Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1877, Page 1

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All customers having clwims agwinst us for goods lost in the fire, are requested to pre- sent swine in a written form at once. FIELD, LETTER & (0. Magnificent Bravery Display- ed by the Russians in the Attack. Flight of the Ga;rison After the Last Stand Had Been Made. Their Pursuit and Recap- ture by the Victori- ous Russians. Immense Quantities of Cannon, Stores, Etc., Secured by the Conquerors. The Proposed Election Inquiry Sharply Debated in the French Senate. A Vote Taken Exposing the ‘Weakness of the Pres- ent Ministry. KARS CAPTURED. MELIKOPP MOVES 1¥. Lowpox, Nov, 10.—A special dlspatch dated Veran-Kalch, Sunday evenlng, says tne fortress and city of Kars, with 300 cannon, rtorcs, ammuuition, cash, cte, fell into the Russfan hands, The Turks lost 5,000 In killed and wounded, 10,000 prisoners, and many fags. The Russian loss was about 2,700. The Kussian soldicrs made but trifling booty, and spared peaceful cltizens, women, and children. Gen, T.ouls MellkofT direcicd the battle. During the day Orand Duke Michacl was present also. ‘The former entered tho city at 1:10 Bunday morning. DETAILS, Another Verao-Kaleh special says: Kars was captured by about 15,000 Russlans, who climbed the steep rocks, the ramparts, and walls, and stormed an equal number of des perately fighting Turks, in headlong flight over their ditches and parapets, compelling them to die or surrender. The escalada Lad been orig- 1nally fixed for the 13th, but it was postponed, owing to bad weather. The principal attack was made on the southern forts. Gen. Laza- reff, who commanded the right wine, conslst- ing of the Forticth Division, nssaulted the Haflz Pashn* Fort, crownlvg the steep rocky Lelght. Gen. Count Grabbe, withs reglment of Moscow grenadiers and a reelment of the ‘Thirty-ninth Division, attacked Hatiz Pasha in the centre of the Khanli Tahea, S8auvarri, Tabia, the three towers,and the citadel, The Ardaban brigade and another reglment of Moscow grena. dicrs, under Gens. Roop and Komarafl, forming the left wiug, assauited Fort Iuglls on the north, The attack began in the centre, at 8:80 Satur~ day evening, when Count Grabbe led his brig- ade sgalnst the Khanli redoubt, and bimasclt FELL DEAD AT THE FiRST ONSET, , plerced by a bullet, Capt. Kwadmickl, of the ‘Thirty-ninth Regiment, was first to enter the redoubt at 11 at nieht, Ilis sword was cut clean out of his hand and his clothes plerced. The redoubt surrenderca early In the morning, and then tho three towers, alinost shnultancously with the Khanli redoubt, ‘The cltadel, Fort Banvarri, and Fort Hafiz Pasha were carried by assault. By daylicht Sunday, Gen. Lozarefl's troops had mado progress as far ns the capture of Fort Kara-Dagh. Other forts, especlally the Arb Tavla on the cast, and Takmah Tabla op the west, malntained a stubborn resfstance untll 8 o'clock, when all tho garrisons which could NOTELS, HOTEL EMERY, VINE-ST., ATIOVE FOURTH, CINCININ.ATI, O. 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MOST NOTED BIEGE, AND ITS ATTENDANT HORRORS, ‘The report of the fall of the almest impreg- nable fortress of Kara recalls vividly the mem- wrabls slege that occurred at that point i 1855, and which has passed into history as onc of the most stubborn and remarkablo resistances on the part of & pent-up body of troops. In the years 1853 and 1854 the Aslatic campalygns of the Turks bad been, in the maly, unfortunato nnes for themselves. Nothing but reverses had at. tended thelr arms after the capture by the Rus- sians of Fort Bt. Nicholas, tho same post which ‘was 50 peralatently bombarded last spring, In 1854 tho Turks were defeated at Akhaltzik, re- duced to s demoralized coudition, and cheated and starved by thelr officers, ‘The troops re- turned to Kars after this more llko & mjlitary rabble than s disciplined army. [t was IN A MOST WHRTCUED CONDITION, No orgsnization existed. A pack of Commu- nistle rioters, deprived offthelr bloodthirstiness, would havo been a well-segulated body {n com- parison with these Ottomans. It can readily be suppuscd that au ariny in such a state of neg- lect and demoralization was but littla Skilled in drilis of any sort, Indeed, from the early part of August that year to the arrival of the British Comnisstoner, Col. Fenwick Willlains, at the end of Beptemnber, the troops had not once gone through the most ordinary excrclses, Col, Williams was then regarded as » highly- distlnguished ofticer, sn ablo scientific engineer, and a diplomatist, and since has been csteenied a3 one of the most meritorious heroes of that war, Onthe 24th of September, 1854, Col. Williams went from Erzeroum to Kars,— which in times past was cousidered tho key to Asla Mivor,—where he was recelved with all the honors due to his position; forthe corrupt Turklsh officials were by no means awars what a rigid military reformer aud disclplluarian they bad received smoogst them. Kars was A FOUTHESS PARTLY IN RUING. It was bullt by Amurath I1L., {n the latter part of the sixteenth century, und obtained fu Asla s reputatlon for impreguabllity on account of the garrison withia, it haviog iu 1735 repulsed all the efforts of tho famous Nadir Bhab, at the head of 90,000 Persians, after ho had defeated 100,000 Turks o its vidnity, Iu the summer of 1855, after the arrival of Col. Williams at Kurs, tbo Turke begau throw- fog up fortiflcatiops about the place, as Gen. Mouravieff, of ths Russian arwy, bad begun tbrestenng it. Early fn June the Russians made 8 short march from Gumri, sud appeared prepared to,march upon Kars in great streogth. N Beal and Jiuk Sacques, Fur Mannfae-geoe e prons llll'illg‘ CO., I'r‘“"""ii’«"’“ St ieanaped. llence of Worke Madison and Frank. nsnshi® snd vetfainiity, nke wo lineats,, " Chicago. Tedicaof ths sity ", os40d BEAX & BUCKHER. OPTICIAN, e A~ A s e A MANANNE, OPTICIAN, Tribuno Bulldiog, e —— MERCIIANT TAJLORING, g P o be b iy nits ! Flae bog: Battins. 