The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Fone’ ott ralesi ee cline yor sunt for any peri fae OF we vi er my cy je cnontha, or five. dollars for ax months, Sunday included ieee of post ance. "All business, Hews letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed Naw Yous Hearn. Letters and kK uld be properly sealed. Hejected communtentions will not be returned. POLARRLPUIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO, 46 FLEET 4 PARIS: Or in AVENUE, DE WOPERA. Or —NO, 7 STRADA PACE, iT wil w recelved and ~~ AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. GILMORE’S GARDEN.—Mvsxum anp Cinccs. UNION SQUARE THAT! Tux Damicnxers, Fertil AVENUE THEATR x Paixcess Rovat Mice GERMANIA TNEATRE,- ‘ORSTERREICH. WALLACK’S THEAT! THEATRE COMIQUE. KEW YORK AQUARIUM,—Q EGYPTIAN AHALL,—Vanie' PARISIAN VARIETIE! FRENCH AND AMERIC. TRIBLE SHEET. IAY 3, 8 RY DEALERS. Tho Adams Exprocs Company Tum » special newspaper in over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, aving Jorsey City ats quarter (er fo M. daily and Bunday, carrying the regular edition of the HxRALD as far West ax Harrisburg und South to Washington, reaching Fhiladeipbia at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P. M. NOTICE TO COUNT From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be colder and cloudy or partly cloudy, possibly with occasional showers. Watt Srrert Yesterpay.—The stock market was active and after noon was much stronger. Philadelphia ruled New York. In the fore- noon the failure of the Union Banking Com- pany sent the market down, and in the afternoon the declaration of a dividend by the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company sent it up several points, Gold was steady all day at 106%, and closed strong at 1067. Government stocks were firm and railroad bonds gencrally stronger. Money on call was easy at 2 a 21g per cent. Five or THE DooMED Moy MAGuines are to be executed in Jnne. They richly deserve their fate. A Muzzzex or a four-foot string on your dog after to-day. They Ane Havine a Livery Time at Albany over the Omnibus bill, and members are dodging the vote. Aner tHe Lapres to have a croquet ground in Central Park? is just now a leading question of the day. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1877.~TRIPLE SHEET. the Cloven Foot. The news statement, printed yesterday, that the horse car roads, and particularly the Sixth avenue road, intend to follow the example recently set in Philadelphia and draw their cars by steam engines, puts their opposition to rapid transit in a queer light. We call the attention of the rural members & of the Legislature, who have no very good opportunities for understanding the subter- fuges of the enemies of rapid transit, to this significant proof of the hol- lowness and insincerity of the affected zeal of the horse car roads for the quict of the streets and'the interests of property holders. Of all possible forms of employing steam in the streets none could be so dan- gerous and annoying as its use on a surface road. The detection of the horse car com- panies, which have been making such a parade of virtuous indignation, in a purpose to do the very thing they have been de- nouncing, and to do it in the most objec- tionable of all forms, is a display of the cloven foot which reveals their true charac- ter.: These gentlemen who are intending to ‘introduce steam on their surface roads are caught in a predicament resem- bling that of the exceedingly proper and decorous Joseph Surface in Sheridan's witty comedy. In the social circle of which Mr. Joseph Surface was so distinguished an or- nament he passed as a model of continence whose chaste example and ostentatiously virtuous conversation disarmed the jealousy of husbands and insured the security of wives. He was especially admired by Sir Peter Teazle, who had married a rural beauty, but became uneasy when he dis- covered the zest with which she en- tered into the gayeties of London life. The one man whom he did not distrast was the sentimental, the virtuous, the immaculate Mr. Joseph Surface, whose bearing toward the sex was so proper and whose tongue had been dipped in decorum. But after that inopportune visit to Mr. Surface’s apartments, when it was suspected that a person was secreted behind the sereen, and it was discovered that that person was no other than Lady Teazle herself, Sir Peter Teazle, at least, got some new light. It was not afterward possible for him, or for any other member of that social circle, to ‘listen with the same admiration to the super- sentimental professions of stainless virtue made by Mr. Joseph Surface. Something very similar to this has hap- pened in connection with the public spirited horse car companies, which have manifested such a tender concern for the interests of property owners, Their piteous tales of damage and ruin to the people residing on the streets that are to be infested with steam transit seem ridiculous enough now. They are as much discredited as was the virtue of Mr. Surface after the discovery of Lady Teazle concenled behind the screen in his room by the company who surprised him with an unexpected call. Nice people these surface road companies, to be prating about the intolerable annoyance of steam on the streets when they are planning to uso steam themselves! Steam, em- ConsIDERING THE Great AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE taken by the Woodin Investigating Committee t is remarkable how little they really find out. Cnatuam Street Is Sare.