New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-14


RAPINE AND PLUNDRR II AENFNGA.
WAsmNG1oN. Aug. 13.-Ihe Turkish Legation
has received the following circular dispatches dated
July % and 24, from the Minister for Foreign
Affairs at Consiantinople;
MUEHTAB TAsHAs GRIEVANCES
"AtelcTam rom Mukhtar Pssha, COMMENCEMENT
tho army Asia, dated the 10Th ns informs us OF
the following fact: After eh hch took place near
Mount Semyas in tile vicinity ~ kS-, our troops were
obliged 10 leave upon the field few dead and wounded
The next day in conformity with the rules and military
usages liaia Pasha. C5inmandaut OF klrs, srnt ans
aiddecamp Osman Eucud 10 the Rrss1n chtpnss
To claim our dead aud wounded, bEt n0iwith-
standing the flag of tcc witch preceded Osman lheud
the preceded hiu, they were received WIN
a yoliey Of muskctry. Iheil signals t. indicate ineir
character which were sufficiently shown 10y tie Whltc
flag were totally diStecdrded The I1s-lahs c"htbHeh
TO irc and Osman Encndi received w9an" sic vi'
titled in nquirinc whether tic Russians nave und rh'
10 violate after another lac uS~tes Vi W.T. ar wen
telegr,n from MuKhtar easha TO the Minister o! Var
gives the Toll, wlsg sad account me enemy ON
from the cautOns OF ChOuralu ana ZHouc;"i uc
mGgs srogs and Limitations aud len the population
i'm .h. most terrible state of dcSjitution without
means of subsistence or shelter Tue RUSSIAN troops
carn"d Of as prisoners to AicNandTooi We VIZ Hna
children NOussOuf Bcy, the kuinaian OF Choui0u]al'
the daughters OF the Kaimakam of ZirOuchai These
prisoners after having suffered every Outrage are now
being taken TO is"
OUTRAGFs ~ BULGARIA.
1.-THE Governor General ofthe Danube telegraphs from
Rnstcluk that last SUNDAY and Bulgaraus
massacred all the inhabitants of the village Of lcn4eu'
situated eight hours from Osman Bazr with Tie e1cep
ton of three women ana two men. At tho village OF
KOHL niue hours from the town, they put ave per
sOus to death.
4 telegram from the Governor of Tiruova, addressed
to His hucss the Grand Vizor, confirms all the pre-
vous reports Of the acts Of barary committed by the
Russians and Bugaraus the time OF the occupation OF
Tiruoya aud the ncighboring villages aud more esIe-
ciIy that % the burning oi mosque, IN Wulch the III
htbliauis of CIan>kem had taken refuge, and IN when
they were burnt alive. lie adds thai tne Russians con-
pei Mu,sumau prisoners under pam Of death, to ne oh
tac Ottoman loops who come 10 tncir nd. -
Tao Muslr suieynan Pssha tceEraPHs to the Minister
lagc If sOuk0ulou, near Esn oasbra, who made thcr
submission 10 tine husslIs, seven we're killed DN ie
Cossacks. We have ascrrttucd exactly as possible
tue number o. dwellings burned, ana OF Mussuiuiais
laccs W4ch have up to the present suffered most rom
the invasion of the enemy, and herewith transmit to
J. Al BaaL an exclusively Mussulman village Of The
district o SstJyd-lousc., 100; inh4hanls-n,n. ZOO
women, 300 Io.al number OF victims oVV' seven Oh
tac victims said to have survived
.. AT EaloVan, Nus,unan village OF ne district OF
1,2J0; u ALL 1890 one person only Is "ehe'ed 10 nave
3. Al q 'raiounas Houses, 100; men, 900; women,
500: victims. 800 Two persons escaped death
A. Al Kcstmboi-Hou,es. 100; men, 800; women, COO;
g. Al Cucms q mixed villaEe-hussulman houses. 60;
me- 100; women, 200; victims $50 On" person alone
e. At Tuneia, a mixed y.l1ge-Ilousas l0G; nl'ar-
tauts-mcu 30; women, 400. Victims, OJo. There
we're tArce survivors,
the following Us the number Of houses burned IN the
agcs which deserted By ther lnhanants before
tae ARRIVAL of the enemy -IrinCh HCInr 10: Lcrdn,
$50; Odaar, 1-O AmoudOuk 50; Bourouch, 100;
Koiiina, 20; OkdUler 300 Total number 81 houses
burned, 500 &c.,. .
1t is further reported that the MusSuluan Inhabitants
of forty fifty mixed villages, cach containing al iras
100 houses rendered their submission 10 the RusSlus
but their fac is unknown. You Will agree vita US tlat
tlcse fr,ghtu statistics form tie most overwhelming
evidence Of the pltiicss cruelty of Russian policy.
a dispatch from Hhuma, addressed TO my department,
reports tiat mr. Reade the English consul al NStcnu6,
and NJ d. TOIcv, the French military atdclc, visited
tWeuiy-on. wounded refugees tn women with eleven
children, ten oI whom We're at the breast and between
eight and ten months old. In fact II appears from
the reports that reach us from tine seat Of war
in the Danuban provinces that The Russians have =
general aud uniform system OF seiAng upon deicnccless
Villages and after rdzmg them with cannou. lnassdcrng
The disarIncd Inhabts and carrying OF the women TO
be outraged when not put TO DEAN. Inc Russians
threaten tie Christian villages with the same 1atc "heh
tney DO not make their submission anu Whcn the unaD-
ittLts refuse 10 De enrolled