The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-07-03
From the London Times. June IA.
MAILS BY THE BALTIC.
SebastOpOI and the Crimea.


conveys o. grain and -four have been regu-
larry dispatched thence to Sebastopoi. Our
readers cannot have forgotten the graphic
description given in a recent letter OF our
special correspondent in the camp above Sc
bastopol, of the array of wagons and piles of
sacks, apparently containing grain or flour,
which he could see through his glass on the
heights to the north of the harbor.
These were, there cannot be a doubt, the
Kertch conveys; and this source, whence
Sebastopol would appear to have been exclu-
sively provisoned of late, is now cut off,
We are not disposed to build on the unau-
thenticated rumors which have been flying
about Sebastopo, of dispatches captured at
Kertch which contain most lamentable ac-
counts of the ravages of disease among the
garrison of Sebastopol. But there are two
passages in the communication of our special
correspondent, which we publish to-day, that
are pregnant with meaning. On the 26th
ult. he writes:
"The Russians have been buryinr an I'M
u ual number of dead, off the north side the
last few days. These burial places on that
side of the harbor exposed to our view,
and with good glass not only the recent
graves can be distinguished, but also the
parties at work excavating or performing the
last rites of seputure."
On the 28th he again remarks:
"The Russians are still observed to be very
busy about the graveyards, on the north side
of the harbor''
At the highest of the three grave-felds-
for the term "graveyards'' is hardly appropri-
ate, as they are not enclosed-as many as
seven carts were observed to be standing at
one time to-day. Several parties also have
been noticed making fresh graves.
These inerments are not of the soldiers
who have fallen in battle, for they are uni
formly buried where they fall.''
Our correspondent, therefore, naturally
concludes that the numerous dead carried
out to the ''grave fields" ON the north of Sc
bastopOl have been, to a great extent, the
victims of disease. 1t is beyond dispute, then
that the garrison are being assaulted by sick
ness and famine from within, at the same
time that they are pressed by Their human
enemies from withC ut, and this pressure from
without must now be sensiblv felt.
After the capture of the Mamelon, and the
works extending from it to Careening Bay,
that part of SeVastopol which is situated on
the east side of the military harbo-, cannot
be much longer tenable. Its car ture will de-
prive the Russians of their arsensls and
| principal barracks; and what is scarce ly of
less Importance, it will leave the ships,
which still remain in the inlet of Sevastopol,
denuded of all shelter from the shot and ell
of the allies. Already Sevastopol totters to
its fall. Nor is the position of the Russia n
Crimean army in the field much more secure.
A simultaneous advance Of the allies upon
EupatcFia and Kertch would compel it to
concentrate itself upon Simpheropol or Sc
| l.. ~ bo 1oI
in the southwestern part of the Crmea is to
be exposed to the same famine that is already
telling so fearfully on the garrison at Sebas-
topol. The Crimea is lost to Russia.
Nor is this the full measure ofthe humilia-
ten to which the Muscovite government has
already been subjected. The occupation OF
the sea of Azotf by the allied fotila, and the
evacuation of Anapa by the Russians, has
re established the indie pendence OF Circassia
| Threatened by the warlike mountaineers in
front, and by the naval forces OF the Allies
on their flank and rear, the Russian stations
on the Kuban cannot be maintained; their
qarrisons must fall back on the line of the
Don.
In a short time Russia will not hold one
foot of land south of the Lower Don, the
north shores Of the Sea of Azoff, the PutriC
and Black Seas, and the Lower Danube
Should Russia sue at this moment for peace
it would be madness to restore any territory
south of this line to her. Sebastopol, a
British Minister has declared, is a standing
menace to Constantinope as long as its for
tfcalions are not RACED
Here is Rag!ans latest dispatch:
JUNE S-The success OF last night was
very complete, and the gaantry and steadi-
ness ofthe troops cannot be too highly spoken
of. The French succeeded in securing the
works of the Mamelon and those on its right
called the "Ouvrages Blancs,'' and in those
they took 81 guns, including cohorns, aud
400 prisoners. Nothing could be more brill
liant than the advance of our allies. We
have lost 400 men in killed and wounded.
Later accounts state that the British loss
was IL officers killed, namely Col. Sher-
man, Majors Bayley and Dickson, Captains
Muller, Foster, Corbett Wray, Lieuts Law
renee, Stone. Machell, Lowry, $50 private
men killed. $40 wou nded, and ID missing
1t is singular that Lord Raglan omts to
mention how the British were engaged, or il
they were engaged at all General Pelis-
sier's dispatch informs US that his English
allies carried the rifle works in he quarry.
HEIGHTS OF THE TcHERNAYA.
The French lines are now so far advanced
that the allied cavalry water their horses in
the Tchernaya without molestation. The
Russians do not show in force. They have
constructed two batteries, one towards the
bridge, and the other on one of the spurs
running out from the ridge of Inkermann-
On the allied side, a work has been con-
structed for the defence of the bridge. Ac-
cess to the river certainly secures water. bu'
the position is described, in correspond nee
from the camp, as "more advantageous in a
moral than strategical point of view
i EUPATORIA.