Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-10-16
EVENING STAR.
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WHAT A BIDS AMONG TIE pFAD An,
NOCNDhD sERNIANs RENEAIrn

WHAT A BIDS AMONG TIE DEAD AND
Wounded sERvfASs REVEALED.
me correspondent OF the London stand
aTu, who 10 with the Turkish star styrs a
oeecrfption OF the Operations against A ,sxt
DALE IN describing The field afIer ono Of fhs
ssx S engneements he says; Col Menmed
ana were ne nrst, aud until now the o.ly
ones. who have penetrated beyond the nav
stack on which the zeloeck Keeps watch: a.
every ssp We expected 70 be received by
found dead enemies. First We saw a GENE
terry half hidden by old lime trees the eravs.
OF which had been opened. asd skeletons and
putrefytng corpses lay strewn about no
Turk bad reached this point, 90 this dssola
ton and roboing had been the WORK OF Ser.
visns, probably marauders. A huudred
steps further on We came upon . mum osr of
Servian corpses, most OF them In that early
stage Of decomposition when she body swelis
TO an enormous size. Some. however, could
their .bodies were still warm aud unstifrsued
We bad not dreamed what havoc our two
batteries and the cavalry ATTACK had male
on Friday. The defeat OF the servisns must
pave beer much more severe than We i'm As-
lned, as the enemy had left his dead and
FOUNDED behind, close TO the rivers bank
Ihe ponr Wounded what terrible agony they
must pave endured, lying among corpses,
and deprived of all Consolation and nelp
BOW many groans and signs must have
hassea me quivSriog lips aud been lost ia
me empty air Near an adjutant lay two
photographs which must nave slippet
nom his dying hand; one represented
the tad man, but In the uniform OF a
RussisD msjOr or colonel. and the other a
yOupg woman with fair tresses a proni-
rent nose and light colored eyes. Tue ph1-
togrsphs had been taken In MOSCOW; on the
back of the mans stood in pencil Nicolay
karrof. i knew not In what rea tion the
woman stood 10 the officer; but whether
wife, sister or betrothed, it 10 certain his
last thoughts were OF her. Not far from him
lay another officer, his right hand pressed
on bis breast, where the splinter OF a shell
bad hit him, and grasping q piece OF paper.
strong man, he appeared TO have strug-
eled long with death; his face, which mad
The unmistakeable Russian type, being dis
torted from pain. Ii was with difficuIty
that the paper was removed from his hand.
II was letter, without any date, In cyrillic
writing, and evidently from q child's hand.
Col. Mehm0d, who was once in the Russian
service, The Ia Circassian from Dagnestan,
subjected by Russia more than nfty years
ago, and understands Russisn,l translated
the letter into Turkish, And then one OF our
cossacks, Pole, who had been brought 40
In France, gave me the contents In French,
as follows:
"Derea Faher:-Be good enough, dearest
father. 70 come back from the war. Since
You have been away mother weeps continu-
ally, and she dreams every night that thou
father. for mother has become Do pale and
is always crying. am very goo |, so that
she may not cry still more, and when thou
contest back will remain good, aud never be
naughty again. But thou must CO ne soon,
rather, and must kiss mother that she may
become red again, and also kiss thy little
/ do not know whether II was the letter,
which the dying father probably read again
and again, but IL IL fact, seemed TO lose
all courage, and even on the defiant count e-
nance OF the colonel shadow lay.