The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1877, Page 6

“6 _NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY NERALD, priishen avery day tn the year page Aen hare et a at rate one, dollar ie ess tone os niouths, or five =~ Ines six months, Sunday cee ese ren letters of telegraphic despatches must pont All busme: ms letters or ve nddrenned New VouK Heian. ‘Letters aud packages should be properly sented. Hejected communications will not be returned. + - ORR AORLPHEN OFFICE-NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LOADGX iORRIOE. OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— 46 FLEET STR rani’ Le AVENCE DE L/OPERA, AAA pik porn a) 7 STRADA PA’ Sateetptioas and Jorwarded on VOLUME XU AMUSEMENTS TO- “NIGHT, a ican BOWERY THEATRE.—vack Harxawar. NEW YORK AQUARIUM PARK THEATRE.—Cotonrt. WALLACK'’S THEATRE " BOOTH'S THEATRE.-- me terms aw in New Yor! GRAND OPEKA HOU BROOKLYN ACADEM 1C, OTHELLO, THEATRE COMIQUE.—\ TONY PASTOR'S THKAT MELLER'S THEATRE, | TIVOLT THEATRE,—Vat TRIPLE “NEW. YORK, FRIDAY SHEET. NoTICH 10 COUNFRY DEALERS. gehin aver te Pensagivanin Mafloud aad ts gouneetions, leaving Jersey City at quarter M. daily und Sunda, caresing she rextlae edition. oF tho ileRacp ne tar West us Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Fhiindelphia wt a quarter past six A. M. and Washingtoa wt one P.M, From our rts this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be very warm and generally fair or partly cloudy, 1 Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- was dull and without any feature of in- After a slight advance in the forenoon ened and closed at nearly the jay. Gold opened at 107 1g Government and railroad Money it, closing very Wart Stre ket terest. the whole list weal lowest figures of the and declined to 107. bonds were strong and generally higher. on call was easy eusy at Ly ab 2ly per 2 cont. RDAY gave the impeni- uste of the tert to come. I¢ is BUT SeLpom t combine as pleasai the Catholie Pr ligion and sociability 1s they did yesterday at The ceremonies and wmother column, speeches are re ComriatyrTs Ane Stinw 3 backing on to sidewalks. ants ever { red the Jead the offendin about trucks the complain- pstion to Ss sug: this prolific eanse of mischief occurred in Ken- tucky, and the details appear in our columns | this morning. “Div Wacnr am Rue IN” Was a very fitting air for the class ode of the theological graduates at Drew Seminary yesterday. Watching is one of the mestimperative duties of men who hope to reclaim the jow beings from bad ways. ANorner “Straw Bar.” MAN has been raised. to his proper sphere of action and is to remain there tor four and a half years. that the publie has so much benefit from these gentlemen ag it will probably have in this ease. Poxtes TO Ripe axp Emicraxts to Ron must be scarce on the Plains this spring, for fourteen hundred Cheyennes waut to be sent to the Indian Territory, where the noble red man can only get bis daily provender by the sweat of his brow, Arter ALL THe Earnest anp Sounp Ap- Vick to young men to court country “girls it seems that the judicious and pleasing operation is to be discouraged by country girls themselves. ‘The reasons are plainly stated by “Dorcas” to- day, and some thousands of city gentlemen are disqualified from replying. e INVESTIGATION has had at least one good eft a reduction of the force has apparently been agreed upon between the commission and the Collector, the beyetit of the movement being to the community at large aud the loss falling entirely upon political schemes which it is hoped may not survive it. Wien Tne Custom Hor Tueves Faw Our honest men get their due, The chief organizer of the California “Order of Caucasinns,” having been expelled trom membership, he threatens to divalge ‘the secrets of the Order. We would. not, however, hint that the Caucasians are thieves, for the evimes of which ‘they are suspected are worse than theft ever ean be. Tue Revenatioss oF Moron DEpRaviTy which we publish to-day have not ghe startling features which attract general attemtion, but the purer the reader the more horrib'e Mrs. Pratt’s recital will seem. The moral of it is that licen- tiousness makes men brutal, cmd that no reli- gious cloak cau conceal the moral deformity of Brigham Young and his unclean brood of spu- cious apostles. The Weatner.