Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-05-17
Domestic ARD FOREIGN News

DoNEsric ARD FOREIGN News
The home sensation Of the past week
has been the speech OF Marshal Doug
lass in Baltimore on the subject Of
"Washington and its Society" Doug
lass Is rough upon the natives and they
have got mad about il and are going for
his scalp with the savagest OF wa
whoops. Douglass expresses surprise
thatthe natives can't take joke. This
has made the natives worse mad than
ever and they have appealed to Hayes
for relief and tits not unlikely that Doug
lass will be allowed to step down and
out. As satiri.t, the Douglass is not
happy, but as BLACKBOARD, he is an en-
inent success. There are no new de-
velopments in national politics worth
noting. The President is in New York
speechifying to the Chamber Of Com
merce and whatever else may be said
of him, unlike Grant, he behaves like a
gentleman and talks like man of sense.
Nothing important from the European
front. In the British Parliament, the
ministry have been sustained in their
anti-Russian policy. The English pc
sition may now be construed as a men
ace to Russia and it is regarded as Ger.
tain. If the war continues and Turkey
shows signs Of collapse, that the pres
ent armed neutrality of England will be
supplemented by active Intervention in
behalf of Turkey. Thus far there ha.
been no real test Of strength between
Russia and Turkey. Russia has been
maneuvreing for position both in Asia
and in Europe. In the former, the first
movement is upon Erzeroum, with the
operation upon Kars as an incident: the
second is upon Van and Bitlis, on either
eide Of Lake Van, as q base of opera.
tions against Diarbekir. $50 miles South.
west Of Erzeroum. On the Danube,
there has been no increase in the
Russian forces occupying the Calatz
and REM positions, which are some
10000 strong. These force. naturally
keep equal forces Of Turks in line from
Silistria to Tultcha. Meanw bile all the
Russian movements show that they are
concentrating the bulk of their forces
between Giurgevo and Nicopolis in one
position. These forces will form the
west Of the Russian advance, fronting
the Turks from Rustchuk 10 Shunla,
supported by the Galatz and REM
troops. Other portions will take the
centre position, and will be covered
from attack from Widdin BY a corps
called the Timok Valley Corps, but
which IS misnomer as far as it sieni-
hes an advance through Serbian terrific
~, for the best information is that Rus
s'a, for both political and military rea.
sons. will not violate Serbian territory.
Operations by the Turkish monitor. on
the upper Danube are a farce. These
monitors have only i-inch armor and
are armed with Si-een.imetre guns.
The Russian centre is rapidly assum.
ing shape on the Aluta, which empties
into the Danube above Nikopolis, and
small attachments have already occu.
pied Turnee-Magureli and Islash: so tina.
It IS very probable they intend crossing
the Danube at this point to obtain posses.
sion ofthres chief passes of the Balkans.
and thus cut Turkish communication
with the trans-Balkan districts. The
ground between the rivers Iskra, vid
and Osma. which flow northward through
Bulgaria here. increases in difieul,ie.
towards the south. the mountains be-
coming more rugged and steep: but east
OF these passes Of the Balkans il the
valley Of the Yan,ra. with the insrenebed
cad partially fortified town Of Tanova
the 6smer ipi,al Q! ancient BULGARIA.