The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1877, Page 6

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BOOTH’S THEATRE. —Axos Crank, COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE —Vamery, TIVOLI THEATRE. ~Vaxorry, TONY PASTOR'S THEATRI CENTRAL PARK GARDE! NEW YORK AQUARIU ACADEMY OF DESIGN—Ax EET SH NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOTICE 10 COUN 1877, 29, MAY ims Express Company ran @ tra the Pennsylvania Railroud a leaving Jersey City at u quurter-past four Sunday, carrying the regular edition of tl West as Harrisburg and South to Was Fuuiadeipbte at @ quarter past six A.M. a one P. M. From our reports this morning the probabilities mre that the weather in New York to-day will be slightly warmer, and partly cloudy or cloudy, possibly with light rains. connections, M. daily and Washington at Wau Srreer Yrsterpay.—-The stock mar ket was active and stronger ut the opening. Later the principal active stocks fell off again, but closed generally above Saturday's closing prices. The conl stocks fell off in the morning and advanced in the afternoon upon a false rumor that Mr. Gowen had agreed to stop min- ing. Gold opened at 106%, advanced to 107 and closed at 106%. quiet but firm, and railroad bonds were strong and higher. Money on call was easy at 1ly a 2lp per cent. ; Tue Catnotic Wortp is getting ready to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Pius IX Perv, in true South American fashion, is busy trying to suppress an insurrection and com- pound with her creditors. Happy land! Tur Brokers Accusep of circulating false rumors to injure the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company are to get a trial at an early day. Tur Brooktyn Porriciass are busy fighting for the spoils. Commissioner Fowler was cast into outer darkness yesterday. His successor is Government stocks were | NEW YORK HERALD, ‘TU ‘ederal Offices in the Southerm States. We read once gore in the Washington despatches that there are numerous applica- tions for offices, particularly from theSouth- ern States. The Presidént is apparently in no hurry to make removals or new appoint- ments, but there are very good reasons for believing that he means in general to select Southern men of character and influence for the prominent federal offices in the South. In doing this he will have the cor- dial support of the Northern public, because a long and troublesome experience under the last administration made plain to every- body the inexpediency of filling such places wtth strangers, men who had no hold on the communities in which they held office and no influence, and who were but too apt to misuse their positions for partisan pur- poses, There are in the-Southern States a large number of Northern men who have removed there since the war, and who follow useful industries and live comfortably and us they please. here is another class of Northern men who went to the South as political ad- venturers, and who have lived exclusively by politics. It is this last class, a kind of political tramps, who are properly known as | “‘carpet-baggers.” The character of the car- | Pet-bagger is not understood in the North, | because we have no such class here. He is ® person who has migrated to a Southern State, not to engage in business or any other usual occupation, but to control its politics. He has no other interest in the State he in- fests than to hold office there, either federal or local. When he ceases to hold office by reason of his party’s predominance being overthrown’he is usually ready to remove from the State to which he has no ties, either social or of business, Thus Governor Ames no sooner ceased to rule Mississippi than he removed to Minnesota; Mr. Chamberlain, being no longér Governor in South Carolina, removes to New York; and hundreds of other instances might be cited of the same kind, We have no “‘carpet-baggers” in Northern States, because the circumstances favorable to their growth do not exist. They need, first, a numerous class of ignorant and timid voters, on whose fears and prejudices they can easily work; and, second, the coun- tenance and assistance of the federal gov- ernment to overawe political opposition, to help them keep the ignorance and poverty massed on their own side and to sustain them by force when they are overcome by votes. Being thus independent of the moral sentiment of the community, depending for his political success, not on giving the peo- ple honest and efficient government, but on the overwhelming force of the federal ad- ministration which he summoned at will to his aid, the carpet-bagger, no matter with what honest purposes he set out, inevitably became corrupt or inefficient. If he wasa State officer he did not attempt to enforce the laws, but called for federal troops to do this for him. If he was a federal office- holder he did not attend to his duties, but became a partisan leader and misused the J. W. Flaherty. Senator Wooprn’s Bite is a hard nut t6 crack for the members of the Assembly. It is needless to say that the Senator’s bill aims at giving the State over to the republicans. Goop News.