—Our pr sdiation, that o tor. gado would occur in the Lower Ohio Valley has been fulfilled in all reap ects except that of the exact locality visited by the storm, and, as re- gards this, the hurricane or toruado reported in our despatches this moraing occurred in the eastern part of Missouri and in Western Illi- nois, less than fifty miles westward from the regiou indicated in our article of yesterday. The atmospheric conditions so plainly indicated a disturbance of this kind that we prised no notice was taken of that regurd by the Signal Service Bu- reau at Washington. ‘These sudden tem- pests kill people und wereck dwellings. They are, therefore, as danger gus to human lite and to property us gales on the vast, of which warn- ings are always given. A, general fall of tem- peratur, has taken plice along the New England coust and in the St. Lawvence Valley, also in the o xtreme Northw asternnegious. But the tem- per ture bus risen om the Nliddie Atlantic coast avd in the central regions westward of the AUeghanies. Rains have generally fallen in the Missouri and Upper Mississippi valleys, the inke region and the Middle States, As we announced, a thunder storm passed bear this city lastevening, with @ brief but heavy shower. Violent winds prevailed in the Miss ouri Valley westward of Lake Michigan, blowing toward the depression now central over Lake: Superior. The pressure has risen in the Northeast, but hus fallen over the West Ladies, whence a Gulf disturbance may be expected. ‘The woutier in New York today will be very warm and generally fuir or partly cloudy, possibly with thunder showers in the sfteavo0n. ure sur them in It is but seldom | ivertisements will be received and | } | power. i over, ; source of the trouble. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, The Crisis in France. It is not perceptible how the French Re- public is to come safely through the present far-reaching crisis unless President MacMa- hon suddenly and absolutely abandons the dangerous position he has taken; and it will be readily comprehended that it is so une likely for a man of his nature to make judicious retreat that a solution in that way may be excluded from consideration, But in the absence of such a solution, and sup- posing that MacMahon fully understands and intends the significance of his words and acts, parliamentary government is at an end in France ; and it is a point rather of curiosity than of importance what steps shall intervene and how many exciting days they will fill ere this is made as plain as it is real, For MacMahon declares that he intends to rule, not sim- ply in indifference to the will of the people, as represented in the Assembly, but in defiance of that will; that he intends to act in the formation of bis Ministry and the conduct of the government, not with regard to parliamentary principles, but from his personal predilections ; that he intends to ignore the majority and ignore the republi- can constitution, in virtue of which the majority must rule, and rule with men taken from the minority, and that he will do all this from a sense of his own ‘“responsi- Dility to France.” He puts his responsi- bility to France in the scale against the con- stitution made by the same power that made him President, and against the will of the people, as represented in the Assembly, and in his scale is the army—the inevitable “sword of Brennus.” If the Chamber repu- diates the dictation of his Ministry he will dissolve the Chamber. Another will be chosen, and that will be more resolutely republican than the present. He will not be able to maintain the forms of free government with that and will dissolve it in its turn. Insurrections will follow, and, in the name of order, he will seize the supreme These are but so many stages of inevitable advance following the step he has actually taken—the ultimate ones only to be avoided by compromise, and in ‘France compromise is stigmatized with a disgrace- ful name and regarded as a political crime. Although the situation is suddenly made with regard to a law against the freedom of the press, that occasion is, in fact, only a final drop that has caused the cup to run Ultramontane agitation is the real An ultramontane propaganda—extensive, determined and des- perate—supplies vital spirit to the forces now arrayed against the republican consti- tution and the republican party. In his speech of May 4 M. Gambetta correctly designatdd the enemy in the present conflict as clericalism., In this conflict, therefore, the endeavor to found and consolidate the Republic in France is to be opposed by a foe more dangerous than any the republi- cans have yet encountered. Other enemies havesupplied comparatively cheap victories. Few enemies have ever been more easily | routed than the fragmentary imperial party was in the Assembly, for its only political capital was an inexhaustible fund of impu- dence, As for the monarchical battles aganst the Republic, the different ‘«monar- chies” simply whipped one another. None of these forces had any well concerted or systematic aid from the Church party, for none of them had the confidence of that party; and the party hardly knew its own relation to the new __ issues. It was organizing, It was acting instinctively on the soundest principles | of primary politics; for the only way to meet the growth of the republican idea was to oppose it, without seeming or pretending to oppose it, by getting at the people directly and insidiously instilling ideas with which it could not coexist. For this purpose the pulpit became a stump; the favorite ma- chinery was those elaborately organized pil- grimages which from a distance had a some- what ridiculous aspect, but which touched a patriotic aspiration and appealed by emo- tional methods to what faith the nation still possessed. These pilgrimages began in 1871. In recent French polities they are of the same significance as those marchings and singings and torchlight turnouts by which politicians here have at differ- ent times organized the people into Wide Awake clubs or Boys in Blue or Log Cabin and Hard Cider Men. They were rather an effort in that direction than the realization of the effort, for they did not overcome the Republic at the polls, but they undoubtedly had great influence in making head against it. Clerical enthusiasts thus became thor- ough ‘‘workers” in the political field, and with such success that now, after six years of persistent propagation of their idcas, they teel confidence enough in their strength to push the battle into the Cabinet and de- mand the control of the domestic and for- eign policy of the nation, Against this party or any other the Re- public would be sure of victory if the bat- tle were to be fought on the ground of the constitution or in recognition of par- liamentary principles; but os it is ini- tiated with a coarse, peremptory, in- sulting and brutal defiance of those principles it is scarcely possible to feel san- guineas to the result. The Chamber has declared by a great majority that it will only have confidence in a Ministry resolved to govern ‘in accordance with republican principles,” and the President has declared that be will have a Ministry more or less distinctly opposed to those principles, and thus the issue is plainly made. The new. Ministry is reactionary und will be defeated on every measure of consequence that comes betore the Chamber. It is not probable that the republican majority will foolishly play into the President's hands by making a merely factious opposition. Its course is guided by men too wise for that. It has shown in difficult occasions a coolness, patience and good temper that could never have been expected in a French parliament. It did so notably when Simon was put into the Ministry, tor he was not satisfactory to the party out of pretended deference to whose wishes he was chosen. That vote designated Gambetta; but the influences behind MacMahon would never accept him, and hit upon the device of seeming to ae. cept the vote by choosing a man widely known as a republican and yet cheating the had no faith. That pitifal manmuvre has come to an end with the unceremonious expulsion of Simon, and the republican party is none the worse for the fact that it never seemed to heed the cheat. It will, we belicve, still preserve the same happy, cool and politic demeanor, and while it does this it may easily overcome all opponents— that is, while the conflict is restricted to parliamentary limits. . But the passions of the hour may carry it beyond those limits at any moment; and then the President “belongs to the right,” and the army be- longs to the President. American Securities in England. American securities are rising in England. That only shows that the English are get- ting to be sensible people. If they had in- yested in United States bonds in the last | fifteen years the hundreds of millions which | | they have lost in Turkish, Central American and other in-securities, England would to- day be a much wealthier country than it is. How long will it take the English, the Germans, the French and the rest of European mankind to discover not oniy that United States bonds are the only really secure in- vestments, but that the United States is the only country in the world where peaceable men may hope to live without a perpetual dread of war before them? While all | Europe isan armed camp our government | has been seriously considering whether it shall not disband the petty army | we still maintain; and while every first | class Power in Europe has been spend- ing many millions annually for new and bigger and more