The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1877, Page 6

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In future all advertisements presented for pudb- | lication after etght o'clock P, M, will be charged double rates, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be @arily cloudy, or cloudy and warm, with threat- ening indications toward night, possibly with rain. Watt Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock specu- lation continues active, the market being irregu- Jar. Generally there was a decline, followed by a rally, which, however, was lost before the close. Government stocks were higher and in good demand, while railroad bonds fell off. Gold opened and closed at 105%, selling up to 1057 in the interim. Money on call was easy at 2 per cent, closing at 11, per cent. Tis AFTERNOON the hoys will enjoy ao free swim, the Bureau of Supplies and Repairs hav- ing at last succeeded in placing at least one of the public baths in position. Tne Tras Wreckers of Missouri are ahead in cold-blooded atrocity. The attempt Sunday night to destroy the train on its way to St. Louis is almost without a parallel in this or any other country. Tux’ Yacutinc Programme for the season will be found in other columns. Amoug the in- teresting features this year will be the new cat- amarans, with which American yachtsmen are not as yet very familiar, * Tre List or Cr NNIAL Awarps printed elsewhere may be studied with profit. Of the entire number, 13,036, citizens of the United States received more than one-third. Portugal and Spain lead the foreign countries. The figures show that there was fuir play all around. Sour Goop Racisa may be expected at Je- rome Park to-day, if the weather is favorable. The great events will be the Maryland Stakes, the race for the Westchester Cup, and the Grand National Steeplechase, in which many of the best horses in the country will .run. Tur SuLtan Moldavia and Wallachia. The Turkish Minister at Washington has formally notified our govern- ment that, notwithstanding their rebellion, the Empure will still protect their citizens abroad. This is as much as the Sultan can do just now. Nor Onty New Yor but the whole country kas a deep interest in the investigation into the management of the Custom House now in prog- ress in this city. Yesterday several of our lead- ing merchants presented their views and sug- gestions to the commission in regard to the imposition and collection of duties and matters of detail generally, all of which will be foand fully reported in our columns. Porice Nonsexsk.—On Saturday a bank was robbed of a bundle of banknotes. Now we hear that the bank officers and the police are de- sirous that the circumstances of the robbery shall not become public, “in the hope of secur- ing the thief.” Nonsense; publicity in such tases does not impede justice. The thicf knows he stole the money. He needs no newspaper notice to tell him. The way to catch him is to make every detail as public as possible. AND Mr. Henpricks, Governor Robinson and Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer will be given a reception at the Manhattan Club this day week, and it is announced that all the war horses of the democracy throughout the country have been invited and accepted the in- vitation. be ‘hoped, a reopening of the Presidential cam- paign, as is darkly intimated. The people do bot want any more of that kind of business for a year or two. i A Deciston or Consiperan.e IMPORTANCE to trade unions and organizations of # similar character was rendered yesterday by Judge Barrett. The suit was brought by two ‘long- shoremen, who had been expelled for having worked at arate less than that prescribed by the associution, to compel its officers to re nize them as members in good standing. Judge Barrett held that the bylaw under whieh they were expelled was contrary to good policy, 1 reasonable and oppressive, and directed a man- damus to issue compelling their reinstatement. Tun Wuar ‘The storm centre which re- mained so long west of the Mississippi has reached the Atlantic coast via the region north | of Canada, and has descended to the Jatitude of Nova Scotia, attended by light rains. The low pressure in the Northeast has caused brisk winds along the coast of the Middle a is " a States, with light morning rains as far south as Washington. A local disturbance in the Central | Mississippi and Ohio valleys has rains to fall in these regions. A waterspout in Towa caused great damage along These disturbances were predicted the Henanp, the attention of the resid certain States being called to their probate oceurrence. The terrible disaster reported fr Mount Carmel, Iil., ishos a ghastly fulfil- ment of our predictions. ‘he heat area of 70 degrees embraced tie New nel and Middle Atlantic coast and the Upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys, excluding the jake