The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, tof alata st aad alee THE DAILY HERALD, pultioner Three cents per cf Sunday excinsed) ‘Ten dollars p free of post news letters or telegraphfe despatches must New Kaho. Letters und pack Rejected communi ‘operly seated, ve returned, E-NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH IE NEW YORK HERALD— Subseriptions and yarced on the sam AMUSEMENTS TO-NIG —Tne Princess Rovay, GRAND OPERA HOUS! BOWERY THEATRE. NEW YORK AQUARIU. PARK THEATRE. — WALLACK'S THEAT! BOOTH'S THEATRE, UNION SQUARE THE. FIFTH AVENUE THE TIVOLI THEATRE.—Vaniery, EGYPTIAN HALL,—Vaxn COLUMBIA OPERA HO BELLE TRI ~NEW YoR NOTCH Purstipi TATION. SHEET. MAY 1 T0 COUNTRY DEALERS. ‘The Adams Bxpres Company run a special new train over the Pennsylvania Kailroad and its coune ity ata quarter past four A.M. di ny the regular edition of the Hyta West ts Hareisburg and South to Washington, Pidindelpnia at a quarter part six A, M. and Wa one J. M, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and generally clear or partly cloudy, prob- ably with a Uuder storm and heavy rain in the early morning or the afternoon, Watt Srre ‘The stock market was more active, but not upto the business of Jast week. In the afternoon, in response to a strong attempt to bull the coal stocks, they ad- vanced slightly. Gold opened and closed at 107 and in the interim sold at 1071g, Government bonds were firm and late in the day something higher, while railroad were irregular. Money on gail continues at 2 a 21y per cent. Tue Leapinc Conuxprum now is, Where is the Russian fleet going! Tur Custom House Weicuers had an op- portunity to defend themselves yesterday, and they made good use of it. HavisG Paw Its Depts, the Academy of De- sigh now proposes to give free instructions in art. There is no city where such teachings are more needed, Tue Story or Damon anv Pyrutas is cast into the shade by that of the Missourian who has just barely escaped being hanged for a murder tommitted by his brother. Asotnen Story of the New York policeman is told in onr columns this morning, and it lacks the familiar features of such tales, the victim laving been a woman, Mr. O'Coson’s Appr to nearly three hun- 3 iz lawyers who graduated yesterday was full of noble injunctions which some estab- lished members of the Bar might follow with credit to themselves and benetit to the com- wunity. Tur SECRETARY OF THE asurY does not Intend to be deat to offers of compromise by the crooked whiskey but neither does he fliseontinue legal pressure. Such a state of affairs ly means thut settlement in fall is to be obti Some or Our Crr one fi complaining of what ul evidence of divine on water has an inter- was considered they tind th mitting tenden Let them console themselves with the tho tan intermitting spring was one of the tr -PoLiceM AN terday, but it is will tempt other oflicers into mischief, Juries rection pecially when controlled by that y to be unreasonable in one us the othe instinct of selfpr ition which the police- man’s club has arow Avornen LaMentauLe Case of insanity ina wealthy and pro nt min points a moral which businses men should heed more frequently than they do. To suddenly end a suecesstul at the is bad enough, but e doov of a Innutie asylum is a Yet Dr. Ayer’s end is ch hundreds of rich men are thousand times wo exactly that for pre ig theinselyes, and without the slightest excuse, A Coxmitrer or Tun Boarp or Epccation nas been instructed to report upon the vise ability of restoring the custom of eorporal pun- | ishinent to the schools, This order was adopted bn the same evening in which was passed a reso- lution dedueting th If per cent from the teache 8. -When a person accepts 1 h tld have additional and meaner work imposed npon him, this being the usual fate of underpaid people. Tue Wearnien.—As we indicated in yeste: day's weather arti the pat area of high pressure has continued to move to the southward, ritory embracing the British ind and Middle States and the zone of t Provinces, the New aud the lake region as well as the upper valley of the Mississippi, has been visited by light rains, except at Leavenworth, where the fall was quite heavy. ‘The lowe arcas extending from the tr through the fur northern portions of Canada to the vicinity of Newfoundland! The regions devastated by the forest tires have, therefore, been Jightly sprinkled with rains of short dura- pressures ave now in 1s-Mississippi States tion, and the condition of affairs therein is not anuch improved, The thermal areas continue to | extend into thé northwestern and northeastern regions, and the lowest temperature being now in Nova Scotia and the iower St. Lawrence Val- y decided contrasts of temperature and pres- we presented in the lower Ohio Valle re a tornado inay be developed. in thia city yesterday was very great, but the general temperature was less than that indieuted u the streets, As we sup- wal waa probable, a thunder storm wasappar- nt tothe westward toward night, with indica- tions of inevexsing and threatening cloudiness at this city. We be certain that to-lay will not pass Without a sharp thunder storm and poss sibly