The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-06-26

The War In the Crimea.
Everything tends to throw increasing
gloom, over the prospects of the Allied
armies and Sebastopol bids fair to rise into
the dignity of a Gibraltar for Russia. Every
account shows that the Russians are max
ing it perfect labyrinth of masonry, laid
down according to plans scientifically made;
and that if even the Allies secure the out
works, upon which they are now pressing so
hard, and at such awful expenditure of life
and suffering, they will by no means have
gained the city, or even an entrance to it,
for they will be met by new interior
works of the most massy character, and
upon scale which, for extent and grand
eur, has seldom il ever been surpassed.
During the whole time the siege has been
progressing, new works Of defence have
been in course of construction within the
walls, and the rapidity with which damages
to the outer lines of Notifications have been
constantly repaired, has been the subject Of
frequent remark. The record of the war
is one of unprecedented suffering, brayely
borne and the work accomplished by the
Allies does not amount to the value of
straw, as yet A terrible winter and wet
spring have made woful work amid that
vast congregation of devoted beings whom
God never made to be shot down like dogs,
or die like worn out beasts in the field and
yet there is no brighter hope than there
was six months ago Not as much-for
then hope did dwell in the hearts of the
army, but now that feeling, there is too
much reason to believe, has changed to the
quiet torpor of despair, induced by the
belief that there is no hope in retreat, and
scarcely the shade of hope in the advance
But if the winter and spring dealt death
among the forces fearfully, there is great
er and more terrible agent yet, it would
seem, to exercise its blasting influence
during the summer and it is not now so
much Sebastopol, as Cheronea that is want
ed. The weather has already been intoler-
ably hot, and the plateaus and steppes
occupied by the vast army, are baking and
cracking under a burning sun. One humid
red and fifty thousand soldiers, and thou
sands On thousands of dumb beasts, require
their daily supply of water, and though
explorations have been made, and attempts
at boring Artesian wells entered upon, but
little of the precious element has been dis
covered. The ships lie twelve miles of, and
Cheronea is the nearest point. On all
sides the difficulty, and it is the most por-
tentous of all, stares the Allies in the face
with a look more horrid than even that of
famine itself. It Is appalling to contem-
plate, even for an instant, so great body
of men doomed, We might almost say to q
lingering agony, and a death amid the raw
ings of madness 1t would seem as if mat
tiers could not be worse, but there is another
scourge which is rising upon this Inflated
army. The whole Of the Chersonese, near
ly, is strewn thickly with the dead /.
Rider and horse friend, fos-in red burial blent
and their rotting carcases, covered only by
some three inches Of earth, are sending up
contagion to add to the list of horrors, and
harrow up the intensest feelings of the soul.
Sebastopol is not taken,--for death has
aided human skill to fortress it about with
all the means Of defence There seems,
Notwithstanding the much Wanted three
victories recently gained under the new
regime Of Gen. PEIIssIER, nothing left in the
future but disgrace and humiliation to
England and France. - =. b.. o. =, T.. L..