The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-09-22

was d second Russian attack on the re.
i doubt. although it was this time sup,
ported bY the tire of the Russian bat.
teries and made with large reinforce.
ments,
The following is a. general view OF
/ the situation 1t is obvious that the for
titieations have been much strengthened
since the last battle. The longer one
looks ut the place, the more thoroughly
does one feel the toaghness of the Rus
sian task.
The position must be attacked as a
whole, and taken as whole. Ii the
northern ridge were taken and occupied
| the position of the central swell would
| a lOdgment was effected on the central
swell, that lOdgment would be com
manded by the northern ridge and the
! redoubts on the Oputh of the town.
/ All that is wanled to make the Turk
| ish position virtually impregnable is the
| fOrtifcation of the ridge in front of
! Radizevo; probably this was not un-
| dertaken owing to the force available
| not being strong enough to hold so wide
| an area.
According to the foregoing telegram
an assault was fixed for to-day.
/ The emperor and Grand Duke Nj
cholas slept at Poredin, Monday night,
so as to be near at hand to witness it.
| THE HEIGHTS OF GRIEyACA CARRIED BY
| STORM.
VIENNA, Sept. 13.-The Political Cor
| respondence to-day announces that the
united Russian and ROumanian armies
have carried by assault the heights Of
| Grieyaca-Osman Pasha's strongest pO-
| sition.
LONDON, Sept. 13.-A Russian official
| dispatch from Poredin, dated Wednes-
| day night says: We canDOnaded Plevna
from daybreak yesterday until 3 p. m.,
when an assault 10y our troops was made.
| By evening three Turkish redOubts had
| been taken by Gen. SkObelOtf, while
Gen. Rodienotf had carried the Grievaca
redoubt. Gen. R0dienOff was wounded
| slightly. Adjutant SchiIar, command
ing the seventeenth infantry regiment,
and Gen. Dobrowalsky, chief of the
third rifle brigade, were killed, Six
Russian battalions and one ROumanian
| battalion took part in the assault of
Grievaea. We captured two standards
and five guns. Our loss in wOunde6
will exceed 5000 men. The number of
killed has not been ascertained. At
daybreak to-day a vigorous artillery
| fire was. recommended along the whole
line. Our troops are in front of the
Turkish Notifications on the positions
| taken yesterday.
THE KHEDIVE TO THE RESCUE.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, September 13.-The
khedive of Egypt will send a further
contingent of troops to Turkey.
THE FIGHT BEFORE PLEvNA.
LONDON, Sept. 14.-The correspond
ent of the Daily News teiegraphs a
long account g. Tuesdays fighting near
Plevna. He says: The morning broke
with rain, which settled down into Il
aist. through which objects were in
Visible at hupdred yards. About 10
a. rn., the fog left somewhat, and at
that time the Grievica redoubt was
still alive, although its fire could not be
called brisk. ... .....
Lower, to the left, near the Lovatz
and Plevna road, there were occasional
intermittent bursts of infantry fire.
Soon after ten o'clock there occurred
an ominous iull in the firing; of this
the Turks jauntiiy took advantage to
come out from behind the paFapets and
stroll about the glacis, with the utmost
nonchalance.
Then the fog came down again, veil
ing everything and hiding everything.
At II O'Clock precisely, furious muske-
try fire suddenly burst ont on our left,
from the Russians pushing their way
out of the gap through the passes of the
Lovatz and Pleyna road, and against
the redoubt on the summit of an is0la-
ted nIamelon, southeast OF the town of
Plevna.
The Turks, as far as could be judged
Il
measure reserying their fire until the
Russians came to close quarters with
them, as everything was invisible at a
distance of twenty yards. This also
applies to their artillery fire, although
the Russian batteries continued furi-
ously TO shell the Turkish positions.
About noon the fog lifted somewhat,
but soon fell again. During the inter
val the cannon in the Turkish second
position could he seen firing hard in the
direction OF the hostile musEetry fire.
After the fog again fell, one thing was
certain from the sound OF the firing,
that the infantry fighting had tenden-
| cy to retrograde from the Turkish front
Monday morning further to tile left and
nearer to the fighting, just above the
| western edge of the village of RadiZy0o,
exactly along the space held by Prince
Schakoskop's staff as the fore post line
on the night of 30th July.
found several batteries of Russian
field artillery against the first and sec
ond Turkish position On the central
swell, a little to the right and rear of
fhe infantry, still engaged i'm desultory
fighting. The commander of a hattery,
with an assumption of indifference,
said that the fighting which was dying
out, was merely foTepOst work, to clear
| the way for grand assault against the
redoubt on the Isalaha mamelDn, which
| was to be made IN the afternoon but
with a glass [ could discover on the
slopes leading up the mamelon, Russian
| thick. Successive bodies of Turks were
streaming down the sl0pecf the Name
| Ion, against the enemy while close
blockade is instituted with intent to
starye Osman Pasha's forces. The vii
lagos enclosed within 0sman Pasha's
lines are full of supplies for the simple
wants of the Turkish soldiers, and the
| fields gr0an with heavy crops OF maize.
THE TIDE OF BATTLE TURNED.
LoNDoN, Sept. Il. Ali correspondents
confirm the Russian official reports.
Various accounts OF the fighting on
Tuesday around Pleyna c0ncurins show
| ing that the Turks. up to five o'clock III
the evening. repulsed the continued as
sanlts along the whole line. The EN-
peror had left the field when an aid-da-
camp brought news TINT twelve fresh
Russian hattalions had carried the CEN
trail salient redouht and another redoubt,
and thus retrieved the day.
The Times correspondent says: The
| capture af tile redbuhts changed the
whole affair, and converts q bloody re-