costly iron-clads we have 80 little use for a navy that we could afford to allow Mr. Robeson to manage ours out of existence for eight years. If the people of Europe were wise enough to see their own interest all the fleets in the world would not suffice to accommodate the rush of emi- grants to the United States, Bergh and the Swill Milk Oute- | rage. The efforts of Mr. Bergh to suppress the disgraceful and disgusting swill milk stables | on Long Island deserve the commendation and support of every citizen whe desires to | preserve his family from this dangerous poison and who reprobates the brutal con- duct of those who traflic init. Mr. Bergh has done some things in his honest zeal for the prevention of cruelty to animals which we do not regard as warranted by the neces- sities of the case; but whenever, as in this instance, he exercises the powers of his office for the benefit of the whole com- munity while carrying out the land- | able ideas of his society, he will never fail to enlist the full sympathy and co- operation of the Hzratp. In the interview which we print elsewhere to-day Mr. Bergh justly complains of the disgraceful apathy, or worse, exhibited by local magistrates and | juries in cases where he arraighs malefac- tors, such as the swill milk dealers of Long Island, before them. His experience teaches him to regard the representatives of the law | as the special protectors of these inhuman wretches instead of being the instruments of justice in punishing them. The Dog- berries who preside at the trials are usually elected to office by the votes and influence of the owners of these foul dens of disease— the swill milk stables—and as the political power of these people increases in pro- portion to the number of dying cows they manage to stow away in their pens, the greatest criminal has the best chance of es- cape from the punishment due to his crimes. As the summer advances this hor- rible traftic will become a deadlier danger to the public health, These dens must be de- stroyed in the most summary manner known to the law if we would escape from this dan- ger, which strikes its most fatal blows at the tender lives of helpless infants. The re- spectable farmers of Long Island must com- bine to root out this evil at once, if they would avoid forcing on us the necessity of quarantining against Long Island milk and guarding our ferries against its introduction into New York. Mr. The Municipal Amendment, After all the time, pains and discussion expended on municipal questions during a sesion of extraordinary length the only re- maining hope that anything will be done by this Legislature to promote municipal re- form lies in the possibility of its passing theconstitutional amendment recommended by Governor Tilden’s Municipal Commis- sion. Ithas passed the Senate and awaits’ the final action of the Assembly. It is sup- ported in the latter body by the republi- cans and opposed by the democrats, but the republicans are a majority, and with a full attendance of their meinbers when the final vote is taken they would be able to pass it. But if it passes en bloc as one amend- ment the chances are very slight that it will be ratified by the people. ‘The suffrage provision will probally cause the defeat of the whole amendment, unless it is sub- mitted to a separate vote. The Board of: Finance is to be clected by taxpayers and rentpayers only, and it seems unlikely that other classes of citizens will vote for their own disfranchisement. The Legislature onght to divide the amendment and submit it in two parts; the first part consisting of its main features, with a Board oi Finance elected by the peo- ple, and the second part of the suffrage fea- ture as a separate proposition, If both parts are submitted in a lump as one indi- visible amendment it is altogether probable that the whole will be defeated. We hope, therefore, that the Assembly will vote to submit the suffrage feature as a separate amendment, and that the Senate, which yoted down that proposition, will recede. The people will then be able to indorse this feature if they approve of it, but if they repudiate it the whole amendment will not be lost by being embarked in the same bout. Tue American Orricens 1x Eoypt.