The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
THE BITTER BITTEN.
RsdI, Bittcu-The Russian Piercing the
Ottoman Empire IL stung to The Quick
-&rsphtc Description of Tuesdays
Battle and the Shattered Con-
dillon OF the Nanquished.

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near Pleyna, a graphic account of Tue:
days battle, which conveys a vivid ide
of the extent Of the Russian disaster
The correspondent is with Prime
Schko.koyski's command, and says tina
now all hope of success anywhere wa
dead, nor did the chance offer to max
the best of the defeat Prince Schkos
koyski had not a man left to cover hi
retreat. The Turks struck without stint
they had the upper hand for once, an,
were determined to show that they kney
how to make the most of it. They ad
vanced in swarms through the dusk upol
their original first position, and captured
the Russian cannon before tine batterie
could be withdrawn. Turkish shells one,
more began to whistle over the ridg,
above Radishoya and fall into the villag,
behind, now crammed with wounded
The streams of wounded vending thei
painful way over the ridge were incessant
the badly wounded mostly lay wher,
they fell. Later on in the darkness {
baleful sort of "krankeutrager" swarmeC
over the battlefield, in the shape O.
Bashi-Bazouks, who spared not. Linger
ing there on the ridge until the moon
rose, the staff could hear from below on
the still night air cries of pain
and entreaties for mercy, and yells
of bloodthirsty, fanatical triumph. 1t
was indeed IN hour to wiring the sternest
heart. We stayed there to learn if it
might be what troops were coming out
of the Valley of Death below were there
indeed any at all to come. The Turks
had our range before dark, and we could
watch the flash of the fame over us and
then listen to the scream of the she'll as
it tore by us. The sound of r~ife-bullets
was incesSant, and the escort and retreat
ing wounded were often struck. De-
tachments at length began to come
struggling up, but it will give an idea of
the disorganizatiOn to say that when a
company was told off to go and recover
some of the wounded in Radishova, it
had to be made up of men of several
regiments. About nine o'clock the
staff left the ridge, leaving it Uttered
with grooming men, and moving gently,
lest we should tread on the PROSTATE
wounded, we lost our way as we had lost
our army. We could find no rest for the
soles of our feet, by reason of alarms of
Bashi BazOuks swarming in among
,he scattered and retiring Russians. At
at one o'clock in the morning,
been in the saddle since 6 o'clock
N the previous morning, we turned
ntO a stubble-field, ard, making beds of
capped grain, correspondent and Cossack
like rested under the stars but we were
ot ever then allowed to rest before four
came that the Bashi- Bazouts
'ere upon us, and we had to rouse and
away. The only protection of the
lief of what in the morning was a fine
rmy was now a handful of wearied Cos
Lcks. General Krudener sent word in
lie morning that he had lost severely.
could make no Roadway, and had
solved to fall back on the line of the river
sma, There had been talk, his troops
ling fresh, of reviewing the attack
day, with his cooperation, but it is a
ain statement of fact that we have no
oops to attack with. The most moder-
e estimate is that we have lost two
giments-:ay five thousand men-out
our three brigades-a CHASTITY number,
'ating Eylau or Friedland. This takes
account of General Krudener's losses,
e, too, shall retire on the Osman river,
'Out Bulgarenl, and, to the best of our
FAX strength, cover the bridge at Sis
One cannot, in this moment of
confusion, realize all the possible
of this stroke SC rashly courted.
OF a Russian soldier stands between
rnova and the victorious Turks in Lo-
/ and Pleyna, and only a weak division
the eleventh corps stands between Tir-
va and Shumla. The army look on
hkokoyski's force as wrecked and no
nger for the campaign to be counted on
fighting material. 1t is not ten days !
ice the thiTtieth division crossed the
anube in the pride of its superb condi-
IN. Now, what of it is left is democrat
ID and shattered. So on this side of
e Balkans there remains but the ninth &
rps, already roughly handled, once at |
and nee at Plevna, one divis- ,
4 of the eleventh corps, and the Rust [
uk army. Now, if the Rustchuk army
marched 10 the west against Plevna,
Ell the Turkish army of Rustchuk is s
loose on the Russian communications I
Tirnova. One cannot avoid the con-
Ision that the advance over the Bal
ms is seriously compromised. The Rus
strait is SO bad that scattered detach- r
have been called up from out of !
,umania, and a Roumanisn division,
mmanded by General Mauna. which /
,ssed a day or two ago at Nikopolis, t
s been called up to the line of the Os- v
, river. An aid-de-camp of Grand 7
Ike Nicholas was present at
e battle, and at once started for a
with the evil tidings. i
e are just quitting this bivouac and n
ling back on Bulgareni with all speed,
wing the Bulgarian villages to the g
mercies of the Turks. As / close a
earn that on our left General Scobelof v
IS very severely handled, having lost a
rec hundred men out of his single in
TRY battalion. a
The correspondent of the Daily News n
tn Prince Schockosky's force, tele- q
from Simnitza, under date of d
Igust LIST, gives an account of the re-
at. He thinks the whole force lost b
.ween six and seven thousand men in s.
led and wounded. A brigade of the r
irty-second division suffered most Of
Besides the terrible loss of men, d
gacrifced the imperial banner of one of h
regiments. The whole of the thirtieth o.
ision has been smitten sorely. All the 81
ee brigades of Schockosky's command er
for the time in state of d~isorganiza- ca