The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-02
prILAIRE MEETlNG.

pEILAIRE MEETlNS.
rbs Democracy of Bellsire desire to
land through the columns of the kEG-
cordial invitation TO the people
wheeling, and especially the Green
- and Worklngnen of this city, to
-. down and hear Gen. THOMAS Ew'
-, srssk next Saturday evening. We
..d not inform this portion of our read
q. thst Gen. EWING is the great apostle
uhs Greenbsck idea on the other side
,,,bs river, and he Is pretty certain TO
-, ,omething they will be glad TO hear.
rrRRIBLEsoENEs OF BRUTALITY
The cable of late, has had great deal
,,..v regarding the wholesale execution
, Rnlosrisn rebels by the Turkish
.,.borities The charge that villages
,.vs been depopulated by the hsngman,
ofcourse, gross exsggerstion. But
ys5o not doubt that there is a sad truth
. n,u basis for the accusation. A
,orrs;pondent of the London Times
y.,,e from Adrisnople on the 10th inst,
a,, during the two or three days which
he hsd spent in the city, it seemed as If
,srood not get out OF the sight of men
ANGLING in the air." The executions
.os plsce in the most frequented streets
The condemned were marched out under
he escort of party OF soldiers. When
,5s officer in command saw likely
boking place, shop front it might be
where the sun-bhnds were supported by
gstsntisl brackets, he halted the party.
Asool vas placed beneath the brace.
The rope WAS adjusted. The patient
stepped upon the portable scafold. The
syscutoners drew him off his feet, and
he hspless Bulgarian swung above the
.y,.snders, while the soldiers hurried
,Nsy 10 look for another stout bracket.
Ibis 10 8 terrible street scene, grimmer
a,n sny that HoGARTH drew. If 1t
Good slOne, If there were nothing on the
cher side to put against it, the Turks
Eold deserve to be branded Us blood
,,jr:!y wretches, for whom no punish
usll, not exile nor extinction itself
could well be too severe.
Unfortunately there is companion
picture, and it is painted in far dark
- coiors. We shall understand why
Bl.ssrisns we're left hanging in the
sheets Of AdrianOple when we see what
!l-C0.'acts "a Bulgarians left behind
.l'm IN The ,.rccls OF the Turkish village
OF ohsnlcn Ore correspondent has dc
''fbel LIE punishment; another CORES
lollenl bss depicted the crime. The
LONDON telegraph Of the 18th inst. con-
A'i' etter from their agent at the
-ra-qlsr!ers of SULIEMAN PAsHA, u
"' "nsl the English military attsche'
'aP'' FIFE the correspondent OF three
".a4on journals, the Times, the Post and
'-- telegraph, and two tourists
Il witnesses IA all-ssw amid the ruins
Vi 'olAlIIch, which two months back WAS
0- oi the richest communities of the
0AAans. When the Russians first
-.sel the mountains they occupied the
..Ase without resistance. The Mussul-
-'- inhabitants surrendered their arms,
'-eJ Promise that their lives and prop
- should be respected. After the bat
4 '' EsAl SaghrS the defeated Russians
~ OugsTlsns poured back through the
''''' and carried fire and sword among
'-s Au'sulmsn villages. On August
" cody Of Cossacks and Bulsarisns
~ Ohanlich, TO work their
VIII upon its helpless inhsb-
When the European IN
"s''oF' approached the blackened
murder had tainted the sir so that
''"71 them to breathe it. In one
'lvy iound a well, twenty feet deep,
'''lA the bodies of the Turkish
Snd cnlldren had been thrown, q
'sl' unparalleled since the well
~PO'e In another place within a
VI Zen yards, lay the bodies of fifty
'- 'e'hgs, "men and women indis-
,'"A'ey mixed together" In third
was group of seven
"u beyond these y long
Of si1ty.one desd bodies
'1s'e Was not a fighting man
men, all, without exception,
D' ocdies OF women or children OF
49, men. Il have only men,
says the writer, "llS corpses, but
'uo'e population of Oasnlich hiss
....t 'oyed. All the villages around
h. lave been treated in the same man.
lar, 1vfe remain no people to lay
T." ' 70 the richest soil IN Turkey.
a,,.,,., n, I1mIlies OF land owners have been
,'''o' 50 that there exists TODAY nc
?s.,. lAnys fertile property"
~ .' are the companion pictures. The
.,, pp'ements the last. The last ex
A.,, and justiaes the first. The Bul.
,,., - Insurgents earned their hslters, !,
D''eF deserved rope.