Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-02-22

under u. continuous fall cf rain in thcse ditch
| cs, denicd the right 10 sleep, ard required to
he ready OF a momc nt's motto 10 rise, rnth
I forward and repel the attoct or their never.
! iiring, never sleeping foes. How arduous
must be this service, will be eeen from the
fact, that, in the face Of certain death, these
the sor,;es, Of which you now ant then read
garbled accounts in tie papers.
Balnkluva IL some six or seven miles from
the British camp; the ascent 10 n first steep,
but nncrwsrd the road is rather level, Offering
no other obstacle than the want Of good
r0ad-bcd. The British commander has lore
seen nothing, and consequently prepared
nothing, for winter. Rains have thoroughly
soaked the road. aud rendered it perfectly
impr,cticablc for man or beast. The Com
misssriit is managed IN a manner quite in
comprehensive, and all Of the English peo.
pie here declare that several of it. chiefs
should 5e hung for their utter indifference
and negligence. Imagine the fact ;hat the
men in the trenches have no other food than
dry biscuit, raw pLri, and unburned coffee.
aud tha, hundreds Of them are now in the
Scntari hospital barracks here, with feet NOR
| tilted from long and continued cxposurt TO
the wet Of the trenches. After weeks Of wet,
with no change, and without the means Of
drying their shoes on 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 of their
soaked boots, pull off their toes in them! In
credible as it may appear, have heard that
the large STEAMER Jason contains great
number of boxes full Of shoes aud ha''a for
these same men-that they have been "n
board for some five months, and that al ,ch
visit to Bdlaklava, the Captain and rur-rr
begged the English Commissaries to | kc
! them, and give them to the suffering men-z
but they will not, because it requires MI VI.
der FROM some superior authority. This, |
am assured, is the cuse with many other Oh
Jects Of general utility TO the poor, suffering
English soldiers, than who'll braver men
never shouldered a musket. The French
must, and do, feel perfect contempt for the
British army. The superior French rficers
sar that Louis Philippe was right when he
made Algiers school for their armory; that
there they have learned and practiced what
now tenders them 80 fat superior tc the En-
glish.
The French, in pity for their suffering
comrades of "perfidious Abiton," a'e engi-
ged in making road for them from t ell
camp toward Balaklavu, and passing their
provisions FROM the Cbersonese pnst to tho
British depcts. There are materials Tor bull
ding a railroad from Balaklava to the British
CAMP, en- rout. from England, but thes, can
not be used until the wet has been succeed
ed by ice and cold weather. II then heat
SHOWS Sc, in, God protect the English army
It will be frozen 70. want Of cover and fuel
aud be daily and nightly attacked by the Cos
sucks.
The Turks here ask, with constcrnatioI
in their counlenances, how all this is 70 end
They seem TO think already that their owl
"days are numbered and hat neithe
French, English nor Russians will ever leave
this country again.