heavy rain during ite passage. ‘the weather Will grow svill Wi or duvine the day. ry day in the year. | dollar per month for any period leas | rs Jor six montis, Sunday ) NEW ‘YORK -HERALD,: ‘THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1877 —TRIPLE SHEET. The Excitement in Utah. Last Sunday morning, after the prophet Brigham Young had denounced woe and destruction upon the enemies of the ‘Lat- ter Day Saints” in general from his pulpit in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, the prophet | Erastus Snow was deputed to do a little particular denunciation of the press, and especially of the New York Hxrnarp, which seems to have created an unusual commo- tion among the Mormon leaders of late. “You lying scribblers,” he shouted, ‘are falsifying for the purpose of destroying the Saints ; but you will not succeed !” We advise the apostle Snow to keep his temper. So far as we know he has no oc- casion for alarm. If he has been party to the Mourtain Meadows massacre or to any other murders we have not yet heard of it, and the Heraxp's object just now is to stir up the officers of justice and the adminis- tration at Washington to make thorough work of the investigation of numer- ous murders which District Attorney Howard has on hand. Why do Brigham Young and his apostles fall into a fury over a judicial investigation whose only object is to bring assassins to justice? We should have thought these prophets and head saints would be but too ready to help Mr. Howard and the other federal officers search out the authors of one of the most atrocious and wanton assassinations on record, which occurred within their Territory, in which Lee, one of their leading men, is known to have been a lending actor, and for which, certainly, all who had a share either in ordering, planning or executing it ought to be hanged. The federal District Attorney and Marshal in Utah are making a judicial inquiry into the history of an atrocious murder of men, women and children. The Grand Jury, which assembles on the 2ist, and is com- posed for the greater part of citizens not Mormons, will hear the evidence of a large number of witnesses who have been subpmnaed because they are believed to know something about these murders. An ingenious attempt to blacken the character and destroy the efficiency of the District Attorney has broken down. Mr. Howard, it is found, can neither be bought nor scared, and so, suddenly, Young and the other prophets begin to bellow about perse- cution and to prophesy bloody times. All this is very silly, unless, indeed, these prophets have something to conceal—unless they have reason to fear for themselves at the hands of justice. If they are guiltless they can have nothing to conceal, and in- stead of denouncing the Heratp they ought to be helping the District Attorney. We copy from the Salt Lake Herald, the Mormon organ, a general denial of the re- ports that the Mormons are privately arm- ing and drilling. ‘There is no occa- sion for alarm,” says the Mormon jour- nal;. “yet two or three scoundrelly newspaper reporters have put in cir- culation a base lie which, if unchecked, might bring ruin and desolation upon a whole Territory.” Here we do not agree with our contemporary. No newspaper re- port, even if it were entirely false, could ruin Utah or desolate it. That is all non- sense. If the Mormons are not arming and drilling misstatements in newspapers will do no harm; their falsehood will be quickly discovered, and there an end. ‘Even if the Mormons are arming and drilling “ruin and desolation” will not follow unless they should, at the bidding of their proph- ets, commit the incredible folly of making war against the United States. We have several times said that we do not believe -they will venture on this. It has never been their policy. Brigham Young has caused grass and forage to be burned, cattle to be driven off and tarms to be destroyed, to impede the advance of federal troops; but he was careful even then to warn his people to keep their hands off fed- eral soldiers. It was the Arkansas emigrant train which was murdered, and not Har- ney’s or Sidney Johnston's army. But the Mormon organ’s denial comes too late. Our correspondent’s reports of the arming and drilling in Utah are confirmed by. a request for reinforcements made to the Secretary of War by Governor Emery. We do not suppose the Governor fears a violent and general uprising, but he knows very well the great power the Mormon leaders still have over the more ignorant part of their followers; he knows privately, in all probability from the District Attorney, that it may be necessary presently to arrest some of the higher Mormon chiefs ; he “knows that a rescue may be attempted, and he means to be prepared against such anattempt.” In all this he is wise. A let- ter which we print elsewhere to-day from our Salt Lake correspondent contains mat- ter which may turn out to bring home to | Brigham Young himself a guilty knowledge of the Mountain Meadows massacre, It is a yery curious and extraordinary story which our correspondent relates ; he is a carefal and trained investigator, and it will be no- ticed that he does