—The Mayor vetoes the proposed change of name to Park row be. cause he believesin old landmarks and historical names. ahs Tne Testimony of Bank Superintendent El- lis will be found interesting to all savings bank depositors, as well as to those who have no moncy to put aside for a rainy day. Rirte TarceT Suootmnc having become so popular itis a pity the National Rifle Association should encounter difficulty in getting suitable prizes to excite competition this season. Reav Estate Deatines yesterday were un- usually large, and a great deal of property seems to have changed hands, mortgages having a good share of responsibility in the premises. A Very Sincucarn Wty Case was decided yes- terday by Judge Van Vorst. The fact that the testatrix and her legatees were drowned on the same day led to some remarkable complications. Two Ferryboats Couiipen yesterday in the East River. Fortunately no lives were lost. The passengers, however, had a practical expe- rience of the difficulty attending the procure- ment of life preservers. A New York Atperman announces that the State Legislature has no more respect for his Board than for a pack of hounds. The question now is, What is the degree of respect due to hounds? That settled we can gain some idea of the value of our Aldermen. Covoxei Kane's Coact Guarp sounded his horn merr' yesterday, and the New Rochelle coach dashed up Fifth avenue amid cheers and congratulations. The green fields and the bud- ding trees and the clear May Day sky made the initial trip a delightful one to those fortunate in being participants. Sketcnes of a number of English “fast” characters appear in another column. They are only horses, it is true, but any one who may possibly earn two thousand guineas inside of three minutes is a being of importance, no mat- ter how many fect he has or whether ho still ‘wears his winter overcont. Tue Wratuer.—The area of lowest pressure fs still slowly moving off the northeastern coast, attended by light rains from Cape Hatteras northward and westward os far us Lake Michi- gan. The temperature has been lower, but the | winds have been very morerate all over the country, except on Lake Michigan and a part of the Middle Atlantic coust. As the depres- gion moves into the Atlantic the ba rometer falls and will probably continue to do so until another storin centre is developed, with perhaps a considerable liberation of clectricity. Tho low barometer on the Pacific coast gives promiso of another storm from the westward, notice of which we gave yesterday. As yet the low area has made little eastward prog- reas. Thero are indications of another dis- turbance in the Caribbean Sea, which will soon present itself on the Gulf coast. synopsis of the weather for the past month is as follows:—Highest barometer, on the Ist, 30.43; lowest, on the 20th, 29.43 inches. Highest tem- perature, on the 24th, 81 dey $ Bd, 30 degrees. Total pre inches; highest wind, on the Oth, + hour. Clear days, 9; fair, 10; cloudy, 11; on which rain fell, 10. The weather in York today will be colder and cloudy or partly @ludy, possibly with occasional showers. 3.18 i miles per Al pet, on the | ployed either beneath the surface on an underground road or above the surface at a sufficient height, as is contemplated by the elevated roads, would endanger the life of no person moving in the streets, lead to no collisions with carts or vehicles and would cause less annoyance by smoke and noise than locomotives on the surface. The in- tention of the horse car companies to use steam ‘exposes the hollowness of their professed interest in the comfort of people residing on the avenues, It is not steam that they are fighting, but such an employment of steam as would accommo- date the public and take away their own passengers. They have no objection to steam if they can have the exclusive use of it. They are willing to put locomotives on the surface of the streets to butt against and smash carelessly driven vehicles end knock the life out of children and foot passengers ; but these virtuous guardians of the safety and quiet of the avenues can tolerate no use of steam which would enable citizens to pass from their business to their homes without needless loss of time and without paying toll to them. They are willing to subject dwellers on the avenues not only to the annoyances which they have so noisily denounced, but to the superadded and infinitely greater dangers of steam cars on tho surface. Their public spirit, like the virtue of Joseph Surface, is merely put on asa mask. The mask has fallen ; Lady Teazle has been dis- covered behind the screen ; the zeal of the horse car companies for the owners of pri- vate property along their routes will here- after be rated at its proper value. We ask the Legislature to look behind the screen and behold what will