Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-02-27

A correspondent of the New York Tribune thus
narratcs the suffering of the English soldiers in
the Crimea:
exposed of the two, while their numbers are too
few for the task assigned to them. There are not
enough men to afford proper relief to those in
the trenches. The soil Of the Crimea is a mix
ture of clay and lime; there is, however, abun-
dance of stone in layers, but the soil is soft, and
when wet, becomes extremely mirey. This is Pc
culiarly the case in the trenches, where the
ground is heavy, and the water always from one
to three feet deep, Notwithstanding this, they
must be occupied to save their own lives and that
of their octogenarian and semi-imbecile Field
Marshal. Imagine thousand men standing q
long night in winter-perhaps under continuous
fall of rain in these bitches, denied the right to
sleep, and required to be ready at moments no.
tice to rise, rush forward and repe the attack of
their ever-tring, never-sleeping foes. How ar
duous must be this service, will be seen from the
fact, that, in the face of certain death, these men
often fall asleep and arc bayonetted by the sor-
ties, of which you now and then read garbled
accounts in the papers.
Balaklava is some six or seven miles from the
British camp; the ascent is at first Steep but af-
forwards the road is rather level, Offering no 9th.
er obstacle than the want of good road bed.
The British commander has foreseen nothing.
Rains have thoroughly soaked the road, and rem
dered it perfectly impracticable for man or beast.
The Commssariat is managed in a manner quite
incomprehensible, and oil of the English people
here declare that several of its chiefs should be
hung for their utter Indifference and negligence.
Imagine the fact that the men in the trenches
have no other food than dry biscuit, raw pork
are now in the Scutari hospital barracks here.
with feet mortified from long and continued ex-
posure to the wet of tho trenches. After weeks
OF wet, with no change, and without the means
OF drying their shoes or boots, the men give up
in utter despair from inability any longer to stand
on their feet, and lie down to die, while their
comrades, in pulling off their soaked boots. mil
OF the toes in them! Incredible as it NAV an
pear, have heard that the large steamer Jason
contains great number of boxes full of shoes
and boots for these same men-that thew have
been on board some five months, and that at
each visit to Balaklava, the Captain and Purser
begged the English Commissaries to take them,
and give them to the suffering men-but they will
not, because it requires an order from some supe-
nor authority. This, | am assured, is the case
with many other objects of general utility to the
poor, suffering English soldiers, than whom Draw
or mea never shouldered musket. The French
must, and do, feel perfect contempt for the En-
glish army. The superior French officers saw that
Louis Philippe was right when he made Aleisrs a
school for their army; that their they have learn
ed and practiced what now renders them so far
superior to the English. ~ : = =
The French, in pity for there suffering comrades
of ''per6dious Albion" are engaged In makiny
. road for them from their camp toward Bala.
klava, and passing their provisions from the Cher
sonese ports to the British depots. There are
materials for building railroad from Balaklays
to the British camp, en- route from England, but
these cannot be used until the wet has been suc-
ceeded BY ice and cold weather. If then heavy
SHOWS set IN, God protect the English army! It
daily and nightly attacked BY the Cossacks.
The Turks here ask with CONSERVATION in their
countenances, how all this is to end. They seem
TO think already that their own ssdays are mum.
bersd and that neither French, English nor Ras-
slams will ever leave this country again. -,