The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-07

The guard tents were down. TIE late occupants
huddled tcqetner under the side of q barn, their
arms covered with mud, lying where they had been
thrown down from the "pile" b. the wind. The
officers Of the guard had fed 10 the ,mmissariat
stores near Lord RsgIan's, and found there par
tial shelter. inside the commlsssriat yard, over
turned carts, dead horses, aud groups Of shivsr
ing men were seen mot q tent s.audng Mr..
Cookesley had TO take refuge among his stores, aud
was doubt glad TO find 1t, evea amid salt pork
and rum puncheons. Nearer TO hussar horses were
cad and dying from the cold. With chattering
teeth and shiyering limbs each man looked q, his
neighbor. Lord Raglans hou Q, with the smoke Of
the fires stea ming away from the chmneys, and its
white walls standing out { eshly aust the black
eky, was, indeed, "the cynosure Of neghb BRING
eyes" Our generals marques were rs incapable
Of resisting the hurricane the bell tents OF the
common soldiers Lord Lucan was seen for hours
sitting up 70 his knees In sludge amid the wreck Of
his establishment, meditative as Marius amid the
ruins Of Carthage. Lord Cardigan was sick on
board his yacht In the harbor Of Balaklava. Sir
soss SSo s sSvna board ,a the
sick and shaken, was on board the Sanspareil, at
Balaklava General Bentinck, wounded, was on
board the CAradoc, at Constantnopls or on his way
% England. The Duke OF Cambridge, sick and de-
pressed, Was passing an anxious time OF 1t in the
Retfbution, Oh Baaklava, in all the horrors OF that
dreadful scene at see, But General Pennefather,
Sir X England, Biz J. Campbell, Brigsdier Adams,
coionels and officers In the field, we're Just as badly
OF as the meantst private.
The only rersons whose tents wsathered the gale,
an far a. could bear, were Mr.. Romaine, Deputy
Judge Advocate General ; Lieut.. Col. Dickson
Royal Artillery, and Capt. Woodford. The nrst
had however, pitched his tent cunningly within the
four walls OF an clubhouse, and secured II by guys
and subtle devices Of stonework. They were hos
pitabe spots, those tents-oases In the desert of
wretcbedness; many poor halt frozen wanderer
was Indebted almost for life 10 the shelter he there
received. While all this writing Is going on, pray
never lose sight q the fact, A. you sit over your
snug coal fires at home, that fuel IL nearly all gone
here and that there are savage fights, even in line
weather, among the various domcstics for o bit Of
shaving or fragment Of brushwooi Never for
ret that all this time the storm Ia raging with in
creased violence and that from half past six o'clock
till late in the day IL passed over the camp, with
the fury Of Azarel vexing and buffetng every living
thing and tearing TO pieces all things insnimatc.
In the Light Division four men were starved 70
death" by tee cold. Two men In the 9TH Fusi een,
pae man in the SD, and one man Of the I'll bat
TALON rife brigade, were found des1. Two more
OF The same division have died since, and fear
nearly an equal number have persisted in each OF
the other divisions. About forty o. horses also
died from the cold and vet, and many will never
recover the fatal day and night. Bat the day was
rolng by, ard there was no prospect Of any abste-
nent Of TIE storm.