Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-30
The Harbor Of fsevaatopoi--Th DIalalsoG-
The Ruins Of the war.

a foreign correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Evening Bulletin writes thus in
recent letter; IH tl8NsA
The harbor of Sevsstopol is much like the
Golden Horn--an arm of the sea, a mile wide,
running up mile or two, between high un-
wooded banks. II il one of those places des-
tined, one would think, for a great city, and
which will come some day. Russia made IL
as il was as a threat and point Of departure
against Turkey; and bitterly has she paid for
it. Driving off, in true Russian STYLE
between long stretches Of once splendid
houses, halls, and temples, all ruined and
fallen open TO the skyi crossed ever by other
streets in the same icondition--a ruin so
complete that Pompeii itself seems no more a
city OF the dead than does Sevastopol--we
arrived at the ruins of the docks, which are
now grass-grown, every vestige Of masonry
having disappeared. II is hard to imagine
how such immense masses could have been
destroyed, even with the use Of guDpowder.
OF Fort Alexander, opposite Constantine, not
a vestige remains. The walls inclosing these
docks are still standing, yet pierced every
where by cannon halls and defaced by grape
Sevastopol is fearful in its desolation.
We then rode TO the cemetery of the Eng
| lish and the hill of MalakoD. The Who'll,
ground around is plowed by shot and shell
the tower, pile Of ruins. Many men art
yet employed-four years after--in gather.
ing the masses of iron--the poor harvest o.
| the bloody sowers-and the work Is not ye
done. This hill, the highest near the. town
| and whose possession caused the instant re.
treat Of the Russians, is not much higher oi
more commanding than the Others, and it il
no wonder the AIlies-not near it-Tere Sc
long in finding il to be the key of the posi-
ton. gathered grape and Mimic balls, ant
Il for xyill npfn In oil
| story of almost superhuman courage and de
| votion. The cemeteries are in good order
| yet the frosts Of spring have already don'
much to remove the memorials of those gal
liant fellows who laid down their lives there
Thence around to the Fourth Russian Bas
ton, where we saw mines made by Todleben
and countermines by the French. The terri
bleartillery of the French were here advanced
4 to less than one hundred yards of the Rus
siansl OF fcourse nothing human could stant
such a fire; but the fall of the Malakoff mad
it at once untenable, and the Russians mad
| their glorious retreat - perhaps the mos
| glorious in history. | saw here rocks whicl
had been thrown up by these enormou
mines. The magnitude of these operation
here is almost overpowering. How was
/ possible for the French ever to get so neal
i with such murderous artillery, in the face {
unlimited number and skill on the part of tn
Russians. We saw the field of Inkermanr
"a near thing" as every Englishman says, an
rode around by the English quarters, marke
/ by the ruins of huts, by road running in
picturesque ravine with rocky sides, pierce
in ages far remote with graves. Then re
turning, with our minds filled with these pic
lures Of desolation, it needed not anothe
view of this dead city, of its roofless wal
and fallen structures, to realize the total dt
struction of Sevastopol.