Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-08-11
THE RITTER BITTEN.
Badly Bitten The Russian Piercing the
Ottoman Empire is Stune 80 the Quick
-GTapiic Description Oi Tuesdays
Battle and the Shattered Con.
ditiOn Of t,r Varpg,'-hpd

BADLY Bitten Tho Russian s'ierCiuc ,t,p
ottoman Empire is StunG 90 the Quick
Graphic Description OF Tuesdays
Battle and he Shattered Con.
dition Of hr Varpu,-hed.
A correspondent sends from poredin.
near i'Icvna, a graphic account Of Tues
day, battle, which conveys vivid idea
Of the extent d the Russian disaster.
The correspondent is with Prince
SchkoskoyskIs command, and aava that
now all hope Of suctesa anywhere was
dead. nor did the chance offer to make
the best Of the defeat Prince Schkos.
koyski had not a man left to cover hi,
retreat. The Turks struck without stint.
they had the upper hand for once, and
were determined 70 show that thev knew
how TO make the most Of it. They ad-
yanCed in Swarms through the dusk upon
their ORIGINAL first position, and captured
the Russian cannon before the batteries
could be withdrawn. Turkish shells once
more began to whistle over the tidge
above RadishoyN and fall into the village
behind, now crammcd with wounded.
The streams Of wounded vending their
painful way over the ridge were incesslnt;
the badly wounded mostly lay where
they fell, Later on in the darkness 4.
baleiul sort OF " "I1ran!yeGtt&ger swarmod
over the Battlefield, in the shape of
}ashi-BazouEs, who spared not. Linger.
ing there on the ridge until the moon
rose, the stan could hear from below on
the still night air cries Of pain
aud cntrea'les Tor mercy, and yells
OF bIoodthlrsty, ianaticaI triumph. 1t
was indeed an hour to wiring the sternest
heart. We stayed there to learn if it
might be what troops were coming out
of the Valley of Death below were there
indeed any at all to come. The Turks
bad our range before dark, and we could
watch the flash Of the fame over us and
then listen 10 the scream Of the shell as
1t tore by Us, The sound Of ritie-buIIets
was incessant, and the escort and retreat
ing wounded were often struck, De
tachments al length began to come
.traggling up, but it will give an idea Of
the disorgaui2ation to say that when Il
company was told off to go and recover
some of the wounded in l.adishOva, it
hat to be made up Of men of several
regiments, About nine O'Clock the
staff left the ridge, leaving it Uttered
with groauing men, and moving gently,
lest we shorld tread on the PROSTATE
wounded, we lost our way as we had lost
our army. We could find no rest for the
soleS of our feet, by reason OF alarms of
the Bashi. Bazouks 4warmjng in among
the scattered and retiring Russians, At
length, at one o'clock in the morning.
having been in the saddle since o'clock
on the previous morning, we turned
into stubbIe.feld aud, making beds of
reaped grain, correspondent and Cossack
alike rested under the stars; butwe were
not even then allowed to rest before four
alarms came that the Bashi- Bazouks
were upon rs, and we had to rouse and
tramp away. The only prolectionof the
chiefo what in the morning was a fine
army was now a handful of wearied Cos.
sacks. General Krudcncr sent word in
the morning that he had lost severely,
and could make no headway, and had
resolyedto fall back on the lineof theriyer
Osma, There had been talk, his troops
bcing fresh. of reviewing the attack
to day, with his cooperation, but it is a
nIain statement of fact that we have no
troops to attack with, The most moder-
ate estimate is that we have lost two
reriments-gay five thousand men-out
Of our three brigades-a ghastlvnumber,
heating Eylau or Friedland. This takes
no acconnt of General Kudeners losses,
We too shall retire ON the Osman river
abont Rulrorem and. to fine hest Of our
,,YrT weaj, strcnGth cover the bridrn A, Sis.
iowa One cannot, in this moment Of
brrr;od u, ronfsion realize all the nossible
results of this stroke so rashlv courted.