Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-07-12

wlter. At night il is necessary to carry iigh
and god stick, well planted blow from
the latter doing wonders in warning OFF dogs
The Progress Ofthe War.
The interest in the Eastern conflict Il
at present chiefly centred on the mill
tary movements in Europe. Fighting
Russian advance there has necessarily
been slow, and the difficulties in the
way of obtaining reliable news so great
that popular interest In the progress Oi
hostilities there has weakened. Be.
sides this, the Cxar has SO far carefully
abstained from making public bis in.
tentions as 10 sny territory he may
gain in Asia, while his proclamation
on entering Bulgaria clearly foreshad-
owed the political aspect of future ope-
nations in Europe. He asserts most
positively that the object Of the inva
sion is, the liberation of the Bulgarians
from Turkish tyranny, the pacifca-
tion of all races and denominations,
strict justice to all. and the substitution
of local organizations, in which the ma
tive Inhabitants will be called to take
part, for Turkish rule, 81 have conf
ded," he says, "to my army the mis-
sion OF securing the sacred rights of ma
tiOnality, which you have acquired by
centuries of suffering and the blood Of
martyrs which has soaked your soil.o -
This is a most important Document, and
1t is only natural that the campaign ia
that territory between the Danube apd
the Balkans, upon the result OF which
depend 80 inaRy promised changes,
should be watched with lively inter.
est. And Independent Of this, the rap
id stride OF late events has been mark-
ed by SO much strategy, such conceu-
traiionl off force and y military dash and
vigor that men may be pardOned for
believing that within the next few
days the crisis will be reached and the
decisive battle of the campaign be
fought i-isitl @ traiasa Csv4 9sgs3 j.
Although 1t is always difficult mat
ter in warfare 10 oppose the crossing
of a river, unless the defending force
know the exact point at which the
passage would q be attempted, the
Turks In this instance seem to have
bee q utterly bewildered, not only by
the saddsDness of the attack, but by
the many feints made all along the
banks of the Danube. On the 22d OF
june one Russian corps crossed at .1b-
rail and Galatz, and the subsequent
concentration Uf large force at Turnu.
Magurelli evidently led the Turkish
commander 10 believe that the next
effort at passage would be made there.
Accordingly, his troops we've massed
behind N0kopOlis to prevent IL, and
when a successful crossing was made
at Simnitza they were ut once moved
to that place to drive back the invs-
ders. This left the passage at .Turnu.
Magurelli und,sturbed, while simulta-
nepusIy with this another crossing WAS
effected ut Silisrs, Sst0ra snd Wild.
din. The result is, therefore, THAT the
Russiens now occupy the whole of
northeastern sBHgaris; that they have
isOlated the four fortress ) OF the quad
rjlaferal, and cut off the f,Fce at Wild
din and the Furkish army In Albania.
All the grand fioatiBg arHiasReatWhieh
the Turks had On the Danbube it seems
WINS of no avail in preve;;ting the
passage of the river, and is! now for all
practical purposes uselt ss. Eieh cross
ing maize by the Russians has been
fortified, and the irOn-clads lett up the
stream have been virtually cut of.
Those below. Gxlatz might be able to
escape TO the Black Sea, but the Rus
sian tOrpedOes are thickly stTewn
around, rendering movement danger
Ous, and the thought forces itself upon
us that Hobart Pasha's7 experience in
the navy of England has stood him in
little stesd when he had to cope with
the army OF Russia. i57iiI
The old adage that history repeats it.
self has an exemplificatiOn in the pres
ent struggle, and there see ms to be
marked resem blance between il and
our own war. Grant behind Vicks-
burg and Pemberton eoOped up with.
in the works trying to hold what had
already been lost has parallel in the
fate which Ia only too likely to fall
upon Rustchuk. and .Sillistria. The
Mississippi campsign was fought from
an interior line similar to what the |
Russians have now acquired. First |
Fort Henry fell, then Island No. 10 |
and Columbus we're abandoned. With |
the surrender of Fort DOnelsons and |
Nashville, Memphis could no longer !
be held, and Vicksburg was finally |
captured through Grant getting to its /
rear by crossing the river below, mo-
wing upon jackson and hemming
Pemberton within the works. The
of the Russians at SistOva is
likely to lead to the same results. |
The Turks have been surrounded at
Silistria will soon be in the |
same unenviable situation, with q
heavy force moving on Shumla and
Varua, representing the Atlanta and
Mobile OF our warfare. Every opera.
ton of Russia so far seems to favor the
idea that her great object is to force
The Turks to fight in the field. Light
and flying artillery she has in abun-
lance, but few siege gus or hsavy I
so thatit Is optional with the
Turkish forces either to remain In
heir entertainments or come boldly
but and wage their warfare in the
open field. The Russian strength Is
Iufficient to enable it both to invest
he fortresses Ofthe quadrilateral and
Although there are sew
snteen passes over the Balkan noun
aims, only six of them are available for
Armies, the safest route being that
rom Shumla to Kamabad. This, as
we'll a. the road from Praivadi to
AidOs, and that from Varna to Misuv-
i, which the Russians took In 1929,
.Onverges at AdriAnople, and 1t Is
highly probable all of them will again
,e utilized, and the Mus,ovite hordes
will pour over the Balkans and march
% COnstantinOple. Everything, there
ore, at the present timsb looks well for
Russia, and unless help comes from
ome other power the death knell OF
Turkish rule seems already to have
American.
The man who stopped his paper be-
ause he could not afford II, lately sold a
hundred bushels of wheat 20 cents per
,ushel less than the market price.
There must be congregations, and
lon't you think the people who listen