New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-17

about ihe tents he nen scarce know wh.t fuel 4, in
uar, re imeIts; thar they break up tte rum .-rel,
and even the ps-k ssde les-sei1e in fact .nyihu :
irat will bum 20 conk their meal. or erab toto tbs
esrfb for roos ara stump 70 hit thsirf-tsl Ikuo
that ouIiug two hard DAY { frost aod soor Ebso,
ever, afu' sUpPly q Ium vas requisite 20 keep ,
The fpiit- 9nd strength 81 the men, ~ beast
had 4 o rum ~ eli on one Of these DAYS aud eny a
half ,a'op On the other aud 'h4t in the ne regi
msnt whtre iris occurred The return Of men under
aTns, 81 f DUTY w-- about 23O, and tns' Of anen
sick and unfit for duty was 3SO
F,omNe corye,pond,ne. Of The LoaSr Herald
JAS 2O-SDce the lost post, and until the 10Th
there he'd been sn ntense frost which while II !as,e5,
surpa rcd for s severity aDytbiog We bave yet felt
During TIE dsy the Thermometer seldom rose above
II deg. but With the night Keen wind Eept over
the snowy waste which fioze the very blood of those
expose6 to II. No terms ] csn use were to xnte
for ever would give your readers even faint idea OF
what the suferiDgs OF cur troops have been ana snl
are Hundreds sre frost bitten ia the hsnts, feet,
and face: the cholera is still among them aud scurvy
and yseI ieIy spread mole ard more each day The
men have fires, the miserable stock OF roots and
shIubs which Used TO enable them 10 get
warm drink are now quite exhausted, and no
N materials FIR fires Of any kind sre 10 be found 10
camp. | am informed that for two whole days
fbrougt ou The great mass Of our lines not fire rs
liz ttoug he mercury then stood at nearly 20 oeg.
below freezing point On each Of these dsys a. II 10
m0ckeTy Of their s1TerDe., the raw coffee beans
were service out 10 the men az uscs No rations OF
frewo,d served, ratiODs OF tobacco, which
the would like almost as well On the IL b
captain and fatigue party were sent down to b Ala
klava With al application ~ the auth Ties her5 for
900 H. Of charcoal for the 4th Division, which
was eI tirely without the means OF makog fire, even
for the sick in the regimenta soital tents. The
,baw had Get in during the night Of the day on which
this psry started, go that after toing through mud
and water up TO their knees aud reaching Bai1ksva
in the miodle Of the Gay, they were cooly informed
that there was not single pound Of charcoal 20 be
bad, timber or fuel of any kind. SO the psr'y re-
turned hey cane-f1tigued, wet, and miserable to
lie down 10 wet clothes in the mad of their tents,
end most probably 60 on p,quet or into the trenches
for the night Perhaps it may modify the 10 geterae
hostility with which the English public so u1jusy
puJsue the gallan, 46h to learn that az regiment,
II has snt st oeased to exist. At the beganIug OF
No, en- Der last il landed st Basklava with an ed,
tive strength Gf 100 bayoDes. 1t now musters III
servicesble mep snd things are goOg On it is not
very improbable that at the end OF month even this
email will be reduced TO the level OF some OF
OR other regiments here. For instance, there is
regiment which figures in the Army Lst a. the G3d,
but il is only in the Army Lis, that it can be found,
as nothing remains OF II out here The last time i
wee ordered for duty in the trenches, OILY SIX men,
am informed, paraded for service and OF this small
number two were unable to proceed as far the
tent of the Brigadier. General The whole SIX were,
therefore, ordered TO return to Their quarters and the
force is now disreg meDted; inducing OH ers
ieapts and officers servants the entire complement
of the 63d is said TO be under 40 If the uuani
nous voice Of the camp is to be believed this de-
pCfdbIe rsuf IL due more 10 Inc lnpruueDce ana mls
management of Colonel Dalzel than even to short
ratohs, b ard work, and exposure.
