The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-01

The Imperial Guard of Russia. which has
lately been mobilized, and is new ilp move
ment toward Bulgaria, consists OF three di
visions OF Infantry, eacll of four regiments.
Each regiment has four battaliens, one of
whic1is composed of riilemen There is aso
a brigade of rifles of -four battaIiors, of which
one isTecruited from Finland. The cevalry
consists OF three divisions. One division is
composed of dragons, each of the ren,;s inder
OF one regiment OF dragoons. one regimen: OF
lancers9 one OF h9ssars, ons of Cossacks The
cavalry Of the Guard masters about 5000
horse, There are also in the Guard three
brigades OF tieil artillery, force of eighteen
batterle sof eight guns each; and three bat
teries OF horse artillery. TIE total effective
strength OF the CORPS of the Guards mustsrs
about 46 900 men,.
Winter Prospects of the RussiaB Array.
War Correspondence London Times.]
The question of maintaining the aussian
army in EulgariH during the winter is becom-
plies OF food for man and beasbnow stocked in
Roumania and Bulgaria would maintain 30O,-
900 men through the winter, and $50, 900 men
would be sufficient to hold the" Russian, posi-
tiOns during the season when the roads are
practically impossible for military purposes,
and the rest of the troops couId be retired
across the Danube until spring: The question
Of getting these supplies to the army is the
rarely frozen so as to prevent the passage of
steamers, hence the transportation across
the river could be managed, and then, If the
large cavalry force were dismounted forsthe
winter, or a. portion Of it, the horses of the
cavalry, artillery and transport trains could
be organized into immense trains of pack
horses, which would be sufficient to supply
the troops with the necessaries of life. The
scarcity Of fuel would be the greatest diff
Guilty ITO surmOunt. Underground barrack
huts might be sufficient to keep the soldiers
warm, in connection with their heavy fur or
sheepskin coats, but for cooktng purposes
fuel is OF course necessity. the Russians
can overcome. the fuel difficulty, they can
winter in Bulgaria.
The condition OF the corpses on the battle
field of Plevnsl will, presume, after the rain,
be something horrible, unless the dogs, the
crows and the vultures have by this time
done their work, which, however, is not prob
able, taking into account the large number Of
the dead Imagine, ii you can, even a thou
sand dead having lain rotting in the sun for
nearly fourteen days, and the decomposed
parts now being washed away by this drench-
ing, pouring, uneeasing rain, and your mind
will be filled with deep Indignation at the bar
barism of the Turks, who arpogantly disre-
gard the universal custom OF civilized war
fare and permit pestilence to breed under
their very eyes.
The Turkish government has sentenced
Redif Pasha, Abdul Kerim Pasha, the ex-
commandments OF Scutari, SiStOva and Shipka
pass, and ten other unsuccessful officers to be
baniShed to Lemnos until the war is~ over,
when they will be tried for incapacity.
A correspondent from tie seat of war on
the Russian side, writes to a London paper
"Put a Turk in a ditch, give him a gun, a
sackful Of cartridges, loaf of bread, and a
jug of water, and he will remain there week
or a month under the most dreadful artillery
fire that can be directed against him, without
finching."
There is some talk in Russia of BORROW
ing" the funds of the monastcries If the inn
perial treasury gets very low through the
war expenditures. These monasteries, 542 in
number, are full of treasures, which have been
hoarded from year to year. They own three
millions acres of land and have an annual
revenue of $S,000,000. One monastery at
Moscow has $16,00O,000 in it's treasury.
In the war song officially distributed among
the Russian soldiers with the sanction of the
Grand Duke Commander-in-Chef,t there oc-
ours the following verse: "Bear down upon
the confounded Turks, and take no prisoners
They have skinned and impaled (the Chris
tan) and burnt them alive. No quarter can
be given to them" This is a literal trans
latiOn.