Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-01


rent atrocities OF every sort. According to
regulation the inhabitants, whether Turk.
or Bulgsriane, are treated with mercy and
consideration; code is milder than That Of
the Prusians, but the Ra.sian soldier looks
ON the Turk a. an animal whom he haa
to chase and kill. discipline prevents the
Russians from committing excesscA hut the
Bulgarians have not the same obedience TO-
orders, and have felt the Turkish yoke.
They will kill if they can. Among the
Russian officers it ia said, we legan by
making war on the Turks for the sake OF
the Bulgsrians; We shall end by making
war on the Bulgarisns for the sake OF the
Turks When later we passed back over
the field of battle to visit the wounded the
Bulgarian peasants were pillaging the dead,
and were driven from their foul work by
indignant commands and a threa. Of Cos
sack Wins. The position Of the future
ruler Of Bulgaria will be extremely difficult.
But what is TO be expected from y people
who have been enslaved for centuries, to
whom military service-the true fountain Of
honor-has been forbidden, whose women
have been the property OF their masters? I
assert from my own knowledge. that one Of
chief q~uarrels the Bulgarian men have with
the Turks is that their wives and daughters
are violated by their masters, and in many
cases are left in the towns to bear children
of shame aud adherence. For these things
execution is being done, vet done by judges
who lack the power to guide always the
hand o! the minister Of Justice. write the
truth, AZ l see it, without fear or favor.
| The Russian officers abhor all these atroci.
ties on the one side AZ on the o her but cit
,,,t,N ,n %hs, column "a AZ tTSs nNnnNonk with
enemies on all sides, completely separated
from all base Of supplies and from all help,
the powers Of every maa being to come
through in safety ii is impossible 10 organ
ize a proper system Of military police"
The special correspondent of the l.din-
burgh Scotsman, who was with Gen. Gourk-
ho in his bold ride through Schipka pass,
writing from that officers headquarters Au-
gust l, says: !,
"Whithin thirty yards Of where l had
sought repose during the few hours of night,
came upon a house, the walls still intact,
but with some Of the woodwork still smol-
dering. Such scenes, alast had during the
past ten days been but too common, and !
woula have passed il hy mhee1ed but that
a sickeniny stencil excited my curiosity, and
[ peeped in at what had been the door. II
is no exasgeration to say that what little
hair I lad left on my head rose with revolt
ing terror at the awful sight presented u me
Tie shell of the house inclosed a mass o
!, burned Bulgarians! Swollen blackenec
corpscs on a battle field, mntila;ed trunks
impaled babies, orucilied women, females
open-all had l seen; Yet none possessed
half the terrible horror Of the CHASTITY com
minglins of charred skeletons and half-con
> sumed bodies. Only part Of them were ex
, posed, for the roof had fallen in on the soutl
{ side, and covered more than half the iloo
space; but in the heap nearest the door
! counted the remains Of thirty-three human
= beings, besides the disconnected limbs q
), many more. They were of all ages an
, both sexes. On the day before, at the car
{ tnre of Ieni-Saghra, the Turks in the tow
!. had risen vpon the Bulgarians and driver
: them into houses selected for the purpose
locked them in, surrounded the houses, sc
!. fire to them, and made of the Bulgaria
wretches a burnt offering to their vengeance
Here, near the door, was the blackene
! corpse of a man who had tried to force III
!, door while the flames were ~circling Owe
y head, but he had been shot in the chest, !:
could be seen from the bullet hole in tn
- charred flesh. There was a skeleton, tn
vertebrae of which had literally curled up
= another was dubbed up with the most eN
= pressive contortions a fourth, apparent
that of a woman, had in agony elapsed tn
neck of a fifth at its side. Over against thi
! heap were several with the bones of the LEG
drawn up. the skull thrown back. and grir
ming tieshless in the most ghastlv name
4 The remains of youths and babes were als'
4 there. legs and rms twisted and bent pa
- resemblance 10 human form while liml
y and skulls strewn here and there shove
: that the hacked bodies ofthe dead had bee
/. thrown into that terrible furnace with II
- living. Further up the village was anoth'
7, hideous pile; but words fail me, and Il
- heart turns sick at the very remembrance
10 it. Here l counted the remains of TWEEN.
seven human beings"
Il The London Spectator Of Aug. 4, gay
!; "The most terrible details of all are, no
a ever. from Yeni. Saghra, under date of Ju
~ is. From this very place the correspon
,G cnt Of a pro-Turkish journal wrote on Il
-. preceding day: L characterize the repo'
- cd outrages by Bashi, BaZouks ut Yeni-S
- ghra as a base lie. invented by Russi'
"a sympathIzers.' and We need not harsh
~ Judge linn, for even the correspondent
re whose letter is before us, only that san
Jay a1 one day earlier, thought such reports
le' least exaggerated. Would it had been $
But in the second letter he explains vii
he calls his change Of front by the ia
that on the preceding day he could get on
OF Turkish guides, and was thus divert
re from a proper investigation" Now that
,es saw for himself, the tale is perfectly sic
[ed ening, and we can only refer to the Tin
9e- of Thursday for details. Suffice II, that
it the first house they visited-this is all pe
as sonal narration by an Englishman, and i
Ad writer was ACCOMPANIED by "a geptlem