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

spprecstons ever printed. II is needless to add
that the book should be taken with many grains OF
allowance and read with constant eye to the
prejudices of the Imperial author.
FROM BEFORE SEvASTOPOL.
srFYKRISGs or THE BRITISH EXTRACTS FROM YARi-
Gus CORRESPONDENCE.
From Col, T.. Of hs Codstream G97rd'
JAsUARY l2.-I can scarcely write, so cold is II.
The ground ia covered with sno~, and the most Bit
ter Of winds is rushing through the tent 1t misery
with veDgean No chance Of buts ever beiog got
up and no warm clothing as yet. We have one IN an
in hospital wbo must lose both feet from beioy frost.
bitten ard crowds who will lose toes, &c. i under
stand that il has been calculated with the st
present a. dposa that il would take five months to
bring up butts for oil our army from Balaklava, go
they arc not Of much u1e
From another Officer.
JANUARY s-We are sinking deeper into the mire
of discomfort and the slough OF despond every day.
Those at the head of stfoTs seem to have no notion
of what fix we are getting INTO The complicated
and cumbrous machinery that prevails through every
department, the ignorance and helplessness OF every
responsible idiot who ought to assist instead OF con-
fusng matters, and the aud tear of he Sorkiog,
suffering dying soldiery prove that there is some
thing than rotten in the way 10 which the cam
papn is carried on. Nov, for instance. 10 give you
an idea Of how things managed, suppose 80 tuus
of flannel drawers arrive in the harbor, the natural
plan would be for this 10 he notified TO regiment,
and then the Colonel might send down 100 men to
quirts But this is much too simple for oifcissn
The draw ers are first landed then they are pa. into
stores mot any easy business perhaps the stores are
full; perhaps men cannot ne found to put them
there In about week or more the colonel cf a
halfnaked regiment accidentally hears OF this
He applies for them in The fret instance to
his general; the general after losing few
days. forwards the application to the quarter
master General. This worthy in course of time sue.
ceeds in getting Lord Baglans signature to a requ
sition This goes back il ii Is not lcs the rosd
the Colonel. He applies 10 the Commssary. The
COnmssisry sends him 10 come one else, who sends
an upon the stOrek oeper and 40 on the routine
eoee and if the Colonel gets the drawers in month,
he does uncommopy well The hafb of Bs'aslaya
is full Of ships, laden with things which have been
feLt out for the sol6ieis bu, nobody knows wha.
they are, nobody knows where they are, nobody
knows how to get them, ro1cdy knoFs to whom to
give them nobody knows anytti0g about anything
that be ought TO know, AID the upshot OF the shols
u.s. that among them all no ons gets anything nor ever
will. Wooden houses have been lying at Dalaklava
for q m nth, ard more, but there is not a Wooden
house up yet in the whoe army. MeanWh 10
healthy men seken, aud sick men de. Here tor
Instance, at o'clock in the morning, the whoe OF tne
men are sent 10 carry shot or provisioIs from the
harbor TO the lines. They are away all day, and
return at night No ore having been left 81 home,
they have fire to dry aud warm thoin and no
dinner to eat. Each gets bis morsel of at salt pork
and bis unroasted, uDgr0und coffee. lie mas 10 COOK
before be eats. Many man eats his ratons raw.
lie has chance Of warming bis frOet bitten 'eet or
driving lis wet boots He lies down in vet and cold
in hunger and WEAKNESS, and, perhaps, he has 10 20
on sentry for the night 10 be relieved in the mot1ins
only few minutes before he must again turn out.
From an English offer
JANUARY Twenty men, l an told, died last night
in the trenches The line are on duty every alternate
twenty -four hours, and without clothes. We are
all on short allowance of food. IL is impossible to
keep arything dry in such weather this that is the
worst of it, by taking violent exercise you get ~arm
but you also get moist, and, instead of crying your
clothes, simply freeze them, ard get wet whenever
YOU take them in from the air am told by the chap-
ians and doctors the best authority on the subject
that the state of the hospitals is drosdfa A sick
msn has nothing to lie upon but his resmenta olan-
ket-of course mere rag Ia most instances now.
They have lights for the hospitals unless the sur
geon himself provides them. They have few nsd-
zines, and fewer still Of the commonest requisites OF
sick oiet.
JANUARY 6.-The weather is still very cold snow
ana froet during the day are not al all sgrsea5le but
desperate work at night under canvas. We have
10 means Of Transporting wooden houses and the
chance Of getting them up before the summer Is as
far of the summer itself was informed yesterday
by two officers who had seen them, that there are
bales of she epskin coats to ths number of 900 or
5000, on board the Golden Fleece, al Ba'akiavs,
cent from Trieste present to the officers OF the
trsny The commander of the ship tells us that be Is
@edingly anxious to get rid OF them. But ths
I.-rtermaster- Gene rails Department have received
Q" ~ ial letter about them, and will not receive
tAem.
From Coryoy1i.
JANUARY IL hardly kno~ how TO begin to give
you sn ces of present suferngs for suffer We do
daily from the effect Of the cold. Even now, while
sn writing, am persisted with cold, sitting 10 tue
cold tent. God knoEs what we shall do II the AL
mighty deeerts il the trying time. We are up TO
opI -nees in snow and you may depend We feel 1t
going into the trenches for twelve fourteen houre
ard iii is your turn for the advanced trenches you
have not casnce of jumping about TO keep yourself
warm Tor fear of 80 Pounder, or ribs ball, from
the administers in their holes under the batteries
ming after you with stunusg message to halt. l
don't ike grumbliDg but this work is enough to try
my patience. 1t would Gu. you 10 the heart to the
remains of once fine regiment. We came out
here about 600 strong, Ard now can hardly mus
ter 100 men for duty. The men try to knock along,
but their strength fails them. The other night ii
showed terribly, and we found about every msn we
could muster at n in the evening, our usual time of
mounting, in the trenches, aud they hardly marched
oil before news came that half of the party had fallen
down quite helpless with palms. so that the sick at
nome were compelled 10 turn out and carry our poor
comrades to camp
Fvon the Coryesyondenf u The London Tunes.
JASUARr s.-Our officers. who out here exposed
to such hardshPs read with indignation the letters
of Indian officers who fresh from all the luxures OF
warfare In the East think that the honest com2lsints
of men in such plghts "a ! have described proceed
from pusllanimous grumblers. These officers, who
have been accustomed 10 movs to battle with mule
long trains Of elephants, palanquin bearers syces
horses, domestics marques, and proiuse storts o
Injuries in the rear ought TO come out here, aud eI
.-,-. ..-l...o- ~ IL nr.fsh ofHcArs IN the Cfl