The New York Herald Newspaper, May 21, 1877, Page 4

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M, and Washington From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warm and fair or partly cloudy, possibly with light showers. Tne Carnivar is dead, and yesterday Dr. Tab muge preached its funeral sermon. Tur Scnoot Tracuers will be delighted to learn that they are to be paid their salaries before the summer vacation. Aw Inrressiv MONY at Halifax, N. 8., was the consecration yesterday of Archbishop Tlannan, a full account of which is published in our columns. Tue Fixe Weatuer yesterday tempted many thousands of our citizens to the country, and the parks, rivers, islands and gardens near New York were gay with pleasure seekers. A Corresrc r the appropriate nom de plume of “Philanthropy,” intorms the HERALD readers how to keep coul, a piece of information which will be appreciated at this season. © Queen Victoria's Bmrupay will be cele- brated at Petersburg, Va., by the British resi- dents, and many Americans will join them in | wishing Her Majesty many happy returns of the anniversary. Tre Eriqvette of the reception of General Grant in England is a subject of anxiety in that | country. Treat him as an Aincrican sovereign should be treated and that will be well enough. Trovt Tieves.—There is something partieu- larly repulsive to the minds of true anglers in the burglary of a brook. The tish should be en- ticed from his haunts, not kidnapped. ‘The arrest of the persons who stole trout from a preserve on Long Island will g neral satisfaction to the sportsman, for what is called poaching in Eng- land is very different from robbery here. Tur West axp THe Soutu.—The pacification of South Carolina, under the conservative policy adopted by Governor Hampt is already havy- Ing a good eflect. The visit of Western eapital- Ists to Colunbia and the study they are making of the Southeast indicates that the West begins to have faith in the future-of the cotton States, | and that capital—the great want of the South— | will be forthcoming for sound and protitable | euterprises. | | | | Tur Temre! & Re Ing through the country, pushed with en ‘AL, Which is extend- is to be apparently | and enthusiasm in this cit, which certu n need of reform. If the tem- perance leaders will act with judgment and moderation much good can be accomplished, but nothing can be effected by bigotry or inter- ference with the rights of individuals. A meet- ing of the American Ten Union wae held yesterday at Cooper Institute, and the address | of the Rev. Mr. Bell is entitled to consideration. | Tur Sermons Yesterpa versary of the day of Pen interest than usual to the in the churches yesterday, and the suggestions of ably and eloquently used by jority of the clergy. All denominations in in the commemoration of such events, ‘hich are a part of the earliest history of the Christian religion. ons printed on this ject, and on the nt question whether ds will recognize each other in the future world, will be read with interest and profit. ‘The solemn anni- ea) serv a deeper es Tur Bressers.- of the City of Brnasels is contirr port of th which reached this port yesterday, having spoken that steamship on the L4th inst. The Brussela was proc ng under sail, with all well on board, and she will probably arrive ut Queenstown in the early part of this week. So long aa she is on the ocenn every item of news will he eagerly read by the thousands who are interested in her passengers and erow, Th no reason now to doubt that she will cone! her long and tedious voynge without further dis aster. Toe Wrarnen.—The storm centre in the | Northwest has developed considerably yesterday. The lowest pressure is Upper Mississippi Valley, with high chiefly on the sonthern margin. The peratnre continues high, — but is ally Jower thon that of Saturday. Dburometer has fallen all over the hut is highest on the South Atlantic ecoust. Heavy rains live fallen in the northwestern and central sections, On the Middle Atlantic eoast the weather is fair, with a high temperat Southward the conditions are more threat The hent area within the isotherm of seventy degrees extends into Canada, the lake region and the Northwest. It is very warm in the Central Mississippi and Ohio. valleys. The weather in New York to-day will be warm and. } fair or partly cloudy, possibly with light | ebowers. since the winds tem: in | and the old fogies. {sive element in his party. | 1880. NEW YORK" HERALD, MONDAY, , MAY 21, 1877.