American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-07-07

Letters from the Principalities an
nounce that the state of, siege which
was somo time since established by the
Austrians in Wallacia, has been ex-
tended to Moldayia.
Heights Of the Tchernaya.
The French lines are now so far all
vanced that the allied cavalry water
.heir horses in the Tchernaya without
i',oiestatlon. The Russians do not
SNOW m force. They have constructed
IVY u"tteries, one towards the bridge,
ana the other on one Of the spurs run
ning out from the ridge of Inkerman.
On the allied side work has been con
structod for the defence of tho BRIDGE
Access to the river certainly secures
water, but the position is described, in
correspondence from the camp, as more
advantageous in a moral than a stratc-
getical point of view.
Further success in the Sea of Azofi.
STRAITS Of hertsch,. June Com
mander Scdaiges and Captain Lyons
announce that the operations of the al
lied flotilla against Taganrog, Marian.
opol, and Gheisk, which took place SSn
the Sd, 9Th and 9th of June, have bean
completely successful. The numerous
provision stores of the Russian goverlA
ment have been burnt, which is a ereaA
loss TO the enemy. The operations
were conducted and executed on cvorv
point with rare energy. The alEcI
only met with resistance at TaganrorY
where the enemy had assembled $500
men. They had only man wounded
Evacuation of Anapa.
The Russians have evacuated Anona
and are supposed to have crossed the
houban. The Circassians are in the
place. f.s ....,,.e.. ..........
l.. . THE CRIMEA.
The following is an extract from a
private letter ~" Before Scvastopol,
May 29,-We have just returned from
Kertsch, and were saluted by q guns
on our arrival here. The Russians de-
stroyed a good deal of powder, and an
immense quantity of Goals. III. =, -,
d., ...a.. The Baltic Fleet. 4
Oh June oth, the English fleet, con
slstlng of l6 line Of battle ships, incluJ
ding three French, was anchored cle/ :.
to Cronstadt, and forming line across
the bay, from shore to shore. Admiral
Dundas had gone in very close with the
surveying steamer Merlin, and after
wards with o boat, but was not MODEST
cd by the Russians. ,....... r..
a letter dated Elsinorc, Nav Dist,
says, son the day before yesterday,
II new prizes, taken by Admiral Dun
das's squadron, cast anchor at Elsinorc
accompanied by the Geyser corvette,
taking them to England. .. 7
.aa Dreadful State Of Sevastopol. :
We are not disposed to build on the
uilauthenticated rumors which are Hy-
ing about Sevastopol, of dispatches cap
tured at Kertsch which contain most
laHaontgblo' acooub,te 'Ot Hls9 4.sygs .ros p 81
disease among the garrison Of Sevasto- /
pol. But there arc two passages in tho
communication of our special CORES
pendent that are pregnant with mean
ing. On the 2Sth ult. he writes, "rhe
Russians have been burying an unusual
number Of dead on the north side the
last few days. These burial places on
that side OF the harbor are exposed to
our view, and with a good glass not on
ly the recent graves can be distinguish
cd, but also the parties at work exca-
waiting or performing the rites of scpul-
ture." 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."s lsgrE a.H
"At the highest of the gravcfclds,
(for the term 'graveyards' is hardly APP.
propriate, as they are not encloscD as
many as seven carts were observed to
be standing at one time to-day. Scv-
eral parties also have been noticed ma
king fresh graves" These intermcnts
are not of the soldiers who have fallen
in battle, for they arc uniformly buried
where they fall. Our battle corrcspon-
dent, therefore, naturally concludes
that the numerous dead carried out to
the 'gravefields' on the north of Scyas-
topol have been, to great extent, tho
victims of disease. 1t is beyond dis
putc, then, that the garrisons are being
assailed by sickness and famine from
within, at the same time that they arc
pressed by their human enemies from
withoutj and this pressure from with
out must now be sensibly felt. DoiM
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