The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1877, Page 6

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TIVOLI THEATRE TRIPLE eee v NEW YORK, THURSDAY, HE MAY 24, eer : NOTICE TO VOUNTRY pany ran a ia Railrond wn From our reports this marni are ‘thal the weather in New York toctay will be touler and generally clear, exeept during the early morning, when light rain may fail. the probubilities ERDAY.~-The stock mar ‘ * and was generally weaker. The report of the entting of passer rates be- tween Chicago and New York sent New York Central down, and the rest of the list was not strong enough to resist the weakening effect of this report. Gold opened and closed at 10678, selling in the meantime at 107. Governments were quiet and firm, and railroad bonds strong | and higher. Money on call lent at 119 a 2 per | cent, New York is to be blessed with half a dozen free baths on the Ist of June. This is good, but n dozen would be better, and still leave room for improvement. was witnessed tim of the mys- His A Terr.y Dramatic at the burial of Gunser, the terious assassination at East Williamsburg. wife at the grave frant man to reveal his murder men tell no tales. Tur Spring MErrix Club has proved thoroughly snece ‘4 day the Pimlico Course was Mironged with the heauty and fashion of the St: The events ‘vere well contested, and general satisfaction was expressed by the patrons of the turf. vy begged the dead But dead 's name. of the } Tue Ciry or Brusse1s.—The disabled ship has been again signalled by the steamer Ohio, and reported all well. We append to the de- Spatch announcing this pleasing intelligence an | explanatory statement of the weather conditions | attending the voyage of the City of Brussels after | the 15th inst. from data collected by the Hrratp | weather service regarding recent movements of | the atinosphere on the North Atlantic. There is | now no doubt that the long-looked-for arrival of | the City of Brussels will be reported by Friday | or Saturday at farthest, and an end put to the anxieties of the friends of the voyagers. Swit Mink Mr. Bergh is to be congratu- lated on his efforts to put an end to the infamous | trafic in swill milk, to which the Heracp | some time ago called attention. In sup- | pressing this death-dealiug — traffie = Mr. | Bergh will render a—really —_impor- tant service to the community. He can | @epend on the support of the public and the | press in his operations ust the dis. | honest dairymen whose nefarious traffic is so fatal to infant life in this metropolis. If the | law as it exists at present is not sufficiently stringent amendments must be made ; but much can be done under existing laws to abate the | traffic in swill milk, aud we trust to the fearless | Mr. Bergh in the cause of humanity to | guilty person is punished to the | full extent of the lay en killed at ing of the steamship Saratoga at Chester fails to clear up the question as to whether or not sutlicient warning was given to the men to enable them to escape. On this | point the evidence is ve the laune! ‘y contradictory, some | alleging that fifteen minutes elapsed from the | time the word was given to get from under to | the slipping of the ship into the water. Others | state that a minute and « half at most elapsed between the order to cut awny the stays and the moving of the ship off the stocks. The truth of the matte that the men who should movement of the ship per ns to be ched the tirst ned their task care- lessly, and that when it was discovered that the ‘ship had moved it was too late te more than was done. Any hesitation about cutting the ye might have led to still greater loss of life. Tue Wearner.--The barometer ia rising steadily in the Northwest and West as the area of high pressure extends southward from Mani- toba toward the Gull. Duri ly morning, the period of lowest temperature, extended to the Gnif const, hut reeeded the day advanced, pressure is low, this are On the Atlantic coast the but grudually rising. The | ventre of the low area has already phed | Nova Scotian coastwise, and is leaving the | continent. Light rains fell on the Middle | Atlantic seaboard in the lower Jake region | during yesterday. The winds have continue brisk to high in the lake region and on the ec being geverally from the northward, except in the Northwest, where they ave southeasterly nnd easterly, blowing toward a depres gion advancing through British Colum. | bia. The isotherm of 70 degrees, which | was during the morning south of Tounessee, ad- | yaneed during the day to the Ohio and Lower Missouri Valley, embracing the lower Middle States. Another heat area has