—The temperance advocates are about to visit the rum stores in order to look up adulterated liquors. This is a work in which they will have the sympathy even of tonfirmed tipplers. Conxy Iscanp is to have a legal war for pos- session of the beach, Some of the litigants are likely to get stranded before the end of the struggle. It is consoling to reflect that the law- yers will come out all right. A Bareaty.—A practical swain named Steind- ler, sued for a breach of promi: offe:s to go to the ultar on con fuir plaintiff secure him seven bundred dollars, which he alleges was part of the consideration of the promise, Jvuvee Davis has made a decision that.a cor” poration is not liable on forged bouds where the corporation has doue nothing to induce the pur- chase by the innecent party. A sound decision, which will impress on business men the necessity for greater care in their transactions, Woman's Inconsrancy has received a new Mustration in the fate of Lopez, cast off by the fair Georgiana Morrison. The lady married in haste and repented at full speed. Yesterday she elected in court to stay with papa, and sent away her adored Lopez disconsolate. Tue Arrraiser’s Department of the Custom House seems to be sadly in need of reform, judy- ing by the evidence given before the investigat- ing commit Waste and incompetency seem to be the rule, not the exception. This is a natu ral result of making the Custom Honse purt of the political machine. A large dose of civil ser vice reform would do good service, Pouce Rerorm no longer to be 1 policemen are asy posts on the In future only »pointed to recommendation of politicians, those men who have served for a long period with fidelity are to be given the light details, while the able bodied will have to do the rough work, This resolution by the Police Commis- with general approval. It is ight direction, and we hope it is | ing of along march in the diree- tion of a thorough re reach police officers that faithfa service will meet with reward and recognition, and ) York will soon be able to Doast of a police force second to none. Tue Weatner.—The barometer is very low all over the country, particularly in the western lake region. The heat aren yesterday after- | toon receded southward of the lakes and of | Philadelphia on the Atlantic coast. But imme- influence of his office to secure the pre- dominance of his faction. In both cases he rather welcomed than discouraged disorders, because these made him important in the North and enabled him to appeal to North- ern sympathy and for federal troops. It was the bad habit of President Grant to select the federal office-holders in the South- ern States chiefly from among the class we have described—Northern adventurers, stran- gers in the States where he suffered them to rule; mere politicians, the leaders of the negro vote, which saw in such federal offi- cers, marshals, collectors and their subordi- nates, the direct representatives of ‘General Grant,” whose orders they obeyed blindly, because the negro was coustantly taught by the carpet-baggers that ‘General Grant” alone stood between him and a return to slavery. If, therefore, the Southern preju- dice against ‘‘carpet-baggers” has seemed to Northern men extreme and unreasonable, all the circumstances we have recited should be remembered as the causes for this feeling. If President Hayes should appoint a South Carolinian Collector of Boston and a Louisi- anian United States Marshal of Massachu- setts the whole of New England would cry out indignantly at once, though they might be.respectable people ; but if these persons, on taking possession of their places, should at once seek to combine the poverty and ig- norance of the State against the intelligence and property, in a party depending upon federal troops for protection in public theft, there would be such a din about the Presi- dent’s ears as would compel him to remove these carpet-baggers without delay. It is because he saw this, probably, that the venerable ex-President Woolsey, of Yale, last full publicly advised Mr. Hayes, if he should become President, to “put Sonthern men in Southern offices.” It is understood that the President remembers and appreciates the soundness of this advice and