Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-06-01
foreign Nt(ps.
FROM THE CRIMEA,
VISITS TO THE CAMPS,
VIEW OF EEBASTOP0L.
Revolving Details.

The special cor. espondent of the
New York Sun, under date Of April
7th, writes from the seat of war as
follows: This morning, having with
difficulty procured a horse. l made
haste to avail myself Of the grudging
permission ] had with much more diff
ficulty obtained, and proceeded to the
camps of the allied armies. The
English, who have lately taken up a
new position on the right of the vii
lage of Kadikoi, number in all abou,
5000 men; and, although they are
now somewhat cleanly in their appear
ancc, and somewhat better cared for
than they have been, yet in their ia.
ces and forms they bare evident mari;
of the dreadful sufferings they have
already undergone,
OF the eight thousand, il is believ-
ed that not more than six thousand
are to be relied upon in an extremity
Think Of these members, and then re-
feet that, between the lst Of October
and the 30th Of March. 1900 sick
English soldiers were shipped from
Balaklava. OF those not now in
the hospital-but to go there or to
their graves, Heaven only knows how
soon-sone ale quar.eied in rudely
constructeded wooden barracks, while
others still occupy tents. which, bow
ever, so long as the present mild
weather lasts, are by no means disa.
greeable. But then, in this country,
the continuance Of fair weather is al
this season not to be relied upon
Against biting frosts and dreary snow
storms. there is in the Crimea no secu.
iity till the end Of April.
The English are just now taking nc
very active part in the seige, having
some two months ago yielded theil
mostimportsnt positions to the French
a plain Acknowledgement Of inferiority
sufficiently humiliating, one would
think to British arrogance.
AS to that famous-or, perhaps,
should rather say, that notorious
parsonage, Lord Raglan, who, the pu'
pill of Wellington, has contrived a,
Sevastopol to blot out the glory o.
Waterloo. and has brought upon the
arms Of his country an amount Of dis.
credit which hardly another yelling.
ton could retrieve, and upon his class,
the aristocracy Of England, an amount
Of popular indignation and contempt
from which they; at all events,
most assuredly never can recover
have not yet had the honor of seeing
his lordship. but, in my rapid passage
through the English camp to-day,
have had glimpse Of the highly re-
spectacle and rather comfortable look
ing house his lordship occupies; and !
am sure it will be a satisfaction fol
you to know that one Englishman al
least in the Crimea, and he n Righ,
Honorable Lord, has been able tc
take care of himself personally, what
ever the thousands of his countrymen
and his inferiors-nobody but the peo-
ple-may have suffered. And then
his lordship's house is well guarded,
too, and above il the flag of England
filings its tarnished folds upon the
wind.
From the English camp / proceeded
to get my first hasty view of Scbasto-
pol, travellinga miserable road, and
shocked and disgusted at every step
by the spectacle of unburied skeletons
and carcasses-skeletons and carcass
es of horses, mules and men--aye
menl-not very many men, but quite
enough-dismal monuments Of the re-
cent past in this peninsula, and pro-
phetic. it may well be. Of the ap-
preaching fate Of the invaders now
alive. Amidst these apalling wrecks
of humanity-thus mingled with the
wrecks Of those inferior creatures who
are made to partake of the miseries
of man, without sharing in his better
forlunes-were also intermixed the
shattered remains of baggage Wagons
and of gun carriages, fragments Of
arms and implements Of war, and rags
Of fhuman clothing-rent, perhaps, by
sudden violence which Of the same
time broke bones and lacerated flesh.