region. ts path, The isotherm of 80 degrees co:nimenced on the | coast abont New Haven, Conn., passing thence Pittsburg, southward of Louisville, Ky., porth of Cairo, Il. and thence westerly and | to Northern Texas. Other local storms for the river valleys of ihe central ‘and along the Middle Atlantic const. weather in New York to-day will be warm Pp clondy, or clondy, with threatening toward night, powsibly with rain, NEW YORK HERALD | What does it all mean? Not, it is to | aused heavy | Rapid Transit Inquiries. The real object of the meeting called for to-night by nearly twenty-four hundred of the most prominent citizens is to try to dis- cover who ‘‘runs” New York. The people who will assemble this evening at Chicker- ing Hall are to “hear from some of their representatives in the Legislature an ac- count of the impediments thrown in the way of rapid transit during the last ses- sion.” We confess to a lively curiosity about the matter. New York is governed so largely and so badly at Albany that it has had to wait for many needed improvements. The real public opinion of the city finds great difficulty in making itself felt at the dis- tance of Albany ; the opponents of an im- provement have an immense advantage there, for they work in secret upon the ignorance and prejudice of country mem- bers. If the gentlemen who are to speak to-night will oblige the city with a genuine exposure of the means which have been used to defeat rapid transit, and of the authors of these means, they will put the whole people under obligations to them, and they will enable the press and the pub- lic to fix the seal of righteous condemnation upon these persons, The city of New York has a peculiar position. It lies on an island thirteen and a half miles long and of varying width, it being about three-quarters of a mile wide at Fulton street, about a mile and a half at Canal street, two miles and a quarter at Fourteenth street and diminishing to less | than a miledn width at 130th street. This | form of the island gives New York unrivalled advantages of water front, but it makes absolutely necessary to the comfort and convenience of the inhabitants and to the sound growth of the city abundant means of rapid access to the upper parts of the island. The distances to be traversed are unusually great; our population cannot radiate in all directions from a common | business centre, and so lopg as steam roads, moving trains quickly between the northern and southern extremities of the city, are denied us not only is the growth of the city seriously checked, but a large mass of its population is compelled to crowd into un- wholesome quarters. Tt is hardly necessary that the Herarp should repeat to its readers all the evils which the city suffers for lack of rapid tran- sit. Our journal has-for years persistently presented them and urged the remedy. Nor is there any one improvement the necessity for which is so unanimously accepted. We believe ifa vote were taken next week for | and against rapid transit the people would cast an almost unanimous voice for it. We say almost unanimous, because it is evident that there are persons opposed. Their op- position is more or less secret; if it could be forced to face the day its authors would be put to shame, and we should see once more how impudently an insignificant num- ber of selfish men are allowed in this city year after year to stand in the way of its growth and prosperity and the comfort of its people. If the secret, history of the obstructions to rapid transit could be told the people of New York would be-amazed and indignant to discover how small a number of men had the unscrupulous audacity and selfishness to stand in the way of this great boon, and how various and often desperate have been the de- vices by which they have so long succeeded. In the days of the Tweed Ring the corrup- tionists went so far as to try to indict the Greenwich street elevated road as a nuisance; they boasted that they would not only tear down the road, but would fine and imprison the enterprising citizens who advanced money to try this important and now en- tirely successful experiment. Engineers and newspapers were hired to assert that the road would not stand; that it was dangerous to the lives of the passengers ; that it would cause constant runaways of horses; that it would destroy business ; and uttempts were even made at one time to incite mob vio- lence against it. To-day the Elevated Rail- way is, as far as its track extends, one of the greatest conveniences the city has; and we regard it asa most fortunate circumstance that abundaat capital in the hands of ener- getic men has been put into the enterprise, so that if the Court of Appeals shall decide favorably to the city the case it has now be- | fore it there is no longer any doubt that this road will be continued as rapidly as workmen can put the material together, along