Show war ar items there i is too nuch much reason to believe that the gay jickels and rich trappings of our light horse privates and officers excited the on cupidity idita of the cossacks who dw dla not nat scruple to KU i the die wounded as they lay on tire the ground for the sake of their uniforms they knew they would not be allowed to take the clothes of the men who were alive and so more Tar tarico they made short shor work of it do you yon see that exclaimed a russian officer C er to one of ours pointing ns as be did soi so to the gold cord of a shako shaff t yes 11 well I 1 lean can tell you one of our cossacks would ride one hundred miles to get hold of such a pretty looking thing how much easier would be the task of lancing the men who lay on the ground close at hand to them it is remarkable that the wounded russians brou brought glit in had nearly all received their wounds from froin the minie rifles our conical balls cause frightful wounds whenever they touch a limb they smash tile bone I 1 was on the field during and after the action officers and men of tile the russians I 1 mean I 1 were dressed alike in loose aray greatcoats ani and high igi cloth claih c caps aps they are very difficult to see in in the thick brushwood which grows all about indeed singly they are as invisible as a rabbit in dried fern I 1 examined miny of the dead some were lying in pools of blood their faces looking like wax every man had bad a large piece of bacad with him black sour and half baked one had a russian prayer book which I 1 have appropriated as a memento their fire locks are of a very inferior sort they are dated 1834 and have been converted from flint to percussion diarrhoea is prevalent among the allies it is calculated that about one hundred men every day are invalided invalid ed and sent to the hospital of course there are convalescents arriving every day to take their place but not to this number and thus there is a constant drain of our best beat soldiers the army is in need of strong rein foree for cements ments tor for it cannot be disguised that we are scarcely able to execute the task before us the russians in our rear are fortifying their position thus it appears that we are rapidly becoming invested by the russians in fact they are us just as much as we are them they have the north and the northeast north east sides of sebastopol sevastopol Seba open to them as we have balaklava and cherson open to us they have put heavy guns gaas on the re doubts as and on the hills over their cavalry lines we in in turn turi are making a number of arous trous do de loup and i pil Tall all aTT along the approaches to balaklava so as to prevent any rapid dash of their cavalry arous trous T de loup are merely deep holes in which men can lie and scramble in and out but which are too broad and deep for a mounted in man in to cross captain powell of the vesuvius and his big ill blue lle i jackets and marines are busy throwing up a redoubt on the right side of the road they are all under canvass the turks tile the french and the sailors and marines of our fleet are gable in casting up every kind of obstructive obstruct ie e i earthwork in front of tile the town FIRE HAD CEASED ON THE men Mens chikoff koff writing on the reports that the lille be seizers k were suspended and their bombardment n ar men which had been gradually slackening in g had almost entirely ceased on the this hs inte intelligence is telegraphed via warsaw RUSSIAN ARTILLER IMEN A dispatch from st petersburg states that to replace til th e artil picked off at sebastopol sevastopol Seba by the francs aria and riflemen of the allies the russian minister of marine has taken artillery soldiers from the baltic fleet and sent them to the south A special and rapid service of wagons has been provided for their conveyance |