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Prince Gortschakoff's Report on the Fall
of Sevastopol.
On the 17th of August the enemy opened
from the side of the Karabelnaia, a very hea
vy and murderous cannonade, which lasted
20 days. Our loss during this period was,
on the first day, 1,500 men ; on the four days
following, 1,000; and from the 22d August
till the 5ih September, from 500 to 600 men
every 24 hours.
On the 5th of September the enemy con
tinued the bombardment with redoubled
force, and the cannonade was inconceivably
destructive, to such a degree thatoiar fortifi
cations were shaken by it along the whole
line of defense. This infernal lire, princi
pally directed against the embrasures, prov
ed that the enemy was endeavoring to dis
mount our guns, to demolish our ramparts,
and so prepare for taking the city by storm.
It was no longer possible to repair the dam
age done to our works, and our efforts were
limited to covering powder magazines and
the blindages with earth. The para pats
crumbled down and filled up the ravines. It
was necessary to continue to close the em
brasures, and the number of artillerymen
killed was so great that it was with difficul
ty we could bring up others to take their
. places. Our loss at this period of the siege
was extraordinary ; from the 5th to the 8th
of September there were placed hors da com
bat, superior officers, 4 ; subalterns, 47; and
;,917 soldiers, without reckoning the artil
lerymen who perished at their guns.
After giving a description of the attack
and capture of the Malakoff, the report adds :
The general loss of the garrison on the 8th
of September was 4 superior officers, 55 sub
alterns, and 2,625 man killed ; wounded, 26
superior officers, 206 subalterns, 5,826 men ;
contused, U superior officers, 33 subalterns,
1,133 men: missing, 24 officers and 1,739
men.
The attack on the Redan is thus described :
At mid-day the English threw themselves
in loose order of battle, supported by strong
reserves, upon the salient of bastion No. J,
The Wiadimir regiment, driven back at first
but afierwarvls supported bv those of Karnt-
chatha and lnkutsk, (12 battallions,) bore
down on the enemy with the bavonet, burled
over such of the English as had gained the
rampart,. and set fire to thi fascines lining
the checks of the embrasure. Lieut. Gen
Pawloff, anticipating a renewed attack of
the enemy ,on bastion No. 3, strengthened
himself by the Selinghipsk regiment, which
stood in reserve, (thus making 16 battalions
equal to about 8,000 men.) The enemy
renewed his attack on the salient, but was
repulsed by the Selinghiuks regiment, under
Col. Niensenzoff, who was killed during this
attack. A third assault of the enemy was
reoulsed with the saur: success as the two
preceding. A part of the enemv posted it
telf in the. ditch, where it opened a hot fire
' V)f musketry. Forty-eight volunteers of the
JWiadimir regiment, under the command of
Ensign Ducrowin, let themselves down into
Vne ditch and drove out the English.
Tiie Anglo-French Commissioner in Sf.
vastopol. The Anglo-French commission
m sits dailv. and is busy apportioning the
.-poils of war found in the town. The niim
her of guns of all kinds captured exceeds
4,000; immense quantities of small arms
have been earned awuy by the soldiers aiu!
sold, but there are still piles of them left
As the Russians lost 18,000 men between
ihe morning of the 5th and the evening of
the 8th ol September, it is likely thai we
captured at least 13,000 stand of arms, not
to mention the muskets in store, which he
longed to men previously disabled
.""'""'Si
the Siege. in?, commissioner ii vines tne
. poils in proportion to the number of men
actually in the respective armies in the
camps before Sevastopol. The labors of the
commission were interrupted the other day
by a Russian bhell, which scarcely left lime
10 adjudicate on the proprietorship of its
.. j.dinler?, as it buret as soon asilfsll through
the roof of the building in which they were
sitting. Eng. Letter from the Crimea.
Sick and Wounded of the Allies Who
will. Get the most "Spoils." The Nation
al Intelligencer publishes a letter from a gen
tleman in Paris to his friend in Washington,
from which we make the annexed extract:
The number of sick and wounded return
ing from the Crimea is dreadful. In Con
stantinople they have increased in a fearful
ratio. Some of the largest convents, as the
Christians call them, lately occupied by Der
vishes, the most filthy creatures and worst
of all earthly fanatics, and other immense
buildings, have been converted into hospit
als; the saim at other places in Turkey.
Still they have to send large numbers back
to France, and scarcely a transport or steam
er returns without bringing one hundred to
five hundred wounded, or, as they are called,
convalescent soldiers; and it is estimated
that seventy per cent, of them die. New hos
pitals have been opened in several quarters
at Mirseilles, containing 4,000 beds. Those
poor unfortunates introduce cholera, typhus
fever, and other camp diseases.
Ills v rench are bunding six immense struc
tures at Constantinople, which th'y call hos
pitals. Tliev are of massive construction,
and admirably arranged as hospitals ; but
they will, at the same tiun, make splendid
barracks, and by no means contemptible
forts or places of defence. The. Turks view
them with great sorrow, it not with more
indignant feelings; for they are convinced
the Giaour never again intends to leave
Stamboul. The reign of the Moslem lias
ceased in Turkey, as much as that of th'
Moors did in Spain under Ferdinand an I Is-
abella. Now, as then, they may linger on
the soil, but soon they must disappear, as our
Indians do., before the march of civilization.
