Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-03-02
The English before Sew Stopol-ir full
Picture drawn by the London
Times.

iioHi tiuiS " 1hic We h1NS 1uSNSA HN"
the English preSs-tha'. at length, no Ion.
ger shuts i,s columns TO accounts OF the
horrible suffering and wholesale immola-
tion ofthe army in the Crimea-and have
shown 10 our startled readers the fact that
the English army has become almost an
utter wreck. In the London Times of the
sth Of February. we have "leader," con.
Urinary of the hitherto tidings from the
Crimca; and since it is q document Of
worldwide interest, we quote it at length,
commenting it to the readers careful pc.
russl:
Now that wehave again Government,
though like our military departments. no,
yet inlly and completely organised, we
lose not an hour in soliciting its earnest at.
tention to the dreadful, astounding, and,
as our preparation has been, even to lis al.
most Incredible narratives, that we contin.
ueto receive from the East. Day by day
the thin vail which official mystiiication
had striven to spread over the appalling
realities of our position, is falling away,
and a scene is disclosed, the unu terabIe
woe and misery Of which the most excit.
ed imagination cannot rcpresent-the most
graphic pen connot depict. Slowly sink
ing down from an abyss of misery which
short time ago would have been deemed
impossible, to IN abyss farlower and more
awful. our a my seems to be reaching the
perod assigned to all human woe, as it
has long ago passel the suffering hitherto
believed to be the limit of human enlur.
ance. Down, down. ever downward,
without an abatement or retardation, in
the steady career of destruction, have our
soldiers sunk, and, dark as have been our
prognostics; the reality has always kept
far more than pace with them. Our cor
respondents turn with sickening disgust
from the dreary monotony of narrative
which tells Of nothing but death in the
shape most a5horent to brave men--in
the form of loathsome and incurable dis.
ease. Our battalions in the Crimea mel
away like the snow that surrounds thei
tents and fills their trenches, and this d
minution of our military force is register
ed by corresponding increase Of on
hospitals One hospital has grown into
) three, three into eight, and eight into thir
teen. Cargo atttr cargo of the emacia
ted relies Of the survivors of our grea
bsttlcs has been sent to Malta, to Corfu
1 and to England. Death is clearing tn
hospitals at the rate so to 60 per day; bu
I still the tide ofmi>ery overbears all the re
ceptacles devised to contain it, and there i
l no room for the immense number of pa
n tients whose arrival is Immediately expec
: tel. Five thousand sick are. it appears
: already in the camp. and one half of thos
n doing duty are already unfit for work.
p While Ministers insult us by talking q
r. 10000 effective men, wcll-informel pei
e sons at Constantinoplc estimate our etfee
!. tive force in the Climea at from II 900 t
$4,000 bayonets! including in the ter,
IT that moiety which DR.. Hall considers to
y unfit for duty-'hatis, smitten with chro,
e i: disease, to with they will IT yield ii
n it becomes inveterate and incurable. Th
!; calamity, as we said. has not came upt
C us suddenly or unawares. 1t has a,lvan
l. ed step by step, fully foreseen and idistinc
g ly Iointed out. The progression is re,
? uiar AMI invariable-from the trenches
he the hospstal, and from the hospital to Il
N grave. 1t is not in battle that the Britt.
10 army has found its destroyer. Again
III its iron front the might Of Russia was shi
l. cred in vain, butt carried within itself ar
r. in the influences which watched over
'r the sure and unfailing seeds Of de<tructio
and bore about it the corruption in viii
at they were sure to open. We do not wi
or to exaggerate--we coul not exaggera
ct If we could-the extent and nature of Il
le calamity. a little tine. and all that W
''r be left of our glorious army will be t;
a sickly and miserable invai.ls. a Genel
W or two, and the members of the Sta
which, though it has done nothing of t
or duty required oft, is reported by it's he
It's to be gentlemanlik, in its dcmeanor, a
n. free from all imputation of vulgar di.
r. glecments and quarrels. When, howe
~ er, this catastrophe shall have been acco
'ir plishel--ana it is one. the accompli.
ment Of which may b. measured by da
Ter almost by hours--we shall at any ra
ne have to congratulate ourselves that
'Nt course did not impele the deliberate a
g. leisulely construction of our Administ
ak tion--that not crotchet was surrender
ne not punctillo waived. not party orp
ao Sonal claim abandoned, in order to ex]
5s' dito the formation ofa power which mil
be able to deal with these awful eventn
'W lilies. We shall also have the satisfacti
IL Of knowing that, Of all the persons in
departments whose incompetency has
Fp. to this deplorable result. not single {
'ur has been recalled, diSgraced, or discredit
So so far as the opinion of his official su
riors are concerned.
o' Sill, after a period of inaction q
an incrtness SO socomplete that he really bcli
ny it vas from the English newspapers
per irSt learn the state Of his own army. d
lie Lord Raglan continue to while away
inc i'll case and tranquility among
relies Of his army. Still are his staff
ny, in the full exercise Of those functions
iea which they have. over and over agt
'isc proved themselves wholly unequal !
ef- are the O. artermaster and Adjutant-G G
LOO sral left to contribute theirquota of n
see management and incapa.ity; still is
IN Dommissariat abandoned to the care