The New York Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD | ORAL 33 NR ER BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY NERALD, pubtishert ev day in the year. Three cents per copy (Sunday excluded), Ten dollars per Year, oF ab rate of one, dollar per month for uny perivd leas than’ six months, for six months, Sunday edition included, f 1} business, ni tters or telegraphic despatches must be nddressed New Youk dIrnato. Letters and packages should be properly seated. Reje communications will not be returned, PHILADELPHIA “OFFICE. NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTII aTREEY, LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO, 46 FLELT STREET, A 'E DE LOPERA, pbs Apel tl NEW YORK AQUARTUM-Quaen Fisues. BOWERY THEATRE--U. PARK THE WALLACK’S THEATRE! GILMOKE'S GARDEN—Must EAGLE THEATRE—Lapy M UNION SQUARE THEATRE. GERMANIA THEATRE—Sarri STEINWAY HALL.—| BROOKLYN ACADE: EGYPTIAN HALL— THEATRE COMIQUE— TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE HELLER'S THEATRE—Pru: TIVOLI THEATRE—Vanier TRIPLE SHEET. oN K, FRIDAY, APRIL 97, 1877, HY DEALER ‘The Adams Express Company run f special newspapor train over the Fennsylvania Railrond and its cotnecsions, ing Jersey City at a quarter past fuur A. M. di 6 tar t Xs Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Phiindelphia at a quurter-past six A, M. and Washington at one P. From our reports this morning the probabilities ure that the weather in New York to-day will be varnt tind cloudy, followed by rain. Wau Srrerer Yesterpay.—The stock market was active wnd feverish, and, although consider- able strength was apparent in the early part of the day, the list was generally weak at the close. There was another serious decline in the coal stoeks, Gold opened at 1067g, declined to 106% and closed strong at 107, Government and railroad bonds were both higher at the close, al, though the former were weak early in the day, in sympathy with the fall in gold. Money on call was easy at 2 a 21g per cent. ‘Justice To G but deserves attention. (Ok TILDEN” comes late, An Incenious View or THe Turkish question is presented in our report of a lecture by Mr. Botassi, the Greek Consul at New York. Tue Progress or tur yMOUTH on the Mis- sissippi continues to give Southerners opportuni- ties tor burying whatever portions of the hatchet they may have above ground. A Lecrurre on “Steep” is announced. It is to be hoped that the Street Cleaning Bureau and the Health Board will attend if any instructions are to be given in the art of waking up. Tue Carcium Licur Nuisance cannot here- exist without special permission of the city ; so the dazed pedestrians of the night will, in coming days, know at whom to swear. Tue Secretary oF THE Navy is wondering “whether the Eastern troubles may not justify che recall of some of our war vessels from their inglorious retirement, even if only to go visiting. ‘Turse Huxprep Dogs have been killed since the 1st of April by the ofticers of the Thirteenth Brooklyn. Special detachments of fork policemen should be sent across the river to take lessons. Tuer Is Joy in TH PERANCE Camp to- day over Captain Cotter's despatch from Albany, but bonfires had better be postponed until the Legislature adjourns. While there's life there's hope—for the liquor party. Tne Porr is in no danger of lacking friends and money if he is remembered elsewhere as heartily as in the United States. Archbishop Wood started for Rome yesterday with a large party and forty thousand dollars, and Father Kearney will start to-morrow with twenty-five thousand dollars. Tue Conripenck Orerator still finds victims. Crequlous and softhearted persons would do well to refer to a lawyer every one who makes tempting offers or pathetic appeals. The ex- pensd would be little or nothing, for not one in fifty of such appMeants would ever face a man of ordinary shrewdness, Tue Presip seems to know what is not his dnty as well as what is. Although his reply the Labor League delegation was sympathetic it contained no meaningless promises, nor did it encourage the idea that the President of the United in take the initiative in all desired mov nts Tre Usa Srrine RATION OF NEW Yoriens to New Jersey has begun, and by the Ist of May there will be fewer men among portion our city’s dreadful tax levy. Rapid transit would prevent all t but it is of comp « and ty owners that this other narrow-headed pri is the case. Tux Crow Ixpiaxs 1 interviewing General Brisbin, and our letter detailing the conversation su ts some distinet inquiries. The Indians complaived of hunger and naked- ness. The General substantiated their state- ments, but asserted that their agent was not to blame; yet the fact remains that a priation was made last yeur for t and not a quarter of it bas reached th Crows are friendly Indians. but no other tri who see the mannner