The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-24

4 Moa IN rHE CRMEA William RUSSELL. the
historian Of the day Of Baaklavla, he who foia me
fearful tale Of the disastrous winter OF s4oo, nss
been ignominonaly mobbed from the Crimea Ing
New York Tribune says this was In consequols.
of his letters about the drunkenness In sne Drl.sh
ca up and his Recommendation In order 70 aoate
TO retain Cd per day out of the pay OF the soaers
and place II in the Savings Bank 70 tneir credi1--
After stating that the sober men IN the camp took
prouer measures to express their disapprobation
Of the course of Mr. Russell, the Tribune says
Tho drunken party took = more summary
conrse They assembled In force, stormed his
but ruined his property, and 1t Is said personally
maltreated the worthy correspondent OF PRINTING
Quarters for redress and protection, his request
met with no attention Mr.. Russell had from the
first been very obnoxious to the majority of the
British officers en- account of his exposure of their
professional shortcomings and they were only too
glad that the common soidiery had treated him in
way their own position prevented them from do
ing. Mr.. Russell has consequently been obliged to
quit the Crmea, we fear, for ever These facts
have not yet been made public in the London pa
pers but have oozed out in the gossip of the Clubs
THE WEATHER IN THE CRIMEA-Amusements-
The correspondent of the London Times, writing
on the 2lst December, from the Crmea, says:
Winter is now come upon us in reality, and we
have had for the last few days very cold wea-
Their. On the night of the 18th the thermometer
went down to eight degrees below zero in the camp
of the engineers fourth division. This was by
selfregulatng thermometer At 10 A. NJ on the
10Th 1t was only three degrees above zero This is
nearly or quite equal to Canadian cold, and as
might be expected great number of men have
been more or less frost bitten. have heard of no
serious cases among our men. The French suffer
a great deal from cold The other night two
French soldiers went into one of our guard
rooms in Sebastopol and asked for some coffee
and to be allowed TO warm themselves by the fire.
Our men gave them some coffee and biscuit
and they sat down by the fire. One of them took
off his shoes Che had no stockngs) and began rub
bling his feet, which were frost bitten. In about
ten minutes he got up, but staggered and fell dead
to the great horror of the English soldiers The
other was taken care of, and all right in the
morning The French are getting great quantities
of sheepskin coats from Constantinople. To-day
/ met, on my way to kamiesch, some hundreds of
pack mules, with so coats each, and great
Der of the equtppages Mliteires also full of coats.
The whole of our men are well clothed and well
fed and are in capital health and spirits
Now there is snow on the ground it is dangerous
to go through the camp, as you are almost certain
to get blow on the head from a snow ball. which
was aimed at some one else. 1t is blessing that
these are the only balls are in danger from now.
Really the difference between this winter and last
is extraordinary. Instead of the sullen despairng
look of last year every man seems happy and con-
tented. We have also civilized amusements gong
on.
On every Saturday night there lisa symposium"
| or sort of cider cellar, in the restaurant of the
fourth division, composed of officers of the division
| who meet at half past nine, have kind of sup
per, and then sing till twelve, when the national
anthem is sung in chorus and the meeting sepa-
The officers of the fourth division have also
got up some theatricas, which they going to act
in the restaurant
The Crimea is subject to new innovations every
day. There are ID now real b0na.fde yellow ON
nibus in Kamiesch. If we are here much longer
we may expect to be carried from camp to camp
in Hansoms. There are one or two dog carts here
already =