The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-27
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.


! spondent at Shumla telegraphs, under
date of the 10Th inst, announcing that
Osman Pasha was attacked by the Rus
SLAMS on last Sunday, Monday and Tues
day. On the last day the Russians were
repulsed with great loss.
/ A correspondent in Montenegro tele-
graphs from Astorg, under date of Fri
day, announcing that the Duga pass is
now wholly cleared of Turks. One cam
non and one hundred and fifty prisoners
were taken. The prince of Montenegro
and staff have arrived at Nicsics.
| WHO is sICK9
| Russia evidently, and not Turkey, is
Europe's sick man now, but unless the
invading army can be annihilated within
a few days, which nobody anticipates, he
will recover eventually. His sufferings
and defeats by criminal blunders of
preparation and execution are ad-
mitted. But his trusted friends here
who best know his resources
and reserves are confident as ever that
this death struggle for either Cossacks or
Turks will not result in Russia's eX-
tinction as q European power. Still the
Russian aggressive campaign is probably
ended for this season. Possibly diplo-
macy may prevent its renewal. If so
it will be because Turkey is constrained
by Germany and Austria to grant terms
of peace acceptable to Russia, which
would at the same time aggrandize
their territory at Turkey expense. The
purpose of the recent interview at Salz-
burg between Bismarck and Andrassy
is now believed to have been to devise a
concerted plan of action to that end.
Germany and Austria cannot afford to
permit Russian overthrow, which would
light fires of revolution in the Cars
empire, and thus endanger the
entire continent. Their ability to
foment Servian, Roumanian, and Mon
tenegrin active hostility against the
Turks, no less than the danger of Austro-
Germanic armed intervention, would
leave Turkey little choice but to accept
their dictation.
Mehemet Ali's reported victory turns
out to be defeat. The Russian official
bulletin announces: "At the close of
the engagement we held our positions
A renewal of the attack is expected.
There is no estimate of losses"
A correspondent calls the affair ''an of
fensive reconnaissance by ten battal-
IONS"
The armies occupy the opposite bank
of the Bonica Lom.
A steam ferry between Pyrgos and
Paragan indicates that the Russians are
recovering their lost ground.
The principal Montenegrin army sur
rounds Gatochka.
THEIRS MANIFESTO.
PARIS, September 24.-Thiers' mani
festo, addressed to the electors of the
ninth reimbursement is published. 1t
justifes the proceedings of the late
Chamber of Deputies and praises its
moderation and wisdom. 1t expresses a
preference for republican government
founded on conviction; that monarchy
is impossible; describes the ex-
isting situation as intolerable,
with republican constitution
and an anti-republican administration +;
strongly protests against the crisis of the
10th of May, and proclaims the sover-
eighty of the nation and its power to re-
buke the recent dissolution; to resist its
power will be usurpation. 1t demands
/ freedom of elections and freedom of
press. Theirs principles are thus sum-
married.: Sovereignty of the national
republic, law, liberty and peace.