—It is | reported that the American officers serving | in the Egyptian army have refused to hear | arms against Russia. We hope the report is true They engaged to serve the Khe- dive, but this should not bind them to take part with the Turks in the European war. We trust, therefore, they will remain in republicans by taking one in whom they | Egypt | and Hirsova. MAY 18, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. Doings at Albany. It is difficult to conceive what could have been the object of the republican Senators last night in adjourhing the Senste in order to prevent the Governor's private seeretary from presenting a message from the Exscu- tive, supposed to be the veto of the Omni- bus hill. But whatever it was such ques- tionable tacties could not have been success- ful had a eapable presiding officer been in the chair, as messages from the Governor are privileged business, in order at any time, and a motion to adjourn after the secretary had appeared on the floor should not have been entertained. It was rumored at Albany that the trick was resorted to by Mr. Woodin in the erroneous supposition that to-day the ten days allowed for the re- tention of the bill in the hands of the Ex- ecutive would have expired, but it is not probable that. a legislator of Senator Woodin’s intelligence and experience would have made such a mistake. It is probable that the republicans desired a full Senate and perhaps some consultation as to the course to be pursued on the reception of the veto, | and that the hurried adjournment had no. other significance, It certainly could make no difference whether the veto was presented last night or to-day. There was an evident disposition in the House to’ bring the session to a close, a resolution for final adjournment at noon to-day receiving fifty assenting votes against sixty-six dissenting, As usual in the last hours of a session two bills of 2 doubjfal character were rushed through—one for tho improvement of Fourth avenue and the other for the payment of old armory claims. It is certain, however, that no objectionable | legislation will make its way through the | Executive chamber, The present temper of the Legislature makes a final adjournment | this week possible, although it seems scarcely probable, The War Movements. The Turkish forces distributed along the Danube are kept ina constant condition of expectancy by the puzzling but ominous movements of the Russians in Roumania From the central position at Bucharest the several corps @armée of the Grand Duke Nicolhs are moving to positions which cover the whole line of the Danube from Giur- gevo to Hirsova. Now it is stated that the crossing will take place at the first named point, again it is reported that Oltenitza will be the place, while judging from appearances on the Russian left | Hirsova may be the selected site. One thing | is certain, that the new Russian floating batteries are intended to cover operations either at Tultchna or above Ibrail, for they \ cannot be moved at present as far up the | riyer as Silistria, and from their build can navigate the narrow channels between Ibrail | In Armenia the Russian advance in large force toward Toprak Kaleh from Bajazid bears out fully our conjectures as to the movements of | the left wing of the invading army. If the Russians gain the valley of the Arras, west of the Songalu passes, a rapid retreat of the Turks on Erzeroum or a desperate pitched battle in the vicinity of Hassan Kaleh, to the eastward of that city, must follow quickly, We are confident that the Russian column from Bajazid is acting in concert with the force fronting Moukhtar Pacho’s position at Bardess, and it looks, as we have stated in a former article, as if the ends of the great military net were closing slowly but surely around the Turks. ‘Their retreat must be a precipitate one if they have not force enough to cope with the Russians on their front and both flanks, because the least evidences of retiring will be the signal for the advance of the Russian centre, and a great battle, in which the Turks will be forced to present three fronts to the enemy. Disciples of Wackford Squeers. Some of the members of the Board of Edu- cation are desirous of restoring flogging in the public schools, They wish to put the birch and the cane in the hands of the teachers, so that they may pursue the sys- tem of education adopted at Dotheboys Holl, and beat learning into the scholars in a manner that will prevent them from “rub- bing it out” ina hurry. ‘The Commissioners who advocate corporal punishment assert that nine out of ten of the teachers favor it, on the ground that it is not possible to maintain discipline without using the rod, A few children, we are told, cannot be reached by any other means than an appeal to their personal fears, and they ave sufii- cient to demoralize a whole school, Expul- sion will not answer, as, besides being no punishment, it would leave those who mostly need training destitute of all instruc- tion and constraint. The President of the Normal School is credited with