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Condition of Parties. A correspondent commenting on the polit- ical outlook from Washington remarks, in @ letter printed elsewhere, that while both the present parties are divided into apparently irreconcilable factions the republican organ- ization, by the confession of some of its lead- ers, has suffered so far the greatest disorgani- zation. ‘The party has been in power so long, | he remarks, that it has two sets of natural leaders—the older men, who have long had control, and who are naturally determined to retain it if they can, and the young and ambitious men who have waited for a chance | and do not get it ; and these factions disagree about a policy. There is, no doubt, some- thing in this suggestion, and it accounts for the ease with which the President, who be- longs by his opinions to the younger men of his party, has been able to gather them about him. The old party leaders, with the exception perhaps of Sen- ator Morton, are either sulking or in open mutiny; but the young men see their opportunity and.gather abont the President. Thus in Pennsylvania Mr. Wayne McVeagh | stands opposed to his kinsmen the Came- rons; in Ohio Stanley Matthews and Gen- | eral Cox stand against Tutt and the old fogies; in Michigan George Willard leads the young men against Chandler ; in New Jersey Phelps is opposed to Frelinghuysen, Bobeson and the Newark-Camden Ring; in Indisna Ben Harrison and Judge Gresham give the President even a heartier support than Morton; in Massachusetts young re- publicanism is encouraged to new struggles, and even in Maine Eugene Hale and Frye | rebel against Blaine und Hamlin, There is a measure of trath in the remark our correspondent quotes from an/*L{nde- pendent Republican,” that the republican party ought to die first, because it/hus been of late the most dangerous to the country. But we warn the democrats that they must not depend too confidently on tho dppar- ently moribund condition of their oppo- nents. Two spirits have long contended in the republican party—one wishing to main- j tain the predominance of the party in the country by making it the exponent of new ideas, of a liberal political and commercial policy and a courageous treading in new ways ; the other holding back, wedded to | old notions and to a policy of repression bred of the war. General Grant who was, unhappily for himself and for the country, as he confessed in his last Message, igno- rant of civil affairs, ullied himself to the old fogy faction of the party, and, being a strong and very self-willed and resentful man, upheld that wing dur- ing his administration, and drew to it, by the force of patronage, a number «of men who would gladly have seen the other wing prevail, but who were content to shut their eyes and wait for a change. With President Hayes this change has come, but it came too late and too suddenly for many of the old leaders, Even Mr. Blaine; who in other years was looked upon as the natural. and probable chief of the young and progressive republicans, and whose efforts in 1875 defeated the Force bill, has shown by his recent course that he belongs to the old fogies—to the men who cannot or will not see that the country will not longer stand still. . There is, therefore, an undoubled and serious split in the republican ranks ; but it is too early for any prudent man to prophesy that the party is ruined. The young republicans are able party men ; they | have a Presidenc after their own hearts ; they support him enthusiastically in what | at least promises to be a really progressive policy ; they have helped him to his first great achievement, to eliminate the South- ern question from national politics ; they | will stand by him, and we have no doubt he ; will stand by them. Their hope is to gain control of the party and to turn it toward tue liberal, reformatory and progressive policy which they desire. There will be a bitter struggle between them But suppose the progressive men win. Suppose, with the help of the President, they not only capture the party machinery, but use it wisely and energetically to restore specie payments, to abolish the iniquitous naviga- tion laws, to liberalize the tariff, to revise commercial treaties, to revive our foreign commerce, and to reform the glaring ind scandalous abuses which have im the last eight years crept into the federal eivil ser- vice. A good deal can be accomplished in four years, even by a slow moving man such as we take the President to-be, if he knows how to draw to himseif:and his | policy the zealous support of the progres- And if he should succeed in such a programme as we have set down the democrats will have to be very wise country in 1880. They will have to reform the State and city governments they hold; they will have to show that they know how to “run” New York, for instance, in some far less extravagant way than that | now in nse; they will have to oppose with a bold and uncompromising front many silly and some dangerous political heresies which they now at least tolerate. We to count on a ‘walk over’ We do not deny that they will have an ad- vantage in the disgust of the people over | the scandalous misconduct of the repub- | liean leaders in the Inst canvass. But that alone will not save them, especially if the country shall be made to see that the men who outraged and insulted it are out of favor in Washington. Nor have they much to g from the factions op- position of these men to the Presi- dent and his policy. Mr, Hayes is said to have little fear of Blaine, the other reealei right. These men may rage as they please, but they have nowhere to go ; they have no place in the democratic party, and if they set up as chronic ‘“soreheads” in their own they will quickly become ridiculous. If Mr. Hayes is equal to his opportu- nities he may yet revive the republican party to such a degree that it will give a very hard tug. to the democrats, If he has the grasp and courage to initiate a really broad and progressive policy the