The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-07-19
Foreign News.
ARRIVAL OF THE ARAGO.
Death of Lord Raglan.
New YORK, July l6.

NEW URN, ouIy ~ l6
The steamship Arago, from Southamp- e
on reached her wharf at o'clock. She P
,rings 126 passengers, and among them s.
General Dix and family, and Hon. Z. s. b
] Goodrich. v
The Arago brings intelligence of the @
leath of Lord Raglan, Commander-in Y
chief of the British forces in the East l
The melancholy news was received by
Lord Panmure from Gen, Simpson, on
the morning of the 3Gth ult. Il
For some days previously Lord Rag t
Ian had been suffering from indispositlon,
but until 2. NJ. on the 28tb, his Lord
ship progressed to the satisfaction of his
medical ATTENDANTS. Afterwards, alarm
ing symptoms developed themselves, at,
tended with difficulty of breathing which
gradually increased. From P. NJ. he
was unconscious, and from that period
he gradually sunk until % minutes before
9, at which hour he died. The event has
plunged the whole army into the most pro-
found grief. 1t is stated that Major
General Simpson has succeeded Lord
hdSldu, pIO lel.
The Times correspondent, writing from
the Baltic states that on the 2lst ult., the
Amphion 36, new frigate, while employed
reconEoitering the Notifications at Swea-
borg, accidentally mistook the channel,
and in consequence foundered. The boats
were Immediately despatched in all di-
rectiens to sound, and while so employed,
one of the near forts opened brisk fire
upon the frigate. Four shots struck her,
killing one man and wounding two others.
The Captain of the Amphion, returned
the compliment with such energy and
precision that he succeeded in blowing up
powder magazine, and occasio1cd other
damage to the fort.
The detailed accounts of the attack on
the Malakof and Redan towers made by
the Allies on the 18th ult., have been re-
ceived, and are published inseztenso in
the London Morning journals. The va
rious correspondents ascribe the repulse
and great loss which the French and
English experienced to the want Of prop
er management. and the total absence Of
that military knowledge and Judgment SO
requisite in such hazardous and difficult
undertakings.
The Bombardment Begun.
In just retribution for the disregard OF
their general to the good to be expected
from ashort morning lombard ment, they
found the redoubts swarming with defen-
ders, and guns bristling from every en-
brasure. On them, as on our own men,
StOarerS Ofgrape and canister arere poured
0W, literally m0aring darn arlt0Zc battali0nS
at time ; whilst from along the whole
semi circular line of parapet the crowd Of
rifemen sent volley after voley into their
disordered ranks that passed through them
like a sheet of moulton lead. Three times
they gave way, and as often rallied; but
were finally driven back after a struggle Of
some three hours and half, leaving the
space between the Mamelon and Malakof
literally covered with the dead and dying
An Awful Scene.
With our own men the space to be
passed over from our most advanced
trenches to the Redan was somewhere "a
bout seven hundred yards, and from the
first moment of their rushing over the par
apet towards the point of attack, they
were met by the same awful and annibi-
lating storm of canister and grape. Many
i, fell within the first dozen yards, and
thence on to some broken ground about
midway, in which the remainder sought
cover, the field strewed with the slain and
wounded. An officer present in the affair,
and who was one of the few who escaped
unipjured, described the fire to me as be-
ing perfectly awful-much more severe
he assured me, than that which greeted
our men at Alma, where he also fought
and received a wound Few of them ev-
er reached the abattiS in front of the work
. none, | believe, ever even saw the deep
ditch which protects its approaches
Stirring Spectacle.
4 have neither time nor power to de-
scribe the magnifcent but awful pyro.ech-
mic scene. 4 badly aimed shell from the
Malakof passed over the Mamelon, and
fell some sixty yards from where [ stood;
but though this was safe enough, | deem
ed it best to shift my ground and retired
4 loud three times three" rose upon the
midnish air from the direction of the
Redan; and as one can never be mistaken
in this peculiar product of British lungs,
| jumped to the pleasant conclusion, that
the days stain had been wiped way, and
that the Redan was our own. | was,
however, mistaken; and the explanation
of the whole affair was this; during the
night, the French, cndeavoriug to take
advantage of the darkness had crept out
from the Mamelon to recover number
of scaling ladders which they had been
compelled to abandon during the attack.
The Russians perceived them, and O.
pened smart fire of grape from the guns
of the Malakof, which was repeated by a
shell from the Mamelon Almost stimuli
taneously, party of the enemy emerged
from the Redan, in expectation ofwhat they
deemed SIMILAR attack to that attempted
by the French, and being perceived by
our men, volley of musketry was poured