The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-09-26
THE EASTERN WAR.
Gen. SkObelOff's Command Al
most AnnihiIated.

to the Gravitza redoupt. He says
it is almost untenable, the approach
es being swept by the fire from the
| Turkish redoubt. only two hundred
and fifty yards distant. On We'd
nesday the interior of the redoubt
was still filled with the dead and
wounded in CHASTITY, indiscriminate
mass. the fire of the Turks having
prevented the approach of surgeons
aud litter-bearers. On the return of
the News correspondent from the
redoubt, the Scottsmah's correspon-
dent, who accompanied him, was
slightly wounded,
The Turks in Montenegro have
been ordered to act on the defen-
siYe.
The Times Bucharest correspon-
dent telegraphs as follows, under
d ate of fSunday, the 10Th: A Adispateh
reached here this morning from the
Imperial headquarters, stating that
the Turk had made desperate ef-
| forts TO recapture the Gravitza re-
doubt, making seven Intellectual as
saults and losing ten thousand men.
The Daily News second edition
publishes the following special:
Bucharest, Sunday night. Sept. 16.
Col. Wellesley has just arrived
from Russian headquarters before
Plevna and reports all quiet there
except intermittent firing around the
Grevica redoubt, which is still held
by the allied forces. Military op-
erations really closed last Wednes-
day evening, when the Turks recap
tured the double redoubt taken by
Gen. Skobelotf. When the Russian
Comman der-in-Chief could not, or
would not. send reinforcements to
hold this redoubt. it was only too
evident that the attack was aban-
doned. The Russians have. not,
howev er, abandoned their position
aud do not seem disposed to do so;
on the contrary, they are fortifying
them.
An official Russian bulletin dated
Poredin. Saturday, says: The bonn
bardment of Plevna was continued
yesterday. The Turkish batteries
scarcely replied.
Maj, Generals Skobelofr, Dragoou-
rolf and Inieretinesky. have been
promoted to Lieutenant Generals.
On the 18th inst, the Turks plac-
ed three eighty pound mortars be-
tween Shipka and Fort St. Nicoho.
las and bombarded the fort. On the
18th we lost forty killed and III on
the 14th instant.
Suleiman Pasha has, it is said, eff
fected a juncture with Mehemet
Ali. 1t seems probable that their
combined forces may attempt some
thing against the army of the Czaro-
witz, which was already obliged to
retire before this junction was eff
fected, and may now be forced to
retreat still further, although the
Imperial guard, now arriving rap.
idly, may put another face on af.
:. fairs. @
The correspondent who described
Wednesdays hattie says: Gen,
Skobeloff lost 1000 men in attack
ing the redoubt and 5000 more in
} holding it. An immense proportion
of officers were killed or wounded
: Only one commander of a regiment
is alive and scarcely head of batta
lion is left. Two officers of the stat
, were killed, one of whom was Va
: rastehagene brother of the great ar
tist and another brother was woun-
ded.
saw Gen. Skobeloff in his tent al
night. He was calm and collected
, He said: 81 have done my best
/ could do no more. My detach.
ment is totally destroyed. My re
+ giments do not exist. / have nc
officers left. have lost three guns
" Why did they refuse you reinforce.
ments?' / asked, "who was to
blame" 81 blame no one." he re.
, piled, /" it is the will of God.''
LONDON. Sept. 18.-A special edi
tion of the Globe has, per a dispatch
: to the Nesos received at the Englist
Embassy, that Suleiman Pasha car
ried the remaining Russian positiont
on the Shipka Pass this morning
inficting enormous loss. The defile
is now entirely in possession Of tbs
, Turks.
, A telegraph operator in Nevad.
sat in the Office reading for th.
!, twelfth time q letter from his ''girl;
when reporter came in and handed
him a press dispatch. In fit o
absence Of mind the operator pu
the dispatch in his pocket and pu
the following thrilling exclusive
on the wires: my own darling
Meet me at the Sunday school pic
mic tomorrow, where we will recins
: on the lovely grass. meath the shad,
2 of some spreading oak, and eat ice
I cream as we while the happy hour
) | nwnu Ifsa ell snnehina uhan M,