Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-11-27

An1idneia Flanders ID tue Crimeaa War.
Correspondence Of the Evening Post
The nl-natursd complaints Of some Of
The English papers against our government
for Whsiover hes gone wrong in the present
var, hare brought freshly TO my mind seV.
eral incidents in the var Of the Crimea,
which perhaps may not be generally known
In this country. happened 20 be residing
near the scene Of sosion 81 the time, and
the things I shall now relate we're Of pub.
Io notoriety, and we're loudly complained
Of even by the lesding English papers, at
the time; and Of their substantial truth
there can be no question.
ID was remarked By everybody how much
better prepared the French were to enter
into that war than the English. The frat
year especially, was g year Of the most
Notifying disasters to the English troops,
solely in consequence Of a want Of expert.
enoe, and also Of proper knowledge Of
the country, and Of the exigenoies Of the
case, and even Of common sense.
The first diTisiol Of the British army vas
landed st Gallipoli, q small snd exceeding.
IL mean Turkish town on the saa Of Mar
mera, just 81 the head Of the Dardanelles.
That plsoe vas to be fortified on the land
side-as the grand base Of military opera
tons against the Russians in European
Turkey. Any one who will examine the
nap, VIII see ct once the folly Of such s
measure. II our oFn government in this
present var we're to make Cape Cod the
base Of their operations against the South,
they would hardly 40 q more stupid thing
Ehe project Wss soon abandoned, and Gal.
hPoi sunk again to its pristine insignih-
-eance. But the worst Of il was that the
troops that we're landed there had nothing
70 eat, and came very near peFishing from
starvation. Il seems mover 70 have occur
red 70 the British commissarist to inquire
previously whether q miserable Turkish
town Of three or four thousand souls, that
could hardly fnd enough for its own in
hsbitants to eat, was capable Of furnishing
on the shortest notice, provisions IN acdi-
ton for large European army,
When the reality OF the case became
known to the leaders Of the expedition, az
order vas given 10 serve out to the starving
troops the hard biscuit that had been
brought from England. But it was then
found, 10 their dismsy, that all the proVi-
sions shost had been put ct the very bot
tom Of the ships, and could not be reached
until every thing else was taken out
Afterwards, when medicines snd lint
Esre required, it was discovered that these
very Necessary articles for a campaign
we're entirel9 venting They hsd either
been left st home, or else the ship that con.
tsinsd them had been osrelessly despatched
to some other part Of the world
sUTFz2IEas OF TIE woUEDED.
After the FIRST battle had been fought
let Alma, the wounded were brought to
Constantinople, and placed in an old
Turkish barracks, under the direction Of
British surgeons, though there was no more
preparation for the reception Of the PoSr
sufferers, than if the battle had been Who'll
ly unexpected. Indeed, it really seemed
IS If tbs persons in charge Of affairs were
20 simple ss not to know that battles could
not be fought without leaving some wound
ed. It was painful to see those brave
meu. nutilated in every possible way, By
the nurderous weapons Of war, lying for
hours in the scorching sun on the shores OF
the Bospborus, under the very walls Of the
buildia9 selected for their hospitsl merely
becsuss it was nCbo5y's business TO re-
move them. This duty was at length Psr-
formed By 8 humane American missionary,
who thought more of the claims Of human-
ity than 5e did Of Ied tspeism. The Brit
ish army was indebted to the same beneV-
olent American REV. DR.. Hsmlin) for
washing establishment for their sick and
wounded troops who before had been lying
in alta Sad vermin, many Of them in the
very clothes in which they had fought, sat
urated with blood and stesming with th'
most offensive smells; and, subsequently,
tbs Door sick soldiers we're infinitely more
indebted to the Systematic arrangement
and fndefatigsble labors Of Florence Night
inrsls than they we're to any Of the hire
Iinrs Of govern ment. Whatever was don
o6cially was done wrong; but this beneV
olent lady and other tra-ofhoial person
who iaborsd in the ssmo cause, succeeded
under great difficulties and discourage
msnts, in setting many things right.
TIE FIRST WIETER.
In the British camp before Sebastopt
the frst winter Of the var was winter
uptold horrors. The French army ha
been well provided for, in every respeC
and thev we're as comfortable as state
var in an enemy's country would sllo
tberu TO be; but the English soldiers spel
night after night, during al the long Co
and stormy winter months in the trench
before Sebasiopol, without shoes or stoe
ipgs, and without any suitable clothing
orotfot them from the weather. They DO
With exemplary fortitude the terrible 81
fsriurE that came upon them through t
want of foresight Of their leaders, but hu
dreds and thousands succumbed TO disea
whose hearts had burned with desire
she'd their blood honorably in the serTl
Of their country.
And during that winter Of horrors, thC
v-bo wsTe connected with the commissari
instead Of ecting efficiently and wisely
remedy the evils ooessioned By prevlC
neglect, seemed really to be demented, q
only sdded blunder to blunder.
The army was suffering for want OF 4
for cooking, snd steam transport
lo,ded with charcoal at Constantine
snd dispatched to Bslsklsva. The capt
delivered his papers and reported hims
At headquarters. he was told to wait
turn for unloading. BE hesrd nothi
more for 6 week or tFo, when orders ca
for him to return to OonstsntinoPle-
obeved. and soon after arriving he
ordered back sgsin. The same thing
repested again, presume through o
blundsr Of come petty official After
had returned q third time to Balakli
be again reported himself, and urged
his cargo Be taken out. The officers
commend refused to have anything t
With the business, as they had Tses'vs
orders on he subject, and the captain
length poured his whole cargo out into
harbor Of Balsklaya, and returned en-
tc the Turkish capital
MIsHAPs.
-- A steamship was sent from England
boots and stockings for the troops as
Is their distress vas heard Of The cap
On arriving was told to wait After ],
there for q week or two, ct the very
when the soldiers we're suffering mos
those very articles, sn ofieer came on
Eith orders 70 get a. seam and pre-