New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-10

THE ADVANCE on PLEyNA.
rl1curs SECURED BY TIE RUSSIANS GENERAL
ATTACK TO HAVE BEGUN YESTERDAY.
LoSDON sept Q, 1877.
Ofic;albnlletins from the Russian headquarters at
parelin give details of operations against PlcVAa as
follows: AT dusk on Thursday troops of the west
ern column approached Pleyna, and working all
NIGHT unobscryel by the Turks, erected batteries on
re heights surrounding the Turkish toItihcatlohs'
Orr siege cries opened on Friday at g a. m'
co,uonad. which continued all day. The command
ant Of one of our batteries was killed and two
officers were wounded Our loss on Friday was not
large. A few shots were exchanged during he
night The artillery engagement was renewed on
Saturday morning with great vgor, and continued
all day. In the evening, our left wing succeeded IN
occupying he heights to the south Of Che town, with
tie los, OF 800 mon. The village OF Uschto was
also occupied. The centre and right wings have APP
proachcd within 200 or 400 yards of the Turk
ish Notifications. Their losses the whole are not
great. The caunonado lasted all of saturday
night aad increased in violence on Sunday morn
ing"
A Reuter- dispatch, dated Bucharest to-day, says
A general attack on Teyna viii be made to-day, Ii
Is sul that 10000 Turks who were marching TO
O,mau Pashas assistance, have been intercepted be-
tow Nir-k
REPORTS FROM TURKISH SOURCES.
LONDON, Saturday, sept. g. 1877.
a Reuter- TELEGRAM from Constntinople dated
Saturday morning says: "a battle commenced at
Plcyna ON Friday morning. The result IS unknown.
n, details have reached C0nstantinople." Another
telegram from Constantnoplo, dated Friday says The
account received there of the cluture of Lovatz,
states that il was attacked by 10000 Russians. 1t
was CALAMITY defended by eight Turkish battalions,
who were forced to give way before superior num-
bers. They retreated in good order, taking with
them the Mussulman inhabitants The dispatch
odds: " Osman Pasha has left Pevna with twenty
tattalims to rotake LOvatz."
TIE GENERAL ASPECT or TIE CAMPAIGN.
LONDON, Saturday. sept s 1877.
The accounts Of the fighting at Loyatz which were
sent from Bucharest by the special correspondents
turn ont to be pure fiction The nine assaults Of the
Turks existed only in RoumaniaH Imagination, for
in fact, the Turks never attacked at all. Nor
is The Russian success of such proportions
as at first represented. Loyatz is an ODen
town i'm valley, important chiefly rs covering
tie roads to Traan and SEW. The use the Russians
VIII be able to make Of the position must de-
pend on their driving back the force Of Turks on
the southwest Of Loyatz within range Of whose
guns the correspondent of The Times had to pass on
the 9th inst when returning from Loyatz to Pare
din. Undoubtedly the capture Of LOyaiz must be
regarded rather as part of an important system of
operations than as an Independent achieve
meut That this is the Russian view is
shown by the fact that they brought the over
whelning odds Of $4,000 against 1000 to make
success certain. This view is further confirmed by
reports Of continued fighting III the direction of
Loyatz and Pleyna. Perhaps the Russians are
trying to finish with Osman Pasha before it becomes
Indispensable to meet Mehcmet All Pasha's advance.
Il seems beyond doubt that the Czarewitchs army
has been greatly weakened, and tEat after several
important successes Mehemet Ali now threatens the
line OF communication with IinOva while Acbmet
Eyoub Pasha, operating from Rustchuk, threatens
not only The new bridge at PyTgos, but even the
Smtoya crossing. That the Russians permit these
operations TO go forward is the strongest support to
repeated assertions of correspondents that every
Preparation was making and every nerve would be
strained to bring complete destruction to the Turk
ISL Army at Plcyna.
NICSlCS CAPTURED BY MONTENEGRO.
TIE GARRISON NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GUNS IL TIE
VCIOR's HANDS.
VIENNA Sept. O. 1877
CattarO telegram to the Political Correspondence
reports that Nicsics with nineteen guns has surren-
dered Internationally but the garrison aud inhabi-
tants were allowed to withdraw to GatschkO.
Nlcsics is a stronghold on the boundary line
between Montenegro and Herzegovina 1t has been held
tuObomy throughout the by the TURKS, who have
expended thousands OF lives in cndcayOrng from
ume 70 time TO provision its beleagucred gar
Hoh It's capture Is heavy bow TO the military pres
tge Of Tie Turks. while il advances eoespondngly the
fame ofthe Montenegrns probable that this victory
vii mpar renewed yigor TO the instruction In Western
Turkey.
THE OPERATIONS AROUND RUSTCHUK
LONDON, Sept. o. 1877.
The Russians have erected new monster gun at
hlobosio which has silenced three Turkish batteries
before Rustchuk.
Reuter- telegram, dated Bucharest today says
The whole Russian Rustchuk army has taken up
fresh and less extended positions. Other dispatches
show that these positions probably in the neigh
borhoOd Of Biela
SERYIA AND HER ADVISERS
LosDoE. Sept 8, 1877.
special dispatch from Belgrade to The Times
nays that, in diplomatic circles II is reported that
We German Consul-General confers very often with