Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 3, 1877, Page 1

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KARAHASSANKOL Special Reports of the Tu:k- ish Victory Near Plevna. Tho Engagement as Portrayed by Correspondents on Each Side. Furious and Invincible Valor of the Fanatical Mo- hammedans, Retreat of the Outnumberetl Rus- sians with the Loss -of Three Guna, Expected Effect whick These Operations Will Have on the Campaign. Prince Charles of Rouniania Sending Troops into Bulgaria, The Diabolical Barbarity of the Turk Once More Ad- verted To. Horrible Evidences of Their Crue elty Left in Schipka Pass. The Turks Also Iseuo an Account of Horrible Massnore, THURSDAY'S BATTLE. RAMATABJANKOL. (By Cable to The Chteago Tribuns.J Lonvow Ovricz or ‘Te Catcaco 'Tstrouxe, © Paronave Puace, Stnanp, Sept. 3—4 a. m,—I send you tw acconnts of tha recent important battle -on the Lom. One is from the Turkish and ‘tho other from the main camps, by correy pondents with tho row pective armies ‘TI; TURKISH ACCOUNT, Caur or tire Tonxisn Any Orrost re Por- xor, Buroatia, Aug, 80—Evoning.—-I havo just witnestod a victorious ongagoment for tho Tutkia's arms from the hoights «opposite Popko', on the River Lom. Tho battle commenced in the morning with a forward movemnont of tho divivions of Mojid: Pasha, who. commanded tho Russian right, and Fuad Pasha and Sobid Pasha, whoso divisions fonnod tho contro and loft, THE ADVANCE, by the forces under Medjid was mado in Eallant stylo, tho men taking open-order and skirmishing as they neared tho Ruasian po- sition, Tho advanco was well ooverod by the guns of the Turka, who took advantago of the frequent elevations of tho country to push their battories forward to points where they could not only help the infantry but wake hot work fortho Russian batteries on the heighta beyond, On the sides tho artal- lery practice was excollent. Medjid and bis men soon pnshed thelr way to' tho Villago of Karahossankoi, when tho signal to charo was given, and, with a rush, thoy wore over tho Itussian intrenchments on the hill, THE SLAVONTER WAS TEURIDLE ON THE TURK- sit SIDE during this part of tho engagement, but the mom stood it nobly. ‘Che Russians, who at firat met the oncoming rush of Turks with great bravery, wore soon forced to yield. Thoy wero driven precipitately down the heights commanding tho Valley of the Lom with greatloss, Mennwhile, Sabid Pashn at- tacked the Bauchilsler, alofty hill crowned by atkroe-gun Russian battery. Itrequiredavery brilliant dash to carry this dificult position, but it was successfully accomplished, tho guns silonced ond captured, and the Rus- sions killed or driven back in headlong haste. ‘Tho attack, indeed, had been successful at all points, and the troops shouted “atnan! auan!” with p floree onthusiosm that told of their elation. : iy A goneral advance was now ordored, and, iy, short time, the bridgo over tho Lom was reached, and the ‘Turks crossed, unopposed, to tho left bank, The villages on that side, which woro held by the Russians, woro soou captured, and wero shortly after soon to bo fn flames. Tho Russians now evacuated Popkol, COL, VALENTINE DAKE, who was seen leading on the cavalry with Great, even rash, gallantry, is missing. As aight be expected, this victory has created the wildest enthusiasm throughout the whole army, ‘THE DUSSIAN ACCOWNT, Hxapquanrens or tux Fiera Division or ‘Tae Taimrexnta Rowan Apuy Corrs, Vit- Lace or Cuacowo, Aug, 80—Evening—Gen, Locncff, who commands this division, has been holding with a small cavalry force tho Villago of Karahassaukoi for the last threo wouks, The village-1s situated at a high point in the hill separating tho River Kara Lom from tho Ak Lom, and looking across tho Lom east of Karabassankol, and over- looking Iasgrad, crowned with its five great batterios. On ‘Tuesday, Looneff was rein. forced by one regiment of infantry of tho Thirty-ifth Division, with soveral ficld-pieces. Rifle-pits were dug, and = suwall batteries placed = on either side of tho village, it preparation for the superior force of tho ‘Turks masad in the vicinity of Rasgrad, whoro Mohemet Ali had been forming an intrenched camp. LOENEFY’S FORCR ALTOGETHER NUMBERED 3,000 infantry, with ten guns. At least 20,000 Turks advanced this morning to the attack. When the Turks first advanced they were seattercd by tho Russian fire, and the at- tempt made to cross the Valley of tho Lom was apparently abandoned. Suddenly, crowds of Turks appeared on all sides, and, after a hot fire, occupied the position held {on minutes bofora by tho Russian guns. Wounded officers and men were speedily brought to the rear to escapo inovitable mutilation, Soon RETREAT BECAME IMPOSSIDLE, Tho Turks came pouring in rapidly. The Tussians anxiously awaited help in the last hope of saving tho village, At 2 o'clock a welcome pauso came in the firingof tho enemy, and the more welcome presence was. discerned of coming reinforcemonts. For two hours obstinate fighting ensued, tho enomy’s infantry and cavalry