New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-01

sssr. ~ ofess,,ons viih tspsiofs "a s'sn Wihs"
ss.t a. ses pse haf.e u ~ss tsa S.'y ~ a"vn,"
meht to pahe ever preparation" '" we housing ~ 10
i,aopa hntE Tho canning Wi"'s', Tho rn'ia't 'e'?"
~, sd' lon NJ iha read which ptcsrnad suob dsph sfhr
during 4 tbna months which succeeded inhnf mann,
n, bc ofp ami saion of land transport snfyi'" rhfh
ahould bo effective IN tho worst 81 wea'hH', and poe
sess officers capabo of do ~ their duty unnwod ny no
ohIurg a,ois of tho nioet loud Oxen brig dofP WIN
rrn,d 10 this last matter We will say more NJ pros
ont; the Government may have done ia best Ia Inc
A,maiipn of tho Land Transport Corps" though ia"
opinion in camp "a uninvorahic even among Va" m'in
ben Of the lody iscf but other points tho n,li
ecncc i. patent and the osngcr threatening. VIII II
be believed hat up 10 the present moment not al nj.
d0na hut hiss been erected for our greatly Increased
army Tne few that were constructed last Spring re-
man. and will be available but The vast majority OF he
British roops il s,ill under Can nything be
ms pod more lik, 10 dsbearten tboee who remember
the past suorngs than the steady, dreary looking for
ward 10 aDoher round Of long months when to wea l.
ness ard possibly hunger III be added The IN oiersble
o. rever being cry But where the veteran
suf, n the recruit sickens and dis We know our
losses lsst Winter. Yet t6en the British regiments
wee composed generally Of men who had been some
tim. in Il service; at any r.e they not youths
hastily levied 10 supply the wants of a desr lctive
war But of 81 cb youths the late crafts have been
clnfy nsde up They may become excellent sol
diem but they posses Ia. her the moral courage nor
the bociy eJeDgth 10 support great hardshlEe, AMI
the pairs oud he tai en- IN lessen the suerngs
of their first WLter tmpsign, Ice tie calames of
this second year be deeper than those that are past.
As TO the railway, the conception Of which was so
crediiabe anc which hes really done much good SER
vice the prospects are anything but brilliant. IL is
EXPECTED TO sink bodily into the smui. TIE seepers
are ied Oh that d. ceitful soil which in dry weather is
20 bard al firm, and which few hours of rau con-
v,rs into slush in which man aud horse struggle in
inextrcab,e confusion. EaIly III July a warning was
given. A days Wind ard raia tore away the rails in
teveral places While in hers the slsepers settled deep
III The yielding mud. Traffic was suspended for several
days. But DRY weather returned repairs were made,
and till lstoly all has gore well. There has since
however been more rain, and now the fun l. to see
the trucks Oytrturn in the mud caused by twelyfOur
hour wet weather That the railway will be useless
ss soon az the rainy commences Is the unver-
raj opinion in the British army, and see reason
TO 6issebt from judem based the facts have
narrated
EveIy motive indeed. which can influence general
and al army must now act on the allied fOIoe before
Sovastopol, and urge speedy assault We are in tae
middle OF Auggs,; ihs rains may begin in October,
and are sure 10 accompany toe opening OF the next
n onih. Now, If the sou'h SIDE be nor taHcn before
The setting in of these rains then all or batteries and
trenches slps zigzags, parallels aud approaches IN
advance of oUr ola right and lot attacks must be
abaudor ed, as they will be iu of mud AMI water.
Last Winter the Aies led slope, the Russ
sno'her: between thee wass valley almost as impis
sable IS gulf During the Summer We have slowly
won the valley and all advanced la its
bed But il con only be kept in Summer weather; "a
" inter seis in We must fs bacz oil positions,
and lose hat has cost SO many months of labor aud
60 many thousands Of valuable lives. Tha engineers
who optDed lie campaign in April looked TO the cap
ture of the place before The watels which had just
dried ~ from the fac of The earth should again Ie.u
TO it: q, there Is s time though every passing day
din mrhCs II.
H. the allied army we believe dependency has no
placs vet here can be 10 cOubt that the kid of war
iare IN which our officers men have been for
30 many months engaged is not one calculated to
raise the spnis and sup ply that excitement viii h Is
n G principal charm u military career company
is every tecoud or third day marched down To the
french es whe re il remains for many hours exposed
unoeasng danger from the enemy's SHELL 10 watch for
and avoid which constitutes The whole occupation of
the soldier during his long vigil unless perchance
sorte should rouse him to a closer and more active
conflict Ibis carried on week after week aud month
after month gives the soldier essOn of war in most
unaraciive form. The re-n is gg0t not of energy,
not even of common cheefuness, but OF joYousness,
and Of all pleasu able interest in tee work of the cs
paien. anything like a reconnaissance or an eypef-
hon such that to keTteh a. restores the tone
OF Il o-e engaged in il; but in the body OF the army
there Is a cumess which noIiDg but the prospect of
some spirited enterprise oisslpata. Where young
troops such es bose recently out, engaged in
operations which nocr ssanly have a somewhat de-
prt ssipg puerce on their minds II is the more im-
pothn hat they should not b. exposed TO unnecessary
Eardshps and we accordingly recommend to tue i'm
mediate att, nCn of the Government and the public
TIE defcie cies winch, if not remcdied, will make the
coming Winter in,olerable as the last.