Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — The Bulgarian Legion. [ARTICLE]

The Bulgarian Legion.

The Bulgarian Legion in the Russian camp now numbers 6,000 men. On June'227”Tßs4, Raiko Nikolitscli, a Bulgarian boy, 14 years old, swam over the Danube at Bjistehuk, to inform the Russians that the Turks in ten ted to cross the day following. The intelligence proving correct, the boy was raised to the rank of a Russian nobleman, and sent to a cadet school at Moscow. In 1859 he became an ensign in the Russian army, and soon after, while in a Polish garrison, endeavored to form a secret society in Bulgaria. In 1862, as a Russian officer quartered in Bessarabia, he was a member of. the Bulgarian Revolutionary Committee. In 1875 he left Russia to act on the spot, and, in 1876, with a Bulgarian legion of several hundreds, entered Bulgaria from Servia. The appearance of his legion on Bulgarian soil brought on the troubles marked by the notorious massacres. Later in 1876 the legion joined the\Servian army under the command of the Russian Colonel, Medvedowsky, one of the associates of Gen. Tehemayeff. This band was the nucleus of the legion which is now invadiilg Bulgaria under the standards of the Czar. —New York Tribune.