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SOW PLEVNA FILL.

‘GRAPHIC PEN PICTURES OF TIC! ATTEMPTED SORTIE—AMID FOG AND FIRE. (From the London Daily News.) Pievna, Dec. 10, 1877. The Rassians knew on Friday night that /Ostnan Pasiia was preparing for a_ sortie, and on their part made every preparation to receive him. ‘The trenches were kept full | of troops day and night, division and regi- mental commanders were advised to be on the alert, and all the posts were doubled and trebled. These measures were taken on Friday night, but Saturday passed wiih- out any movement being discernible among the ‘Turks, Osman Pasha had, however, resolved upon a final effort to break the

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cous that were crushing hm. Sunday passed in the same way. ‘The Russians

were anxiously on the watch with the usual amount of artillery fire, to which the Turks had not replied fora iong tine. For the last three or four days the weather had been damp and coid, with heavy broken clouds threatening rain, and about 1.00on on Sun- day the clouds thickened aad the dark masses discharged themselves in the first snowstorm of the season. By five o'clock the ground was quite white, and the ap- pearance of the country had completely changed. I rode around the lines between the hours of three and five from Grivica, through Radisovo, to Brestovec, on the Lo.tena Road. The sky was dark and low- ering, but the atmosphere, white with thick- ly falling snow, through which could be caught glimpses of Plevna, with many little columns of blue smoke rising over it, telling of cooking dinners, and givinz it a warm, cosey look, much unlike that of a beleaguer- ed city. The huts of the Russian soldiers were soon white; the soldie*s themselves going about joyously, some cooking their dinners, others gathered in groups singing ai the top of their voices a welcome appar- ently to the first snowfall. Perhaps it re- minded them of their faraway homes. There the snow is long since many fcet deep. Now and then the boom of a gun, muffled and indistinct, like a low growl, broke the still- ness as it came through the snow-laden air. SKOBELOFF'S ADVANCE. The night wore slowly away. The snow storm ceased and was followed by dark clouds scudding swiftly across the sky, with now and then a blast of sleet. At three o'clock another spy brought news that the men of Skobeloff’s command iad a position on the other side of Geeen Hill, and that the Krishina redoubts wer2 being aban- doned. He was very sure, he said, that ali the positions along our side would shortly be abandoned. Would he go along and lead the way into the Krishina reloubts at the risk of being bayoneted if his words should not prove true? Yes, he would, and orders were given by Skobeloff for the troops to be- gin to move cautiously forward and feel their way with care. This was done, and the positions were taken. At last now it was certain that the Turks were moving, and that the final decisive moinent had come, Skobeloff ordered the captured positions to be instantly placed in a state of defence, in case the Turks, repulsed and not yet ready to surrender, should attempi to re-capture them. The gray light of morning came. It was cloudy, and threatened more snow. Suddenly the booming of thirty or forty guns speaking almost together, followed in- stantly by that steady, c1ashing roll we had learned to know so wel. The battle had begun. The giant, after defending him- self four months, hurling tlhanderbolt after thunderbolt upon his enemies, was now struggling through the meshes he had al- lowed to be thrown around jiim, and was in his turn attacking the trenches and earth- works which he had taught his enemies so well to defend. We mounted horses and rode toward the battle. It was in the di- rection of the bridge over the Vid, on the Sofia road, and hait an hours ride brought us in sight of the contlict. CLOUDS AND FIRE.

A terrible and sublim»? spectacle pre- sented itself to our view. Tae country be- hind Plevna is a wide, open plain, into which the gorge leading up to Plevna opens out like atunnel. ‘The prin is bounded on the Plevna side by stee}), rocky bluffs or clitfs, along whose foot flows the Vid. From these cliffs, for a distance of two miles, burst here and there in quick, irre- gular succession, angry spurts of flame that tiashed and disappeared and flashed out again. It was the artillery fire of the Turks and Russians, which from our poinc of view appeared intermirgled. The smoke running round ina circie toward the Vid, arose against the heavy clouds that hung right up on the horizon, while below on the | ground burst forth continuous balls of flame jthat rent the blackness of the clouds like | flashes of lightning. ‘Through the covering |of the smoke could be seen angry spits. ot | fire thick as fireflies on a tropical night, | Now and then through an irregular curving | stream of fire we had ind stinct glimpses ot | bodies of men hurrying to and tro, horses, |cattle, carriages runfing across the plain, /and above all the eternal crashing roll of

the infantry fire and the deep booming of |8

‘more than a hundred guns.

