The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-06-02
The Great Cannonade.

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the first time took part in the contest to-
day, fireing clear across the harbor and town
into our own and the French lines. Their
shot appeared to be Of immense weight and
their guns of considerable range, as no undue
elevation apparently was given. And about
one hundred rounds were fired. Our officers
take it as gentle hint that even after storm
ing, the south side will be untenable while
the north remains in their hands"
During the first week Of the bombardment
the English trenches alone fired away be-
tween fifteen and seventeen thousand 90 and
g. pound shot and she'll, 1890 thrteen-inch
shells, and 4,500 ten-inch shells making in
all about 2,200 tons of shot and 500 tons of
powder. The English trenches mounted, on
the 18th, l54 guns and mortars, the French
2S0 so that during the first weeks lombard
ment about 5000 tons of shot and she'll and
l 800 tons of powder were expended.
This cannonade must indeed have been of
unexampled severity-unique, as far as we
are aware, in the annals of war. To sustain
such fire for so many consecutive days and
nights-nineteen. according to the account
in the Moniteur-argues an abundance Of re-
sources, soidity in the ordinance employ
ed, and power of endurance on the part of
the men, transcending anything we have
ever heard or read of. The world can never
have witnessed any thing more terrible than
this long continued struggle, in which instru-
ments of destruction of size and power never
before employed in war have been met by
Others equally powerful, and the thunders of
tropical storm have been put to silence by
the fearful din of artillery.
During this great duel of artillery the
enemy has been gathering in mighty masses
around us, and any day may witness an at
tack made in enormous force along the whole
line of our defences, backed by furious sal
lies from the beleagured town. Never were
numbers more needed than now. AS the
land dries and the country becomes traversa-
BILE we may expect to meet in mortal en-
counter all the troops which great empire
not elsewhere invaded can spare for the de-
fence of single province. The difficulty of
subsisting this immense body of men in the
arid steppeS of the Crimea will probably
counsel prompt and even desperate action.
We need every man that can be sent, and
yet we hear of 100000 French troops remain
ing on the Bosphorus, and whole division of
cavalry which has spent the winter at
Adrianople. Never was there situation so
full of hope and fear, of danger and of prom
Use. One moment we seem likely to grasp
great successes, the next suggests the appre-
hension of enormous reverses.'
PURE BRANDY.-To those who indulge in
drinking brandy, it may not be an uninter-
esting piece of information to give them an
idea of what they sometimes drink under
the mistaken impression that they are swal-
lowing genuine imported article. A day
or two since, DR.. Cox, chemical Inspector
of liquors for this county, had occasion to
make chemical analysis of cask of brandy,
al place where it was sold extensively, and
found the following component elements
largely preponderating Alcohol, prussc
acid, muratic acid, oil of pepper, and tine
ture of myrrh. A free indulgence in brandy
of this character would aid materially in
increasing the undertaking. business
Gin Eng.
When man commences the publishing
of paper, he can't give it up till he is ruin
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