The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-07-17
THE RUSSIAN GARRISON AT BAYAzID..

In ST. PETERSBURG, July 16.--An official dis
patch from the army of the Caucasus an.
4 nouneed that the, Russian garrison at, Baya-
| lid consisted ON June 18th Of 4 f-officers,
| 2e officers, and / ,5S men; OF these staff
| officers and III men were killed, and Iioffi-
| cers and 359 men wounded during the siege.
Tie remain der were much weakened by
\ prigatiops, and will require great care be.
1 fore they can recover; The garrison lived
4 on horse flesh toward the end Of the siege.
TURKISH Troops Being SENT TO ADR1ASopLE.
II GspeN, July h6..SA Reuter- dispatch
from Constant dpie dated to-day 4 says:
| rEAH available troops. are being dispatched
| to hAdrianopie. One hundred Bulgarians
| have been brought here. They will be tried
by a military tribunal for high-treason. The
| first detachment of Suleiman Pasha's army
is EXPECTED ut Nos onpThursday." >z',s
An ;Erzeroum telegram an aounces that
| the Turks have seized a Persian caravan
conveying provisions to the Russians
i',Ismael Pasha has requested supplies from
ErZeroun, the resources OF the district OF
Bayazid being exhausted. ~ :: -
= * special dispatch from Erzerounl to the
| Daiiv Telegraph says: " Provisions for IS
mail Pasha's corps have left here" =
-; ADVANCES GUARD OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY. =,
T.PETERsBURG, July 1G.-It is officially
announced that the advance guard OF the
| Russian army passed the Balkans on the
evening of tho l3thinstant without firing q
shot. General Gonrko,a ON the afternoon
| ofs the l4th Instant, surprised 5000 Nisans,
who fled toward, the village ofTTKanari.
The Russians lost one killed and five
| wounded. =: - ---'--.----l----r
Nots.AThs isthe. edition! referred to
by the Daily Ne1ns'S correspondent in
dispatch previously telegraphed to TIE
United States. Kanari, is fifteen miles north.
west of Zeni Soghra, at the southern de.
bauchment OF difficult and unfrequented
| road known as the Twarditza Pass. o
TIE TIMES on THE WAR SITUATION.
LONDON, July 1e.-The Times, in its
| leading article, says: It.would not be sur.
| Drisfns IL the main body OF the army should
! not attempt to cross the Balkans until Rust
chuk be brought at least to the verge .oi
| submission. With that great fortress anC
the railway. toi Yafnali IN their hands, tbein.
/ yaiers might venture to do mich which Il
| would be worse than rash to attempt now:
or is it an nswer!t to these calculations that
the ,Cossacks have already penetrated tai
into the country ?pr2. aHsfs t,s 5-tt.L i,ttf
Our Geographic intelligence from Pora
contains the surprising report that a body
| of, those swift horsemen have crossed the
Balkans and gone as far south as the rail-
way station between Yambati end Adriano
ple: but such an expedition can only have
| heenr made for the purpose OF ascertaininf
the practical difficulties Of crossing the
Balkans, and the Cossacks may withdraw
as quickly as they came. twill be impos
sible to measure the progressive powers o.
the Russians until they have laid siege te
Rustchuk and fought great battle for pos.
session Of the line Of. yarna, i ,.
The Times, referring 10 the reported
death OF, iYakoob Kahn, says he. was. the
chief rival Of Russia in Central Asia. s4.4 /