descended irom the Northwest, where a very high temperature prevails in comparison with more southerly ‘points, The progress of this heat area will be noted with interest, as it is likely to canse vi \aengiana’s Attitude “and Resources. | they, cotse tn its way—partic happens to know they are going in another | commander. ‘ to-day | tirely isolated now, for the flying Turkish | |,of the Danube, | ens virtually pledges itself before the world | saying this | plained that really the likelihood of these | | specified. | Constantinople, therefore, the position just | taken by England is clear. | other important routes to India it is less | course | will make any naval demonstrations in the | | Consequently the declaration well nigh j would thus lose twenty millions out of his Jent Jocal storms in the Upper Mississippi Valle. The weather in New York to-day will he gen- erally elear, except in the morning, and cooler | than it was yesterday. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDA In what contingency is England likely to | become a party to the war inthe East? Is | there any event the occurrence of whieh} will inevitably be followed by an English | declaration of war or by the certainty that England will maintain the attitude of a more or less discontented yet peaceful spectator? England at present exercises on the councils of the belligerents such an in- fluence as follows from a standing menace toward one and a hope never desperate held ont toward the other, She is | so far from being an absolute neutral that if the Sultan did not count upon her he would make peace to-morrow; and if the Emperor of Russia did not know that he must count with her he would put two hundred thousand more men in the valley Her threat that in a certain contingency she will interfere compeis Russia to hold herself in readiness in other quarters to that extent, and induces the Sultan to venture a mad struggle on the chance that a happy accident may make England a party to the conflict ere he is quite brayed in the mortarofwar. Todelade | an ally to his ruin by false hopes will not rest on the British conscience ; but the ethics of a threatening attitude are as clear for nations as for individuals, There isa re- sponsibility to the common opinion of man- kind involved in it ; for the Power that threat- to act in a given way on the occurrence of a specified fact, and if it fails it is set down asa vain and noisy bully. Is it possible to draw precisely at the present time tho line at which England must redeem her pledge, or beyond which her threat must be re- garded as only a part of the posturing and attitudinizing by which her government has sought to frighten Russia from the pursuit of its policy ? In the debate on Mr. Gladstone's resolu- | tions the gentleman who was put up to respond on the part of the Minis- try to the onslaught of the great lib- yal orator endeavoered to emphasize by iteration the declaration that England wished the war had not oceurred and wished it was well over, and had no concern in it, and did not wish or intend to fight Russia, but could not but recognize that there interests which she must they were menaced. In much even the spokesman for the Ministry was apparently almost frightened at what he had said, and ex- were certain defend if interests being menaced was so remote that it was hardly worth while for England to say what she would do in such a contin- gency. The interests thus referred to were They are the Snez Canal, Egypt, the Dardanelles and Constantinople. There was also a vagne reference to ‘“‘Batoum and other places,” as if it were in the Ministe- rial programme to hint that Russia must not be over successful in any nefghborhood that was in the direc- tion of India, and as if a sudden report of Russian snecesses near Kars had made it injudicions to put out just then a hint so little likely to be respected by the Russians. As to Egypt, the Suez Canal and | As to Russian successes gained in countries that command clear, but there is in the British official mind a conception that England should not regard such successes with indifference, and this conception may show itself in acts if the circumstances are favorable at the time. England may fight if Russia is suddenly snecessful in Armenia, She must fight if Egypt, the eanal or Constantinople is in danger. Perhaps this is tolerably safe ground for | the British Ministry to take. It is vagne on the one point as to which Russia's action is certain to be precisely what England must object to if she expresses any opinion at all ; and the declaration of England becomes | distinct and sharp precisely in proportion