The New York Herald Newspaper, May 15, 1877, Page 7

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The entire list declined and the market closed very weak, Gold opened at 1071 and declined 1g, closing at 107. ment bonds were weaker, but steady at the close, while railroads were irregular. Money on cull continues easy ut 2 a 21, per cent. sir Has Braten slow citizens in Rapiw Tras Brooklyn. Tux Particuvars of the Williamsburg tragedy appear in another column, Usper tur Dove.e Protection of King and President to-day New York should feel safe. Jonn Burt begins to find American beef - tough subject, commercially, but he manages to swallow it. More Morry Macumes were sentenced to death yesterday, and Pennsylvanians breathe more freely. Now tuatT Mexico has her new government arganized, the lending question on the border will be, Are Mexicans to go on stealing cattle in Texas! How tHe Sectronauists will howl over the fraternizing of South and West at Norfolk yes- terday, and what a loss of breath they will have for their pains! Tne Derawant Pracn is safe and men who makea practice of slipping on peach skins thrown on sidewalks will not lose their customary autumn exercise, Asotner Savines Bank Gonn.—Real estate and business loans killed it, which fact should he remembered by people who complain of the illiberal policy of certain banks. Ir Custom Hovse Orricers do their duty how is it that the Naval Office discovers errors that would otherwise make the government lose nearly one and a half million dollars per annum Tay Herarp's Hist or tie Patriotic Dury of citizens to make good the neglect of the army y Congress has been taken by a prominent New York banking house, and the publie will wish it success, Scrence, not satistied with demolishing reli- gion, now attacks the other principal Sunday attraction of New Yorkers. General Viele pro- nounces Central Park malarious because it has not more trees, Quite Tr Was Fitrixa that the petition presented at Albany yesterday against political | interfere: signed pr with the schools should have been pally by bankers.and brokers. Pub- lie intelligence is the best safeguard of business, | and it isa good sign when moneyed men show that they r Tie Vas things sharp ube PAM did not exp! modore. Nosooner hi «Laer Bt anit against tor which he elaims w from his father’s estate. the o« ae promised hin as satisfaction Do mie “Breay Wivsens” who assembled at Cooper Insitute last’ mw for when they claim that ed for the benefit of the unem- ht know what they ask t government works should be proje ployed! Had the total cost for labor upon that gi swindle, the County Cc honestly inca have p i ie rt louse, been od in a single yeur it would not able in the one © a notic arket. Tl of every one sud improvement labor ed have the we too valuable to society to be deinded and disappointed by falar hopes Tue Westher.—The extensive area of high dle ally moving eastward betore harometer in the Northwest. pressive still ve mover the lakes and | State: i w decidedly The weather regions with brisk winds on the coast of New England. The depression, which moved, os we announeed, through the npper regions of Canada, has descended again tothe mouth of the St. Lawrence, and now ex- tends northeastward over Newfoundland and Nova Scotin, with high winds in the St. Lawrence Valley and high temperature from the inkes to the New England and Middle Atlantic coast. In the Northwest pressure has fallen rapidly, causing heavy ndraught winds from the Southeast through the Missouri and Upper Mississippi valleys and light tains northward from St. Lonis. A gale was blowing last evening at North Platte, with threatening weather, aveording to our despatehes. The weather in New York to-day will be partly eloudy or hagy aud warmer. ALD d advertisements will be received and Is England Re-enacting the Schies- wig-Holstein Farce In 1864 the English government, Lord Palmerston being then First Minister and Earl Russell Minister for Foreign Affairs, acted toward Denmark a discreditable and pusillanimous part, which resembled in its early stages what Lords Beaconsfield and Derby have been doing for the last year in relation to Turkey. The government of that day gave every sort of indirect encour- agement to Denmark in her quarrel with Germany respecting the Duchies, inciting her and leading her on until she engaged in ! war in reliance on English support, and abandoning her to fight single-handed in an unequal contest with one of the great Pow- ers of Europe. This is one of the most dis- graceful chapters in the diplomatic annals of England, Earl Russell is so