38 ==z | BHALL&00, I NANGIAL, COUNTY ORDERS Aud City Vouchers Bought By LAZARUS SILVERMAN, 1uber of Colnmeres. [ jra ke £ jordiuarly qufil;t,l‘n:u‘ [0, 8358 o PARLOR FOR 1877, o BHATES AND MANTELY, * ¥ tiold and Nickel ' M irimmed, snd SLATE MANTELS, PLOBAECO & RUMNEY —_— PALESST, CUTLEH A Rudgers Pooket Knutves, Razors, sod Bcluors & spectally; a0 skates, Platol Gsines. "and” Noveltien st KECLEY'S, b M 2 : Bisou-st.. Tribine Bi'g. ¥or 33 Photozraphs ab 23 cta ALk Worth 80 cla., a1 “TUE CHIICAGO, TUESDAY., NOVEMBER The position of the Turkish army could not be regarded without spprehension. troops amounted to about 15,000 men, who had been famillarized with defeat and scourzed by In addition to this condition of the forces, the atock of provisions was In- sufficlent to enable them to sustain a scige of any considerable duration, and what made the case still worse was the fact that thelr supply of amununition was very small. IHere were THREE OREAT ORSTACLES,~— physical prostration, and scarcity of provistons and munitions of war. very pleasant outlook for the handful of men who were svon to he brought face to face witha determined Russian legion. On the 9th of June 40,000 Rusalans encamped within Gve leagues ot It was then very apparent that the real work must soon begin, and begin it did, The ‘Turks fn the fortress slept at thelr poste— that le, they were not permitied to leave, ong vigilant sentine! keeping watch while his com- rades rested,—and double lines of sentinels wero posted sbout the works. On the 10th of June the inhabitants of the Town of Kara rose en masse and applied to Gen, Willlams—or Will- fams Pashna, as he was termed, having been rafsed by the Sultan to the rank of Ferlk or General—and nsked permission to AID IN TR DEPENSE Meaonwhile the Russfans were most active and made several sortfes on’ the place in the hope of capturing it, but in every instance the soldiers repulscd them, and dis- played considerable gatlantry. The Russians then turned their attention to destroying all the Turkish supplies they could find, and, hay- ing a cordon of troops around the entlre works, were successful In kecpipg ont all tne stores 20, 1877, convoys every month, each carrying provisions necessary for one month. Now, two such full convoys reached Osman Pashia towards the end ol Septembher, and another In the middie of October, ro that, secording to this ealculation, the commander of Pleyna would have supplics 1o about the end of this month, As regards the force under hls command, it s thought well sbletohold itsown, sincethe reinforcements rent him, it is argued, havenot only covered thelosscs he has sufferad, but focreased the original num- ber of bistroops by several thousand men, ro that st the worst he would be able to cut his way through the besleging host. This estimate of Osman’s resisting power would seem plausible enough were it not that in every army, more varticularly in a Turkish one, conslderable atlowance must be made In long marches for the difference between what in directed towards some point and what really seaches it, snd 1t will be well for Ghazl Osman It he has 70 per cent nf what he ought to have Besldes, the ponulation of Plevna tannot altogether be feft nut of the question, In ordinary times it amounts to about 17,00 souls, of which tnore than half are Mu mans; hut this number in the present ca have beeu considerably fned 130 eannon and & great stock of arms, aldes 7,000 or 8,000 prisoners of war. 1t was remarked at the time that A DIWRACR AND A SCANDAL to all who micht have contributed to prevent Jt was a disgrace to Selim Pasha, with his & It was a dlsgrace to Omar Pushn, who was nassing away his thine at Buchum-Kaleh, and it was o disgrace to the allfes, who certalnly ought to have relleved it This emled the most memorable siege of ‘The fiest sicge took place In 1824, when the Russians obtained possession of the town by placing guns on one of the overlooking hills which hal heen Jeft unprotected, aud they hela it for two vears, when, Ly trealy, it was re. stored to tho Turks, WAR NOTES. 1NVASION PEARED. CoxstanTixorue, Nov. Governor of Kossovo has exhorted the Mussul- mans to defend the province agalust a possible Bervian luvasion, AUSTRIAN TERRITORY VIOLATED, ZARA, Nuv. 19.—The Turks violated the Austrlan frontler on SBaturnday, They sacked houses and stole cattle, MONTENRORIN AUCCESSES, Lospox, Nov. 20-5 a. m.~A Celtinje cor- respondent says unofficial reports state that the Muntenegiins have stormed the cltadel of Spitza, This gives the Montenegrins possession of the coast from the Austrian frontier to the Boyana, The Turks still hold the citadel of fever anil scurvy. It certainly was not a 19.