The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1877, Page 4

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WITH DEALERS, COUNTRY The Adams Express Company run a special newspaper brain ov je Pennsylvania Kailroad and its connections, lewvitig Jetsey City at & quarter past four A. M. daily and sunday, carrying We regular edition of the HxRa.p as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philudaiphis at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P.M. : From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather in New York to-day rill be | slightly cooler an® fuir, possibly with light showers, Watt Srreet Yesterpay.—The market in Wall street continued dull, and the only change was a rise in the St. Paul preferred stock. The other stocks were much the same at | the close as at the opening, the coal stock, how- ever, closing weak. Gold opened at 107 and re- mained steady all day until closing, when it was quoted at 106%. Government and railroad bonds were strong and the latter, in several in- stances, higher. Money on call was very easy at llya 2 per Hall habitués very much us a reprieve might affect a batch of criminals. * Tur Street Boy has been at it again, the re- mit being a dead boy and a heartbroken family. When will the police look to onr juvenile | ruffians? Tur Armory Cratis Bitt haa gone back to & committee. The waste basket would bave been a more appropriate place for it; but the final result will probably be the same. Ow Days Like RRDAY the American citizen burrias ont-of hiealster and andercloth ing, pities Stanley and other equatorial explor rs, and gains a tender and intensitied sympathy for the wicked w their sins, ‘Tur Usttep Starrs ‘Stramer Yantie, built ma government yard, isbut five years old, but | reported unfit for farther nse as a war vessel. The government had better go out of the ship building business itthis boatie.: fair specimen of its work. Worse axp Worsi.—The citizens of Chatta- | aooga invite the President and Cabinet to attend the decoration ceremonies over the federal dead, and to a serviee commemorative of the union of the bine and gray. This means loyalty, but | it is, bad for politics as a business. | Thr W R Poto Cie, with trne sportsmanlike spirit, is determined that its hand- some grounds shall not lack vecupation when not required by the distinctive game of the club, A iawn party will be held to-day, and a glorious tollege game of football has been projected. Ix Turse Harp Towers it is gratifying to learn | that somebody is making money. The latest for- timate man of whom we hear is the Sheriff of Kings county, who gets thirty-tive ceuts per | diem for feeding the prisoners in the Raymond Street Jail. How many hotel keepers wonld be glad to trade places with hi: Tuar Was a txcuseé whieh the Mayor of Hartford made yesterday for refus- ing to call a special meeting of the C Council | to provide labor for the unemploy Such a movement, argued the Mayor, would attract un- employed labor from everywhere sine and de- feat the desires of the loeal workingmen. Ir Woctp Be Iytrerestine to know whether the “finest police in the world” know of any physieal ailment besides drunkenness. Jns- tice Smith's rebuke yesterd: u the case of an mm sun etroke, re who have, in the ly condemned to the unfortunate who su calls cases of poor w direstextremitics, heen t death of the revelations in the quarterly report apon immigration which is | made by the Bureau of Statisties. England sends more emigrants than Ireland, while the dovs nearly Tiere Ane single Canadian province of Quebe as well. Distant Australasia sends several times as many as our neighboring continent of South America. Turkey, In and Iceland do better than Japan, w England and ( » China ix exceeded only by So Far as Music Can Consist of discord the Custom House committee have enjoyed a great deal of it. The testimony of Assistant Weigher Knox yesterday was bad for the politi- eal machines wl find their ulbiding place at the Custom House; and in the manner in which other officials endeavor to belittle Mr. Knox's testimony there is a hint of that def ulways implied py the practice of abus tiff's attorney. ich is plain- Tne Weatann.