ashamed of it that, in his latest book, ‘‘Recollections and Suggestions,” he passes the whole trans- action in blank silence, although he was one of the chief actors in it. England, by the part she then played, made herself the scorn and derision of Europe. Every print shop | on the Continent was filled with mooking | caricatures of her pusillanimity. One of the French caricatures represented ‘Bri- tannin wearing a cotton nightcap; one of the German caricatures depicted the British lion as running off at full speed with a hare in chase, One of her most distin- guished statesmen, Mr. Cobden, likened England to a bully taking a little fellow and backing him for a prize fight. ‘The bully “draws the scratch” across where the toe of the little fellow is to come, tells him to come up to the mark, advises him how to train himself, takes him-under his charge, aud then, just at the moment when he comes to the place, moves off and leaves him. The conduct of England in the Schleswig-Hol- stein affair is a piece of history on which Turkey would have done well to reflect while she was being led on step by step to reject the demands which Russia and the other Powers have made upon her since the Bulgarian atrocities. ‘ Since the Schleswig-Holstein affair Eng- land has lost caste among the great Powers of Europe. They despise her diplomacy, which once seemed so vigorous and for- midable. When the Ministry was simul- taneously overhauled in both houses of Par- liament for that disgraceful fiasco, the reso- lution offered in the Commons by Mr. Dis- raeli declared that the course pursued by Her Majesty’s government had ‘lowered the just influence of this conntry in the councils of Europe, and thereby diminished the securities for-peace.” At the close of four days’ strenuous debate Lord Palmerston rose to speak in his own defence, Even his partial biographer is obliged to admit that he had no case :—‘‘He had in truth a diffi- cult task, There had been a conspicuous failure; of that much there could be no doubt. Allies, colleagues and circumstances had proved adverse; yet the excuses for failure could not be laid on any of them, So he did not detain the House on the points immediately at issue, but, dropping the Danish matter altogether, went straight into, the history of the financial tri- umphs of his government.” By this jaunty evasion he saved himself, for the majority of the House cared little for Schles- wig-Holstein, but cared a great deal about English finance. This result was inter- preted by all Europe as a withdrawal of ‘England from Continental politics. In point of fact she has been destitute of for- eign influence from that day to this. The last occasion on which any foreign govern- ment bas yielded to her was as far back as 1861, when she demanded the release of Mason and Slidell of a government crippled by a great civil war, and with the certainty on the part of Engiand to have the Con- federate States as allies if the quarrel were pushed to extremities. But since the Schleswig-Holstein affair England has not ventured to assume a haughty tone in any foreign question. Within the last year it has become known to the world that the real reason why Den- mark was so disgracefuily deserted by the government which had encouraged her to | yesist and led her into the war was fear of Germany and consciousness of the military weakness of England. In the ‘Life of Lord Palmerston,” published last year by the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, there are several private letters of Palmerston which prove conclusively that he “let I dare not wait upon I would, like the poor cat i’ the adage.” He abandoned Denmark because he could not get allies to tight Germany, and knew that England would be whipped if she at- tempted to fight Germany alone. In a pri- vate letter to Earl Russell Palmerston said:—‘Lhe truth is that to entér into a military conflict with all Germany on Con- tinental ground would be a serious under- | taking. If Sweden and Denmark wero | actively co-operating with us our twenty at deal; but it thousand men might do a g | Austria and Prussia could bring two hun- deed or three hundred thousand into | the field, and would be joined by the Smaller German States.” In anothér ietter | to Russell he sai Wedeem the integrity and independence of the State which com- mands the entrance to the Baltic objects of | interest to England. We abstained from taking the field in defcnce of Denmark for many reasons—from the season of the year, | from the smallness of ourarmy and the great | risk of failure in a struggle with all Germany | by land.” In other