appearing in Jarge numbers. A surrender of the Russian. position was now seen to bo inevitable, but the retrent was not begun till 4 o'clock, Tho infantry soldiers muttered many ACCUSATIONG OF COWANRDICE AGAINST THEIR OFFICERS, Gen, Loeneff was ubiquitous, and undor fire for hours, but the Russian soldiers hardly neaded any such incentive, having seen enongh of Turkish barbaritics to be inspired by a desperato valor, ‘Tho gencral feeling of the combatants was that the retreat was compelled by overpower- ing numbers, Just then a body of Circassian cavalry monnced tho Tussian flank. ‘Tho Cossacks wera unfortunately unavailable for any attempt to dislodge the Circassians. Finally tho Russians skedaddied to Gasgowa. Such wounded as could crawl did a0. The retreating ranks made a atand ot tho Villago of Karahassankoi, It was now G o'clock, ond THE VILLAGE WAS IN FLAMES, Tho valley to bo right was swarming with Circassians, Then the Thirteonth Corps, coming over the hills, took the reserve posi- tion, No further advanco was attomptod before sunset. ‘Tho ficlds surrounding kin- rabgssankoi wore filled with black masses of the Turkish army, whose presence promised a renewal of the attack in the morning. Thus tho contest ended, the Turks partly vic- torious, the Russians holding the ground, THE DEYENSE WILL BE MEMORABLE as a victorious registance against great odds, Cool judges esthmato the odds against tho Tussions «at six to one, Wo have lost probably 200 in killed and wounded, Tlro wounded aro carofully at- tended to, It is o grim consolation that there is no living Russian within the Turk- ish lines, Ovar present position ia admirable foran advance. , POSTSCRIPT, Further’ reports advance the number of Tussians kiMed and wounded in yesterday's Uattlo to 60¢ men. As the courier leaves with this dispatch for Bucharest, the infant- ry nnd cavelry are moving into line. Tho troops oro suffering from impurfect cooking and want of clothing, but supplics arc coming up. Tux sTRaTEAY which dictated the murderous sssnult upon 8chipka Pass by Suleiman Pasha. still remains amystery. Almost directly after that attack bad died mway through tho exhaustion of tho aganilants, the army of Mchemot- Ali Pasha mado an offensive movement from the di- rection of Masgrad and Exki Djuma, and forcod tho Russian advance guard out of the Valley -of theLom. This Turkish suc- coss is certainly truc,sy it is confined by the Rassian oficial account, Tho offair noar Yenikoi must havo beon gevere, aa = =oonly§ three = Turkish = brigadew were engngod, and the ‘Turkish loss was at first estimated at 3,000 men, In- formation from the Ottoman side lays down tho Russian loss 4,000 killed and wounded, but a ielegram from Russian headquarters confess only to £00 wounded, who, it statea, wero brought back on the rotroat by Gcm. Loeneff, ‘THIS ATTACK by tho brigados of Mejid and Sabid was made’ Thursday, the 0th, thoughin tho same fzslegram an error appears to have been mude jntho date through Thursday being inads ertently trausmitted Tuesday. The same day Osman Pasha advanced from Plev- ua to Pelishot, ton miles on the road to Tirrova, An hous march beyond Pel’ shat he fell iz: with the enomy, and, after sor 1¢ severe fighting, cartied three Iussian roCioubts and forced back the defenders. On 4k fu day the Ottoman armies on both wings o etainly assumer | the offensive, ani mado a forward movemeiit into the territory occu- jded by their ad:versaries, Tha advance of (hese wings appa irs to have been, to a cor- tain extent, couce:rtod and harmonious, The cot flict at Polishs:t secms to have Leon well switained on botk wides, and victory did not dvclaro itself until after sunset, From tho severe charach:r of the fighting it may bo inferred that tho Russians had timo to tring up reinforcoments. Ono effect of CJaman’s latest success is to give him {idl control of tho, beat road to Loftacha withe-ut endangering his main camp, Ployna. Indiroctly, also, it is futend- edto aid his comrades Mehemet aud Suleci- men by holding fast the Russian troops sta tioned botwoen Osman and Vido, aud pro- venting the dispatch of reinforcemonts alike tothe Ozan nwitch aad Gon. Rodeskoi. /atopHre CONSEQUENCE of tho com bat is thm: the Ottoman Captain is as yet ur eaten in any encountor with his assailants, pud this will deepen the Russian CHICAGO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1877. that he is dangerous alike in attack and defense, TRE NOUMANIANS, mustering 2,600 men, have crossed tho Dannbe at a bridge thrown from Corabia, some forty miles above Nikopolis, and have been joined tothe Russian force, of which tho numbers aro unknown. This new corps, which now forms thotexreme right wing of the Bnssian army, has been placed under tho command of Prince Uharles of Roumania, to whom Gon. Zastoff }has been attached os Chief of taf. ‘The role expected from this corps is that it should move ‘by Isken and striko the high road that runs on tho table land botweon ! Isker and Vid, from Plevna to Sofia, By thi road Osman