The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-12
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.
The Very Latest Dispatches By
Associated Press.
The Turco-R Russian War.
A RUSSIAN RRPULsE.


containing Pera special, which says In
telligence has been received from Sulina
that on Wednesday the Russians attempted
to cross the Danube at REM. They threw
bridge over the river, but were met by
the Turkish infantry and artillery, assisted
by three gun boats. The bridge was
broken, and large number Of Russians
killed and captured. The Russians were
completely defeated.
A Constantinople dispatch says the
works for the defense Of Constantinople
will be constructed by the inhabitants. In
telligence has been received that the Rue
SLAMS encounter great difficulty in their at.
tempts to force passage of the Danube.
[Note.-The foregoing is later than the
special from Pers to the Telegraph
ARMING THE BALTIC.
A st. Petersburg telegram says all fort
garrisons of the Baltic ports have been
made up to their full strength. The mob
ilized army of the north is concentrated on
the Baltic coast. The Finish merchant
| fleet will not leave the Baltic this year in
view of any eventualities which may arise.
DESTRUCTIVE BATTLE.
Further particulars of Thursdays artil-
lery engagements between the Roumanian
battery, near Oltenitza, and the Turkish
battery in front of Turtukai, supported by
two monitors, state that Turtukai was ig-
nited by shells and twice displayed the
white flag. One monitor was seriously
damaged. The Turks, in consequence of
the conflagration, ceased firing and with
drew their battery during the night.
| AN IRoN-cLAD WITH THREE HUNDRED MEN
SUNK.
RUsTcHUK, May II.
A Russian battery hitherto masked by q
vineyard, opened fire to-day on the Turk
ish monitors near Ibrail. An hour after
the commencement of the action shell
struck large three masted iron-clad and
sank her with crew crew Of three hun
dred and Hassan Bey. There are ten thou
sand Russians already at Giurgevo who are
beginning to push their way westward
along the river to Simnitza; they intend to
occupy the bank of the Danube as far as
the junction with the Alata river.
WAR MOTHS.
A special ambassador from the shah Of
Persia has arrived at Paris to conclude ne
| gotiations already commenced by the Rus
sian agent at Teheran. 1t is proposed to
frame a convention to enable Russia's
troops and artillery to march through the
| Persian territory.
A Bucharest dispatch reports the Rus
sian commanders evidently taking every
precsution to bring their armies to the
Danube without fatiguiug men or animals.
The condition of the troops show that their
! efforts are successful.
The London correspondent Of the Scots
man says there is good authority for the
statement that, to the present moment, not
a single journal in Europe has received per-
mission from Russia to send,a correspond
ent to the headquarters of the Russian
army.
A Ragusa dispatch says Mic Sizes is sufil-
ciently provisioned for another six weeks.
Suliman Pasha will not attempt to force
Dirga pass Immediately.
A dispatch from Teheran states that the
Russian military expedition started from
Fort Krasnovodsk, on the east coast of the
Caspian, is going in southeasterly direc-
tion towards the country of the Akhal Tur-
comans, who recently rendered their alle-
glance to Persia.
The sultan Is much pleased with Lord
Derbys reply to Gortschakoff's circular,
and has ordered the porte to officially thank
the English government. He has also sent
his aid-de-camp to thank Mr.. Laysrd.
Bucharest advices say the Russians are
preparing to force crossing of the Danube
simultaneously at Kalafat, Nichapolis and
point between Renzi and Galatz. Turk.
ish gunboats are actively bombarding al
these points. The Russians are erecting
batteries to defend themselves.
1t is reported that the Russians have moi
only withdrawn from the environs of Kari
and Ardahan, but also from Bayazid and
Kagiswen.
A Bucharest dispatch says the larges
Turkish monitor on the Danube, which wa
anchored before Ibrail, was sunk by tn,
Russian batteries at four o'clock this after
noon. The Turks continue to seize vesseli
lying In Roumanian harbors. They burr
those which refuse to cross to the Turkisl
side of the Danube.