words, Eng | wishing the success of Denmark, and think. | ing her own interests involved, did not fight because she dared not, Her feebleness as a | military Power made it certain that she would | be whipped, and sho knew it. Now, in what essential respeet does her | position in 1877 differ from her position in | 1864? In this contest, as in that, | effective part of the fighting will be done on |} land, The armies of Russia are much larger | and more formidable now than those of Germany were at the time of the Schleswig- Holstein difficulty. The distance from Eng- | distance to ‘Turkey, whither British troops and their munitions would hav | ported three thousand miles by sea, What could they accomplish against the vast | Muscovite armies, fighting near their own | frontier and close to their sources of supplies | and reinforcements? NEW and, though | the | land to Denmark is short compared with the , to be trans- | Moreover, England | would have to puy the heavy military ex- | why such should occur iz a single instance. YORK HERALD, TUES whereas Denmark was able to support all the troops she could put into the field. It is not easy to see in what respect the reasons privately given by Palmerston for abandon- ing Denmark atter leading her into war are not equally good reasons for refusing to help ‘furkey now. It would be madness for her to expose her commerce to destruction by going into this war without an ally among the great military. Powers; but she will not have an ally until some of the great Powers think their inter- ests more seriously imperilled. by | Russia than any of them doas yet. Influ- ence with them she has had none since she betrayed hex weakness to contempt by de- serting Denmark after encouraging her to resist. The Continental cabinets feel that the bullying diplomacy of England in for- mer times was a sham exhibition of strength, no more to be regarded now than the scare- crow in a corn field after the crows have dis- covered that it is nota man with a musket, but a straw-stuffed suit of old clothes im- paled upon a stake. Annual Dinner of the Chamber of Commerce, The Chamber of Commerce celebrated its one hundred and ninth anniversary by a | banquet at Delmonico’s last evening with rather more éclut than has been usual even on these always pleasant occasions. It may have given banquets as sumptuous and elaborate, but even this may be doubted, tor Delmonico evidently tried to do his best, im view of the great distinction of the guests present at this dinner, In the numbers who sat at the table this dinner has not been equalled ; but this is of little account. The great interest of this repast consisted in the | presence of the President of the United States and his Cabinet. It would otherwise have been a rather brighter display than usual of the hospitality of the veteran as- sociation which has for more than a century represented this commercial com- munity. Its annual dinners have always abounded with humorous, entertaining speeches, It is not at all because this was a good dinner well eaten and followed by “the feast of reason and the flow of soul” that the occasion is remarkable, but because the chief functionaries of a new administration were present and the suffering merchants of New York were anxious to hear what they might have to | say to encourage hope and effort in business | enterprises. ‘he chief interest of the oc- casion centres in What the President and those members of his Orzbinet who spoke had to say in relation to the immediate future. We are sorry to be compelled to say that their speeches had but little pith or signifi- cance, President Hayes, whose bearing and appearance gave a favorable impression, made a pleasant little speech, which gave no distinct clew to that part of his policy which | relates to the business of the country. ; Secretary Evarts, who responded to a toast which afforded him an occasion to foreshadow the policy of the administration respect- ing the revival of our prostrate ship- ping interest, was too vague and diplomatic to convey any distinct idea of what the President means to recom- | mend to Congress on this great subject, He seomed several times on the point of in- dorsing free trade in ships; but he was vague and non-committal, and did not in- dorse it. Had he done so he would have been greeted with such a storm of applause as was never raised even by his eloquence. When Secretary Schurz rose to respond to the toast relating to economy he was received with a burst of enthusiastic warmth even | more hearty than that with which President Hayes himself was saluted, and he made what