Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-06

TnE TERRIBLE sur7ERus OF THE BR171sH SOL
D1ERs IN INDIA FROM the HEAT.-Who would be
British soldier in IndiaP Not we, certain, after
readingia description in the last number Of tho
London Times, Of what soldiers life is in that
country in the summer time. Think of 1876
degrees of Fahrenheit. Can any body in the
temperate zones immagine or picture such a
heat? We think here on the banks of the Ohio,
with all the cooling shades of our hills and trees
about us-with our sweeps Of air through our
valleys and our timely rains and storms, that
is very hot-that these dog days are oppressive
/ IL warm. Butimagine British soldier, taken
from climate where he rarely feels as much as
S5,degrees of heat and transferred to the burn.
ing soil of India, where the heat comes down
1876 strong No man can imagine the suferingss
of these soldiers. It is only by reading such
descriptions as the London Times gives, thatwe
approximate IA conception. From one of these
articles which W,e haye Just finished reading we
extract the following statements. The very
reading produces smothering sensation: @
Eighty-ive in England is no more like one
hundred and four in India, than an English gem
tIeman'S tepid bath is to st. Johns bath of
boiling oil. The Apostle survived, and so do
our soldiers, but it is only. by miracle. Take
your gold fish from their vase, and throw them
upon mat in the sum- and after their short
struggles are over, they will give you some no.
ton of the effects of that heat. If we. could
look at this moment into some of thete or
some Of the bungalows of an up-country en-
campmcnt or station, we should find every UNI
employed officer stretched upon his little cane
bottomed bed-stead, gasping like one of those
gold fish. He has capacious tent around him,
a double roof Of canvass over his head; light
pnnkah, suspended from the tent poles sWay8,to.
and fro, and, pulled by native squat upon the.
floor, keeps up constant agitation of the air.
Perhaps our officers only garmentis aloosepair
OF cotton trousers. Another dark attendant is
shaking bottle violently in saltpetro to pro-
ducc some cooling drink. To Orittces in
the tent, are fitted square pieces of frame
work filled with the perfumed grass kus-kus or
yetver; a Hindoo servant outside is continually
pouring water upon, and the quick evaporation
produces, we were going to sayaa refreshing
GOODNESS, but can only write reduced temper
ature. Some of our readers may think that
Captain Brown is very much to be envied, and
may be tempted to grudge him his Eastern
luxury Sohe would be but for onelittle draw
back-hc cannot breathe. All bis punkahs,
and kus-kus fattas, and pawnee burruti, and
other common things with uucouth names, can.
not procure him full inhalation of whole
some, quickening, vital air. lie gasps and he
PeESP!es' anu we are Hlucn alIalu lnaI ne SSeaFS
ana wishes himself back at the Rag" Night
brings no relief. The furnace has been SO
thoroughly heated, that it gares throughout the
shutdown. At night he probably does his work,
whatever that may be, and retires into his can
vass prison again os soon as his dread enemy
shows his fierce face above the horizon. If we
can carry this little picture in our minds it may
ne!p US to understand how it is that mntlneers
b rt os ny qucH ana Why
i've as we IN our imDatience could wish md
why the word impossible has taken the place
OF the word daring" in the vocabulary of our
t"T Rat :; 1Sr csn+.;n Rronn aa.n -
what is the fate of Fun Prigat. .TonesP Private
Jones' like Captain Brown, has his tent, his lit.
| tie sheet Of asbestos, to prevent his being con-
stunned, fgases and,alI, in-this fiery furnace. But
private Jones tent is small, and it is shared by
| eight or ten, or, if his Colonel be smart dis
\ cipIinarian, by 6 or 10 comrades. There is no
kus.kus grass there and no saltpetre-cooled
7hrandy pawnee Fancy that tent filled with
| English soldiers, huddled together in n heat
which would simmer meat into stew, unable
to go out--for that would be almost literally TO
step from the frying pan into the fire-sweiter.
ing and scething, and trying hither and thither
for draught of fresh mir, which does not exist
that side the Himaayas This condition of life