in whieh they treated »vernment will be tempted to abandon eastern coast has continued to remain central | over Newfoundland, with heavy rain at points on the main land. QYhe winds have been brisk to high along the Nova Scotia coast, but dimin- ish decidedly to the sonthward. From the southwest another extensive pasion is mov- ing steadily into the Ohio Vall and from present tions it is probable that the two depressions will unite on the coast and develop into a serious storm on the Atlantic. Much rain bas fallen in the Lower Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri valleys, with heavy snow at Cheyenne, and brisk to high winds prevail around the centre ot low pressure. ‘The temperature is high on the Gulf coast and northeastward to the Middle States, Wut falls rapidly weat of the Mississippi. The weathe in New York to-day will be warm and cloudy, fol- Jowed lig rau. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1877,—TRIPLE The War in Europe and Asia. From Constantinople comes the report of a collision betwecn the Turks and Russians near Batoum, on the southern shore of the Black Sea, and of course it chronicles 9 Turkish “victory.” This, indeed, is implied in the statement that it comes from Con- stantinople, for no report of military events could get through that city unless it could be twisted into that shape. Reports of this kind must be accepted with caution. From Roumania it is reported that eighty thou- sand Russians are across the Pruth and are concentrating at Barboschi, which is the point where the Roumanian Railway crosses the Sereth, near to the junction of this river with the Danube. It is likely, from present appearances, that the first battle will occur not far from that point. It is reported by one of the English correspondents that this collision may be expected at, Tultscha, which would imply that the column from | Bolgrad is in motion in that direction. Already the war has broken down with its recognized license some lofty pretensions. One of these was the pride of the statesmen of Constantinople, which is always in an inverse ratio to any occasion for its manifes- tation. In the tone of their response to the Czar’s declaration of war will be observed a notable contrast with their self-assertion in the recent negotiations. Article 8 of the Treaty of Paris provides that ‘if a disagree- meut should menace the good relations of the Sublime Porte and any one of the Powers, these shall, before the employment of force, give an opportunity for the mediation of the other Powers.” Upon this guarentee, which, taken nakedly, might render impossible all future wars, Turkey now calls for protection, The Sultan makes a pitiful appeal to the laws of Europe as declared by solemn treaty; an appeal that is pitiful, not because it demands the pro- tection of a treaty, which is a regular and proper course, but because its demand in the presence of the movement of armed forces is in evident contrast with its loudly expressed defiance ero the appeal to arms was made. Only a few days since, it may be remembered, the Ottoman government spurned indignantly the implication that there was any ground for the pretence that Europe should control the destiny of Tur- key, announced its independence of tutelage in every form; yet now, ere a blow has been given, it appeals to the protection of a treaty based entirely upon the theory that Turkey was altogether dependent upon the will of Europe. It is an illustration of the ridiculous mis- calculation of occasions which characterizes Turkish statesmanship fhat this appeal which betrays the feebleness of Ottoman counsels is made at the moment when it can be of no advantage to make it, and is made in ludicrous ignorance of the fact that the diplomacy of the past year has been merely one extended ‘‘opportunity for the media- tion of the Powers,” whose purpose to me- diate the Sultan vociferously opposed. It must prove good news in France that General Von Moltke has, in an explanatory speech in the Prussian Parliament, taken the sting, in great degree, out of his words spoken a few days since. He declares now specifically that Germany’s policy is ‘neces- sarily pacific,” though this is not to be construed so strictly as to imply that pacific intentions will limit ‘‘ freedom of action” if any reason for war should arise. In fact, this puts German intentions on that com- mon ground on which is to be found the policy of all vital States—that their purpose is to respect the peace ond independence of their neighbors unless warlike demon- strations near them assume a menacing or dangerous form. Perhaps French opinion would be better satisfied if this ex- planatory declaration more emphatically renounced warlike purposes; but to expect that would, in the circumstances, be scarcely reasonable. If Germany intended formally towarn her neighbor