Pasha drawa his supplies, and it is intended that Prince Charles should cut his line of com- munications and act upon his rear whon ho is attacked in front by the troops of the Grand Duko Nicholas. OSMAN PASTA is reported to havo nent 10,000 men to op- pose the Roumanian advanco at the passage of Isker, and, if the popular estimato of the value of the army of Prince Charles is cor- rect, this Ottoman forco may be suflleient to detainhim at o useless distance from Plovno, but it is unsafo to despise untried troops, oven though they may be quite with- out knowlodgo of war. a RUSSIAN REVERSES. THE FIONTING ALONG ‘THE RIVER LOM, Uly Cable to The Chicago Tribune.) Loxpvon Orrice or Tie Cutcago Tamunz, 6 Paranave Prace, Stnanp, Sept. 1—11 p. m. —What must provo the decisive fighting of the war has begun in carnest. ‘There sre no longer isolated attacks ot nnexpocted pointa, but there is one general combnt all along tho line, That the Russians wero de- fented at tho great engagement of ‘Thursday, between Karnlinsson antl Yenikof, is now certain, but the results are surprising, evon to the English, whoso ontiro sympathica aro with tho Turks, for everybody here bas thought that ina regular pitched battle the Russians must be victorious, It is stated in several dispatches that THE NUSBIANS WERE SURPRISED, and this is probable, because it is well known that the Russians themselves have been ro. contly contemplating on offensive movement, Plevna had to be avenged, and the first point to be attacked when reinforcements came up was to bo Plevna. This was tho Russian idea, but the Turks have been bofora them and interfered with their plans, ‘Tho great battle fought on Thursday along tho banks of the Lom showed n striking similarity in its main featuros to tho victory gained a few days ago by Muktar Pasha at Guedeker, “In both instances THE TURES WERE THE ASSAILANTS and captured strong povitions from the ene. my, together with a large quantity of arms and ammunition, In the moro recent fight- ing the Ottoman troops advanced from Rasgrad and Eskl Djuma, one colainn mov- ing upon Karrahassan, the second upon Yonikol, and the third upon Yaslar, At first tho Russians seemed to have given way, but after a timo rallied at Karrahassan, where A DESPERATE BTRUGOLE TOOK PLACE, In spite, however, of vigorous resistance, tho Turkish columns pressed onward, ousted the enemy from their intrenchinents, and pursued them as far as Popskol, when dork- ness put an end to the pursuit, So run all accounts yet received, but it remains to bo seen what coloring the Russians will give tho affair, All dispatches have como FROM CORMESPONDENTS AT THE TORKISR 1EAD- Quantens, Thoso determined assnulta on the Sistova- Tirnova lino from tho enst look as if Mehmot Ali intended to atriko the Russians before they could receivo assistance fron thoir new allics, tho Servinns, Osman Pasha, from Plevna, ts reported to have detached the forcs which had already engaged the Rou- ananian column goon after crossing the Dan- ube, a SCnIPKA, No further fighting appears to have taken place at Schipka, but a Shumla telegram af- firms that Suleiman Pasha captured Agatch, 8 village some twolve or thirteen miles south of Gobrova. Tho truth of this statemont 18 QUESTIONABLE, as Suleiman Pasha in his latest dispatches merely ch that he made a successful reconnoisdince ag fer as Agatch, whero be found the Russians in some strength, One fact is beginning to impress itself on attentive observers, namely: that tho Mus- covite soldiers do not aeem to fight so stont- ly a8 was expected from the antecedunts of the Russian army. Perhaps their camps may have been sufferiug from severe sick- ne88,— A VERY DEMORALIZING INVLUENCE when armies are sedentary for any length of time, or may be the northern legions cannot enduré the excessive oud exhausting heat of Bulgoria go well as the acclimatized Turks, Bo this as it may, there is something strango in seoing troops who fought so pluckily in the Crimea falling back apparently panic. stricken before the more or leas raw levies of tho Sultan, In/the last ton days tho Rus- asiaus havo lost tho magnificent double posi- tions, Lom and Ka ra-Lom. 1% ASTA MINOR the same spectacle prosents itself, portions of Mukhtar Pusha’sconimand having actually crossed the frontier and carriod war into the enemy’s territory. It iy reported that Gon. Melikoff has abandoned his position at Kara- kudera and taken up fresh ground covering Alexandrianople. If this proves true, it will go far to show that ho considerstho offensive campaign terminated for tho present year, HARVEST PROSPECTS, OALD'Y ANNUAL REVIEW, (By Cableto The Chteago Tribune.