The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-10
War Notes.

Russia has ordered 1900 Krupp field
guns.
Prince Charles of houmania returned
to Bucharest Thursday.
The Servians captured at Picrot %
cannon, 100 rifles and 90 prisoners.
The garrison of Nisch seems inclined
to surrender. Negotiations have been
opened for capitulation.
A Berlin special says Russia is sounding
various Mediterranean states as 10 their dis
position relative to the opening of the Oar
danelles.
Osman Pasha arrived at Bucharest
Wednesday last. His wound is progressing
favOrably. 1t is believed he will be impris-
oned at Moscow.
Nine hundred horses perished in the
vicinity of Sistova during the recent storm
The total loss of draught animals must be
numbered by thousands.
A Bucharest dispatch says the bridges
crossing The Danube at Simnitza were taken
up to prevent their destruction. 1t is hoped
that the bridge at Petroshani, Just reported
ss having been carried away, can be re.
paired.
The czar in reply to a deputation
headed by Prince Gortschakoff ENGLAND
intends, apparently, to exercise a pressure
upon the liberty of our action but we will
against Intervention"
A Russian official dispatch states that
the steamer Russland, commanded by Adiu-
tant BarnOf, has returned to SebastopooI
from cruise in the Bosporus, bringing as
prize the Turkish transport steamer Messina
with 700 Turkish troops on board.
A correspondent at the Headquarters
/ of the Russian Rustchuk army saws: "The
snow is over two feet deep and all operations
are suspended. Two soldiers and many
beasts have perished Transport service to
the bridge crossing the Danube at Sistova
and Petroshari is interrupted.
DetaiIsare slowly coming in concerning
the sufferings of Turkish prisoners from
Plevna on their way to Roumanis. The
prisoners were unaccompanied by any We
hicle for the purpose of picking up those who
tell by the wayside. These were left by the
guards to freeze, as they had no means of
carrying them and halt would only have
| increased the number of victims. The alb
sence of wagons was not due to deliberate
cruelty, but to that thoughtlessness which so
| frequently subjects Russian soldiers to un
| necessary sufferings. learn through R9u-
| manian officers who came from NikOpolis to
| Plevna after the passage of these prisoners.
! that they drove against a number of dead
| bodies in the snow. No provision was made
| in the Bulgarian villages for the proper sus-
| tenance of captives, but after the Danube
| was passed supplies we're provided and from
| that time their lot was never hard to bear.
A correspondent at Bucharest tele-
| graphs that it is currently rumored, and
| generally believed there, that Osman Pasha
will be tried by military court martial OF
the highest jurisdiction for the slaughter OF
| the wounded after the great battle of july
| 81, the fight before tie Grivitza redoubt on
September II, and several other minor en-
| gagements. The discoveries made by the
Russians since occupying the Notifications
of Plevna, information gained from Turkish
| Officers and above all the absence of Russian
prisoners, although several hundred had beer
taken during the engagements, leaving n rea
| sonable doubt that the Turks under Osmar
Pasha have been guilty of deeds which viii
| render his illustriOus name forever infamous
1t will be remembered that in August 1865
special military commission sat in Wash
| lngton to try Wlrz, charged with destroyins
the lives of soldiers confined in Anderson
| vile military prison. The crimes of which
Wirz was convicted, and for which he wa
hanged, were less offensive to the code o
modern warfare than those imputed to Os
man Pasha. Every day brings to light new
horrors at Plevna.