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Letter from a Disbanded Volunteer.
Ho.sPrrTLr AT ScREvrARY, NEAR CoSsrASrINorPuL
January, 20th, 1855,

HossPITTLE AT SCREwTARY, NEAR CoSsTANTINoPPUL
January, goth, 1855
Eddytur, Of the Sunday Timer
Sence | writ last, I've been in active .eryis,
helpin to bcsecch the impregnant fortyfca-
shuns offs ebastypull, and wot with pepperin
the Rushin sojers by day and mctin thar
constant sallys by mite, | found it two hot
wurk to continny my furrin correspondence.
Bein genally under fire from daylite till dark
in the ieeld, and partly under warter from
dark till daylito in the camp, is not faverabul
to ittery purshoots A feller cant rite cur
rant cldmoro. as the Spanish say, when the
rane is porin in torrents throo his tent, and
he has to stand on his chest to kepe his fete
out Of soke. Pile on to these aggonees the
third day ager, and you may imadgin the
condishun Of yure epistolcrry agent on the
feeld of glory.
The corpse to witch was attached as fust
lHavetona' We all armed with Minny rifles,
and wenever one Uf our rangers drOo q bcde
on Rushln gunner, he was purity shoor to be
goner The Orretzzes them comical balls
makes in the human dody is serous affares.-
| They puyide moro bizncss for tho graye-dig-
gers than the izishuns. Wunst thort
Caintucky rifle and chawed built was the
sartainist deth goin, but the best shootin
lrun that ever wiped out an in Jun in old Cain
lucky is bound to be whipt by wcepln that
carrys uppards Of a hundred rods.
But rerenueS de mutton, as we used to say
in Paris, Wot you want is plane tail, and
| will therefore resoom the thred of my mari,
tyv, Well then, finely reserved Il wownd il
the trenches throO the thi. and bein onabl,
eny longer 10 toe the marc | was shipt to thi
place tn hav my leg heeled. The doctor Sc,
its oney u lassorashum of the efemoral mu s
sells, and Promises to heel it by the ius
intenshun. hope the fust ntenshun will b.
carrid out. As he pernounces me out o
danger, witch slrtainly wornt at SebAsty
pull, srose ime at libty to resoom m,
epistoierly luckybrashuns. line purity wei
tired OF buttin agen stone walls and fixed ba
ganets, and livin in aperpstyul shour of shel
and rockits, without cny let up to it. Fl
he'd bin likely to amount to eny thing, it WOO
hev bin ditrunt, hut wots the use of drawi
Darelels round stronghold that has no equ
in the wurld bleye they say now that I'll
Investment is cumplete, but reckin its a
, investment whar all the sickurity is on or
side
B'twene you and me, Mcssers Eidvtur
; Lord Kaglane Is spopcrnanyvated old iu
, foo, aud lcuos altogether on his staff wit,
is checlly cumrosed OF mite sllt materials -
6 At the battil of Blkulayee, as yuye no du
1 heerd, he pcrtckcrly distingust himself
e onnesScss"rTll'y sendln rldgyment Of Ii
, horse inter u three kornurd cross fire,
i witch twO-thuris of EN- wur plased boISc
. conhGf. Most Of the oHsirs was nockt int
# II cockt hat, and the repeted doses of gra
e thined the name boldly to s'tch degree tn
= it cum out Of the lire a shatturd skellyton.
r At lnkamm thar was anuther blundc
n the enome was ON rs beloar We had an inkl
a of thar defines. The British udyanse W
IN cOrt ndppln by forty thousand Rushins
NJ hungry fur blud as swedish leeches, and
ia the French suckers hadent arroye Just in I
IA nick Of time, the alleys wood hay had I
4 wurst of the brush, aud its not unlikely I
enemy wood hay swept the feeld
They say the pecpul of England Il
'' birnt Lord Raglne in elegy, and at p'
lick meetins the name of the genraliscm,
~ reserved with general hiss. But the cabl
a net is most in folt. They ort to no Il
ps sebastypull will never he takin till Ragll
O. has bIn sacked. About wunst a weak he ri