The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-09-16

hoSI idpIuIouSly- Inc peopleshereal nhu pam
intelligent, kind and hospitable- very
much like own Virginians."
Further Particulars OF the Mortality a
mons the New York Troops on the 18th
Desertion of the Offers. &c.
Our telegraphic dispatches of week so
back furniehes some particulars of the mortality
| among the New York Troops upon the lsthmus.
From the Panama Herald of the 18th we derive
| the following details:
On the 9th of July, eight companies OF the
4th Regiment of United States Infantry under
| the command of Lieut.. Colonel Bonneville left
New York en- route for California via the 18TH
mus. These companies consisted each Of about
| one hundred men and officers, with unusual
large number of women and children.
The T. s. Mail Steamship Company, at the
request of the heads of the War Department,
Congress having made no appropriation for the
! transportation of the troops, agreed to convey
the troops over for $l2O,0OO, and wait the uc-
| ton Of Congress for their pay
The troops embarked under the contract and
| reached Navy Bay in good health and without
| the loss of a single man Before leaving the
steamer Falcon, at Navy Bay, .tonr days 1,roDis-
IONS soere prepared for each soldier by the officers
Of the Steamer and these rations wereserved out
for their sustenance on the Isthmus
On their way over the Isthmus the hardships
and troubles of these poor soldiers commenced.
Deserted, as we believe, by every Commissioned
| officer, and left alone in command Of the nom
| commissioned officers, it is no wonder they gave
way to every species ofindulgence. The rations
| which had been prepared on the steamer at Ma
Wy Bay were either thrown or given way, or
sold for liquor by those who were too lazy or
| too feeble to carry them on the road. Coming,
as those men did, from temperate 20 a torrid
| zone, their systems, unless properly cared for,
were susceptible of contracting any disease
| Without officers, and consequently without dis
cpline, they were their own ignorant guides,
reckless of consequences, sleeping in the open
! air on the damp ground, drinking noxious and
poisonous liquors, and going without food ex-
cepting fruit, it is no wonder thvt something
like the cholera broke out among them On the
road over the Isthmus some died by the road
side, some in the rude huts of the natives. with
out medicine or medical attention One soldier
and his wife died on the road leaving four or FIVE
little children the Oldest not over four or five
years of age, the youngest nursing babe The
women was left in native hut, but in dying
condition. The mortality on the Isthmus was
not great, but the seeds were sown which ripen-
ed their deadly fruit in Panama
The acknowledged mortality was fearful in the
extreme. One hundred are said to have died
out of the seven hundred enlisted in New York,
Only one of the commissioned officers died
WIila mon Of fl,a al
their Iyes-only per cent among the ofli-
GERS laid their bones in this place.
The officers and their wives came over in the
usual time, on mules, in good health and condi-
ton. Even the regimental quartermaster, Capt
Grant could not tarTy to attend TO his duty, but
must come through and await the arrival of the
troops this side Many ofthese troops came
in three days or more after leaving Cruces wet
and almost famished, having had nothing to cat
for twenty-four hours, but probably plenty to
drink. 1t may be said it was their own fault
it was-stil, had the officers remained at
their posts, they could have kept them in order
and prevented their running into such excesses,
but this the sequel viii show, they had no de-
sire to DO.
When Chinese lady is blessed with an in
crease in her family, from the moment of her
accouchment the unhappy husband is put to bed
also, and there detained for forty days, and du-
ring this delightful penance he is subjected to
ali the rigorous treatment of his better half
Should medicine be administered to her, he mus
partake of it aIso and he is strictly confined to
the same diet that she is obliged to un-
dergo, which consists, on an average, believe.
Of about thimbleful of crem of rice, admin
istered every three hours, to say nothing of the
pill at bed time to prevent indigestion.
Neops Residence at Siam.