The American patriot. (Clinton, La.) 1854-1???, 1855-02-21


Russian campaign. Vast piles Of wooden hui.
were At Balaklava, but the army was in tents. M
it was certain it must remain in tents as lone :.
it lasted, for there was not the least chance -
transport sufficient to bring up the huts
Only small fraction Of the army had received
warm upper clothing, or were likely to receives
for the same reason. Every officer repudiated n,
duty Of supplying, or even taking charge Of
thing beyond the eternal salt pork and green cod.
Of the former, the army was still sometimes 4
hafrations. or quarter-rations The latter -.
sccn everywhere strewn in the mud being WHO'LL
useless to the soldier. For the rest it is the SAM
story as we have to tell every day these two
months. The hospitals and the medical stores
were in the same state; the authorities At Ra],k.
lava still doing their best to save themselves n.
trouble Of landing what they had neither cleris
to take note Of no room to store, nor means 10
transport Ship after ship full Of the most necess
ary articles priceless to the wretched soldier, was
sent out of the harbor, and even back to Con.
stantinoplc Or Corfu on some idle formality. Pos.
itvely literally, there not one change for The
better since we ''sat down before" Sevastopol
The only chance was that the railway which
left Malta on the 10th, and ought to have arrived
at Balaklava by this time, might extricate the
army from its dead lock. But who can expect
this in the face of such an uniformity of msman.
agement2 Either the screw steamers containing
ii will be ordered out of the harbor on some
IprCLcDCC, OF nOt 10 INllS, or
ground be allowed to lay them down, or tbs
whole affair." navics and all, will he burkcd in some
other quiet way. That chance once disposed Of
the end cannot be distant and the finest army
that ever left these shores will soon cease to exist
as force. Here, then, nothing more can be done
at least nothing that We could pretend to urge
with the slightest hope of our advice being taken
The man, the order, the material or whatever 1t
is that might save our gallant countrymcn, could
not be sure to arrive under three weeks, when all
may be over. We may therefore enjoy the leisure
of despair-that release from the burden of thu
day which the dying man enjoys when he has
taken his last draught made his last will, and has
only to cast his thoughts towards the unseen
world
/ Is this, then, time TO set about planning 4
second expedition to the East and LAYING down
the programme of a campaign for 1856? That Il
would seem, is what We arc waiting for. At head.
quarters before Scrastopol they are waiting f@
the spring, when, with the Turks at Eupatoria
the Imperial Guard and other reinforcement from
France, and a sufficient excess Of British arrivals
over British deaths and departures they may al.
tempt, with somewhat less hope of success, what
they might have done on the 2Sth of September
We are all to pcrsevere with the whole, force OF
the empire in carrying Lord Raglan aud his
staff through with it, and enabling them to re-
deem their credit at the risk of another army
That is what Government is prepared to ask,
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press will be thought very disloyal iii does not
back up, what the British people expected to
swallow, as it has swallowed many another despcr-
ate policy. For our part, whatever others may
please to do, we will take further part in such
an affair We wipe our hands of the war under
the existing management If Goyernmcnt, in the
House Of Commons or the British people, choose
to sell themselves to the aristocracy and through
the aristocracy to their enemies. it is their own
affair; we wipe our hands of the national suicide
All that we can do is to protest, and to warn and
that VIC will not cease To do, though hitherto We
have done it in vain. Under the existing man
agemcnt, we repeat, we have no choice left us hut
to protest against the further prosecution of an
enterprise which leads to nothing but ruin and
disgrace.
| lIoRRIBLE AND DISTRESSING TRAGEDY--A most
thrilling and awful tragedy occurred in the viciu-
ity Of Cascade, OH Friday night Robert ;inty
residing some two miles this side of Cascade went
to the house of his father-in Mr. Clark. rcsd-
ing a short distance beyond Cascade, and CON-
mcnccd an assault upon his wife, who had gone
there to escape his ltreatmcnt when the father
Mr.. Clark intcrfsrcd by drawing pistol from his
pocket, and informing McGinty that he would shoot
iron and knocked the old man down. took the Dis
tol from him and shot him. During the time that
this rencOuntcr was going on between McC;intv
and Clark, the wife escaped to a neighbours house,
but fearing pursuit from her damon husband. she
left the house and went into the woods and there
secrctcd herself
McGinty followed to the house where the wife
had rctreated, and not finding her there sworc
he would shoot the woman Of the house If she
did not inform him Of the place Of concealment Of
his wife. The woman alarmed for her her own
safety, informed McGinty the direction his wifi,
had taken Bent on blood he pursued and found
her concealed in the bushes, and horrible to relate.
cut her head nearly off, lie then went to his own
house, and placing the muzzlc Of pistol under
his chin discharged it, the ball passing out of his
right cheek. Finding this effort to destroy life
Intellectual, he discharged three balls into his ab.
domen and then attempted to sever his wind-pipe
by drawing a knife across his throat. He was
found some time during Friday night at his own
house, in bed and still alive by some men from
Cascade in pursuit Of him. AS they entered the
house, he pulled the clothes over his head They
placed him in wagon and started for Cascade
but before they had reached there, life had lef,
the carcass of the desperate wretch. Mc(inty
and his wife arc both dead, and it is doubtful
whether Clark will survive. ID.
~" Two years since few individuals COM
menced boring salt wells at Pomcroy, in Meigs
county, and their efforts were crowned with sue.
cess in obtaining greater supply from one we'll
alone than had ever been known
Encouraged by this result, they subscribed TWEEN.
ty-fve thousand dollars for the erection of fur.
mace, ono hundred and fifty feet in length, upon