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Show TELEGRAPHIC THE EVE OF A BATTLE. Ilu tin Jim PrcpuniliOEis for OnnImk Hio liiuiibii 'Il lie TtiritM l'rcpuriu for Hie CouCliet. New York, 17. The Timea Giur-l;ovo Giur-l;ovo epocil aiiys: A grout buttle iu tuipcndiuy and already cannonading haa boeu id progress for scvcrnl di.ys. The KusBianu havo been contontr.it-iag contontr.it-iag a large foreo at this point preparatory pre-paratory to a forced passuyo of the Danube. The army is in fine condition condi-tion and good spirits. Opposite to us in Kjstchuk the Turks are in eucli strong furee thai they will rcsiat our advance, and it is certain that to morrow or the day after may witness a bloody itruefile. The infantry force is preBtnt in great numbers and as I write are on the march, whila great activity prevails in all department ,i the army. Severe musketry firing is hoard. On either aide of the Danube Dan-ube the posts are exchanging leaden compliments and the rattle is fearfully dUtiuct. Already the Turkish monitors moni-tors are hurrying toward this spot and the more advanced ones art) Liking up positions in lront of or near to the point where the .Russians nope to lay their pontoon bridges. We shall soon Bee whether their efforts will prevent the piogress 01 mat, important worn. To-night the scene on the Danube is indeed a magnificent one. Shells are bursting in the air, distant camp fires lend an enchantment to the Bcime and signal rockets asceod and fail and tell the atory of the advancing forces. The cannonade grows heavier and heavier, and at this rate it will not take long; to destroy Ruatchuk. The place is the weakest in the quadrangle of the Turkish fortresses, further down the river the aky ii reddened by the flames of burning Tnrtukai, the town which bas been fired by Russian guns in Ottenilza. It will be comparatively compara-tively easy for the Russians to cross at that point. The headquarters of the left wing are still at Ibrail. |