that he means carefully to act upon it, In doing so we have no doubt he will select his appointees, as he may rightly do, with due regard to their political antecedents; and it is here that he will probably en- deavor to help forward such reorganization of political parties in the South as will | create in those States, gradually, two white parties, each seeking to attract to itself a portion of the colored vote, and both thus concerned to bring ont the negro voters on election day and to secure them the fullest measure of protection, The political divis- ions in most of the Southern States since | the war are unnatural, and were caused and | diately below that city the temperature rose very high, causing a steep thermal gradient between Philadelphia and Baltimore. The violent wind accompanying the storm at Washington, D. C., was due to this variation of temperature. At New York the weather was flecidedly cool, the change which we presi having taken place during the carly mo A series of areas of low pressure are now moving across the upper lake region, and exhibit constant variations during — their progress from; the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic, Some have passed as tar to the north as the fiftieth parallel, descending again to the forty-fifth when ocuring the ovean, Such a depression ie now moving eastward into the Atlantic from Nova Scotia. Rains have fallen in the Upper Mississippi Valley and in the Middle States. High winds prevail around the northwesrn storm centre. New York today will be slightly warmer, and partly cloudy or cloudy, possibly with ae The weather in | have been perpetuated only by the neces- | | sary opposition of the intelligent and prop- | erty-owning class to the misrule of the | carpet-baggers, protected by federal inter. | ference, In Louisiana less than five thou- sund white men voted the republican | ticket. In South Carolina the num- ber was not greater. In other States it was the saine, Substantially the whole | of the intelligence of thes« States was come | | bined on the democratic side, This could | ‘only continue while federal interference | | laste When federal troops are withdrawn, when Southern men of character and influ- ence in their communities hold offices, the white vote, no longer forced to | | combine against robbery, misrnle and op- pression, will divide. Only an extraneous ; force can hold ali the brains of a commun. nity on one side, federal » kt matters little, in the lone run. what in. dividual Southern men, so long gs they are persons of character and influence, the President may appoint to the Southern federal offices. It is not likely that under President Hayes federal office-holders will be allowed to take such a truculent and mischievous part in polities as under the last administration; but it is probably true that the whigs in the South, rather than the democrats, will be drawn to the republican side by the republican pol- icy; and when the white vote begins to divide, as it will, on policy and principle, the President can, without improper inter- ference, help the new formation of parties by his federal appointments. He can do this the better because, os he said the other day to a friend, he ‘thas no pet personal plans or projects.of his own to advance ;” he will not use the federal patronage to secure his own re-election or the nomination of o favorite ; he does not seek to create a Hayes party, and will not be tempted, therefore, to make appointments to serve personal ends, or for any consideration other than the public good. His selection of *South- ern men for Southern offices” wil! in that case help to break up the present and mis- chievous party lines in the Southern States. The Sait Lake Grand Jury. The United States Grand Jury which as- sembled at Salt Lake City yesterday is an exceptional body. It is composed only in part of Mormons, the majority of its members being persons not of that religious persuasion. The federal District Attorney will bring before it a considerable number of witnesses to testify concerning the Mountain Meadows massacre and other Utah murders, and the reports we have published show that the officers of justice believe they will be able to produce such evidence as will lead the Grand Jury to find indictments against several prominent Mormons. Our Sult Lake correspondent sends-us‘an important list, now for the first time made public, of Mormons charged by Lee with complicity in the massacre of the Arkansas emigrants. ‘The list is taken froma paper | in Lee’s own handwriting and was written out by him in his last days. Of the forty-six names in the list thirteen are marked “‘dead;” of the remainder some, perhaps