country will look twice before it turns out the republicans in indeed to carry the | advise the democrats, therefore, not in 1880. They | can succved then only by superior merit. | | far into the summer. This fact proves cither Chandler and | rants, and he is perfectly | Of course, it he should be led into | sees such as buying support in the South by ill considered internal improve- ment schemes, or if he should become timid and show favor to the old and reactionary leaders of the party, in that case we believe the country would accept the democrats gladly in 1880, But it is too early in the new Presidential term to speculate either on the folly or the genius of the President. He has begun very wisely. But he has only begun, and one thing is tolerably certain, the country is no longer to be put off with promises. The War Movements. The capture of Ardahan, with all its guns and military stores, by the Russians is the first success of the war. The occupation of Bajazid recently by a column from Erivan gave them a decided advantage of position, but it was one yielded without a struggle by the ‘Turks. Ardahan, on the contrary, has withstood a bombard- ment and two assaults, the second of which was successful, Perhaps the Turkish commander, knowing that the town would be completely isolated in a few days, and needing the garrison to strengthen his own position at Bardess, may have in- défense & la mort, but to retire when he saw that a further stay would endanger the whole body of the garrison. The next news from Asia Minor will undoubtedly be of a great | battle at Bardess, followed, probably, by the retreat of the Turks on Erzeroum. Our special correspondent at Kischeneff gives a graphic description of the city and the im- } mense camp surrounding it. His letter, which we publish to-day, is peouliarly in- terosting in view of the latest developments of the war on the Danube. ‘The mass- ing of troops on the Russian right looks like @ movement in force across the Danube between Widdin and Rustchuk ‘and the practical severance of the Turkish communications with ‘the west. If this éan be’ accomplished the passes of the Balkan, via Sofia, will be in the hands of the Russians very soon, and the bulk of the Turkish army must change front to the westward to cover the quadrilateral. An- other large force must be hurried to defend Roumelia on the westward. The Turkish fleet is still operating on the Circassian coast, but its attacks are upon unimportant points. Batoum will soon be completely invested hy the Russians, Country Board and City Homes. The intense heat of the past few days has turned the thoughts of those who dwell in cities to the ‘country. They look with the mind’s eye upon the blue ranges of the Catskills, crouched by the side of the silver Hudson; upon the White Mountains, the fair islands of Lake George, the cliffs of Newport, or the green vales of Wyoming, | and say, ‘O had I the wings of a dove! that way would I fly for rest.” Itis the season when those who can get away begin to look for country board, and to study the seduc- tive advertisements of the benevolent farmer and the generous hotel keeper. Visions of unadulterated milk and honey, of butter that can trace its ancestry to the cow, of eggs whose freshness is announced each day at sunrise by the maternal hen, of waving woods and refreshing streams, are inspired by these advertisements in which every place is pictured asa Paradise. Daz- zled by the multiplicity of attractions, the eager family discusses whether it shall spend the summer in a castle in the moun- tains, a palace by the river side, or a villa by the ocean. Wherever they decide to go they are likely to prove that distance lends enchantment to the view. The castle frequently proves to be a ruin, and even the hospitable farmhouse a delusion, The purling brook is found a stagnant pond and the shady forest is often several miles away. The new milk, butter and eggs are brought from the New York markets, where they cen be bought better and cheaper than they can be raised, while the playground for the children, so beauti- fully described in the advertisement, proves to be merely a dusty yard before a dusty road. Paradise often turns out to be purgatory. In fact, there is nothing more deceptive than the title of “Country Board,” particularly when it is associated with all the comforts of a home. “Home is precisely what the seeker for ‘rustic pleasures does not ‘want; but when be makes the fatal mistaké of finding a desert out of town the name has sweeter charme. Home then become dearer than ever, and he frequently returns to it with greater joy than whén he left it. 80 do not Ict all who cannot | leave the city too much bemoan their fate, for there are many attractions in town which balance the discomforts of the country, and the true philosopher will know that content is, after all, the only basis of domestic en- joyment. If the millions in great cities cannot have country board as they wish they can at least have comfort at home. Summer Advertising. Our issues of quintuple Heranps so far | into the summer this yearnre evidences that advertising during this season is unusually general, As regards the Hrrarp quintuples we have never before had to issue them so of two conditions