The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-24

dirsetsa voltey would thin our Russian
cadres this side Of the vid very appre-
ciably, for bv this time theaa must have
been hundred officers gathered here,
| and capitulation was by no means ar
| raneed as yet. On the heights to our
right we see the Russians moving up to
the redoubt on one side while the Turks
were leaving it on the other. Presently
Gen. Ganetsky arrives, and then the way
is blocked with wagons. dead horses and
oash. The men have all been carried off,
but besides the Wagons, near the bridge, /
see one young fellow lying, badly wound
ed. He has lain himself carefully
down there, with his cloak wrapped
around him and his rife and knapsack
under hib head. He evidently takes
pride in his gun-a Peabody it is
very bright and clean, and be has put it
carefully under hum 80 that if may not
be taken away. He did not think to
part with It so soon. He is scarcely II,
and tn6 doctor who has dressed his
wound says he will hot live till night.
We thread our way cautiously over
the bridge, through broken carriages
and dead bodies of horses and cattle,
and find ourselves among the Turks.
There afs seters1 dead lying in the ditch
beside the road. Some wounded are
lmping along with us, going beaven
knows whittier, and there are two senti-
nels standing in a trench overlooking
the river, keeping their watch as though
they We're looking for all attack at any
moment. As #e advance the crowd gets
thicker The Turkish soldiers, with
guns and bayonets in their hands, then
at whom we have been shooting, and
who we're shooting at us two hours ago,
some with a savage expression, gaze at
us with a scowl, but there are pleasant,
intelligent faces also, who look at us
with steady, clear, inquisitive eyes.
Gen. Skobeleff, Sen, recalled an episode
of the Hungarian insurreciion resemA
bling this, where there was an armistice,
and great number of Austrian officers
crossed over the bridge to the Hunga-
riahr, as we did here, when the Hunga-
rian commanding officer opened his
ranks and fired his cannon, charged to
the muzzle with mitraille, on the Aus
trians. Let us hope the two incidents
will not resemble each other in all re-
spects.
When the General is about a hundred
yards from the bridge the crush Is 80
great that we can advance no
further, and indeed we do not wish to,
for it is in this little house overlooking
the fUad that Osman Ghazi lies wound
ed. Gems. Ganetsky, Strukof and some
others have gone to see him. I was un-
able to get in wing to the crowd. The
conference did not last more than few
minutes. The terms of capitulation
were easily arranged. The surrender is
unconditional. Osman consented at
once. If surprise be expressed that it
should have been so suddenly agreed it
is only necessary to state that he could
do nothing else. In order to attempt
sortie, he had to abandon all the posi-
tions in which he had defed the Rus
slams SO long, and to concentrate his
army down on the Vid. These positions
once lost were lost forever, because the
Russians occupied them almost as soon
he left them. He was down in the
valley; they on the surrounding hills,
with an army three times as large as his.
He had to surrender without delay, for
they were drawing the circle tighter
every moment. His position was like
Napoleon's at Sedan. The disparity in
numbers was greater, and he had not
even the shelter of the village. So Os-
man surrendered Internationally the
gallant army with which he had held
this now-femous stronghold for so long,
and with which he upset the whole Rus
sian plan of campaign, and with which
he defeated III three pitched battles
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