The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-11

ETC. An innex le determination TO abstsiprom all hasty
opinions--from all comment the people, policy, 60
vernment and probable destiny of the several countries
which have vsited-untl satisfied ofmy competency
speak OF them from practical exAmnaon and reliable
information, IL the main Of my long silence Per
sonal adventure and ludcrous incident meeting me
at every step, multiplied rapidly that even
. passing allusion to them in paper Ike the HERALD
soon became utterly imprschcable.
Previous the commencement of the rainy season,
which vas somewhere about the Goth last mouth NO
yember the whole country intersectea In every d.
recton by travelled paths which plainly discer-
nibe during daylight II they had regular roads;
but the alternate Yain and sleet vhich so inces
sanity poured down, speedily converted them and the
whee surface Of the cbeeess waste through which
they passed into trackless bed Of slush and mud
During the ne weather you would occasionally meet per-
other than soldiers end camp followers but for 40
veral weeks past have not outside Kamiesch and
Balaklava single civilian.
l. naposable TO conceive any thing more reary than
the present aspect Of the entire Crimea and time and
repeated familiarity alike powerlesa 10 even mo
dy the ndescrbsble feeling of sadness
which experienced during my rst solitary walk through
this deserted town. With what truthful simplicity and
fol its condition when he said that
'he enemy would find nothing IN Sebasopol but backensd
and blood stained ruinsn ~ do not remember having
seen single house which escaped the shot and shell Of
the besegers while than four-tns Of the town Is
one shspeless of ruins. Never was destruction
more compietedesoiation appalling. II must have
been most delightful htle That IL was So is fully
proved by every hir remaining The streets with vsry
few exceptions run at right aDgleor nearly and the
hCnsa h,,t1x l.
The remains Of many show that they must have been
truly elegant and spacious TIE walls are Of massive
thickness and constructed Of the light yeowish volcanic
stone Of the country The contrast between the neatly
whitewsshed walls and the bright red tiles which inva
raby formed the roofs Of the houses must have given
sebastopo in the days fits peaceful prosperity most
charming and pictureeque appearance. Every habita-
tion seems to have had its court yard garden both
and eryhing you meet either inside out of them
bears melancholy testimony to the former happiness
prosperity OF tbs inhabitants, whom the mercess rgors
of war, as seemingly amless in its objecs il is ruin
to all engaged have long since driven IN despairing
fight from their homes.
The greater portion of the people must have LEFT at
very early stage of the SIEGE it would have been utter
y impossible for them to have escaped annihiaton under
such storms of fire and iron descended the pacs
When first came here found the town ust the Rus
sians had left it, and it really IL there shot
and shell enough laying ab ut pave IT three times
then walked for hours through it aone without meet
ing soul, the few sennes who were posted in the
least exposed porto There the slightest
foundation for those statements contained in the English
and Frerch papers about its streets being mined and
blown up There not single street in the VIII Die place
but is just PEI feet as 1t was the day war was de-
csred spart the burrows aad nden atoms crea ed
by The shot and she'll f the allies The false statement
was onbtless put firth with the view Of shielding the be-
tha Naki.
their failure to pursue the Russians would naturally
excite.
took place. the voluntary abandonment OF the south side
By Gorschakof positively anticipated by the allie1
commanders and predicted by the British press the
oes'ed manner in which the whole Russian aruy was
enabled to cross the great hSrbor sing beat bridge
unequvccay demonstrates the high respect with whica
its sk vaor and obnacy had at length the
invae Had il been otherwise, hing existed to
prevent most disastrous pursuit The streets wide
and large majority Of ths houses even when stanaing
death like. .stDess reigus here now which is only
broken by the occasional roaring of the Russian guns
and bursting of the shells sometimes in dangerous
proximity. To these, however. l must aod the c,n
everywhere seem, the departure human beogs to
have swarned in their place Several Of those oath
some pawn brokDg king rascas closely eyug
me, ard evi1enty specuatiDg within themselves with
true ratlike cunning, upon thu ridiculous, though
them qui probable prospect Of my speedily 5ecSaiog
staff and other batteries they are to be seen in myriad
running ard diving in every direction in rrvotng and
sudacious search sfer the pesh,ng flesh of those man
ged heroes who lie moulderng beneath the ruins.
The white fragments Of the houses looking like 80
any tomb stones give the place you approach it,
in every direction it. cannon balls and un.
exploded and shattered shell lie thick that you
compelled to pick your steps in passing through them.
stme twenty thr times have spent rge portion
Of the day in examining the Redan, Malako Fagstaf
Central bastIon and other Notifications, and con.
strained to cay that the skill and energy displayed in
hv he
unfinching herosm with which they subseq quensy
SO pertnaciousy defended The relative strength of the
Malakof and Redan sadly misunderstood by those
who have never teen them and truth not love- compes
me to that the injury inflicted British military
It is apparently rreparabe The British engineers are
Justly censurabe for not having their approach
the Redan while the French run theirs 70 within twenty
of the Maakof and General Simpson is equ ally blsmea
bic for not having insisted that the assault if deter
mir on uneer such circumstances should be made
each fortifcatior by troops jointly composed OF both
French and British. The importance of the Malak os
position has been confounded with Its strenqh as fort
caton whereas in the latter respect it Is no more to
be compared to the Redsn than a wooden shed is to
well built stone house. When you gaze at the vast
number Of heavy which look down from every con-
cevable direction as you approach the salient angle Of
the latter and which must have swept with their direct
seems really incredible how single could have re-
manned his legs during the fearful rush from their
own trenches to the counerscap Of the enemys terri
ee works OF Two hundred paces over the most
The limits of letter will not admit of even q partial
description of the presented by inside OF the
Redan or Malakof. The former beggsrs descrip-
tion. / have now become pretty familiar to
these forrors, and have never been troubled
much with mawkish ssDsibly. and yet, unless some
great and lasting good to mankind and posterity
certain to result the efrom, would not to make
Emperor of the World be the author of the whole
sale slaughter and misery caused by the siege Sebaso
pol In vain we look for c,mpensa ting results The
Russian flag, while write, floats proudly from
their forts on the north de and its guns thunder
faptly, as they did year past.
There is place for stranger to stop in the Cmea
except une hcrseshed in Kamesch where drunken
sailors who can't get board their ships occasionally
renaiu during the night have not hac my boots
oil for more than month, and have roughed in every
possible manner, assure you. No one knows me here
up to Eupatoria couple of weeks ago and we had
fearful time coming down TO Kamiesch We we're near
driven ashore during the night and the Russians
uUhich