Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1877 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAI IM THE BAST. Reports of the battle fought on the 2d and 3d of October between the Turks and Russians, near the Armenian frontier, show that it was the most destructive engagement of the War in that quarter. The forces of the Grand Duke Michael surprised and captured an important fortihH work on Um right flank of Mukntar s position, and endeavored to push forward and establish themselves on the road between Mukhtai’s army and Kars. The obstinacy of the resistance at the point tot assailed gave the Turks Ume to got arms, and a. d«k , ix'.rate struggle followed, lasting all resulting in the repulse of the Russians at all points except that of the first attack. At the close of too engagement to Russians held the post they had captured, bat appear to have found it untenable, for their own reports admit that it was abandoned. They also toßfem a loss of 3,000 killed and wounded, claiming that the Turkish loss was equally heavy. From all accounts at this writing it must be set down as a drawn battle. A Berlin dispatch says : “The Russians officially acknowledge the loss of 62,000 men up to Sept. 27.” The character of the recent fighting near Kars begins to be better understood. The Russians suffered a check, but the Turks gained no decisive result. The result seems to be something like Plevna or Schipka—desperate fighting, enormous losses, and no gain to either of the combatants. Moukhtar Pasha, in a dispatch dated the 7th inst., reports the retirement of the Russians to the position they occupied before the recent advance on his linos. He claims that his losses in the recent battles were about 2,000, while he inflicted a loss of 10,000 on the enemy.... A dispatch from Bucharest says “there arealready two feet of snow in Schipka pass. Troops are obliged to sit in frozen trenches, ankle deep in mud.” Russia is mobilizing another army corps for Bulgaria.