open their eyes as effectually as those of Sir Peter Teazle were opened, There is some excuse for the country members, who have been duped by the pro- fessions of the horse railroad people. In the first place, they can have no proper con- ception of how urgent a need rapid transit is tothe welfare, growth and prosperity of the city; and in the next place, the course of several of the city members is calculated to destroy their confidence in their own judgment on a question so remote from their personal knowledge. But for these recreant and faithless city members there is no excuse. They must all know that they are acting against the wishes of their constituents and that they aro | false to their trust. So conscious are they of this that some of them, who have not yet become insensible to the value of public | esteem, make pitiful writhings and contor- tions to save their reputations. They make artful speeches, recognizing the necessity of rapid transit, but advocating it on some plan which they know and the city knows will never bo adopted. ‘They are flaming champions of rapid transit, forsooth, but on some plan like an underground road, which is impracticable during the present genera- tion. They are deadly hostile to every plan which holds out « prospect of early snecess, } but zealon Ivocates of some scheme whose adoption would merely supplant and | kill all the roads which would give the city seen’ through. It will not reinstate its | | j what it wants, This artifice is too easily | j authors in the confidence they have for- feited. Every city member who has worked and voted against rapid transit must be so branded that his constituents may take note of him and remember him in future elec- tions. We accordingly insert the following uiack ust of city members who voted against rapid transit in the test vote on Mr. cclesine’s motion to disagree with the ad- verse report:— CORSA, COWDIN, FLECKE, COULTER, COZANS, HAYES, LANGBEIN, SPINOLA. HEALY, NACHTMANN, STRAHAN, These gentlemen will please to take no- tice that the press and people of this city will not forget them. When they are again candidates for any public trust their be- trayed constituents will know how to deal with them. But those of the city members who, like Mr. Ecclesine and Mr, O'Hare, have been true and zealous, will be remembered to their advantage in future elections, and Mr. Purdy, of Westchester, though not a city member, deserves recog” nition as a true friend of rapid transit. We regret that Mr. Gilbert, of Franklin county, the chairman of the Railroad Committee, whom we esteem as an honorable man, has been misled on this subject, and hope that his oyes, like those of other country mem- bers, will be opened by the intention of the horse railroads to use steam in the streets. The War—Our Special Report. Our special despatch from Kischeneff, given to-day, is, we believe, tho first state- ment sent from inside tho Russian lines of the facts of the march to the Danube and of the othér incidents of the war, as reported at the imperial headquarters. That it has been delayed in transmission is duo to the rigid rules that have been imposed by the Russian authorities in order that no infor- mation may be given to the enemy until the operation to which any despatch refers has reached such a stage that success is secure against every contingency. In the light of this despatch we have presented to us a new view of that much reported ‘Turkish bombardment” at Poti. It appeared, in- deed, even without the corrective of a report from the Russian side, to be rather a suspicious circumstance that a fleet could approach near enough to a Russian port to destroy it by bombard- ment and that no torpedoes should be heard from. But it has the real aspect ofa Turkish naval victory that a fleet should have bom- barded a fort that has been dismantled for twenty-three years, and should have killed a sergeant who was there in the indulgence of a natural curiosity to see the enemy's manouvres. The report of the operations on the Armenian frontier is also in marked contrast with the story of the same events as furnished through Turkish sources; for in the Ottoman chronicle every man killed counts for a hundred and in addition is put down on the wrong side of the books. One detail in our report of the movements on the Pruth gives a descriptive glimpse of tho character of the force with which Russia moves. It is stated that the great march of April 24 from Kischeneff to Barboschi was led by the regiment Sel- iginski, which was distinguished for its gal- lant conduct in defending the ‘‘Mamelon Vert” at Sebastopol. Between regiments like this and the “raw levies” that we are apt to imagine as composing the greater part of so large an army there is all the differ- ence in the world; for, though there may not be a man with the colors who was with them at Sebastopol, the tradition, the record and the pride are there, and these are what give cohesion and value tothe force. There are points in to-day’s news which enable us to judge how much consequence may. be attached to the declaration of the London Times that in case Russia should ignore all limits in her operations