, 1877-09-19
QUITE ANOTHER THING.
Probable Facts Regarding
Recent Operations in
Bulgaria.
Tho Turks Said to Have Lost
$4,000 Men In and Around
plevna.
New and Heavy Batteries
Turned upon the City by
the R1ssians.
No Truth in the Report Of
tue Capture Of Fort St,
Nicholas.
ThisIs Acknowledged by TEL
cgran1s from Turkish
Sources.
4 Sudden Attack, Made upon
the Russian Works in
the Pass.
And The Turks Are Repu|std Along The
}ihole Linz With Great
Slaughter.
Reports Of Serious Fighting
Around Biela on Mon
day Last.
Synopsis Of President MacMahon's
Manifesto to the French
Electors.
The French Prince Imperial Watchtng
aud Waiting on tic Belgian
Border.
PLEVNA. AND 6Cn1PKA.
Synopsis Of President MacMahon's
Manifesto to the French
Electors.
The French Prince Imperial Watchtng
mud Waiting on tic Belgian
Border.
pLEVNA. AND 6CuIPKA.
NO USELESS SLAUGHTER AT TEE FoasIEa PLACE
THIS WEEK.


THIS WEKK.
(By Cable to The CHICAGO Tribunal
LONDON OFFICE or The Cn1cAoo TRIBUNE,
PA1onAvE ILAcz, STRAND, Sept. 19-a. nj.
Tho artillery IF tho Grand Duke Nicholas
still continues to lombard tho Ottoman In
trcnchmonts that bristle aronnd P!evna, and
tito new battories erected BY tie commander
Of tile army are said TO canss considerable
loss to tie garrisons. In tie fighting Inst
week tho Turks nre said to have
lost $1,000 men, whils tile total
loss Of the russiana Is placed at
1900. That the ammunition Of 0amqn
Pasha is falling, is very probable, for tho
soldiers hnvo not spared bnllota. The drnin
upon it since tho It'll must Anve been enor-
nous. anl no conveys with fresh supplies
have arrived. Tho First brigade Of tile 1m-
pcnal Guard has arrived ut tho I'm
porial headquarters ut Qorny-Stulen.
It is reported, too, that tho various
columns Of Tho Guard and Second Corps are
pressing onward with hurried marches
through noumania, but It il not known
whether these troops arc accompanied by
their necessary trains, and are 1t 1t once to
enter upon tho campaign. or are merely In
stato which allows them to move In friendly
aud fruitful country.
on TIE oTHrR HAND,
the notorious Chevket Pasba, who has, ac-
cording to one account, assumed command
Of the troops collected at Orchanie, on the
road between Sofia aud plevna. aud sixty
miles from the litter place, is marching for
ward to tho relief Of Os1nan paaha. Whether
tho aid Of these newly.raised and hastily
organized lavies will be Of any avail, remains
to DO seen.
The latest information tells that the per-
verse strategy OF Buleiman PaAba has again
been foiled without achieving any other re-
suit than causing considerable slaughter,
The telegram from Constantinopie, which re.
ported the capture Of Fort st. Nicholas Sun.
day morning, is found premature, a. the
hussian position was not evcn assaulted that
day. On Monday, After the fort had
becn exposed Ave days to bombardmsnt, in
which vertical are wa freely employed
both day and night, the Turks made sud
den attack On the work, and surprised It.
Tho assailants gained possession Of the fort
after soven hours Of bloody fighting. and
captured ave guns, but they did not
long retain either work Or trophies,
for later in the night large reintorcemsnts
were received by the Russians, and the
Turks were forced to relinquish their oou-
quest. Retreats, for st1ategical reasons,
have not infrequently In tho history Of war
been found TO pre4age disaster to TIA army
that made them, though such may not be
the fortune in store for the Turkish Imperial
Guard and Arabian troops that assailsd the
Russian inssenohment on the summit Of tbs
Balkana. II IL clear that,
CLOSE UPON Nlps1oaT OF MostpA1,
suleiman Pssha had been baAled In his ven
ture. His troops and thoss Of Raaetzky
again xtood face to faco iu practically The
sauna positions that they have occupied since
the beginning Of this month. the strength
Of neither side has. however, been unin-
paired by the fighting.
On the l7th, Gen. Radetxky, In his dis
patch which reports the incidents Of tho day,
the loss Of nineteen officers
Aud 500 men. II the Muacovits battalious,
sheltered behind their sazthxorks, suffered