The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-01-09

fell like leaves III autumn before them.
About ten o'clock, body of French infant
ry appeared on our right, II joyful sight to ON
struggling regiments. The Zouaves came on
at the pass de charge. The French artillery
had already begun to play with deadly effect
on the right wing of the Russians Three
Battalons of the Chasscur d'Orlean q believe
that they had No. 6 on their buttons) rushed
bv, the battle on their faces. They were ac-
companied by battalion of Cbasseurs Indigo
nes-the Arab Sepoys of Alg;ers
Their trumpcls sounded above the "ln nf
I'batllc, and when we watched their eager adj
vance right on the flank OF the enemy, we knew
the day was won. Assaled in front by our
men broken in several places by the impeinos.
ity of our charge, renewed again aud again
attacked by the French iufautry OIL the right
! and by artillery all along the line the Russians
began to retire. and at twelve O'clock they
were driven pe,mell down the hill towards
the valley where pursuit would have been mad
ness rs the roads, were all covered by their ar
tilIerv.
They left moands of dead behind them
Long ere they fled the Chsseurs dAtriYnc
| charged them. most Brilliant Y over the ground
difficult and broken as it was, and inflicted
great loss on them, while the effect "t this rap
id attack, aided by the advance of our troops.
secured our guns, which were soon rendered fit
for service.
Our own cavalry, The remnant Of the light
brigade, were moved into Il position where it
was hoped they might DO service, but they
were too few to attempt anything, and while
Il fbny Spycru hOrScS and
some men. One Officer, Cornet Cleveland.
was struck by piece Of shell in the side, and
has expired. There are now only two officers
left with the 18th Lanccrs, Captain Godfrey
Morgan and Cornct George WombcIl.
At twelve o'clock the battle of Inkermann
seemed to have been won, but the day, which
mad cleard up for an'hour previously, so as to
enable us to see the enemy aud meet him,
again became obscnrcd Rain and fog set in
and as W could not pursue the Russians, WHO
were retiring under the shelter oithcir artillery.
We had formed in front of our lines and were
holding the battlefield so stoully contested
again advanced, while their guns pushed for
ward and opened q tremendous fire upon It's.
General CauIohert, who never quilted Lord
Raglan for much of the carly part of the day
WAS slightly wounded. Ills immediate atten
danls suffered severely. The renewed assault
was 50 admirably rcpulSed that the Russians
suddenly retired still proectcdby their crushing
artillery.
The Russians, about ten, made soriie on
The French lines, aud traverscd two parallels
before they could be resisted. They we're driven
back at last with great loss and as they retired
they bew up some mines inside the Flagstaff
Fort evidently afraid that the French would
enter peII ,mcll after them. At one o'clock the
Russians were aga n retiring. At forty minutes
past one Dckson's two guns smashed their ar
lilIers' and they limbered up, leaving FIVE
tunbrels and one gun carriage Oh the field.
The MAGNET AND THE Cold. History
in!vrins us that many Of the countries of Eu.
rope, which now possess very mild winters, at
one times experienced severe cold during this
season of the year. The Tibcr at Rome WAS
often frozen over and SNOW at one time lay
forty days in that city. | lie Euxine Sea was
frozen over every winter during the time Of
0vttt and tire rivers Rhine and Rlaao- -nsnd Ia
be frozen so deep that the ice sustained load.
ed wagons. The waters of the Tiber, Rhine
and Rhonr, now flow freely every winter, ice
is unknown at Rhone, and the waves Of the
Euxinc dash their wirry form upon the rocks.
Some have ascrbed these climate changes
to agrcuture-the cutting down OF the dense
forest, the exposure Of the npturncd soil to the
summer sun, and the draining Of the great
marshes. We do not believe that such great
changes could have been produced in the eli
mate of any country by agriculture, and we
are certain that 10 such theory can account
for the contrary change OF cimate-tr"m warm
! to cold winters-which history tells us has
taken place in other countries than those
named. Greenland receives It's name from
the emerald herbagc which clothed its valleys
and mountains: and its east coast, which is
now inaccessible on account of The perpetual
ice hcaped upon its shores, was, in the eleventh
century, the seat of furnishing Scandinavian
colonies all trace ofwhich is now lost. Cold
Labrador was named Ninland BY the Northmen
who visited it in the 1000, and who were
charmed with its then mild climate. The
cause of these changes is an important In
quiry.
A pamphlet by John Murray, civil engineer,
has recently been published in. London, IN
which he endcavors to account for these great
changes of climate by the changcable position
of the magnetic poles The magnetic rar'a'
ton or declinaton Of the needle is well known.
At the present time it amounts in London TO
about twenty three degrees west OF north,
while in 1869 the line of variation passed
through England, and then moved gradually
west until 1916. In that year great removals
of ice took place on the coast Of Greenland !;
hence it is inferred that the cold meridian,
| which is now sunDosed to pass through Canada