Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAS IM. TKB EAST.

Tlio ItuKKians, after some «liarp fighting, liavc ••enpicd Tirnova, the auciont capital of Bulgaria—the previous report of its capture being, apparently, premature. Tho Itussian army on the Danube is being h eavily reinforced. A Bucharest dispatch says it lias been definitely decided that tho Roumanian army shall pass the Danube. Accounts from Russia acknowledge that the ampaign in Asia is considered a complete failure, and will have to be renewed. Tlie ltiMsiana have abandoned the siege of Kars. Moukhtar l’aslia lias effected a junction with a portion of the garrison. Turkish accounts charge the Russians with ruthless devastation in Bulgaria, and with murd erg and outrages against the Mussulmans. The Russians make similar clinrgog against the Turks with reference to the Bulgarian Clirista ins. A Constantinople dispatch says that in the Ardamudseh district, in Asia, the Russians pil--1 aged eleven villages and killed fifty people, on pretext that they had fought against them. A Kt. Petersburg dispatch says that frauds have been discovered in tho commissary department of (lie Danube army to the amount of 200,000 roubles. It Ws stated in a Berlin dispatch that “at their last interview Lord Odo Russell informed Bismarck that England would under no condition whatever suffer a Russian occupation of Constantinople. Prince Bismarck replied that lie considered the occupation of Constantinople ho best way to obtain the purposes for which the war was commenced.” The London Times is of the opinion that ‘ the Russians cannot advance in force upon he Balkans until they have secured their communications by constructing a position on the Danube as strong as any in possession of the Turks. This will require a month at least.” There is much dissatisfaction in Constantinople at tho manner iu which Abdul Kerim, the onunandcr of the Turkish army on the Dauu he, is conducting tho campaign. lie is accused of incapacity, and even suspected of treason. It is announced that peremptory Orel's have been sent to him to advance and meet the Russians. Nearly 1,000 people have been killed and wounded in Ilustchuk by the bouibardniont. 1 lie Russians made a determined attempt to capture tho place by assault, tlio other day, but were repulsed after two hours’ sharp lighting. The m lit iry and civil commandants of Hislova, Tiniova, and Osimui-Bazar lmvo been summoned to Constantinople for (rial by court mat t 'it.l. i Tho Turkish report of the abandonment of the siege of Kars and retreat of tho Russians turns out to be a lie or tlio first water. The Russians still invest tlio place, and keep up a constant bombardment. The Russians have succeeded, after the most desperate lighting, in relieving the besieged garrison of Bayazid. The Montenegrins are concentrating around Niosics with the intention of besieging the place. Ten thousand Cossacks have passed the Balkan mountains and appeared on the railway half-way between Jamboli and Adrianoplo. The Russians who have just retired from Armenia are giving their attention to the very impoi (ant task of suppressing tho Circassian rebellion which caused thorn so much trouble when they were operating against the Turks.