-—Reports of destructive hurri- eaues reach us from the West and North. | That at North Piatte, whieh contimes, is due to the depression which is now central in Nebraska, and which will probably move duo eastward to the lake region. Rains have fallen on the easterly imargin of this dixturb- ance, The hurricane at St. Hyppolite, in the St. Lawrence Valley, was also die to the proximity of deep depression which overlies the Lower St. Lawrence, and is attended by rains in jhe East. ern States, Sudnen and violent tornadoes at Norvellisville, Stayvesant and Fonda, in this State, are also reported. ‘The highest pressure is on the South Atlantic const. ‘There wre indications of w disturbance in the Western Gulf. The ares of highest temperature now extends from Texus uortheustward to New York, and embraces the lower lake region. ‘The weather in New York to-day will be slightly cooler nud fair, possibly with light showers. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MA thant free ee Gevernor Rebinsen'’s Veto—What ' Legislature Ought To Do, We have not attempted to conceal from our readers, since the passage of the Omni- bus bill, that it had some crude and objec- tionuble features which might excuse and perhaps justify a veto. ‘These cradities, 4 which, in some ¢ases, amount to plain incon- sistencies, related to minor details of the bill and not to its cardinal provisions. While, therefore, we were prepared for a veto and carefully abstained from reprobating it in advance, we expected to see it put on the ground that the bill was clumsily drawn, and expected that an opportunity would be afforded to the Legislature to amend slips and obviate discrepancies and repass the good features of the bill in an unexcep- tionable form, Instead of this wise, consid- erate action, which our respect for Governor Robinson led us to anticipate, we are sur- prised to find @ veto in which no good feature of the bill is recognized and in which the Governor makes an unseemly threat that he will sign no bill whatever re- lating to New York city which this Legisla- ture may pass, Governor Robinson takes | the broad and extraordinary ground that the present Legislature is disqualified for pass- ing any law relating to New York city, and makes o virtual threat to veto every such / Dill, without regard to its intrinsic merits! Lucius Robinson was almost the last public | man in the State whom we should have thought capable of taking so indefensible | and preposterous a position. The Governor gives too much reason to suppose that he has been captured by Tam- many Hall and the office-holding interest in this city. Why else should he not have been content with a simple velo of the Om- nibus without at the same time virtually vetoing in advance every bill relating to New York city which this Legislature might pass? The real objections of Tammany Hall are not to the crude details of the Om- nibus, which might easily be amended, but to the main features of the bill. The Governor has put himself in perfect accord with the wishes of Tammany by do- ing his best to discourage the Legislature | from repassing the substance of the vetoed | pill in an amended form. He puts his veto on ground so bro:d and sweeping that. no possible bill relating to the government of New York city could escape it. It is the most preposterous exercise of the veto power in the annals of the State, inasmuch as it denies the right of this Legislature to pass even a good bill for amending the charter of the city. We do not. dispute at all that the last | Legislature neglected a very plain duty in | its failure to reapportion the State in ac- cordance with the census of 1875; but it is simply ridiculons to maintain that that neglect disqualifies this Legislature for the performance of any duty or the exercise of ‘ any right which belongs to the legislative body. Governor Robinson himself does not deny that it is a valid Legislature, in spite of the failure to pass an Apportion- ment bill last year, for he has held constant intercourse with it as such since it assembled in January. He merely im- pugns its right to legislate for New York city, which is inconsistent and absurd if it has a right to legislate on any subject what- ever. It has either all the powers vested by the State constitution in the Legislature or it possesses none of them; and since Governor Robinson has been for the last five months recognizing it as a Legislature he stultifies himself when he disputes its right to pass laws relating to city charters, If the failure of the Apportionment pill last year did not utterly disqualify this Legislature it is competent to pass all bills which the constitution does not interdict. The reasoning of the {sovernor implies that an act relating to the charter of a city should not receive the ap- | | proval of the Executive unless a majority of the members for that city voted for it. This | is an untenable position. If carried to its | logical consequences it would make