—The Turkish country roumnl are fnlinbited mainly by Pomaks, or Mussulman Bulearians, tained that tnosat of the excesses committed last year south ol the Baikans were not the handl. wurk of Circasslans, but of these Mussulman converts, and the latter, therefore, more thun other Muliwmedans, Lad cogent reason to leave thelr homes on the oppronch of the Russians aud take reiuge in places occupled by Turkish troops, of which in that district Plevna is now the only one remaining. of comnunleation In rear of the town being of the fortress. It has Leen axcer. A Viennn corresppondent says the Montene- gring arc kept In chieck by two Turkish ships n A Belgrade correspondent telegraphs that, Itistrue that the hines although there are marked sizns here of a de- elre to take the fleld, several clauses of the conventlon fbetween Russia aud Servia are still Itls believed that Russia is disin- clined to accent all the conditious demanded No matter how desperate were the efforts made, Kurs could not be reslctualed. The time passed very tardily on for the defenders of Kars, Nu- merous skirmishes took place, ns they have re- peatedly occurred st this later slege of the vlace, and In mauy of them the Russians were Yet thesc succeeses avalled themn but little beyond the mere killing off of a few of the enetny’s men. On the 15th of June the place was fairly blockaded. The horses, heing wn short ratlons, fell sick, and the utmost difi- cully was experienced In keeplng them alive, Toput an end to the great mortality of theso anlinals, Gien, Willlams resolved to send away the greatcr portion of the cavalry. On the night "of the &1 of September, 1,200 of the regular cavalry, beside DBashl-Bazouks, collected on the helehts of Tahmsab, and n goot feed given to each animal, The riders then prepared to cut thelr way through the Russlsn lives snd eseape. It was a desperute direct obstacle in the crops on uestioned whether, tn view of the disturbed ptate of the country und the wants of Usman's arny, these were ample enouzh, tot only tv maintain_the local population, hut the More important, however, per- hans, than the question of provislons is that of which the beleazuered artny seems to have been quite as much in want when the first _convoy ariived from Orchanie. have no data whatever to enable us to judge what artillery stores may bave entered dnring the passage ot the convovs between Orchanie and Plevna, but the cotuparative silence inain- tafned by the Turkish batterica fu face of the Russlan “bombardment wonid rother seem to indi:ate that there is some cause for thus spar- ingz thelr heasy mmmunition, Although, lowever, teassuring assertions are made by the ofliclal world in Constantinople about the state of Ghazl Osinan's ariny as being well ahle to hold out, or, If need be, cat its way through, there reems to be nu Intentfon to leave him to his fate. On the contrary, preparations are afont to make an effort to relieve him, Heve eral war counais have been held with this in view, and the first resolution {s eand to hase heen that the rewular froops atitl fn Constantys nople are to be at ouce Clspatehed to Rofia and Orchanle, their place beingtaken by the national militla, ~ Accordiug to the most moderate estf- 25,000 to 30,000 way of fetehing TIHE ENGLISI CABINET. Epixnurg, Nov, 19.—A Lundon correspond- ent says: “1 have rcason to believe that the peace party in the Cabinct has lately recelved notable accessions, and that five Ministers are nuw virtually committed to the poley ‘of non- refugees nleo, ammunition, o ALAJA DAGIL DETAILS OF TR ROUT OF MUKIHTAR PASHA DE- FORE KARS—[IEMARRANLE SKILL DISPLAYED IY THE RUSMANS—A DARING EPPORT TO E3- CAVE MADE BY A TURK1SH DIVISION, Chrrespondence Nea York Teibune, CoxstasTiNorLe, Oct. Pasha'a defeat In front of Kars I8 more comn- plete than was at first supposed, nouncement of the battie, dated on the 10th inst., simply sald that his centre had been plerced, and hisvight wing had remained on Alaja Dagh, while he himself had been obllgzed 1 win now," Lic piously wlds, “enwrazed n taking the necessary measures, and In prayng to the Almichty in veirard to re- venge upon the enemy.” The scene of the bat- tle fs o very broken country with ridge succced- ing ridge, each more rocky and. impractieable than the other, and bardly a tree to be seen in tho entire regtion, The Turkish right wing rest- ed upon Alaja Dagh, which {s a group of moun- taina higher than the others, Incloslug a grassy platean within the circle of its peaks of rock. ‘The position was fmpregnable, but it has the dhadvantage of a lack of roads to the rear, “If the Turkish centre could be broken, the fate of the thirty battalions on Alajn was scaled be- yond peradventure. The Russinn plan of attack was fdcutical with that which falled Iu the battle of Oct, 2. The nieht of the 14th an udventurous Chal River and selzea o position in the rear of the Curkish centre, and 5), at davlight the inoin 2—Ghazt Mukhtar INTO THE GATES OF DEATNL Away went the grim and determined foree on thetr famine-smitten horses. port of the engagement that followed says that 500 of the Turks were cut down and a large munber captured. The dead bodles lined the rood as far as the Village of Kizil-Ghiadouk and In the wountaln passcs. Tho Russians wero remorseleas; the Turks deflant, Just after this, Gen. Mouraviell, legrning that large quantitics of provisions were collected at the vlilages of Ottl and Peniakl, with intentfon of belng forwarded to Kars, took steps to inter- cept them, and was successful. Ile also swept oftmany of the Turkish cattle fram before Kars, and thus considernbly lessened the food« supply of the already straitencd garrison. On the 20th of Beptember the most severe battle took place, under the leadership, on the part of the Turks, of Tsmacl Pasha (Gen, Kmety, n Hungarian officer, who kept the fort- ress with Gen. Witllams), and the Ruselan Stmultancous sitacks were made on the helghts of Tahmsab, Fort Lake, and other re utterly routed, and, etarvation destroyed the cavalry of the ‘Turks, the Russians mfght have been ceattered and annihilated as an army. The battle lasted seven hours; the Turkish army lost 862 killed sud 631 wounded, and 101 townspeaple perish- ed. The Russiana carried 7,000 wouuded off the ground and a great nwmber of dead; yet, not- withstanding this, the Turks buried no less than 6,300 Russians left dead on the flel Amongst these were many