not give entire faith to the revelations of Thatcher or ‘Idaho Bill,” But the identity of this man with one of the children saved from the massacre seems to be at least probable. Now, we warn Brigham Young and his fel- low prophets not to attempt any nonsense, if, as seems probable from the despatch of the federal District Attorney and from | the reports of our own correspondent, there , shall appear before the Grand Jury evidence | warranting the arrest of Brigham and other | prominent Mormons they must submit quietly. We have heard enongh about blood and destruction, The country is not in a humor stand much bluster from | to Young. If his arrest should be ordered he | | had better go at once and quietly give him- | self up. prophets should be ordered we advise them also to surrender at once and without the least bluster, Whoever is arrested will | The heat | hkely to have rather better than a fair) measure: after all, and should not trial, for almost any jury empaneiled | in Salt Lake is more likely to| acquit than condemn an_ influential Mormon. But if Brigham Young himself should be found guilty of murder he will have to hung, and the Mormon leaders may | as well make up their minds that they are | no better’ than anybody else. The times | when they could bar the advance of a fed+ | eral army, when they could compel silence on pain of death in their capital, when they had an army of Indians at their command, when a “Gentile” was only tolerated in Utah, and they ruled as despots in the Territory— these times have gone by. Their influence over a great part of the Mormon population has been slowly on the waue ever since the Pacific Railroad was completed, and justice, which first made itself felt against Lee, will no longer be balked there. We hope the Attorney General is awake to what is going on in Utah, and that he will not fail to give | an overwhelming vote, authorized the gov- the utmost support to the District Attorney and Marshal in their labors there, . News from the War, H After having been cut down in swaths at | Batoum, as the excited correspondent of a | London journal hastened to inform the world, the Russians, according to another correspondent at that place, are concen- trating in front of the town prepara- tory to making a determined attack. Comparing the two stories and as- suming that the Russian general is not a hotheaded fool who will recklessly sacrifice his troops against batteries that cut them down in swaths, we conclude that the recent fight before Batoum really re- sulted in an occupation of an advantageons position by the Russians. They are now probably about to push closer to the | town, so as to be able to destroy the Turkish magazines established there. We do not believe that the Russians will seek to occupy Batoum, for it can be rendered untenable by the Ottoman fleet lying in the harbor. On the Danube side of the great arena of the war the kus- sians are massing their corps in such posi- tions as will enable them to be rapidly di- rected toward the most favorable point or points of crossing into Bulgaria. If the northern front of the ‘Turkish quadri- ‘lateral is cut a concentration of the troops at Rustchuk and Silistria against the Russians will be prevented, but the latter will be placed temporarily between two fires. Itis therefore probable that in order to occupy the Turks at Silistria an- other crossing will be made below that fortress, and that a force will be thrown into Matchin or Hirsova, and possibly Tultcha, so as to cause a further dispersion of the Turkish army. Thus the two railrond lines between the Black Sea and the Danube on which the Turks mainly rely for their supplies would be practically cut, for the Russian cavalry would quickly tear up the tracks by a series of dashes at the nenrest points on these lines. Once the Russians establish a footing in force on the soil of Bulgaria we may look for a rapid concentra- tion of the Turkish forces against them, when the fate of the Empire of the Sultan may be decided by a Sadowa or a Sedan. Playing at Investigation, The farce of the examination into the charges of official incapacity and neglect brought against the Superintendent of the Banking Department was ,continued at the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday, the Superin- tendent’s counsel raising an objecti@n to nearly every question put to the adverse witnesses and the committee in many im- portant instances, showing their knowledge of “how not to do it” by sustaining the ob- jections. One witness, however, an expert who had examined into the affairs of the Third Avenue Savings Bank, threw a bomb- shell into the camp of the défence by the straightforwardness and clearness of his testimony. He showed that two hours’ ex- amination of the books must have enabied any competent person to discover that during Mr. Ellis’ term of administra- tion the entire dividends were maile out of fraudulent entries; fraudulent entries were made of pretended assets and the whole revenue accouut from interest was falsified. An offer to prove that one hun- dred thousand dollars had been illegally added to the cost of the bank building by entries