originating the remarkable proposition that certain schools be designated in differ- ent parts of the city in which children may be beaten at the pleasure of the teachers, | and to which unmanageable children may be sent. As the qualifications of teachers in these semi-penal institutions must of course be of a muscular character it might be an improvement to place them at once under the control of the most distinguished | bruisers and clubbists of the police force. If nine-tenths of the public school teach- ers really favor corporal punishment it is an evidence that they ought to be put to some other business, If a person cannot control a school by other means than brute foree he is unfit to be intrusted with the | duty of education. Nothing could be better calculated or more certain to destroy the popularity and efficiency of our school system than to license such teachers as may be brutes by nature to indulge in their brutality at the expense of the scholars. Besides, the pres- ent condition of the schools, as compared with their condition when corporal punish- ment was permitted, is conclusive against a return to the barbarous system. It is hinted that the teachers who clamor for the rod desire to vent their anger at the reduc- tion of salaries on somebody, and, as they cannot beat the Commissioners or the Board of Apportionment, are anxious to “take it out” of the-children, There have been instances of such a noble re- venge, ‘I have disappointments to contend against,” said ; same time, | received with hearty ‘applause. | the two pound ten short. Where is Bolder?” And Bolder’s head and back and shoulders paid the penalty of the deficiency in the Squeers treasury. We do not believe that our public schoo! teuchers have any such desire. Neither do we credit the statement that nine-tenths of them are advocates of the rod. The idea of restoring corporal punishment is confined to a few crotchetty Commissioners, who, if allowed to control the Board of Edneation, would soon cause our public school houses, now filled with happy children, to be deserted. Ex-President Grant. The only living. ex-President of the United States sailed yesterday trom Phila- delphia for a somewhat prolonged absence in Europe. The frequency with which we change our chief magistrates makes it seem a little extraordinary that there shonld sometimes be only one and sometimes none of them’ surviving, During the last year of General Grant's administration there was no living ex-President, although there was a period when six were living at the This happened in 1861, when Van Buren, Tyler, Poik, Pierce, Buchanan and Fillmore were the survivors, On the five living ex-Presidents—namely, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and John Quiney Adams, We have often had three or four living at the same time, and vory seldom since the retirement of Jeffer- son has the number been reduced to one. ‘the one who remains to us now has titles to public gratitude and esteem which a majority of his countrymen cordially recognize. Whatever may have been the mistakes or shortcomings of his civil administration his great mili- | tary services will always fill a brilliant page in the history of his country. The courtesies extended to him in every city through which he has passed since his retirement from the Presidency, and espe- cially in Philadelphia previous to his em- barkation, are alike creditable to those who proffered and to him who received them. He does wisely to divert and instruct him- self by foreign travel. His fellow citizens wish him good health during his absence, and on his return they will welcome him to the sweets of retirement and the repose and dignity of a green and honored old age. Free Trade in Ships. We are sorry that Secretary Evarts in his speech at the Chamber of Commerce banguet did not feel at liberty to make an explicit declaration in favor of free trade in ships. In parts of his remarks he seemed to be edging his way toward sucha policy, and every distant intimation of the kind was The ex- pectant merchants did their best to en- courage him to commit himself and the administration unequivocally to this policy, but he did not come up tothe mark. Had he done so he would have been more vociferously applauded by the assembled New York merchants than any orator ever was on a similar occasion, We have no doubt that Mr. Evarts believes that free trade in ships would be wise, and that.the only reason why he did not go further in his speech was because the ad- ministration is not yet prepared to indorse the measure. That it would be a wise measure Mr. Evarts evidently does not doubt, and if the question were