officers of highest The Russians themselves stated thelr 17 killed and wounded, 252 of thelr ofticers. Such was tho fearful sinugkiter of the battlo of Kars. The fortitica. tions proved to be fmprexmable, not be carried by assault. sat down to the tusk of BTARVING TIIR PORTREAY OUT, A detoil of the horrors suffered by the wretched goldicrs and inhabltants of Kurs from this period until, when exbausted by starvation, thiey surrendered to nfos whomn they had so loriously deteated, is appalling and hideous, 'he torturcs of diseascwere added to the pangs The cholera uppeared with great violence. The hospitals were crowdea with sick and wounded troops; but that which they most needed, nourishment, could not be given No anfmul food, not even horsctiush, was now served out to tho troops: the rations of the soldi=rs vonsisted of nothiug but a small supply of coarse bread and a something catled soup, made of flour and water only. Some of the unhaopy solafers, overcutne by sickness and starvation, and abandoned by lope, erept mto deserted houses, and there died tu hideous soll- A TERRIDLE CIIANGE waa coming over themen; they tottered in thelr facea were gloomy and boggard, hloodshior end” wollish, were tempted by the high price of bread In tho city to sell thelr miseratle ru. tlons; but those who did this sank and died at (irass was torn up in every open space whera ft could be found and tho roots Outslde the city swarms of vultures were to be seen preying on the mangled corpses which the hungry dogs bhad scratched out of thelr shallow graves, in the hope thet the Russluna infcht bo com- pelled to retire, or that the garrison of Kors might be relieved by Bellm Pasha, who had landed at Trebizong with a couslderablo ariny, or by Omar Pasha, whom they supposed to advaneing to their assistance. were not to b fultiiled. The desperate wretche edness of the soldlers and townspeople was get- ting atill more hideow 100" plastres cach for tho suke of their food. The few horses thut were left had their thronts cut to preveut them from dylug of starvation, and the fesh of these emactated brutes WAS REGAKOED AS A LUXURY, Boldiers were seut tothe hospitals in great numbers in astate of cxhaustion from starya- Frequently a hundred men perdshed in the hospitals during the day and night, whilo others weut mad or became fdiotic from the sufferinge they had undergone, Btill the gurrison held out, and the work of starvation went on with fucreasing grimnese and hurror, Chitdren dropped and died in the morning skeleton-like in varlous parts of the camp. Tho soldiers deserted in large numbers, and discipline was al time the poor fellows who bLud ulmost wor- shiped Gen, Williame now refused to salute him, und turoed their eyes away when they saw him approach. Bome of the townspeople crowd- ed_sround him as he rode out of his quarters and entreated bim to seek somo meaus of put- tingthemout of thelr misery. Wretched women forced themsclves lute bis very room, aud, luy- fomine-switten fufants at his im rather to kill them thun to LET TIEM FERISH FROM WANT, The Russian re- to take refugein Kars, such regular troops almust scem fneredible that such a foree ahoutd have been kept Idle there while at one time it might have helped to decide the strugeie, for this year at feast, in favor of the Turks: and o will ‘he well to wuit until these troops have actinally started for the scat of war before helievlnge that those who reein to have all alung trembled more for country can bring tihemselves to dectde on such artep” Those who belleve that these reserves will now do what they onuht to have done long azo hiint also at the porsibillty of Mehemet AN ail of a sudden avpearing as the commauder of this relleving fore What i3 10 be done, however, must be done for it louks very much ns if the Rus- hewmselves do ot mean to Jose much While continulog to shake the of the eneny in front by thelr overwhelmins ar- are systematieally clearing the road to Orchanle, now dominated Ly Dubnlk and Tells, in thelr possession. They also seem to have captured the important poslijon of Rad- omirza, with tho bridge over an atliuent of the Jsker, = foat achieved spparently by a com- bined movement from Tells In the uorth aud trom Lovatz in the cast. THE GRAVITZA REDOURT. Dizgatchen In London Times. —The captury of the see- ond Uravirza redoubt by the Roumunians on the and {ta recapture by the Turks after y minutes? tenure, afford Instructive lessons as to what all attacks will be- come_for the future under the tlr All appears to havy perfectly according 1o rule. The san iad corried ‘to within forty oaces, the ‘uttack well delfvered v three battalluns of the Fourth Roumanian Reglment with a rush, und finme- supported by or Buchinrest men the captured place the Roumanians were driven ont agaln, after sustalning losses the fizures of which show how The Turks, on thelr part, On the two faces where a posstble attack might come, they had nrranged three successive tiers of rifle fire, one above the other, thus enabling rhem to bring abuut 20,000 shots per minuto to hear upon the point assajle el neverthcless, the place was carried at the themselves than division crossed the A next morning (Oct. 1 Ttusslan attack was d which wus thic Key to the wholo ‘Turkish llne, ust as the litile Gagnl Tepe was the key to the ine fn the battlc of the 24 mst. At the same thme o tremendous artillery firo_was directed upon Alajs, In order to keep the Turkish rieht In the battle of the 24, Mukltar Pashia had troops enouth to beat off the flank- tng column {0 his rear while be reinforced hix But his losses had been very heavy, and his army was no longer equal In only three hours the Russluns had carried Evia Tepe, sud almost joined hands with the division which had come across There was nothing for the Turks to o but to zet out of the wav. complished with more speed thau dignity, and that night the astonished garrison of Rars found itself once mioro face to face with the enemy. The division under Hagl Reshid Pusha, left on Aluja Dagh, was entirely isvlated and With it was all, or” nearly all, the Turkish casalry, and it had thirty-two pleces of The Russlans could not carry Alajn Dawl, but, on the other band, the Turks conid nut open communication with their General-In- Chlef, aud were completely baf) cavalry Gencrals was Moosa 1 eduvated In o Russian wilitary acadeny, and has a eonniissfon {n the Russion army, havig deserted to the Turkish service ut the beginilng of the war. 