The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-08-06
FOREIGN NEWS.
Turkish ReInforcemsnts En- Route
North.
The Panic In Roumania Said to be
GroundIess.
Hobart Pasha Bombardina Rus.
sian Batteries on the
Black Sea.
Russian Reserves, Including 1885,.
600 Of the Landwehr, Or
dsrsd Out.
Turkish Reports of Russian and
Bulgarian 0utrages,
THE WAR,


LoNEoS, August 4'-The Vienna cor
respondent OF the Times hears from Con-
Stantinople that reinforcements are daily
arriving and being Immediately dispatch
ed to Adrianople.
THE SITUATION REVIEWED.
The Timex Bucharest correspondent,
reviewing the situation, says he thinks
the panic in Roumania groundless. The
Pleona defeat will certainly be retrieved.
Discussing the Russian chance Of holding
positions in the Balkans, il obliged 10
retire to them, the Times correspondent,
who recently passed through SchipkS
pass, telegraphS that II is strongly occu-
pied iand fortified. There are already
within it many trains Of provisions and
forage. Prince Merskey and General
Gourka might hold 1t for a fortnight on
full rations, or longer on short rations.
RUSSIAN BATTERIES BoMBARDEp.
A dispatch from Sukumkaleh, dated
August s, says: The Turkish frigate
Wauwaudict bombarded the Russian bat.
teries at Tchamtchira on the Both inst,
sllencing every Russian gun. The Wau.
waudiCt was considerably damaged, and
several Of her crew were killed and
wounded.
Near Tchamtchira were 5000 Turks
in critical position, owing to the ad.
vance Of the Russian army. Hobart
Pasha embarked his entire force safely
on the 1st inst, under cover ot the guns
Of the fleet. This completes the with.
drawal OF the Turkish military expedi.
ton 10 Caucasia. Hobart Pasha has
command OF the entire Black Sea force,
consisting Of twenty men.of.war aud
transports.
ORDERED OUT.
ST. PETERSBURG, August IA ukase
has been issued ordering the immediate
mobilization Of the entire corps Of the In.
perial Guard and several other divisions.
The major portion OF the Imperial Guard
and some OF the divisions are to Join the
army in Bulgaria without delay. The
remainder go to reinforce the army Of the
Caucasus. Another ukase, signed by the
Gar at Biela, July %, orders levy of
lSS, 600 Of the landwehr. The levies meet
with general enthusiasm.
REPORTS OF RUSSIAN cRUELrlEs.
New YORK, August 1.-THE Turkish
Minister for Foreign Affairs has sent 4
circular to Turkish representatives
abroad, reciting the barbarous acts COM
mitted by the Russians, and says II is
necessary that the civilized world should
be acquainted with these terrors 10 e1-
press its indignation and TO brand
them. The inhabitants OF Germs,
near Ternova, having, on the ap-
proach Of Russians, taken refuge in a
mosque, were burned alive in the in
closure. The Russians having met three
hundred carts Of fugitive families, de-
stroyed them with cannon shots, and then
completed their work OF determination 10
maSsacreing all the men and women they
could find. In every suburb or village
occupied by Russian troops the dwellings
Of the Musselmaus were given to the flames.
The Bulgarians, excited by the example
Of the Russians, commit against the
peaceful and resigned MuSselman popu.
lation acts Of barbarity and outrages still
more atrocious and more horrible than
those perpetrated by the invaders.
THE SITUATION ON TIE DANUBE.
LONDON, August 5.-The first move.
ment towards carrying out that plan OF
the campeign heretofore foreshadowed as
the one likely to be selected, has resulted
in the disaster OF Pleona. The purpose
Of the Russian generals obviously was to
wheel around their right and left wings
to line parallel with the Balkans, tax
ing Tirnova as the pivot, and thus force
Odman Pasha and Mehmet Ali back across
the mountains on their respective lines
Of retreat. This accomplished and 0sman
Pasha and Mehmet Ali prevented
from effecting a junction by forces
under General Gourko, which were
in the meanwhile to establish them
selves south Of the Balkans, the
Russian campaign would have been be-
yond danger Of failure or serious inter.
ruption Of the promenade across the
Danube and to and over the Balkans.
While the Turks remained idle in camps
and fortresSes it was perhaps sufficient 10
justify the idea OF the Russians that they
had only 10 advance to insure that the
Turks should retreat. Itwas this feeling
which led the Russians into the fatal am.
bush Of Pleona a fortnight ago, and
which on Tuesday sent IN inferior force
to avenge that disaster on victorious
army in fortified positions. The re-
suit is chaos again so far as our
knowledge OF the situation ia con.
cerned, and the dispatches from
the front are full OF panicky or ex.
aggerated rumors, dictated by the hopes
or fears oi either side. But the salient
fact is unquestioned that the Russians
have been checked and their campaign
cannot make any progress till they have
shaken of Mehmet Ali and Osman Pasha
from their TANKS, and Gourko's task,
south OF the Balkans, ia rendered more
and more serious daily by the concen-
tration and organization Of Luteiman
PGsha's forces. It is alleged that the
Dabrudsca will be almost wholly
evacuated and Zimmerman's corps will
return, via Sistova, to the central army
The Car has decreed fresh levies at home
all Of which means that the military
promenade has been turned into an affair
Of life or death for the Russians, and
that the Turks will be crushed II there
is power in Russia to crush them. The
Turkish plan is believed TO be iol
OSman Pasha 10 fight his way eastward
and Mehmet Ali to advance west.
ward upon Tirnova, while suleimar
PaSha tries to force the Russian position
at Kazailik, but in doing this Osmar
PAshn must expose his left flank to the
risk Of being turned from the direction
Of Nikopolis, thus facilitating the Rus
sian plan Of pinating on Tirnova, and
forcing him to retire behind the Balkans
Mehmet Ali would incur the same DANCE.
from the Russians between Rustchuck
and RaSgrad, while suleiman PAsha mus
attack the Russians in positions OF theil
own choice.
TALKS PEACE, BUT ARMS FOR WAR.
| CoSsrASTtSorLE, August A. The
Greek Minister has declared that Greece
intends to observe the stspulations Of tht
existing treaties. Nevertheless the diplo