M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-08-03
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100000 Men Killed.

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The dispatch Of General Pellssiel
giving a detailed account OF the asssul
upon Malakoff and the Rsdan, was pub
lished in tho Moniisur YESTERDAY =
From this, and from reliable priTat
sources, | gathered the folio " ing point
nom which il will be seen that the de
Tense was conducted with immens
ability and address, while the attacI
was both sloVsnly and confused:
Ffrst-The Russians were aware o
the precise moment at which the as,
saalt was 10 b6 made. ThA nature sut
the ViVacity ofthe bombardment indi.
Gated clearly enough that an assault was
TO follow, bII we ars not told how the
Russian commanders learned that the
hour was three in the morning. This
shows coaclusiVsly that the allies will
never find the enemJ off their guard.
Sseond--General Meyron mistook a
luss discharged from the Mamelon, for
reiissier's signal. TO be sent up from
the Lancaster battery. His division
therefore marched TO the attack before
'he other two, and the Russians conse-
qusntly had divided and successiv We
assault to repel, instead Of a united ana
simultaneous onset.
Third-General Brunet was not rsa.
dy when the genuine signal was given,
and was actually twenty-five minutes
behind Meynn, who was himself a
quarter OF an hour in advance.
FoHrth--Malakoff and the Redan, the
two works specially to be assaulted had
pretended. the evening before, to be so
badly used that they could no longer
reply to the enemiy'S FIRE. Both Pelis
slsr and Raglan were completely deceiv
ed; the former says: at is possible tha {
these works had not really suffered as
we had the right to suppose they ha d
from the effects of our artillery" The
armament of Malakoff had been chang.
ed during the night, and pieces ada pied
lor grape had been substituted for the
long range cannons of the day before.
fTith-During the night the Russians
mad sunk the ditch lining the exterior
Oh Malakof couple of feet, and the
French scaling ladders were found a I
lhe critical moment 10 be considerabl bly,
too short.
Slrth-The Russian feet locked up
In the haibor, which Pelisser had given
US 70 understand was radically dana.
gea' did the allies the most serious In.
jury, One letter says tha: there were
spots In part Of MalakofF which the feet
rendered positively impossible; "nine
men = ten were swept away By its
plowing fire."
SsVsnth-Thsre were twenty thou.
sand men under arms behind Malakoff
clone, with thirty field pieces, besides
'he armalnsni Of ths bas,ion itself.
Etghth-A battery Of terrible power
was unmasked upon the Assaulting col.
ums.
fellissieT recognizes and scknow led>
ges all these errors and lnisconce ptions.
he says that. "with Sparten GOODNESS
and snssnblS in the attack, the object
might have been attained; but an in.
coaceivabls fatality defeated our plans
tie speaks Of the success and the address
Of the movements Of the Russian feet.
Lord Raglan peVsr saw in his life such
discharges Of grape. and that, too, from
works that had bssn reduced to silence
the night before Tk5 Russians, hay.
ing learned that twenty.three thousand
men were TO be employed against .heln.
were ready to send forty thousand of
their own into action.
LOSS OF THE RUSSIANS.
The Russian official dispatch says:
Our loss during the BON ba I'd ment Of
the 9th anu 9th (l7th and lSth)of June
and during the assault. consist of | su.
Periour officer, 4 subalterus and $50
msn killed; 6 superior o ffcers, 42 sub.
alterns and about 1878 men wounded.
LOSS OF LIFE IN THs WAR.
According TO the Constantinople cor.
respondent Of the London Times, the
losses Of life since the declaration of
war are the following Turks, 1870, 900;
French, 70, 600; English, $4,000; Rus
SLAMS at least 230, 900. Taking into &C.
count the mortality on board the ships
OF war and transports, aud among the
laborsrs OF different kinds attached to
the troops, and the losses Of the Ausiri.
an armies Of occupation and observation
by the disease Of last winter, it may be
assumed that from SOC, 900 10 100000
men have perished or become Invalided
since the commencement of the war. or
about as many as were carried off BY the
cholera Of l93l-32, on its first appear
ance ia Europe.
WHAT THEY INTENp TO DO NEXT,
Letters from Paris state that there Is
reason for believing that instead of
adopting the slow approach Of sap and |
mine. as was generally believed just af.
ter the 18th ult,, the allied generals
have determined TO deliver, and that
speedily, general assault on the works.
The German telegraph brings word of |
In expedition to Odessa. but it is not |
likely that the generals of the allied
lrmiss will reduce their forces before
sebasiopol at this juncturs. Large re-.
endorsements are leaving france, pre-
;eied By considerable number or Off. |
cers Of high rank, to take the places of |
hose who have fallen ia the recent en-. |
"a gements.
"Sambo. where is the shoseif
"Wid DO hoe massa.' a.'Well wharisI
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