The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1854-11-03
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European War. ani il,c features nl DO,
intcst Intelligence, tho a. \, tasriei h..
mafh. that Asia has donh,lcs, been lhe
theatre OF The most liarri secnes ct thr
cou'rsi thas far Accaunls rcash us
/ from time 90 timr Of ilc Occurrence ui
battles ia which The Ru.sians or Ma.
/ homcian. are uvcrihrovu with ifcnicn.
deus slnnrhitr. bu sc wait in ,aia iat
details. The cxoceir. vildncf. Of thr
region or ,hc eastern harts ci ihc Black
Ses. and the abseHre e newspapers and
an other civilized uoans Of ian,muins
Intelligence, make Is impossible 90 lraru
| particulars. Bot knowing the barba.
rous character Of the comhaiauis anil lho
intense onmity which has rape'l bc,W ecu
them for a loug series Of years, there cau
be no doubt thar the war Is carried Oh
with unsparing ferociv
Scenes aro enacted there Of which We
shall never know, md which, even five
did know. no pen could describe. The
same IS in considerable degree true of
the struggle which has been wugrd ia
the Principalilies. L.,dc has been
kuown Of lis worst features.
IL Is understood that the Russians
treated the inhabitants Of the conquered
provinces with great cruelty, bui Of the
punicred villages, the devastated har.
vests, the murdered men and outraged
women, the grief, despair aud desolaiiou
carried INTO innumerable families, but
meagrc intimalions have reached the
Western world. Yet We know that
such cnormiies must hive been, ior they
have been prnciiced in war through all
time, and 1t Is cerinin that human ma.
ture has not changed Disease, how
ever, Is not on the list of crimes, and Of
is ravaSes there Is abundant desclip-
'i~-s 'I..~.' ;-s ,..s s',ria u,ei.r..
the sal mortality Of the zuurves in the
Drobrudscha, who were led on under a
hot sun, n forced and most iaiguinp
march IN pursuit Of the Russian cayal-
ry. The plain. it i said, was literally
hcapod with The dead bodies of thc Rus
slams, spreading pcstiloncc and dcstruc-
ton all around.
The wells were blocked up with man
glcd remains, AN absolute mass Of putri-
faction, not a drop Of pure water was To
be found 10 moislen the parched lips Of
those fine iroops--disappointmcn, and
despairat having utterly failed in the OBJ
ject Of their expedition was too much
for the men so that uuder these circum-
stances it is not ai all surprising that
such aumbers fell victims to the varied
noxions influences Which toncc asmilcd
them"
on iho Englisl. and French troops, q
"Thrsc soldiers have sai,e,dia % ss..s..si.
from sickness and long waiting that they
are hardly the same men as when they
arrived, full of health and spirits, four
or FIVE months age. They are much
worn, and the relaA DOG nature Of the eli
mate has produced effects upon them.
Even among the officers the nerves Of
many are shaken by the sight Of men
carried past, vomiting and blue and
such sights have more effect than the
carnage of a general action
ALoihcr eyc-wiincss thus sketches the
suffering aud dcmoralizing Of the army ;
As an instance Of be capricious ac'
tion Of the disease, Ioay mention what
was told me by one OF ON principal sur
9cons here. lie had been 10 visit the
camp Of the 9th Dragon Guards and Of
the Enniskillens, which was pitched in
very looking healthy site. There,
however sickness found them, and in .
few DAYS these skeleton regiments tfor
all our cavalry fragments are mere skcl-
elons Of regiments aud nothing more, as
few colonels could brine 30 sabros into
the field in The heallhies state Of lheir
troops we're reduced considerably -iu
fact they lost about % men.--Durine
the doctors inspection ihCre was heay }
ibnndcr.lorm and as he sheltered in on,
Of lie tents be expressed li. satisfaction
nl nn occurrence which, IN accordance
with vulgar notion. aud even With philo
sophical investigation, is supposed TO pro
duce that beneficial operation callet
clearing tho air = bat after the thunder
storm the disease became worse, am
when the surgeon went dow7 TO his owl
quarters he found tia, IN lbe very heigh
Of the electrical discharges five men %
the ambulance corps--a body Of me-
heretofore dngulariy free from sicknes
had been seized aiih cholera, and %
thosc Eve men four were dead 10 les
, Than six hours. The cnniact of man
Of the men, French and English, seem
characterized by a rccklessness whic
vergcs on insanity. You find them ~
ing drunk IN the kennels, or IN ih
diichei by the roadside, under the bla
ziug rays Of the san, covered wh
I swarms Of fies. You see them IN siu
pid sobrieiy grayely paring the rind
7 caeambers II pouenloas Dimensions, an
. eating lhe deadly cylinders one ailer ~
other, 20 the nain'sr Of six o. eight q
p there Is no room fJr any nsfe--~sll d
Shile sitting ia groups 10 the hfiia
on the fiags by il,s shops ia 'hs oi'e
streets, and looking a. q they wsi
adopting highly esoilary nsasgres &
: their heallhs sake Or irsqseniiy ihr'
C or four Of them viii make happy bn
gala wrh a Greek far large basheiit
u IN anrin,l.. aLllI dim. aeafsl pnmpall