The New York Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1877, Page 4

4. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, pudlished every day in the year, Tree conte per con any excluded), ‘Ten dollars per year, or at rate of one par month for any period less then’ six months, or “nye Mavitare for six: months, Sunday boys included, free of ee of postare. 1 husmess, news letters or telegraphic despatches must De addressed New Youre Henasn. Jaters ‘and packuges should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not ve returned, PULLADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON “OFFICE “i THE NEW YORK HERALD— FLEET 5 rAtis'< OFFICE~ AVENUE DE Nears NAPLES OFFICE—NO, 7 STRADA PACE, Subserij tiene and advertisements will forward he us in New Yor AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. GRAND OPERA HOUSE.—Toxy Pastor Comsixarion. BROADWAY THEATRE.—Tix Wosver Cait, BOWERY THEATRE.. GERMANIA THEATRE. WALLACK'S THEATRE: HELLEN'S THEATRE. BOOTS THEATRE—B: STEINWAY WALL —E: NEW YORK AQUARIT EGYPTIAN HALL.—V. PARISIAN VARIETIE: GILMORE’S GARDE: \ aoarcaagee isis on TO COUNTRY DEALERS. The Adams Express Company ran a special newspaper train over the Pennsylvania Railrond and its connections, Jenving Jersey City, at a quarter past four A; M. daily and Jar edition of the Hunan as far Wen ab Hostatarg, nat oath to" Washingion, renshing Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M. and ‘asbington at one P.M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be partly cloudy or clear and slightly warmer. Watt Street Yesterpay.—The stock market was active, with a fair distribution of business. There was some weakness at and immediately after the opening, but the list soon steadied and the afternoon saw sharp advance, stocks clos- ing at about the highest prices of the day. Gold wus steady at 10673, Government stocks were also steady and railroad bonds generally higher, Money on call continueseasy ut 2 a 21g per cent. Tue Prrxcipat Pornt or INTEREST to city officers just now is the point of Governor Robin- son's pen. Tur New Jersey Murvat’s Spores need bother themselves no longer about newspaper indictments—tke Grand Jury supplied them with half a dozen yesterday. Mary.anp Is Havine « Coan War all to her- self, with the unusual probability that the prin- cipal sufferers will be strong corporations that can bleed a long time without dying. StS lh Tue Doc Tacs are to be ready Monday morn- ing. Similar tags, inscribed with owncrs’ names, might be attached to the collars of certain anti- rapid transit legislators for the information of voters. Tue Ontcrsar Mrs. Partincron appeared on Broadway yesterday, and a roper-in for a banco den found her, as the old lady herself onee found her neighbor's flowers. “most flagrantly odious.” Tue Kixcs Country Boarp or Excise has lately rejected nearly five hundred applications for licenses, but no one has yet seen a Brook- lynite thirsty while he had the price of a drink in his pocket. Coxssrrractes Witt Be Usporvutar for the present near Abbeville, 8. C., where three negroes were hanged yesterday for the crime o# conspiring to seize a village and slaughter the white inhabitants. Tne Desorirriox given in another cokimn of General di Cesnola’s Kurium “find” will doubtless send many people of taste to the Metropolitan Museum, where these antiquities have just been placed on view. As A Naturat Resus.t of the manner in which the fragment called the “New Code” was in- flicted upon the legal fraternity an appeal for a year’s delay of the operation of the code is to be freely signed and sent to Albany at once, A Hyprornona Remepy, said to have been used With success, is published in another col- umn. As the family of Spitz has not yet been exterminated all possible information about hydrophobia should be kept where it can be referred to at once. Yesterpay Was A Fretp Day at Albany. The Governor vetoed several bills and offered good reasons for his action, while the Supply Dill was railroaded through, the taxpayers being interested to the extent of more than two and e half millions of dollars. A New York Arnona pT offers to take a bal- Joon across the ocean if any one will defray the necessary expense. This seems to be the golden opportunity for the gentlemen who are trem- blingly anticipating the Tweed disclosures, for no warnings flashed under the sea would enable English detectives to lie in wait for travellers by balloon. Lorp Hanrtixetoy, the English liberal leader, gained a decided victory yesterday. It was on the turf, instead of in the House of Commons; but as racing is the leading sport of England His Lordship will probably be happier over the ‘eapture of the Newmarket Thousand Guineas Stake by his little filly than if he had defeated the Ministry on some public question. Tas Weatner.