Litchfield enquirer., 1880-03-04

CTS to follow the Russian army, having no means of transport suited to the occasion. In this sudden change in the plan of the cam- paign, the diplomatic authorities decided that the great object to be accomplished was the distraction of the Russian fleets and dock yards in the Baltic and Black Seas.
 eOn page 36, we are told that Russia lost a city, a fleet and dock yards. On page 47, we find the commissioners making an examination ofthe, ruins of the city destroyed. Not a habi- tahe.bdilding was seen over the entire surface of what was once a very handsomely built city. The destruction of everything indicated the greatest heroism and untiring devotion to duty, on the part of the defenders of the city: Not a human being remained in the city, or it's ruins, on it's being entered by the Allies. A few cats, dogs, and rats, were the only living creatures found in the place, and property worth naming, other than munitions of war in damaged state. - -z-
 Daniel says they1sshall make away many, implying human beings, no doubt that is what he meant. On page 58 the number that France sent to the Crimea we are told was 3O9, ,268 men and Al, 974 horses and mules, B. 900 portable houses for the French army.
 The French lost by sickness and the enemy shot 69, ,229. The number that the Allies lost in alI the writer has no means of knowing, but it must have amounted to many.
 The prophet next sees thls power between seaS ina glorious holy mountain, living in tabernacles, and the annexed account says, that 1t is in Armenia fighting against Russia at Erzeroum and Kars, on his own dominions, and on the mountains of Ararat where Noah's Ark rested, about midway between the Medi- terranean, Black and Caspian seas How long before he will come to his end time will develop:- >--r T-
 ARMENIA AND THE CAMPAIGN OF 1877.-In this handsomely printed and we'll made vol ume. MT. c. B. Norman, special correspond ent of the London Times, has collected the letters he wrote to that journal from the seat of war. from May to November, last year. Starting from London the last day of April, he arrived at Trebizond on the 18th of May: Proceeding thence without delay to the Turk lsh headquarters he moved about with those headquarters untiD the capture of Kars by the Russians, in. November substantially put saend to the war in that quarter. Amid the s&ions conflicting dispatches which have come to us of the operations in Armenia, MT. Norman gives the first clear and connected ac- count of the nature of the campaign there. It is very interesting story which he tells, and of varied fortunes with both Turk and Chris tian. Now it was the Russians who were successful, and now the Turks but the fall of Kars made all further struggle on the part of the latter useless - V ~
 MT. Normans book is valuable contribu- tion to the history of the war. He describes lucidly the various military operations, and gives graphic pictures of the country in which those operations took place, and of the prin- cipal towns, especially Erzeroum and Kars.
 What difficult country it is to carry on war in is shown by the abrupt way in which the land rises from the Black Sea. From Trebizond on that sea to Erzeroum is less that two hundred miles, yet in going from the former place to the latter it is necessary to cross mountain nearly 5000 feet above the sea level, q about 1000 feet higher than Mount Washington. .%Kars is $500 feet above the sea, and there are twenty places in the theatre of war at a higher altitude than Kars.
 Cassell, Petter 6 Galpin. London, Paris, and New York, publishers. F., o. Box 265, EAchfeld Conn. s