Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-10-10

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s II appeafs no. yar.sIa i ilisslIe, 3 last
despaseh-rfs sslhs EassaYor of Feanch has i IS
pointed him Marshal OF Fraucea-ihut the
Rdssians sssvs not succeeded In destreying
erevrtbing before shey lefi. 3 n iIisssss de.
scrihest 9e resources of the place, she matte
rial. the seseutifeswosks of def ence, ~ some
thing unleard OF in she history Of war. =
Some leo fsrge guns haze fallen into the
lands 81 tie allies. ntiifuil details arrive
T would be impossible rs form any hlna Of
{ theaciaal state of the torn. s
ssessss wBaT rs TAEss. 4 -
81 Some of our read. re- mar not cxacsly know
whit Is meant by the south side OF the Whole
town, with its fanbourgs, the Malakof, Crest
Reiap, Little Redan, FlagstaF Isastioa, Gen.
trial Ras,ian, Quarantine Fort. forts ST. Mich
lnlas and St. Paul, the second line az Ipfen-
'ces, tie Garden haftcries--in fact the whole
Of Sfbastopof. The north side ii, however,
! still "a formidable fortress. The great star
fort of Fort Sieverna is an immense citadel,
capable Of containing an army, and the land
army is cncamped in its immediate vicinity.
The entrance TO the narbor is also still COM
manded by Fort otstantine and its Tires
tiers of l04 guns. Thcn there is the Wasp
battery and Telegraph battery. The~,ege
OF Sebastnpol may, however, he regarded MS
concluded. The Fr.nch government has ac-
tually ordered theshpping of she Island NOR
tars Mt aiarseilles TO be stopped, and de-
cree in The Moniteur discharges the soldiers
of the class If 1S41 under arms TIE north
side viii probably capitnlate, or after blow
ing up the works. the garrison will retire in
land. Not single vessel of the Russian
flee, remains. -
sa5Bfte.s 8. --LATEST DISPATCHES. s.ysi}Ata =
b Pclissier's dispatches ssslow'' over ssthe
picture Of our victory in its .sfull extent"
At noon, Sept. Sih, the. signal for the as
sault was given. In a few min2tes the allies
were masters of the Aialakoff. Evening
witnessed the retreat Of The Russians in pan.
ic. The multiple ~ Of the works CT defence
and the materia! IN ans applied thereto, the
immense establishments and supplies exceed
ny far ANYTHING known in the tistory-o of war.
The results are immense, the city taken. and
the Russian navy under the waters of the
harbor, sunk by the Russians themselves.
COL. ST. AxGE's FIRST ANSWER. g.
4 Il has been asked if Sebastopol is tenatle
50 long as the Russians remain masters of
all the forts on the north side which line the
sea in front 81 'the town? Undoubtedly it
may be held in spite of this. We received
balls and bombs in our roohess trenches,
sheltered merely by parapets thrown up in
haste, under the fire even Of grape and mus
kerry. ard we did not on that account ADAM
don the trenches. In Sebastopol we shall be
sheltered from the balls by the walls of the
houses, indeed of several houses Mt ONCE
No fire of grape or musketry need be feared
at the distance the enemy. is now--1 200 to
400 yards. As for the bombs, We may
screen ourselves from them as the Russians
themselves did against ours, by constructing
strong hurdles with earth upon them. We
cannot want the materials since the Russians
had not time to burn or destroy everything
in this great city. 1t is true that the occu-
potion of the north by the Russians prevent
our entering the roadstead and the port, vet
what need hav-. we of them when we already
possess excellent harbors of Cape Ghe7son-
ese? Have not our fleets already passed tho
winter without mourning any danger in these
waters 2 - sszisGi SEsi] a'.o 's9s7sS etsa5s
Isl q COL. ST. Angels SECoND.ANswER.fs
1t has also heen asked il the allies will.
Hts' ~ ouutl'dht uOW 1or luter Tile. serge OF
the forts on the north side?. There appears
no absolute necessity for SO doing. That
would be binding ourselves down again to
labors slow and painful, as those which have
occupied us SO long, and cost US SO many ef-
forts, SO many men, and so much money
The key to those forts is in fact a victory
over the Russians in the Crimra They would
fall Of themselves, seeing that they must
abandon them, or if the Russians choose to
retain them still. u blockade and famine will
compel them to surrender, and this is !. hu-
initiation that Russia's pride breads more
than all the rest. The forts Of the north
side can consequently neither prevent our DC
cupation of Sebnsiotol nor can they thwart
our operations in TIL, interior of the Grim, a
on account oftheir eccentric situation. We
should not be surprised ut their being blown
up SO soon as the Russian ,r,nvi< compelled
to retreat from the, nci.hborhood of Seb;s-
pol. y aages'i w
COL. ST. ANcE's OPINION AS TO ARMY MovE-
MGATS. ' t5 f. |
The respective positions Of tho two a,mcs !
the same, and vii! do so un,ll one of |