New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-25
THE CRIMEA.


There is little nothing Of interest TO report Cor
respoudence reaches TO Dec. -.
Prince GorchakofHs diary of events from the 5th 10
the Iotl December has been published He says thai
in this space OF time nothing particular has occurred
except some reconDosGnces and outpost skrmishes.
Odessa letters report via st. Petersburg the road
steads Of Odessa, Taganrog, Mananpol, Roston and
the rivers frozen. Generals Osten-Sacken, Liprandl
and Kotzebue had arrived at Odessa to hold coun-
ell OF war; 81
Since the close OF active operations the use OF the
telegraph has been almost given up, and news from
TIE sea of war arrives by the slower process OF cor
respondence. The substance OF many letters to tue
osth ut il that all the armies are in good condition
affair otherwise unchaDged the Russians firing -teady
from the north eide and the Allies ieeby from the
south and that the allied engineers have blown up
Sevastop0l docks.
Gen. Codrngton sends the following dispatch To
Lord Panmure. The concluding paragraph OF the
dspatch contains hard hit at Rus.ell, The LJNdog
Times correspondent:
SrvAsToPoL, Thursday, Dec. q, 1870.
Ito Lord P,NHURE: Your lordship has referred III
several dispatches to drunkenness IN tins army he
ports of all sorts seem TO have been Circulated STATE
ments made descriptions read until it was apparently
believed that this army composed OF drunkaTd7
and immersed in riot and vice.
a took tie opportunity of expressing myself strong
" TO your LodsLp that this would prove not 70 oe D'
truth. e,.., ~,
returns are in my possession, from every regiment o
all cases Of druI kenncss tired by Court-h de
well Is those settled at the regimental orderly rooms
for three months September, October ana Novem-
ber Ii was during this time that arrears OF held al
lowance, more than t2 each man, were received a.
hack nav, beside 10000 men receiving addrional
working pay; aud yet the result il that including ar
tery sapp,rs and infantry, the number OF crimes OF
drunk nncss and these many more than nc men
2ranH il little more than one man III TWO DAYS per
COMPANY, estimated at 100 men. 800
"Nc doubt there are many facilities III all These
open aud crowded camps for drum Ken men TO get I'D
without being seem They do 80, aud escape obser'a-
tiop But suppose we double or treble the amount OF
these number which are taken from official returns,
and suspect the army will bear comparison with
many towns, many villages many populations OF
II II casy 10 gveit is as easy TO read-a minute,
a udicrous OF even filthy description of drunken
man. and il seems seized upon as type OF the whole
The fathers and mothers, and wives and sisters 10 Ea-
gland are fully persuaded we do nothing but drnk,
and the good character of the army Is forgotten IN
few sketches from nature.
"That such need not be the case with those who
know ANYTHING about the matter viii, | think, be
proved by the statements now made TO your Lord'Lp
f"fssneil w CODRlNGTON, Gen. Commanding"
IRON Marshal Peiissier.
"SEvAsToPoI Friday, Dec. %, 1855.
"To Monsieur lie Marechsl MrsIsrER OF WAX: |
have the honor to scnd you account of new coup
dc main Effected by the volunteers OF d AutemaHes
division in the night between the Goth and eth Dec
Having received information that post OF 80
soldiers of the Smolensk regiment and 90 Cossacks was
established on hill situated at 500 metres distance
hom the Cardonne-BeI ridge, Gen. dAutemaTe gave
peruseion TO It. Col. LacrateDe TO make attempt
to carry the position with two companies Of skirmshers
added to our cutpOsts. The slippery state of the
ground from the frost nearly proved obstacle to the
enterprise nevertheless, it succeeded Eighteen Rus
sians We're bayoneted while attempting TO defend
Themselves and eighteen Others were made prisoners.
The Cossacka, excepting two who captured, had
fallen back the previous evening on Kokoz. Our
men brought back 30 weapons. The officer in com
mand of the outpost was killed. We had neither
killed nor wounded Captains Pichon and Nehish
directed the cOaP. signed PELIssIER."