the city | governments independent of the Siate. It ; would give them the right to frame their own charters, but no such right is accorded to them by th | State constitntions On the contrary, the constitution expressly empowers 'the Legislature to frame charters for cities, and not merely authorizes but commands it ‘to restrict their power of tnxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit so as to prevent abuses | in assessments, and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations.” ‘his is a plain, and all wise men think a salutary, control over the locai freedom of the municipalities, We concede that the cities should have all the local self-government compatible with their real interests, but the necessity of a paramount control by the State has been seriously disputed, It is only the proper limit of this control, not the question whether such control is necessary, that can evey be made a subject of controversy, The doctrine of Governor Robinson, that cities should be allowed to dictate their own charters, or that no charter for a city should receive the Executive approvai, unless a never { majority of the members trom that city voted for it, is quite inadmissible. Why did Governor Tilden ask tor wuthority to appoint, and why did the Legislature give him authority to appoint, a municipal commission for framing @ uniform plan for | the government of cities and muking ita | part of the State constitution, if each city has a right to dictate its own charter? We have always favored a wide Intitude | of local self-control in the government of cities ; but we cannot perceive that a rea- sonable self-control was abridged by either | of the three leading provisions of the Om- | nibus bill. These lending provisions were- first, « spring election; second, appoint- ments by the Mayor without confirmation by the Aldermen; third, giving single heads to most of the municipal departments. The spring election would promote local self-control by separating city affairs from State politics. Appointments by the sole authority of the Mayor would keep city offices within city control and enable tue people to fix and enforce responsibility by depriving the Mayor of the excuse tor bad selections that he was obliged to deter to the wishes of the Aldermen in order to get his nominations confirmed. It would puzzle,|'the republican politicians; that he could . | power through any other source. ‘The de- | fidence because it was a duty, and he ap- the anybody to jell why giving single heads in- stead of plural heads to departments would deprive the city of the management or its own affairs. While local self-govern- ment is a sound principle reasonable limits it must not pushed to a ridiculous extreme, and as the present charter of New York is confessedly imperfect, and was never more strongly denounced than by Governor Rob- inson's democratic predecessor, there is no | good reason why the Legislature should not undertake to amend it, It is unwarrantable to veto a bill passed for that object on the ground that it is a meddlesome interference with the local’ right’ © of self-govern- ment, because the present charter, all past charters anid’ every possible charter must of necessity prescribe a form of gov- ernment for the city. Self-government is impossible in the sense of entire’ indepen- dence of the Legislature. Neither the Mayor nor the heads of departments have any power which the Legislature has not conferred upon them, nor can they acquire fects of the present charter have been an incessant topic of complaint, and this bad charter having been fastened on the city by the Legislature there is no valid reason why that body should not amend it. We believe as strongly as Governor Robin- | son that this city has been a victim of Albany interference with its affuirs; but we | cannot see that a spring election or vesting the sule powerof appointment in the Mayor, torm of local government will be prescribed by the State. Yong enough in session to pass a new act containing the really unobjectionable tea- be compelled to take ground so clearly un- of his party. The present veto has so many good points that the Governor can afford to stand upon it in spite of its absurdities. | But if a bill were sent to him which left nothing but these absurdities as the grounds of a veto the case would be considerably altered. The Crisis in France. Particulars of the news from France ex- | hibit the change brought about asan unmis- tukable coup d'état. They have had a great | many disturbances in France, ranging in dignity from the most terrible revolutions