The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-08
A View of the Black Sea from the
Crimean Range.
MEETING HER MAJESTY.
The Summer Palace of the En-
press of Russia.
THE TRIP TO YALT A i.

SEBAsToPoI, April q, 1872.
General Sherman, Minister Curtin, Lieutenant
Grant, Colonel Audenried and young Mr.. Curtin
arrived here yesterday on board the famous yacht
OF the Sultan. 1t that the Sultan was 80 de-
lighted with his visitors that he insisted on their
staying several days over their time In order to be
entertained by him, and then. to make amends for
the time thus lost put his beautiful yacht at their
disposition as long as they should wish to use it,
General Sherman, going upon the principle, how
ever, OF accepting few favors and putting himself
under as few obligations as possible, declined
awaiting himself Of it further than Sebastopo,
where he relieved the officers and crew Of their
very agreeable service, and sent them back to Con-
stantinople.
THE sULTAN's YACHT
1t is gorgeous affair, this yacht It was pres
emit to the Sultan by the Khedve of Egypt, and, as
might naturally be expected, Is fitted up in style
OF Oriental splendor far surprising in magnihcence
any craft now af0at. With its immense size, its
broad clean decks, the picturesque and many-co-
Ored costumes Of its crew, its gigantic engines
growing deep down in the hold like huge sea mon
sters It's great saloons, furnished with every luxury
that modern science and art invent or the I'M
bounded wealth OF an Eastern despot can supply;
the richest Turkey carpets, the most bewiderng
curtains and hangings and mirrors, the most luXu-
rious divans'and ottomans, where you have only to
Sit down cross-legged and smoke sweet-scented TO-
bacco out OF long Turkish pipes and look out of the
large open windows at the gstening murmuring
waters of the Black Sea glancng in the bright sun
shine, until you doze away and dream you are pro-
prietor Of harem of $50 beautiful young ladies,
with dark, almond-shaped eyes, flowing red
trousers and shoes turned up at the toes-it re-
sembes more some huge enchanting floating fairy
palace than that most prosaic of all things, a
modern steam yacht.
THEY ARRIVED IN sEBAsToPOL
after most agreeable voyage of twenty-four hours
though it is rather unfortunate they did not go to
Odessa first, where preparations had been made by
General Kotzebue to receive them with every mark
Of distinction. Want Of time was believe, their
excuse for not going; but, as General Kotzebue had
made arrangements to put steamer at their dis
position in which they might have gone direct to the
Caucasus instead of lingering along in very slow
and dirty boat of the Russian Steamboat Company
they would probably have gained instead OF losing
time by this little detour good deal of curiosity
has been manifested as to the manner in which
they would be received by Russian officials, some
pretending that their reception would be an ex-
ceedingy cold one, in retaliation for that OF Alexis
1t Washington; others that they would be received
In q
PARTICULARLY CORDIAL MANNER,
In order to form q contrast by showing how much
the Russian government can rise superior to per-
sonal quarrels and petty squabbles between ndi-
vduals. If either OF these courses has been
adopted it is certainly the last one for the recep
ton thathad been prepared for them at Odessa
would certainly have been warm and enthusi-
astic one, and the manner in which they were wei
coined at Scbastopol assurcdly left room for
doubt as to the friendly intentions of the Russian
officials there.
sEBAsToPoL.
Arrived at Sebastopol, General Shermans first
care was to go over the ground where, seventeen
years ago, were fought some Of the bloodiest
battles OF modern times, and where was carried on
q siege one OF the most remarkable and lombard
ment one of the most terrible, as regards the ex-
tent Of ruin and destruction caused yer recorded
In history. Seventeen years have gone by, and yet
the shattered walls and the crumbling stones and
the encountered streets remain almost as they were
that afternoon when the French
POURED INTO THE MALAKOFF,
leaving It's bitches full of their dead and dying, and
the storm of iron hail that had been falling, and the
war OF artillery and the screaming and crushing OF
exploding shells that had been heard necessarily
for eleven months suddenly ceased with the fall OF
this stronghold and gave way to silence rendered
all the more impressive by the din and turmoil
that had so long ruled the place. silence that has
remained almost unbroken ever since; for, with
the exception OF a few houses that have sprung up
lately little has been done to remove the traces OF
war, the people not having the courage to under
take the task and so 1t remained, crying aloud, as
they say, for vengeance. From city ofsixty thou
sand inhabitants Sebastopol has become a shat
tered, ruined, filthy place OF five thousand !;
and who can estimate the cost, not in treasure,
but in blood and tears, by which the change was
efrectedY IL stands to-day but relic OF its former
greatness, a battered, ruined, broken memorial OF
the most stubborn defence ever recorded OF the
most destructive bombardment ever sunered-a
testimony to the sublime mulishness Of the Rus
Sian soldier, OF whom Napoleon l. said ut Is not
enough to kill him; you must besides knock MIN
down." The view on entering the harbor Is not
by any means grand striking; the country is bare
OF trees and almost OF grass and the hills slopng
down TO the water are only relieved by the dead
stone color OF the few houses that are seen here
and there, and the crumbling ruins OF hundreds OF
others, that, under the glare OF an afternoon sum-
present most melancholy and lonesome appear
ance
TIE HARBoR
Is well known, Ia spacious and beautiful capable
Of afrording anchorage to many hundred ships. and
Is by far the best In the Black Sea- perfectly pro-
tected without the aid Of dkes and never freezing
In winter, does that OF Odessa. But 1t Is almost
deserted now, and with the exception OF steamer
once week that touches here, plying between
Odessa and the Caucasus, and few very small
sailing vessels, Its splendid advantages ana re.
sources remain undcveloped and useless After a
long sleep, however, Sebastopol is beginning to