she would have to deal ‘not only with Turkey and England, but also with all Western Europe.” All Western Europe, as considered in addition to England, means France ; and it was yesterday declared by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs that the govern- ment would observe ‘‘the most absolute neutrality, guaranteed by the most scrupu- lous abstention”—a phrase which seems to imply that a case could hardly arise in view of which the attitude of France would be changed. France has acquired a good memory. It is not forgotten by her statesmen that in the terrible winter of 1870-71 her despairing efforts to move other Powers to take up her eause were ineffectual. With that experience still recent she will be able to regard with philo- sdphic complacency the dismay of others, and will not budge, no matter whose chest- nuts may burn. She can endure the taunt from across the Channel that ‘‘Europe is in a fair way to return to a kind of natural state, where every one consults his own in- terests only”—and nobody rushes to defend the interests of England. By the way, when did the course of England ever imply that Europe was in any other than that “kind of natural state?” The Danube has been reopened to commerce by Russia at the instance of Austrian and Roumania, so that any ‘‘loop or hinge to hang a doubt” of her intentions upon may not be left to a carp- ing world. Will the Carnival Succeed? Although the street carnival, which is to enter New York at the Battery on the 15th inst., is a novelty, our people are not wholly unprepared for it. The masked balls, processions and pageants which are given every winter might serve to introduce the carnival spirit here. Our citizens would cheerfully welcome any addition to their amusements, and if the carnival is rightly controlled it will havea kindly reception. But every- thing depends upon the management. If the affair should be made mercly a grand j advertising scheme, or if its free mirth should run into extravagance and frivolity, the event would not meet with approval, It is promised that both of these extremes will be avoided, and we trust that the will it. If the gentle- men who control the scheme can give us fun result prove without folly the carnival may succeed; but the experiment is one which neods inuch care aud foresight, The Paris Salon of 1877. The msthetio progress of the world is not @ matter to be lightly appraised. In all great marches forward there is much coun- termarching which must not be confounded with losing ground. Hence if, as our ample cable despatch describing the opening of the Paris Salon yesterday says, the standard of excellence is not equal to last year’s, we must not assume that France is losing her eminence in the domain of art, Indeed our corre- spondent explains that many of the great French painters no longer care to exhibit their works in the Salon. Having found satiety of public praise they now seek satiety of pocket which even genius can- not often attain under the limitations of poor mortality. The gears and years of obscure toil which are fed only on a hope and a crust tend toward produc- ing a cynicism to public favor when once the coy goddess of fortune has smiled. Why should they toil for the fickle taste which so long rejected them? The res angusta cannot be gainsaid even with successful painters, Well, when their names are missed from the catalogues or only inferior specimens of their cunning are seen upon the walls we must not count it Art’s loss, but their profit, But it is in the signs of growth m the young, the streak of newborn genius developing into a brond band of rainbow colors, that wo find a delicate test. They are the interest on a nation’s principal in art, soon to be bankgd and produce interest in its turn. In its promise as well as its fulfil- ment, therefore, an exhibition like that thrown open yesterday in Paris has a value for all who acknowledge the immense obli- gation the world is under to the artists of France, They dominate the art world be- cause of the breadth of their school and the thoroughness of its technique. Rome will ever hold its place as a shrine for students; Germany, particularly the Munich school is making great strides; Spain seems recreating its art; England is gaining a fine technique, but its art strug- gles in the bonds of insularism and ad- vances out of its beaten track timorously as a man on thin ice, France possesses the dar- ing as well as the skill to scale the heights of color and of form, and so conquers. It is a peculiarly gratifying fact that no less than twenty-one Americans have fought their way into the promised land of the Salon this year. When we consider that perhaps five thousand aspirants for space to hang a picture were disappointed we get some measure of the ordeal through which our countrymen have passed, and ac- cordingly we congratulate them. What our art possibilities are we have not space to consider just now, but every triumph scored by American artists abroad will eventually count for a good deal at home, That is real progress, beside which the disappointment of a professional collector who shovels up a heap of rubbish to sell beside a