| Loxvon Orne oy Tue Cutcaco ‘Tuisuxe, 6 Paronave Prace, Staann, Sept. 1—8 p.m. —VJames Caird in hiv aunual letter to tho Times on the harvest prospects saya: “The extent of tho wheatis greater by nearly 200,- 000 acres than last year, bat,400,000 acres, or one-ninth, below the average of the ten preceding years, On # careful analysis of returoy from farmers in various parts of tho country, I find that in twelve of the principal wheat counties, which represent one-half of the wheat growth of tho Kingdom, threo- quarters of tho rturus show that the crop is respect for an opvonext who hos pow shown | below tho average, while one-quarter give an average crop, For the remainder of the country, the deficiency ia BOMEWHAT LESS in proportion. Returns show a very general deficiency, They aro below an averago crop, bat not greatly below, Tho general yield is better than that of 1853, 1467, or 1874, the three worst crops in thirty-four years, but I fear that it will not be eqnal even to the de- fective crop of last year, and that, notwith. standing the increased acreage, we shall not havo more than Letween 9,000,000 and 10,000,000 of the home crop, The reduction of consumption consequent on the enhanced prico moy reduce the year's requirements to 20,600,000 quarters. On the two conditions, of strict economy In consumption ond an early harvest next year, f THE FORFIGN KUTTLY we should in these circumstances require might be limited to 11,000,000 quarters, This takes a most favorable view of our po- sition, for north of the Trent most of the crop is still unharvested, and is subject to risky of late senson and very unsettled weather. If we were the only country that reanired help, and if we could rely on s continuance of the large senle of forcign imports which bas marked tho last four years, there would ba little cause for apprehension, but with the exception of some parta of Spain all Western Enropo is deficient, and the ports of the Black Sea are closed, while the renewal of famine in India can hardly sdmit of an in- crease of supplies froin that quarter during the present year, Wo must, therefore, LOOK TO AMERICA for a considerable incrense oven on her great exports of tho last four years, and, of the war in Turkey continues, the vast resources of the United States and Canada will indeed ba severely taxed to make good the wants of this country aud Western Europe. The small home crop of 1875 supplemented by the largest import wo havo ever yet received, afforded five and one-half bushels per head. The deficient crop of 1876, with an import which somewhat exceeds twelvo million quarters, has afforded very little over five bushels, If tho Black Sea ports continue closed for the coming harvest year, wo may have to restrict consumption to considorablo less than five bushels o head. ‘Tho other home-grown crops PROMISE LITTLE AID, barley being deficient, nnd oats not above an average, while potatocs aro much decrensod. In 1866 ond 1867, when, from too deficient crops and comparatively swall i:nports, tho quantity of wheat for consumption fell be- low five bushels a head, tho price was 6+ shillings, In the past twenty-five yoars the quantity has on several occasions fallen be. low that mark, and the price of theso years haa averaged GO shillings, If, therefore, the Black Sea ports continue closed during tha coming harvest year, wo may be thunkful if it goes no higher.” i BUTCHERY. THE AWFUL neponts. St. Perenssunu, Sept. 2—Tho Russion Government bas sent to {ts Ambassadors abroad, adispatch saying; “Beside several cuses of Turkish barbaritics already publisted, our troops, on occupying the batterles in Schipka Pasa, found there heaps of heads belonging to Russlan soldiers, whose mutitated bodies were found in the nefghborhood., Correspondents with the Russlan army say that tn the early struggles in Schipka Poss nut one wounded Russian who fell in the place temporarily eccupled by the Turkish troops was found hlive, From twenty to thirty of these unfortunate men had been decap!- tated, and several of the bodies were found with feet, hands, cars, noses, and other parts cut full and breasta slashed by yataghaus. Heads had becn carried tuto the Turkish campe, where they were found by the tusstan troops after the ov cupation of the works. THE CONSRACTION OF MUSCLES and torsion of members showed that the hor- rible tortures of mutilation had been fntlicted while tho victims were allye. One body, decap- {tated ond otherwise mutilated, had been ex- tended on a Utter where it had been placed when wounded, and not far froin it the bodies of two Mtter+arriers, also decapltated, each of whan bore the badge of the Red Crosa,"? THE MASSACRE OF RAZANLIK, Constantinov.e, Sept. 2—The Turkish Minister of Affairs bas addressed a dispatch to the Diplomatt: Agents of the Porte abroad, saylng: “Every day brings to. Hght a great number of Mussulman women and children be- longing to the District of Kazanttk who escaped the massacre, Twohundred ond fifty Mussul- mau women and children were found barefooted and iu a inost deplorable condition, Auumber of Mussulman women and children vould not bo recovered, having been massacred vy Bulgurlaus, Twelve thousand Mussulman men, women, and cluldren fell into the hands of the Russians and Bulgarians, ‘two thousand were reseucd by the Im- perial troops. Measurcs have Leen taken to de- Iver the rest, but news was