the most, are fugitives. Our correspondent also gives a list of the children who were saved and suggests that the publication of their names may bring some of them forward as witnesses. But it is evident that the assas- sins took care to save only the very young children, Free Trade in Ships. We have received several communications protesting, with lively emphasis, against: any change in our navigation laws which would admit foreign built ships to the pro- tection of the American flag. One writer asserts that we already possess more vessels than can find employment, and that hun- dreds lie idle at our docks, Thisis perfectly true, but it does not sustain the argument sought to be founded upon it, that the pro- posed change in the navigation laws would merely incfease this burden of unemployed property. The writer overlooks an impor- tant distinction. Our shipping consists of two classes—that engaged in the coasting trade and that employed in foreign com- merce. Foreign ships are totally excluded, from our coasting trade, whereas the vessels ofall other nations are perfectly free to carry freights between this country and foreign ports. The American vessels which lie idle at the wharves belong principally to the class enrolled for the coasting trade. Their want of employment is due tothe stagnation of our domestic commerce which has existed since the panic of 1873. The advocates of free trade in ships have never contemplated the admission of foreign built vessels to the coasting trade of the United States. They are willing that American shipbuilders should continue to enjoy the monopoly they have always possessed of this great branch of our commerce, which, in prosperous times, gives employment to nearly as much tonnage as our whole foreign trade. But American shipbuilders are not benefited by the law which forbids American merchants to buy cheap ships for the foreign trade, because the foreign trade, unlike the coasting trade, can be conducted in foreign bottoms. The great and profita- ble lines of steamships which ply between this port and England, France and Ger- many, and monopolize the best part of the carrying trade, have reason to rejoice in our narrow and restrictive navigation laws, which exclude Americans from participation in this lucrative business, What difference does it make to American shipbuilders whether these great steamships are owned by Americans or foreigners? The profits of construction do not come to them now any more than they would if Ameri- can merchants were free to buy sneh ships in the cheapest markets. The profits of navigating ships are much greater than the profits of building them. Why should this country lose the profits of both branches of business? The loss of one is quite sufficient. The opponents of free trade in ships reason as if American ship- builders would be deprived of employment by a change in the navigation laws. This is absurd. Are they now building the great steamships which are the vehicles of our foreign trade? Certainly they are not; and what difference can it make to them whether these foreign built ships yield the large profits of navigation to American or to for- eign owners? Our commerce goes in for- eign built ships in spite of the navi- gation laws. A relaxation of those laws would bring a rich harvest to American shipowners and increase the wealth of the country without injury to American shipbuilders, They do not build the ocean steamships now, and might not build them then; but they would be no worse off than they are at present, and the country would save some part of the eighty or a hundred million dollars it now pays to | foreign shipowners for freights. This dif- ference of eighty millions in the balance of trade would facilitate specie payments by forestalling a drain of gold for freight charges to the owners of foreign ships. The Heratp does not advocate a radical change of our navigation laws. It is willing that the coasting trade should continue to be the monopoly that it has always been. ESDAY, MAY 22, .1877.