she intended no moro; but she will not recall the words which are necessary to a distinct statement of that intention. France had naturally taken the alarm, and the ‘‘mesure compensatoire” of Von Moltke has already becfme a phrase of moment in Gallic politics. Public men saw in that phrase a significance of which we trust it is deprived by the explanation. In Paris statesmen are pleased to believe that the Germans were compelled against their will to relinquish their purposes with re- gard to France in the late war, and to make peace when they would have preferred to further glut their fury. Russia, it is believed, was then the friend of France. In the pursuit of this the- ory we may see how imagination assigns the parts in the drama of European history. Germany is pictured as insatiate and ever eager to fall on France, but ever restrained by the will of her potent impe- rial neighbor. Consequently the moment that neighbor's hands are tied by a great war of his own Germany regards herself as freed from the restraint that has prevented the indulgence of her hate, and arises ready fort. In the contemplation of that theory « ‘mesure compensatoire” would be a new par- tition of France, and Von Moltke’s words last spoken render such an interpretation impossible. Russia seems to notice and to answer in the Brussels Nord some of the rhodomontade of the English press, whica on this occasion has been more than commonly tinctured with that element of international politics known in the vernacular of our British cou- sins as “bounce.” It might inde® be thought that the ‘mesure compensatoire” is a vital principle in London in so far that | the newspapers there teem with brag and bluster in exact proportion as the declara- tion of the government is feeble, timid and uncertain. It was, in fact, simple imperti- | nence—but impertinence of a kind that was | to be expected—for all the London newspa- pers to shout in chorus that the world was in danger because Russia had in declaring | war failed to declare that she did not intend to help herself to some territory; and it is condescension to explain, if the explanation is by authority, that Russia could not, in declaring war, declare that her enemy should be safe from one of the plain consequences end terrors of wnsne- cessful war. England's demeanor is scarcely worthy the dignity of a great nation, It to resume the destructive assault on France | that was interrupted by the peace of Frank- | \exhibits her smarting under the irritation of disappgjntment, chagrin and wounded vanity, and scattering denunciation in all directions as if firmly believing that all mankind is incapable of seeing how nakedly she states her own case while pretending to state the case of humanity and civilization. “Stop the war,” says the London Times, “or civilization will perish,” the destruction of civilization meaning here simply the\injury of certain English interests in the East. Outside the immediate circle influenced by English opinion or controlled by the ig- norance of Turkey there appears to be no opinion in Europe, as we believe there is none in America, that does not sympa- thize with the Russian cause in this war and regard it as the cause of humanity and civilization; and perhaps it add; poignancy to the humiliation England evidently feels that British cant is on this occasion so thoroughly exposed in the ex- plosion of England’s pretence that her side in any quarrel is always the side of civilization, humanity, jus- tice and truth. If the Russians shall in this conflict carry their colors to the Bosphorus, as we hope they may, their snecess will prove the starting point of a full revival of the glories of the Mediterranean as a seat of empire. Asa new Rome has already arisen a new Greece will arise and a new Egypt, and even a revived vitality may stir in those centres of suspended animation the holy places of Palestine, for the chance of which the world may well rejoice in the possible downfall of that dominion of squalor, beggary and rot- | tenness, the Ottoman Empire. The Horse Car Companies and the Streets, The Board of Aldermen some time ago passed an ordinance requiring the street railroad companies to repair the pavement between their tracks, which in some in- stances is in a disgraceful condition. Some of the companies complied with the law as soon as notified by the Public Works De- partment, but others neglected to do so and treated the official notification very cav- alierly. ‘The Commissioner of Public Works has now notified all the delinquent companies that the roads occupied by their tracks must be at once and thoroughly re- paired in accordance with the requirement of the ordinance, and that if there should be any further postponement of the work it will be immediately done by the department and the amount collected as a lien on the road and its