Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-22
THE RUSSIO.TURKISH WAR.
FOR LIFE.

FLEEISG O LIFE.
London dispatches Of August II. say:
Dispatches from Batoum describe a
great exodus Of Circassians from Cau-
cassus as II consequence Of the with
drawal Of the Turkish expedition.
Fifty thousand people and one
hundred and fifty thousand cattle
are awaiting embarkation at SUI
kun Kalch and Hobean. Hobart
Pasha has improvised IL jetty by moving
small vessels l%engthwise and people and
cattle We're walking aboard the vessels.
The frigate and transport had arrived
at Batoum with one thousand and nine |
hundred emlgrants respectively. None
were permitted to land at Batoum on
account Of u lack of accommodations
and provisions. All 90 to Tribizond.
The Russians succeeded in stopping the
DROVE II PEOPLE BACK
with great cruelty. 1t is reported that
old men who participated in the insur-
rection are sent to Siberia, and their
ONE and children given to Cossacks.
No movement Of the Russians is visible
in the neighborhood of Sukum kalch.
At BatOum on Monday there was an
artillery duel. Heavy fighting is ex-
pected.
T. TROOPS
Eight thousand troops of reserves
havejoined the army. also 10000 volun-
teers and many Greeks from abroad.
WAITING FOR REINFoRCEMENTS.
The passage Of the Danube by the
main body Of the remaining army has
been postponed until the large Russian
relnlorcemcnts arrive.
An Erzeroum dispatch of the 18th
says the Russian center is heavily rein
forced, and has commenced serious of
fensive movements. Important events
are expected shortly.
Reports hat the Russians are adj
~vancing from Abraham on Olti are un-
founded; there are only 6 battalions, =
batteries and one regiment of cavalry
mt Ardahan; four battalions, detached
from that direction, are O enCampcd
ut COIN.
UNAVOIDABLE TO THE RUSSIANS.
The kurds of Arabian have defeated
the Russians twice. In the second en-
gagement the Russians lost 600 in killed
and wounded. These trivial successes
have SO worked upon the Turks rs to
lull them into the belief that the Rus
campaign in Armenia is over for
the winter.
An Alexandria, Egypt, dispatch Of
the 10th says: The Greek volunteer
movement is increasing; a further de
tachmcnt of 800 started yesterday for
The authorities have detained
60 volunteers intending to leave, on the
of their being subjects of the
London dispatches of August 10th
Further accounts repeat and con
the details published yesterday, re-
the atrocities committed at
Eski-Saghra. After the Russians evacu-
atcd that town the terrified inhabitants
endeavored to follow the Russians, but
Circassians occupied the road to
kasnhk, and the Turks sent n guard
round the town SO that none might es-
and then began the scene of
iiendish cruelty. Neither age nor sex
was spared, and death was not the worst
inflicted, for the Turks well know
how TO make men, women and children
long Tor oblivion before they accord it.
Notablcs who had fled before the Rus
and spent the interval in neighbor-
ing villages with bands of Bashi BazOuks,
now reappcared and sought out and
slew the dwellers on their own farms.
The hospital was burnt, with all the
Russian and Bulgarian wounded. Only
Il few inhabitants escaped, and it is be
lieved that III the town and neighboring
villages, II of the fairest and richest
spots in Europe, the number Of peasants
and townStolk maSSacred amounted to
many rs all the Russians killed and
wounded in the late great battle.
From reports concerning masSacres,
1t seems rs if the affairs will continue
many days longer. Not a single Chris
tlan will bc left alive ON the slopes of the
Balkans.
The new convention concluded be-
tween Great Britain and Egypt for the
suppression ofthc slave trade entirely
prohibits the export or import of negro
The Egyptian slave traders will
be tried by court martial for the a~Ssassi-
nation of foreigners, and will be handed
to their own tribunals. British
cruisers are authorized to capture
hosting the Egyptian flag. The
hhedlve engages to abolish all private
traffic IN slaves i'll twelve years in Sou
dan and the frontier provinces.