Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1855-05-19
Foreign News.
I ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
THE WAR IN TIE CRIMEA.
Graphic Details Of the Bombardment

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Graphic Details Of the Bombardments
JOURNAL OF THE SIEGE.
From The Correspondent Of Tie London Herald.
OPENING oFlTHnl BoMBARpMENr.
Before .seuastopoz, Easter Monday,
April 8. 8
This morning ut daybreak the allied
batteries simultaneously opened fire
on the defences Of sevastopol. 1t is
now,4 O'Clock inthe afternoon, and the
rain, which began to fall lastnight, is
descending intorrentsy companiedby
a high breeze Of wind. So thick is
the atmosphere that even the flashes
Of the guns are invisible, and the gun
ners mist be fringby CROSSWORD at It the the
flashes Of the batteries, as it is impos-
sible to see more than d few yards in IN,
advance advance "A driving sheet oferain and
d Black Sea fog wRirl over the whole"
camp, which has already resumed the
miserable aspect 50 we'll known TO, us
Of yore. Tents have blown down; !
the mud has already become several in
ches deep, and the ground, so far as it
lis .visible, looks like . black lake, stud
Idedwithfinnumerable pools of sdun5col-.
ored water. What effect this sudden,
change n3the weatherwil laproduce on
| the fire Of our batteries, tits now be-
You'd my power to say, nor am lin. q
position either to Judge if e'haye sqf-
fered any disadvantages from it, or to
form an opinion as to the relative force
Of our fire; compared with that Of the
enemy. ! am now seated in q hut,into
which the storm and rain drive at every
gust rust Man or beast could not remain
without,some shelter on such q day as
this. All around Jus there is g. dense
veil of8gray vapor, sweeping over the
ground 5and concealing from sight the
tents which are close tosopr, camp
THE firing has slackened considerably
| since IL O'clock. IL is not easy 50
murky IS the Sky, and sostrong the
wind, to see the flashes Or hear the re-
bort of the Russian guns Of the French
cannon es On on either flank; though the hut =
is within q couple Of bundled yards Ct Ct
the enemy's ranges; but we can ten
THAT our batteries in front are thunder
ling away continuously in irregul az
bursts, and are firing some y or ~
shots per minute, but, asiitis no longer
necessary to press our gunners, they
have reduced the rate Of fire. From y,
the time our batteries opened till y O..
clock, the wind blew from S. and 3 M !!
I and was right in the back Of our artl !
.Ileiiyrnen, so!that the smoke from Their
/ guns Is was va carried away towards the en-:
/ e,ny and the smoke from the Russian
Eembrasures was driven back tlI,vp -.l.l
J. men behind them; but the wind d has has !
lnow,yeered round more to the westward
! and at. times takes little northlng, So
THAT the smoke isiswept Aaway pretty
!, eouallyfrom both lines f.batteries to
wards Inkermann. The enemy were
taken completely by surprise when w w
opened fire. They replied, indeed, pret'
81 briiskly nj once to the French tire
On 81 our left, and the Flagstaff Battery
land works we're manned ediately
The Garden Battery, and Reda y; Bat Bat
terry, came into play soon after We e 9
lpened fire, but some time elapsed before
! the Round Tower works or the Name me
lon answered, and for half an q h .,
! their guns were weakly handled; ~
!. Inkernann and Careering Bay Batter
: ies were almost,silent for three quar-
, tiers Of anihour.before they answered
: the French Batteries on our right
!, The knobs and ridges in front of tn.
!, camp, which have hitherto been crowd g
: ed, Whenever there was q sharp tire tire
With spectators, are now utterly deser
j tel-not human creature y out, e a
cept The; shivering camp sen lnels ~.
i the mon who are en- gagged IN the pa' '
l teries.a ii teSsFa iIilti3ls
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