to mere political shindies; but they never had | one precisely like this last. In its inevita- | ble. results it is a serious event; in the pos- | sibilities it involves for the immediate fu- | ture of France-it is an occurrence whose gravity it would be difficult to overrate; but | in the spirit that inspired it and‘in the mind that dictates its utterances, whether they are defiances or attempted defences, it is like an abortive revolution organized by a peevish and wilful boy. Its most obvi- ously important result as yet is the creation of a.Ministry grossly and arrogantly reac- tionary. But in what train of ideas was this appointment, this wanton insult to public opinion, carried out? It was done, in boyish phraseology, ‘‘for spite.” The President said if the Left did some thing to which he objected he would do something even more disagreeable to them, They did their part and he did his, They passed their resolution of want of con- pointed his reactionary Ministry to carry out @ foolish threat—a threat that a wise | man could not have made and that could have been carried out only by one more solicitous for the mean vanity of a domi- neering spirit than for the discharge of a grave and delicate obligation to his country. In the Message by which the Assembly is prorogued there is a statement that is in the ein of defence of the Marshal’s policy, but the politics of that statement are as crude | and boyish as the ‘‘spite’” against the As- sembly. Itis said that the Dufaure and Si- mon ministries did not rally sufficient support ‘to guarantee good government”— that is, support in the Chamber. This was because they were not sufficiently ‘‘radi- eal,” and the Marshal could not form a Ministry more distinctly republican for fear of the humiliation of France. ‘Therefore, since to have “sufficient support to guaran- tee good government” requires a Ministry more republican than any he hes had, the Marshal appoints a Ministry that is vot republican at all and that cannot command the vote of the majority on any topic whatever. If a government is to be conducted on parliamentary or constitu- | tional principles there is of course no op- | tion as to what must be done to get support in the Chamber. The Ministry must be | assimilated to the majority. If that is not done constitutional government is at an end, MacMahon’s course means, therefore, government withowt the majority—goy- | | ernment withont''the © Assembly—that | ‘is, government’ which is not republi- cun; governinent’) that is’ arbitrery and absolute, andGwhose standards of right are to be found in the opinions and preju- dices of Marshal MnaeMahon. In short, it | means again, ‘the providential nian.” Yet, with all this in view, the Marshal speaks of his purpose to oppose the party of the Left “within legal limits,” ience and patriotism.” It will be ob- served by the vews that the MacMahon party are not altogether confident of their position, and upprehend the evil effect that their action must have on their political | prospects. This apprehension is the only and prates of ‘con | Y 19, 1877—WITH ‘not find in’ his own party men fit to | | Until | ligent democrats in the State. the constitution is amended the city can- | that they deserted him only when they dis- not be governed at all, except in accordance | covered that his party associutes—his wicked | with a charter passed by the Legislature ; , partners—were too strong for him, and pre- | the town itself. is still held. story comes from Erzeroum regarding an | | attempted bombardment of Kars by the | Russians. | courage of the army. “We wish the Legislature would remain victims at Turtukai could be heard across the tures of the Omnibus bill, and put upon the | crossing in force. Governor the responsibility of vetoing them. probably inform us ofa great battle in rear in bill free from crudities. He would then | of the Souganlu position in Asia and a for- | evidence they give of the possession of the faculty of reason. Cuaupertain's Opinions, -+-Ex-Governor Chamberlain naturally thinks if he had had a chance he could have done as well in South Carolina as Governor Hampton is doing. But in an interesting interview, which we print elsewhere, he confesses that | he tound ali his efforts at reform blocked by ‘revenue officers and deputy | illicit stills. appoint to important offices, and that the white republican politicians of the State | were on the whole worse than the blacks. within He acknowledges that during two years he be | reeeived a generous support from the inte!