half dozen meritorious works is not to be counted. What fine imported pictures are sold is atest of spare money and, to a certain degree, of taste, but what young American artists are being reared to excel- Jence is something to thank God upon. Fatal Tinkering at the Post Office. Another distressing loss of life, the details of which we print to-day, has resulted from the inhuman stupidity that manufactures death traps in buildings. One would sup- pose that within the walls of massive and imposing looking government building like the New York Post Office a partition wall could be removed and repairs executed at a lesser cost than that of human life. But yesterday's shocking catastrophe proves that, even after the expenditure of millions of dollars, ample time and the superintendence and labor of profes- sional architects and experienced workmen, death lurks in our great public buildings. Here is a case in which an unimportant im- provement is being carried out in a room near the roof, ‘he apartment was intended for occupation by the employés and was roofed with: iron girders resting on the walls, and which carried brick arches, the whole béing covered with concrete to make it watertight and fireproof. It seems a partition wall was removed and the weight of the small girders it supported was thrown on ao large transverse iron girder which was substituted to carry the heavy roof. This girder suddenly gave way, and all the others followed it with a deafening crash, killing three unfortunate men at work beneath. It is clear that those in charge of the work took no precautions to test the strength either of the walls or girders; other- wise this miserable and fatal bungle would not have been made, If the walls were not substantial enough to stand the now strain put upon them, or the main transverse girder was im- perfectly placed or defective in any way, the intelligence of the architect, if he has any, should have detected the danger and guarded against it. This brutal neglect of important details in building can have no other results than death and ruins wherever it prevails. We now call on the authorities to cause a careful examination to be made of these walls and girders. Any defects in either can at once be detected by experts. If such are discovered then let those respon- sible for them be summarily and severely punished as dangerous criminals. Tho Popoffkas. In a recent article on the ‘Belligerent Navies” we called attention to some Russian iron-clads of novel construction, known as “popoffkas” or circular turret ships, and intended for offensive and defensive warfare in the Black Sea. We publish to-day a fall description of this newest type of iron-clad, illustrated by cuts showing tho peculiar form and construction adopted. Although the honor of the invention is claimed by more than one British shipbuilder it really belongs to the Russian Ad- miral Popoff, who has put his ideas into practical shape and given his government two ships, the Vice Admiral Popoff and the Novgorod, that may soon work mis- chief among the ‘Turkish fleet. As to the fighting qualities of the popoffkas we can only judge by the fact that they carry very thick armor on their exposed parts, are armed with powerful Krupp rifled guns, and cin be propelled at » speed that is equal to that of the average iron-clad in the Turkish navy. By means of her six propel- lers and powerful steering gear the popoffka can be turned almgst on her centre, and thus keep her guns continually pointed toward the enemy. We are inclined to believe that Russia hae a naval force in re- serve in the Black Sea which, although not Great, is decidedly respectable, Tho secrecy with which she has lately surrounded her progress in shipbuilding and the fact that she possesses ample resources for the con- struction of ships and heavy guns at her naval establishments at Taganrog and Nico- lnieff supports this view. If, therefore, in the course of the war now commenced Russia should pop off a Turkish iron-clad now and then with her circular turreted ships the Sultan's fleet may become less enterprising in its cruisings along the coast of the Caucasus and prefer a temporary anchorage in the Golden Horn to a perma- ae one in the muddy bottom of the Black ea, Look Here, Mr. Mullett, We suppose the clerks in the Chicago Post Office are congratulating themselves this morning that Mr. Mullett has contemptu- ously refused to superintend their new building. Certainly when an architect, or o man who passes for one in the public ser- vice, constructs the roof of a building cost- ing several millions in so flimsy a manner that after a couple of years it tumbles in, he ought to be marked extra-hazardous, We should like to hear what, aside from pro- fanity, Mr. Mullett has to say in excuse for the falling in of the Post Office roof yes- terday. It was so ugly that we always supposed it was at least strong; per- haps Mr. Mullett thought so too. We tremble when we remember that he has roofs scattered all over the country, pretty much all of the same pattern; and one won- ders if they are all likely tocavein. Secretary Evarts and the whole State Department repose under a Mullett roof; if it would not be offensive to Mullett’s feelings wo would suggest to the Secretary of State, whose life is valuable, to have the State De- partment roof examined at once. After the caving in of the Post Office roof we hope the new administration will try to get on without Mullett. It would be safer even to have him join Ben Wade and Wendell Phillips than to have him superintending anything which roquires a roof. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Georgo B. McClollan 1s atthe New York, Now its the time to set goats at eating rag carpet, Sir Charles L. Young, of England, 1s at the St. James, According to the Russian law two brothers cannot marry two sisters. Oysters R no longer seasonable; out clams havo organized a corner in colle, In Russia a priest cannot marry a second time, and therefore a priest’s wife 1s greatly respected. Sefior Don Francisco Soliveres, Secretary ot the Spanish Legation at Washington, is at the Albemarle, The ambition of the Northern negro is to work in a stable and wear a cotton velvet sack coat on Sundays. ‘The Huns took the scalps of their enemies, which they fastened to their saddles and bridles, a sa Sitting Bull. It tg not the Turks, bat “uropeans, who originated tho idea that Mohammed’s coffin is suspended between heaven and earth. In Egypt the ancients sometimes wore falso hair, and Mrs. Potiphar used to hang her ravon tresses over the back of a chair, AGerman, passing tho office of the Stroet Commis- sioners terday, exclaimed, ‘I shmell some Lim- berger’s factory—yah ?”” “Innocents,” wee flowers, littje Jarser than a pin’s head, come up through the green sod to tell toddling babies that a spring has come, Buffalo milk cheese is good, and when it gets old it waltzes around with the sprightly skip customary in the most civilized cheeses. The Cossacks, who may be brought into prominenco by the war in Europe, derive their name from the Polish word ‘‘coza,”” which means goat. Jones got down on his kneos hastily to his girl the other might and was about to pour forth his soul in poetry when she sald, ‘I see you tumble to it’? The editor of the Paterson Press cries because poor tomatoes are twenty five cents a quart, Somebody must be going to lecture in that town, Well, try eggs, Astylish young lady went into a Broadway store yesterday to match some yellow ribbon, and when she was satisflod as to the shade, sho said ‘That's the cheese.” ‘A New Haven man ato two pounds of beofsteak and nino boiled eggs up to the timo when the editor-in- chief sont around tor him to come back and finish the exchanges, Worcester Press:—“Why arc hives of bees, when they separate into swarms, like Christians? Because they are divided in-secta.” No sir; because they wax the drones, While the rain ts weaving its tracery of lace over the sombre gray Post Office the gloomy corridors of that building, lighted through dull porcelain, appear like caves hung with opals, Men sometimes biss at stereopticon pictures of Grant and Lee, of McClell nd Beaurcgard; but the portrait of Lincoln, the good and homely, is received with either silence or a sigh, ‘The Sandwich Islands require an American Minister, and as there is one man leit in Ubio, and as his name fs General Comlcy, we are likely to be represented among the Kanakas by a Comley fellow. A Chinaman of California says:—“Blime by, nex leah, big men Chinamen klaw, plenty men, two swordy, two tailec, he smashee boolum, no afraid, makee white man lespeck Chinaman.” Recent American politics, including the excitement over the tribunal, show that men’s minds, in this country, are strained for an {dea and become partisan, without regard for the man. Tho South 18, im this re- spect, more sentimental than the North. When the beads of a tamily teli you confdentially that they do not encourage the attentions of the for- oigner to their daughter, but that be is lonely and they Jot him come, although they don’t altogether like him, be sure that they will hang on to hun like death toa dead nigger. Colonel Higginson, who, in the opinion of James T. Fiolds, writes tho best English in America since Haw- thorne, is tall and square-shouldered. An old aboli. tionist, he rebukes the republicans who consider tho Southern States na provinces, and who will not allow those States to manago their own local affairs, even badly. You can always toll a gambler by the way ho shuilles sis foo. — nati Saturday Night, But not by the way be cuts his frionds,—Norristown Ierald. You can’t mistake him, because he always favors his “ante."—Oil City Derrick, You fellows ecom to know @ deal about this man,—Philadelphia Bulletin. Ob, yee, wo frequently pass him.—Camden Fost, And al- ways find him going 11 alone,—&hinebeck Gazette, Ex- copt when he orders up drinks for the crowd. —Yonkers Gazette. 