The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-01-02

the Thousands of trowess aud hammers, and
! the hundreds Of thousands of nails may be far.
4 nished within a month from the present time.
The. wood will not be forth coming even at so
! early date, and the loss Of so large portion
4 Of our transports will still further retard ope
rations. Then comes the period necessary fer
| the construction, which will not be less than
three or four weeks, considering the diff
Guilty Of bringing everything six miles along
an uneven road. In short, am assured that
the troops will probably not be in their huts
for nearly three months, and that they cannot
/ by any means have them ready in less than
two. They will therefore, have to brave the
| fury of the elements and the cold Of the Rus
sian hills until at least the middle Of January
without any protection but that Of their tents,
already much injured by the storm Of the l4tl!.
This, added to the destruction of the stock Of
winter clothing in the prince, makes their po.
stion one not to be looked forward to without
apprehension.
The following letter is from an Assistant
Surgeon:
Hg1GnTs OF SEBAsTopoI, Nov. 10 & l2.-
Here VIC are, after wet ight. moving on a
mud bank, inches deep in dirt, in a miserable
and comfortless ondition-cvery thing wet and
cold hut VIC are as cheerful as ever, though
the fall Of Scbastopol is as far as ever from our
gaze. So we are to stay here for the winter
and cncamp in huts Fancy us under canvas
on hill slope, with incesSant rain, which comes
even through into the tent, and makes things
wet or damp, so that any change for the bet
ter is impossible The camp is mud hole,
and the poor horses stand shivering in the rain
and wind most pitiably. Our only charce is
for some Of them to die, as any loss Of men
could not touch the heart Of our Brigadicrs or
any OF the chiets-mcn can be replaced; horses
cost money. This weather, we are told, will
continue to Christmas, and then snow sets in.
Wood has been ordered for hutting the horses
and we are told tostay undcrcanvas until Christ
mas but the wood has not appeared, being only
ordered two days ago, just us the houses ought
to have been built. Meanwhile we arc surround
ed by large body Of Russians some Of them
occupy the houses which we have so humancly
spared while under our possession. They also
enjoy the forage and hayri"ks which we hu-
namely paid for (or gave tickets for) but which
the enemy is now enjoying. Every where they
have burnt what they could not remove; but
we pay for everything and destroy nothing.
At Alma we lost two days, most important
days, in staying to bury their dead and see to
their; white they, panic struck, were running
away at the cry of the: English are coming"
and leaving all behind them. Had Catheart
and Eyre then been listened to, we had pur-
sued them into Sebastopol without opposition,
which the former offered 10 take with his divi-
sion alone. As it was, they had time torccov
er themselves and to build mud batteries
round the tnp-:::sW 9, Which we have fred at night
auea~-I day for four weeks, without destroying
Our fires will not burn to day, so warmth is
out OF the question, besides sitting under wet
canvas is not conducive to heat. | hear three
thouiand more French have n>t gone down to
Balakva, so the iorcc there is six thousand
English and French, and it is safe. Medical
matters are in a wretchcd state those whom
Smith sends to Scutari for service come to the
Cr;mea without reporting themselves. AS it
we have too few men, and scarcely any at
Scutari Our ration of rice is stopped. 1t
seems it had been issued to the Turks, and
the commissariat found themselves suddenly |
without supply. This is the way thing: are
Our biscuit is fortunately very
good. Fancy the Guards filthy with dirt and
vermin; the latter inest all ofuS, more or less.
Those beautiful coatccs you admire arc their
daily and only dress and the Hussars call
their splendid jackets gilded night dresses.
Lord Cardigan still figures in the Eleventh
uniform.