The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27
THE RUSS AND TURK.

Our domestic wars have served to with
draw attention from the progress of the
great struggle between Russia and Turkey
The accounts of the various conflicts and
movements in the latter contest are nearly
| as confusing and inexplieable as the kilograms
that reach us from Chicago, Pittsburg, ST.
Louis and other scenes of the great war be-
tween the strikers and militamen. There is
| one stubborn and certain fact which appears
to be conceded by all accounts. This is, the
safe passage of q large portion of the army of
the Grand Duke Nicholas through the Bal
kans, leaving behind an adequate force to
engage and hold the strong Turkish garrisons
OF Shumla and Varna on the northern side of
the mountains. This being the military sit
uation some great battles are imminent. Of
which we shall be happy If we do not receive
the accounts before they occur and be com
PEELED in twenty-four hours afterward to cor
rect the sams and reverse the reported glo-
rious victory Of the Turks and annihilating
disasters of the Russians.
The Russians. we IRE assured by that most
intelligent of all the Russophies. our friend
Frank OF the ST. Charles a veritable vandal
who is familiar with the whole country as
well as with the strategy and designs of the
Russians, have advanced within thirty miles
Of Adrianople. Thither the government at
Constantinople has directed all it's desperate
forces, and assigned the victorious subiugator
of the Montenegrins, Suleiman Bey, to the
chief command, with Mahomet 1.-THE German
General Schusterl as the second in command
This looks like n heroic resolution of the
Turks to force a decisive conflict under the
walls OF their ancient capital. which they held
for over hundred years against all the
powers of Christianity, then installed at
Constantinople. Old Abdul Kerim has
been left behind to hold the quadrilateral
forts, if he has not been left still further be-
hind through the intrigues and discontents of
the cabinet at Stambou1, who have already
censured the inactivity or incomprehensi-
bility of his strategy. With full knowledge
OF the enormous obesity of old Kerim. and
his heavy draft on the commissariat Of n
whole goat for his daily subsistence, and his
incapacity for celeritous locomotion, the Sui
tan has retained him in chief command Of all
the Turkish forces which ought to have
guarded the Balkan passes. Whilst he was
feasting on his goat, the Grand Duke
Nicholas, contenting himself with talow
candle for dinner, and loaf of black bread
for tea, has pushed his Cossacks and his
heavy infantry through the Balkans and
moves steadily on Adrianople.
Here the fate of Constantinople and Tur-
key will be determined and when the decisive
battle has been fought, and it will doubtless
be terrible and sanguinary one we shall
probably hear something from Austria and
England. And If they do not speak in en-
phatic and decisive terms, we may conclude
that the time has arrived to inscribe on the
pillar which the Russians will doubtless erect
on the scene of the final conflict before Adri-
anople the eloquent epitaph that marked the
site of the ancient Troy, Hltum FuH Mosem
rule in Europe will thenceforth become
mere "Reminiscences, and the cross will wave
over the whole of Europe as 1t did in the days
of the great Constantine.