—Three depressions are now within the area of observation in the United States; we might say four, counting that on the Pacific coast. The first of these is that one on the northeast coast, which slowly moves northeastward with a very low barometer and an exiensive rain area, which embraces the New England ‘States and Nova Scotia. The second depression ie that which ‘moved southeastward from Dakota into the Lower —_ Missouri Valley, and — thence toward the Gulf, where it is now central, with coast rains and in the Mississippi Vallcy. ‘The third depression has appeared in Dakota, with light rain and very low barom- etér, There is, therefore, no point east of the Rocky Mountains where the pressure is at or above the mean of thirty inches. ‘The temperature, notwithstanding, has fallen generally, although locally it has risen in the West and on the Atlantic coast. The weather in New York to-day will be partly cloudy or clear and slightly warmer. NEW YOKK HHEKALD, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1877.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. Governor Robinson’s Duty in Rela- tion to the Omnibus Bill. A citizen who has long been an intelli- gent observer of our mynicipal government writes us from Albany a letter which we print elsewhere, setting forth what he con- ceives to be the merits of the Omnibus bill, and asking the Henaup to urge Governor Robinson to sign it, We decline to do any- thing of the kind, although we willingly print this gentleman’s communication, Our attitude toward measures pending in the Legislature and toward bills in the hands of the Governor must generally be very different. Our experience has tanght us to have but little confidence in the intel- ligence, judgment or motives of an average Legislature; but most of our Governors have been upright, experienced men, well versed in the affairs of the State, and few of them have entered their office with better titles to respect than Governor Robinson. We think him quite competent to form a correct esti- mate of the merits and demerits of this municipal bill, and he will belie an honor- able record if he signs or vetoes it from any other motive than the public welfare. While an important bill is pending in the Legislature we feel no such confidence. So large a proportion of the members are raw and ignorant, so many of them are the tools and puppets of party leaders, so many are subject to the influence of a scheming, mer- cenary lobby, that we consider it the indis- pensable duty of the press to watch their proceedings with vigilance, to detect and expose their plots, and to bring the influence of a sound public opinion to bear upon their proceedings, There is no reason for’ the same solicitude respecting the action of the Governor. He is a competent judge of the merits of bills, and he cannot, in a case so impor- tant as the present, refuse his signature without fully stating his reasons. By the soundness of these he must be judged; he cannot afford to assign flimsy reasons for the veto of so important an act. When respon- sibility is narrowed to one able man who has a character to protect we feel no call to be his tutor; we expect to acquiesce in whatever action he may take on this bill. While it was pending in the Legislature we warmly supported its good provisions and hoped that its defects might be remedied by amendments. When it passes into the hands of the Governor we are willing to trust his judgment of its character as a whole. Our correspondent must not understand us to deny that the bill has several good and some excellent features. Indeed, two of the principal changes it proposes have been strenuously advocated by the Hznatp fora long period. We refer, of course, to spring elections, which tend to divorce municipal from State politics, and the giving of single instead of plural heads to departments, which is conducive to economy and to effi- ciency of administration. The first of these two reforms is one of whose necessity we have long been convinced, and whose merits we have taken unwearied pains to set forth and enforce. Immediately after the election of thé last Legislature we sent correspond- ents to interview all its members on this question, and had the satisfaction of finding | our own views indorsed by a very large majority of the Senators and Assemblymen elect of both political parties. We then began to hope that we had secured the suc- cess of this important reform in that Legis- lature. We had got the unbiassed opinions of the members and had put them all on record, with a majority of three or