was, on the whole, the best speech of the evening. It was certainly the most vigorously applauded. But his apt and ex- cellent remark$ on the subject of civil ser- vice reform and the revision of the tariff fell short of what the commercial commnu- nuity had a right to expect from an administration which comes into power at a time when business is depressed beyond all former experience and when the country looks to the government for large and wise measures of relief. The first want of the country is nota reform in | the civil service, but a removal of obstruc- | tions to the revival of business. Our civil service is substantially what it has | been for half century, but within that half century we have had long! periods ‘of business activity and great industrial and commercial prosperity. [1 is all very well to “tithe mint, anise and | cummin,” Dut we respectfully suggest to the administration that there are weightier matters which require attention in this con- juncture. We need reforms which go a great deal deeper than now methods of ap- pointing public servants. Opinion of Service, a | French Oar Weather | We publish this morning a translation of an article from the Revue Scientifique on the “Meteorological Warnings of the New York | Hraacy.” The writer thereof proceeds to | discuss the question of ocean meteorology in ' a very intelligent and interesting manner, | and suggests to his European scientific read- ers a plan by which the Hera weather ser- viee can be rendered of immense value to | the great interests of commerce and agri- eulinre. in scientific in- vestigation is conducted with surprising skill and enthusiasm, sof the grandest | results of modern research have been at- | | tained. We nre not surprised, therefore, | that the success of the Herap weather ser- | vice in notifying Europe of the approach of | | dangerous tem pests should be received there | with a generous appreciation of its value and | of the spirit of journalistic enterprise that | has given it existence, Although previous attempts at securing storm warnings tor the European coasts have failed chietiy through France, where a misconception of the conditions and | organization necessary to success, the | Heraup lies now set all doubts at | rest as to the feasibility of tracing storms | across the Atlantic. We hope, therefore, | / that when a regniar intercontinental | | meteorological system is organized no | ouraging failure will attend its | | further dise’ Indeed, there is no just reason operation, penses of the Turks as well as her own, | What the Hznaup has accomplished already is a sufficient guarantee of the success of any intercontinental system that is intelli- gently planned aud directed. Let Us Know the Result. The Tammany members of the Board of Aldermen object to the Omnibus bill as a “partisan” measure, and in support of the charge the President of the Board shows that, should the bill become a ‘law, sixteen democratic and two republican heads of de- partments will be “legislated out” by the abolishment of their offices, New York is a democratic city, and the democrats have control of all the departments ; hence it we are ever to get rid of unnecessary offices, which add to the expense and impair the efliciency of the city government, we must turn out the democrats who fill them, ‘There are at present only seven republicans among sixty-three heads of departinents and bureaus in the city; yet the Aldermen who object to partisanship in the city govern- ment have just refused to confirm a demo- cratic Mayor's nominees for Police Commis- sioner and Commissioner of Parks on the sole ground that they were not ‘lammany democrats., Governor Robinson can scarcely afford to make himself so subservient to the interests of Tammany Hall as to withhold his signature from the Omnibus bill on any such pleas as those urged by the Tammany Aldermen, i Woe do not see how the Governor can ob- ject to the billas being an interference of the State Legislature with the local affairs of our city, which is opposed to the prin- ciple of self-government, for the reuson that the present charter is such an inter- ference; and if the Omnibus bill improves some of the provisions of the charter it must meet not only with the Executive but with general approval. ‘Lhe truth is that Tammany Hall politics and tactics have not been acceptable to the democracy of the State, To dispense with unnecessary offices, to reduce the number of departments and bureaus where the duties can be combined under one responsible head, accountable to the Mayor, who in his turn is directly re- sponsible to the