New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-05-09

Rioyesti on Tuesday, means, work at the |
front, and shows that the reinforcements |
are all pretty well up at KisOhenetf. The |
establishment of Russian headquarters at |
Rfoyesi means also an advance in very |
short order beyond Bucharest, and con-
firms the idea the Graphic has from the |
first expressed, that the Russian line of |
operations would turn out to be through |
Rustch1ek or Shumla. That the Turks |
have the same idea is evident, for their |
main force is in Shumla, where the Sultan |
hes been in person the whole Of the week,
rs the reader will find on the daily map. |
The other positions of the Turks as |
shown by the dispatches are scattered up |
and down the river. To annoy the Rus |
SLAMS the Turkish gunboats continue to |
test their Notifications by bombardment |
at long range. The latest attack of this |
nature has evidently come from the mouth |
of the river, and Was directed at Isakia,
below REM, where the Rcuth enters the |
Danube, some miles below Galatz. Be-
fore very long we shall be likely to hear
of Hobart Pasha again, in that vicinity.
1t IL stated that the Russians are bridg-
ing the Danube at Tultscha, and that
these attacks are meant to prevent their
progress, but all the military indications
point to the Tultscha movement as q mere
feint on the part of Russia to draw the
Turks away from Shumla. GalatE NAV
be utilized for the passage of turning
column, in case the resistance of the
Turks to a front attack at Rustchuk
proves too formidable, but as q main line
of operations the D0brudscha would be
too hazardous, with the chance of the
Russians being shut up between the Dan
uha and the aaa h1yy nm ~sbaa
and as powerless as If they were in ..
''bottle tightly corked." They tried thai
experiment in 1928, and had to give it
up, and they are not likely to repeat It.
Operations in European Turkey tor the
next week will probably be marked by
heavy fighting, although the cautious ma
ture of the Russian advance may delay
actual contact by the main bodies till
Friday next.
The situation remains essentially the
same in Asia Minor. kilograms from
Muktar Pasha confirm the Russian ac-
count of the battle near Kars as having
been limited N extent. They refer to the
rumor of a siege of Kars having been
begun. The Russian advance on Batoum
has been delayed by heavy weather. 1t
is not probable that we shall hear of any
thing definite in Asia Minor until next
week, about which time the Russian ad-
vanced parties will, in all probability, be
under the walls of Erzeroum. From the
whole character of their operations, strik.
ing out in widely rsdiating lines, it is
clear that the Russians in Asia Minor are
very we'll supplied with Cossacks and
other cavalry, while all the reports agree
that their artillery is numerous and heavy.
One feature of the Russian cavalry, not
generally known, will account for the
great superiority of the artillery which
accompanies them. Every Russian dra-
goon, Cossack, or other cavalier, is pro-
vided with stout lasso, and trained in
the lasso drill in order to help heavy
guns out of trouble. In the Crimean
war, on more than one occasion the Rus
SLAMS brought twenty-four Founders into
the Held In this manner, with as many as
| twenty horses hitched in the teams and
Cossacks helping with the drag ropes. In
1914, when Napoleon beat the Russians
near Pariz in heavy rain storm, General
Osten Sacken saved all his guns, in spite
of the fearful state of the roads, by put
ting fifty cuirassiers with their drag ropes
to each gun and caissop. This habit has
accustomed the Russian cavalry to take
| plenty of artillery with them, and &C.
counts for much of their superiority over
the Turks in Asia.
England is the first of the nations to
take alarm at the possible extension of
the war, probably on account of the rapid
progress of Melikoff in Asia. She has
ordered ready for immediate service q
sufficient number of troops to form the
usual British contingent. Three battal-
| nf CHnarHs ha T.I
streams and Scots Fusiliers; two battal-
ions of the Rife Brigade; thirteen bat
tallons and twenty-three regiments of in
fantry; twelve batteries of artillery, in
Guiding three Of siege artillery, with four
regiments OF cavalry, dragons, hussars
and lancers. This will make a force in
round numbers of $4,000 infantry, sew
enty-two guns and about 1900 cavalry,
the English cavalry regiments being mere
skeletons. If they are filled up the cav
airy may number 1000 men. Twenty-Five
boats for landing troops are ordered, and
the turret ships of the Hercules and Glat-
ton class will be made ready for sea at
once 1t must not be supposed that all
these forces are ready to embark at once.
so far from it, there is not the smallest
prospect that any such army as that
| spoken Of could land either at Constan-
tinople or Trebizond inside of FIVE or six
weeks from to-day. Still the intentions
of England are made apparent, and. will
soon develop. In Servia and Montenegro
the Turks are losing ground morally as
well as physically, for they have advanced
no further, and their enemies are only
waiting for the first defeat on the Danube
to attack once more.
Associated Press dispatches of May s
give us the following:
LONDON, May S.-Muhtar Pacha tele-
graphs to the Porte that he occupies a
strong position between Kars and Erze-
roum, and is confident of his ability to
stay the Russian advance.
The Standards Vienna telegram says
the Sultan has resolved to proclaim a
holy war.
The Turks have abandoned Osurgheti,
/ on the Georgian frontier, near Batoum,
The place, however, is defended by seven
Turkish men-of-war, who cannonade the
advancing Russians.
Austria has notified Russia and the
Porte that the interruption of free navi-
| cation of the Danube can only be tempo
rary. Navigation must, after the war, be
restored to its full force, in accordance
with the treaty of Paris.
Turkish shells were falling Ground the
railroad depot at Ibfail when the Grand
Duke Nicholas arrived there
The Post says her msiesty's ship
Achilles, lying in the Mersey, received in
truchons yesterday to proceed to Plymouth
on Friday.