- It is evident vented him from carrying out reforms. No- | vody can blame the democrats for that. Moveme ef the Belligerents. Accounts from both sides describe some fighting in Asia Minor. It appears that the Russians made an attack on the defences of Ardahan. and they claim to have captured two outworks with some nine guns. Tho | Turks, on the.other hand, assert that the | | attack was ,repy}sed, | believe that the Russian story is correct ! as tothe capture.of the outworks and the We are inclined to Turkish report so far as it claims that A curious It is stated that the Russian shells flew over the city owing to a miscal- culation of the range, and that the guns had to be withdrawn. mark reminds one of the comment of Faul- | conbridge at the siege of Angiers when | Philip of Franee and the Archduke of Aus- tria proposed to bombard the town irom | opposite sides, O prudent discipline! From north to south Austria and France shoot in each uther’s mouth. If the Russians are investing Kars they ; must hav» run some dunger from their or dispensing with unnecessary officers, | own guns. But we do not believetho Turkish would in the slightest degree impair the | story. Moukhtar Pacha is beginning to teel right of self-government. Our charter must | the pressure on his flanks. necessarily be an act of the Legislature until | suffered loss by attacks from the convgrging | an amendment of the constitution takes this Russian columns. On the Danube, accord- subject out of its hands, and even then our ing to ourdespatches, the Turks are murder- Already he has ing women and children to keep up the The shrieks of the river at Oltenitza. Meanwhile the Russian corps are steadily concentrating for a grand The next despatches will ward movement of the Russians on the tenable that he would injure the prospects Danube. A Midsummer Heat in May. For the past few days we have been ex- | periencing a remarkable temperature for May. From a gradual and natural thermo- metric rise which continued until the 9tha sudden fall of temperature occurred which brought back memories of winter and caused | many to anticipate a rather late spring, On the 10th and 11th the thermometer at New York, where exposed in the afternoon to the air in free circulition, recorded only 52 de- grees. At the same time of day on tho 12th it rose to 57, and on the 13th to 65 degrees. But during these days it was noticed that a remarkable rise of temperature was taking place in the Northwest, where the pressure was low, as well as in the Southwest, where the heat of the afternoon had in- creased to over eighty degrees. At this time we received intelligence that a vol- canic disturbance had ocenrted in the Pa- cific Ocean, ‘catising a series of earthquake | waves to break on that const. The enor- mous liberation of heat resulting from this disturbance has undoubtedly much to do with the phenomenal temperature that fol- lowed. On the 14th the isotherm of 70 degrees ran northward of the Middle and New England States and across the lower Missouri Valley, but northward still, smaller detached areus of high temperature were moving eastward. On the after- noon of the 15th’ the isotherm 70 curved into Canada and across the lakes into Dakota, giving ern Minnesota a than New Orleans. Thus the heat area be- came more clearly outlined and now cov- ered the United States from the northern frontier to the Gulf. On the 16th the iso- therm of 70 moved southward in the North- | eastern districts, but still maintained its position in the Northwest. The heat de- creased in Nova Scotia, the St. Lawrence Valley and Northern New England, but in- creased decidedly in the Middle States, the afternoon record at New York being 79 degrees. In Missouri a considerable varia- tion of temperature took place, and a violent tornado resulted between Fulton and Alton, The heat in Wisconsin rose to 85 degrees when it was only 71 at Cincinnati. On the 17th still more extraordinary variations oc- curred in the West, far northerly points being extremely warm, while more south- erly places had comparatively cool weather. The temperature at New York fell to 76 and at Boston to 53 degrees. But yesterday it rose again here to the highest yet reeorded--- namely, 83 degroes, and still higher at Phila- | delphia, Pittsburg and Baltimore, being 92 | degrees at the Jast named city. The great heat area is, however, passing off the conti- nent; the temperature is falling rapidly in the North and Northwest, and though we now experience a midsuminer leat we shall after a few days feel proportionately chilly when the cool wave is passing overus. Dur. | ing the heated term here the