the east side of the city to Harlem, How the Court of Appeals may decide of course no one can foreteil ; nor would it be proper to address the judges upon the subject. But we may at least hope that they will make their decision known as speedily as possible, If it proves to be ad- | more time to prepare for the next Legis- lature a measure which will stand before | the courts and to discover who are the secret foes of rapid transit and counteract their manwuvres. If, on the contrary, the decision should be favorable to the best in- _ | terests and the universal desires of the city, then the quicker it is rendered the sooner will the work yo on. But we hope the speakers this evening | Will tell us who ure the opponents of rapid | transit; whose constantly and industriously | place impediments in the way of New York's | i | greatest need, | to “run” New York in opposition to the | unanimous w 1 of its people. When we know that it will not be difficult to get up indignation mectings all over the city; nor, we unagine, would it be impossible to pun- ish, in the next Legislature, some at least of | these opponents. here is a widespread beliet that some of the horse railroad cor- | porations are concerned in this opposition, We warn them thet if such a thing can be fixed upon them they will expose | themselves to inconvenient reprisals, They occupy the streets and use ‘them us their own, without charge; itis not impossible to make them pay for their right of way. Nor would this be wrong or unfair. The strect railroads ought to be mode to pay for the paving and clean- | | | ing of the streets in which they ran ; a great | economy could be effected in this way tor | the taxpayers. Hitherto nothing of this kind has been attempted ; but if they or any of them should be found among the | opponents of rapid transit the feeling of NEW Y verse to the city we shall then have the | Let us know who presumes | i ' ORK HERALD, TUESDA the city is now such that a movement to make them pave and clean the streets would be popular enough to give them a good deal of trouble. The people of New York are very patient, but Tweed and his fellow cor- ruptionists discovered that their patience has a limit. We have borne for many years with delays and impediments to rapid tran- sit; but the long delay is telling upon the patience and the temper of a large part of the péople, and the. more because a single passage on the Greenwich street elevated road proves to every man its immense con- venience—the saving it effects in time and trouble. New York needs not one, but three or four such lines. But forthe un- scrupulous opposition of a few’ men who fear that they will lose if such lines are es- tablished we might have had all we need years ago, and tons of thousands of poor women and children now crowded into tene- ment houses would before this have been decently, cheaply and comfortably lodged inthe upper part of New York. The lack of rapid transit increases the mortality of New York ; adds to its vice and pauperism ; puts’every citizen to daily loss of time and to constant inconvenience ; causes enormous losses to the city ; oppresses the industrious poor ; drives off the island every year thou- sands who would like to live here; keeps down our taxable valuation ; and, in fact, in every way imposes needless burdens upon the inhabitants and the taxpayers. Let us know who ‘runs” New York in opposi- tion to the wishes and the interests of the great mass of its people. Indian ‘roubles and How to Meet Them. We publish to-day some interesting state- ments from a well informed source about the strength of the hostile and semi-hostile In- dians in the Sioux country and of the outlook in the far West for the summer months. These statements confirm the opinions we have heretofore expressed that the anticipa- tions of a peaceful season on the frontiers may be doomed to disappointment, and that it will at least be only a common sense pre- j caution on the part of our government, while encouraging the coming in of the dissatistied tribes and making friendly overtures to all who may be disposed to entertain them, to prepare against such calamities as those which befell Fetterman and Custer by mak- ing our frontier force strong enough to finaliy exterminate ull who are resolved not to have peace. In treating with the Indians we are making no new experiment and have nothing to learn, The red men understand our Indian policy as well as we understand it ourselves. As long as their chiefs and young warriors can go on the warpath in the summer, massacring and plundering at their will, and can lay down their arms as soon as winter comes on and live idly at the government expense until the next opening of spring, just so long shall we find Sitting Bulls in the field and be periodically horri- fied by such sad tales as those of Fort Phil Kearny and the Little Big Horn. The outlook