—-TRIRLE SHEET. But the foreign trade stands on a different footing, It is now chiefly conducted) by foreign built and foreign owned ships, and we should lose a great deal less if it went in ships of American ownership, though built abroad. We should be quite content to have free trade in ships limited to steamships of say eight hundred or o thousand tons burden, at least until the value of that experiment had been tested. If, mean- while, it should be found that we can build such ships cheaper than we can buy them, the self-interest of owners may be relied upon to prevent their paying more for such property than it is worth, They will, of course, buy in the cheapest market, whether it be the home market or the foreign, and from the moment that American ships can be had at less cost no foreign ship will be purchased. Progress of the War. Evidently the Russians are making regu- lar progress in Armenia, One of the fea- tures of the campaign in those mountain lands is the Daily Telegraph reports which persistently ‘darken counsel with knowl- edge.” No sooner is it certain that the Rus- sians have captured some place than we get from London a transcript of the Daily Tele- graph despatches showing that the Russians have been shockingly beaten at that par- ticular point. This is due in some cases, perhaps, to the fact that that journal’s de- spatches started bofore those that give the result of the same operations ; but it is due oftener to the fact that the correspondent, as he is within the ‘Turkish lines, is imposed upon by Turkish reports and dare not forward other state- ments than such as he is informed by authority are “‘true”’—as that word is ofli- cially understood. Roumania, it will be seen, has declared her independence, and casts her fate gallantly into the scale against the Otto- man enemy. It has been darkly hinted hitherto that an event of this nature might lead to tomplications with Austria; but it may very likely turn out that Austria, fairly challenged by the progress of events, will prove herself ready to seize any pretext to maintain that attitude of masterly inactivity that is so satisfactory to her purse and so characteristic of the timidity of a nation all whose recent wars have been great blunders. The loss of a bridge on the Roumanian Railway will delay slightly the movement of the Russians into Western Wallachia, but this eannot greatly influence their strategic combinations in that direction. Egypt and Russia. Egypt's relation to the Ottoman Empire, and the interest that the commercial nations have in Egypt’s exemption from certain of the possibilities of war, make her position oue of peculiar concern at the present time, both in the capitals where the word Egypt means the Suez Canal as well as in those where it more strictly suggests defaulting payments on Egyptian bonds. With re- gard to both these aspects of Egypt's posi- tion the interview with the Khedive that | is reported in our cable despatches will be found instructive and in some de- gree reassuring. His Highness, it will be seen, declares to a Henatp correspondent | that his obligation to the Sultan will be dis- charged without any infringement of the rights of the holders of Egyptian securities. So much the better for the holders of his bonds, no doubt; but ns the Khedive has a division of his troops in the Sultan’s army, and as his son is there commanding them, he is, in fact, a party to the war, and war is commonly not a mere one-sided game. He is exposed, therefore, to the likelihood of such recognitions of his relation to the strug- gleas a bombardment ora blockade; and it is this likelihood, of course, that accounts for the array of British naval force in Egyp- tian waters that is chronicled in our de- spatch, Is that array anything more than a British menace—a mere ‘bluff”—the pre- tence on the part of John Bull that he would do something desperate in case Russia should attempt to punish the Khedive for sending troops to make war against her armies? There cannot be a doubt that, under any possible construction of international law as to the rights of bel- ligerents, Russia is fully justified in strik- ing at the Power that strikes at her; and ig the presence of the British fleet was in- tended to intimate that England would pre- vent the exercise of such a right, then the ease merely affords a new indication of how little England, with all her prate about hon- esty and virtue, cares for any right of any Power by comparison with her precious pocket. The Border Troubies, This Mexican business grows interesting. Our New Orleans correspondent reports that agents of ex-President Lerdo are re- cruiting there, and have fixed upon San Antonio as a rendezyous. Our Chicago cor- respondent reports that General Ord, who commands on the Texas border, is in con- suliation with Sheridan, and wishes per- mission to chase Mexican outlaws across the border and deal with them ‘ns the Sioux are treated in the North; by which he does not mean that when caught they shall be put on o reservation, clothed, ted and fattened for new expeditions—but the contrary. General Ord said to our corre spondent that it was necessary to deal with | these marauders directly, and that we might as well appeal to a Central African poten- tate to protect Stanley us to Diaz in the centre of Mexico to restrain bis