of trade--unusnal dulness or unexampled activity. In the first case advertising would be resorted to as the very Lest ineans of forcing business. It presents, even to those not intending to pur- chase, so many attractions, both as olutions melt away before the tempting opportunities to secure good bargains, and ‘Ingging business is therefore spurred to activity. On the other hand, the brisk competition of thriving trade would be manifested by advertising. In anticipation of & prosperous season cll our merchants have stocked their stores with the most attractive novelties suited to the wants of the commu- nity: These must be disposed of during the early sumer months to make room for | Therefore the | merchants advertise to attract to New York | the fall and winter stocks. customers from other cities where goods are not so cheap, so varied in kind or so | abundant. Whatever may be the objects of the advertisements the Henan quintuple is the favorite medium for advertising. to; | goods and prices, that economical res- | De Broglie’s vane and Practice or | Revolution. By our news from Paris it will be observed that the De Broglie Ministry, like the fa- mous General Trochu, has a plan. It was, however, the great peculiarity of Trochu’s plan that he kept it to himself—never dazzled the understandings of mankind by the disclosure of its startling conceptions— while the De Broglie plan is given foar- lessly and pitilessly to the world. All men in France have foreseen that the danger of the game played for the spoils by De Broglie and his fellow adventurers is that it will extend the faith of the people in republican institutions as a guarantee against the surprises that are a part of the scheme of personal government, and consequently that if the present Cham- ber is dissolved the inevitable new election will result in the return of a Chamber of Deputies more strongly republican than even the one that now stands in the way of Do Broglie’s schemes and MacMahon’s delusions. It is against this possibility, as the critical point in the case, that the plan provides. ‘The great feature of this plan is a proclamation. It is uecucted’ the. Gouasae ARE AIS AS cake’ A | proposed to suddenly change the French people from republican to monarchical by proclamation. If simplicity is any advan- tage in a plan it certainly exists in this one, and we venture to say that if the pro- ceeding is successful it will be imitated on all like occasions in otier countries. This proclamation is to inform the French people that if they do not scrupulously elect a Chamber less republican than the present Chamber, then MacMahon, President, Mar- shal of France, Duke of Magenta, &c., &c., will incontinently and absolutely resign his position as the saviour of his country, and abandon and give over this wretched French nation to its own impulses and inevitable destruction. There is no indication by which it may be judged whether the Mar- shal will actually resign if it comes to the pinch, and the country, seeing a cheap and easy way to safety, shall take him at his word. It is apparently not contemplated that the nation will be able to calmly face this dreadful danger. It is confidently thought by: the Ministry that this threat will throw the people into paroxysms of reaction and so save the | “conservative” cause. All this is given out by M. de Fortou. If that gentleman were more disposed to tell his thoughts plainly he would have said that the Ministry does not deem it unwise to have two strings toits bow. As the Cromwellians trusted in God and kept their powder dry, so these gentle- men have every faith in their plan for a proclamation, but they do not neglect the precaution of concentrating in their own hands the machinery of the elections and the great processes of ‘counting in” the right candidates at important points. The change of sixty-two prefectures in two days shows how practical they are in this par- ticular. Polo in England. Polo, which was otiginally imported from India into England and thence transferred to America, is not, like many other foreign games, a matter of mere brief curiosity, but grows rapidly and steadily in popu- larity, and is destined to be a per- manent amusement. The season has begun already with our own clubs, and yesterday we published an account of the first games played in England this spring. They took place at the Hurlingham grounds on the 12th and 19th of May, and were cun- tested by the Hurlingham Club and the In- ternational Polo and Gun Club. We learn that the attendance was brilliant, and the display of skill in the game and equestrian- ism excellent. The points made by each club being equal, the decisive match will be played next Saturday; and in June there will be a battle for a champion cup. Polo is not only a fashionable sport in England and this country, but one which is based upon enduring elements of skilland exercise. So long as men value physical strength and culture, and so long as the horse is of all the lower animals looked upon as the most useful, such games as polo will be popular. It is now one of the leading amusements of our wealthy young men, and it is not one of its least merits that it furnishes a beauti- fal outdoor entertainment for the ladies, who have honored