stock. He informs the com- panies that they are required to repair that portion of the streets lying between the rails and on the outside of the rails for a distance of two feet therefrom, and includ- ing all the space in the centre of and be- tween double tracks, These corporations re- quire to be brought up with such a sudden check occasionally. It is scandalous that they should have been so long suffered to evade their legal obligations, and it is sur- prising that the Comptroller and the Cor- poration Counsel do not find time to com- pel the payment by these companies of the large sums of money they owe’ the city. 2 Guarding Against Fires. The recent disastrous fire at St. Louis has naturally set people to work in all parts of the country devising means of escape from burning buildings and methods of prevent- ing the rapid spread of flames and smoke through elevators and stairways. Some sug- gestions have been offered which seem worthy of consideration. The open space for the working of an elevator, extending from the basement to the roof of a hotel, no doubt acts as a chimney to draw up a fire occurring anywhere in its vicinity in the lower part of a building. A ‘‘well” stairway, such as that in the Southern Hotel, has the samo effect. The latter danger can be avoided by not putting a well stairway in any high building, especially in a hotel. An inventor proposes to prevent the spread of fire through elevator wells and also to guard against loss of life through falls—such as that which occurred a few days ago in one of our own hotels, by the use of double jointed hatches, provided with springs and counter balances. These hatches, which are to be on each story, open through the operation of one hinge as the elevator passes up, and through the operation of the other as the elevator passes down, closing again immediately after its passage. When shut they are quite firm, the spring which loosens them being touched by the elevator as it reaches the trap both on its ascent and descent. This certainly appears to be o simple and desirable invention, A suffgestion made in relation to the res- cue of persons from burning buildings also seems to merit attention from its simplicity, although it might not always be effective. be supplied with a strong sheet of canvas of a convenient size, supplied on all its sides with strong rope handles. When persons are cut off trom escape by stairway or roof, and appear at the window of a burn- ing building praying for aid which cannot be rendered, one of these canvas sheets, held by strong arms beneath the window, might receive them one by one and proba- bly without serious injury. The cost would be a mere trifle to supply all the trucks in the New York department with such sheets, and if they should save a single life they would be well paid for. come experts in their use, and we believe that the experiment of making them a part of the machinery of the Fire Department would never bo regretted. A Hint to iverth A correspondent complains elsewhere that he is not so well served when he hands his advertisements for the Hrratp to a general advertising agent as when he takes the trouble to send them direct to one or the other of the Hxnavn's own offices. This does not surprise us; bnt we advise him and all other advertisers to transact their | business dircet with the Henan office, either up town or down town; then they will be sure to be satistactorily served. ‘There are honest and trustworthy advertising agencies; but wo receive so many complaints such as that we print elsewhore that we can have no doubt that there aro also fraudulentagencies ; and the only safe way is for our advertisers | to send or bring their advertisoments to the It is that cach truck in the Fire Department | The men would soon be- | Henaxp office. In that caso we shall take care that there is no just reason for com- plaint. The Street Cleaning Bill. . Wehad not seen the bill putting the street cleaning into the hands of the Board of Health advocated by Mr. Ambrose at the Fifth Avenue Hotel meeting when we criti- cised it last Sunday. Now that we have ex- amined it we think it even worse than when we spoke of it only from Mr. Ambrose’s de- scription, and we trust the Legislature will reject it. It provides an elaborate, compli- cated cast iron machinery for doing a busi- ness which requires often an extra force, and can be prosecuted successfully only by a responsible public officer, intrusted with liberal powers and required to do the work—to keep the streets clean at all times. The Mayor, the most conspicuously respon- sible officer in the city, can keep the streets clean if the Legislature will tell him to do it and to use such means as he may find necessary for the purpose. If the streets are kept clean we should net care much whether all the street sweepers were Ameri- can