as it approaches those points on which Russia’s is uncertain, as to which Russia either has no policy or her policy is not known, Here it seems safe to vapor and bluster, and the British Ministry does it. To threaten war in case the Rus- sian armies should rapidly succeed in any quarter would make it necessary to fight or apologize early, because the Russian armies are very likely to gain substantial triumphs in a short, time in Armenia, Hence it was unsafe to be tempted, even for the sake of the Euphrates Valley,'into words that might have to be swallowed before mid- summer. But the probability that Russia Mediterranean is, so slight that there can be few things safer than for Eng- land to commit herself to a declar- ation based on that remote probability. positive that England will defend the Suez Canal and Egypt and the Dardanelles—-wil! defend, in fact, what it does not yet appear | that any one is likely to menace. Indeed, Russia is so little prepared to make any demonstration with regard to Egypt that the story which represents her as disposed to make a convention with England in re- | ard to tbat country is very probably true, his report is practically to the effect that England is to buy Egypt from the Snitan with the consent of Russia, the price to be a capitalization of the Egyptian tribute, If England should thus become the sazerain of Egypt she would do more to dismember the Ottoman Empire than has been done by all otbers together ;' for, with Egypt taken, the other Mediterranean dependencies would fall away of themselves, and the Padishah forty millions of subjects, This is no doubt the easiest way in which England can take care of her interests in the Suez Canal and in Egypt, for she is able to pay though she | thousand soldiers that England can send from home would be a mere drop in the bucket, and she can- | talk openly of taking the matter into their | direction, The statement we give of England’s resources, and of her com- parative incapacity to take any effective part in the war against Russia exhibits fully that this policy is enforeed by the facts of | her position, Any declaration made by | England of a purpose to interfere with the operations of Russian armies would be idle and even laughable. With wars conducted on such a scale as is now seen on the Danube and in Armenia the twenty-five or thirty not move her armies from India for the simple reason that her tenure of that | country is such that it will cease to be hers | if she does not continue to hold it with all | the force she has in it. She has a fleet, and | Bassia will not put herself in a way to come in collision with it just at present ; so that England, perhaps, will be able to play to the end the safe rile of bullying everybody and not firing a shot, and gathering up care- fully, when peace is made, such crumbs of plundey as are within her reach. in the Sound—A Threat- ened Pestilence. On behalf of the residents of the towns and villages lying slong the Sound we again protest against the outrage perpetrated by the bureau for the removal of garbage | from the streets of New York. Instead of towing the garbage scows far out into the Sound, where it is wide and deep, the men | in charge of them dump their horrible car- | goes by night in shallow water, in the vi- cinity of Whitestone, Throgg’s Neck, the | Stepping Stones, City Island, Sinds Point and other places, in direct violation of law. The scows carry on the average two hun- dred and fifty tons each, and as from ten to fifteen or more of them are emptied every night the amount of garbage dumped into the Sound every week reaches the startling figures of more than twenty- five thousand tons. All this filth, instead | of being wasbed out to sea, is cast ashore by | the tide; the carcasses of dogs, cats and | other animals and fragments of infected bedding and clothing lie rotting for miles along the beach, polluting the air and threatening pestilence. Many families who own summer residences along these shores will be driven from them if this outrage is permitted to continue. Nor is this all. The dumping of so vast an amount of poisonous garbage into the shallow water at the entrance of the Sound | is rapidly destroying the rich oyster beds of City [sland and other localities and ex- | terminating the fish. Immense mischief has already been done in this respect, and if the garbage outrage continues unchecked during the summer the injury to these im- portant interests will be irreparable. The shores on both sides of the Sound and of the inlets and bays are dotted with pretty, thriving villages, built up | by honest, intelligent and hard work- ing