'This gentlerman naturally fell mis- ivings as to the result of un {utervicw with the Grand Duke Michael, and urgently demanded that an attempt be 1, Oct, threntened centre. Ponani, Uct, Lreechlouders, Then the Russluns Heglmeut,—alt led. One of the Detalls are still wanting as to how mauy men tho counter-nttack was made with, the rorize of the 1y oven, and all e iude by the tr rank and file of nhbt Lad beon lefl. purpose- led and prepared for the deploymeut of a large body of 1f the Turks have got the tirst engi- nieer in Ruasia opposed to them, one must do them the Justice to say that th thelr own well In encineering s! all their efforts, the Roumaniuns were forced out ngain, ond the following gures bear honoy able teatimony to thetr valor. goged six weak battalions, about 700 mien cach, —say 4,200 all, Out of theae there were kil our officers and 248 men; misaing, which last scems the worst fate of all, left in the handsof the Turks,—uineteen ofll- cepd and T2 mens a grand total of 937 casual- ties, or about one in four of the troops enguged. ‘This tor twenty ninutes' fighting 18 hard hit- Princa Charles, himself a Hohenzollern and of & fighting ruce, has reason 1o be proud of his younu troops. they have fulled most honorably, where It was almost impossible to win, ‘The neighborhuvod of Gravitza will beagreater peat-house than ever now, as the Turks refuse all overtures for the burlalof the dead, and pre- fer to llve fu steach themselves, which must be deadly with the hot sun of the Inst four ds rather than make auy concession to an enciy. ‘The Roumanians are “in sorrow, fur the Sisih Regiment was recruited|in the Capital fiself, every man lost inakes a greot gap in a small s vlety lke that of Buclsreat; but they are not discouraged, and are pressiug on the works more vigorously than ever, nled, however, ‘thut every such fallure fs o feather fn the cap of Osman. has carued his title of Ghazi well, THE BATILE OF BOFIA ROAD, Porapix, Oct, 25,—[ send you & few morede- tails, learned from eye-withesses, of the hattle The Russian troops actually tukine part in the engugement were trom 12,000 10 14,000 men, chiefiyof the following regiments ol the lmperis] Guards: 8, th Bemenofskis, Ismallofskis, and Strelkis. started frow cump between 11 and 12 at nichi, and the Hrat hiteh occurred on the troops reach- fng the banks of a little river which it bad been Uelleved was merely ankle-deep; but the sur- face of the water proved to be up tu the men's armpite. Here some crumblinig on the part of severnl of the fresh troops was ut once stopped thelr officers wading tnrough tivst, and erily’ culling upon thelr wen to follow, Oue had the tact tosay, *How cheerfully you would go through this If the 'Turks wero after you, sv why do you hesltuty when we are golog After u long aud tlring march in the bitter was_eucountered, intreuched behind earthworks i frout ot three 'villeges, of which iy inforisunts could not agree upon the names, s0 L will call them A, B, aod C, of which too centre ono (B) was ucar the high roud to Botia, A on the left, and C ou the right. The Jaegers went thist {nto action, and from tirst to last sutfered more leavily Colonel klled, being morally. certaln that the would kill them all if they surrendery wilhng enough to do_so, and then e extraondinary scene, Twenty-seven battalions of Infontry charged the enemy s u rabble, and Of course, bag- gogu and artillery were sacrified, and the divislon was utierly disorganized sud seat- The Cossacks are stlll tered over the country. pleking up the fugitives by scores, ‘The restlt of (¢ al) s that the tables are cotn- letely turned upon the Turks, Mukhtar Fashn hun azuin taken o few battalions nud retreated from Kara upon the passcs of the Soghanlu and the campaign s exactly whero lust, The collapse of the Turkish ariy fu {ront of Kars is 80 com- plete that one would be justitled in unticipating a complete aud sudden collupse of the whale ‘Turkish military system, were {t not that the now when they are beaten, and rally with ustonishing rapldity after such proven _after thar QGedlk Juno 16, One day a whole muas of men will be sees headlong to the ery, **Giaour gellor "'—the la- fidel cones; and the next day the very same men, on findte that they will rush back toward 1! 