border robbers. He is quite right about this; and if a Mexican army is to be concentrated at San Antonio, in General Ord's rear, he ought to have liberty at least to drive them over the border into the country they ere hired to reconquer. President Diaz ought to know that a good deal of American capital has within five or six years been invested in silver and other mines in the Northern Mexican States, The owners of these mines have the tantalizing belief that they could make handsome profits if the coun- try were not so lawless, It would be ,o stroke of genius in Diaz if he should ac- cept an assurance from President Hayes that no annexation projects would be fi- yored or permitted, and should then say to the American mine owners, ‘Come over and work your mines, and bring yourselves, not only agsinst Indians; ‘bat | against the predatory Mexican politicians. Oniy noannexation, no politics ; but get out all the silver you can.” Such a policy on his part would go far to settle the Mexican troubles and disarm. the filibusters, As for the border robbers, we do not believe the Mexican government, if it is wise, would find fault if General Ord followed them into Mexico and exterminated them, Certainly the honest people in Northern Mexico would think Ord their benefactor; for these wretches, with even-handed ‘injustice, rob both sides. Ex-President Grant in Eurepe. Some whimsical discussions have been raised respecting the etiquette which may be observed toward General Grant during his visit in Europe. General Grant is a mere private citizen of the United States— an unofficial person travelling for amuse- ment and recreation. He has no title to any other recognition than is accorded to an American gentleman. He will receive many social, but no official, attentions. Eminent official people will, no doubt, make a tender of pleasant: courtesies, but only such courtesies as might be offered to any foreigner of distinction. Ex-President Van Buren made ao visit to Europe in 1853 and ex-President Fill- more in 1855, and were treated merely as private gentlemen of social eminence in their own country. They received a less marked and effusive hospitality than had been bestowed on Mr, Webster during his visit to England in 1839, who was courted by the nobility on account of his great rep- utation for intellectual gifts. General Grant will probably receive more attention than was bestowed on Mr. Van Buren or Mr. Fill- more, because his great military career has madedim the most illustrious of our living citizens. His social success abroad will also be favored by the fact that he makes the visit so soon after-his retirement from office. He did uot wait, like My. Van Buren and Mr. Fillmore, until he had settled into the ob- scurity of ordinary private life. ‘The Ameri- can Ministers in the. chief European capitals are men whom he appointed, and they will be forward to exert their social influence to secure him a gratifying reception. But the attentions certain to be given him will be only tributes to his character as a man and his eminence as a citizen, and will not have the slightest tinge of official significance. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Colicumber vines are growing, Russians import French cooks. Biue china is still the rage in England. General Butler wears a buttonhole bouquet. The inns of Belgium supply the finest Burguady. Car) Wolisohn, of Caicugo, will summer in the East, Senator Christiancy’s son failed to “pass”? into the | Peusion Uflice. In some parts of Fiji you must be either @ miasion- ary ora canuibal. ’ A spoonful of vinegar should be put into the water in which fish is botled, Sir John Lubbock bas left the study of ants in order to be uncle to Gladstone, Tom Scott’s mission in this country is to supply his own private car to people. Before he gets through Garfield will be mad because he did not take the Senaterehip, When President Hayes was a boy and went to base- ball matobes he was always counted in. The trades’ anton feeling agatust women doctors is making a hard fight in the University of Londua. The Caliiornia peacher tried to show up the repub- Mean fathers—that i8, to mako a Pinney poppy show. Mr. Horatio Soymour, of Utica, aad Senator Theo- dore F, Randoiph, ot New Jersey, are at the New York Horel, Half the Episcopalians in England believe that bishops are useful or necessary because the State ap- points them. ‘The French sometimes when peeling onions put a lamp of bread on the point of the knife to prevent their eyes from being affected. Saysaschool authority:—“The best way to evoke truthiulness in boy: uniformly to believe then, even when appearances are against them.” Jublochkof, a