The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-07-05
The Eastern War.

MONDAY ulSpdIcueS TepIeSSu6
that great battle had been fought
near Sistova in which the Russians
are said to have been defeated and
routed. They also made a deter
minded attack on Kars, but were
repulsed with great loss. A steam
er filed with Roumanian soldiers
was sunk on the Danube by Turk
ish gunboat. They represent the
utmost CONSERVATION as existing IN
Bulgaria owing to the vandalism of
the Turkish troops.
This from the Courier-Journal is
the most comprehensive and intelli-
gible statement of the situation we
can possibly give in the same
amount of space
The establishment of the Russian
camp on the heights about oistova
marks the fatal breaking of the
Turkish line of defense goo miles
long), between Rustchuk and Wild
din. There will be two hundred
thousand Russians i'll Western Bul
garia in a day or two; the western
division of Abdul Kerim's forces Is
isolated, and General Zimmerman is
apparentlybentson the destruction of
the two railroads connecting the
Black Sea with the Danube in the
eastern part of Bulgaria, thus isola-
ting another division of the Turkish
army. If the communication of
Shumla with Varna is broken, the
Turks will be placed in a condition
to show their valOr within the quad
rilateral They have devoted them
selves in an extraordinary manner
to the defense of Shumla, which is
said to be impregnable, as there are
nine large earthworks around the
town, defended by one hundred
guns, while sixty thousand soldiers
are encamped in the vicinity. Some
time ago the Turks began to build
railroad from COnstantinople to
Shumla, but it is only completed as
far as Jamboli, a march of six or
seven days to Shumla. The roads
over the Balkans from between Var
ma and Shumla are good, but a
small force of Turks could render
them impossible by the Russian ar
nv. so that Zimmerman's Dobrud-
scha movement is evidently intend
ed to engage and crush the Turkish
right, without perhaps attempting a
siege of Silistria, Varna or Shumla,
and thus facilitate the advance of
the Russian center from the Rust
chuk- Widin line. The news of Rus
sian movements from that quarter
are very meager, but the reports
from Turkish sources are equally
so, and from that latter fact it may
safely be presumed that the Rus
SLAMS are carrying out their plans.
In Armenia, the Turks are holding
their position at levin, with 10000
Russians in their rear at Khorasan
and a large Russian force in front,
with whom engagements occur every
day, thus far disastrous to the Rus
slams. The main objects of the
Russians is evidently to reduce
Kars and in the meantime to keep
Mukhtar's army at a distance.
Mukhtar has lost his advan
tageous position at Soghanlu,
where all the roads from Kars to
Erzeroum are drawn into two mar
row defles levin, Mukhtar's
headquarters, is about three days
march from Erzeroum. The Turks
are preparing to make a vigorous
defense of the main road to Ere
roum, both from the direction of
Kars and Bajazid. 1t is apparent,
from the condition of affairs on the
Danube, that tue Turkish War De
partment will not be able to send
many more men to Mukhtar Pasha,
and it will not be long before Sulie-
man Pasha's army of 10000 men.
now operating in Montenegro, will
be called for in Bulgaria, as the
pressure is becoming very severe in
that quarter. The war has now
passed through its predatory stages,
and with the crossing at Sistova
and Ibrail it begins to assume a
bloody hue, and there will be news
Of a stirring character from this
time on. The diplomatic arm has
certainly spent its strength, the
sword is unsheathed, and the East
ern question is evidently to be set
tied by the flowing of rivers Of
blood