The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-05-15
The Eastern War.

TERRIBLE EFFECT uF LAlE HEAN ] RAINS.
LONDON, Nay IA special to the Daily
TeieGraDh from Bucharest says: I'm con-
sequence OF energetic British rcmonstranccs
the Porte has given most satisfactory ASST
RANGES relative TO. the destruction OF the
British shipping at Bcket, and promised full
compensation
The Nc1rS SAYS: at is stated that Do
yer and SharncliG garrisons have been med
ically inspected for foreign service"
4 dispatch to the Ne,cS from kischcneh
saws: ..Grand Duke Nicholas and all the
chief staff officers left here on Sunday morn
in. and arrived at Jassay at O'Clock in the
afternoon, and will proceed to Plolc>ti
Monday. The whole staff will be on the
Danube in five or six days"
The Bucharest correspondent says: :"
am assured, owing to the full water in tue
Danube, that the three remaining monitors
which are anchored behind an island. oppo-
site Ibral. an old he'd OF the Danube. cam
not get out, and must be abandoned or de-
stroyed.'
The Turkish bomhartlment OF Ealaiat
from Widdin on Saturday was intended to
distract attention to enable 4 monitor to
run the gauntlet Of the Roumanlan bate
ries. The monitor, which was attempting
to escape after having been once or twice
struck, turned and steamed away up the
stream.
The Illness correspondent at pcra tcle
graphs as follows: AS an evidence OF the
mournfuI condition to which ten days OF
incessant rain has reduced the Asiatic re-
gon we have only to read the intelligence
from Ba"dad describing the place. which
has overwhelmed both banks OF the Tigress.
4 similar inuntlation is unknown since time
;,1 ha ,.,,- bu,. p.r q
new branch above Basdad, which has COM
pletcly blockaded the city and swept away
two hundred houses in the village of kiam-
iZie. The worst eNi which the Russians
NAV bring upon Us by their premature in
vasion is cholera, which exposure to SO in
clement season can hardly fail 10 produce
among their troops.
ADVANCE OF THE RUSSIAN TROOPS.
MANCHESTER. May 14.-The Guardians
Vienna dispatch says: Three columns OF
Russian soldiers are marching toward
Jiurelos, Simmtza, and Magurelii, with the
probable design Of crossing the Danube ct
those points. One object OF the Russians
is to break the Turkish lines and separate
the corps st Widdin from the main army.
The Turks appear to be contemplating
crossing to kaIaiat. They have at that
eight sailing barks."
The Guardians Belgrade dispatch says ::
Colonel Cartagnis, the special messenger
from Prince Milan to st. Pctersburgh, re-
turned without reply last night. Prince
Gortschakol telegraphed that II Serrla de-
sires to commence action she must do so on
her own responsibility and with her own
means. This intelligence caused great de-
preston among the Liberals.
nouMANIAS POSITION - SCLAvONIA DEMON
STATIONS IN PESTH, 8C.-LAST HOURS OF
MARCHIoNESS LOTHIAN.
LONDON, MAY 1.-THE Times'S Vienna
correspondent says: The principal credit
for the motion whereby the question OF
Roumanian independence and the Princes
assumption of royal title was practically
shelyed belongs to the Roumanian Minister
OF Foreign Affairs, but his opposition to
the Immediate declaration OF independence
would not probably have been overcome
il he had not received decided hint Of
announcement from Russia. The Russian
teleeraphic agency states that the munich
palitv OF Kischenetf has decided to raise an
obelisk in memory OF the Cars stay theI e,
and also to found an asylum for invalid
soldiers.
The correspondent VI VIC H'eo az !
emma, commenting on the Tival magician
and Sclavonic demonstrations which were
recently held in Pesth and Vienna respec-
tiyely, and which caused considerable COM
ment and excitement, says: Neither Will
have any effect on the policy OF Austria and
Hungary, which cannot be swayed by SYM
pathies or antiquities, particularly When
they are so contradictory as in the present
case. but must and will be directed with re-
gard to the interests OF the whole.
Various concurrent accounts leave no
doubt Of the tremendous loss OF life ABOARD
the Turkish monitor which was sunk oil
Ibrail. The only survivor OF the crew, VINO
was picked up by Russian boat, estimates
the crew at 200. The ship was named Lut.
FREQ, and was armed with five guns, two OF
which were nine-inch and two tive-inch.
The Times, in a leader, says: The wal
in Asia Minor will clearly not be the KIND
OF parade for the Russiansl which was
anticipated by English alarmists. The Rus,
slams run great risk of disappointment II
they endeayor to repeat the rapid triumph:
OF 1928 and 1929.
An attempt was made yesterday to ge
up an anti-Russian demonstration in hyde