Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-17
The Eastern War.

| women and children, are on the road from Eskl.
luna aud Osuan Bazar to Shuma. Horrible
massacres have been committed by the Rus.
slams and Bulgarians st Tir1ova, GraLoTa ami
| llyaua
A dispatch from Sbnmis says From al!
drectiors fugiti7es in large plumbers are com.
ing 10, who agree 10 statiCg Ina: 10 The dis
tricts occupied by the Russacs tic NOS! horrl-
bic cruelies are perperated upon the Mobam.
medan population by the Cossacs5 aud Bulga.
rians. hIohammedau chdreu sud old msn are
slaughtered and women violated and carried ciT.
Official dispatches substantially ccrroborate
these statements. The greatest paDic exists
among the Mohamncdan civil popuation who
are aseug as fast as they can. Up to Saturday
no engagement Ct importance mad been fought
| The Russian advaoce is on the banks 9: the
river LON. Horse patrols have bean pushed
forward to within three hours Of the Ra-grsd
and Vettova Railway stations Railway COM
nupicasioos between Rasgrad aud Tcheroa7oda
have been cut The Cossscks are sEa7ming Il
over the COUNTRY east OF Ier5euiE.
n
kans via Denir Kapu.
A Therapa dispatch dated TO day, says -
Official kilograms direct from the sczue OF
acrlon distinctly contradict the private kilograms
announcing that tie Russians had crossed the
Balkans, and that their advance guard was be.
tween AdrIanople end 1amboIlcu. Official tel.
egrams declare that only fsT SCOUTS have
crossed, AID lheY we're easily driven back.
A telegram from Corstaptlnupie c0Dnr OBS
the rcpor! that the Russians, tI:cep bataors,
have crossed the Balkan mouu,alDs through the
Tyvardilzka pass. This passage is supposed to
be feint 10 withdraw the Turks from the
Schipka pass.
The news of the crossing Of the B4ikaus has
evidently caused great excitement 10 Con&lail-
tinopIe. a telegram from that city says the
Turkish newspapers urge the Inhabitants to
form volunteer corps, as the enemy Is ct their
ga,es Work 90 Publications is being carried
90 With great activity 10 the Turkish quarter.
There is general impression thst the foreign
Powers will Intervene.
A co respondent at Vienna tcIcgrspls that
10 consequence of the crossing oil the Balkans,
it is announced that sfter the return OF the En.
peror of Austria to that city. which will be 10
few days, the present position OF affairs Will
be earnestly considered.
10
guard of the Russian army passed the BHk.os
on The evening Of the ls, u!thou! friug a
shot. Gen. Gourko On the afternoon Of the
l4tb lust, surprised 300 Mans, who fed TO-
wards the village OF Kaoari. The Russians los.
one killed ADD FIVE wounded. kaaaTi is -
miles northwest Of Yeni Saghra, st the south
ern deboucbment Of q difficult and unfrequeut.
ed road koown as the Twardiga pass.
An official Turkish dispatch announces tha.
Egoub Pash. has attacked the Russians uodcr
the Grand Duke Nicholas, Forth Of Tlrnova,
and defeated them with the loss OF twelve
thousand, and the Grand Duke is surrounded.
Two Turkish montnrs have destroyed the
bridge at Sistoga. Oae monitor was subse-
quently sunk by torpedoes. The Porte oflcla "
, declares that the RussiaDs have burned alive
Inhabitants of JOINS. near Tirnova, who had
taken refuge in mosque.
Reuters telegram from Constantiuople says
the report of the defeat Of the Grand Duke
Nicholas is cot confirmed By dispatches from
Redir Pa3ha. It was probably based on taise
reports made to the local authorities Raout
Pasha sends dispatch, formally confirming q
report that the Russisos had been beaten 10
the Tivardi zka Pass. The advance Of the Rus
{ slams vas exaggerated by the station master at
: Yeni Saghra, who vas irhueEc:d b. the gene
, raj panic.
40 Official dispatch from the Army Of the
| Caucasus announces that the Russian garrison
, at Baiszd consisted on June IS. OF four staff
Offices twenty six officers and 1857 men. VI
these TWO staff officers and | If men were killed
and seven officers add $50 meu wouaded during
The siege The remainder were much weaken
ed By privatious, aud will require great care DC
, fore they can recover. The garrison lived ou
horse fash toward the end Of the siege.
All available troops are being dispatched to
Adrauople. One hundred Bugarlaos have
been brought to CorstantlnopIe. They will be
tried by military tribunal Tor high treason.
The first detachment of Suleinau Pasha's is
expected at Nos Cd Thursday. An E'z=rounl
telegram announces that he Turks have seized
Persian caravan conveying PROVISIONS 10 the
Russians. Ismail PaSha has requested supplies
from Erzsroum. the resources OF the Distrlct OF
Bal lid being exhausted.
A special dispatch from E;2sroum says -
Provisions for IsmaiI Pasba's corps left here
yesterday. Armenia is ruined by The ra7age55
, of war, Famine is expected ID the districts OF
:, AIasbgbard, Kara Kess and BsjsZd.
An Alexandria dispatch reports that the
Khedi7e is sending more troops 10 Corsta9Il
, uople. Egyptian steamers are no| embarklog
horses, troops, Runs and AMMUNITION.
a Berlin correspondent states that the Porta
, has intimated that while the war laa's It viii
, open the DardanelIes to 90 power which has
not promised to support it against Russia.
A correspondent at Turnu hlagure!Ii, whc
} processes to have been az eyewitness, ct por
ton of the operations by which the Russians
surrounded Nikopolls aud cut off the retreat OF
the garrlsoo, says the garrison OF 6.UyO men
and forty guns surrendered 10 the Russians,
who also took prisoners Hassan AID Achmet
Pasba, commanding the garrison, ADD took Two
monitors. All other accounts represent that
: the Turks evacuated Nikopos before The Rus
slams entered the town.
A special from Obentenik says that another
bridge of very substantial construction has becu
commenced between Sinnitza and Fishora,
higher up the stream than the present ooc.
{ Another dispatch, dated Ooeutcuis, July Is,
says General Gourko's command will oners!e
as detached force 10 the Roumean Valley
uot it is joined there by the mao body Of the
!, invading column marching BY more prac'lca-
BILE but circuitous route through the BaikaDs
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