is by no means reassuring. The lodges that have been coming in since April prove to be mainly women and old or incapable males, and the ponies surrendered have been almost all used up, worthless animals. It is an old -Indian trick under the name of a surrender to get rid of the women and other encumbrances of a tribe, soas to enable the young warriors to take the warpath untrammelled. The absence of young, able bodied men from the incoming lodges is marked, Four hundred bitterly hostile lodges in the Yellowstone Valley re- main outside, and will average three able bodied warriors to a lodge. This force, if driven, will pass into the Big Horn Moun- tains or cross the Missouri and join Sitting Bull, who has besides two thousand braves, with a probable reserve from the semi-hostile Fort Peck Indians of fifteen hundred more, In the Fetterman massacre nineteen hun- dred Indians were engaged, and in the Cus- ter buichery thirty-tive hundred. Sitting Bull is now likely to have with him forty- five hundred warriors this summer. The statement of these facts from an authorita- tive source onght to be sufficient to put the government on the alert, and to induce it while courting peace to be prepared to deal | swiftly, summarily and effectively with those who are determined on war. Olid Drivers and the New Cab Come pany. There is very little doubt that the new cheap cak,company will be a success so far as the important point of raising the re- quired amount of capital is concerned. But there are other things just as necessary | y to its popularity and permanent | prosper Gcod horses are needed to in- | sure a tair rate of speed ; low rates to bring the vehicles within reach of the means of the masses, and, above all, civil, ex- perienced drivers who are entirely familiar with the strects of the city. It would bea wise stroke of policy on the part of the managers and stockholders of the new cor- poration to enlist in the enterprise all the present New York hack drivers, by giving them a certain amount of s n the com. pany on easy terms and hiring them as | ys of the new cabs. A driver might be ved by tho company, ior instance, and given a share of stock for every three driv months’ faithful service, up to a certain ; amount, in addition to his wages. ‘Chis, or some other plan by which the driver uld be made to fee d to have an ins terest in the undertaking, would insure good conduct and faithful work. By employing the present drivers as a body the company would sweep ay trom its own path a large amount of cflective oppo- sition, or at least of competition, ‘Lhe pres- ent New York hack drivers are as a rule well behaved, obliging men, and they have | the great advantage of experience in dviving | on our crowded thoroughfares and of an ins | timate knowledge of the city, In Europe drivers are given,in one shape or another a dircet interest in the business, aud the policy is found to work well, One London cab company admits the drivers as stockholders, and this gives them a pe- cuniary interest in the company's success. In some instances large owners or combina- tions in London and Paris hire out the cabs and horses to the drivers at a stipulated sum per day, with all necessary changes of horses, thus giving the driver the real in- terest in the fares collected, It is well to let the driver fee! that the business is at least partially bis own, and then he will be civil, accommodating and honest. We com- mend the suggestion to the notice of the Metropolitan Cheap Cab Company, for we are certain that they could not do a more wise, popular or profitable act than to give the present New York hack drivers a direct and valuable interest in the success of the new enterprise. War News from the East. The extraordinary rise in the Danube, due to the sudden melting of the snows among its mountain sources, places a barrier to the advance of the Russians in European Turkey which is for the present insurmount- able. ‘This cause of delay must, however, disappear before the end of June, at which time correspondingly low level of the waters will facilitate the crossing of the Danube at many points. In the meantime sickness will undoubtedly visit the Russian camps on the low lands of Ronmania, as it has already begun its ravages among the Turks. ‘he activity of the Montenegrins in Western Turkey promises to embarrass the ‘Lurks consider- ably, and will probably result in the evacu- ation of Bosnia and Herzegovina when the Russians are ready to move into Bulgaria, In Asia Minor the present Turkish position may be considered hopeless. The Russian army has now so completely invested it as to render a retreat on Erzeroum a question of only a few days. Mukhtar Pacha has already withdrawn his headquarters to near that city, and evidently meditates retiring very rapidly. The disposition of the Turkish | army at the presont moment indicates noth- ing more or less