4 Gifaour korkar Y—the intidel fears, Two whole linea of guns—thres batteries forming oue line—were removed from the long ruw in the reservo park of Krup at the TuulmlmsAnwl‘ hcru.lnn d U v replace the guns cap- Five steamers loaded engerly devoured, e B0th of April Al this was borzie Fhey have fall rout at Tahir Cats wero sold for et havawhole'skins, enculy again cryjug, It cannot he de- tured nlue days azo. He, at all ovents, with fufautry left at tho same time, under com- mand, of [{ifant Pasha, who liss just returned from the lines at a ruad. toward - Erzerount, | tak Al Balla x oud by the flrst week In Nuvember Mukhtar Pusha™ will begin to receive these iresh Lroops. ‘The tioverntuent hus also urdered tue tioversior of the proviuco of Livas to_send from Eastern Asia Minor and Mesopotafa, He s given nlmost royal powers uver an fmmensy peizion, with u populstion of aboat 5,000,000, 1lis only instructions ure to sent lustuntly He must emake up the troops at all huzards, The energy shown by the Turksh Govermuent [n repalring the damugu is very ereditable, but i1 the winter does not serve us (L8 ally these elforts will be valn, Major-General sald Satarday, ** ‘Tho vame is up with us fo Asiaif it docs uot snow.” “This 48 about the truth. —— PLEVNA, OIMAN FPASIA'S POMUTION, Dispatch to Londun Fises. VienNa, Nov. 2—Iu order to dispel the un- casinces aud auxlety feit by the public in Cou- stautiuople about the .fate of Osman Pasha’s army, the otficlal assurauce is given that, during the juterval when commuuications with Sotia were open, Plevns was amply provided with everything necessary for mouths to come, aud that a1l the wosques aud public bulldings have been converted {utg storebouses, which are now quite full, In order to prove this, it is pointed corpscs_were founs most at an cnd. troops ta Erzeroutn, fugz thelr pallia fect, huplored b At length all hopo i relief from cither 8clim TPasha or Owuar Pasha bud expired, Uen, W fams recelved a note in eipher (rom the Eogliah Consul at Erzeroum, saylng: : | fear you buve no hope but in yourseives, You cun depend on 5o help o this quarter.” 1t was uscless to contend any longer against On the th of November Gen. tag of truee, tothe He was recelved with great the Husstan General, M hero congented to surrcuder ON CERTAIN CONDITIONY, oddlng, *1f you do uut grant these, every gun shall be burst, every standard burnt, aud cvery tropby destroyed; aud you may thes work your will upon « fumisbed vrowd.” A capitulation was urrunged thet was satisfactory. tles of surrender were drawa up aid executed. Oun the 27th the capitulation Russaus took poasession of the towu and the furtress. ‘The victuiious arwy cold, the cuew, the mevitable, Willisns went, under Russtan camp. ono wounded severely, and no fower than twenty-three officers and 1,838 of the rank and tlie dead, wounded, wud wilssing. Tho battle begau sbout 5iu the morning, uud lasted till 6 at nighit, when the Russiaus werein eastoy of the villago B3, aud In such a posi- before A aud C that these two mest by thls thne Lo in their banda. ‘Th splendidly, but Lave bag, et least, 4,000 killed, busides the wouuded, and some 4,000 taks certed between Turks fought Pashas, thers were to have becn sent \wo Marshat hencelf':. a‘govcms with the majority, the Bennte ma o, farded as bavingalto aban 5 ATINAL doned him. ADFORD. 8Aw Fnud:.". Nov, 10.—Tha following tel- egram referring 18 United States Vice-Consul Bradford was rezelved here to-day from Shane- hal, addressed to Consul-General Myers: Brade | ford bus been tried- for embeazlement, pleadt cuilty, has been lmprisoned, aud appeals to the President, prisoners. Prodigies of valor were also wrought by the Russlans, who were twice driven back in tiieir desperate attemot to storm the Turkizh Roslllcm!. and only succeeded an the third and inal effort at a frightful Joss. M‘ informants nceuse the Turks of twico holding out white flies of truce, and when the attacking part Rot mear, believing that the enemy fiad lald down his arme, they were received with such & murderous fire that It was afterwards impossible for the officers 10 hold Lack their men, and, conspequently, the Turks, althouah fizhting the greater part of the day troin hehind earthwaorks, fost more in kil ed’than the Russians, who were the assailants and had all the disadvantages of fightl'iz in the open. ‘The eartlhiworks in_front of B wercon a steep hill, waich took the breath out of the ftussians before they could get within rifle-range of the enciny, This position, according to the most in- telligent of iy informants, was ultimately turn- ed by a flank attack, as, T suppoce, it should have been from the first. ‘This desperate attempt to lwrm:flmll; seal up Plevaa pointa rathertoa reduction of the place by huneerthan by storm. It appears, Indeed, that the posseasion of the Bofla_roud_comletes the nvestment of the doumed towti, and, ¥t the Turks donot break out hefore the newly- 'rmlml positions are se- cured, the end cannot far off, for o large army, as we see here, requires an enormous quantity of supulies. Bupa-Pratst, Oct, 30.~The Russian bulletin announcing the taking by a budv of Guards, under (ien, Gourko, of the fortifled positiun at “Tells, clears up the contradiction between the Russinn bulletin ubout the capture of Gorny Dubntk on the 231 inst., and the telegram of Chelket Pasha stating that a Russian attack on Tells had been repulsed the same day with con- siderable lost. ‘The two poritions, both on the Hotia road, are about five miles apart, and were both held by the Turks. Gen. Gourko, crossing the Vid ot Cervaka, east of Tells, turned north- ward with bis main furce to wet possesddon of Gorny Dubnik, the more Impartant of the two ruinu. at the same thne attacking Telis, After having flrmly eatablished bimiself in Dabnik, therefore, Gen. Gourko turned on the 23th [nst to Telis, and took it by superior artillery tire, almoat witbout loss. SBULEIMAN PASIHA. WHAT NE BAYS OF TilB PIGHTING IN THE BHIIRA PA3S, Corpespandence Cincinnats Commeretal. Capi-KENT, Dct, 17.