four to one in favor ofa spring election. But when they assembled at Albany they were too much occupied with other questions to give atten- tion to this. The uppermost topic in all minds was the approaching ‘Presidential contest, and nothing was done’ for muni- cipal reform. In the present Legislature, however, the affairs of this city have been a leading object of attention and discussion. There has been an epidemic eruption of crude proposals and disjointed efforts ; but among the multitude of bills presented there were two or three that had good points. Quite the best of the batch was the so-called Omnibus Dill as _ originally drafted and before it had been muti- lated with amendments. Even in the form in which it passed the Assembly. it re- tains several valuable features which we should be glad to see put into a new bill and passed if the Governor should think it his duty to veto the Omnibus. On the question of a veto we do not wish to influence his action one way or the other. We have confidence in his good judgment, and do not believe that he will act in so im- portant a matter from mere party motives. If he vetoes the bill we do not doubt that he will state cogent rea- sons; if he approves it we shall rejoice that, in his judgment, its defects are not so fatal as to deprive the city. of the important reforms which the bill unqnes- tionably embodies. We discredit the rumors that Governor Robinson is already commit- ted to a veto, These rumors are put in cir- culation by democratic politicians whose “wish is father to the thought.” We give them their true value when we interpret them as meaning that democratic politicians will bring a strong pressure to bear upon the Governor to induce him to interpose his negative. That he has given any assurances, or even any intimations, that he will do so we utterly disbelieve. It would be a breach of official decorum of which we do not think Governor Rubinson capa- ble. The bill isnot yet before him and will not be for the ensuing three days.. He does not know in what shape it will appear after | all the amendments have finally been acted | | it is at present with the American continent; upon. Even after a bill of so much im- portance reaches him it would be an un- warrantable exhibition of disrepect to the Legislature to give out an intention to veto | it previous to a deliberate examination. The objections to it are important enough to prevent him trom signing it at once; but, on the other hand, its good features are so highly valuable that he should be anxious to save them if it be possible in consistency with larger interests. As soon as it becomes known that his mind is in doubt proposals will be made to him to listen to connsel, and he will undoubtedly give both its opponents and supportersa fair hearing before deciding whether he will sign it. We think it so important to secure spring elections, even ata considerable cost; we are so desirous of unity of administra- tion in the city departments, and have so ing advocated giving the Mayor the sole power of appointment, that we should be sorry to see these reforms miscarry after passing the Legislature by reason of their connection with inadmissible ad- juncts. Certain we are that Governor Robinson has not made up his mind in ad- vance to veto it, and we do not think it incumbent on us to dissuade him from an intention which he has not formed. We- are confident that he will weigh its merits as well as its defects, and that he caanot be induced to thwart important reforms for trivial and much less for party reasons. An Impudent Raid. Bad measures always put on a bold front and make desperate efforts to push them- selves forward in the last hours of a legis- lative session. When city members are anxious to get back to town and country members display restlessness in their seats and begin to talk of their crops, ‘about these days,” as the old almanacs would say, look out for sudden raids of black horse cavalry and the popping up of deformed jobs which everybody has supposed to be dead and buried. Forewarned by history we are not surprised at this time to see As- semblyman Robert H. Strahan spurring his steed into the lists and shaking in the face of the Assembly the hideous, misshapen thing known as the Hayes Anti-Rapid Transit bill, We shall, however, be nston- ished if the abominable measure should re- ceive the slightest encouragement or coun- tenance. ‘The bill is, indeed, not only an absurdity but an insult to the people of New York. It is as if the Sixth Avenue Railroad corporation, notcontented with hav- ing its orders carried out at Albany, to the fatal injury of the interests of New York, should require its agents to spit in the face