New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-28

fussl TO embody the militia OF al earlier time.
With regard to the other grea! cause OF the ruin
of the British army, namely, the absence of road
from B,laklava to the camp. Gen. Evans states
that ! 900 men could have made that road in tea
days, but that they could not be spared.
The spontaneous mis- chief produced by the Or
ganizstion of the departments is borne witaess TO
in every stage Of the inquiry, surpss,ing the very
wor.t OF our predictions and previous statements.
Notwithstanding their full commNd Of the sea,
the British army absolutely wanted everything
food, fuel clothing. shelter medicaments, and
forage. Before we enter on these mstters 10 de-
tail, we will quote the statement Of Gen. Evans
concerning Mr.. Fder, the chief of the Com mis-
saIiat. "F,lder never consulted with him ss to
"the wants Of bic division; 1t was his duty to do
$50; he wanted him to do it, but Fllder de-
clired" OF the same Mr.. Filder Mr. Liysrd
says: "Mr Filder wa, very unwilling to listen
ito anything that cashed with his own views.'
Let Us remark that Mr.. FIlder, too, il an old pen
insular reminiscs nee.
Now, for some details of the Counissariat
manage ment The cavalry might be expected to
have been we'll of, as it was encauped only one
mile from Balsk ava Geo. Dardas, Mp, who Was
at Balsklaya from the 18th 10 the 29;h Of Decem-
Der, reports that he "fouud the cavalry horses
standing at their pickets with no rugs on, to-
italy unprotected from the weather, and sp-
"parently they had very little to eat; many Of
them had died quite recently, as the ground In
"the vicinity WAS covered with dead bodies.
Many must have died on the preceding night.
Almost every other horse WAS on the grorn1.
"Sone of them had died, some he saw dying;
"and he was led to suppose, not only from the
"s,ten -ated state of the horses, that they were
Sin want of forage, but he observed that many
"of them had their names and tails ea.;u Of.
.sNeyt rtheless, a considerable quantity OF bran
sin bags was lying on the shore OF BAlaklava
"HaIbor which continued there till he lefs.
There was also quantity Of hay foasing about
{" in the barber, and washed up on the beach.
"He saw the ban; he could not assign any rea-
"scn why the authorities in charge should not
"have looked to it."
While the horsss were starving at q nile from
lsrbor oSstruct.d with bran and hay, We
fra the men shiycring with cold on beach
sirevn with plank, of wrecked ships, which
they were forbidden from gathering; rottng with
scorbs,ic diseases with vegetables decayins en-
board ships in Balaksva; and dying with famine
on the coasts Of q sea whose Asiatic shorcs
abound With live cattle; or With sickness, under
tents, for want of transport to the hospitals Of
Scu.sri, while men ofwar, with capacities for
Transporting q Thousand lay lie at anchor.
Thus Mr.. Lsyard states that he tc!d the Govern.
ment as far back as .welvemo,tb, that they
might have ample supplies of fresh meat from
the A.iatic coast but his warning was not
listened to- although several times repeated since.
As to vegetables, DR.. VauI, surgeon Of the Har-
birger steamer, reports to the Committee that
the "Hsrbinger was, on her second 7oyage, dis
"patched in k,ste from Ealaklava to Constant.
@nople for a cargo of vegetables. Orreturning
Ito Balaklaya they reported their arrival to
-" Capt Christic5 and he reported it to the Com
- misssrist. They were fortnight diseharging |
" thsir cargo, which was designed to the Com.
" mi,sarist. He never heard tina. the Vegetables
q" actually got L2'to the cc:np. Capt. Christie
" would not unload the vegetables Until exdered
"by Mr.. Filder, and the conmsnder OF the H.r-
'bi ger could net do it till ordered BY Capt.
Christie The vegetables were at last landed
% on the shore and sentry placed o7er them.
" Some were taken away, hat nearly tie whole
" cargo rotted on the beach. There v7as bread
" pooling on tho beach also" While those
stores were rOttDg away OF the beach, the larger
houses Of Balakleva were occupied by single men
connected with hsadqlartors.
We pass over the chapter of the treatment
of the sick on board the transports and at
Seutari, our readers being sufic emily acquaint.
ed with these facts, and proceed to the history
of the storm of Nov. ID. We have on this
point the evidence of Ir. Stephen Owen, the
surviving officer Of the ship Resa,cte, fron
which he saved eigh. men. He arrived a. /
Balaklava in the ResOlate about tho beginning of
October. His captain would not at irst, anchor
off Balaklava, as the water was net sufficiently
deep, the anchorage not good the coas. iron
bound, and the winter before them. They got
into the harbor on the morning afser their arrival,
and were there until Oct. 81, having re ,eiyed |
several orders from Capt Christie to 20 GU. of |
the harbOr before their c.rgo-coosisting of gun
powder, Mimic riaes, and carsridges--bad been |
delivered. 1t appears from the further state.
ments Of Dir. Owen that the whole disaster arose
merely from the orders given by Capt. Christie
to thips to anchor outside tee harbor. Mr. Owen
states literally th,t "Capt. Lewis, the CON-
"msnder of The Resolu.e, remonstrated with |
Capt. Christie ~ to the position OF bis ship, on
the ground that, conideing the nature Of the
"coas: and the winter coming on, if g ale should