which must have been seen by the bank examiner, whose duty it was to ascer- tain the actual cost, was ruled out on the ground that the “dates of the items were prior to the examination,” as if they could have been discovered if they had been made subsequent tothe examination, The Pres- ident of the United States Trust Company and two or three others testified that they had counselled Mr. Ellis to act cautiously and not create a panic by unnecessarily closing the Third Avenue Bank; but as they knew nothing of its wretched condition and rascally frauds their testimony did not ben- efit the Superintendent. Besides, Mr. Ellis did not ask their advice untilofter Duncan, Sherman & Co.’s failure. As this occurred the last week of July, 1875, Mr. Ellis could not have consulted them until August, and that was more than four months after the bank’s rotten and fraudulent condition was officially made known to hit, and less than two months before the bank shut its doors on its depositors by its own action, The Fire Fiend in the Woods. Our latest despatches from the scenes of the devastating fires now raging in Northern New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Canada give little encouragement lor the hope that the march of the fire fiend will be stayed yet awhile, Reports from the Green Bay region in the Northwest indicate that the valuable timber fire, and that nothing but a heavy rain can prevent the destruction of an im- property. The light rains of yesterday had | no effect on the raging fires, which first | scorch the trees and lesser vegetation into a condition of absolute dryness and then devour them with irresistible flames, tire drives those who would combat them to a distance and renders their efforts vain. In districts where the undergrowth is thick be tried; under the circumstances ha is | and dry “backfiring” is but a desperate | testerday to discover a passage for his fa- be adopted unless for the protection of valn- able mill buildings or villages. Forest fires are best fought when they are descending hillsides, and, ad we stated yesterday, by felling a belt ot trees toward and from the | Our weather indications | advancing flames. point to the probability of light rains over -a bitter glory to hold a pre-eminence into | 0 7 ,and judge that lands bordering Lake Michigan are on | hicdelipesee bedeithsle mailed bass fain | noney that was subscribed we are not yet A | are, but it is impossible that it shonld have | mense extent of forest as well os other | The | If the arrest of half a dozen other | intense heat developed by these tempests of | M. Sh Resignation. Ultramontane agitation will not be fruit- less certainly if it forces the reorganization of the Ministry in France; but it is very likely to prove that it might better be fruit- less, so far as touches the real interests of the Chureh, than to score sucha victory; for the necessary consequence must be 2 Ministry more in sympathy with the ideas of the Left or a recurrence to elementary difficulties that the clergy should especially desire to avoid. On the 4th inst. the Assembly, by ernment to ‘‘use the legal means at its dis- posal” for the repression of the clerical demonstrations, which had gone to such lengths that they not only threatened the tranquillity of the country, but bade fair by their declarations as to Rome’ to compromise the relations of France with the government of Italy. There was no doubt when the vote was cast that it expressed the intention of the House to rebuke the spirit that inspired these disturbances and to furnish the gov- ernment a required moral support for en- ergetic action; but the phraseology of the order of the day rather opened a new issue than determined the onealready open. ‘the authorization for the government to ‘‘nse the legal means at its disposal” necessarily pro- voked the inquiry, What are the legal means at the disposal of the government for dealing with ecclesiastics ‘who seem to exceed the limits of their function and provoke politi- cal agitation? This was the ground fora bat- tle between the republicans, who demanded that the government should not palter with the evil, and those supporters of the agitation whom it has been said the Marshal President does not regard with the greatest aversion. In this conflict, teased by the republicans and taken to task by the President, M. Simon has found that it was which the logic of circumstances had thrust him, to the exclusion of the more legitimate head of the dominant party, and has re- signed, the resignation being promptly accepted. As usual, the fall of the Ministry was felt on the Bourse, and of course the city was full of rumors of clerical and Orleanist intrigues. The resignation of a French Ministry unaccompanied by general consternation, an agitated Bourse and star- tling rumors would be unprecedented. Nothing certain is known as to M. Simon’s successor, but the crisis is said to be re- garded as grave, and the Left is preparing to make the most of it. Slaughter of the Innocents. Governor Robinson has freely availed himself of the privilege conferred on the Executive by the amended constitution of vetoing such items in