels and bayonets had
disappeared, and had possibly been
placed in some dry and secure place.
The recent heavy rains will Fl | all the
wells and swell the water courses of this
district, and it will no longer be untena-
bic by large bodies OF men.
Having secured their right flank by the
very formidable earthworks and batteries
which we are permitting the enemy even
yet to erect, in addition to their former
detenses and to their regular forts, the Rus
slams will now no doubt direct the bulk of
their army 10 protect their centre over the
Tchernaya, and their left at Aitodor and on
the Upper Belbek. They seem prepared
to hold this extensive line, and we appear
at present by no means prepared or will
ling to attack it. As the allies can scarce
ly spare men enough to send to Eupatoria,
and thence to march on Sirb bheropol, or
to force tie Russian position on the Belbek
by a corps descending on them from the
north, and as there is no apparent inten-
ton of attacking them from lnkermann on
the Tchernaya, this dead lock may last
longer than we think, and is likely enough
no, to be relaxed this winter The guam
tity of stores removed by the Russians
from the north side to their new depot
shows that they are not in want of provi-
sions, unless they take the trouble to carry
dummy sacks and fill their carts with
" make believes" 1t may and must be
difficult for them to feed their army, but,
somehow or other, they do SO.
About noon the same day, a flag oil
truce came in from the fleet, and was met
near Fort Constantine bya Russian beat.
The conference did not last very long, and
its object has not yet transpired. The
French mortars and guns were not silent
while the flags were flying. Their NOR
tar battery, which isprotected by the walls
of Fort Nicholas, keeps up constant fire
of bombs against the quadrangular store
house. In addition to the fIe yesterday
the French sent two bombs through the
roof of the building to-day, and they are
rapidly defacing the building. Their
practice is very variable, which is probably
owing to the imperfect manufacture of their
shells, which are frequently of unequal
weight, and are consequently of uncertain
range. In the large shells there is some
times variation of three pounds or four
pounds in weight, and some which were
lent to us were found to be almost useless
on that account. Their battery behind
the Lalakoff is principally directed against
the roads to Fort Constantine and Fort
Catherine. Three or four times in the
day Fort Constantine gives sullen reply
to the allies, and the 12-gun battery at In
hermann throws an odd shot at the French
battery of the MalakoH. The Russians,
however, look as if they intended to work
steadily at their earthworks, and some
fine day, no doubt, they will open with a
roar of cannon in their old style, all along
the waterside from Fort Constantine to In
hermann. Large conveys passed in and
out of the forts to-day, but it could not be
ascertained with what they were laden
Their coal depot is untouched and undi-
minished. Ii was amusing to watch the
GOODNESS of the fellows at work inside the
large magazine to-day. Some of them US
uaIly stood in the doorway by the water
side to look out for the mortars. " Bonn, I"
goes one, and the thick white smoke flies
upwards i'll a circling pillar, marked here
and there with whirling rings. "T-wlt!
twill Twill" the bomb whistles alolt, the
sound becoming fainter and fainter as it
leaves us, till it begins to grow on the ear
of the gentleman in gray, who is on the
watch at the other side; he pops in his
head, and out come at his summons, like
rabbits scuttling from a ferret-hanted
cavern, a swarm of his comrades just as
the bomb, with prodigious crash, and
knocking up cloud of tiles, dust, timber
stones and dirt, rushes through the roof
and bursts inside; they are down on their
faces in moment, and the bits fly over
them, and strike the earth far inland, or
dash the water of the harbor into foam
Then the =" Rooskies" get up and return
placidly to their work inside till the next
bomb comes dangerously near. If it does
not fall inside the building, or is not likely
to slip down on them through the roof