—1 was politely recelved by Bulelman Pasha, who 18 about 42 years ohl, rather strongly built, sizemedlum; good, open, snd quick look. Sulciman Is 2 man who rays yes or tio, and means what e says,—rather a searclty here. Tle speaks French fluently, and duea not shrink from speaking. For more than un-bour and a half we vonversed together, As far 08 my memory hielps e accurately, I can sum up oy follows: Sulelman, before all, scems to me very anx- fous tu decline the paternity of the six days! fizhting fu tho Ehipka Pass withall his farces, It was Ly superior order that hemade that fighting. My lmpression is that if left to him- self he would have acted differently. But how? T don't know, for he told me that he could not reach eltner Meliemet All or Osman's army for the tollowluig rensons He never had moresthan fifty battalions, mok- ine b all 25,000 men. e could not cross the Batkans without leaving his Leavy artillery and twenty battallons to Lold the pass, thus leaving only thirty battalions for confronting the Rus- slan army of Plevna, which certainly would have concentrated against Wim. According to the (ieneral’s opinfon, it was fmpossible to try such n movement before Mehemet Ali or Osmsn had vombined In somie operation ullowing his army to reach elther of thews without fncoun- teriug the Russinns. % 1 don't give my opinion, Theretore he was oblized to adopt another plan of carapafgm. Perceiving that the enemy was exceedinely careless and the country strongly broken, he employed only two or three battallons ato one thme, and In . detall repeated his attacks. Iu that way vurPr often o surprised the ¢neniy, took soma'of his works, harassed and demoral- fzed themi for throuch the nature of the grround they wever knew If they bad to fizht one or twenty battalfons. By sich a tactic be did not lose more than ten ar twelve tuen daily. As for the losses of the six days’ fighting, the GGeneral fouts up the following tfloures, cer- taiuly aceurate: 1,000 killed and 5,000 wounded ~—in all 6,60) hors de combat. Thesc are very far from those of the repor to the figares wenerally given LY correspoud- ents, I remnrk that they are abroltitely unlikely. Lvery mun having some fighting exnerience knows that the vropartion between killed_ana wouniled i3 always sbout 1tob or more. They generally put u“ the wounded neatly on the same fizure as the killed, but somctimes below. The veeneral addeds ** As the ltusstans ac- knowledge having lost 8,000 kitled,—~althouzh THE RAILWAY. ‘The Chincae are removing tue rallway, FOREIGN MISCELLANY. A DODOR THAT DIDX'T WORK. BeLriy, Nov. 10.—The Pole arrested on sus. piciun of intending to attempt the assasaination of the Emperor Wiliiam and Bismarck has been recognized as a forger whom the police had tracked from West Prussia. When arrested ha voluntarily stated that lio camo to assassinate the Emperor and Blsmarck, but as soon as he was recognized hie coufessed that his first state- nent was untrue. APPIAL RESECTED, ViExna, Nov. 19.~The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Henrv Perrean, nilas De Toursille, an English barrister, againat cap- ital sentence passed on him for murdering hils wife in the Tyrol. It Is expected that the Emperor will commute hisjsentence to lifo Im- prisoument. GERMAN LOAN, Bereay, Nov. 18.—It {s expected the Govern- ment will ask Parlfament for permisaion to con- tract & loan of 130,000,000 marks,—50,000,000 represented by the Juss on the resumption of a gold eurreney. OCEAN SIALLS. Loxboy, Nov. 10.—The Post-Office anthori- tles have arranged for three mails a week for tha United States via Queenztown, 5 GEN, GRAST. Panis, Nov, 19,—( firant will dine with Emile De Gicrardin Nov. 27, . . WEAVERS' STRIRE, Loxpox, Nov, 1h.—The weavers of two of ths Torrrest wills i Olduam, numbering 1,59, have struck aealnst a reduetion In wages, The mase tera threaten a lockout throughioue the district unless they resume, A lockout in the Oidham district would aifect nearly 10,000 operatives. THE PAPAL STCCESBION. Louxpox, Nov. 10—\ Kome corresponder states that the Councll of the Vaticnn has dee ciled that no nower con veto the Conclave's selection of a wiccessor ta the Pope, GRIMANY AND 11 Brnuiy, Nov, 20=The Vorth German fiazelte, conmmenting npon the artiele In the =t Peters. bure Gazctie recommending o Rus<o-Freoch al- Hance, «ays that such alifan e womld travstorm the present triendsiitp of Prusela and Austriy towards ltussia tuto shieer hostility, CASUALTIES. NUN OVER AND KILLED, Leciol Diwwate In The Uiean Telbnne, Pritssene, Pa., No wo track-lavers in the employ of the Pennsylvania Raitroad, numed Christian Sehubert and John Baer, wero run over by en enging at Everson Statfon this morning and natantly Gilled, their bodics betne dreadfully mutlated. It sppears they were at work on the track when anenzineon the Baltl- mure & Ohio Road passed, ictting ol steam from the escape pipe which eoucealed the approach of annther enine, whicl: knocked them down and passed over them o with the result stated. Senubert was o sinele man, but Baer leaves famsly. Both of them resided nt lMawkeys Station, g HBURNED 710 DE! 19 Svectal Jiapatoh 1o The ChIcno Lribuns, LiscoLy, Neb., Nov, 10.—Lust Jatnrday g prairle-fire camo into the property of William Parks, near Grawd Island, In - this Stae, threat cning hls house aud barn, Mrs. Farks ran to the stable to lct the horses oat, and was tiuable 10 get out untll scverely burned. She died fe twn houra. The house was also cestroyed, uné one clifld, badly hurued, 8 not expected 1o Hyes ‘The flre was set by & party camplug out. MINERS KILLED, % New Yong, Nov. 10.—George Back, o miner, and dames Johnson, his laborer, were killed fn the Diamond Mine at Scranton, Pa., by the fall of the roof. The irng of a blaat was the probe able cause of the fall. TIE * NON-EXPLOSIVE.” v. 19.