fishermen, whose industry is thus threatened with annihilation, A plague stench rises over the shores of Little Neck | Lay, Cow Bay, Hempstead Harbor, East | Chester Bay and City Island, and makes them unendurable for human habitation, | The atmosphere is at times worse than that | of acharnel house. We invite pestilence in | permittifig this outrage upon the rights of | our fellow citizens. The danger from this | source is imminent and alarming; and from selfish, if not from higher and more gener- ous motives, prompt measures should be | taken by our sanitary officers to put an end | to an abominable outrage which deprives | thousands of worthy people of the means of | Garbage | livelihood and threatens the metropolis with | The fishermen of City Island | pestilence, | own hands. If our authorities do not move | promptly. we may hear of a fight between | the outraged fishermen and the garbage men resulting, perhaps, in deplorable loss of life. There is still another evil connected with this outrage. We learn, on the testimony of two intelligent and trustworthy pilots, which they are willing to give under oath, that within the past six months the depth of the channel opposite the Stepping Stones has decreased from nine fathoms ‘to five, Will our merchants sit quietly by while the gateway of this great highway of commerce is thus choked and closed? Why expend hundreds of thousands of dollars in deepen- ing Hell Gate if the Street Cleaning Bureau is permitted to create a more effectual ob- struction at the very throat of the Sound? In a few years, if this goes on, millions may be required to dredge out the channel, and | then we shall wonder at the folly, supine- ness and imbecility that made the expendi- ture a necessity. War News. The dearth of stirring news from the before the storm that must soon break in | thunderous uproar from many points along the Danube Valley as well asin Asia Minor. The secrecy with which the Russian move- | ments are surrounded gives little chance to speculate with any approach to accuracy. Great movements are so often made only as a mask for greater that the massing of large bodies of troops in Western Rou- mania must not be regarded as a reliable indication that the grand advance is to take place from that region. It is certain, however, that the coming week will witness | great events and will supply important material for history. The Turkish fleet continues its incendiary industry along the eastern shores of the Black Sea, and also menaces the south coast of Russia. But we notice that a Russian threat to the Bey of Tunis, which may be exeented by the Czar'’s fleet, is agitating the Sultan’s vassal in Africa. The departure of the Sultan to cannot fight; but before this bargain is completed some other governments in Europe will want practical guarantees for the neutrality of the canal. England's policy, therefore, as disclosed by the statement in the House of Commons, is that of weakness—the policy of a Power which feels that it has not the strength to enforce its will, but is painfully solicitous lost this helplessness shall be noticed by others, and therefore boisterously declares | how terribly it will deal with its enemies if | tle take the command of the Army of the | Danube in prosecuting the holy war | has been decided on. In Asia Minor | Batoum has been invested by the Russians, Y, MAY rly as it, Souganlu position, now oceupied by that | pects to shield her husband. | in.a blaze. | finer spectacle without going | and, according to our latest despatches, a session of the town. sanguinary battle is in progress for the pos- | The Cossacks scour ® Pe’ ‘the country on Monhktar Pacha’s right; | | completely: getting him off from any sup- | ports from the south, and everything points to the bility of a desperate bat- in frant And an both flanka af the Kars may be said to be en- garrison from Ardahan could not seek refuge within. its fortifications. In the meantime fanatical rage rules the disens- | sions of the Turkish Parliament. The Mormons Once More. Our Salt Lake correspondent sends us some curions documents, signed by Brig- ham Young, showing his defiant spirit toward the United States, and also the very great powers he possessed in former days. The letter in which he notifies John D. Lee, in 1858, that the President has condoned the offences of the Mormons, exhibits the spirit of the leaders at Salt Lake in those days:-—‘‘He pardons you because he can’t kill you without its costing him too much,” writes Brigham; ‘‘but he caiculates to spit on his hands and begin again. We must save our provisions and get ready.” When General Sidney Johnston's