of the people of the metropolis. « Assemblyman Hayes seems determined not to do anything by halves. In City Hall slang, he ‘goes the whole hog.” Having earned his spurs, at least, by his determined opposition to every measure that could favor rapid transit, he seems to have considered it necessary to signalize his devotion to the horse car idol by framing a measure which would enable any fifty men in the city, with- out the slightest real grievance, to stop either the building of any sort of elevated rapid transit road or the operation of any now in existence for fifty years. He desires to provide that any person conceiving him- self diréctly or indirectly damaged by such rapid transit road, whether living on the line of the road or not, whether a property owner or tenant, shall have cause of action in any court of record, and that no such rapid transitroad shall be built, constructed, operated or used until all damages so claimed shall have been ascertained and paid. In plain language, he provides that New York shal) never have such a rapid transit road ; that all such roads now in use or in process of construction shall be dis- continued, and all the money invested in them thrown to the dogs. The bill is, in- deed, such a preposterous one as to seem almost like a burlesque on the opposition to rapid transit. It is, however, to be regreited that a gentleman of the reputation of Dr. Hayes should allow himself to be used in so miserable a farce, and all for the selfish pur- poses of a corporation that has already made its millions out of a franchise . bestowed upon it gratuitously by the people of the city at whose interests it now seeks, through its agents at Albany, to strike a deadly blow. The Blockade in the Black Sena. The Ottoman government has informed the representatives of other Powers at Constantinople that it has ‘‘declared” ao blockade of the ‘“‘whole Russian coast of the Black Sea.” This has the aspect of an in- tended paper blockade, as distinguished from one made effective by the presence of armed ships; for if the blockade is to be made effective in this sense ‘the whole Rus- sian coast of the Black Sea” can scarcely be watched by the whole Turkish navy. This cannot, therefore, be an actual blockade, because of impossibility, unless it be con- sidered that the presence of two or three men-of-war in the Bosphorus or at the mouth of the Danube establishes a blockade within the limits of the Paris decJaration of 1856. That declaration is a guarantee for neutral ships against capture for entering or leaving any ports where the blockade is not maintained in the immedi- ate neighborhood of the port by an armed force sufficient to make capture reasonably imminent. Such a blockade the Turks can- not make of the district they declare block- aded. Will neutral nations assent to a blockade of that. district maintained at the Bosphorus? This case is peculiar, for, while as to the ports such a blockade could be constructive only, no one can deny that it would be effective as to the capture of ships. It has been held in English courts that an effective blockade cannot be consti- tuted by drawing a line to prevent ships going to particular ports if the line include other ports to which they have the right to go. On this ground, if on no other, neu- trals might object to the sort of blockade the Turks apparently intend. An Empress for Canada. The loyal Canadians desire that the good Queen Victoria, in addition to her other honors, shall assume the title of Empress of Canada, ‘ Well, the United States will cer- tainly make no objection. Indeed, we shall rejoice to have the hame of so excellent and amiable a lady more closely connected than and in future years, when our neighbors across the St. Lawrence find it to their in- terest to seek a resting place in the commu- nity of States, no person will be more cheerfully welcomed as ao citizen of the Republic than the first lady of the Dominion, We imagine, however, that there may be some hesitation on the part of Queen Victo- ria and her Ministry to accept any more titles at present for the head of the British nation, The last new dignity of Empress of India might, in case of a general European war, become a merely nominal one, and it is not advisable in these days for sovereigns to bear empty titles which signify nothing. They bring crowns into contempt and place those who bear them too much on a level (Tn en 2 Tne ns ae reece ee ese eee ee ee eee ee a ee re eae aren en mumecomsailiie Hae IRsai Balen aaa with the proud and penniless Continental princes whose principal use is to furnish husbands and wives to more substantial rulers. The Extra Session Postponed. The President decided yesterday