18 this the way to “give us your best?” Tho array of diplomatic officials of the first class at present in the city, drawn hither,at the instance ot the diplomatic envoys of the bolligerent European Powers tor a better communication with their re- spective governmonts and by war affairs, is somewhat formidable, M. Nicholas Shiskin, the Russian Minister, is at the Clarendon; Aristarcht Bey, the Turkish Envoy, ig in private quarters; and Coant Ladisiaus Hoyos, the representative of the Power the most vitally interested outside of the two belligerents, fe stopping at the Buckingbam prior to his departuro for Europe, having left the Chevalier de Tavera in chargo of the Legation, The Netherlands Minister ts also in town, EN URN acta en PRR eC ge ES CE TY REE ON Eee TACT oy ey TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. FORWARD, MARCH! Herald Special from the Russian Headquarters, A MAGNIFICENT ADVANCE. The Muscovite Story of the Operations in Armenia. BOMBARDING =A DISMANTLED FORE, Rumored Defeat ofthe Turks Before Kars. THE DANUBE REOPENED. England to Answer the Russian Circular. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Panis, May 1, 1877. The following despatch from the HERALD corre spondent at the headquarters of the Russian Army of the Pruth has just been received here, and 3 hasten to forward it. 1t 1s dated at Kischeneff, the 24th April, and, though delayed by the caution of the Russian military authorities, presents the first authentic news from within the lines of the great double advance of the Russian arms:— THE ADVANCE GUARD. “The Russian vanguard marched at one o'clock this morning from Koubeg for the frontier. The Cossacks took the lead, taking the direction of Bolgrad, one regiment marching at the head of the column.” CROSSING THE PRUTH. “The troops crossed the river Pruth in an ordinary ferryboat, which means of transportation caused a delay of some three hours. Notwithstanding this and the very thick mud which covered the whole road, they occupied the bridge at Barboschi two hours after midday, having made the fine march of forty-eight miles. Two regiments of Cossacks had already crossed the river at another point, naving made the extraordinary march of sixty miles under disadvantageous conditions.” PASSAGE OF THE CRIMEAN VETERANS, “The Seliginski regiment of infantry followed the avant garde of Cossacks, having hardly lost ground on the day's march. This is the same regiment which in the Crimean war made such a gallant defence of the Mamelon Vert, a fortification which lay in front of the Malakoff. The march of the in fantry was made easier, as the soldiers had placed their knapsacks on carts previously requisitioned.” “The vanguard then occupied Ismail, Galatz gnd Rent.” A PASSAGE OF THE SUPPORTING COLUMNS. “Since then two other columns have passed the Turkish frontier, one by the way of Levre and the other toward Ungenl, taking the route of the rail- way. The artillery alone was transported by train.” EARTHWORKS COMMANDING THE DANUBE, “Formidable earthworks have already been thrown up at Bastoutch and command the Danube, navigation on which will be stopped this even. Ing. Trading vessels navigating the river have already been notified.” IN THE CAUCASUS, “The whole army is in motion. In the Caucasus the Russian army has already crossed the frontierat three diferent points. The corps under General Oklobicio, a Georgian by birth, encountered a body of Turkish troops and took possession of their strongly fortified camp. The Russian loss was thirty men killed and a captain of a field battery wounded.” THE ADVANCE ON KARS, “The corps of General Loriomelicki, a native of Armenia, in marching on Kars, attacked the Turkish cavalry, taking prisoners a colonel and six other officers. The Russian corps should arrive in front of the fortress of Kars this evening.” THE KARRAPAPAS, “Two squadrons of Karrapapas, an indigenous tribe previously conquered and brought into sub- mission by the Turks, have laid down their arms be- fore the troops, offering their services to the Russian army. Fifty men were receyved and the others disbanded.” BOMBARDING A DISMANTLED FORT, “The Turkish fleet in the Black Sea has bombarded Fort St. Nicholas, which has been dismantled since 1854, A Russian sergeant, who happened by chance to be in the fort, was killed, St. Nicholas is some fifteen miles south of the strongly fortified port of Poti.” RETURN OF THE EMPEROR TO THE CAPITAL. “The Emperor will return to St, Petersburg on Wednesday by way of Odessa, Kiev and Moscow.” . OUR LONDON DESPATCHES, [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD, ] Lonpon, May 2, 1877. advance along the Rus sian lines, both in European and Asiatic Turkey, is reported. Forward, with relentless purpose, and like avenging Fate! Whether they advance to victory or to uncertain success remains to be seen, Utter defeat would seem to be impo® sible. The Russian advance guard has reached Buseo on the railway between Bucharest and Galatz, The Russians continue thelr movements in a lelsurely*manner. Contrary to expectation, the Grand Duke Nicholas has not yet removed his headquarters to Jassy. He has not yet even en- tered Roumania, The Russians are advancing slowly, owing to floods, and partly also to insuf ficient transport. Telegrams hayp been sent to Odessa and St, Petersburg for 200 wheeled vehicles. THK DANUBE RE-OPENED, news of this morn- ing 1 the announcement, irom an apparently Slow and steady The most important berg trustworthy source, that Russia, upoa the decided remonstrance of Austria sad @