army approached Utah Young declared martial law and forbade the passage of any person through the Ter- ritory without a. passport froin Mormon authorities, and specimens ot these passes are sent by onr correspondent. The un- fortunate Arkansas emigrants, to quote the words.of John D. Lee after his condemna- tion, had not the right sort of pass. Link after link of the chain of evidence which will criminate the leading Mormons seems to be riveting. Evidence already in the District Attorney's hands fixes guilt on Colonel Dame and Haight. But it seems that Mrs. Haight professes to have a paper in her possession with which she ex- Colonel Dame has also expressed himself con- fident of being able to show by whose authority he ordered the massacre. That is to say, Lee’s execution has shown other Mormons that Brigham Young and the prophets may in the end try to sacrifice them, and they do not mean to die as Lee did. On the whole the Mormon business never was so interesting as now. Menan- time the correspondents of other journals begin slowly, but completely, to confirm the reports of our own correspondent, ‘If Brigham Young were to-be put on trial, say for murder, either as principal or accessory, be convicted and sentenced to the Peniten- | tiary for a long term, or to execution, there | would be great danger, I think, of an out- break ; only in view of such a contingency | is there any need of additional troops in | Utah ;” so writes one of the correspondents, and justifies thus the request for more troops made by Governor Emory. Fourth of July Fireworks. The anniversary of American indepen- dence is always a day of peril to our large cities, and is looked forward to with unea- siness by the insurance companies, which will have to make up the losses occasioned | by an indiscriminate scattering of burning combustibles in all our streets and avenues, The danger is multiplied by the growing | custom of entertaining the-children of sep- arate households by evening displays of pri- vate fireworks. This custom ought to be dispensed with, except in the country, where there is ample space for setting off these explosives and combustibles in the grounds and lawns at a safe distance from buildings. It might seem harsh and ungracious for the city authorities to | forbid it; but they ought not to wait until a | tefrible conflagration, kindled by this dan- | gerous practice, enforces the necessity. Fire is the great enemy of property in large towns, and no regulations can be too strict | for guarding against losses from this source. | If the two or three weeks preceding the ! Fourth of July should happen to bea season | of drought, converting the dry woodwork of structures into tinder, thirty or forty | thousand separate sources of ignition flying | through the air wnd liable to strike window | ' frames or light upon roots, would be a cause | of more peril than the celebration is worth. We are not so churlish as to advise a sup- pression of fireworks on the Fourth of July, but we would not leave it to the discretion of every careless individual in a city of a million inhabitants to do things which might set dwellings and even whole blocks if private fireworks were dis- pensed with and citizens of each ward or smaller district would subscribe the sums they spend for such purposes to a fund for | a display in their own neighborhoods, the children might be entertained witha mnch far from their own doorsteps, and without being jostled and jammed in the disor- derly érowds which attend the great pyro- technic exhibitions given at the expense of the city in the public squares. It is very proper that the young people should be amused, and no discreet parent wishes to take them into a noisy crowd where they cun see nothing unless lifted up on the shoulders of grown persons, and are exposed to listen to a great deal of rude language. seats of war in the East suggests the calm | But the plan we recommend would exempt them from this inconvenience and yet give them a far more brilliant spectacle than is | afforded by the ordinary private fireworks, The combustibles conld be put in charge of discreet and careful men, who would man- age them with perfect safety to property. An Bil. A simple inspection of the election figures makes it evident that the democrats of this State are not fairly represented in the Legis- lature, Governor Robinson was chosen last November by a majority of more than thirty thonsand, and yet the Legislature chosen in the same election by the same voters con- sists of nineteen republicans against thir- teen democrats in the Senate, and seventy Infamous Apportionment republicans against