The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-14
THE ARAGO's MAILS.
DETAILS OF THE BATTLE EATTcfIERNAYA
VICTORIA AT NAPoLEoN,s TOMB.
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rived at New York, Tuesday morning.
among the passengers per Arago are II Hart
commissioner OF the Supreme Court of Victoria
Australia; Bertinaiti, Charge d'Aff.irs and
consul OF Sardinia; DR. w Mayo and lady; L. d.
droesoriand, Bishop Of Burlington, Vt 1
her Majesty thu Queen and family left Boulognt
on The night Of the 9th uit, In the Royal zach
Victoria and Albert and arrived at Osborn house
on the following morning Her Msjesty rode from
Paris with the French Emperor and the Prince
Napoleon 10 the Emperor's state carriage. The
farewell was most enthusiastic and the illumiua-
tons superb. Gen Canrobert formed part of the
cortege. s aa aas a>s
This arrival brings the details from the battle OF
the Tchernaya. IN ss
PosiTIoN OF THE ANKLES
On two or three of these, which lie Ia cluster
on the side of the plain next Inkernan. and direct
1y facing the Mackenzie Heights, the road from
which passes between them, have encamped for
some time past three divisions of French. On the
side next the Tchernsya the position WAS defend
cd by precipitous and escarpe descent, on which
some stunted brushwood still remAiued but which
10 most places stripped of the soil By the rains of
ages. presents but the white masses of this chalk
which playsso important part 10 the geology Of
the whole district; on the side next Baaklavs the
descent 10 comparative easy On the summit rest.
cd the right wing OF Liprandis army on the 25,h
of October, and on the southern side were planted
the great number of the batteries which moved
down the British Light Cavalry, 90 they charged
along the slope which leads gently towards the
ford on the road to Tchorgoun This ford 10 reach.
ed through a toeraby wide opening, which sepa.
rates the French position from that of the Pied
montess who occupied the heights in1mediatelv
under the village of Kamsrs, extending a short
distance to the right s1u.. s-4.-. -z ta-c-
The valley still further to their right, which is
by the WoroDzo zoff.r road, leading on 10
Baidar. was defended by the Turks. The throe ar.
mics occupied chain of eminence forming a
drawn from Inkerman to the sea, and
Balaklava and the plain within It's two
10 other words, just the position sken
up by Liprandi last autumn. The French divisions
wore encamped on the top Of the bills; between
these hills runs the road leading up to Mackebzies
Farm, and crossing the river 10 the valley by a
'tune bridge, for the protection of which a small
'edoubt had been thrown up 10 front. This tcte
1s pont was on the night of the 1e.h ins! guarded
,y the 20th Of The liue. The Piedmontese had bat
cries regular fort fed on all the heights over.
ooking the ford on the road to Tchorgoup. aud
lad the upper end of the valley completely within
heir range. On the other side o! tn river on the
op of hill, similar in every respect to those have
,sen describing, they had on the same night an
outpost composed OF two companies of infantry for
whose greater security, considering their distance
rom their own lines, small entrenchmeot had
'een thrown up. .'t -f -f..
ADVANCE OF THE RUSSIANS
We were not kept long waiting From behind
he cloud of smoke which naturally hung around
he Russian batteries came two large columns of
he enemy, marching In quick time, about 200 yards
part and exactly parallel, short distance from
be river, and 10 line with the bank Az ,hey
Wound and twisted, mounted and descended, fol.
owing the inequalities In the ground in long COM
sct masses, their bsyonets gancing in the sum-
labt, they looked exactly like two huge serpents
rseping rapidly along, their scales glisteping, and
heir prey In SIGHT. On arriving within about
ight hundred yards of the ford, one halted, and
le other turned of abruptly towards the river
was evident they we're aboutto assail the French
osilon more TO the right, on the side next the
ardinisns. On reaching the water some passed
n small bridges hastily thrown over. the rest ford
nto loose order. and pushed on towards the canal
r soueduct, which rises within an embankment
/ the very foot Of the hill Before reaching Il
hey had to traverse about two hundred yards OF
,osed to the French artillery. because the guns
lou Id not be depressed sufficiently to reach them
,ur they had their flank turned to that OF the Pied
nontese who had got the range an inch and
ired with an accuracy little short of marvel
Gus.
This first rush did not last more than ten min
ties The Russians fell back, but they had scarcely
one few hundred yards when they w1rS met bv
ha second column, which was advancing pas de
e ain rushed forward This second attempt was
more successful than the first. At the bridge they
orded the river on the right and left, and forced
he defenders of 1t to fall back Scarcely was the
ridge free when two guns of the 5sh Light Brigade
u, Artillery crossed 1t and took up position on the
opposite side 10 an open space which divides two
If the bocks and through which the rosd leads
o the plain of Balaklava. While those two guns
,assed the bridge third crossed the river by
ord, and all three guns began to sweep the road
md the heights. The infantry In the meatime,
Without waiting for the portable bridges, which
lad moreover been thrown away in great part
luripg the advance, rushed breast deep into the
water, climbed up the embankment and began to
Gale the heights on both sides They succeeded on
his point in getting up more than one.half of the
scent where the dead and wounded showed
.learly the mark which they reached; but by The
ime they arrived there the French were fully pre-.
Jared and met them In the most gallant style
Notwithstanding the exertions and the perseverance,
# the Russians they were by degrees forced back
md driven, after an obsti0ats resistance, across
he bridge, carrying away their guns.
VISIT TO THE BATTLE FIELD.
Nothing now remained but to visit the field of
,attle, on which the Z,uaves had already descep
led like vultures, aud were removing everything
portable. Thescen which presented itself on the
'aaks of the river, below the canal was something
earful beyond description, much more fearfulth than
he ordinary horrors of battle field. The canal
tself was choked with dead, most of whom had
he hill side, and found repose In lie muddy waters.
'roken muskets, bags OF bread, cartridges, one
lark red stain on the white chalky gravel, often
lone marked the spot where the men first fell; in
moment afterwards t1mbed back to perdition -
dapy had fallen, after scrambipg up TO the brink
II the squeduct, and they had time to cross It,
md If not caught In the bushes, rolled Into the
lain, breaking their bones Ia the descent, and lie
here as We passed, shrieking in agony, and i'm.
'lorDg US to kill them and thus put end to their
offering. Never did eye rest upon humanity 10
orms SO mutilated defsced and disfgursd as these
Unhappy wretches who lay writhing there In their
'oody rags, their faces 30 plastered over with gore
md dust that neither wife nor mother would ever
lave recognized son or husband ia those hideous
nasses of mortality. t ~
Some, but they were q small minority, sought to
lrag themselves to the shade of the few bushes
hat skirted the river; some sought to hide their
leads from the fiery heat of the midday sun under
he tattered garments. and others lay with faces
,pturned and ghastly, their limbs still trembling
n the last culver, and the flies already burrowing
q their wounds Men shot down by any sort Of
nissiie and lying where they fall, CORY and mutt
ated though they may be, 10 q sieht TO whieh one
loon gets habituated. but wounded men who have
been rolled over a rough soiI, and their bones
broken 10 their progress, 10 one of those sights
hat one rarely Witnesses, and which be who bss
,nce seen Il never Wishes to see more. On towards
he bridge the dead lay thicker and thicker. On
he banks OF the river about II, and In the river
fself, they we're heaped and piled" mostly fiue
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