citizens or not. We are informed that Mr. Ambrose com- plains of the Hxmaup’s course toward him. He turned up as the advocate ofa new and very objectionable scheme for cleaning the streets. We discovered that he had, in dumping garbage on the Harlem flats, failed to ‘‘screen out” a drowned horse and had dumped garbage. A corre- spondent whose communication we printed on Wednesday asserts that the filling on One Hundred and Seventh street is half manure and garbage;-and we understand that this is done by Mr. Ambrose. Now, if he has been misrepresented, we will very readily do him justice; but if he is really filling One Hundred and Seventh street with a deposit which contains manure and gar- bage, contrary to the laws, then we call upon the proper city authorities to take this matter in hand at once and to prosecute whoever may be guilty. The health of New York has too long been grossly trifled with. It is time to stop and to make contractors respect the laws, How Many Eggs Make a Dozen? We have no doubt that Mr. Humphrey means well, and the first clause in his little bill concerning eggs, if it stood alone, would answer a good: purpose. But the second clause is ridiculous. Mr. Humphrey asks the people of the State of New York to enact that ‘‘Hereafter in this State all con- tracts for the purchase or sale of eggs shall be by weight, avoirdupois, and one pound eight ounces shall be held equivalent to a dozen or twelve eggs.” It is an excellent idea to have eggs sold by weight. Not only eggs, but all kinds of fruits and vegetables are constantly sold by weight in California and some other of our States, as well as very generally in Europe. It is the only absolutely fair way to sell eggs, and the best way to sell potatoes and other vegetables, pears, cherries and other fruits. But why should the law command that a dozen eggs shall weigh a pound and a half? The illustrious Jack Cade, indeed, commanded that in England, under his rule, seven ha'penny loaves should be sold for a penny, and the three- hooped pot should have ten hoops, though these valuable reforms’were never carried into effect. But here comes Mr. Humphrey with a law commanding the hens of the State of New York to lay eggs only at the rate of a pound and a half toadozen. Is this exactly fair to the hens? And he adds that ‘this actshall take effect immediately,” as though the hens of New York could be expected without the least notice to lay at the new rate. We advise Mr. Humphrey to leave the hens alone and get people to sell eggs by weight, without attempting to pre- scribe how many shall go to a pound and a half. Indorsing Incompetency. An effort is being made to induce Mayor Ely to renominate to the Police Board the retiring Commissioner, Mr. Erhardt. The gentlemen who make the application scarcely do justice to their cliont’s cause. They should present to the Mayor the reso- lutions of the Police Board ordering Roundsman Lewis to be “reprimanded” for an insolent and ruffianly assault on a respectable citizen. They should produce before him the records of the Police De- partment removing detectives from Head- quarters and’ Wall street on charges of col- lusion with thieves, and then putting them on patrol duty to guard the property of citizens at night. They should cite the honors paid to Captain Williams, Sergeant Thompson and other shoulder-hitters of the force by the admiring commission. Above all, they should point out the condition of the streets and flourish before the oyes of the Executive the largo monthly expenditures of tho Street Bureau for the work of keeping the city well covered with filth, Mr. Er- hardt is one of a commission that has for- feited public confidence.” To reappoint him would be to indorse and approve all the acts of the incapable Board of which he has been a member and to fasten on the Mayor the responsibility for both the past and future blunders of the Police Commission, Justice to the Emma Mine Jury. ‘The trial of the Emma Mine suit, now drawing toa close, has occupied more than four months. The jury have been kept that unusual length of time away from their business, and have, no doubt, suffered ma- to grest inconvenience thereby. Prior to the commencement of the summing up the counsel on both sides made an application to the Court to allow the parties to the suit, com- plainant and defendant, to subscribe two thousand five hundred dollars each, to be di- vided between the jurymen asa partial com- pensation for their losses, Judge Wallace, before whom the case has been on trial, refused to allow the extra compensa- tion to be paid. his appreciation of the hardship inflicted on the jury and of the generous motives which prompted the proposition of the parties to the suit. But he gave sound and con- vincing reasons why the Court should not, in his judgment, consent to increase, directly or