it with their complete approval. We hope our English cousins will have a successful season, and do not doubt that our own clabs will do the best to emulate their skill, The Political Capital of the State. Several of our city contemporaries are | making Governor Robinson's veto of the appropriation for the absurd and extrava- gant new Capitol an occasion for advocating the transfer of the State government from Albany to New York. Merciful heaven, de- liver us! This suffering city is bad enough without a new accession to its dangerous classes, The effect of the proposed reinoval would be merely to bring the Legislature under the immediate control of Tammany Hall and the Custom House, which are al- ready the chief agents of corruption. The re- moval would save a great deal to those inter- meddling agencies in railroad fares and hotel all its arts upon raw rural members with slight trouble or expense. Such a change would substitate Tammany Hall for the | democratic side of the Legislature and the Custom House for the republican side. | That body would be even more servile to these bad influences than it has been here- tofore, and they havo been altogether too potent at the distance of a hundred and fifty miles. been the curse of State legislation. These lobbies would be not merely influential but | omnipotent if the State capital were trans- ferred to New York. Apart from this de- cisive objection Albany is a better place for the seat of the State government. There is not a county in the State which has not fre- quent occasion to transact business with execntive departments which are more ac- cessible to a majority of the counties than they would be in New York. During the season of navigation our great system of public works, with its swarm of engineers, collectors and superintendents, must be in constant intercourse with the State capital, | | fight bills, and enable each of them to practise | bats a The city lobbies have long | | Mme, Loyson, the wife of Father Hyacinthe . ah ails tha aabeni ani ahaa great branch of the public business. At the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal and the southern terminus of the Champlain Canal, it is the proper administrative centre of our vast system of public works, which could not be transferred to the mouth of the Hudson without great in- convenience. The current discussions are idle and futile, and are, therefore, a very harmless amusement for the journals that indulge in them; but if there were any seri- ous prospect of a removal of the State capi- tal from Albany to New York we should deprecate it in the interest of city morals, purity of legislation, and the convenience of the county and canal officers, which maintain a constant intercourse with the executive offices at the seat. of the State government, The Country Girl and the City Belle. How can we choose between roses—be- tween the wild rose of the country and the velvet-leaved flower of the conservatory? Yet our correspondents of both sexes who are interested in the matrimonial ques- tion seem resolved to imitate the wars of York and Lancaster, when the red rose turned pale with passion, the white rose was crimsoned in battle, and both pierced old England’s bosom with thorns. They are greatly in earnest in dis- cussing whether young men of moderate | means and domestic affections should choose their wives from the country or the city. The arguments are able on each side and might well embarrass the anxious bachelor. One of our contempo- raries has given the subject some attention and asserts that there are more pretty girls | Phila- | the campaign, The opposing armies’ now ap- in New York than in any other city. delphia, Baltimore and Boston make simi- lar claims, just as every good museum claims to possess the original club with which Cap- tain Cook was killed. We cannot say that New York has prettier girls than the coun- try, for the debate is too early and the weather too hot fora decision; nor can we agree with our experienced contemporary that young men should not hunt after love, but should wait till they are caught. As Time is to be seized by the forelock, so must Cupid be as he flies, and he should be shot with his own arrows, Love, like all the other blessings of life, should be sought for, and the young bachelors should no more sit idly in the expectation that a wife will come to them without asking than they should hope toobtain fortune without labor. With perfect felicity and truth a great poet gg ag a precious things, discovered late, ‘To those who seck them tssue forth; Thus Love to sequel works witb F ‘And draws the vell from hidden worth, The advice of our experienced contem- porary to delay courtship is, we fear, dan- gerous, and perhaps the fact that it is taken too often may account for the large num- ber of buchelors of which it justly com- plains. We should rather think that, whether it be the country girl or the city belle that is best for the intending Benedict he would do well to seek one or the other with intelligence and sincerity, or he may discover some day that Loye, indig- nant at his neglect, has flown away to return no more. PrtRSONAL INTELLIGENCE, We had s cool winter. Linen collars are at half-mast, Rey. Mr, Fulton says that lager menaces Ameri- cans. Tin cans on dogs’ tails are now cutin the princesso style. Bofore cutting a steak pass your knife once through @ garlic. Zach Chandler, aiter all, does not belleve in the sea serpent, Lord Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, is at the Gilsey. Wanted a reform party of which no member can | have an office. Mullet now goos to church and singa aboat “man_ sions in the skies.’ Judge Tatt is likely to be nominated for Governor by the Ohio republicans, Dr. Russell, the London Zimes writer, election to Varliament, After ail a Turkish war map does’at look as well cooked as beelsteak and onions. The Springheld Aepublican says that Grant, Cameron and Jones were Coukling’s special pets. 1tis said that Key is the Cabinet member most popu- jar with the old Gran: republicans of Washington, A New England paper says that nearly all the men in its town are fathers, Must be a growing pop-ulation. Here and there you tind a Northerm man saying that iho North ought to be sorry for tue result of the late war. Said a Yonkers boy to bis father last evening, “That will seek was correct de uct, but as a lteking it was a fraud | de jure.” Either Randal! or Banks would make a good Speaker; Randall an boucst democrat and Banks a Fespectable compromise, James G, Blaine is accused of going tnto the political hardware trade, Jim, a dealer iu sasspans? No; this ia suootbiug irony too much, Real critical Christians ure the only people who have a right to quarrel on Sunday, It maxes them ice! ugly to think that other people are wicked. Since Secretary Evarts decided to remain in the law business several clorks in the Department of State have decided to lease greon-grocery stores. When Ben Butler meets a pewspeper man he mat- tera a direful malodiction, something like a wash- boiler failing ont of a midnight window on a cat. A lump of bread tho eize of & billiard bail, tied in a linen bag, and put into a pot in which greens are boil- ing, will absorb the gases which provide indelicate odors, “ Billy”? Carr, the republican manager in San Fran- cisco, has said that he will own the Chronicle, which he ciaims bas libelled nim, and the Chronicle defles It wicked musicians, men and women whom we slander six days in the week, are permitted to sing the glories of heaveu in our churches, why not bire people of the same quality to preach the sermons? There t# a minister of the gospel who ts now think- ing of bis vacation, so that he may take the place of a poor gardener who has not had a@ vacation in ten years, ‘This minister lives in our imugination, When a fond wife decides to accompany her hus- band to a soda water fountain, and while sho saya “garsapartila’”’ and he leans over to Whispor to the at- tendant, the syrup he takes comes irom under the counter and Jooks like thin molasses, A tail, fitting black dress of some soft stuf. fonably made, and yet there ts nothing grotesque about its platonoss. purple ribbon and the thin black net veil that droops from her high comb are her oniy ornaments. So looks Court Journal:— “It is stated that His Royal Highness tho Duke of Edinburgh ts in treaty tor the parchase of Oldway House, Paington, Torbay, the splondid man- #100 recently erected by the Americua millionnairo, the Jate Mr. Singer, Tue house contains a private theatre, 4M addition to every requirement for a family of the first rank, Torbay has long been a favorite resort for the Russian royal family and nobility, and the climate handsome woman, with a frank smile, a | pleasant. voice, a beautiful hand, She wearsa close- | It is mot fash. | An tron cross hangs on ber broust; its | | THE WAR Massing of tape and Preparation for a Forward Movement. THE SITUATION IN. ASIA The Fighting at Sukum-Kaleh, Batoum and Ardahan. TURKISH CABINET MUDDLES. Russia’s Right to the Bosphorus Asserted. TROUBLE ABOUT AN AMERICAN MISSLONABY, ——_-+__—__ (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonvon, May 21, 1877, The news from the seat of war to-day does not show any immediate movement of importance, though it is quite evident that the Russians are rapidly massing large bodies of troops in front of the Turkish main position. This concentration of the Russian corps is an evidence of their desire to force a battle m the open fleld, and the engagement cannot be long ‘delayed. When it does occur the struggle will undoubtedly, be a _ terrific one, and have a most important bearing on proaching each other are so large that the battle will be decisive and bloody. THR SITUATION IN ASLA. The {HeRaLy correspondent at Trebizonde tele- graphs the exact situation in Asia, He says that perfect tranquillity prevails in that city and in Erzeroum. He confirms the report of the bom- bardment of Sukum-Kaleh, and says that the in- habitants and the Russian troops retired in the rear of the town. It is probable that a general rising of the tribesin the Caucasus will soon take place. Skirmishes occur daily in the rear of Batoum. A strong attack by the Russians on the llth was vigorously repulsed. Kars is not com- pletely invested. RUSSIAN REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF ARDABAN, A despatch from St. Petersburg gives the following official account of the battle of Ardahan as telegraphed by General Melikofl to the