temperature varied only slightly on the Pacific coast, A Smal Whiskey War. Five.depaly United States marshals have | been shot. in the mountains of Soutkwest- | creany:—A correspondent says of a New Yorker who | ntly:—‘Godward ho was very strict, but exn. Virginia; ong,,of thein is reported killed; and some, ef the journals which are dissalisied with, the President's Southern | policy at once. puigk up their cars and begin | to ery out, “More Southern outrages.” We is a person of energy and courage, and that he will promptly arrest and bring to punish- | ment the*men who shot his subordinates. But we do not see any ‘campaign thunder” in this affair. North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia has ever since the war been full of A considerable part of the farmers in this region engage in this busi- ness, and they are constantly harried by It is a rude population, which re. gards the tax collector as its natural enemy. Contests between the owners of illicit stills and the revenue officials are constantly occurring, and this affair, which some superzealous people wish to make a pretext for calling out troops. is to be re- | SUPPLEMENT. This overshooting the | of | North- | higher temperature | The mountain region of ; marshals, | | Serded rather as an evidence that the Uuseu | States Marshal in Virginia is not a compe- tent officer, If he were he could easily have | taken precautions against any attack which could result so fatally to his officers. Jn any case there is nothing in this inci- | dent to warrant a cry about ‘Southern out ! rages.” The “bloody shirt” is not involved. South Caro! Once more Governor Hampton's influence has been felt for good in South Carolina. | The repudiationists, consisting mainly of the extreme Bourbon element, were yester- day handsomely beaten in the lower house of the Legislature, where Hampton demo- erats and republicans united to appropriate the sum necessary to pay the January and July interest due the creditors of the State. Our correspondent telegraphs that the vote has given great satisfaction tothe merchants in Charleston, who were anxious about the credit of the State. TheSenate’is certain to pass the House bill, and a committce of men of high character will also be appointed to investigate and report on the State's obliga- tions. Those who are interested will find | some information in our despatches on the | subject. A gratifying evidence of harmony and good feeling appears in the unanimous elec- tion of Mr. Mclvor, an eminent lawyer, to ba Judge of the Supreme Court. He re- ceived every ballot, republicans uniting with democrats and black with white. Such a spectacle of harmony has not been seen before in South Carolina since the war, ‘The President's policy bears good fruit. Wanted—A Scapegoat. ‘Che failure of the carnival has put those who originated it on the defensive, and no one wishes to take the responsibility. Had it succeeded we should have seen scores of persons rushing forward to claim the honor, But naturally there is now a confusion of accusation and recrimination. We have received letters of an extraordi- nary character charging different persons with causing the fiasco, and some truth may be found in the conflicting statements. But it is unjust to seek outa single scapegoat for the disgrace. When the carnival was first proposed we suggested that our citizens should see that it was in proper hands, and pointed out that only under able management could the experiment be fairly made. These precautions were not taken, and the carnival proved an immense failure. It is tseless now to seek to throw the whole weight of blame upon a single scapegoat when so many persons were concerned in the enterprise. Those who allowed the speeulation to go on under | the sanction of their names must take their proper share of the public censure and attribute their misfortunes to their own want of prudence and foresight. Give Mr. Field a Chance. We hear that Colonel Pelton is still en- | gaged in an attempt to ‘procure a seat for Mr, Dudley Field in the next Congress. He is reported to be trying to get some demo- cratic member to resign and give Mr. Field a chance. Out of friendship: tor Colonel Pelton we repéat Gur wdvice to him, given some time ago, that he try the republican side ; we think he would be more successful there. Mr. Field was a favorite among the shrewder kind of republicans in the last Congress. His course pleased them, because they saw that though he pretended to have gone over to’ the democrats he was in fact constantly engaged in the manufacture of a very good