Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-04-25

MIR Gowen and his associates will hear nf their
entire success In the undertaking. Mr. g., as
is well known, is selfmade enterprising
Yankee, who, though comparatively a young
man, has travelled in nearly every country on
The globe.
Mr. Gowen, who was at Sebas,opol in M.
vember last, gives us some interesting paricu-
lars from that now famous city. The Russian
government are engaged in rebuilding it. Be
fore the siege it was quite populous place,
containing, it is supposed, about GO 900 persons.
When Mr. Gowen was there there were about
six thousand people in the place. Several
thousand laborers were then engaged npOn the
works, and the number was to be largely in
creased. The old city was famous for lis mar
row streets, like Boston; the new city will he
built in squares like Philadelphia. 1t is also
said that there are restrictions against the cree
tion of wooden buildings. The forts about,
the city according 10 the examinations Of Mr.
Gowen, are only about half destroyed. or
the mmensity of the warhke material scatter.
ed with so much profuseness about this cce-
brated spot, some idea may be formed from the
fact that the Russians have already gathered
over sixteen thousand tons OF shot and shell
and yet they are so ihckly scattered arourd
that il is impossible TO tread without touching
them.-There are, however, no dead bodies to
be seen, they having been all carefully removed.
There was one spot visited by Mr. G., Of
melancholy interest. 1t was a deep ravine, for.
mery crossed by bridge. Into this ravine
the bodies of two thousand Russians, French
and English, kilel in one Of the more fatal
battles, had been placed, and covered with earth.
A wooden cross above has brief inscription,
telling of the slaughtered thousands thus rude
ly entombed beneath.
The country between Moscow and Sebasto-
pol, for eight hundred miles, Mr. Gowen de-
scribes as level and quite luxuriant. Wheat
in some places sells as cheap as eight cents
bushel and hay ore dollar the ton.-
The climate, at the time he was there, was
both beautiful and salubrious-One Of the best,
he thinks, he ever visited. In connection with
his contract, Mr. Gowen is entrusted with a com
mission which may result greatly to the benefit
Of this country.
lie has been requested by the Russian gov.
eminent to bring with him specimens of our
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mems, tools of various kinds, machinery, &c
Mr. G. has given orders for the manufacture o
articles of various kinds in this city, New York
Albany and other places. So far as possible
the Russian government and people prefer ia
trade with this country in preference to England
for their hatred of the English is as intense as
ever.
While at Scbaslopol, Mr. Gowen says there
were large numbers of French and English ar
irving. They were the relatives and friends oi
those who had fallen in the conflict and were
on pilgrimage to find if possible the graves
c resting mn 1h4 5iiGs Or +t me sJIGrGfs aud The name
the deceased were cut in rude characters, bu
in others the dead were buried in one undistin
gushable mass, rendering Identification impos
sble.
We are Informed that many Of the friends
Of Mr. Gowen, both in this country and in Eng
land, propose, during the performance of th'
contract, to visit Sebasiopol, with the double
object Of seeing the place and Witnessing ih'
performance of this most stupendous undertak
ing.