Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-09
PRESENT CONDITION OF AFFAIRS.

PRESENT CONDITION OF AFFAIRS.
LONDON, September "A dispatch
to the Daily NeaOs, dated D .ligrad, Sep
tember 4!h, says: "Alexinatz is held
by fifteen thousand Servians, with ten
batteries. The Turkish main army is
divided into two bodies, one is cooper
atipg with General Hsravotich who Is
on Turkish territory in front Of Gram
ma and threatens the Turkish camps at
Nisch. The other is engaged in O move
ment in MOkotava and KIasura Pass
and over to KTuseratz, its object being
t. enter Moravia valley below Dsligrad.
The Turkish attack OF fSeptember 1st, on
AleXinatz, wss strategetic stroke to di-
vert Tchernayeff's attention from the
latter movement, but Tchernayeff saw
through it, and leaving very
he withdrew the main body
of his army in the direction of Kruse-
vatz and YankOva pass to meet the
Turkish turning movement, and there
the next fight will take place. The
Servian position is precarions, but the
exact situation of affairs is unknown.
Correspondents of the Times and Daily
NeaOS confirm the reports of ouirages
Servians by the Circassians and Basha
Bazouks. The 7imes'S CORRESPONDENT
says when The Turks reach Krusevaiz
the situation of affairs will be dePlorable.
The enemy will then command four
roads, Leading to every part of Strvia.
AS the Turks now in the field number
one hundred and fifty thousand, the
| country could be Overrun in few days.
AUSTRIA CANNOT INTERFERE.
LONDON, September S.-A telegram
from st. Petersburg says, in consequence
Of the Ieproaches cast upon the Austrian
government for not preventing the Rus.
sian people from espousing the cause OF
the co-religioDists connected with them
by race, it is semi-officially stated that
that government, after mature deliber-
alton, has decided that it cannot inter-
fere.
THE SITUATION MORE COMPLICATED.
LONDON, September S-A dispatch to
the Daily Neto8 from Dsligrad, says the
war drSgs slowly and undecisively, and
! the situation becomes more complicated
| A little stream in the Jsstlebraz range,
and flowing ct right angles to Morava,
enters that river nearly opposite Deli.
grad. A force gaining the valley Of this
stream can take the DsIigrsd position in
the flank, and would find open road to
Krusevatz and the interior Of Servia
and also to the valley of Morava behind
the Servian positions. 1t is easy to see
the Importance of this small valley. A
strong Turkish force occupies the Jaste'
broz hills with the object to gain the
stream mentioned, go as to Outfiauk the
| SerVians at Daligrad. General Tcher-
nayef 1s straining every nerve tC
defeat their purpose. His weakest pOint
is at the village of Djunis, where there
is break in the nights now fortified
by the Servians, the capture OF which il
necessary to success. Tchernayeff'i
strongest Notifications are here. The
Turks have advanced and been re-
pulsed several times.
A dispatch to the same journal, from
Belgrade, reports two hundred aDC
twenty Russian private soldiers arrived
there Thursday. Their advent is con
sidered significant, as all Of the Russians
who have previously come to enter tn,
Servisn army have been officers or Red
cross men. Orders have been ISSUED
that any Servian who mutilates himsel
to avoid military duty shal
be punished with death or i'm
prisonment. The Padgori'zs forc'
extended for the relief of MEDIUM, form
ing the Turkish right wing, were with
drawn yesterday, and their positions
we're Immediately occupied by the Ser
vians.
A special to the Times, from Vienna
says that what the resolution was tina
was adopted by tha cabinet council a
Constsntin 0ple Wednesday, is no
known positively, but it is certain tina
the proposal Of an armistice only wa
not accepted, and that the conditions o
, peaee We re formulated,