quality of republican thunder. - There is a general impression that the democrats can get on without Mr. Field in the next Congress, but the republicans may need him, and it is only fair that some republican Congressman shall resign and give hima chance. There is a rumor that if Mr. Field should get a seat he would bring forward some measures intended to carry the Presidential title into court. Of course that is nonsense; but we suspect it is put | forth in order to induce the republicans to make room for Mr. Field. If they could get foolish a thing as this they should not hesi- tate a moment to make an opening for him. PtRSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Americans are tehteraanenn ‘Twoed’s confeszion 15 not confessed, General Robert C, Schenck, of Ohio, is at the Astor. | land. Salmon are pow caught aaily w the Conpecticat River. “adhe poet George Macdonald nas nearly a doen children, ‘The United States four per cents will noon be floated. Get out your scoop nots. Early this month there was much snow on the roads vf the Scottish bighlands Al! flesh is grass, espectaity voul which tastes like a barp of a thousand strings. Fred Dovgiass has proved himself to be a man and a brother of Bot Lngersoll’s, ‘This is the time of year when & man does not groin- ble because the buckwheat cakes are too pale, ‘The late Mr. Bagehot loft a book oa political econ. omy which his frieads thing will rank above Siils. Lady Dufferin will rotarn to Ottaws to-day from | | Movtreal add Lord Dufferin next Tuesday trom Phila. | deiphia, oo, from him a guarantee that hewould do so | The whack of the carpet cleaner is heard in the | | : ; | Severe Fighting Before | Kars and Ardahan. MASSACRES AT TURTUKAL A Blight Upon the Nine teenth Century. RUSSIA IN FORCE ON THE DANUBE THE” WAR i Servia and Roumania Must Join the Invaders, AUSTRIA THOROUGHLY ALARMED, (Bx cADL TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, May 19, 1877. An oficial Russian telegram from Tiflis, May 17, states that while General Romanoff was reconnoitring before Kars on the 16th inst. the Turks attacked the Russian irregular cavalry. Afterastubborn fight the Turks left sixty-four dead on the fleld. Two prison. ers were captured. The gumber of wounded is not reported. ‘The Russian loss was one officer and twenty men_ killed and five officers and = fifty-four men wounded. Among the wounded was Major General Tschelokaled, commanding a brigade of Dagheston cav- alry. The Russians also attempted to bombard Kars on the 17th with four heavy siege guns. They miscalculated the range. The shots flew over the town without any damage. Kars replied briskly. The assailants were compelled to retire, but they subsequently again attempted the erection of siege works, Mukhtar Paeha has lost some munitions im consequence of having been suddenly attacked on the flanks, An advance of 2,500 Circassians from Van has been checked by the Russians. ENGAGEMENT BEFORE ARDAHAN. An Erzeroum despatch, via Constantinople, dated May 15, says:—“An attack of the Russians on Arda- han has been bravely repulged by the Turks.” An official Russian telegram from Akalkalaki May 17, reports that the Russians carried two outworks a! Ardahan with nine guns. Fourteen were killed, and four officers and fourteen men wounded. The ‘Turkish loss was considerable. Here the readers of the HERALD have both sides of the story and can form their own conclusions. The Russians are now pressing the Turks upon all sides in Asia'Minor, although their success seems to have been only pare Ual as yet. THE CAMPAIGN iN ASIA, With the extreme right defore Batoum, the main portion of the right laying siege to Ardahan, the centre investing Kars and the extreme left. menac- ing the pass of Toprak-Kaleh, which is the key to the valley of the Arras, it will be seen that there is no want of activity on the part of the Russians. A despatch from Constantinople confirms our state- ment of yesterday that @ great battle is ‘expected to take place at Toprak-Kaleh. The Kurds and Cireassians are advancing on the extreme Muscovite left from Van to Eri- van. Severe fighting is imminent at Batoum. A large furce of Circassiau emigrants with great stores of arms and ammunition have been shipped from the Bosphoras for a point upon the Black Sea coast. The expedition will be protected and as- sisted by two iron clad frigates. Rifles and men are veing rapidly embarked for the Caucasian coast from the garrison at Batoum, Which is now strong | enough not to fear the Russian columns recently defeated. The Russian Invalide says the Circassian insur