people ; in short, to reduce the expenditures and increase the efficiency of the government are the avowed objects of the democratic party, to which Governor Robinson belongs. If the Omnibnés bill ac- complishes these results he will sign it. If it does not he should at once point out in what direction it fails anf return it to the Legislature while there is yet time to se- cure the substantial advantages it ombodies, Carnival Day. It has come. In spite of demonstrations that Americans, particularly in the North, could not be wrought up to the pitch of devoting a whole day to fun, there is every probability that Rex will display himself to-day with a representative following of citizens, and that most men and women who do not take place in the procession will do their best to see the retinue of His Majesty. How much fun there will really be we will take great pains to tell our readers on the morrow, but until the day is done every one may enjoy the pleasures of anticipation, and these are not to be de- spised, especially in hard times. It is not every day that Americans can look at a king, and, though the title of Rex may exist for a day only, the happy mortal who bears it will be the observed of all observers and the leading puzzle of the day. If the pageant is such as will make New Yorkers anxious for another it will mark the beginning of a great refor- mation in metropolitan habits.. The custom of laboring six days of every week and fifty- two weeks of every year is one which is doing the American mind and body more harm than good, and whatever can break this rou- tine is to be greeted as a public benefit. So fortune attend Rex ; may he be greater and funnier thon even imagination has painted him, and mage every one anxious to see him again, How Not to Do It. A Senate committee is in session at the St. Nicholas Hotel. It is charged with the business of ascertaining whether an impor- tant State officer, the Superintendent of the Banking Department, has faithfully and efficiently performed his duties, or whether, through neglect, incapacity or corrupt prac- tices, he has failed to enforce and comply with the laws. nuo Savihgs Bank was under investigation yesterday. ‘Tho President and Sceretary of that institution made a sworn statement to the Bank Superintendent in January, 1875, as required by law, which showed a cloar surplus o! between seven and eight thousand dollars. About six weeks thereafter an offi- cial examination of the bank proved it to be actually two hundred and sixty thousand dollars deficient, without taking into con- sideration the false estimate of the value of real estate, which wonld have added nearly halt a million more to the deficiency. The bank was allowed to do busi withstanding until September 20, 1875. September 28 the trustees of the bank de- clared themselves in favor of closing its doors. ‘The President and Secretary went forthwith to Albany, and on the next day, September 29, an order to show cause why the bank should not be closed was granted by the Supreme Court, the defendants ad- mitied the bankruptcy and the Secretary of the bank who had sworn to the fraudulent Jaunary statement was, with the sent of the Bank Superintendent, pointed receiver, The creditors of the bank knew nothing of these proceedings until the ss uot. con- bank doors were locked upon them and the | receiver was in possession. These facts are of record. Yet the conn. sel for the Superintendent of the Banking Department was allowed to rise and object to every question asked of witnesses and to every record offered in evictence, and the | committee consulted together and looked profound, and ruled as to the non-ydmissi- | bility of this or that piece of testimony, asif they could blot out the facts and make an utterly inefficient or grossly negligent de- partment appear capable and faithful. It is said that to-day some bank presidents are to testify that they advised the Superintendent not to close the bank because of the panic it would create. In fact, to save their own banks, which could not have been very sate to fear tho exposure of one rotten, fraudu- The case of the Third Ave- | ap- | DAY, MAY 15, 1877—TRIPLE SHEKY. lent coneorn, they were willing that the ‘Third Avenue Bank should be allowed to continue for six months to swindle new de- positors. It will be interesting to note what bank officials will give such evidence. Meanwhile the Senate committee seems bent on finding out how not to do the public duty that is required of it. The Gladstone Resolutions—War News. | Mr. Gladstone’s resolutions were last night rejected in the House of