fifty-eight democrats in | the Assembly. With a perfectly fair ap- portionment the political party which elected the Governor by a handsome majority wonld also elect a majority ot the Legislature. It must be ad- mitted, however, that even with o fair apportionment this could not take place in every election, because the State is reappor- tioned in accordance with population only t intervals of ten years, and within so long riod great changes take place in a Com- monwealth where the growth of cities is so rapid and the population of the rural dis- tricts remains nearly stationary. But this | discrepancy between party strength on the State ticket and party strength in the Legis- | their constitutional representation in the lature ought not to have been so great in the election of last yeav, becanse it was the next year after a State census, But the Legisla- ture of 1876 failed to make the new appor- tionment which the constitution commands at the first session following a State census, and the consequence was that the democrats | were cheated out of the Legislature although fairly entitled to it, The duty of reapportioning the State, which was neglected by the last Legisla- ture, has been postponed by this until the closing days of the session, and a bill was passed yesterday by the Assembly which is so brazenly dishonest that even republi- cans who have any sense of decency ought to denounce it. It is what is culled the Hogeboom bill, and was carried through the Assembly yesterday by the unsernpu- lous parliamentary tacties of Mr. Alvord, the republican leader in that body. A tolerably fair apportionment bill, of which Mr. Woodin is the author, had already passed the Senate, and it seems probable now that a disagreement between the two houses will prevent the passage of any Dill at this session, In a narrow par- | ‘tisan view nothing could serve the interests of the republican party better, because a further postponement of action on the census of 1875 would deprive the democrats of any increase of representation in the next Legislature ; whereas Senator Woodin’s bill, and even the Hogeboom-Alvord bill, would give them some gains. The infamous Hoge- boom bill was not passed by the Assembly with any expectation that it can become a law-—tor if accepted by the Senate the Gov- ernor would certainly veto it--but with a simple view to put off the reapportionment for another year in defiance of the constitu- tion, wich the hope of another unfair republican majority in the next Legis- lature. ‘This maneuvre is as bad in tactics os it is disgraceful in morals. If the dishonest Hogeboom Dill passes or the apportionment fails Governor Robin- son will call an extra session, ‘True, it will be a session of the same parti- san Legislature which has so grossly abused | its trust, but it will enable the Governor to make an appeal to the moral sense of the people which will deprive the republican | party of more strength than it can expect to gain by its unscrupulous violation of a plain constitutional duty. The fact that New York and Brooklyn are democratic cities is no reason why they should be deprived of Legislature. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Essipoff nas gone. Grins are cut broader, Ben Hill is a good shot. Greece burns tu be snuffed. Justice Bradley is in Florida. Hugging lovers are pressed veal Gaily Hamilton touched her guitar. Sum Bowies is registered In Chicago. The Duchess of Edinburgh is at Coburg. The apron and cofslet are out of fashion. Charley Ross is trying to find P. T. Baraam. Georgia farmers are shearing a good wool crop, Tne Indian crop in the West is nearly batched. ‘The newest style of dress in Paris is called the eel- skin, Orange county, New York, is troubled with mad dogs, Ex-Empress Eugénie will reach Madrid in a few | days. Hydrophobia has reached Buffalo, and Eli Perkins is | tn Cahfornia, Rochefort’s daughter Noéwie will marry Dufaux, a Genovese painter. The Spanish are so unchangeable that they will not | become good cooks. General Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, {3 at the Fith Avenue. Phil Sheridan beard it was twins, and exclaimed, “The deuce you say.” The Roumanians are handsome and well dressed, | conclude a | the |The Sultan Preparing to Unfurl the Standard of the Prophet. - ——+-——— A BATTLE IN PROGRESS AT BATOUM Concentrating for a Decisive Strug- gle at Bardess, THE MAGYARS CLAMCRCUS FOR WAR. ea ctencicasinrigeenentacrt Roumania and Servia Making Ready for the Straggle. A TRIPLE ALLIANCE, _——— Rumored Understanding Between Russia, Germany and Italy. {BX CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonpon, May 