—By the explosion of & kerogene can yesterday, Mr. Thomas Dorar und two children were burned to death. we did not ind but 3,000 on the fleld of botthe, B e | —umlas the wounded (taking the normal tro- CREMATION. portion) could not be Jess than 20,000, it ls obout {,0) hors de combat on thelr side; s0 the bulanco Is in our favar. Bestdes, we occupy all the commanding positions, and they cannut maore without meeting immediately our fire, At night only, and ut ereat danger, can they come- municate’ with (ubravo aud revictual them- selves; but fuel and water they have not. Thus 1he operatlon fs concluding fu our favor,"” Sulelman Pashn, ke the other (ienerals, camps with his troops. i tent is grecn, and his furniture consists of & camp b, two stools, two carpets, and o brazer, The lust 13 the only distinction of remurk with bis brother Gener- ats, Ahole In the pround s thelr chimney. When one compares that slmplicity with the Russtan satraple fashion, a good muny things can be explained, FRANCE, | TUE ELECTION INQUIRY. VERSAILLES, Nov. 10,=In the Benato this af- ternoon, Arago, in the name of the Left, moved the previous question in regard 1o An- drean do Kerdrel's interpellation, as to how the Ministers have tustructed officlals to act with re- eanl to the clectoral inquiry, voted by the Chamber of Deputies, on the ground that it 1s unconstitutional and an encroachment upon the rights of thy Chuwaber of Deputles, Ara- ga's motlon was rejected, 155 t0180. Do Ker drel then began an address on bis interpella- tion, M. Do Kerdrel, ou introducing his futerpelia- tlon In the Senute to-day, admitted tho right of the Deputles to orderan Juquiry futo the elec- tlons, but safd be wished to preveot luquiry from eucrvaching upon the prerogatives of the executive or judivature. The Duke de Broglie replied that the pro- posed Inquiry constituted such encroachment, aud would wot be hupartlal, and, belng a Parlia- mentary and not a judiclal inquiry, citizens were not bound to answer the questions of the Inves- theatiug Committee, The fnstructions which the Guvernment lad glven on the cve of quite ting oftice weru that functloosries must act in regurd to this inquiry as ordered by thelr superlors. 5. Laboulaye urged that she Government ought to Invite functionaries to give evidence before the Commission, as tho Deputies had the right to hmpeach tha Mivlstry, ‘They also ueces- sarlly bad the right to makea )udh{nl {nqulry. o urged the Scnato to adupt & concilistory at- titude, snd polnted to its respousibility as {mmeuse. JONOLRS TIIE WHOLE ArFAIR. The Duke d* Audilfrat Pasquier then read the order of the day proposed by the Right, viz. : That the Senate, takfug cogulzance of the dec- laratlons of the Government, and betu solved, In acvordance with the couser principles which it baa always sustaloed, u suifer any fufringement of the prerogatives of cixthfir :;x it public powers, passes Lo the order of te day, M. Dutuure deprecated su attempt to stir up & cuntlict with the Deputies by means of this order of the dav. Despite M. Daluure’s appesl an sttempt of the Left to shelvo the discussion by proposiug the urder of the day pure sod simple wus de- feated by a vote of 153 to 136, sud th order of the day proposed by the Right was pussed by & yule of 151 yeas to 120 nays. CONCLUSION. A Paris correspoudent says theanuouncement “This Procedure the Itesult of 8 Compromiue Between Jews o Ihristizna. Spselal Disnalch 10 he Chicars Trihune, NeWw Yorx, Noy. 10.—An extraordinary case of cremation 1sreported. The infant son of Julius Kirchier, owner of u pafot factory, died on the 11th inst,, aged 8 duys. The time wos fixed for thu fuuersl, ond an uader- taker eecured. Then a quarrel arose o to wherc the budy should be buried. Kircher 1s a Lutheran, whille his wife 1s a Jew. Her relatives made such o timo that he dechled tosettle the inatter by burninz the remains, Bo he sent the cofin back to the undertaker, wrapped up the body, aud carrled {8 to the face tory, where he bnd furnaces which he says uro nrly fitted for eremation. He put the n o un fron box, and left tha box in the furnsce: till the wrocess was thuroughly performed, Mra. Kircher, who ¢l not object to this treatment, says that nelther her husband nor berself had uny Llew that he was dolug wrongz, bat her husband bes Jieved he had o perfest right 1o erentte the body of u relative tf hie saw e, uml that jo was a3 fawful for him to crematu thu reniding us tu hmve them bugied, Tiv: Board of Healthhas vo ondinauea prohibiting crvnuation, and thewr actlon in thu matter I awalted with futereat. e — THE WEATHER. Wasmxaroy, I C.,, Nov. 20—1 o, m,—For the Upper Lake reglon, Upper Misslssivp! and Lower Missourd Vallevs, falliug baroweter, lo- creasing casterly to southerly winds, warmer, partly’ cloudy or cloudy wuatber, and possibly oceasiunal raus, 433 minlmum, 31 GANEBRAL OBIENVATION Culcauy, Nov. e e e e OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, QuezysTowX, Nov, 19.—Steamships City of Ricbmoud and Celtle, from Now York, and Polyuestan, from Moutreal, have arrived. BrisToL, Nov. 19.—~Tne Greut Western Live steawner Bomerset, beace Nov. 7 for New York, Lias roturncd, baving lost her propeller. Nuw Youx, Nov, 19.—Arrived—S llel\l‘fl‘l.n wud Baltie, from Liverpoot; EJ. 1 o 1000, Nov. 19.—Steamsbips Colombo and “Caltforuls, from New York, have arrived, . QuEeNsTUWN, Nov. 10.—Steswship lndians, teamers ysls from of the result of the vote {uthe Sevate yester- | troi Phifadelphis, bas arcived. duy wes cheered Ly tho Left. Figurcs show ¥ that the Sepate has virtually sbandoped the OBITUARY. Cabinet a3 excluding the Sve votes cmtributed by the Minlsters themselves. The Cabluet cous wands lesd thau hali the Benste. Tae corre- svondeut regards thls %s & sigu that, unless the 8a% FraNcisco, Nov, 18.—Capt. Fraok Mun- Fue, of the United States Marine Corpy, dded ut Mare Island, Saturday ught, of apoplezy. PSR,