Major Macdonald Of the sch, am informed WAS
frozen TO death in the trenches on the night Of the
10th, and another gallant officer, whoell into deep
snow cIift most narrowly escaped the same fate.
Both in the nights OF the 10th, nth. and 18TH many
Of the men sentry and on fatigue parties we're
run bed by TIE cold In such manner "a tn expire
In f. hours etserward On the 18th, fourteen
of tie 10th buried the majority Of the deaths
being caused by the severity of the weather and on
tie lsh ten pOre inferred from the csuse.
On the latter occasion the th3w had commenced and
the BODIES OF four of the ten discovered among
the tent by the fact Of their boOts sticking out of the
snow. | believe hey were men Iho had been em
poy ed in fatigue parties and who, becoming numhed
and exhausted, Sat down to rest reaching
their csnrOnmeufs, ard so persisted miseraty During
the eODtiDus Oi this eevere frost al the not
actually on duty use to crowd into the tents and by
bu6dlDg ether managed to keep themselves from
actual frost bites. OF course, the warmth of their
booies thawec the ground en- which they sat into
mere puddle. The uDf0r,unste men got sa'nrstej,
ard when on duty their clothes froze to their esh ia
suct manner that on removing the stockings Of
rome the flesh was striped off the foot in large pies
Ii is not enough to FAY that We are unfortunate
in the mortality which prevails. Such term
il far TO weak to siismatiz. the cruel waste Of
lie ca takes place here every day Our
MIN are literally muriered-mnrdered ny ne'
gtct by ifcapacity by the etiquette Of military rDu.
tine end by every way in which our endless fora Of
nsnsDse s III. ut reach both officers aud priv ,es
old al a young Naval and military officers exclaln
Nrpetusly, ION. if we hsd only coroner with an
"Er esh Jury here for day H. nqu re how and by
what ee ject our III en- eie' This is an exoressioa
which il have heard y ce have heard fifty times
duII the last Two three Gays. All seem appalled,
at H. q Encouragement and It's deplorsbe results but
ali deny The responsibility, and shift the blame fro n
che depatment to another. According 10 one IL Is
the medical stsf who ia fault snother lays it
the co nssarat another the engig in not making
proper roads while all agree that to the want OF the
GEL eral surveillance Of Lord Raglan over all, much,
Ve,y much. is attributable.
The sanitary condition Of Bsaklsva il beginning
to excite serious apprehension The filth OF the town
is something beyond ali description. Ohsl dirt,
waste stores stseDant water the refuse from Eog-h
aDo rurkish hospitals, and some hundreds OF half
decempostd horses. dogs sheep. and oxen lie more
or less in every little alley. Each house Is over
crow ded and under elch house are celsrs ia which
borses and Tartar families are slowed away. But
the most serious evil of all arises FROM the Immense
rumber Of nterneuts which have la'ely taken pla %.
We are Low giving rations to 1000 Turks; tso
II onths ago were ratiOniDg IA 600; $ 900 OF the
missing 10 0C0 are dead snd "buried on the slope
of the hill over the harbor though think even
metropolitan sexton would hardly have the hardwood
10 cailfke last resting lace of Turk here grave
II is merely little trough, about Is inches deep, 10
which the bodies laid the bare rock. snd the
few Eancfu:s Of earth which have been removed In
the process ,csttered over the corpse. lhousancs
have bee thus inferred. The late rams in IN any III
etspces have washed the earth from these graves,
leaving the bodies, in every stage Of corruption, ex-
pcsed to the eye, and poisoning the air for miles
around i believe 1t was entirely owing to the nos
pital for Russian wounded being situated close at
ibe foot of Of these plsguespots that none OF
the unfortunate MuscOvites recovered OF their
wounds which, almost without q single exception
b gan TO moItify and gaDgrsne coon after the men
entered tie place.
DESERTIONS.
From he Cor,espoadent Of TIE London Ti~es.
JANUARY l2 II regret Ia say that there are more
csses oeserton ainong our troops aud the Freuch
,h.n a, a axpscts oy Ill 80 In find fsst NIGHT sen-