received that every Mussulman who rematued at Kazanlik had felt a victin of thu Bulgarians, The women and children were wade prisoucrs, and taken to the Balkans." of KARATIASSANKOL THE PRESS DISPATCH. Lonpow, Sept, 2A correspondent with the Cxarowiltch's army saysof Thursday's battle: “Gen, Soenolf, who cummunded at Karasan, had ubout 9,000 Intuntry, 500 cavalry, and ten wun, Noless than 2,00) ‘Turks formed the advance. Jt wus odds. of . six to one for elght hours before the Russians left the village, and firlug was almost continuous during the wholedsy. After the Turks had entered a portion of the village the Russisa (ofantry held their ground for two hours awalllug reiuforcements. “At length 300 came, and two hours more of hot firing ensued, during. which the Turks were continually being reiuforced by maseca of troops, It was long siuce certain we must lose our position, but the retreat did nut begin fairly until 4, the dehtlug having commenced at Bin the morning, when from all along the Hue came suddenly back exhausted Infuntrymen, THY ONLY REMAMK PASSED was, There are tou many.” Gen. Socneff and bis vtall were indefutigable in thelr exertivas. When the retreat beguu It was au ugly one, From one little rise to another we went cach time, until the firv was tou hot for us, aud, at lust, when the great body of Circassians hoy- ered upon our right dunk, fu Helds below, our Cossacks und tussurs were seut down to meet them, Our position was finally yielded, and we straggled back to Ua- govo, Suchof 7uR WOUNDED as could manage to craw) awuy did so, while the infantrymen bore back others on their rifles, We gavo up our horses to tho wounded officers, and lually guthered a few bundred of us at the foot cf the bill along the wiudiug road which leads to Karasan, The result of loss at Kurasan is not finportant, unless the enemy, suceceds io fore ing the belyhts we now bold. * THE CZAROWITCU ARMY fa necessarily divided into small masses at dif- ferent places along the wholu Hae of the frout from Giurgevo to Tirnova, Speedy concentrs- the maize | e Chirago Dailyo Tribune. ; tion is {mpossible; first, from want of troops, second on account of the great dis- tances and narrow roads, Our present position fs an admirable one. We stand, of course, strictly on the defensive.” This correspondent estimates the Russtan's Toss at 5,000 killed and wounded fn the battle. NOTES. A TURKISH NECONNOISANCE PROM PLEVNA, Coxstastinor.e, Sept. 2—Usman Pasha telegraphs from Plevna, Aug. 31, as follows: “We have made an offensive reconnolsance iu force against the Ruestan fortified position at Plichad (probably Pelishal of the maps), five tiles east of Plevna, and encountered the enemy half an hour's march from Pitchad. Af- ter two Lours of degpcrate fighting, the enemy fied. Wo carried three redoubts by assault, captured o gun, mony hories and arms. The Russians, who numbered 30,000, lost heavily; we slightly." ALU QUiRT. Loxnos, Sept. 2—A Russian offical diepateh, dated Gorrystuten, Sept. 1, eays: “AN quiet towards Ruatchuk, Osman Bazar, Loftscha, and the Balkan passes, Thero was ighting be- fore Plevna Aug. 31 fram 8 in the morning untll 4in the afternoon. The Turks nnmbered 25,000, and were repulsed aloug the whole Hne. The Russian loss was 600." SCLIPKA Pass, Lonvoy, Sept. 2.—A correspondent with the Turks at Schipka Pass telegraphs that large ro- {oforcements and several mortars have arrived, ani decfeive action against the Itussian position wiil be undertaken shortly, Other telegrams state that the Kussfans have just been refn- forced. THE RUSSIAN PRESS, IT COMPLAINS OF TTR LACK OF NEWs, The Nurorosiuky Telegraph of Aug. 4 says that ot the present time there ore two questions under consideration by the public, The frat ts the suppression of oll official news: If this Were made public it would answer the query which burus every one's lip, What is the news from the eeatof war? The other is, What ts the result of our failura before Plevoat In re- gard Jo the first Interrozatury the Serrernos Vectrick remarks that tt is long alnce we received any information from the theatre of war In European Turkey. When we say long It means not more than ao few days, for in that brief time events of such a maguitude may have hisppened that weeks are, as it were, condensed in :o days. The events succeed each other with suc rapide {ty, and the public foterest 1s se creat, that a hiatus of three or four days iu the abs ence of news seems to Lean age. The public ts besoming impatfeut at the dearth of jintelligence, and the absence of anything official only leads us to the hope that the morrow will relieve our impar tlence, The telegrams which are printed in forelen papers and fod their way to our-readers are very much exacgerated. The curres vond- ents arc mure or less bizsed, and their rej vorts should nut meet with implicit confidence. Jn on extra the dusky Wir remarks that it has always paid great attention to the impost- tlon of secresy {n relation to the secret move ments of the armies in the