indirectly, the compensation terial loss, a8 well as having been subjected | On Wednesday | In so doing he expressed | SHEET. Proposition was in this case, it might estab- lish a precedent which would prove in other cases dangerous to justice. We approve of the Judge’s decision. At the same time it need not defeat the equitable and generous proposition of the counsel. The amount of money tendered to the Court can easily be lodged in the hands of a trustee, who, when the verdict has been rendered, can divide it up among the jurors asa present, As both sides subscribe equal amounts there can be nothing improper in the transaction, and while the Court very properly refuses to be a party to it there is no reason why the jury should not receive it through another channel, A New Ci of Secession. Here is a nice state of things. We are to lose suddenly, and with hardly a word of warning, the greater part of the State of New York. The Secession Committee in the Assembly—no, we mean the Committee on the Manufacture of Salt—have reported a bill which has actually been rend twice and sent to the Committee of the Whole, and which provides that the State of New York shall henceforth consist of fifteen counties only—Rensselaer, Albany, Greene, . West- chester, Columbia, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Richmond and the city and county of New York. The remainder of the State—the com- mittee ingeniously call it ‘‘the balance”—is to constitute the new and ‘‘sovereign” State of Onondaga. 4 The Committee on the Manufacture of Salt are evidently an enterprising body. The Assembly ought to put a drag on them, a weight on their coattails. Or is it all a joke? The bill provides that our present United States Senators ‘shall remain Senators of the State of Onondaga during good behavior;” ond it com- mands the little remainder, to be called the State of New York, to elect immediately two new Senators, ‘‘one from each political party”—a device which shows how closely the salt men have considered all the details of this great secession. But are the new Senators also to remain in office “during good behavior?” The bill is probably a joke, but surely a very stupid one. Has the Assembly no more important business in hand that it receives and even prints such ridiculous stuff as this? Has the Committee on the Manutac- ture of Salt nothing better to do than to try in such an absurd way to put salt on the tail of the venerable American Eagle? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Does spring spring? Wanted—by the republicans—a Keoley motor. John Cochranc’s hair is still liberal republican, Will Mr, Evarte be satisfied with mush and milk? No more brandy in pudding sauces at the White House. Mr. Theodore D, Woolsey, of New Haven, 's at the Everett. Mrs, Chief Justice Waite wears pale lavendor satin, with ivy leaves. The man who bad bis straw hat ironed got a chip from thoold block. If you tickle a mule’s hind leg he will laugh until he shakes your sides. 1tis said that when Dick Thompson was a calf he used to hook all the other cows in the yard. Shotguns are getting cheaper, and few men can afford to craw! up a chimney and play ghost. Spring has begun with so much warmth of feeling that the snow is melting out of paper collars, the savings of several workingmen’s unions. Ole Bull’s daughter 1s being educated to be a violin- ist, so that she may get her beaux on a string. We are giad to record that business men of New Or- Jeans who support Nicholls hoist American flags. Scart veils of white or cream colored gauze, with the ends knotted under the chin, aro very becoming. Puffs on top of the head, and tho chatelaine braids are tho two favorite styles of dressing tho hair, Mrs, Secretary Evarts woars black, with thin sleeves, through which her beautiful arms may bo eon, Now ts the time to get your house painted a Dblue- drab and have it come out from under the brush a pink greon. Mra, Sarah Davis, of Wasbington, bas shaken hands with overy President of the United Statos. She is ninety. The Scotch do not like Rabenstein’s wild piano pas- sages, although they praise his sentiment and “pi- anissimo,’” Wherever corn is being planted that Fred Douglass of birds, the crow, has come; and he says, ‘‘Hear me for my caws,"”’ A Fulton man who went about kissing all the protty girls was considered insane—by the men and the elderly women, It makes a Nyack boy rick to look atthe picture of a Turk and think what big pockets he could have in his pantaloons, Sam Bowles thinks that doctors, lawyers and minis- ters who hesitate to panish members of their own pro- fessions are throwing tho duty of exposure upon jour- nalism. Count Hoyoz, the Austrian Minister, will shortly re- turn to Europe on leave of absence. Chevalier Ernest Von Savera has been accredited as Chargé d’ Affaires during the absence of the