Russian, bas invented a new candlo 80 powerful that six ure equal toa hundred gas burnere, Whether tor light or for the national dish we are not informed. A man witb a ragged edge to his collar no longer has to swear at that ragged edge, He wonders why the Gortwschakoi! Dombrowski will keop ap such an Ignatiet! of a molting for. Robert Buchapau:— “Thon hand in hand, against tho wind, * They fattered upward slow On stairs of crimson and of gold, Climbing the wondroas Bow.” A rocent writer says that the French poasant isa suepicious, prying iellow, who js always getting some- body into trouble; very much jike @ cortain class of Americans who live on their nerves and baunt of-colored subjects, Worcester Press:—“A writer in the Toledo Blade says that every man may spel! the names of Russian and Tarkish mea and \uiags just je base mind w. ‘This isarelief, Hi orth we shall acknowledge no superior in Russtan and Tarkish orthography.” ‘Turgot was the first man on the Continent who estab. lished a poor law giving the paupcrs work, uot asa right, but a6 an alma, while he so: the beggars in the province to prison, and ordained that no tenant should be turned out of his holding until the harvest bad veou reaped. Si. Loula Zune “When Ceacoa Richard Santth, of the Cincinnat: Gasetie, sits down to a desk to show the boys how to do it, this iw the style of joke he turns out:—'The first bateh-t-bazouxa that have figured in the present contest showed their fighting qualities Friday at Batoum,’”” Blaciwood:—"To play billiards as Dillards can be played requires the energy of a lite, Here and theroa man has the leisure and the intellect, and, 1 the ub- souce of a higher ambition, be devotes his life to elnel- date a game. We admire his iugenulty, but we do not think very muca of nis career,” Count Von Moltke says ‘What a city would Si Petersvurg have been Lud its wide streets extended ta Balakiava; had she Winter Pulace lookeu down upoa tha deep blue mirror of the Black Sea; bad the Isaac's Church stood upon the heights of the Malakoff, and had Atushia and Orianda been the Peterhot and Gat- sina of the naperial family!" Arich eostume is a dress of richest vort naissant poult do sole, trimmed with volants of fine Valeu- cleunes Jace and bunches of red roves and Jorn leaves; train Louis XVL. of richest brocade argeatée, wrought with red and different colored roses, lined with red poult de sore and trimmed with frills of Vatencionnes lace. Cotffure of diamonds, ostrich feathers, with red aigrette and lace veil; ornaments, diamonds, Buckmaster makes jul soup by first ‘passing’? onions and leeks, with a ploce of butter, ‘over’ the fire, Theo ig another vessel small, thin ploces of carrots, turnips, celery, caubage, lettuce, sorrol and chorvi) are put into boiling water to rest fo fe min usos, after which they are strained. Then putting both portions into # copper saucepan, with a bit of sugar and butter, they ure simmered in a little bouliion or Stock for two hours, when hot bouillon is added and the soup 18 served, Saturday Heviet xporienco of life bas shown that in life novols, 60 to speak, do uot develop them- selves, A romance begins iu a man's or a wowan’s history, and goes as far ag the middie of the secoud voiume, when facts get in the way and beri. Life in this respect is really like @ droam; for pifairs movo it an interesting and exciting manner go far, and then a slight unnoticed diversion stops th® movement and sends it j0 another direction, to no catastrophe, to no dénouement, but ouly fursbor inte the dainess and with you men enough to protect caltti of commonplace.’ THE WAR Repulse of the Russians at Kara. TURKEY BURNING RUSSLAN PORTS, Boumania Declares Herself an Independent Power, THE CZAR’S PLAN OF ATTACK. Interview of a Herald Correspondent with the Khedive. HOW ARDAHAN WAS TAKEN, {BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, May 22, 1877, An unconfirmed despatch from Erzeroum am nounces thaton Friday last the Russians attacked the outer line at Kars with determination, having preceded their attempt by a heavy, but ill directed, cannonade from the siege artillery, The powerful guns inthe Turkish batteries replied with better effect, ‘The duel was vigorously maintained until the Russians brought up columns of infantry as ‘close as «they dared to the fortifications, apparently purposing it possible to take the place by storm. The Ottoman Commander, observing this, drew together a large body of troops beluad the ramparts and launched a tremendous sortie upon the Russian flank and rear, under the shock of which the enemy were obliged, i to retreat into a disadvantageous position. A bloody engagement followed at close