Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-05-05
Scene near KuIaIat.

KuIaIHt.
A CORES pondent of the London News, speaking of
late Russian attack upon KaIafat, says that the
affair caused the lnhaants of Il neighboring village,
Tschapertsm to quit their homes and seek refuge on
the other side of the Danube. He adds:
For time past they have been subjected to
frequent and harrassing aarmsI Ihave had their houses
occupied now by the Turks and now by the Russians
and knew not the hour when bloody conflict m ght
take place at their doors. During the last days
nearly two hundred families have passed through
Kaaat, across the bridge Of boats and INTO the Is
land, TO wait there for boats to transport them to
Widdin. They carry with them all their household
goods packed in bullock carts-potS, pans, being
bedding Indian corn, gourds in one huge heteroge-
neous They have formed an encampment
close 10 the bank of the river, and waiting pa
tiently for passage which sorry to add, fear
they will not get IN haste, all the boats available
in this quarter IN constant requiston for the
rage OF wood and forage and the conveyance of the
sick to hospitals
paid visit to the spot my way TO Widden
both yesterday and the day before, and must say it
would be hard to witness more pitiablc mplif-
cation of the horrors of this Exposed without
cloak, covering any other means Of warmth, be-
yond scraps of sheepskin, and in the majority of
not even that-to the biting blasts of wind,
which we dare hardly present above our
mufhes-were groups of women, many of them with
infants al their breasts and young children, crouch
ing the bare ground to the eeward Of the bullock
wagons, shivering at every Joint, and gazing with
vacant air of desparng suffering the rude but Wig
orous efforts of the men to temporary
means of shelter
Towards evening on the first day Of their arrival
in the island they had managed to screen themselves
from the wind by forming tents Of their bedclothes
or erecting barriers of reeds or Indian corn straw
and lighted fire on the shctry side. When passed
that way yesterday each family had settled itself
down with greater or less degree Of mitigation in
their misery and aspace measuring perhaps 200 or
800 yards square. presented very fair picture Of
gipsey camp large scale-chdren screaming
dogs barking, the woman scolding and shouting with
shril, sharp voices, and the men cutting brushwOod
and thrashng the bullOcks into locomotIon and over
all cloud of smoke floating away on the wind TO.
wards the rude homes the further shore which, in
all probability they will more behold. To-
day tie snow is falling rapidly, and the wind high
aS ever, and believe they still in the same state
the necessities Of The army at Kalaat prevented
the Pacha, let him be well disposed, from
sen!ing boas 10 transport Them TO the Turkish side
inasmucb as the occupation OF all the villages by the
Russians Oblges the Turks 10 draw all their forage
and provisions from " ddin
nea. ITO give you an ea," says a private letter
in The London Times, 'of the Of Spain and It's
people, may mention incident which took LIace
on the Both, while the guard mounting before
the palace of the Queen Mother a cart happened
to be passing before the house Of the British Embas-
sador, which is 10 that of the Queen, and the
leading mule very naturally was going straight on
| the driver being beknd, when he was stopped by a
buger. who thrust q bayonet into the animals nose
The driver who had been stopped by person speak
! ing to him. up at once, and without making the
slightest resistance, and while in the act of turning
the into The Plaza behind the guard young
ofhcer-one Of that unfedged class known in Spain
as ofci1t1toS-harpy, as most people OF the kind are
to wet their swords with the blood of their country
men, walked up 10 the driver Of the cart and cut
him the head woundng him severely in the lem
pie. The English Minister, Lord Howden, who hap
pened to be looking the guard mounting, probably
from Old military sourenirs Immediately descended
to the street. humanely took the wounded man.
bleeding profuseIy as he was, into his house, and
then sent him with secretary TO the Captain Gen
eral, stating that he ready TO give his evidence
if called upon. as his Lordship witnessed the whole
of the brutal and unprovoked outrage. and that if
the driver was not taken care of by the Spanish
Government he (LOrd iowden) would himself take
care of him.
/ WoMEN's RIGHTs.-Two thousand ladies at least
! attended the Naru or,