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

DIERs sBURNED-APPEARANCE OF sEBAsrOPOL-rrS
BUILDINGS AND CHURCHES IN RUINs-HoRam
RACING sPORTs-CAN THE RUSSIANS REBUILD THn
SOUTH SIDE?
On rhs night Of March IT. shockog accident occurrsA
0n se soss hDs a. ~ " M the OF SON:
corps Notwithstanding prompt assistance sixteen
pershed in the flames. They were. Doubtless sufocAssd
by the smoke Tner boces charred past I'll chanoa
of recognition
Tho Correspondent CT the London Times writing from
SebAstope OF date 22d Of March, thus describes the
present condition of that city =
For the last week our army hw been cultivau.g
it's tastes for the drama, improving It's .cquAin-
vice. il needs should be In the field and sqganiziDg
the grand sebas.opol spring msstine. which win
pays not very far distant from the Of the memora
BILE charge Of the light cavalry bgaoe the the 26h o
bouses in the city continues daily and incessanty .
that the south side will oesolate and ruiaoua
as Thsbes OF Palmyra Every hour long trains Of
dsre, which are taken out OF the remains of tho
White buildings. Had fire been raned down fron
not have been more complete. The stranger
who hats to survey 1t from the nsighborng heighs,
deceived BY the white w.sha ana plastessd wallis OF the
houses. might think that Sebastopol sun city;
but when he walks through its grsssg rovn deserted
streets formed by endless Of wallis alone Of rooess
be from threshold to caves when he beholds great
yswning craters, BALI filed with mounds Of CUT
he s,uss on the tamuu Of dsnsss.ssd ''s.s masonry
once formidable forts, now Shaken ~ it were
In into dust and powder woen he stumble. ovsr
great quits choked with rubbish wAich mark the
side of ths grand docs of the QuOsn of the Eune and
which nurured there when ha observes that What
he wrath of the enemy has spared il fast srumbHne
away beneath the fires Of its friends; and that the
churches whose they worsh2psd, the thes,res ths
public nonumsnta, are specially selected for tho
practice Of tns Russia. = thousa they y:s:
aImiss-he wl no doubt to the conclusion that IL
history Of she world aorda such authentic instance o
II sbs1d to selisvs th,t the site can ever b mads
available :sr the erection Of houses tne construcon
In the command Of manual iaSor possesssd =
the goyernnsnt Of Russa Of which tia very struggle
has Afforded us all such STRIKING proo In the Qusran-
the Rsdan the Mameloa and the MalakoH may not IS
available m time to clear away these modern ruins and to
and a. Before no -
uro the old maerah IN the docks our enaneers are row
busy In destroying the coping stones Of granite and
the larger masses OF stones In tf masonry; but In the
aher man ruins theTa nesheus supplies Of tuid
ing naterial which can Be apstsd BY the TohsvnayA
Ths immense quantity Of cut sone lying n piles st the
upper end Of the hsrbor shows that tho Allies
II the y
energy OF she Nuscovite governors Of the CrimeA.
French side the town Aays been battered to atoms by
the Russian batteries the north de the theatre han
and st. Pas laid in ruins by the same irapscsns -
and they have drecasd particular voeys Of round shs
Ard shall on q monument to Of their naval heroes
vhich stands cons2cuously placed in froat Of bsaufi
little kiosk In the midst Of garden to which thsro
ans approach from the place behind Fort Nicholas, By
ns nSw to o.
entabstures with aegorical devices and oamsned a
the summit BY popPts inscribed whom Arst saw
It, "Kazarshi and the dates 1920 and 1854 with an In.
nmation that the monument erected to nostsry In
his honor Most Of the letters have been stolen e.
AWAY s0w, and bad not Tie 1Se ou the North ceased