feld, and abstaired from making any comments on the probable sc- eults of the military combinations. During tho past week there haa beeu great anxiety maui tested by the public over the absence or avy of ficial intelligence. The few facts thut are al- Jowed tocrcep Into the suntight indicate that important strategie movements are on foot, which public policy does not allow to be pub- llely made manifest. ‘The Golos Is tiled with more than anxiety. - It fours that the events up to July 28 liave been of such acharacter asto preclude the sending of miiy Lire news. Then it Inquires, * What fs it to bea Rugslan?” It Is ta belleve and pa- tently awatt for good results, Should these be satlafuctory, all 16 well; if uot, let us hope for tho best. “Lime will make all, things even, aud in the suture we will retrieve all. Sue hus al- ways beep the inborn cuntidence of the Russfan soluier. ‘Tue armies are enthusiastic, each indi- vidual scldter is fimpressed with un inspired. hope, and thero sa certainty that the course of evente will bring them tothe goal for which they are striving. ‘he Russian peuph: not utrald of defeat. They know thelr strength and have the fullest contldenve ‘én it.” Their ends will be secured = thaugh — lusses are entuted, Their’ ultimate “und only object fa the freedom of.the Curistlans; who eroaning under the exactions and persec tons of the Turks. Itis forthe fate of the Christians that Russia, tremblex,—thase thou- sands who ece with the upprouch of Kuselan bayoncts the first dawn of Ircedum. Pur these we lear nuca sulfering growlug out of our de- feata. They wil be coupelled to leave thelr Lomes and surrender thelr all, wives and ctil- dren, to the mercilcas Turk. ‘They will be ree garded a3 traitors and deserters, aud oa them tue Turk will wreak his mosteruel vengeance,— such ny be practiced last yeur on the Bulgarians, and this, ob the Armenians. ‘Tu specify these outrages would Inake the bloud of tho reader run These are dangers which He with hi ht upon the Kuasian heart. With re! e tu thu sccund question,—the outcome of our defeat before levna—the Mosvow Vedomosti encourages the people to hope forthe best. Tuo game of wor is not always on ol alde, Ju the upluion of the Gazelle the dete: would have been of strategic fuportance bad Osman Pasha kuown caougy tu have taken od- vantage of it, and moved agaiuet Lovja, wht was occupied by the Ruusiana, and seized it b fore tho reinforcements came up, Fortunate! for) ts, Osinan Pasha did not seize bis opportu- nity. ‘The St. Petersburg Vadomosté takes the corre- spundeuts of the foreign papers to task fur ex~ azuerating the defeat of the Russiva troops at Plevna, and adylaes that they be placed under a close survelllance, lest they repeat the menda- claus stories about utber army movements and enguzements, It believes that the Kuselan Vur Ottica should furnish tho pres the country with correct official news, a8 no cHance can be plieed on the extracts which they arc obliged to make trom furcign papers in Heit of the absence of auy intelligence from ofliclal sources. K correspondent of the Noyurussky Telegraph, writing from Constantinople, saya” that the Djerod Gevadis uf that city gives the following ie Russisn Joss from the bogtunlug of the war to date: First crossing of the Danube. Second crowshus of the Danu! Battle 1,500 gg in the Balkans ement wt Bilud.. 3,000 jement at Movta, 4,000 pt Nickopul 8,000 skirintehes at Dat s'u00 Other engagemente 000 Aula Minor campaig uoo TOtal 1G88..sccereeoeyeree oe on 2 e000, SOO Nearly afl the Conatantiuople Christians have abondoned the city for an aeyluin in one of the Jovian Islands, where they hope to be freo from persecution, FRANCE. ELECTIONS. Panis, Sept. 2.—A decree ordering elections for the new Chamber of Deputics will be faaued on the uth, Mac Manton, Aveport isconfissmed that Oct. 4 has been fixed as thudate of the election, The Union, a Legithulet orzau, declares that Presidcut Mac Mahon has cuntracted a certain binding engayu- tucnt which will reader {t luspossible for hin to ‘apcept w proldugation of his powers after Lou. YHENCIL YOLITICS, ‘Tho Maureual-I’resiueut of Fruuce, Mac3fabon, has uot met with o very warm welcome during hia wtarcing tour throug Normandy. At Evreux he heard some plaiu talk. The lepub- lean Mayor bud beeu dismissed for refusing tu plavord the anth-Republican ollicial paper culled ie Bulleln des Communes, aud the authorities who recelved the Mursbal were headed by the Benlor Adjolut, wu congratulated the Marshal oo undertasing a jour to ascertain what the pooply wanted aud hoped for, aud added: Qur towy, M. lo Preident, is the tit which you Meck will vo your route. Allow os tu be slucere, aud W tell you that the population whom wo teptesent ace profoundly attached tu the itepub- hreau Cloverumeut, aud ‘that all you do tor Ite malntenupce and consolidation will tusure you thelr warn vywpalbles. The reat of yout journey will acquaint you that such ls the wish of all our wise Norman poputitiony, who ardently yearn