New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-19

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to have some fun in the war, has been in
terviewed by . reporter of the Buffalo Con.
rier, and from the interesting recital of biz
adventures We extract the following:
The first fight our American got into va.
March 18, near Presicka, about P. N. The
insurgents attacked the Turks and fought
them two hours, retiring with three killed
and seven wounded, after the Turks had
loot ffty-three of their number and retreat
ed. The next morning at daylight, at
Krstac, the same body of insurgents at
tackled the Turks and killed twenty of them
after crawling up the hill to where the
Turks were intrenched, on the ground at
full length. The picture of this attack
which appeared in the London illustrated
excellent one. From April l until April Il
q truce was srranged, when twenty-one OF
the Herzegovinan chiefs went down to
Sutorina to meet Baron Rodich, the Aus
trian minister, who wanted them to accede
to the Andrassy note. He made his PROPOSE
ton to them, and reminded them that if
they acceded not, the $4,000 Herzegovinan
refugees then being fed by Austria would
be sent home. The chiefs took day "to
consider"
That night q dispatch was written and
COAU Ala LILO VXO00uC0 VI UXI 00OTS0 u LILO
Russian Prime Minister GOrtschakOtf, in.
forming him of the proposition and de-
mands of Rodich. While the thing was
being considered BY the chiefs, q Russian
consul saw that each of them was provided
with handsome sum of money and q gold
watch and chain. Further, Gortschakoff
sent them word not to accede to Rodich's
proposition in any particular; that Russia
would back them if worst came to worst,
feed their refugees and all. When the
chiefs next again met Rodich and gave him
was worthy-very. Little did he think of
what prompted the bold front of the Her.
zegovinan Chiefs"
On the thirteenth of April the Turks,
$4,000 strong, in twenty-three battalons,
started from Gaschka on the "war path"
There were three divisions of Herzegovina
ans in Dugs Pass, and among them q
fighter from Denison, Texas. The right
wing was commanded by Peo Pavolich, the
left wing by ZimOnich, the centre by Laza
Sochita. The left wing was sent to meet
tenth instant big battle was fought
The two divisions remaining of the Herze-
goyinans we're massed on q crescent.
shaped prominence Of the mountain, up the
sides of which the Turks endeavored to
swarm. An effort was also made by flank
ing. to turn the wings of the insurgents
and thus maneuvering continued all night,
all day the fifteenth, on the night of the tif.
teenth, and into Sunday, Easter Sunday,
the sixteenth of April. At one o'clock Sun
day morning the insurgents' ammunition
gave out, and to heighten the impending
disaster the pickets brought word that the
Turkish garrison at Nikish was coming to
reinforce their opponents.
Sochita, quick of thought and action, i'm
mediately detailed $50 men to march and
intercept the garrison from Nikish, and
with their Ytaghans Ia sharp weapon. q
sort of q cross between q sword and a
bowie knife), charged them for victory, and
that alone. Meanwhile the brave chief,
with force OF 5000 men, charged $4,000
Turks, putting them to rout and leaving 800
of their heads upon the field, and this when
the insurgents were armed simply with
Ytaghsns, while the Turks had breech-
loading rifles and plenty of ammunition.
About two O'Clock ON Monday our Young
American abroad took two men with him
and started off to recOnnOitre the Turkish
position, in q camp near Krstac. He wan
dered about the outskirts of the camp,
taking Obse rvations until near eleven o'clock.
About midnight a storm. accompanied by
thunder and lightning, SO confused him and
his companions that they lost their way;
ouOOc0ly y A6ou VI AkAtAluS uAoOos "a GU
him in the middle of q Turkish regiment.
The party were "taken in out OF the vet
made prisoners without resisting; but Mr..
George protested that the two men were
his guards, and that he was an American
newspaper correspondent; in fact, he said,
he had been looking for the camp when the
flash of lightning showed him in the midst
of it. This availed him little, however,
though he says he never saw two more
faithful, silent-mouthed fellows than his
unfortunate attendants. The next morn
ing the party were subjected to a burlesque
trial and sentenced to be shot on Wednes-
day morning, April l9, at eight o'clock. An
interview was granted the prisoner. "who
said he was an American by Mouktar
Pasha. Mr.. George had a letter in his
pocket which he received from London
banker with reference to sending funds to
Sochita. the chief; fortunately no reference
was made in the letter to any person but
the one to whom it was addressed. The
Pasha tore off Mr.. Georges name from
under the writer's signature, and handing
the letter back, said he would investigate
that letter and in the meantime grant re-
prieve. Mr.. George knew an investiga-
ton would show him to be one OF the in
surgents. when no power on earth could
save him.
In the interim, however, he had written a
letter to the young lady in Texas with
whom he had hoped some time to link his
fortune, apprising her of his probable death
in few hours. The letter was mailed by
Greek priest who performed the last sad
rites of his church for the two companions
of Mr.. George. That letter was received as
directed, and the writer was mourned as
dead for some time; an obituary notice
Especial dispatch from Galveston, Texas), &C.
tually appeared in the New York Sua since
the receipt of the letter on which it WAS OF
course based. Well. Mr. George struck up
an acquaintance with a young Frenchman
who was serving as lieutenant in the Turk
ish army, and to whom he unbos0med him.
self, as the Frenchy afterward said, "in
true American open hearted STYLE" Upon
giving his word of honor never to engage in
warfare against Turkey to the young lieu
tenant, that gentleman agreed to help our
countrymau escape, which he did by brib.
ing the guards to let him dash off into the
mountains, which little performance Mr..
George was not slow to execute.
Soon he found himself on Austrian terri
tory, where he was arrested by the mill
tary; his passport secured him his liberty
once more, and then he was 300 miles from
Trieste, and without cent in his pocket.
A set of shirt studs, for which he gave S47
in New Orleans, he sold for six forms, or
0UOut %, duO with Vulo AOACy Al Aio PoChOs
he started for Trieste on foot, which place
he reached after thirteen days hard travel
ing.
Once in Trieste, he made the best of his
way to Vienna, Ostend and over the Rhine
railway route to Calais, Dover, London and
Liverpool. There he embarked on the
Russia, from which steamer he landed in
New York.
Death of Philip Winfree.
After long and painful prOstration from
that most implacable of diseases. consump
ton, Mr.. Philip Winfree died Wednesday
morning at the age Of ffty-three, and was
buried in the Episcopal cemetery Thurs.