American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-01-05

is living now on the perfect plan. Thank
God for the certainties of Heaven!''-
Golden Rule.
Incidents of the Siege of PIeVna.
Skobeleff's wound was not dangerous,
but would have been, were it not that
on both occasions when he was struck
he was wearing a thick double sheep
skin coat, which turned the rifle ball
and prevented the fragment of shell do
ing more than rip the flesh. Skobeleff
rode away to visit the Gar, and 1, hav-
ing breakfasted with his staff, sailed
out with its chief Col. Keroupat Kline,
to view the positions so gallantly taken
and so costinately defended on the night
of the 9th and morning of the 10th. As
1 scrambled knee-deep in mud up the
steep sides of the 60 Monte VERT" [
could but wonder to myself how, under
the pitiless fire of the Turkish regulars,
the Russians had succeeded at all in
making good their hold on the summit.
Arriving on the crest had glimpse at
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it was dangerous work to lift even for a
moment ones head above the cover of
the pit, no view could be got worth de-
scribing. Still, what did witness, and
will endeavor to tell you of, was one of
those little episodes of war which strike
home it's horrors to the heart more deep
ly than days wholesale slaughter.
From the Turkish lines stole out five
men, crouching, creeping and running
over the broken ground between the
| lines toward a field of maize, distant
some 800 yards from their starting point
Their rifles were in their left
hands, and every now and then, think
ing themselves safe from Russian ken,
they would stop as though to see who of
them should go on first, and then went
on again all of them together. Their
object evidently was to gain corntield
about hundred and fifty yards from
the spot where Keroupat Kline and 1
were lying, and gather the standing
ears, then make back with them to feast
on with their comrades in their trenches.
But, alas for them, in this very cOrnfield
the Russians had their rifie-pits- it was
all over in less time than it takes to
write! As the five on hands and knees
got amid the corn, the Russians leaped
from the trenches in which they were
| hid, and, in moment four Turks were
quivering under their bayonets. The
fifth had presence of mind enough to
fling from him his rifle, and such was
his agony of fear and the strength lent
by it, that the piece flew some fifty
Yards. He was pushed down with the
butt end of rifle and brought in pris-
oner. He told US that hunger had COM
PEELED some fifty, facing US within the
Turkish trenches, to draw lots of five as
to who should go out and gather from
the field in their front bags full of ears
of Indian corn, and to these unlucky
five the chance had fallen.
In the earlier part of the day, whilst
was breakfasting with the staff, as al
ready mentioned, a little detail of wal
occurred which, though of no importance
within itself, serves to mark the charac-
ter of war, and brings out its sufferings
and the callousness to the fate of others
which it must of necessity engender even
in the kinnest of dispositions.
A young, good-looking sub-lieutenant
of some twenty years or so presented
himself with a military salute before
our breakfast table, holding in his hand
his coat-tail riddled with bullet-holes
and explained that as junior artillery
officer of his battery he had been order
ed to climb tree to direct and mark the
fire on a newly constructed redoub
thrown up by the Turks and out o
sight of the ground level, that he haC
been up there two hours the latter par
of which he had been the target of some
four Turkish sharpsbooters, who were
gradually improving their practice
and he thought that he haC
had enough of it and begged to be re
lieved. Every body laughed as the Col
onel, Chief of Staff, ordered him back
again to his post, to remain until ht
fell or was called down. And as
laughed too, in chorus, not quite under
standing for the moment what the mat
ter was-of life and of death-he gave
me as he took himself off to obey al
4" Eft tn Bratte,' look that shall no
forget AS we rode back a few drops
of rain began to fall, and biting colo
wind from the east to make itself fell
even through the warm furs in which
was wrapped. An hour later and the
whole country had changed so as to be
no longer recognizable, the few drop;
having increased to a steady downpoul
of driving rain and sleet, turning the
hollows of the roads into very lakes
and the sides of the hills into miry sod
den mud, in which the lightest treading
horse sank to the knees.-Cor. London
Standard.
A STRANGE scene was witnessed by al
English visitor at Odessa on the frs
day of the present Jewish year. Late
in the afternoon a large number of the
$4,000 or $4,000 Jews inhabiting Odessa
wendell their way toward the sea, will