an appropriation bill as may seem to him to be undesirable and approving such as are unobjectionable. The Governor, exercising this salutary power, has rejected the extravagant appropriation of one million dollars for work on the new Capitol, contained in the Supply bill, and over half a million in smaller items, em- bracing amounts for law libraries, asylums, hospitals, reformatories, monume its and the relief of private individuals, The Gov- ernor gives a reason for his rejection of each item, mainly based on constitutional objections or the untimeliness of gener- osity while the country is in a condition of business paralysis and general depression. There will, of course, be a difference of opinion as to the expediency of some por- tions of the Governor's action, but the lesson of economy and of strict observance of constitutional requirements which he reads to the Legislature will be useful. It is un- derstood that an appropriation of half a million for work on the Capitol would meet the Governor's approval, and this is all that ought to be used during the next twelve months, The rigid economy which induces the Governor to veto appropriations tor re- formatory and chatitable institutions, and for law libraries, seems to render it difli- cult for him to withhold his approval of the Omnibus bill, which sweeps away a number of utterly useless offices in the New York city government, and lays the foundation for far more important reduc- tions in the expenses of the departments, The Genesis of the Carnival, New York, we suppose, will be accused of having attempted to make a carnival and of failing. Nothing could be further from the, fart. No one asked for a carnival and few uaderstood what it was to be. Buta few persons who claimed to have introduced the Mardi Gras of New Orleans into Cincinnati ard other cities assumed the responsibility | aid obtained a certain mensure of pecuniary stpport. They made many promises which, it is now evident, were not in- tinded to be kept, and it is to be Yoped that the result will teach the wspectable citizens whose names they dused a much needed lesson in prudence. Nayor Ely very wisely refused to allow the | dignity of his position to give sanction to the deception. The carnival was broyght isto this city, like any other circus, merely t)make money for its managers, and no donbt they succeeded well. Hotels, res- tinrants, advertisers, tradesmen, merchants, nd fools who like the notoriety ( acting as harlequins in a strect jarade, were mulcted, it is said, to the ex- tnt of about fifteen thousand dollars. Upon his borrowed capital the carnival appears to very little of it was expended. Who has the lcen expended on the most miserable show ver permitted to occupy the streets of the ity. Some of the facts connected with the disgraceful burlesque are given elsewhere, md we hope that the imposition so daringly jractised on our citizens will meet with the ward it so richly merits. Gone Up. Dr. Isaac Hayes made a vigorous attempt hous horse car, slow coach, tenement house | property owners’, anti-rabid transit bill | lurough the Assembly, but the obstacles in | his way were too great to be overcoine, and | jo, despite his well known energy and per- everance, he failed. Immense icebergs joated down upon him in the shape f Assemblymen Purdy, Ecclesine, Mol- the ‘devastated regions, but we fear that their effects will be inconsiderable. ler, Hepburn, Hogeboom, Alvord and iplitohell, all of whom turned a very | | cold shoulder indeed, be said to have raised Kane with i prospects, and to have set it adrift without rudder or compass on an open sen, The desperate effort to move it forward was defeated by so large a vote as to bring despair to the hearts of all the horse car corporations in the city. The abomination may now be considered as dead as if it had been carried out in the schooner United States, seventeen years ago, and sunk in Buffin’s Bay. Nevertheless, if Dr. Hayes should start on another political voyage he would be likely to encounter its ghost at the poll, The State Apportionment. A census of the inhabitants of the State of New York is taken at intervals of ten years, and the State census“ falls midway between the preceding and succeeding fed- eral census. The last federal enumeration was taken in 1870 and the next will be in 1880; the last State census was taken in 1875 and the next will be in 1885. The State constitution makes it the duty of the next Legislature after each enumeration to recon- struct the Senate and Assembly districts, giving, as nearly os may be, an equal num- ber of inhabitants to each, This duty was neglected by the Inst Legislature and falls tothe present. Both branches of this Legis- lature being republican it was expected that they would attempt to gerrymander the State with a purpose to give the republican party undue strength in the Legislature for the ensuing ten years. But the bill reported by Senator Woodin, which will probably pass, is so much fairer to the democrats than they had any reason to anticipate that we do not believe Governor Robinson will think himself justified in vetoing it, It gives to the cities of New York and