Minister, Mr. Caleb Cushing, United States Minister to Spain, arrived from Europe in the steamship Labrador yes- terday, and aftor a bricf rest at the New York Hotel took the one o'clock train for Boston. When you see a young man anda young Iady walking along the stroet, sho reverentially plying him with questions, and he carelessly looking into the windows, be sure that they are nasband and wite, If she were not his wife ho would do all the talking. It makes 4 man mad to get up softly in the middle of the night, noiselessly open a bottle of beer, heur its gassy foam oscaping, and, dospairingly jamming his thumb over the nozzle, squirt a fino little stream of beer all over his wite’s face, ) Bagehot, writing of Gibbon, says ‘A kind of pomp | pervades him. He is never out of livery. He ever selects for narration the themes which look most like alevée, Grave chamborlains seem to stundthrough- out; life ts a vast ceremony, the historian at once the dignitary and the scribe * * * The manner of ‘The Vecline and Fall’ is almost the last which should be recommended for imitaiion, It is not a style in which you can tell the truth.’ LITERARY CHIT-CHAT, G. W. Carleton & Co, will pablish in a few weeks, simultaneously with ite appearance in London, D, De Home’s new book, “Lights and Shadows of Spiritual with an inroduction by J, W. Carrington, {ete rather egotistical title of a very amus- ; tpg ttle book G. Carleton & Co, will publish in a few days, The author is a Jady well known in New York society, who relates her experiences of a sum- mer in the country. The new Edinburgh edition of “Chambers’ Encyclo- prwdtia’” is pretty well up to date, containing an account of the lust Presidential election and the inauguration of President Hayes, | auspices of the German government. “The Cruise of the British Ship Challenger,” by Lieutenant Spry, though interesting, 18 by no means so racy and well written a book as Lord George Vamp- vell’s “Log Letters from the Challenger,”’ which gives @ fine account ef the fMmous voyage of that vessel round the world, M, Amezeuil’s last novel is envied “Comment I’Es, prit Vient aux B¢tes.’” fixed by law for the jury and which the Court has no powor to decrease, Fair as the Mme, Mary Summer bas written “Lo Dernier Amour de Mirabean,’? Two Danish socialist editors bave absconded with all « No less than 40,000 copies of the official history ot | the Franco-German war have been sold uuder tho | TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE WAR IN TURKEY. Steady Advanoe of the Russian Invading Army, REPORTS OF FIGHTING Turkey Forcing Servia to Fight—Montenegrs and Roumanin Drifting Into War, —— THAT SPEECH OF VON MOLTKE, [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Loxpon, April 27, 1877, The Turks seem to have made up their minds that all the Slavonic provinces will sooner or latet be arrayed on the side of Russia and that they had better force them to declare them: selves at once. Servia is evidently being forced into war. The Vienna despatch of the Standara says:—“An incident is reported from Belgrade which creates @ great sensation in Vienna. The * Grand Vizier notified Servia that a Turkish detachment will occupy Gladova on account of the approach of the Russians from that side, Abdul Kerim telegraphed to the same effect to the Servian General who commands on the {rontier, Servia has replied that she will resist by force of arms any attempt at the occupation of Gladova, WHAT J8 RUSSIA'S POLICY ? ‘The Times’ Berlin despatch calls attention to the fole lowing notable passage im the St. Petersburg Golos, which is considered the chicf Russian diplomatic organ:—‘It. remains our di. plomucy to determine whether military operae tions arc to be carried on energetically and with the full strength of our active forces, or whether we are to content ourselves with a predeters for mined movement tor the occupation of acertain Iim- ited locality» The Moscow Gazette is in despair at the latter contingency being suggested, The J'imes, in its leading article, reviewing the argument thatthe ibly impelled to war by the will of the people, sa; Thisis consistent and intolligible, but it 1s not the language of arcasonable being. It is the lan- guage of Northern hordos, thrust or Starved out of their forests to scek food wherever it could be found, Tho world will not long permit the earth to bo deso. lated by a struggle begun in an interchange of def. ances, and, if left to itself, pretty sure to last as long as ove party has rtremgth to burt deflance atthe other, Wars begun iu reason may spontancously end in reason; the weak may bow to the strong, but hero there is neither reason nor wisdom; long score of mutual injuries bas led to the acoumulas tion of hatred which must be drowned in blood, Civs ilization acknowledges no such dire necossities, Un- fortunately tho struggle is not ono far distant from the territory of civilization, but it is an awful and present danger, In sel!