Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-01-13

fed to the commiss0iiat stores near Lord Raglan's
and found their partial shelter. Inside the COM
missaridt yard, overturned carts, dead horses, and
groups Of ~shiycring men were eecn-not n tent
standing, Mr.. Cookeslcy had to take refuge
among his stores, and was no doubt gladt to find
1t, even amid salt pork and rum puncheons. Near
or to us hnssar horses were dead and dying from
the cold. With chuttcring teeth and shivering limbs
each man looked Mt his he ghbor. Lord RHglan's
house, with the smoke of its fires steaming away
from the chimneys, and its wEi;e walls standing
out freshly against the black sky, was indeed
the cynosure Of ncishboring eyes Our gcner-
ais marques were us incapable of resisting the
hurricane as the bell tents Of the common soldiers.
Lord Lucan was seen for hours sitting up to his
klel3 ia slu Ice amid the wreck of his estab-
lishmcnt, mcditati,e us Marius amid the ruins of
Carthage. Lord Cardigan was sick ON board his
Yacht IN the harbor Of Balaklava. Sir George
Brown was lying wounded ON board the Agamem-
non, off Kamiscsch Bay. Sir De Lacy Evans, sick
and shaken, was ON board the Sansparicl in Balak-
lava. Although the tents stood they hapTed about
so much ard admitted su,h ItaI titles OF
snow, rain, and filth, from outside that it was quite
out Of the question to sleep in them. what was
to bc done? Suddenly it occurred to us that there
might be room in the barn used rs n stable for the
horses Of Lord Raglun's escort of the 9Th llus-
sars, and we at once waded across the sea of nastt
ness which lay between us and it, tackled against
several gusts, iUulcd one or two soldiers in IL dit
ferent course, g%rapplcd with walls and outhouscs,
nearly iuundcred in big households, bore sharr
up round IA corner, and anchored Mt once in the
stable. What IL scene it was! The officers of the
escort were crouching over some embers of a wooc
fire along the walls were closely pa3ked SOME
thirty or forty horses uni ponies, sllivcring will
cold, and kicking and biting with spite and ba,
hunor. The llusSars, in their long cloakS, stonc
looking gluonily on the flakes Of snow which drift
ted in ut the doorway or through the extensive
1YprturpS in tho Sliuulp roof SnlIiprS of differ
cnt regiments crowded about the warm corners
and Frcnchmcn of all arms, and a few Tnrk'
Joined N the brotherhood of misery, lighted theii
pipes Mt the scanty fire, and sat close for natura
comfort. The wind blew sayagely though the
roof and though chinkS in the mud walls and win
dow holes. The building was a mere shell, a
dark as pitch, and smclt as it ought to do-ar
honest and unmistakablc stable" improved b,
Il dense pack of mouldy soldiers. And yet seemed
to us a palace. Life and joy were inside, thougl
melancholy Frenchmen would insist ON being path
etic over their own mi>eries-and, indeed, the.
were many nnd great and after n time the eye
made out the figures Of men huddled up in blan
kets, lying along the wall. They were the sick
who had been in the hospital marquee, and VIII
now lay moaning and signing in the cold bu
our men were kind to them, us they are always t
the distressed, and not a pang Of pain did the
feel which care and consideration could dissipate
\ staff officer, dripping with rain, came in to Sc
if he could get any shelter for ~draughts of til
33rd and list regiments, which had just been lar
dcd at Kamicsch, but he soon asccrtained the hOpt
lcssness of his mission so far us our quarters wer
concerned. The men were packed into anothe
shed like behring's in a barrel" Having told u
there is terrible news from Balaklava seven YES
sells lost, and Il number on shore al the Katcha !;
and thus made us more gloomy than ever, tn
officer went on his way, as well as he could to loo
after his draughts. In the course of an hour a
orderly was sent off to Balaklava with despatche