by ad- vice of his Cabinet that he will not assem- ble Congress in extra session until October 15. This decision will damage a great deal of political ammunition. Mr. Blaine and his mutinous brigade who have got their blunderbusses loaded for discharging o tremendous Yolley against the Presi- dent at the beginning of June may find their pieces rusty and_ their powder spoiled by the middle of October. When these belligerents have lain on their‘loaded weapons for five months their military ardor may have suffered as much as their ammunition. The noted phrase about ‘a wise and mastorly inac- tivity” would seem to be pretty well under- stood by President Hayes. His slowness and delay in the cases of South Carolina and Louisiana answered a very good pur- pose in gradually discouraging the carpet- baggers and bringing them to act reason- ably when the troops were at last with- drawn. His postponement of the extra ses- sion until after the summer heats will have an equally cooling influence on the passions of the recalcitrant republicans. If peace, order, industry and contentment should prevail in the South during the spring, sum- mer and early autumn months, the acqui- escence of the country in the Southern policy of the President will be sonearly universal that his assailants will lose most of their supporters. Of course the Presi- dent and Cabinet see their way clear to maintain the army until autumn. The soldiers will perhaps be a month or two be- hind in their pay, but as they do not exceed the number authorized by Congress they may be legally kept in service, as our soldiers so often were during the war when their pay was several months in arrear. Whatever Congress may do about the army when it assembles it cer- tainly will not refuse to pay it for service already rendered. A summer session is un- desirable on many accounts, and we are glad that the administration sees its way clear to get through without new appropriations until fall. The country needs rest from po- litical excitement, and by October Congress will be able to form a more intelligent judg- ment as to the manner in which our trade and industry will be affected by the European war. Deeds, Not Words, We are assured by Mr. 8. 5. Churoff, of this city, in a letter published elsewhere in to-day’s Henawp, that Assemblyman Lang- bein’s name should not be included in our Black List of New York representatives who by their vindictive war against rapid transit have proved their readiness to sacrifice the welfare, growth and prosperity of the city to the selfish interests of the horse car cor- porations and the unnecessary fears of a handful of unenterprising property owners. We are assured that rapid transit has no truer friend at Albany than Mr. Langbein; that he voted against the Eccle- sine bill, much to his present tTegret, be- cause he was ignorant of its provisions; that he will do his best to secure the revival and success of that measure, and that he will steadily oppose the Hayes-Strahan bill to perpetuate the profits of the street railroad companies. While we are glad to receive Assemblyman Langbein’s assurances of re- gret forthe pastand promises of amendment in the future we must insist that his vote onthe Ecclesine bill was inexcusable. He represents a district every resident of which is in favor of rapid transit and where every foot of real estate would be largely benefited by the completion of any rapid transit road through the city. It is the special need of Mr. Langbein’s constituents, while it would ‘be a great advantage to the whole city. It was, therefore, Mr. Langbein’s first duty to make himself thoroughly familiar with every pill introduced on the subject of rapid tran- sit. Mr. Langbein owes it to his constituents now to doas he promises and to use every possible exertion to revive and carry the Ecclesine bill. Although it is late in the session an earnest effort may yet undo the mischief that has been done in the defeat of that measure. The Mimic Press. Long before he fights in earnest the boy shoulders his harmless gun, and the young Napoleon beat upon his toy drum tones that afterward alarmed all Europe. In everything ‘‘the child is father of the man,” and the serious occupations of manhood are the playthings of youth. Education is so universal in this country that it is not surprising that our young people should find amusement in the most diflicult of professions. Playing at newspapers is now one of the most popular of their pleas- ures, and the amateur journalism of the United States is assuming immense propor- tions. The fascination of newspaper life must be very great when we see it actually adopted as a substitute for baseball, cricket, or the