COVERED BY THE TRAIN. -

| This is what had happened :

, Osman Pasha had dwring the night ab-

andoned all his positions trom Crivica to the Green Hill, and concentrated the great-

er partof his army acioss the Vid, over

which he passed on two bridges, one the old and the other the new one lately con-

structed. He took part of his artillery,

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NO, 198,

| some three batteries, and a train otf about ifive hundred or six hundred carriages drawn by bullocks. He succeeded in gete ting his army, the artillery, and part of the train over by daybreak. The Russians say | that to have started with so large a train is a proof that he was deceived with regard to | the number of the Russian forces ; and he | believed the Russian line, owing to the ab.ence of General Gourko, was very weak )on the Sotia road, and thought another road along the Vid was virtually open. It does not seem possible that he could have been so badly informed, andI am inclined to think that the train was taken to serve @ special purpose in the fight. Indeed, the first thing the Russians perceived when dzylight broke was the line of wagons drawn by bullocks advancing upon them in close order across the plain. The smooth open level offered every facility for snch a manceuvre. The Turks were behind these wagons, which, piled full of baggage and effects of various kinds, afforded very fair protection from bullets.

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THE GRENADIERS MEET DEATH.

The attack was against the positions h by the grenadiers, north of the Sofa ae whese lines extended from aroad to a point opposite Opanes, where they were joined by the Roumanians curving line through Susu- ria. Itissaid the attack was made with 20,000 men, but I doubt this, as there were really not room for so many to deploy un- less they had descended from the heights of Upanes and taken the Roumanian positions and I have not heard that they did this, Nor did they even attack the Russian p : sitions south of the road, as they would probably have done had they attacked in such force. Atany rate the attack was a most brilliant and daring one. The Turks advanced as faras they could under cover of thair wagons, while the Russians poured ina terrible fire on them from their Berdan breech-loaders, scareely less destructive than the Peabody, and opened on the ad- vancing line with shell and sharpnel. ”The lurks then did a splendid deed ot braver only equalled by Skobeleffs capture of t @ bwo-faious redoubts. Probably finding their cover beginning to fail them, owing to the cattle being killed or getting frighten- ed and running away, they dashed forward with a shout upon the line of trenches held by the Sihrersky or Sinerian regiment swept over them like a toranado, poured into the battery, bayoneted the artillerymen, officers and men, who with desperate heroism stood to their pieces to nearly a man, and seized che whole battery. The Siborsky regiment aad been overthrown andnearly annihilated ihe Turks had broken the first circle that aeld them in. Had they gone on they would have found two more, but they did not have time to go on. The Russians rallied almost immediately.

HAND TO HAND.

General Struffoff, of the Eniperor’s staff brought up the first brigade of grenadiers, who, ded by their general,—I forget his aame but the Russians well remember it,— dung themselves upon the Turks with fury. A hand-to-hand fight ensued,—man to man vayonet to bayonet,—which is gaid to have lasted several minutes, for the Turks clu vo the captured guns with dogged obstinacy. they seem to have forgotten in the iury of vattle that they had come out to escape trom Pleyna, and not to take and hold a bat- very, and they held on to the guns with al- most the same desperation with which the Russian dead around them had shown a few ininutes before. Nearly all the Turks in the battle were killed. Those in the flank- ing trenches open to the Russian fire had oi course, very little shelter, and were soon overpowered and began a retreat which, under the murderous tire sent after them instantly became a flight. Some took shelter behind the broken wagons, and returned the fire atter a time ; but the majority made tor the deep banks of the Vid, where they tound ample shelter from the Russian shells and bullets. They formed here be- aind the banks, and instantly began to re- turn the Russian fire.

THE EAST FIGHT.

It wis now about half-past eight, and the Turkish sortie was virtually repulsed, but the battle raged for four hours longer. ihe losses intlicted from this time forward were not great on either side ; both armies were under cover. They were evidently apprehensive that the Russians would cuarge and drive them back in a mass into the gorge. The Russians were resolved to prevent another sortie, and so both sides kept it up. Indeed, there seemed at first every probability that the Turks wouid try it again, though it was evident to any one who knew the strength of the Russian lines, and had seen this affair, that escape was hopeless from the first, even though Usman Pasha had had twice the number of men. For four hours the storm of lead swept on, as one hundred guns sent forth ilame and smoke and iron. During all this time we were in momentary expectation of seeing one side or other rush to the charge. We could hardly yet realize that this was to be the last fight we should ever see around Plevna, and that when the runs ceased firmg it was the last time we should hear them here. It was a strangely impressive spectacle’ Behind us the plain stretching away to the horizon, dark and soiabre, under the dull, lead-colored clonda oi the black November day. Before us the gorge leading up to Plevna, flanked on eith- er s.de by steep, high cliffs, and between us and them the smoke and roar and fire of

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