Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-02
EmmRERla.

The funeral of Rev. Edward s. Peck took
 place in St. tPauFs church Saturday fore
 noon. The interment was in Greenwich, by
 the side of his mother. He died at Colorado
 Springs, Cols of consumption, and was the
 son of Rev. Whitman Peck, of this city. He
 graduated at Yale, class of 75, and studied
 theology in Yale Divinity school. Afterward
 he became an Episcopalian and he was or
 dained deacon last spring.
 The funeral of Joseph w. Bennett took
 place Saturday afternoon at 2:3o o'clock from his late residence on Ashmun street:
 Rev. Newman Smyth offeiated and the burial was in the Grove street cemetery.
 The funeral of Susan A., widow of Surveyor General Palmer, took place yesterday after
 noon from the residence of Richard F. Lyon The bearers were John Richardson, Joseph R. Platt, Evarts Cutler, R. F. Lyon, Charles Fabrique and Horace J. Morton.
 The funeral of Jane A.. wife of Henry H. Bromley, took place Saturday afternoon from the family residence, No. 129 St. John street. There was large attendance of sor- rowing friends.
 Mines and CouRter-Mfnes at SebastOpol. GFrom Temple Bar.l
 The information gained by the Russian commander -in-chief on the subject CT the mines dug by the allied armies had been sent to him by Prussian officer living at Paris where a Photographic plan of them had ap- peared in shop window. This was at hrs1 supposed to be mere 7'cGSe de gueTTe or the allies for the purpose of misleading the de- lenders of Sebastopol and inducing them to dig counter-mines where there were no mines. A few days later an Italian deserter from the Legion Etrangere of the French army ar rived at a Russian outpost and was taken to headquarters for examination. He stated | that he had been working in mine close to one of the bastions, and he described the place as being exactly where it was represent ed in the Photographic plan that mines had 1 been dug by the allies. Still, the cautious Russian General would not believe in the possibility of a secret military operation be- ing made known by the publication of plan of it. He supposed that the so-called de- serter had been designedly sent to convince ! hin of the accuracy of that plan, in order to divert his attention from the real position of I the mines which were being dug. The m an was therefore taken in the night to one of | the trenches where he was left in the dark and bindfolded. He was soon made prison CT by French sentry; reliable Russian ! scout followed him, and brought back intel ! igenee of his having been shot as soon as he I had been recognized as real deserter. Rus | sian counter-mines were then at once com menced, according to the lithogrsphic plan | of the mines of the allies. One night dis | tant rumbling noise was indistinctly heard at | the end of Russian gallery. On comparing the position with the plan by the assistance l of g mariners compass, it became evident | that the sap was approaching one of the en- 1 emy's mines, laid down in it as being near l the salient angle of one of the Russian bas ] tions. It was then certain that passages were in process of formation through the same l stratum of clay as the Russians had cut | theirs in. The advance of the latter was 1 therefore stopped, and large chamber was | constructed. In it four hundred pounds o1 l gunpewder were placed in barrels touching l each other and without lids. The end of g ! long fuse communicated with one Of them 1 Clay was then filled into the passage strength | ened by transverse scaffoldings of thick l wood and well beaten down. to act as wad | ding, through which the fuse was made tc pass. Men were placed on the rampant tc | watch the third French parallel, and the fuse | was set fire to. After little time some | thing like an earthquake was felt, smoth ! cred roar was heard, and cloud of smoke rose from the parallel. When it Lad cleared | away men were seen carrying dead bodies | from the breach where the smoke had es capped. Eighteen of those mangled victims ! were counted. On going into the gallery | from the fort it was found by the Russian officer of engineers that the wadding of clay ! had not been in the least disturbed, and that | an aperture had burst into the enemy's sap | Sentries were placed in it to report any l sound which they might hear. Three days l afterward they announced that digging hao again been commenced. The Russians then proceeded to remove the waddipg of clay | with the view of getting near enough to tht
 enemy to spring other mines against him l The French fired mine, but it did no harm l to the Russians, who met every advance by
 an opposing passage. Mines and counter
 mines were frequently sprung on both sides | with more or less success, and this fighting ] in the bowels of the earth resulted finally il the establishment of the fourth French par allel.