Commons by a vote of 354 to 223, and an amendment was adopted declaring that the House ‘‘de- clines to entertain any resolution which may embarrass the government in its main- tenance of pence and the protection of Brit- ish interests.” As between the opposition and the government, therefore, this is 4 drawn battle, and one from which the gov- ernment is doubtless well satisfied to get away with so little injury. It is a good thing for the Ministry to know that there are 223 votes as a nuclous of opposition to | any pro-Turkish policy, and that this ; number is only not much larger because | of the patriotic hesitancy of many men * ; not in sympathy with the government to cast a vote that might even constructively embarrass the defence of the real interests of the country—a hesitation increased by the practical surrender of its doubtful policy which the government made in the speech !of Mr. Cross. Mr, Gladstone’s resolu- tions have for the time prevented English participation in the war, In the war news the most startling story is a chronicle of a | Daily Telegraph correspondent. There are some discrepancies worthy of notice in the thronicle of that tremendous battle near Batoum, to which this correspondent was an | eye witness. It appears that the Russian infantry was literally ‘mowed down ; in swaths’ by the ‘Turkish fire. Our readers may remember that this always happens to the infantry and sometimes to the cavalry. In fact, to be mowed down in swaths by the en- emy’s fire is so common an occurrence in every well regulated army that any veteran regiment would be ashamed not to have had this experience, more particularly as it com- monly does the regiment no harm. On this oceasion the Russian lines were subjected to this process by the fire of Turkish artil- lery and Turkish infantry in entrench- ments—as the chronicle hath it. And, fur- thermore, the wretched Russians were sorely | vexed by an attack on their flank of the bashi-bazouks, so terrible to women and children. Notwithstanding all this the bat- tle lasted eight hours and the Russians only withdrew at midnight. This was doubtless Russian impertinence. To remain there all that time was done, we suppose, simply. to make believe thut that awful fire was a mat- ter of no conseqnence, and that being mowed down in swaths was a fate to which they were indifferent. i 1 } PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Give ‘children all the salt they want to eat. Some of you idiots get up another pun on Kars, Mr, Nicolas Shishkin, Russian Minister at Washing- ton, is at the Clarendon, Mr. George H, Boker, United States Minister to Russia, 1s at the Brevoort. Admiral Lord Clarence Pagot, of Eogiand, arrived at the Clarendon yesterday from Baltimore, | General McCandless expects to be the noxt demo- cratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. Major General John Henry Letroy, Governor of Ber- muda, ts at tho Brevoort, on his way to England, Buifalo Ewpress:—“Can you get sap from the May- pole??? Yes, you sap-head, If you'll come away, The Springfeld Republican wishes that a builder whose building falls down should be made to auffer. Any person who 1s burning up in. a hotel may have Instructions how to save his life by sending a stamp. Simon Cameron, who bus doffed and Don-ned his honors, wilispend the summer on bis Lancaster farni, It 1s enld that Mrs. Jim Fisk, Jr, 18 engaged toa pianist. He was bad: but to be succeeded by a pianist! You may now hearaman smack obowder at a dis- tance of half a mile, if the restaurant is long enough, Farmers are patting in carrots in hope that one may come up big enough to be Governor of New York State. From our weather report this morning the probi- bilities are that you should put ov your ulsier or your duster, Weesty Hrratp:—Add a little Keroseno to stove | } i is warm. Mrs. Partington hag joined the Paragraphers’ Asso- ciation, Gentlemen, the whole thing was a joke—on the Treasurer. Justice Clifford kas gone to Portland, Se. sud strawberries will catch up to him unless he goes further Nerina, A correspondent writes to say thatthe P. I. of the Teratp is not funny, Now, bere is a sensible mau, It is not funny, rd Thornton, who has sailed for Kugiand, ta romoted while at home, | | Fred Dougiaes says that Washington is so Southern a city tbat if you step intoa store you must wait five minates before you are noticed. . An English critic thinks that while, as regards polish; i¢ improves the lustre, Apply while the stove | He ts vory pop: | THE WAR. Advance of the Russian - Head- quarters to Plojeshte. Massing the Army in Roumania. REPORTED TURKISH