The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-02-07
Round About SebastopoL
LATEST FROM THE SEAT OF WAR
sTuBBoRN FACTS s INTERESTING sENES

STUBBORN FACTS & INTERESTING SCENES
coNrRAsr THE ASPECT OF THE
ENGLISH n FRENCH CAMPS.
G-hersonesus, where most merchant
ships land, is the nearest point to the
French camp. Here every thing has an
appearance Of care and of comfort. On
every side the French have Laird down
paved roads, along which, despite the
unfathomabIe mud of the Crimea, they
transport with the greatest ease their
sssguns and provisions, and march without
: difficulty from one point to another
Their huts and tents stand ia regular
rows. and at the entrance of each street
there are signposts to Indicate the way.
Asstriet camp police is established, and
~xfsprezents the accumulation of dirt and
e~fubbish. Between the tents innumera-
Die baking ovens are erected-some of
stone, others portable-in which fresh
,Erbread is being continually baked, so that
the French soldier is not obliged, like
the English soldier, to content himself
7e with biscuit, which engenders scurvy.-
Without awaiting the providence of
: their government, they have erected
WARN huts, from wood collected and
partially taken from demolished Tartar
huta, and the smoke of their chimneys
nseurls up pleasantly in the air. Under
: these circumstances there is much more
es5oyfaIity in the French than in the En-
or Turkish camp. The men talk,
hssell tales, sing and work merily. The
clothing of officers and men is as clean
as If they were simply doing hard
garrison duty. The Zouaves amuse the
camp at night by stealing out individu-
ally, climbing the Russian out-works,
land planting French flags upou them.-
The Russians are ~bamboozled, as at
night fires are lit at quite solitary spots,
aInpon which they FIRE away as hard
. they can. General Canrobert, dcs-
s.pite his wounds, is to be seen daily in
1.-The camp, but Gen. Bosquet is the favorite
of the men. The Turkish camp, which is
next to the French, offers a miserable
aspect; dirt, torn tents, uniforms which
can scarcely be recognized as uniforms
which can scarcely be recognized as uni
forms, and soldiers that can scarcely be
taken for soldiers. Nevertheless, they
Lssquat down quietly in the mud, and
smoke their pipes with eomplacency.-
I'VE lave already said so much respect
ing the English camps that we shall on
" give the description of our friend in
Ia few words: +" On the whole, it is the
contrast Of the French camp-there are
no. roads, if We except one made recent
lyftocon7ey the terrible mortars. On
all sides, between the torn tents, lead
cattle, horses, and oxen are rotting, and
NJ one thinks of removing the pest
bringing carcasses. Officers and men
are so badly off for clothes that they
may be placed on par with the Turks
The officer does not give himself the
sslightest trouble in the world about the
fate of the private, his food, dress, or
shelter he leaves all that to the care
of the commissariat. Lord Raglan lives
I'm his house, and for days together is
not visible. The wooden huts sent from
EDgland-lie digecta men6ra in the wa
ter, and will lie there useless, until the
mails for putting them together arrive
4oat. Myfriend, who is a merchant, had
the opportunity of making some charac-4
ssteristic cbserrationsHamong others,
that the English always asked for bran
ssdy and eharpaigne, while the French
linen asked for needles and thread Be-
fore every English bureau, he observed
empty casks and broken champagne and
brandy bottles. The inhabitants of the
villages which lie scattered between Sc
bastopol and BalaklaFa. at first the
friends, have become, in consequence of
probably necessary severe treatment,
the bitter enemies of the allies, SO that
they are feared as spies, and not one of
them is allowed to leave his hut with
70 out an escort. Ny informant also had
"a close view of the besieged fortress
Hedeclares that there is not the slight
- so1fook5oo Of hraaah ap1 fbaf rho
walls of Sebastopol appear intact and
: unapproaehable. In reply to the ques-
tion, q When will Sebastopol be taken pa
zouaye replied, /" When there are
three Thursdays In one week Z" De-
spite this reply, the whole camp is eager
for the assault. General Canrobert new
sser rides through the camp without be-
ing followed by cries of LioHsaat mon
; General, from all quarters.
POLITICAL SERMON OF A RUSSIAN PRELATE.
- Gen. Sehabelski, who commands the
second c~avalary reserve corps, returned
to Odessa on the 18th, and attended the
divine service and ceremonial on st.
Nicholas day, in honor of the Emperor.
The service was held In the Preobrasc-
s5henski cathedral, at ten in the morning.
The archbishop delivered a discourse,
which he concluded with q prayer for
the long life OF the monarch. As be
ceased praying, the guns were heard
booming from the coast batteries. The
prelatc observed that all true subjects
saw in their master the elect of God, IN
whose hands are placed the destinies
NOT merely of Russia, but of the whole
. world He also reminded his hearers
that Russia once stood as a barrier to
shield the West from the ~inundation of
the East, and would now prove the same
firm barrier against the food coming
from an opposite direction. The Rus
sian Almanaes, he said, would now have
to insert the names of Sebastopol and
the Grimea by the side of Borodino and
and Moscow.
FREE AND EAsY CHARACTER OF h EN-
GLIsH SoLDIERY.
The Monite1zr de PArnee publishes
the following extract of a letter; dated
before Sebastopol, 10Th ult:-" Lord
Raglan came this morning to our head
quarters. He is a good. rider, and does
not appear to feel the want of the arm