The French fl ig (lies on the Turkish fortress
es on the European, and the British on those
on the Asiatic side of. the Dardanelles, the
Bosphorus, and the S-a of Marmora ; and
soon that of France will proudly float over
Constantinople, where they already rule as
effectually and as arbitrarily as they do in
Rome. The British talk very hardly, threat
en, and intermeddle. wmle tue v rencli quiet
ly act ; and England does not even remon
strate at the lion's sh ire which Fiance evi
dently intends to take from the spoils that
are to come from the present contest. These
spoils will consist certainly ol larkey m
Europe, and -probably of tin Crimea, some
slices iu A-ia Minor, and Egypt. Whether
England will be bettered, as regards her In
dia possessions, by having the tri-coloril at
ing in sovereignty at Constantinople, rather
than the Russian ensign, is a question for
her rulers to answer. If shecae get Egypt
for her share of the "swag,1' perhaps she may
he content.
Dr. Kane's Arctic Expedition. Dr.
Kin p. has ronchidcd a contract with Messrs.
ChiUkaud Peterson, of Philv.del.phia, for the
publication of his personal narrative and sci-
nanpi-a rlaii.icr in thi r.'nt Arctic:
v.v.vj.inJmi 'Pho hnnl? mmnris- n tun
nrtavn rnlnrar. illustrated with mans and
several hundred illustrations engraved from
pictures painted by an eminent artist of this
city, lrom daguerreotypes or the Arctic the
scenes taken on the spot and from sketches
made by the author. The Secretary of the
Navy has expressed a desire to (facilitate the
publication by every means in his power.
The. manuscripts are in a forward state, and
will be put to press with as little delay a;
possible. N. Y. Express.
Tuv V.i ittkivs in- Ntw Jptmifv. TIib rn-
suit of the election in this state yesterday,
,u. nn,i m!iriril,i inmnnh fnrihr.il...
mocracy. itiey nave carried live oiuoi uie
six Senators chosen this year, and will have
an undoubted majority iu the House of as
sembly. Newark Mercury, Nov. 7.
Djguerreotype likenesses arc taken by
steam in Cincinnati.
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THE PERRYSBUIiG JOURNAL.
Price of a City Site in Old Times New
ark, N. J. The N. Y. Tribune says : ' O.i
the 11th of July, 1667, a colony of Connec
ticut Yankees closed a bargain with the
Hackinsaek Indians for their right to the
tract of land included iu the present city of
Newark, and the townships of Klooiiutitdd
and Orange, for the very detailed price of
" fifty double-handfuls of powder, one hun
dred bars of lead, twenty axes, twenty coals,
ten guns, twenty pistols, ten kettles, ten
swords, four blankets, foiyr barrels of beer,
ten pairs of breeches, fifty knives, twenty
hoes, eight hundred and fifty fathoms of
wainpuua, twenty makers of liquors or some
equivalent, and three troopers' coals." The
history of this settlement, as drawn by the.
able pens of the lie v. Dr. Stearns and N. A.
Whitehead, Esq., proves that the people of
this colony were unusually select as to char
acter and euergy, endeavoring " the carrying
on of spiritual concernments, as also of civil
and town a (lairs, according to God anil god
ly government," as they said in their original
compact. And yet when the. lie volution
came, one hundred and nine years after the
first tree was felled, Newark was still a swill
place. Its streets were- not compactly built
up. It was a farming community to all in
tents, with but little sign of that vast man
ufacturing enterprise which has since given
such importance to the place. In old times
! cities and towns were slow in their progress
when compared with some (ounde.d but yes
terday at the west. In ls33, one. hundred
and seventy-three years after its settlement,
it had a population of only ten thousand
nine hundred and fifty, but in the next ten
years itgained two-thirds as much as in all its
previous existence, and in 13)J it had more
j than doubled its population, which then was
thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and niiir-
ty-foiu. it is now not lar trom lit ty thou
sand. Brno. Gen. Ethan A. Hitchcock. r We
have already announced the resignation of
this distinguished officer. The Springfield
Republican explains the reason of his resig
nation. It seems that he was the officer to
whom Gen. Scott gave temporary leave of
absence a short tinrn ago, and respecting
whom the correspondence took place, between
the General and the Secretary of War, at the
time publicly referred to. The Sicretary of
War ordered the officer back to his post.
The result is thus described by the Republi
can :
That officer, who was Brevet Brig. Gen.
Ethan A. Hitchcock, colonel of the second
regiment of infantry, had too much spirit ti
brook so manifest an indignity offered to
himself and his commander-in-chief, and
threw up his commission iu disgust. No
body can doubt that the President was in
structed by his Secretary to accept the resig
nation of an officer whom the latter had to
wantonly insulted. It was accepted accor
dingly. G en. IJUcbcock entered the armv
in 1817, since which time his best energy
have been devoted to his country. He coiv
pniirc mem cod his career as a third lieutenant, and
reached almost the highest rank known to the
army, hav'uig been breveted a Brigadier Gen
i r n . . . . i i . : : ..! i : : ...
erai lor gauaui aim 'usi iii"ui.vii-ii si:i vices in
the storming ol Molino del Key, Mexico,
September 8, 1817. In the same battle where
he earned his brevet, another officer distin
guished himself by uniting on the field.
Pusstnore Williamson has commenced a
suit against Judge Kane, for -fatao imprison
ment. A New Orleans agency is announced, which
proposes to test the practicability and ad
vantages of a direct trade between the south
ern states and the Continent of Europe.
The National Intelligencer has been inform
ed that recent letters from stable and cau
tious German capitalists deem the present
time especially farorable for commencing a
direct cotton trade with Germany, and ex
press their conviction that it will advance
the interests of the planters,