Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-09-12

bore back others on their rifles.
We gave up our horses to the
wounded officers, who finally gath
cred a few hundred of us at the
foot of q hill along winding road
which leads to the town of Karasan.
The result Of the loss at Karasan
is not important unless the enemy
succeeds in forcing the heights we
now hold. The Czarovitch's army
is necessarily divided into small
masses at different places along the
whole line of the front from Giur-
gevo to Tirnova. A speedy con-
centration is impossible, first from
want Of troops, and second on ac-
count of the great distances and
narrow roads. Our present posi-
ton is an admirable one. We stand
of course, strictly on the defensive.
This correspondent estimates the
Russian loss at 5000 killed and
wounded in the battle.
London, Sept. 3.-Hobart Pasha
writes to the Levant Herald de-
claring as utterly fictitious the
published details of the alleged
fight between the Turkish iron-clad
Tethiboulend and the Russian
merchant steamer Vesta. The YES
sells, he SAYS, were never within
two miles of each other. The
Tethiboulend received only one
spent shot, doing no harm. The
captain did not know he had in
iured the Russian steamer, and he
did not pursue her, as his vessel
was overladen with a deck cargo
of guns and ammunition for Sulina.
Gorny Studen, Sept. 3.-The fol-
lowing official statement has been
issued: The Russian loss on the
3lst of August was: At Hadikoi,
seven killed and thirty wounded !;
at Selisat, thirty officers and l,O2O
soldiers killed and wounded. The
Turkish loss is enormous. Near
the village of Selisat alone 300
dead bodies were counted on the
31st nltimo.
Constantinople, Sept. 3.-The
Turks acknowledge the loss OF
1000 men in Shipka Pass. Two
thousand wounded reached Adrian
ople yesterday.
The Russians officially estimate
their losses at Shipka Pass at |, 200
killed and 5000 wounded.
Gorny Studen, Sept. 4.-Lovatz
was yesterday carried by assault
by the Russian troops under Gems,
Meretinsky and Scobeloff.
Constantinople, Sept. 6.-Me-
hemet Ali telegraphs under date
of to-day from Kechlowa as fol-
lows: To-day Eyoub Pasha's army
corps, which was divided into two
columns, attacked the Twelfth Rus
sian army corps, which was sup
ported by a division on this bank
of the LON. The Russians were
defeated and re-crossed the LON
. in disorder. They abandoned their
fortified positions near Kechlowa'
The commander of their cavalry
was killed. They lost 5000 killed
and wounded. We lost 200 killed
and 700 wounded.
London, Sept. 6.-The Russian
success at Lovatz makes Osmar
Pasha have hostile force on both
tanks. Either defeat at Plevna OF
attempted withdrawal may result
in the destruction of his army, un.
less the Russians are compelled tc
weaken their forces on that side &c
meet Mehemet Ais advance from
Rasgrad. The latter seems tc
place tho Czarowitch's army in 9
position very similar to Osman Pa
sha's. If Turkish accounts may
be trusted the Turkish force has
crossed the LON and reached the
neighborhood of Obiterni, while
another force has crossed the Kara
LON to Palomarta. These corps
are understood to be operating
against Biela, but they jeopardizC
the whole Russian campaign east
of the Yuntra as well as the com.
munications with Tirnova.
, A correspondent with the Rus.
slams after giving a detailed &C
count of the defeat of the Turks
at Lovatz, says: Immediately af
ter the redoubt was taken l enter
ed it. The roads adjacent to the
, plain were tbickly dotted with dead
and wounded. Up the slope where
, the Russians had charged the re-