24, 1877 ‘There is little news of active operations at the seat of war in the Kast this morning, and we are awaiting with almost breathless auxiety the frat news of the Russlan army attempting the passage of the Danube. ‘The reports of the extensive pre- parations for that event which have been pab- lushed recently have directed public attention to the subject, andthe absence of decisive news tends to deepen the anxiety as to the result. But while the preparations for an active proseca- tion of the War are being pushed with all possible vigor Russia, as 1 assured of victory, begihs to bint at the conditions on which she is- prepared to peace. A Berl despatch hae folowing:——1t is pretty universally be- lieved at St. Petersburg that the Russian gov- ernment would not object to Constantinople and the Suez Canal being placed under the protection of England provided Russia is allowed to protect Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro an¢ annex the village of Erzeroum.’? SECRECY OF THE RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS, ‘The Russian movements are conducted with the ut most secrecy, and probably the first reliable ni shall receive from that quarter will be an account ofa sudden wovement ip great force across the river, fol. lowed by a great and decisive battle fought on the Bul- gurian side, A buobarest correspondent says:—‘‘De- tailed statements of the movements.of the Rassiana are forbidden, but even without this restriction the | movements are so silently conducted that it would be exceedingly difficult to report them.” A cofrespondént‘at Vienna thinks the disposition-of the Russian forces leads to the inference that they vo not mean to attempt to cross the Danube between Silistria and Rustchuk. 4 HOLY Wak. A Vienna despatch says the Shoik-ul-Islam proclaim. | ing a holy war against Russia and the almost simul- {aneous announcement irom Constantinople that the | departure of the Sultan for the Danube has’ veen a@ cided upon would seem to show that, the advice o! | those who allalong looked upon ‘the present straggle | as one of existence for the Ottoman Empire las gained | the ascendancy in the councils of the Porte. ‘THE WAR IN ASIA. From Constantinople it is reported that thé com mander of the Ardahan garrison will be court: mar. tialled. Tho Turkish official account of the taking 01 Ardahan admits the loss of 300 killed and wounded, ‘but not especially brave. General Joe Johnston thinks that in America volan- teers are superior to regular soldiers, A Magaachusetts four-year-old boy wished he was an gel, so that his legs would not get tired. | na e her husband 10 bis illness {rom typhoid fever. Senator George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, was in | the city yesterday, on his way home from Washington, | Secretary Evarts struck a Russian sontence yester- | | day on which he Js still chewing. He-saya it is auds to him, If you go fishing be prudent enough to take your own bait with you. There may be no taverns on the | road. Professor BE, S, Morse, of Salem, Mass,, will sail for Japan, where he will study natural history for several | months. | Major General John H, Leiroy; of England, returned | tothe city trom Washington yesterday and is at the Brevoort. Since the war began country journalists try to show | their knowledge by gotug into a store and asking fora vitchski sour. i Rochester Democrai:—‘' Give the devil his due,’ says the Chicago. Times, All right, Mr. Storey; make out your little bill” | A young English iady at a party wore a plain pink | | | like a statue in ice cream, Le Messager Franco-Americain, a journal which has long been a necessity to-a large number ot French cit- izens, has reduced its price to three cents. | genius of a community which lives and moves and has ‘ts being in an atmosphere of discounts and per- centages," At the Pope’s reception on the Ist of Mey two girls | appeared to be much fatigued by carrying huge and seemingly heavy bouquets of liles of the valley. of the display of fatigue was explained, as large puck- ages of gold coine fell out of the bouquets. ) Cincinnat: Dnquirer:—~Garfield’s sacrifice was made | in-vain, He lost the Senatorsmip which he possibly might bave had, listening to the promise of the Spenk- ership, Which he can’t get, and which the man who promised jt had not to give, It was the old story of Satan standing on the mountain top and offering his companion ali the real estate ju sight wheu the devil didn’t own @ foot of 1” The British Querteriy is severe upon Dr, A. Maban, War,” and who says that if tis advice had been taken at the beginaing of the war it would have