for thy cussalivn of the preecut craig, 0 as W give pho }-Iudla can supply all deficien eles, } cotton, hemp, pret or rose. U—but thet i PRICE FIVE yp'ts. Pr | if therheelves up in fall seenrt & @ heir tabo business, ie 2 i fabor and The London Times editoy be Tho President of the of Commerce spoke in aeimilarntenin, Fg tort the Marsha) that his judicious mind must be aware that good polt- ties made guod finances and good busines: ain the Intercetr of coinmerce stability was neceanity, which conlil be asaurcd only ** by a compicta Gov- ernment—thut in, an executive power reating on an. elected Parliament."" There {s nothing anctvil in this Linguage, but there is no attempt to make It aweeter by concealing Jts meaning, Hut the Mar- nal cid bia best to shut bis cars and clove hie eyes. Me was told that the interests of France required that the erecntlvs purer should possess the conf- dence of an clected Parilament, and his reply was that the crisia would be over when tha elected Par- Mament conformed to the opinions af the executlvo power. The people of Paris may well wonder what isto be the end of sn opponition of sentiment thus sharply defined. What le the Imit of the Marahal's pertinacity? . An to the general reault of the French elec- tions, the Zimee of Aug. 18 says: Whatever may be sald by those who wish to please the President on his tonr, opinion in Paris neems to have ecttled down to the belief that tha Miniatry will be defeated in the general elections. Thie la “plainly the conviction of those who hare Leen foremost 11 soplauaing the dissolution of tha Jate Chamber, and the languago they now use and the advice they offer ought tu prevail: In France tz make more certain the future they anticipate with Fenuanance, We have already referred to the in- trigues practiced to get rid of tne Dne do Broglie. Theee may, perhaps, be traced tothe Bonapartist conspirators, who luok upon M. de Fourtou oe thelr champion, thonsh there are sumo themselves Leyitimiste who hava joined in them, The unflinching Leriti- tmiate, however, whose principles aro above the edtenlations of politicians, are mored toa dif- ferent course by the prospect of Patlamentary dee feat. Ateuch a crisiathey refaeo to practice any concealment. The ateugyic in whicts they are en- gaged i¢ a struggle for Henry V. and the Holz Father, or itis nothing, They decline tu recognize any as Conservatives but those who desire before all things the re-establishinent of the ‘Tempurat Power, and they declare that ‘*if the act of the ltth of May does not go to the root uf tho matter, If it does not contain the principle of the restoration of legitimate monarchy, tt wilt bo unmeaning,” ‘This is the inspiration of the Vati- can: and the exhortation tu French Catholics to proclaim the succcasion of Henry ¥. must operate to separate, Instead of unitiny, tho adverse cle- ments that vo to make up the reactlmary party in France. Tho failure of the coup of the 10th of May Is already confeaved by the divergent polley of the sections that at fret supported 11, anc thin’ di- vergent pollcy will react tu make the fallure more coniplete. GAMBETTA'S RECENT SPEECH AT LILLE. ‘The following is a turther extract frum the speech of Gambetta at Lite, on the 15th ult, for which he ts being prosccuted by the French Gourernment: Gentlemen, all Europe joina with a sympathetic anakety which honors us In the supreme trial of tau epublican and Liberal Democracy to eatabllen in Francesa Governmunt peaceful without and pro- greasivo within; 5 Gorerument which, while ro- specting the legitimate rights of citizens and es+ tathabed eurporations, separates iteelf more and nore from the graep of the thevcratic and ul: montang mind; which fashtons national adminis: tration and education according to the principies: of modern reaton and makes of the State an age exclusively clvil for rofurm and stability. fause.] — From the ortgin of the conilict, ‘urupe, without distinctions of potltical cun- Viclions, SMonarchtcal or Republican, bas pro- nounced {trelf againat the rosetion uf the 10th uf May. Iteaw in thle, oa we do, an andacious at- tempt of the clerlcui mind ayalnat the whole of Europe, It was grieved toree the credit, the in- uence which France was slowly regaining In tao ‘councits of tho world put suddenly anidu and to sce act dumb in the European cuncert. 