Brooklyn three Senators and eight Assemblymen over the present number. Governor Robinson can- not afford to veto such a bill, for the gain of members in these two citids may determine whether the next Legislature will be demo- eratic or republican. It is really the fairest bill of the kind ever framed in this State by the representatives of a dominant party, its fairness being no doubt dueto the fact that the veto power is in the hands of the opposition. Mr. Woodin’s bill will probably pass both branches, and Governor Robinson cannot veto it without hazarding the supremacy of his party in the next Legislature. The three additional votes in the Senate and the eight in the Assembly from the great demo- cratic counties of New York and Kings may determine the party complexion of the next Legislature. If the bill is vetoed neither county will gain any additional members, although both are entitled to gains by the large increase of their popu- lation, The fact that the gain in Assem- blymen is not in proportion to the gain in Senators is no valid argu- ment against the proposed apportion- ment. The constitution requires the Senators to be epportioned on the simple basis of population, but it modifies this tule in relation to the Assemblymen by the provision which gives each county at least one member of A:sembl¥ without regard to its population. The consequence is that several counties must have Assemblymen which would not be entitled to them by the mere numbers of the census. The remain- ing Assemblymen are to be distributed after these members are assigned, and it is not politics but arithmetic which prevents an in- crease of Assemblymen in New York and Kings in the exact ratio of. their increase in Senators. . Governor Hampton Succeeds. The Bourbons of both sides in South Carolina united their forces to defeat the selection of Judge Willard to be Chief Jus- tice of the State. The Patterson kind of republicans hated Judge Willard for his honorable and dignified conduct during the counting of the State vote; the Bourbon democrats opposed him because they wanted an extreme partisan tor Chief Justice. Gov- ernor Hampton supported the election of Judge Willard and he was chosen by a large majority, to the delight of every sensible man, of both colors, in South Carolina, Judge Willard is an able jurist, a dignified and impartial judge, and he showed himself the fearless opponent of corruption and misgovernment last year. Some people say that there is to be but one party in South Carolina for some time to come. Well, if such men as Governor Hampton are at the | head of it and it selects such men as Judge | Willard to prominent places, we can wait. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Very few Russions can read or write. Lamar must weigh two bundred pounds, Radishes look lke ladies in a putiback dress, This week, Saturday, Mme, Kasipoff will sail for Russia. William Lioyd Garrison will spend the summer in Europe. No neighborhood should be without mosquitoes and melodeons, ng Judge Charles ?, Daly knows quite a good deal about geography. ix-Judge Noah Davis ia a ebunky sort of a man; not very fat, either, Ifyou want to set your watch wroug ask a railroad man what time it is. Catharine Clayton will soom burn down another ro- por imagination, Wilham Winter, the poet, will help the goais to climb the Alps this .ummer, Mayor Ely ts an honest man who ought pot to fool too much with his dyspepsia A Boston man yesterday heard that in Kalifat there are six (different ways of cooking beans The United States and Russia possess horses in greater numbers than other nations « When you come to cons: whipped, Graft Is a good deal of a man. Murat Halstead likes green turtle soup, and he would get tired even if he did go to Constantinople. Hon. ¢ ral James W, Husted 18 as naked on the top of his heud as the sour side of a postage stamp. Old General Sherman is avout tue only big man wo have who bas the bravery to say that his soul is his own. Worcester Press: —“A Calitornla nowspaper says that the new ane elegant jail at Redwood City ‘is now open to the public.’ TDanbu: News: —“Always speak well of tho deaa, and once in a white a good word of the living, If you | have the time, In Arkansas necktics are cheap, The crowd puis one round your neck, slings it over a treo, and it doesn’t cost yoo anything. A Frenchman, criticising the effort of laymen to Speak in pulpits, makes a suggestive remark about “the frock coat taking the place of the surplice.”” Senator William W, Baton, of Connecticut, is at the New York. Sefior Don Luis Polo de Bernabé, Third Secretary of the Spavish Legation at Washington, is Ab the Albemarle, THE WAR feet eraleeneGiaeenmeerastomas The Independence of Roumania Cer. tain To Be Proclaimed, PREPARING 10 CROSS THB DANUBE General Activity of the Russian Army— Significant Movements. THE STRUGGLE IN ASTA. Attitude of the African Moslems— Position of Egypt. THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE —_—-—__—_ {S: CABLE T0 THE HERALD.) Lonpon, May 11, 1877. The HERALD correspondent in Vienna telegraphe that there is the best authority for stating that the proclamation of Roumanian