The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-20
Affairs In the Crfrnoa.

DIERs ANCE OF sERAsroPoL-rrs
BUILDINGS AND CHURCHES IN RUNs-HoRsn
RACING sPORTs-CAN THE RUSSIANS RRsUILD THE
SOUTH SIDE?
On rhs night orMsrch IT. shockiog accident oceurrsG
on the slope above Ka-ikoi, In the burning Of
wooden huts occupied by Of the commissarat
corps Notwithstanding prompt assistance sixteen men
perished in the flames They WERE doubtless suifocAtsd
by the smoke Their bocies were chsred past III chance
Tho Correspondent Of the London Times writing from
Sebastopel OF date ed Of March, thus describes the
present condition Of that city -
For the last week our army has been cultivaung
its tastes for the drama, improving Its acquAin-
vice, il needs should be in the fed, and organizing
the grand Sebastopol spring nesting which via
nsys not very far distant from the scene Of the mswOrs
BILE charge Of the light cavalry bgare the the Sh q
October 1854 The demo Of trenches, works and
houses in the city continues daily and ncessantly
that the south side will oesoate ruiaoua
"a Thsbes or Palmyra Every hour long trains of msn
pass by with beams of timber panks their shout
dsrs, which are taken out OF the remains of tho
White buildings. HAD fire been rained down froA
heaven on the devoted city i.a annihilasi'n could
who hats TO survey 1t from the nsighboring heghts
deceived BY the white wash-a pastcssd wallis OF the
houees. might think that Sebastopol still city;
but when he walks through its grsssg rn deserted
streets formed by endless Of walls alone Of rooHess
sne OF houses in Which not one %o',si Of timber can
yswning craters, BALI filed with mounds Of cut
stone, hesped together in irregular masses. when
once formidable forts, shaken it were
into dust and powder; wnen he stumbles over
the fragments of imperial edfees peer down Into tho
great CULTS choksd with rubbish which mark the
side Of he grand docs of the Qu0sn OF the Euyne and
osno,as the rosss m t and nus Of the sunSsn navy
he wrath of the enemy has spared 10 last erumbling
away beneath the fires of its friends and that the
public nonumsnta, are spesisIy selected fos The
practice Of thu Russa gupsars ~ though they were
admissible viii doubt to the conc uson that IT,
history OF e world aords auch authentic instance a
the snnihis.On Of great city.
available sr the erection Of houses or tie construc ION
Of docks but am BY means certain Inst the immense
the govsrnnsnt Of Russ.a Of which TIA very struggle
has Afforded us all such STRIKING proofs, In the QuarAn-
tine battery the Bsston Csnsr.ls TIE Bsston du hst
available m time to clear away these modern ruins and to
houses thes-ss palaces churches FORTS Arsenas
the old ma,era In the docks our engineers are row
busy In destroying the coping stones Of granite and
the srser stones In tie masonry but In the
laker ruins there neshsus supplies Of tud
ing material which can be apated by the Tchevnsya
into the wAtem Of the harb with very little trouble.
end Of the SsrSop sSoss ssHn the Ass
the Russana IN tie the splendid archssc-
and xhoS had engaged every sSoerSt
l energy OF sAs Auscovise governors Of the Crmea.
The sbells Of prnceIy mansions which rsmAped the
French side Of the town HAYS been battered to atoms BY
the Russian batteries the north side the theatre has
been demolished and the beautiful churcof st. Peter
ana ~ faA 1910 IN runs ny inc same tnp|Acahb ne,
and they have aecsd particular voleys Of round shet
And shall on monument to Of their naval heroes,
which stands cons2cuously placed in oat Of beautiful
little kosk in tho midst OF garden to which there was
Hns approach from the place behind Fort Nicholas, BY
handsome fight Of steps now knoced to pisocs On :
entabaturee with afegoca Devices and orRamsned q
the summit by popps were inscribed whom arst saw
It, sKaxarskv and the dates 1929 and 1884, with an In.
mation that the monument erected to postsry n
his honor Most of the letters have been stolen
away SOW end bad not TIE exe xoU the NeSth csNsed