1t- follows at- dentively aud day by day the divorve incidents of tho passionate struzgle whieh the Ministry of tho Auth of Muy has undertaken against the nation. "Tae grave probleme tatsed by the Euatern quewtion do not abeurb Kurupe so far asto distract ite attention from our daily effarts fo the electoral eaiipatyn oven since two tnuntas, ‘The must ine fiventlal and the most authorized ‘organy of Euro- pean opinion esnetain ‘our democracy with en- coursgement and counsel. i The people, ike the Government, await impa- Uently the tasue of the compat, hoping that tho Just word will remaly tu the national suvereignty in the spirlt of “sh, As the Minister-Presideat of the Jalan Council eatd: **Governmenta pass, and uations remain, France, which promulgated mod ern fight, will not cate to give thy lig to the guapol of ‘80, by which only the Syltabus and ‘desuttun Would profit.” (**No, no." Load applause. } Europe haw acted like thee Lourdeolee, --it uae trans ferred itv eyrpathive trom tho rivht to tho Jett; and there ts inthis fact foro, Kepubticans and patriot other vlenient of the victory and sti- oility whicn awalt the itepublic when ale mhall have freed heraclf from tae miserable dificultics created for her avafust all patrivtim, hy the cos- itlon of ancient parties. ‘he hopes of the world will no be deceived. The Republic will come out trlumphant fruin this last triat, and the clearest benetit derived from the 20th of May will bu for history to have abridsed by three ysars, by ten yeate, the period of groping aud uncertainty tw Which we wero cundemnoud by the last comUinstions of the National Assetmbly elucted ou that unfor- tunate day, [Urlea uf nasone and applause.) GREAT BRITAIN, MAND ROWERS. Lospox, Sept. 2.—Robert Watson Boyd has been matched to Trickett, of Australia, for £Quw side and the championship of the world. YOREIGN MISCELLANY. ATTAL OF NOSE. ‘The London Guzette saya that Kesantik, tho centre of thy district in which Geu, Gourko has beer operating, isthe centre also of the great rose-feld of Turkey, trom which moat of the “uttar of-rose used. In Europo ts obtalued. That used.tu Asia corres princtpally, we believe, frum Ghazeepores About 220 imperial gatlone of ruseotl are produced at Kesanlk every year; the roses aro cultivated in flelde, nut furdens, und the cutire valley isscented by tas \eaves. It 1s supposed hut tie industry, Which yields about dle a ye er, has been destroyed. by the war, and will ba transferred to sume other spot, perlipa Sicily, where the rose could be cultivated as easily ad on the slopes of the Balians. ‘The chanee woud be ay excellent one, for any one who own U, say, abit of @ Greek faland; but wo suppose India will supply the deficiency, with its lesa p vwertul article, 06 it would if af) Turkish poppies were ie wed uy Ve a fa always some faint inferlurity about the new supply, tho only exception ware wember being ck, e DRITISIE MINT-COLMAGE. ‘The seventh annual report of tl Deputy- ‘Master of the Mint opens with an, Wiusly to the break-aown of the muchinery, whl thatopped the operation of coluage for nearly tive’ mUULyy during the year 1870, The avivunt of colnaze was therefory comparatively trifling in L waber; Yet the vulue struck, including contract | work, excceded £5,000,U00. The total num ber o! pleves struck at the Mint was 11,239,050; . ding: the pieces of bronze colpage executed by" con- tract, whole of British coins si Tuck during the year umoutited ‘to BU, te 410 iu number, und to £5,007,113 Os. Ud. fnyulue, The guld cot tn aif wus £4,711,. 09 10s, £3,318,500. reprarenict tho total amount j U sovercigns, and £1,692, 503 103 in half-soverelzus, 4 ‘The atneunt of silyer coined was £234,203; round nuubers the value of the balfrowns was £73,000; florins, £55,0u0; shillings, £53,000; sixpences, £21,000; and threepences, £24,000, Fourpenny, twopenny, aud penny pieces were only coined us Maundy money. The bronzo culnage amounted ty £01,450 Hsdd. The total of fhe pennies was £40,000, of the palfpeanics, £14,000, and uf the farthings, £1,120. Tho Uybtgold com withdrawn frum circulation by the Bankof England sent to the Mint for re- culnaye during the year was only £633,575; the corres~ouding ‘aucune iu 1875 was £23,190,000, ae £950,000 in 1874. Iu’ the upuendix to Mr. Frewantle’s report Is printed a series of tables of the comage upera~ Mons of thes Royal Mint fur the decade ended with 1570. Tho total valuo of gold colo mlited was £46,00F2,617; the number of suveretzus being 85,500,201 and of that value; the hall were in nu 18,466,069 the gold in the ten years e: 000. tie tuted value of the sil! 25,012,400; the total amouut which pal fur silver bulliou was 44.006,612—this fur nine years; nous was bought tn lsid. Malf- crowns Were only comed during the hist tires. ars of the decado; io that time uearty 4,000,- were struck ull, their valu belug £191,400. During the ten years the Maut purchased 4,553,- 205 ounces of worn wllver coma for exchange; the notinal value was 11,455,005, the * Mint value," ut Gs, Gd. per ounce, Was £162,393; the conse quent logy by exchanze was £10012 The price of silver durnag tie time under notice fluctuated yreatly. The prkv at which the Mint bought Iu 1387 was GL. per guuce; ib to mnaiued about that figure ove tu’ Isat, whea silver felt to 69 13-16, 5 dn 137410 was 53 Lid. audi 1975 tt wus G3 Lt-lod. For tie dret thane | during eeveral yours the Miut expenses lave exceeded profits. ‘That Tesult the Deputy- Muster ascribes to the brewldown of the ura- chinery Which precluded oliver culvage, and all cousequent prulit. ‘The prvilt on brobze pleces ws a pa theeyy ere Hie *auuuih received frow aweepinss frou the guld coluaze, thi wae £L905 Ths, Lod an Lois