Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-03-16

with the grapc-shot upon the besicg-
efs, upon the besieged, upon the
camps, upon the fleets, upon the
garrison, upon the city, where the
whole population-women, children,
old men--agonze. Shells destroy
hospitals a hospital takes fire and
two thousand sick are calcned, F"
says bulletin. And storms too
II is their season. The Turkish fri
gate Bahird founders under sail, the
two Egyptian Boats Abad-i- Dill had
are engulfed near Eniada with seven
hundred men, gales dismast the fleet,
the screw propeller the Prince, the
lrigaie the Nymph Of the Seas, four
other war steamers founder, the
SdnSpareii, the Samson and the Ag-
amcmnoH lie in shallow water. bro
ken 10y the storm the Rctribution
! only escaped by throwing her guns
into the sea, the Henri ". persisted
near Eupaloria, the advice boat PHI
10 is disabled. thirty-two transport
ships laden with men run aground
and are lost. On land the conflicts
become every day more savage. The
Russians beat the wounded to death
with their muskels. At the end Of
q battle the heaps OF dead aud dying
obslruct the manGuvres Of the inlan-
try. In the evening the battlefield
makes even generals shudder, Eng
li>h and French and Russian corpses
are mingled as if they were biting
each other / hare ncrer seen any
thing like IL, cries the old Lord Ra-
I CLAN, who saw Waterloo; and yet
they will 90 further still. 1t is an
nounced that new" means are IL
bout 10 be employed against the IN
4 Fortunate city,-means which make
one 'rcmble, aud which they hold
% in reserve"
determination is the cry Of this
war, The entertainment alone costs
q hundred men day. Rivers OF
human blood flow; a river Of blood
at Alma, river Of blood at Balakla-
VI, 4 river Of blood at Inkermann
five thousand men killed on the Doth
September, six thousand the 25th
October, fifteen thousand the 9th
Northumberland this is only the be-
ginning. Armies are sent and they
melt away, 1t is we'll Come, lie,
rs send Others Louis Bonaparie
has repeated 10 the cx-Genoral Can
rohcsi that imbecie saving Of Philip
/ w. Spinola Marquis, fake BIZ
I da. Yesterday, Seyastopol was a
sore; to-day it is an ulcer tomor
row it will be a canccr--thc cancer
which dcvours France, England,
Turkey and Russia This is the Eu-
rope of the Kings. O future when
wilt thou give give Us the Europe of
the People
continue ,'ft ute eftff,- o,So,
each battle, are horrible crowds of
wounded. TO cite only the figures
that | know, ard | know not the
tenth part: four hundred wounded
on the Panama, four hundred and
eighty-nine on the Coiombo, which
towed two transports loaded in the
same manner--the number | do not
know; four hundred and seventy
on the Vuican, fifteen hundred on
the Kangaroo They are wound
ed IN the Crimea, their wounds are
dressed at Constantinople. Two
hundred leagues Of sea aud eight
days journey between the wound
and the dressing During the voy-
age the neglected wounds become
frighlful; the mutilated men, with
no aid, no assistance, miserably hea-
ped mp on each other, see the worm
of the grave come forth from their
broken limbs, from their wounded
sides, from their cloven skulls, from
their opened bowels; and under
this horrible swarming they become
corrupt before they are dead, and
in the pestilential holds of hospital
ACCOMPLISHMENTS common graves
filled with living men eaten by
worms | do not exaggerate. have
here the English journals-the Min
isterial journals. Read for your-
selves. Yes, | insist, no aid. -Four
surgeons in the Puican, four OH the
Colombo, for nine hundred and nine
teen dying men As for the Turks
their wounds are not dressed. They
do as they can. am only a dem
agogue and a blood-drinker. | am
we'll aware of it, but it would please
me better to see fewer boves If con
secraIed medals on the field of Bou.
logne and more physicians in the
camp at Crimea.
Let us proceed
In Europe, in England, in France
the reaction is terrible. Failure:
upon failures, all transactions sus.
pended, commerce in agony, indus.
try dead. The follies Of the war be-
come evident, the trophies present
their balance-sheet. For the Baltic
alone, and in calculating what ha:
been expended, allowing nothing
lost for this campaign, each of the
two thousand Russian prisoner:
brought from Bomarsund, cost:
France and England 1876 600 francs
per head. In France, misery. The
peasant sells his COW to pay the tax
and gives his son to feed the war
his son his flesh What this flesh