The New York herald., 1877-09-12

osma, but my wagon had gromuiously to return and
elect the crossing al the original stose BRIDGE
TuE liRSovA or rrDAf.
The beauiifui and romantic Zavrada rass. which
constitutes natural approach OF SURPRISING grandeur
towns--caB never lose ITS charm. Tnc com
bination OF wafer, rock and foliage 10 pefIec',
ana every ,urn ~ The aiming rSsa shosa' 81 ,ha
scene we felt, too, how different from now were
the auspices under which we prst traverseu an".
pass. We with the cori6ge OF the 'irahu
Duke when he rode lnin Tinnya aind tue paudis ana
tho glad weeping OF a population beside themselves
with Joy. Flowers ware shswered down from the WIN
dows aud sirewcd ms path; priests anu gris sirus-
glcd Tor the honor OF kissing his hand TO DC win The
l,ussians In Trnoya then was 10 be welcome guest,
Tor every door stood open. Tho strains oi trunppm
music swept along The quaint narrow streets, ana tho
precpiccs amid which the town hangs rithcr than
strong The contrast now, The road up tho steep
nto the town blocked by double row OF vehicles, one
soldiers, the other by sulivn Bulearipns, who have
found out with great alacrity that they have rights
subscrvieDt but even IN tentative way inclined 10
DC unciv i they can but harden their nerves. The
place never clean, but II Is loucr now than evcr.
THE BuLGAHiANs ARE POOR soLDERs
Above the entrance stands, glunt and ugly, the
skeleton ol u triumpha arch towhch 10 more clings
the last shred OF decoration. III looked Ike gaows
mourning the abolition OF capital punishment fhe
narrow street was disheartoning chaos OF vehicles,
whose horses scram bod about over the lthy stones;
OF Imscr.ble fugves squatng stlcssly wherever they
could lind corner, or trying 10 push through with
their donkeys laden with clothes aud children; OF
the amid the cers Of the Russian soldiers;
OF limp bulgarian lads IN UNIFORM al whom the Rnsr
sans Will persist IN trying TO make soolers, service
Tor which they lack alike heart aud stamina; OF time
worn nun of the original Bulgarian Legion. VINO.
having somehow out OF the pandomo-
mum OF Eski Sasra with uncut throals, have
dri!ted back hlthcr demoralized and disgusted; OF
German Jcw chapinen, selling everything from bad
champagne TO rupbishng boosi OF marketenders seek.
ing shops whoreat to replepsh their wagons and of
Bulgarian priests walking about in long pctcoats !
the house to which my previous visit had
been Welcomed With ODeu arms. aud found come
difficulty in getting n-I think, indeed, that should
have been refused altogether had ! not recalled
10 The memory OF the landlady this TACT
tina, ! paid well for my previous enter
tanment As for my horses, the only place
could find for them wretched sUbterrancan sta
bic under ioa, hsome khan--a stable reached by
tiers Of rotten and foul stone steps, and when
there neither hay nor corn was to be had Tor them;
hcy had 10 be fcd bread IL too late call
General RaJezky or General Drasimlron, who had
been told both resident In the place or Pr,ace
Mercnsk and the Second division could hear moth
ing All could learn that mass OF troops had
marched OIL the day before ia the direction o Gabrova,
and another still larger detachment had gone away
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