old-fashioned amusements of school. The mimic press is now an institution and resembles the real press about as much as ® baby six months of age resembles its parent. ‘Law, me! he is the very image of his pa.” It is charming to see how the passions, ambitions, rivalries and dis- putes of the real press are reflected in this small mirror. The young lions at each other with amusing rage. The little papers which are published by schools and colleges have their foes and friends, and love a quarrel as much as their prototypes. To see their contests is like watching the miniature yacht races on the Park lakes, where little vessels about three feet lohg tack and haul close and stand off with as much dignity as the Sappho or Columbia. If they should happen to be wrecked the world would not be much the loser, but what sorrow would not the youthtul owners know! So with our mimic journals, which bear the ambitions of youthful hearts, to whom the future is all a dream and the present a revelation, The mimic press ought not to be discouraged by the real press, because in its clear glass the latter can see at play show imaginary claws and roar’ much greater than those of the boys and girls who give to the public in print es- says and poems which seventy years ago would have been consigned to the teacher's desk or found brief fame only at a school commencement? The difference is perhaps not as great as we in our pride suppose. So, let the young ladies write upon the rights of women, and let the young gentlemen who so ably manage college jour- nals continue to warn the Czar of Rus- sia always for the last time or predict the destruction of Turkey. We shall all be well pleased if the mimic press will only imitate the virtues of the professional press and strive to avoid its errors. Fresh News from Utah. The intelligence from the Salt Lake country wifich we print to-day will attract wide attention, There is a piece of news of remarkable significance. The Mormons are industriously reviving and perfecting their military organization, and secretly arming and drilling their able-bodied men. The explanation given by our correspond- ent of these busy and clandestine mili- tary preparations is an -apprehension that Brigham Young will be arrested as an accomplice in the Mountain Meadows massacre, and a determination on the part of the faithiul to protect and defend him to the last extremity. The whole Mormon community is sensible of the feeling kindled against it by John D. Lee’s confession, and the Saints have formed a desperate resolve to stand their ground. The Herald Does Not Brag. We find the following in the London Court Journal ;— The New Yorkers had the account of the boat race that Saturday morning at their breakiast table, while in Loudon the evening papers were publishify tho ac- count of tho race, rowed under their poses, that Oxford bad won. The New York Heratp does brag; but it has earned the right, This is all right, except the last sentence. The Henaxp, as our readers know, did give the result of the Oxford race to its readers on the morning when the race was rowed. It was not a difficult matter to do, the man- agers of the Atlantic cable being very ready to help us. But the Hzraup did not brag about it; it merely informed 1ts- readers that they would find the eagerly expected news of the race in the appropriate column. If we were not afraid that the Court Journal would again accuse us of bragging we would modestly say that the achievement which seems to our contemporary so remark- able was not thought so by us. The Hera means to give its readers the earliest and the most correct news from all parts of the world ; that is its duty and function, and as we are constantly doing so it does not occur to us to brag about any pasticular instance, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Don Carlos drives in Paris. The Princo of Wales ts Ear! of Dublin, ‘Tne Queon of England will visit Ireland, Senator Hamlin’s son has taken a prize as ado- claimer, When the editor of the Worcester Press goes to bed he is bald-headed, New black silk dresses are made partly of brocade and partly of gros grain, The Cincinnati Commercial thinks that Garfield does not carry all the guns of a man-ol-war, =~ Miss Jessic Deaton, of Virginia, has been discovered by her brother aiter twenty years’ search, A Charleston planter began jife on a doliaranda haf a week, but he now works for a dollar. A snake at a Richmond eircus escaped and ran up a giri’s sleeve and coiled round her waist like a Satanic lover. i Wanted, by all the newspapers of the country, a San Francisco correspondent who will not write up “China-town.”” The Czar, with righteous indignation, has deter- mined to make bard war on the bashi-bazouks (or proof readers) of Turkey. A Georgia calf, six months old, gives a gallon of milk aday, and yet therp are men like Wendell Phillips who think that the South ts behind the ago, Buflalo Ezpress:—“The New York Heraup says ‘Greece cannot hold a candle to the Russians.’ But she can bold ‘the light of other days.’ ’” It is funny that when tho Czar Nicholas sends a mes- sage from the other world by a spirit medium he can- not speak Russian, but utters his slang in Hackensack English. President Hayes thinks that the greatest average intelligence is in Northern Ohio, and the greatest leadership in Southern Obio, Hayes comos {rom mid. die Ohio, Chicago Tribune:—** ‘Voes spring spring?’ asks the P, 1. of the New York Heraup, We do not know how it cavorts along the Atlantic, but in this climate it turns a back summer-set.”” If you wart to wong a low-neck dress and want your moral principles enfphasized with gush and M!usion give an invitation to a lady correspondent to attend your reception in Washington, Mrs. Jane English, mother of the late Lucille and Helen Western, is in destitute circumstances at Mal- den, Mass, and members of the thoatrical profession are forwarding subscriptions tn her behalf, As the traveller from the East rides through Ohio he sees farms deserted, fields unploughed, stores un- tenanted, and hoe wonders why all the smart men were Lorn in that State and why they were appointed to office. ‘A large establishment has been opened in St. Lows for drying eggs. [ts in ull operation, and hundreas of thousands of dozens are going into’ its insatiable maw. The eggs are carefully “cardlea” by band— that is, examined by light to ascertain whethor good or not—and aro then thrown into an immenso recep- tacle’ where they are broken, and by a centrifugal operation the white ani yolk are separated from the shell very much as liquid honey 1s separated from the comb, The liquid is then dried by heat, by patent procees, ond tho dried article 18 loft, resembling sugar, and it 18 put in barrels and is ready for transportation anywhere. LITERARY . CHIT-CHAT. Sir Francis H. Doyle’s ‘Lectures on Poctry,"’ deliv- ered at Oxiord last year, win the hearty praise of the Saturday Review. Albert Carlisie, a San Francisco publisher, has ready for publication a volume giving a history of tho work- ings of the cadet system in the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s service ‘The Bryant History of the United States, published by Scribner, Armstrony & Co., was suggested by the late Edward Seymour, of that firm. Tho “Leopold Shakespeare,” published by Cassell, Petter & Galpia, and edited by F, J. Furnival, is an- nounced as ready, Wilham 8. Sharp, of Trevton, N. J., announces a reprint of Smith’s “History of New Jersey,” the original edition of which was printed in 1765, and which is one of the most prized books among book collectors and brings the largost prices at sales, Honry Holt & Co., New York, will publish two now novels in the “Leisure Hour Series,” They aro “Pauline,” by L. B. Watford, outhor of “Mr, Smith,” which was one of the successful novels of two years ago; and “Eagénie,” by Miss Beatrice May Butt, Baker's “Turkey” willgoon be published by Henry Holt & Co. The book will be a companion to Wallace's “Russia,” and will be publighed uoiferm with it, bat will be soid tora trifle less, The author, Lieutenant Colonel Janes Baker (a brother of Sir Samael W. Baker), bas lived in Turkey about three years and owns estates there, The sime publishors will soon its own features in little, Are our strug- gles and aspirations, defeats and victories, add tothe “Leisure Hour Series” a new novel, “In Change Unchanged,” by Linda Villar, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World THE WAR. Cannonading Resumed on the Danube. GREEK MEETS TURK. Further Details of the Ad- vance Upon Kars. ROUMANIA AND THE PORTE. Montenegro To Be Given Over to Pillage. (Bx CABLE TO THE BERALD.] | Lonpon, May 5, 1877. It is reported at Bucharest that the bombardment of Ibrail and Barboschi recommenced Thursday evening. In the Roumanian Chamber of Deputies on Thursday the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in re- ply toa question concerning the bombardment of Ibrall, stated that the Russian batteries fired first upon the Turks, who replied. Five bombs !ell into Tbrail, two of which struck the residence of the Prefect. There was a slight loss of life and one house was destroyed. This occurrence, although deplorable, was not intended by the Turks. The Minister concluded by saying he had opposed every solicitation to declare the independence of Rouma- nia, and that the country did not consider itseif