independence has been positively fixed for May 22, All hes itation is now at an end, and = Rou mania has decided to cast in her lot with Russia and to make a bold effort to shake off once and forever the yoke of Turkey. Whether the great Powers wlil permit her to take her piace among the nations and recognize her as a sovereign State remains yet to be seen; but there can be no question that this is decidedly the best opportunity the principality has yet had to strike for complete freedom from foreign domination. The Chamber of Deputies have voted a credit of $2,000,000 for the maintenance of the army. The Political Correspondence says the Roumanian Ministers have made arrangements with the Rus- sian authorities to further expedite the passage of the Russians through Roumania. Prince Charles has informed the Grand Duke Nicholas that, in token of Roumania'’s sympathy with the Russian canse, the Russians would be allowed to pass through Bucharest. In the Hungarian Chamber yesterday, Deputy Hefly asked the government whiether, in conse- quence of eventsin Roumania, they did not con- sider the time had arrived to take decided action in conjunction with the other Powers to insist upon the maintenance of the Treaty of Paris. Pre- mier Tisza pointed out that Russia’s action in Rou- manis was not in contravention of that treaty. THE PASSAGE OF THE DANUBE. Simultaneously with this announcement in ree gard to Roumnania comes the intelligence of Russian movements that indicate an immediate attemrt to force the passage of the Danube. The HERALD cor- respondent in Vienna telegraphs that at. the end of the present week all the Russian corps will take up) strategical positions, with a view to the immediate passage of the river. It is certain that the crossing will take place at Giurgevo, Sixty thousand men have been concentrated at tnat point, and all the necessary preparations will be completed by the time above mentioned. A correspondent at Bucharest, after recording the visit of the Grand Duke Nicho- las to that city, says that the campaign will now proceed according to the‘ ortginal programme, the Roumanian army remaining on the defensive within its own territory, the Russians crossing the Danube at eight points simultaneously and press- ing forward toward the Balkans with all possible rapidity, ieaving behind in Bulgaria civil officials charged with the reorganization of the institu- tions. A despatch from Rustchuk Tuesday says:— “A great movement has commenced among the Russian troops on the opposite bank at Giurgevo. Eight batallions of Rufsian infan- try, several batteries of artillery and squad- rons of cavalry passed through Glurgevo following the road to Siminitza. They have acon-+ siderable force at Komana. Desultory firing is goingon. The Turkish troops,” adds the despatch, “are enthusiastic.’ A Pera despatch, dated Tres day, says:—“The Russians are apparently attempt- ing to foree the Danube, or by amanwuvre draw away the Turks from other points, Up to last night, however, they were not successful.” From Bucharest comes the intelligence that there was @ cannonade between Turtukoi and The Russian heavy batteries at Ibrail throw shells into the Turkish defences at Matehin. A despatch from Bucharest says the Roumaniana lost 110 killed and wounded in the artillery en- gagement Kalafat and Widdin, The Russians have constracted a battery of heavy guns at Ghiacet to stop navigation through an arm of the old Danube, Extensive movements of Russian troops are taking place between Galatz and Ploi- esti. The canuonade between Turtukai and Olten~ iiza recommenced at noon yesterday. the continual cannonading o* a Vienna despatch says:—“Al- losses ate «kept secret it seems they have been considerable, especially at Kalafat, where several hundred men are sald to have been killed and a portion of the works de- It has been somewhat the same at Ol- two hours’ Oitenitza yesterday. between Relative to the Danube though the stroyed. tenitza. SECRECY OF THE RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS. A Vienna despatch says the greatest possible secrecy is observed as to the movement of the Rus- sian (oops; still, from various indications it would appear that the troops on the left wing which had at first extended all along the lower Danube have gradnaily been drawn nearer to Galata, Reni and Ibrail, As jor the troops which have passed Bucharest, tiey are reported to be bearing on Oltenitza, in order to better disguise their move- ments. There are comparatively small numbers ily mm position on the Danube. Most are echeloned further back, points being chosen at cross roads 80 that troops may be moved in one or another direction; thus those south of Bucharest may be available for advance either on Oltenitva or Giur- gevo. At the same time there are signs that @ Rassian column ia moving still further westward, ‘This columa is Kept the most backward, so that it may be meant for Purna-Magureil, opposite Niko- poli, or for Simuitza, opposite Sistora, It will take some time, it seems, before the whole force is ‘a position. According to an estrmate not more than aif can be sid to be already so, with all their ae