Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-21
PLEVNA.

Confirmation Of Russian Capture Of Re.
dOubtS-Dsspsrate FluhtIng-Ths Rus.
slaEs will Try the Effect Of SapplnO,
Mining, and Starvation, but 0sman Pasha
has Plenty Of Supplies and Brave
Soldiers.
LONDON, Sept. l4.-All correspond.
ents confirm The Russian official re.
ports. Various accounts Ct the fight.
ing on Tuesday, around Flevna, concur
in showing tina, the Turks, up 10 FIVE
o'clock in the evening, repulsed the
continued assaults on their whole line.
The Emperor had left the field, when
an aid'de-camp brought the news that
twelve fresh Russian battalions had
carried the central aud most salient re.
doubt, and another redoub', and thus
retrieved the day,
A correspondent Of the Times says
the captute Of these redoubts changes
the whole affair, and converts q bloody
repulsc into a final and perhaps per-
maneut success. In any case, the sub.
sequent attacks must be by sap and
trenches, for the asst reserves were en-
gagged on the Russian side. The valor
Of the Russian troops is the only thing
10 be praised, as the attack was I'M
skilltully directed, and the waste of
life unnecessary. The Turks were
well handled, but they must have lost
some men in their two sallies in the
open field. Otherwise they were com.
pletely covered, and lay close till the
moment of the assault.
A correspondent of the Daily News
confirms the reports Of desperate
fighting, and says at tho close thereof
the Nam Ion redoubt, mentioned at the
commencement Of his dispatch, was
intact.
1t Ia q significant fact that two expe.
rieuced military correspondents of the
Times and Daily News, after witness.
Ing The attack on Tuesday, arrive at The
same conclusion-that Plevna must be
taken By gradual approaches.
A correspondent writing from the
Russian headquarters under date oil
Wednesday, appears TO have been still
unaware Of any decided Russian sue,
cess, for he says the Emperor and
Grand Duke Nicholas were in the field
until 8 O'Clock last night. The Empe,
ror returned to headquarters here
Parelin, late last night.
The battlefield Of the last five day
10 silent this morning; there Is talk oil
submitting the Turkish position to a
regular seige aud sapping up the re-
doubts, while a close blockade Is In.
itiated with the inteLt to starve out
Osmau Pasha's forces. The villages
iuclosed within 0smau PasEa's lines
are full of supplies for the simple
wants of the Turkish soldiers, and field
Of grain with heavy crops Of maize.
Losses this morning are spoken Of
here at about five or six thousand, but
there are no details. The Emperor
this morning has gone back to the bat
tle.ield to visit the soldiers. Unless
this position Of affairs is shortly
changed BY a decided Russian success,
the event Of the campaign will turn
upon the movements Of Mehemet Ali
and Suleiman Pashs, rather than the
fate of Plevna, but all Information con-
corning this is Of the most meagre
kind.
A Reuter- from Constantinople dated
l4th says, a %reassuring dispatch has
been received from Osman Pasha.
LONDON, Sept. ii "A dispatch to the
Evening Standard, dated Bucharest,
Friday noon, Gays: "Siuce the capture
Of Gruca redoubt, before Plevna, there
has been only a continued lombard
ment of the town and other positions
of the Turks. Preparations r being
made for another assault. There Is an
immense number of wounded, and but
few surgeons"