The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-11-07
From the Daily News correspondent.
The North Side Of Sebastopol-Its
Power of Resistance.

AS seen from the broad esplanade be-
hind the dock yard shears, the whole
northern slope seems to be covered with
redoubts and batteries to an extent which
will render it, if defended, but little infe-
rior in strength to the lines on the town
side, which have cost US II month
siege. Without glass, I counted IL
heavy earth batteries at various points
from the neighborhood of Fort Constan-
tine up to the inner extremity of the har-
Dor, one of which especially, on the high
est brow Of the slope, appeared equal in
extent to the great Redan itself Out of
the centre of this long and heavily armed
work rises what may be called low tower
or circular fort, much like the Malakoff
before it was reduced to level with the
outer parapet; on the side which bears on
the harbor this inner work has FIVE embra-
sures; which, if it be circular, indicates
an armament of some eighteen or twenty
heavy guns, assuming that a fourth of it's
circumference may be seen from where /
stood.
The other works which occupy every
point Of command along the whole extent
of the slope-range from strength of
five up to twenty guns, and appear to diff
fer little in construction from the batter
les on the south side, except in being of
a seemingly more finished workmanship
About half way between the crown or the
slope and the harbor, and in line with
the long heavy battery to which I have
referred, is very strong redoubt which
is approached from below, and defended
by armed zigzag platforms of massive ma
sonry. Along the base of this work are
several one story buildings, apparently
storehouses, and few perches lower down
is the extremity of the little creek in
which, surrounded by other sunken craft,
lies the dismantled steamer vladimir, side
up. At about the same elevation from
the harbor, and some hundred perches
further up from it's mouth, is another very
strong redoubt, the outer face of which is
entirely constructed of earth, with the
embrazures as neatly beveled in as those
of any battery on the Thames or the Med
way; and below it little further up the
| harbor still, is small Tartar village, in
the neighborhood of which some red tiled
store-houses are also visible. Off this
hamlet are moored the ne-masted harbor
boats, or barges, which, with few rowing
boats, constitute-if ever they belonged
to 1.-THE last humble relies of the once
proud Russian fleet of the Black Sea-
Away again on the ridge behind this ap-
pears long line of white tents, belong
ing probably to the field force, which
stretches from this point all along the pla-
teau of Inkermann to the heights beyond
the bridge of Traktir. At night the
camp fires of this army of observation
sparkle like huge glow-worms along the
whole plateau slope, at little more than
rifle shot from the outlying pickets of the
French encampment to the right of our
own Light Division; and during the day
many round shot passes over the ravine
of the Tchernaya which divides the two
armies. In fact, the whole of this north
ern position seems to be of strength
which will give us trouble in the spring,
if not turned before then by some flank
movement