Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-25

when affairs do not advance as fast as we
should like, they do these things better in
England. Now, England is q great country,
and in the matter Of war the English, who
have had scarce o year Of peace in this CEN
tury-who are always fighting in some
quarter of the globe-ought to do better, for
q time, than we, TO whom the sight Of o
soldier had grown strange for many years.
But the following extracts from the journal
of the lamented Captain Hudson show
that the English did those things not better,
but even worse than we, and that, long
trained in war as the British were, but re-
Gently holding armed possession Of the coun-
try, they bluudered and blundered even
worse than we in the beginning Of their
great struggle with the Sepoy mutiny.
We commend these extracts from the
journal Of one of the bravest of British Off
GERS to the attention Of oil our grumblers
and faint-hearts:
LTrom Captain Hudson's "Twelye Years in India"
"0n the 18th we had march Of thirty
miles lin the day time too) with scanty
food on the 18th, after fasting march of
twenty-five miles, were summoned, at half
past four in the afternoon, to battle, which
lasted till long after dark,
ave are under much stricter discipline
in this corps; both officers and men are
obliged to be orderly and submissive. No
bad thing for us either. 1 hold there is
more real liberty in being under decent re-
straint than in absolute freedom from any
check.
"They seem only to have conquered, To
destroy--every public work, every castle
road, serai or avenue has been destroyed,
4l,o N IN m ~ a.
azines or stables the gardens into canton
ments, and the fields into deserts.
ave are surrounded here with treachery.
No man can say who is implicated or how
far the treachery has spread. 1t is pleas
ant sort Of government to prop up when the
head men conspire against you and their
troops desert you on the slightest temptation
"If our rulers resort TO half-measures
the evil day will return again. Boderation
in the modern sense, is the greatest of ali
weaknesses.
awe want-sadly What with the in
capacity shown at NJ, and the dilatory
proceedings at headquarters our reputa-
tion is suffering cruelty. Every weeks de-
lay adds thousands to our present foes and
future victims.
ave have Just received intelligence Of
another great fight, in which the rebels,
though beaten, seem to have had every ad-
vantage given to them. Our loss has been
severe, and the mismanagement very dis
graceful, yet it will he called victory and
lauded accordingly.
"- is in the ascendant. His fnan-
cial measures are apparently all good when
tried by the only standard admissible in
the nineteenth century-their success.
10
between ten and eleven at night, having
been out nearly eighteen hours many oi
the men without food and almost all with
out water. The small supply which had
been carried out having soon been ex.
hausted and none being procurable.
We got here after two nights Of very
harassing marching. We started badly
| the men having been drinking before they
came to parade, and they were hurried toe
much in going down hill, consequently
there was much struggling. Affairs are
very serious, and unless prompt and vigor.
GUS measures are taken the whole army
will be lost to US. Here alarm is the preva
lent feeling, and conciliation-of men with
arms in their hands and in state of abso
lutte rebellion-the order of the day. The
times are critical, but have no fear Of
aught save the alarm and indecision of ouI
rulers.
"The delay and absolute want of pro-
gress are very disheartening
"Our plan was thwarted by that old wo-
man -, who has come here for nothing,
apparently, but as an obstacle; is also
crying evil to us. The General knows
this and is glad to get rid of him, but has
not the nerve to supersede him. The whole
state of things here is bad to a degree.
The mismanagement of matters is per-
fectly sickening. Nothing the rebels can
do will equal the evils arising from inca
pacity and indecision.
"With our present chiefs | see no chance
of success. They have not the nerve nor
the heart for bold stroke requiring the
smallest assumption of responsibility.
6 has been shelved and allowed to
get 'sick' TO save him from suppression.
do not like euphuisms. In these days
men and things should be called by their
right names, that we might know how far
either should be trusted.
ave are nearly flooded out of camp by
the rain, and every thing is wet and
wretched but ourselves. have no respite
from work, and have only time to say that
the ladies could not employ themselves bet
ter or in greater work of charity, than in
making flannel shirts for the soldiers, for
our stores are either in the enemy's hands
or not come-at-able. The soldiers brave
up like men; but the constant state of wet
is no small addition to what they have to
endure from heat, hard work and hard
fighting. l know by experience what a
comfort dry flannel shirt is.
/ am TO have surgeon attached to my
regiment at once, as represented how cruel
it was to send us out on an expedition
without doctor or q grain of medicine
We had eight wounded men, and two officers
had fever on the road, and nothing but the
most primitive means of relieving them.
"The letters show that much greater
and more formidable amount Of insurrection
exists than we were prepared to believe
Some of the enemy are trying negotia-
ton, only hope they may find it is toe
late. Weare making slow progress in the
city. The fact is, the troops are utterly de.
moralized by hard work and hard drink
grieve to say. For the first time in my
life have had 10 see English soldiers re.
use repeatedly to follow their officers"
OLD MACFARLAEE.-Among the Tennes
seeans now in camp In Kentucky is little
| fellow of about five feet four inches, witt
| gray and grizzled beard, dilapdated nose
and an eye as keen as a fshhaWk's. Tht
manner of his escape was remarkable anC
! highly ingenious. He headed large squaC
of his neighbors, and eluded the rebel picket
by wearing big sleeps bell on his head, snC
bleating away over the mountains followed
by herd of men who did likewise. By thi