quarters, and at its termination the Russians were obliged to retreat beaten, leaving upon the fleld 300 corpses and a large number of wounded, There was a slight encounter, meantime, between the cavalry, without any special result. THE AGGRESSIVE WARFARE OP TURKEY. , The Grand Duke Michael telegraphs to St. Petera+ burg from Tiflis, May 20, as follows:—“Along the entire coast, from Cape Adler to Cape Ptchentchyr, ‘Turkish men-of-war are bombarding aud burning undefended and peaceful settlements, and landing 2 Circassian emigrants at various points, who seek to excite the Abchasians to retellion. Troops have been despatched to suppress any rising.” It will be remembered that this aggressive policy of Ture key was outlined several days ago. A complete confirmation of the HEnaLp’s special from Constan. Unopie at that time is therefore found above, , ROUMANIAN INDEPENDENCE, The Russians are making @ decided movement below the river Aloota. The HERALD’s Bucharest correspondent telegraphed last night that the high waters on the river Aloota had carried away the bridge on the road leading to Krajova.’ Ten cars and the locomotive have been engulphed. The Roumanian Chambers, now in session, have ananls mously prociaimed the independence of the country and declared war against Turkey, but directed thas Roumania should remain on the defensive. A Bue charest correspondent announces that he has had an interview with the Prince of Roumania, who stated his belief tnat no arriére pensée of annexa tion is entertained by Russia, ‘The Senate has unauimously voted the independ- ot Roumanta, THE RUSSIAN PLAN IN EUROPE, The HERALD's correspondent at Rustchuk tele graphs under date of the 19th as follows:—“There is good authority for saying that the Russian plan is to awalt a complete development of the invasion of the Asiatic frontier, which everything, so far as learned, indicates wil! be vigorously pressed, Rus sla, having her hands freer there than on the Dan- ube, can move more rapidly. Meanwhile, the Euros pean invading turce will efideavor to tire out the Turks by worrying and harassing them with fre- quent feints along the river. The Turkish Danus bian fortresses, especially the quadralateral formed by Rustchuk, Siiestria, Shumla and Varna, are in admirable condition of defence, amply provisioned and stronger now than ever before. The Turkish plan is a strictly defensive one, awaiting the onslanght at Rustchuck, There have notbeen any active hostilities here yet, butthe river landing stages have been cleared, and barges, having uploaded immense quantities of grain, have been removed to a place of safety. Only an occa sional tug, hugging the southern shore, breaks the smooth surface of the Danube. A gunboat recently Jaunched here has received her armament, and, it is stated, ls about proceeding in search of a mys terious Roumanian steamer. The Wallachia earthworks have not offered any opposition, but remain silent, Itis believed that the Turkish mill- tary authorities have instructions not to open fire firet.” Eight thousand Russians belonging to twelve di- visions march toward Krajova to-morrow. They will be succeeded by thirty-three divisions, which are already waiting at the next stage In the rear, A railway bridge over the Aluta, near Slatina, fell today. A train of ten wagons carrying ammu- nition to Little Wallachia was engulphed with tte attendants, Five passengers were drowned. Within the ast forty-eight hours rumors of peace— which, however, are not traceable to uny source— have been circulated among the Russian officers The Czar wili start for the Danube on the 2d of June. He will be absent about three weeks, The Turks are concentrating large masses 0) troops at Turtukai and Sistova expecting the Rus sians to make a power/al attempt to cross the Dam ube within the next few days. THS KHEDIVE RECOMMENDS MIs BONDS. The HERALD'S correspondent at Cairo telegraphs, under date of May »).--I had an audience with the Khedive on yesterday. ‘1 stated to His Highness that the HERALD would be glad topuplish any state- ment which he might be pleased to make concerne ing the attitude of Egypt during the war. Tue Khedive received me very graciously, and replicd that he felt less restraint in speaging to the corre- spondent of an American journal, becaase America had no interest m the success of either party to the fight. Concerning Egypt he said that the rights of Egyptian creditors woald be most strictly guarded. -No funds ‘whatever which are now sp- Pited tothe paymentof the pabite debt or-debta of the Daira would in any case be diverted to other Purposes, His Highness stated that among certala ortions of bia subjects the most tense war feeling