soon been ended, and that it Was Unished only when bis sehome was adopted by the federal anthorities Dr. Maban calls “Sherman's March’ @ giganve military blunder, Beening Telegram :—“lt seems to be consiacred a | necessity in Boston for the respectabie young roway, of whom the disorderly college student is a type, to be | farnisted by society with a safety valve for his exuberant spirits. rior virtue to New York we are in no danger of losing sight so long as Judge Hoar ives, the tree love con- ventions take the place in this respeet which In old times the conventions of the Garrisonian abolitionists used to Oli, The reports of the invasion of one of these ussembiages last wight by a party of twenty young evapgelists trom Hurvard College are very lively. They wade addresses in oppusition to the male speak. ers, and they sidled up to the remale participants and fondled them against the protest of the officers of the meeting. ‘I'vey also put questions of an indecent char- | acter to the chairman, It ts difficult to decide, on the face of the report, whether tne free lovers or these well connected young men made the more disrepata- ble appearanco, So much is sure, that ifthis is @ | specimen of the discipline of Harvard Colloge no care- fol narant enonit wish to educake @ gon. thera!” s, Valentine Baker has hastened to Turxey to | dress so tight that whea she sat down she appeared | Richmond Whig:—*‘The carnival ts not suited to the | After the reading of an address to the Pope the cause | who writes & “Critical History of the Late American In that moral city, of whose supe | | Horses belonging to all civil and military function« | aries have been requisitioned for the army. A de- spateb from Pera says a portion of the Ardahan garri- son took the road to Ardanutach, baving cut its way | through the Russian columa which endeavored to inter- ceptit. a Vienna despatch says, Achascuen, to which the remnant of the Ardahan garrison retreated, ison the road toward Olti and Erzeroum, Retreat on Kars waa already cut off by the Russians, who blocked *he road at Pavisew, A telegram from Erzeroum says the Rus- sian left wing has advanced from Ipeck to within two hours’ march of Kara-Kilisa, while an Ottoman de- tachment nolds position at Toprak-Kaleh.’ Two ‘regi- ments of Cossacks are scouring the country arousd the Penek villages within seven hours’ march ot Mukbtat Pacha’s camp for provisions: for the Rassian right wing. The Russians aré said to have closed in upon the Tear 01 Batoum, which is once mofe seriously threats | ened. r | The'combined forces of the Russians Are marching against Mukbtar Pacha’s positions at Olt: ana Bardos, but Mukhtar expects to be able to hold bis ground. A BATTLE COMMENCED AT BATOUM. Adespatch from Batoum says there was a tremen- dous cannonade to-day from the Russians, <A battle has just commenced. Firing 1s becoming general | along the entire line, The Turkish batterios are replying vigorously. The utmost enthusiasm pre- | vaile the Ottoman troops. The Bashi- Bazouks are preparing for action. Fverything | indicates a desperate effort on the part of the onemy. 11 is stated the Russian force assigned to the assault | of Batoum has been strengthened by 20,000 men, who have just arrived from Ardahau. It is reported that the Grand Duke Michael commands the attack in person, The Tarks are sanguine, A despatch from Erzeroum, dated Tuesday night, says the Rus- sians are moving rapitiy, forward in the direction of the Turkish left. ‘ : | SERVIA PREPARING FOR ACTION, among A correspondent at Belgrade reports that the gov ernment has ordered the formation of twolve new battalions of artillery. Ali the reserves of the seden- summoned to. assemble, and ail | tary army are troops have been ordered to present themselves May 20 {fully armed, Prince Milan go Bucharest until after the next meeting of the Skuptschina. It is believed at on or belore will pot to siantinople that the Russians have arranged tora passage through Servian territory. ‘The Servian police yesterday removed placards on the walls ia Belgrade ; threatening Prince Milan’s expulsion unless he renews ‘he war. The general opinion in Vieana ts be will do 80 when the Russians cross the Danube, The 7imes’ special trom Belgrade confirms the re- port of Servia’s military preparations. THE PORTE’S WOME TROURLES, The troudies which have arisen between the Turkish Parliament and the Ministry still continue, and-will doubtless tend to paralyze the action of the Ottoman government at a time when all its energies should be concentrated-on the struggle with Russia, A short tine ago the impeachment of Redif Pacha was throat