VICTORY oan nealnmarerrent Deteat of the Russian Right Wing in Asia. THE GLADSTONE DEBATE. ——— Defeat of the Resolutions by 854 to 223. AUSTRIA, SERVIA AND ROUMANIA, [By CABLE TO THE’ HERALD.] Lonpon, May 15, 1877. The news trom the Russian army in Roa- manila shows that the forces of the Czar haye not been inactive, According the HeRALD’s special «= the ~—sheadquartera of the Grand Duke are now located at Plojeshte (or Plogschti), a town about thirty-five miles to the north of Bucharest, and it 1s clear that the invad: ing army is being massed to the eastwam of the Roumanian capital. THE ARMIES ON THE DANUAE, ‘The Heraup’s correspondent with the Russian army telegraphs that the Russian headquarters were settiod at Plojeshte yesterday morning, A special from Vienna says that three culumns of Russian soldiers are warcning toward Giurgevo, Simnitza and Mogureill, with the probable design of crossing the Danube at those points. One object of the Russians is to break tho Turkish lines and separate the corps at Widdin from the mainarmy. The Turks appear to be con- templating a crossing to Kalufat. They have at that poiat two monitors, ono war steamer ana eight sailing barks, Tho Seventh ana Twelfth Russian corps, while on their way to Killa, were suddeniy ordered west, and are marching upon Giurgevoand Turoa, In about a week the northern bank of the Danube between the mouth tho Aluta gind Rust- chuk will probably be occupied by 60,000 men, Fresh batteries are .being cone structed at Ciclina, somewhat north of Ibrall, neat the mouth of the Serctb. It 1s clear the Russians are either preparing to cross the Danube simulta- neously’at several points or they wish to make the Turks believe such 1s the plan, Tho Turks are thus compeliod to distribute their forces over a large arca, and veing numerically woaker than the Russians they cannoi but be sensibly injured by this necessity. The municipality of Kischeneff have decided to raise an obelisk in memory of the Czar’s stay there, nud also to found an asylum Jor Invalid soldiers. Intelligence received from St. Petersburg states the report that the Russians, on the 9th inst, attempted to cross the Danube at Kent and sufferod defeat is off- cially centradicted as devoid of all foundation, AN UNSUCCESSYUL RUSE. It ts stated in official circles at Bucharest that a Turkisi vesgel, bailt in Pesth, bad been completed and arrived in the Danube above Kalafat, and that the of somo ‘Turks commenced their violent bombardment of that place on the 13th inst. to distract the attention of the Roumanians. Alter firing ceased the vessoi passed the Roumanian batloriet unharmed, Extensive movements of the Turkist cavalry havo been observed from the Roumantan sidt of the Danube, The Turks threaten to bombard Sim nitza and to cross the river atterward ané | plunder the ‘town, Bucharest journals state | that the arks nave crossed the Danubo at Ciochanesch, stolen 1,200 shecp and killed @ shephord and some cattle, The Jelegrap’’s Bucharest corre spondent also says the Turkish bombardmont of Kal+ fat from Widdin on Saturday night was intended to distract attention to enable a monitor to run tho guantlet of the Roumanian batterics, The monitor | which wag attempting to escape, after having been once or twice struck, turned aad steamed away up the streain, MONITORS SNK AND ASHORE, Varions concurrent accounts leave no doubt of the tremendous toss of Iife on board the Turkish monitor which was eunk off Lbrail, The only survivor of the crew, who was picked up by @ Russian boat, estimates | the crew attwo hundred. Tho ship was named the | Lutfield, and was armed with five guns, two of which were nine-inch and two five-inch, The Daily Telegraph's Bucharest correspondent says:—'+] am assured that owing to the fall of water iu the Danube the three remaining monitors, which are ensconced bebind an island opposite Lbrail, in the old bed of the Danube, cannot get out, and mast be abandoued or destroyed”? REVORTED RUSSIAN DEFEAT 1N ASIA, The following startling account of the defeat of the Franco, Germany shouid keop on the dofensive, she shouid not do so 1m an offensive way, | In Obio Yesterday a well caved tn and killed a man, | which saa accident wiil reauce the number of officials | hich that Stute might have been enutled. | One of the tavatest sccnos ie that of a greenbora trying to put a lwp stick Of asparagus somewhero be- tween his shirt collar and the top of his bead. Gartieid bas been an independeat and on tho aver. | agen successful man, From the moment when he put biuself under leadership he began to fail, Some journals compiniu that