The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-11-23
A Ride Among the Dead and Wounded Ser
yianS.

The correspondent of the London
Standard who is with the Turkish staff,
gives description of the operations
against AlexinatZ. In describing the
field after onaQf the several engage
ments he say
Col. Mehmed and were the first and
until now the only ones, who have pen
etrated beyond the haystack Oh which
the Zeibeck keeps watch we expected
to be received by some shots. but in
stead Of armed foes we found dead EN-
emies. First we saw cemetry half
hidden by old lime trees, the graves OF
which had been opened. and skeletons
and purifying corpses lay streWn
about. No Turk had reached this
point. SO this desolation and rObblng
| had been the work of Servians. prob
ably of maruders. A hundred steps fur
Their on we came upon a number OF
Servian corpses, most of them in that
early state of decomposition when the
body swells to an enormous size. Some
of them, however. could have only
been dead for short time, for their
bodies were still warm and unstiffened.
We had not dreampt what havoc our
two batteries and the cavalry attack
had made on Friday. The defeat of
the Servians must have been much
more severe than we imagined. as the
enemy had left his dead and wounded
behind, close to the river s bank. The
poor wounded! what terrible agony
they must have endured, lying among
corpses. and deprived of all consola.
ton and help. How many grOans and
signs must have passed the quiverine
lips and been lost i'll the empty air
Near an adjunct lay two photographs
which must have slipped from his dy
ing hand one represented the deac
man. but in the uniform of Russian
major or colonel, and the other a young
woman with fair tresses. \ prominent
!. nose and light-colored eyes. The pho
tograps were taken in Moscow on thu
back of the man s stood in pencil. Nj
, coly karrotf. | knew not in what re
lation the woman stood to the officer
| but whether wife, sister or betrothed
, it is certain his last thoughts were o
I her. Not far from him lay anothe
i officer, his right hand pressed on hi
breast. where the splinter of shel
r had struck him. and grasping a piec
Of paper. X strong man. he appeare'
/ to have struggled long with death. hi
!. face, which had the unmistakable Rus
. sian tyne. being distorted with pain
1t was with difficulty that the pape
i was removed from his hand. 1t wa
!. a letter without any date. in cryili
r writing. and evidently from a child
4 hand. Col. Mehmed. who was once i
4 the Russian service the is Il Circassia
). from Daghestan. subjected by Russi
d more than fifty years ago. and under
stands Russian). translated the lette
into Turkish and then one of our co.
:, sacks. Il Pole. who had been brougf
up in France gave me the contents
French. rs follows:
- DEAREST FArHER-Be good enough. deare
father. to come back from the war. Since yo
p have been away mother weers continual
IS and she dreams every night that thou liest Ill
II der . tree. Come TO us, dear father, tor mott
er has become SO yale, and is always erwin
| am yerv good So :ha; she NAV not cry 81
IT more and when thou CONTEST back will r
il main good, and never be naughty again b
!, thou must come soon. .;her, and kiss moth
:, that she may become red again and also Iii
- thy little Minka.
y do not know whether it was Il
' letter. which the dying man probab
? read again and again. but it is fact.
= seemed 70 loose all courage. and eve
:. on the defiant countenance of the col
mel lay Il shadow.