gents at Tchetschenzen have again been defeated The remainder of the band fled to the mountains, HORRORS UPON HORRORS. The Turks have recommenced their barbarities in Bulgaria. Ali Christian Europe should proclaim a crusade, With seeming frenzy the wild bashi-bazouks | have been Jet loose upon the frontier towns along | the Danube and the results are scenes of rapine and spoliation which rival the darkest days of the Mid- dle Ages, The little Bulgarian town of Turtukal, sitnated across the Danube from Oltenitza and iwenty-eight miles west southwest of Silistria, pos sessed many Christian inhabitants. Although in numbers far fewer than the Turks, they were | in every way an industrious and valu- | able part of the population. On the night | of ‘the 16th (Wednesday last) the Tarkish citizens of the town joined with the troops in the lortress, from which the village takes its mame, and began an onslaught apon the Christians, The carnage began in all parts of the town at once, The doors of those who attempted to defend their homes were broken in, amd the massacres and outrages | Were perpetrated within the dwellings. In many | instances, however, the attacking parties encoun- | vered she families seated together in front of their | houses. The method in such cases generally was \ 0 either sabre or shoot the father and older sons, | to break the skulls of the old women aad then to seve and outrage the younger women. In very” many cases the outrages were perpetrated by Thero is an association of dariiug, huimaae ladies | Netghbors and citizens of the town well known to who scrape lint; and now we know whore all tue clam | the poor miserable vidtims. Nobody was spared | fritters come trot. | Promeh: | tolls you, | im heaven long ago.’ ” Cincinnati Commercial (nevertheless we | failed ri | manward he wag a little twistical so.’ | have the whole stream In tis left ear. | he snid, “+A tool and bis hair are soon parted.” velior init dem coffee mills in her mowet] will go ki inoingseluf init a incas ax (0 Some buryings ground,’? to pew; but two hours Inter he can slide into the pri. vate door o! a lager beer saloon without making a par- Uicle of noise, | | Another American poet is going to Europe. in an ice house, ‘So 30,000 pounds ‘of ice were thu: reduced to ashes.’” Pip.— ‘You should alwaysdo what mamma stvyl, Ifyou always had yon’d havo been i give of bis locks she could got between each of her fingers, | wyon, Said a tran in Park row yesterday, as he was iiston- | ing toa Russion, “OM 1 hadn't spocaks petter asa | manian offices, he desciibed the Killing ot his It, alter the morning services bave begun, Brown walks Into church, his Sanday boots sqaeak trom pew Tt was | he who wrote of a shipwreck at sea, * Thus ilty weary sonls went and bit the dnst;”? and who wrote of a dre A mocking Dird entered @ Mothodyst eharch at Jack. | who was captured. Scenes of frightful atrocity The cries of the feeing women and chil- | dven Were heard at the outposts of the Roumanian troops encamped below Oitenitza and a small party © brave fellows, under cover of ‘the dark. | ness, vevtured across the river, In the hope of | occured. iy 18 plewsant to see ® boy with the nozzle of tho | being able to rescue. some of Ule fugitives. They street hose in hie hand playing’a jetty into tho mouth | were parthliy successial and brought two Bulgarian of another boy, und then accidentally Jotting bim men back with them. One of the fgitives was hope the United States Marshal in Virginia | Jones refused to take bis wile to the circus, and | quite an dd man, and was for a jong time | aller che haa interested herself in trying how many | unable to \peak from grief and wild terror. on \he morning of Thursday, he waa composed stuciently to talk with the Roa. r| wife and cides sonin his sightand the carrying om of hisdaugher, He seemed to rebuke himsel) | for his escape. le declared that he was returning +} mm naste to his hoge, having heard of the outbreak in another parte the village, when he saw nis wite's head struck rrom her shoulders and heard | his danghter’s wil\ shrieks as she was dragged | away by a fierce nob of scrambling, frensied | brutes. | D REMBIBER Batak | ‘The accounts whichthese two mon give of the son, Tenn., the othor Sunday, and after vircling rouod the room lit on the railing of the eltar, whore It ratin Attentive silence til the close of ‘tho sermon, whon tt warbled some of ils sweetest poses amd sailed away. | Renerai outrage and mrder of old und young are | horrible beyond deserption. The only pretext | seams to have been thé inetfectaal bombardment