Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-08-15

Bazaar. and were repulsed with the los
OF TO killed and 100 wounded.
The THrkish commander on the north.
eastern frontier of Montenegro claims
to have repnlsed an attack on Kalaschi
on August Z, after ten hours fighting.
ACROSS THE BALKANS.
LONDON, Aug. lO.-The Daily News
correspondent telegraphing from Biela
on Thursday, say his estimate of the
serious effect Of the Russian defeat al
Plevna formed on the battlefield is fully
borne out by the Russian appreciation
OF it. The Russians stand waiting for
necessary relntorcemgntS. ana are
thankful that they are nut .ssailrd IN
Their defensive position. Tue defeat
has altered the whole plan of the cam
paign for this year. The Russians have
virtually abandoned tie expectation oi
pressing the war successfully across the
Balkans. 1t will suffice them if during
the three months still available f,pr
hghtlng they can sweep Bulgaria north
OF the Balkans clear Of the Turkish arm,
les. The orders are 10 Withdraw from
all the ns-Balkan positions. This is
from no direct pressure Of the Turks be-
yond the Balkans, but because OF the
risk attending unsupported advances.
On this side Of the Balkans the paraly-
sis caused by the Plevna reverse still
endures. One hundred thousand more
men are wanted and are Forthcoming
but will have to be waited for. The
first brigade acknowledgements is expect
ed to cross the Danube in day or two.
MORE TROOPS IN THE FIELD
The Vienna correspondent of the
News says st. Petersburg letter in the
official Wiener Abend Post states that
$4,000 fresh troops are already on the
way by railroad to the seat of war. The
guards will FOLLOW in ten DAYS. Thes e
include 5000 cavalry and sc, 900 infant
ry. Two hundred and fifty cannon will
also be sent. Of the landwehr only
picked regiments will go 70 Bulgaria.
SCENES OF UNPARALLELED ATRoCTTy
The Daily News's Bucharest cores.
pendent says 81 have written the fol.
lowing as 1 received it from the terrbla
accounts which fugitives continually
bring over the Balkans. I fear it must
w ouly LOO true.
"On July 3lst, the day of the Russian
evacuation or Eski Saghra, the Turks
ordered that all Christians, mon WI.
men and children, should be shot ss
they lett their honses. st"
Those who remained within wera
burned alive. The order was given TO
burn D down and destroy every particle
OF Christian property in the place.
Many leading Turkish merchants
took part in the affair. One dispatched a
large number of Bashi Bazouks all over
the Tchirpan district. This district is
one OF the richest in that part of Turkey
II contains very large proportion of
Christian inhabitants, over 80 churches
and 500 schools and colleges. all which
have been burnt.The destruction extends
to the villages Boghdan Mahalesi. RAM
Mahalesi and many others, in all about
sixty, containing from $50 to 200 fami-
lies each. Scarcely fifty persons have eg-
capea alive.
"Ihe Bulgarian fugitives at Gabroya
ana Seior estimate that from twelve to
fifteen thousand Christians have been
massacrad in Eski Saghra and the
Tchirpan district alone. Soldiers were
posted along the road from Eski Saehra
to kazanlik with orders to shoot eyery-
body passing"
The Times military correspondent
at bucharest gives particulars of the
Eshl saghra massacre similar to those
telegraphed by the Daily News's cor
respondent.
BURNING OF A HOSPITAL.
PAsIs, Aug. ia special dispatch
nom Gabrovo to the Temps says: SAC
ceording to reports received here the
turks have burned hospital at Eski
oaghra which contained eight hundred
THE TURKS IN THE BALKANS.
SHUMLA, Aug. 13.-Sulieman Pasha.
taking the offensive, has marched
through the Fereditch. a Balkan pass,
and sent a strong accommodating force
as far as the Karatan, on the opposite
bank, on which the Russians were found
in conSidara hla foroo