The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-09-22
FOREIGN.
War:News.

Ao",'"', 'cPI lf.-AII COrreSpOn.
dents confirm Russian official reports
Of various Iaccounts of--fgltius:on
Tuesday around Pleyna and CONCUR
in showing that tho Turks up to five
O'Clock in the evening were repulsed
by continued assaults along the hole
line. The Emperor had left the field
when an aid-de-camp brought the
news that twelve fresh Russian bat.
talllons had carried the central salient
rcdonbt and another redoubt and thus
retrieved the days losses.
The Times correspondent saws the
capture of retloubts changes the
affair and converts a bloody repulse
into final and perhaps permanent
success. 10 any case subsequent at.
tacks must be by sap and trench for
the last reserves were engaged on
the Russian side. The yalor Of the
Russian troops is the only thing to
DO praised, as the attack was ',hskill-
fully directed and waste of life un
necessary. Tho Turks were skiIlfully
handled They must have lost some
men in their two sallies in the open :;
otherwise they were completely COW
cred and lay close till the moment of
assault.
A correspondent of the Daily News
confirms the desperate fighting and
says at the close thereof the Mamelon
redoubt mentioned at the commence:
ment of his dispatch was intact.
London, Sept, Alt is a signifl.
cant fact that two experienced mill
tary correspondents Of the Times and
Daily News after witnessing. the at
tack Tuesday arrives at the same con.
cluslon that Plcnva must be taken by
gradual approaches.
The Daily News correspondent
writing from Russian Headquarters
under date of Wednesday appears to
have been still unaware of any unde.
cided Russian successes, for he says
the Emperor and Grand Duke Mich.
o1as were on the field till 9 o'clock
last night. The Emperut returned to
headquarters at Poredin late last
night. The battle field of the last
five days is sileDt this morning. There
is talk ofsubmitting the Turkish DO
sition to a regular seige and stopping
up the redoubts, while close block
ade is instituted, with the intent to
starte Oeman Pasha's forces. The
villages enclosed in Osman Pasla'a
lines are full of supplies for simple
wants of Turkish soldiers and the
fields groan with heavy crops of maize
Losses this morning are spoken Of
here to be about 6OOO, but there are M
details. The Emperor this morning
has gone back to the battle field tn
visit his soldiers. Unless this posi-
ton Of affairs is shortly changed by
decided Russian success, the event OF
the campaign will turn on the move
ments of Mehemet Ali and Suleiman
Pasha rather than on the fate Of
Plevna, but all information concern.
ing those Is of a most meagre discrip:
tion.
A telegram from Shiimla dated
September 18th; says hlelle,net Ats
central column is still at Kaselvo
Mehemet All himself had gone to.
wards Eski Junia and hiay Us work.
ing west to compel tile Russians tt
abandon Tirnova and the Balkans.
London, September "A dispatch
to the Standard dated Bucharest Fri.
day noon, says since tie capture o.
Grieva tedoubt before Plev6a there
has been only q continued lombard
ment Of the town. and other positions
Of tile Turks. Preparations are max
ing fot another assault. There is at
immense number Of wounded ant
but few surgeons