Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-01-26

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are taken from tho leading articles and
the correspondence Of the principle
London papers; and from.private let
tern lately arrived fro,a the Crimes.
Es.ns' o from :as leading article In The London
There is no use Disgusting the mat
ter. We are not speaking from our
own correspondence only. We are
not saying what We think alone. We
say. on III, evidence Of every letter
that has been received In this country.
and we echo the opinion Of almost ev-
cry experienced soldier or well-inform-
ed gentleman, when we say that the
noblest army England ever sent from
these shores has been sacrificed TO the
grossest Encouragement. Incompo-
tency, lethargy, aristocratlc hauteur,
official Indifference, favor, routine,
peyerseness. and stupidity reign, re-
vel. and riot in the camp before Sevas-
topol, in the harbor OF Balaklaya, in
the hospitals Of Scutari, and how much
nearer home VIC do not venture 10 say.
We say IL with the EXTREMIST reluc-
tance--no ono sees or hears anything
Of the Commander-in- Chief. OIL
GERS Who landed on the 18th Of Sep
tcmber. and have been necessarily en-
gagged mall the operations Of the siege,
are not even acquainted with the face
Of their commander.
Had the eye Of General fallen on
the confusion in the harbour Of Balak-
lava, on the impossible state Of the
road from that place 10 tho camp, on
the miselable condition Of the camp,
onthe state Of the trenches, on the un-
protected state Of the right flank be-
fore the battle Of Inkcrmann, and be-
fore that, on the circumstances under
which the fatal charge Of Balaklava
took place, we can hardly suppose but
that so able man rs Lord Raglan
undoubtedly is would have prevented
such errors and neglects. We only
echo the feeling Of every letter from
the seat Of war. In the officer and
the private alike we end q quiet, 70.
signed, unimpassioned conviction that
the whole affair Is bungled in the most
hopeless and horrible manner. Evry-
body perccivcs II In his own state, in
the fate Of his comrades, in the con-
dtion Of the camp, and in the progress
Of the siege. Young gentlemen, bred
in every luxury. and with an ample
store Of every military comfort, where
still at the last date wearing day and
night nothing but the threadbare
clothes ana worn-out boots in which
they landed on the I4th Of September.
They had no means of getting up the
things left behind in the Transports
What becomes Of everything sent to
Balaklava nobody knows, but, while
they are rotting. thousands are per-
ishing for want Of them. Everybody
can point out something that should
DO done. but there is nobody 10 order
1t 10 be done and fifty thousand men.
or what now remains Of them, are
drifting with their eyes open. but hand
bound. spell-bound, toward destruc-
ton. Do any Of the letters, or any
Of the regimental officers returned
from the war, give different account?
On the contrary, does il not come
within everbody's knowledge, as il
does in ours, that the letters handed
about in private circles, and not pub
lished, lest they should prejudice the
writer in the eyes Of his superiors,
give far more gloomy account than
any letters that we have yentured to
publish
The burden is forced upon us, and
we must speak out. Good nature is a
pleasant thing in its way, but il Eng
land is ever to be ruined, it will be by
unreasonable good nature, by unlim-
tied condonance, connivance, indul-
genec, and all the softer forms Of viz.
tue. England has not become what il
Is by good nature, nor is good nature
the one sole element Of our social and
commercial system. The period for
good nature is over in the Crimoa,
and sterner qualities must now be IN
voked into action, unless we would
throw away the last chance that re-
mains for redeeming the character Of
this country, now in fearful jeopardy.
Send out men who will save the army
NOT from the Russians, though they
are formidable enough, but from des.
pair, which is weighing down the spir.
its Of every one, and an utter distrusi
in the arrangement Of the expedition
II will be of little use to send out re.
endorsements by thousands unless we
take steps for their management. AS
it is, they march to their graves, and
begin 10 perish by scores from the hour
they land. Misrule receives them on
the beach, and wsaries them, worrie.
them. drenches them, shivers them ant
80 destroys them, till few spectra
figures are all that remain. The sol
diers Of the Peninsula, when they saw
the Duke Of Wellington after an alb
sence, used to exclaim that his face die
them more good than the arrival o
ten regiments. Such head, or coad
tutors equivalent to it, is what W,
want for the Crimea.
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MRs. SwIssHELM ON HYDnoPArnY.-
"In 1875 patriotic fever brok'
out in this country which became
epidemic. Our father-in-law. then {
youth, had prologed and severe at
tack Of the disease; and once he wa
with a large number Of the afflicted
on the banks Of the Delaware, unde
the chage Of DR.. George Washington
One night. he knew by the symptom
that all his patients would hay