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Show RETALIATION-SCENES IN S'S-TOVAi S'S-TOVAi Every other house HeB open to inspection, in-spection, for the Bulgarians finished the work of destruction commenced by the Muscovite soldiery. It was natural enough, too; the latter came in with their blood up from the fight, and the ravabs, or liberated Blavea, sought to vent their fury upon their former masters. The negros did it at San Domingo, and there is np negro fresh trom the shores ot the Congo whom I would insult by comparing him socially or intellectually with a home-bred Bulgarian. There were tome horrid scenes, they tell me, in SUtova on the morrow of the assault, aud for days after, and Turks were bunted out of their hiding-places and shot down like dogs, and rape and murder and pillage and every foul deed wtiicb lust and brutality could imagine was perpetrated, under the eyes ot the Russian officers, until there was nothing left wherewith to reproach the Osmanli for last summer's sum-mer's atrocities, except, it may be, in the number of the viotims. But thin was not the fault of tbe Bulgarians, and they will do better when the field for the exercise of their reprisals shall have become more extended. And when human victims were wanting want-ing to their vengeance, they wreaked it upon inanimate things; every house, from cellar to root, has been gutted; chimney places and walls have been demolished, floors torn up in search of concealed treasure. Handfrals of wool, bundles of rags of every sort and color, the accumulations accumula-tions of generations of OsmanU for the stuffing of their traditional dians, I are scattered about the rooms like a thick carpet, or lie in heaps in the! streets and gardens, where even the fruit trees have been chopped and hacked simply because they were once dear to the Moslem. I don't think that this wanton destruction of property caused me any very paiuful feelings; it brought it3 own punishment, punish-ment, with it, lor these unreasoning brutes might have occupied the comfortable com-fortable dwellings of their old tyrants with no one to say to them nay; and tbe soldier, even of the most civilized peoples, is inclined to "loot" when tbe fighting is over. But it was sickening sick-ening to gaze upon the nhattered and upturned tombstones around the desecrated mosqutB, for there iseome thing sacred in the repose of the grave, and respect for the dead is written in every conscience. N. Y. Timea. |