The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-06-02
RuSs-Tnrkish Catches:
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PEN AND SWORD.

PEN AND SWORD.
By the Danube and The Dnieper,
Will the correspondent sleep,
And he'll write about the CoSsack
( In a wap to make us weep.
BY the rcllurukhol and Arras
He will scrawl of slaughter red
At a safe and lengthening distance
He will make his little bed.
The ply of a Russian Colonel is
said to be only $500 year.
The banner of Islam and the flag of
Britain will float side by side-the
prophet and the profit.
There seems to be woman at the
bottum of this Europecn fuss. At
least Elizabethpol (evidrntly Eliza
bath Polly is mentioned by the war
maps.
Minister Maynard will now have
to assume the role of protector of
American Christians in Turkey. The
Turkish threat of a "general mas.
sacre" has doubtless some degree of
sincerity:
Mahlstick thinks, it wonld seem,
that it is the intention of Russia to
capture and gobble" Turkey. He
ought to know that Russia is mighty
bear, and not a mere Turkey-gOb.
bier.
! The Russians are marching in force
to Giurgevo, Siennitza and Turnu
Magurelli, points within line of
fifty miles on the Roumanian bank of
the Danube, and opposite Rustchnk,
Sistowa and Nicopolis respectively,
where the Turks are strongly in
trenched. The Turks are preparing
to cross from Widin to Kalafat, where
they whipped the Russians unmcrci-
fully in 1854. 1t will soon be seen
whether they have strength enough
to cffestnalIy defend the numerous
points of attack from on overwhelm-
ing Muscovite force.
Hobart Pasha apparent? has some
flGee vsiriuttion f1f UHtsyh;; ~ IS it0h:
Used, for Pcra correspondent of the
New York World says: "The Rus
slams have paid particular attention
to Olessa,lfor that is their principal
mort in the Black Sea. Batteries
have been planted all aronud the bay
and seventy guns are ready TO greet
an invader. The bay itself has been
thickly strown with hundreds OF tor
pedoes, and a battery of light guns
placed on the outer mole to protec
the inner line of the submarine mis-
siles. It is the general belief tia
both at Odessa and in the mouth o
the Bug river, as well as. at Kertch
the Russians are prepared to operate
against blockading vessels with small
swift torpedo boats, and will keep ;
. blockading squadron on the cons tan
look out for danger"
i The Turks seem to have bunglcl
badly in the management of thei
9 iron -clads on the Danube. The Rus
: SLAMS have succeeded in blocking a.
8 the Danube by means Of batteric
and torpedccs from lbrail to lsmai
At the former place the river make
an abrupt bend from its norther
course east before entering the Blac|
J sea. The Turkish fleet has been 70
e several days bombarding Ibrail frou
n behind an island lying iinmediatel
G in front of the town, but the Danube
l.. which has been swollen by the rains
= has subsidized and the iron clads hav
had the water slip from under then
and it is probable they will have t
i be destroyed by the Turks to pre-
vent their capture: The Danube
above Ibrail, divides into half a do2
l. en- branches, the channel being o
G the Roumanian side, where the Rus
!, SLAMS have strung their batteries
}. and as the Turkish iron clads receiv
IS their supplies of coal on the Dannb
4 Kustenii and Tchemavode railwa,
~ and from Varna BY rail to Rustchnl
II it is not improbable that. the flee
t. would have been in u very tight plae
Is even if the water had not receded.
-; All the Ministers at Constantinop1
10 are urging the Sultan to join the a
II nv and act the same as Alexand'
e. has done at Kischeneff, but Abd'
t. Hamid, the present Sultan, is t,
re shrewd to be caught mapping. Fl
ID we'll knows that the moment he leave
in his CAPITAL new conspiracies vi
% break out that may cost him b
l. throne. Intrigues are the order
the day and should ever tho sulta
Get his face toward the army, eth
re his brother Murad or the Prince |
In zidin would at once take his place
We the head of the sublime Porte. ri
o. threatening attitude of Midhat Pashs
is party, whose chi is now IN exile,
Il. so causes the Sultun to hesitate b
Of fore joining the army. The latt
10 party have become of late quite de
~. Nv peratc and ready for almost anythiu
re They would not permit twenty.fo
~ hours to elapse, if they saw their "
clear, before calling Midhat Pars
or and Installing him 10 his fomer pla
he as prime Minister. l do not be''e'
ke therefore, that for the present the
as exists the least probability of t
vo Sultan's leaving Constantinop
w. Should lie ever do so, and be sat
no fed that no trouble will follow eltt
'e at the palace or at tile harem, tn
IT'S look oft for tie most boody war
ill record, as the presence Of the Suit
lst with his troops will inspire the n
an hammedans to cruel and atrocl'