submitted to the decision of New York merchants their support of free trade in ships would be practically unanimous. It would be well for Congress to adopt this policy under any circumstances, but, in view of the great op- portunities which may be presented in the course of the European war, Congress would stamp itself as an assembly of in- capables if it should refuse to remove restriction on the purchase of foreign ships by American merchants. Without going into minute details and cal- culations it is evident to everybody that the commerce of the United States was disas- trously crippled by the transfer of our mer- cantile marine to England during the civil war, and that if we could recover what we then lost it would be a splendid national gain, If England should be drawn into the present struggle we could rise at one bound toa position ofcommercial supremacy if Con- gress would simply permit American regis- try to be given to foreign-built Ships. We trust that the hesitancy of President Hayes’ administration to commit itself to this policy is only temporary and provisional, and that when Congress meets the President will strongly recommend freq trade ia ships. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Charley Ross must be a protty blg boy by thia time. In Great Britain there aro 390,000 maids who tend bar. i German lady. The vagrant laws generally do mot permit that the | tramp sball be punished, ‘The Louisville Courier. Jowrnal thinks that Catbarine Claxton may get singed. Mr. Kurd vou Schioger, the German Minister, rived at the Brevoort yesterday trom Washington, ‘Tho Russian Curistian 3 the most fanatical of mon, and “charity”? is not something that he practises, All the men Who talked to Joe Bradley, the great commission, are getting offlecs, Yet thoy did not convince him; he knew it all beforehand. For sixteen years the lady who has the honor to be wife to Genera; Grant had less satd about ber than any other lady who ever bad equal chances tor being on the public tongue, Quite a good many people who would reiigiously scorn thoinselves if trey wore troe overs hover around ® pruricnt caso as busybodies and gossips, and are only tree likers, Among the passengers trom Baltimore by the Nurn- berg yesterday for Southampton were Algernon Sar- toris aud wiie (formerly Miss Nellie Gran), child and servants, and J. W. Silerus, Consul to St. Hetena, Linskie, who has become an andertaker at Dallas, Texus, buried a man, but fearing that ho would not got his mouey for the coffin he took the iattor trom the grave during the night, leaving the vox and body to remain. ‘The season of the year has come when the country fences are taking on an epidermis of red and yellow pictures Which say, perhaps metaphorically, that the nino feet girl on a three dollar horse will Jumpa ten mile fence in a two-uneh dress, Mr. Dives, a young man of Hampden county, Mase., saw his girl, in her loveriike despair, throw berseif mtoa brook, He bravely jumped into a wagon and drove three miles to a coroner to tell bim about it, and when they got back the girl was drowned. Pittsburg Despatch:--"When the foreman of a Cleve. land paper calliopes down the tin telepuone for ‘more copy’ the editor calmly blows the foam back from the edge of a half-gallon measure, and replies in unrufiied Squeers, 100k | jones, ‘Hammer another Black Soa on the war map, ing very grim, ‘“Bolder's father was aud givo it to ’em again,’ ? retirement of the incumbent in 1825 we had | The Japanese Minister to Germany has married a | THE WAR. Maneuvres of the Russians for a Passage of the Danube, ceeremereteereeecatnsin THR TURKS AT SOOKGOOM KALE, ee Signiticant Advance of the Russian Left Wing in Asia. CONCENTRATING ON ERZEROUM., Austria Dictating Servia's Future Policy. AMERICAN ARMS AND AMMUNTILTON, [bY GABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, May 18, 1877. A Jassy despatch gays a Russian infantry corps, numbering 52,000, accompanied by a proportionate and artillery, 13 marching in the It is believed the force of cavalry direction of Simmnitza, main body of the Russtans will attempt to cross the Danube there. General Skobelet!'a division of Circassian Cossacks, intended to head the adyauce of the invasion, passed through Bu- charest on Wednesday, en route for the Danube. A crossing of the river, it is believed, is not imme- diately imminent. A RECONNOTSSANCE IN It is stated that a reconnoitreing expedition, consisting of 500 Russian infantry, crossed tne Danube in boats a little below Reni. The Turks allowed them to come well within range, when they ‘opened such a heavy ire upon them that they were competied to retreat to their