The Osceola times., 1877-09-15
TnE wAR.

The Turks acknowledge loss of 200
men IN Schipka Pass. Two thousand of the
wounded have reached Adrianope.
A Russian official dispatch announces
that the Russians have reoccupied Sookgoom.
Kale, in Asia Minor.
The Russians officially estimate their
losses at Schipka Pass at 200 killed and
| 5000 wounded. Suleiman Pasha has with.
drawn from the pass with the greater part
of his troops.
The London Times, in a leader, urges
very strongly that England should offer
| mediation with the concurrence OF the other
| neutral powers. Offers OF mediation could
be based, it says, on the recommendation
made by the Constantinople conference,
Redif Pasha and Abdul Kerim Pasha,
with the ex-commandants of Scutari, Sistova
and Shipka, and ten other officers, have been
banished to Lemnos until the termination of
hostilites, the commission appointed 10 try
them being at present engaged in other
duties connected with the war.
A Berlin dispatch states that accord
ing to semi-official advices Austria and Ger
many have declared that they do not deem
the present state OF affairs one to induce
them to offer their mediation to either of the
belligerentss yet they would support vigor
ously AN offer of mediation from any other
power.
According TO the Turkish financial es-
timates a deficit OF eleven million Turkish
pounds is anticipated for the year ls77.7s,
which will have TO be raised 10y special taxa
ton.
A battle took place on the Both ult.,
between Mehemet Ais forces and the Rus.
SLAMS along the river Lom, in which the
Turks were the attacking party. From all
the reports received which are so far all
from Turkish sources, they were successful
in their attack, forcing the Russians back
from all their positions for a line of fifteen
miles Of front. The Turks admit a loss of
5000, and claim the Russian loss to have
been heavier.
According TO dispatch to the Chicago
Times OF August 81, the position of affairs at
the seat of war was as follows: "Further
particulars state clearly the position of the
forces At Schipka. The Turks had con-
structed a redoubt and planted battery on
the mountain on the right, and thus com.
manded the road which leads from the Rus
sian base to the pass. The Turks have pos
session of ridge running parallel to that
up which the road winds, fifteen hundred
yards distant, a Turkish redoubt enfilades
the Russian road in several places, and the
Turkish infantry, by extending along this
ridge, which is thickly wooded, can render
the road impossible. Men are picked off by
the Turkish skirmishers two miles behind
the Russian position. 1t was on this ex.
posed road that Gen. Dragomirof was
wounded and Gen. Dragetsky killed, fully
mile on the Russian side of the summit. In
the pass, fighting since the 9th has not been
so heavy "a previous to that date. There is
no doubt the Russians can hold the pass, but
telegram from the grand duke announces
that the Turks are building batteries on the
hill on the Russian right, which must mega
tive the advantage that the Russian troops
might have gained by turning the Turkish
left. Although there are as yet no returns,
the loss of the Russians is estimated at about
5000 killed and wounded, and that of the
Turks at 22,O0l