Grand Duke Michael:— “The outworks of Ardahan, its fortiftoations, citadel, sixty guns, immense stores of provisions and ammunition, and the camp formerly occupied by fourteen battalions of Turks, Neat the feet of the Czar. On May 17 the admirable fire of our artil- lery between three and six o'clock in the afternoon made a breach in the walls, At six o’ototk: thé Erwan, Tiflis and Baku regiments and the sappers ad- vanced to the assault. The enomy could'not withstand the onslaught and fled, leaving a great number dead. At nine o’clock our troops traversed the whole town and fortifications, the band playing the national anthem, The troops are full of enthusiasm. Our loss is believed to be one officer and fifty soldiers killed, tour ofticers and 180 soldiers wounded. I can- not find sufficient words ot praise for the courage and coolness of our young soldiers, or for the good dispo- sition of the troops made by the officers, A solemn service will be held at the central point of the fortifi- cations. ’” A Bayazid despatch says that the Russian lett wing 1s at Ipeck, not Peek’? as heretofore reported, ‘THE SUKUM-KALEH EXPEDITION, It now appears tbat the expedition andor Fazlt Pacha which started for Sukum-Kaleh on Fmday con- sisted of four largo transports, four iron-clad frigates, one despatch boat, 20,000 troops and five batteries of artillery. A despatch from Constantinople received yesterday states that an official bulletin, just issued, announces that the Turk- ish forces operating near Sukum-Kaleh were attacked by 5,700 Russians near Sle, The Turks completely annihilated a company of Cossacks. They took five prisoners, besides some arms and provisions, ‘rho fighting continues, Tho flect has destroyed Bourgdjardjare. The Russians lost 300 killed and wounded in the skirmish near Kars. Despito this official announcement cunsiderable anxiety is manifested at Constantinople whether the Sutum Kaleh expedition will succeed in raising an insurrection in Caucasus. An evidence of this fact is found in the statement that 8,000 trodps, 1,500 Circas- sians, 50,009 rifles and some mountain batteries have already been despatched thither. A despatch from Constantinople says tho Russians attempted to regain Sutum Kaleb, but were repulsed with loss, NOTES PROM VARIOUS POINTS. An Erzeroum despatch says a decisive pattle is ex- pected im the Kanly Mountains. An attack on Kars was repulsed with heavy los. The Turks ave, sent reimforcements to Nicko- polis to guard against any attempted passage of the Danubo there. On the Ist of June all traffic on Roumanian railways will be stopped to allow tha passage of stores and siege artillery. The Czar will remain at Bucharest until the end of the war. He wil witness the passage of the Danube by the main body of thearmy. A Berlin despatch says the Turks confine their prep arations to strengthening the Danubian fortresses. All these are being made more or less formidable, but strengthening their garrisons detracts from the num- vers of tnoir flola forces, With all the re. inforcements recently brought up the Turks, it is believed, have no moro than 200,000 combatants north of the Balkans to resist 250,000 Russians. The positions which the Russians have occupied near [brai] will soon enable them to prevent the Turkish gunboats approaching the shores of the Dobrudscha, A Belgrade despatch 8 the elections of the Skuptschina are ordered, Largo bodies of troops aro directed to Teshnia, Dervent and Doboy, with extra wagon londs of arms and ammunition, A Galatz special, dated Sunday, says to-duy a small Koutmantan iron-clad was armed by the Russians with four guor and manned with Russian sailors, It is reported ‘The Russians will also ase thetr two remamming paddle gunboats, A Ruastehuk despatch, dated Saturday, says the Russians are bombarding Nikopoli The Governor of Rustchuk has resigned and Jett the town, A Bucharest despatch, dated Sunday, says the ad- vance of the column of Russian infantry, mentioned in previous despatches, passed Bucharest at one o'clock this morning. Tbese infantry belong to the corps destined ihe Bucharest and Giurgevo positions. The Danube is so high at present that it would be difficult to place a pontoon bridge Tho Circasswns who landed at Sukum-Kaleh bave arrived at the capital of the Abebasian country, The Abchasians are afraid to join them. 1n Moldavia com- munication with Jassy ts entirely interrapted by floods. The valley of the Bistritza is like a sea of water waist deep. A Berlin despatch says Count Andrassy has requested the withdrawal of the Russians from the alata, It is rumored that the Emperor of Austria will visit | the Czar, The Rugsian commissariat 1s working rather | Unsatisfactorily, The Rassians occapied Krajova on Friday night and Oltenitza on Saturday. They will occupy Turn-Severin and Kalafat on the 20th. PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGX. The we telegrams confirm tho Russian advance to the Alutaat Turnn-Magureil, Islash and Simaiza, Tho forces actually at these places are only advance posi, The main body is distributed in the roar has been considered as especially advangagcous to the Duchess of Edinburgh.’’ between Alexandria, Komant and Ruschedevede, 68,000 mon being as the latter place, trom whence good