boats with heavy loss, The Russians have crossed the Alnta and entered Little Wallachia, which it was expected hitherto would be occupied solely by the Roumanians ADVANCE OF THE RUSSIAN LEFT IN ASIA. A special from Erzeroum, dated Monday, says that the Russians have advanced to Karakilissa tn ‘This town is located on the main road from Bajazid to Erzeroum, just south of the Ararat range of mountains, between Navak and Toprak Kaleh. ‘This is a very signiticant movement, and as the news is now four dags o!d it is probable that the invaders have carried the passofToprak Kalen. Ifthe Turks are atail anxious for the safety of Erzeroum they will muke a desperate eifort to hold this pass. Tne Russians, once through it, will seriously threaten the communica- ton between Kars and Erzeroum, and the left wing, which is making this advance, will be able te establish communications across the valley of the Arras with the right. In the plain to the eastward of the Toprak Kaileh pass both armies were ex- pecting to meet, and both are prepared for a pitched battie. THE SACKING OF SOOKGOOM-RALE, ‘The capture of Sookgoom Kale and the rising of the Circassians, who the garrison and officially announced left Sook. for FORCE. great force. massacred burned the town, is at Constantinople. An tronclad bas goom-Kale for Batoum obtain the Circassians, The Pera correspondent of the Datly Telegraph sonds the following additional par- ticulars as to the success of the Turks and Circassian insurgents at Sookgoom-K ale:—They drove the Musco- vile garrison and road guards all over the district, chasing them to Gaugara, which they also destroyed. When these were reported Hassan Pacha landed. supply rifles. and cartridges to equip the Circassians, A formidable to arms successes a new ot local torce was organized to march upon the railway line to Tiflis, aiming at the destruction of Kutais, Another large band was despatched to raise the coun- try in tho rear ot the Russian columns which are at~ tacking Batoum. The foregoing news, it is proper to say, however, was sont to Constantinople by the ‘Turkish commander, GENERAL, An official telegram, dated at Akalkalik, May 15, says the Russians have thrown a bridge over the Kur, A flying detachment on the 11th advanced as far as the fortifications of Kaspasantabia, The Turks remained passive. A Constantinople correspondent telegraphs:—I am able to state Lhat the most effective measures are be- ing taken to follow up the Turkish success at Sukum- ACTIVITY IN ASTA. Kaleb, which can hardly fall to proauce important It is believed the Circassians have destroyed the telegraph and railway between Bott and Tillis. The Position of the Russians near Batoum Is becoming one results, of great danger, Tho Sheik-ul-Islam has conferred the titlo of Victorious?’ on the Sultan in honor of the capture of Sookgoom Kale. Many, Mollahs wre accompanying the Turks to Caucasus in order to incite the Caucasians toa holy war, THE TURKISH DEFENCR OF TAK DANUBE, ecial from Vienna reports that the Turks alto. havo captored 200 Russian vessels in containing over one hundred hectolitres of wheat, the commanders of Turkish As gether the Danube, wid Along fortresses have published manifostoos urging the in- | habitants to withdraw further inland to the Balkans, Opposite Galatz enormous tnasses of Turkish cavalry are said to be again visible, An, attemptto cross by will be by the Turks Constuntinopie telegrams which reported that fighting had beon going on in the Dobrudscha were antoanded. thirty thousand the Danube sailing toward Simnitza, vessels made No engagements have | Occurred between the Russians and Turks in EKurope, except on the line of batteries between lbrait and Ismail The question now veing discussed at Bucharest is whother the Roumanian army shall cross the Danube with the Russians of simply remain on their own soil to protect the lines of communication. Although a majority of the mein= bors of the government are at present opposed to the passage of the river it is extremely probable that the | more active and determined members of the wat party will finally prevail, GUNHOATS ON THE DANUBE. ‘Tho news that tho Russians have some floating bat teries on tho Danube is contirmod, They are described ‘as small, but ingeniously made, consisting of three pentoons joined together. Each battery carries one gun, The pontoons were floated down the Pruth and joinca by a marine detachinent, Besides the foregoing tho Russians bavo some larger steamers, which have been armed. They were found on the spot which naturally excited suspicion that they had boen sent Lthere before, The Turkish gunbome are still’ refuged