Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1859 — Sehamyl not Read or Defeated. [ARTICLE]

Sehamyl not Read or Defeated.

We copied some days ago a report from the N. Y. Tribune of the capture of Schamyl’s strong hold, and of the death or capture of the redoubtable old Circassian leader. It appears that part of the story was false. His strong hold was captured by the Russians, but proved to be a trap in which he has caught them, and he is not captured, but has captured his enemies. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says: “Schamyl is not only alive and at liberty, but he has lately obtained a signal success against the Russians The Russians had captured one of his strongholds, Vedino, among the mountains, but Schamyl made them pay dearly for their success. He at once to the rocky cliff on which the fortress is built, and cut off the Russians from all communication from without. Thus blocked in, in a few days the Russians had exhausted the small stuck of provisions in the place, and were speedily reduced to a state of famine. They first attempted to treat with the besiegers, but Schamyl refused everything but an unconditional surrender. They made a sally, and were driven back by the Circassians with great slaughter. The attempt was renewed on the following day at ‘still greater cost to the Russians, of whom, however, ten men managed to make good their retreat and escape with their lives, leaving the lately captured stronghold, and several hundred of killed end .wounded —of Whom, it is said, forty were officers of various grades^—in the hands of the victorious mountaineers. The account states that Schamyl had ordered the decapitation of his own son for suspected complicity with the engmy on this occasion. This is the son who was captured, and detained several years by the Russians and became an officer in the Russian army, but U’as sent back to his fathc- last year.