Hayes does not show enough respect to Grant, Well, the trath is that Grant never had a horse shot from under him as Hayes almost bad, Doting, intelligent parents put the childhood of their Offspring i cate of an ignorant servant and then | wonder why thechtidren have “bad notions” and “no Ane instinets,’” Country editors Who cannot afford to buy asparagus, strawberries and grecn peas give themselves away ywhen they complain that the articles aro tao dear ‘for general use, ’* | untry papers publish an item thatthe President of ew York Board of Aldermen is lees than thirty, effect that itis a tribute to bis genius, ye-s-s, We don’t like to run down New York. Kansas (|) Simes: An Lowa paper tells of a smart | wife who helped Ler husband to raiso seventy acres of wheat. The way she heiped Lint was to stand in the | door and shake a broom at Lim when he sat down to Test.” K Worcester Sauce :—A waiter in a Nevada restanront turns out ty be a Russian count in disguise, He be- trayed his identity by one day losing his presence of mind and yelling down the clevator, ‘Beanski for twooff 1?" Ihe Chicago Times, which will not hesitate to print | a story ff it ig only sensational, says that Mra, Commo- dore Vanderbilt will marry a Virginia cousin of bers, who ts a young widower, aud whom tho Commodore cut out. faJudah Poter Benjamin, tho most popular lawyer in London, and whose income is over $100,000 a year, was formerly Secretary of State of the Southern Con- federacy. Ho {8 sixty-five, was born in St. Domingo, 19a Hebrew, went to New Orleans after graduating at Yale, was a whig, thon a democratic United Statos | Senator, and then a Confederate, W-e-ll, | Russian rigut wing near Batoum was published bere | yesterday, It is as yot unconfirmed. Thero are alse sore Improbabilities connected with the story. In the tirst place, a battlo in which troops are “mowed down In | Swathes”? does not asually continue for eight hours. | In the second place, the region adjacent to the point at | which the fight is located ia no wise resembles that | deseribed inthe despatch. With this briel explanae on the account is herewith appended :— About five o'clock ow Friday moraing tho Russian, forces, which had beea largoly augmented for the pure | pose, ‘advanced with batteries of «fold artillery and | wade a furious attack upon the heights defending jatourn On toe land side, which were occupied by vashi-bazouks, ‘be Oltomnan troops were introuched m the usual eflective manner upon the siopes and | lodges of these Hills, and apon the advanco of the enemy they opencd on his columns a terrible aud well sustained fire of cannon and musketry which literally mowed the Russians down in swathes, ‘They fell by seores and hundreds ou the plain below the Tarkist positions. During their attempis to make ine fro a body of Turkish horse and foot, vantage of & thick forest, broke forth upon the ; Bank of the Russian column and cfected great slaughe | ter, The Muscovites being upon ground periectiy | open, and having bochoice but to fight or fly, in a snort tne the spot which was the scene of this flank | Movement became covered with dead and dying Ras+ | sians, Butthe evemy quickly brought up reiniorces ments, aud the battic was renewed with much deter. inination. For many uours the elorts of the assailuate Were desperately muintamed, bus towards midday theit | artillery five gradually slackoned aud they at length | withdrew atter suffering very considoravie losses, T iwysel! Was an eye-witness of this important engage- ment from frst to last, and can vestity that the Ovo man sidiors behaved with a gallantry which was most admirablo, They Lad, however, during a great part of | the action, the advantage of entrenchments on bigh | gronnd, and it is due to this fact, no doubt, that their | losses, compared to thoso inflicted upon’ tho | enemy, were insignificant The victory was wou ‘by the extraordinary courage of tho bashi-bazouks, The deat and wounded on the Rus. sian side wil exceed 4,000, The cngagoment lasted over cight hours’ actual fighting, Tho last of the Ras~ Sans did bot Withdraw until near midnmiguh The Russians lost many guns. The only Turkish officer of note killed ts Khalim Bey, major of Irregulars. The Times, in a leader, says:—“The war in Asia Minor will clearly not bo the kind of parade for the Rossians which was anticipated by Rnglish alarmists. ‘Tho Russians ran great risk of disappointment if they endeavor to repeat the raptd triumpha of 1328 and 1829." THR RAINY SEASON, As an evidence of the general condition to which tom days of Incossant rain have redueea the Astatio regio