-detenco civilization will have to conflue it to thormmallest possible limits and secure its speody extinction If she can,” . Le Nord, the Russian organ in Brussels, states thal no disquietude should be caused by the absence In the Czar’s manifesto and Gortschako!l’s circular of an cas gugement plodging Russia against acquisition of torrie tory. Russia naturally cannot bind horeelf beforehand by adeclaration which would deprive ber cf one meang of action against an adversary. Le Nord \s convinced that the balance of power on the Continent will not be affected by the conflict. THK SULTAN'S REPLY. The following aro the most important passages. of Turkoy’s repiy to tho Russian manifesto. Tho reply, after quoting the eighth article of the Treaty of Puris, says:—“Although it is not the Ottoman government which threatens and takes the initiative of aggression, and although consquently it was by rights the part of Russia to appeal to these stipulations of the Treaty of Paris, the imperial government, in order to avoid all misunderstanding, applies to tho signa. tory Powers to use their good offices in the grave circumstances in which it is placed by ap- plying the article before mentioned and thus putting an end to the dangerous tension affecting tho relations of the two States. The Porte expresses tho convic- tion that the friondly Powers, true to the feeling of benevolent interest which tney have nover ceased to manifest to the Ottoman Empire, will seize this opportunity to arrest tho outbreak of @ great war, thus sparing those countrios the painful exe tremitics with which they are threatened, and Europe herself the trouble and danger resulting from a cone flict between the two States—a conflict of which the Sublime Porte can justly repudiate the entire respone sibinty.”” The Times’ Paris correspondent remarks the abject> ness of this appeal, but thinks it comes too late, PROCLAMATION TO THE TURKISH PORCKS, Tho Sultan has issued the following proclamation :— “Russia has declared war, We are forced to tako up arma We have always wished peace, listening to the ad! vico of the Powers in this respect; but Russia wants to destroy our independence, and so if Russia attacks us, God, who protects right and justice, will grant us victory. Our soldiers will defend with their blood the country gained by their ancestors, and, with the help of God, maintain the independence of tho Osmanli, Tho. nation will protect the wives and children of the soldiers, Should it be necessary the Sultan will goto the army and raiso the standard of the Kbalifat and the Sultanat. The Sultan ts ready to snerifige his life for the honor and independence of the country.” REPORTS OF FIGHTING. Tho Sulton bas issued a proclamation addrossed to the officers and mon of the fleot especially recommend ing them to protect the Mussulman popula. tion of the Crimean and Caucasian coasts, now © groaning under the Russian yoko, The Constantinople newspapers report that an engagement has taken place on the Asiatic frontier, near Ardabao, and the 8 Were compelled to fall back, Fresh ekirmishing occurred at Guimro, in the vicinity of Kars, but po important engagement has yet been fought, It is expected that a state of siege will shortly be proclaimed in Constantinople. A despatch from Constantinople says:—Salvet Pacha has addressed the following = despaton to the Turkish Ambassador at London:—“The first engagement has just been fought at Teburuk- son, near Batoum, After some fighting the enemy was defeated and put to rout with the loss of 800,” Na news bad been received in Bucharest up to five P. M, | to-day of any engagement, The number of Russiant who bave entered Roumanta is estimated at 80,000, They are concentrating at Barbosht. No Russians have crossed the Sereth or the Danube, The Times’ special irom Pera reports that Hobart Pucha is at Rastebuk, on board an iron-ctad, and must force his way past Ibraila and Galatz in front of the Kussians fn order to return to the Biack Sea, The Daily Telegraph's special trom Pera confirms the report that the Turkish ships have commonced an attack on Chektetik, i THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE, A Bucharest despatch says that not a shot was flrod up to five o'clock yesterday afternoon. ‘the groater part of the Russian troops are moving in the direction of Bolgrad, to apparently secure a passage through the Dobradscha, which, it 18 stated, is expected to be tha object of the principal attack, It is thought doubtful that the Turks will be able to artive in time to prevent the passage of the Russian army, The telegraph linea between Roumania and Turkey are interrupted. A despatch from Pescani, Moldavia, dated Wednes day ovoning, says 15,000 Russians bave passed throug