in a state of war with Turkey. Adespatch from Bucharest says the Russian ad- -vance guard has reached Urzitcheni, south of Buseo, The road there divides, one branch leading eastward to Gura-Jalomici, nearly op- posite the ‘Turkish town of Hirsova, and the other south to Kalarach, opposite Silistria, At Hirsova the Danube is compressed into one chan- nel, the banks of which are not marshy. The passage here is much easier than at any other point between Silistria and Galatz. Hir- sova is also much leas strongly defended than Silistria, It is probable a strong corps of Russians will be concentrated at Gura-Jalomici and Kalarach, either to force a crossing or keep the garrisons at Silistria and Hirsova occue pied while the. crossing is effected elses where. English travellers from the inte- rior of Turkey state that the reports of Moslem enthusiasm are much exaggerated, The Grand Duke Nicholas has ordered General Fadateft to repair instantly to Jassy. Russia is makinggreat efforts to raise a loanin Paris. It seems French, German and Dutch bankers have nearly arrived at an agreement about It. r CANNONADING ON THE DANUBE. A Consul at Galatz telegraphs that a Turkish monitor bas been firing on the batteries below Reni since eleven o'clock yesterday morning. The point of attack is probably Isaktchi (or Isakia), be- tween Reni and Tulcha, where the Russians are constructing a bridge. The cannonade was be tween the Russian batteries anda gunboat whic was exploring the mouth of the Pruth. GREEKS IN CONFLICT WITH TURKS. A telegram trom Athens reports that through some misunderstanding a conflict occurred on the frontier of Epirus between the Greek troops anda Turkish detachment which had crossed the frontier in pursuit of brigauds. An extraordinary session of the Greek Assembly has been convoked for May 28, BEFORE KARS—VIA TURKEY. According to a despatch from Moukhtar Pacha, dated April 30, the Russians having advanced in great foree toward Kars in a westerly direction, with the object of intercepting Turkish communications with Erzeroum, the Turkish commander, leaving a sufficient force at Kars, marched out with nine battalions ard occupied the village of Ichilakii, near Yardin and west of Kars. A subsequent telegram from Moukhtar Pasha, dated May 1, announces that some of the inhabitants of Kars had brought him re- ports that the Russians had attacked Kar§, but were repulsed with loss. According to a telegram from the Turkish commander at Batoum, Russian military operations were arrested by rainy weather, MOKE OUTRAGES IN PROSPECT, The Montenegrins, according to advices from Ragusa dated May 2, hold the Duga pass, blockading Gorausko and Nicsics, Suleiman Pacha, with 20,000 men, is advancing to reilove Gorausko, Severe fighting 1s expected, It is stated that the Turks have persuaded 20,000 Souti Albanians to take arms on condition of Montenegro being given up to plune der, All the Northern Albanian clans favor the Montenegrins. ROUMANIA AND THE PORTE, Safvet Pacha has informed, by telograph, the Otto. man Ambassadors abroad that in consequence of the convention between Roumania and Russia he has notified the agency which represents Roumania at Constantinople that its functions are suspended, Roumanians in Turkey will, nevertheless, con~ tinue to enjoy the protection of the laws, Roumanian vessels will remain under the pro- tection of the Turkish authorities or Ottoman consuls abroad. The official Journal at Bucharest pub- lishes Prince Charles’ assent to the convention with Russia, A Turkish circular, dated May 2, was presented te the Gorman government on Thursday in reference to the Russo-Roumanian Convention. The Porte pro- tests against tho convention as an illegal act of the Principality facilitativg invasion, and furthermore de- clares that the Prince authorizes Roumania to bein the power of « hostile asurping government AUSTRIA DEFINES HER POSITION, In the Austrian Retchsrath and the Hungarian Diet yesterday the Ministers mide identical replics to in- lerpetlations about tho Eastern question to the follows ing effoct:— Austria maintains an attitude of benevolent interest in the Christian sof tbe Porte, and, while 00+ serving strict neutrality, reserves the right to protect its OWN interests, or Intervene With efforts for the con- sation or loculizing of the coatlict. The Ministers recog- nize the Empire's intimate connection with and interost in the affairs of Earopeon Turkey, but deem a ‘o warlike measures for their protection unnecessary, in view of the attitude of the other Pow cordial support the government can co the representatives of the pcople whenever action be comos necessary. Tho Vienna Presse states that Count Zichy, the Aus