than retreat. The force hold- ing the Songalu Pass and Bardess is merely the rear guard posted to cover the move- ment, This body of’ Ottoman troops is likely to be sacrificed to the safety of the main body, as it can scarcely hope to escape if the Russians attack Mukhtar Pacha simultaneously with their right wing at Hassan-Kaleh and their left from Toprak- Kaleh. Erzeroum, being an open town, cannot be held by the Turks for more’ than a few days, and then they will be forced to seek a new line to the southwest- ward, They willlose the road to Trebisond when the Russians advance to Erzeroum, It is announced that already Russian scouts have been seen in the vicinity of the doomed city. ,The fighting ou the Kodor River, near Soukoum-Kaleh, has been quite spirited. The Russians have a difficult task in main- taining their communications open while the Circassians are in active revolt. But so soon as the Turks retire from their present positions near Erzeroum the moral support of their proximity to the revolted districts will be lost to the insurgents. The fall of Kars must necessarily follow that of Erze- roum, as a fruitless defence could only be maintained that would give the Turks no possible advantage. The Insect of the Season, Our article on the history and character of the locust who has just put in his numer- ous appearance in New Jersey has probably calmed the apprehensions of those whose active imaginations foresaw the devastation of the crops and trees, There is certainly no danger to the crops and no danger to the fruit trees ; and the locust, in fact, does not abound in situations where most of these are grown. He may be found un- doubtedly where fruit trees are—but .he shuns the broad, low valleys and the little streams—perhaps because the waters drown him out in the course of his seventeen years’ slumber. He loves, on the coftrary, the high, densely wooded ridges, where he is out of harm's way from all such causes as afflict him in the valleys, not the least of which is the impertinent plough that turns him up unseasonably to the daylight and ex- poses him to the attention of the well known early bird, Fruit growers and farmers may therefore be confident. On the other hand, they who'have different tastes in tree cul- ture, who care less for the little scrubs of ) peach and quince and apple trees and love the splendid oaks, those ‘‘ green robed sen- ators of mighty woods,” have some reason for inquietude, as the femnle member of | this pestilent family may bore into many | branches to deposit her eggs, and the branch | bored dies. No Need of Haste. The atterapt of Mr. John Kelly, in the new-fashioned parlance, to ‘‘bull-doze” Mayor Ely into nominating Alderman Pur- roy as Police Commissioner in place of Mr. Erherdt, a republican member of the Pelice Board, calls to mind the same dic- tator's attempt two years ago to place the criminal court and the public prosecutor's | office in the hands of Tammany partisans. | Recorder Hackett, a fearless, upright and able judge, was to be superseded and crim- inal trials were to be placed under the con- | trol of a Tummany judge, himself under the control of the Tammany leader. The people saw the danger of a repetition of an experi- | Y, JUNE 5, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. | arrived in this city yesterday by the steamer Etna | healthy dog acted tn that way. Healthy dogs only get into strange places under the impelling power tof their appetiles. Here there was no appetite to indulge: only an instinctive desire to eseape from the light, the noise, the movement of the outer world; to secure the sileneé, the: tranquillity, the repose of a quiet place with an indifference as to other points in the surroundings of the place. But if this taking | refuge is not 2 characteristic of the healthy dog it is pre-cminently a characteristic of the rabid animal, whose nervous system is in such a state of exalted function, whose sensibilities to irritation are in such an ex- aggerated condition that ordinary sounds aud sights excite him to agony. ‘This habit of stowing himsclf in some refuge is part of the history of every case of hydrophobia in the dog when he is free to wander away from his home under the influence of the restless- ness inwhich the disease begins. ‘Three recent cases of hydrophobia in men in this neighborhood originated from bites received in the effort to rid their premises of strange animals thus stowed in out-of-the- way corners. This rule is so certain that if an unknown dog is thus seen hidden ina} corner it is the greatest conceivable impru- dencetogonearhim, Heshould be killed at long range.. But this Hurtford dog gave other evidences of his condition. He had paroxysms ofa peculiar activity. Hethrew himself against the walls, for his restless- ness was still there, but his disordered vis- ion did not discover the obstacles, and he dashed himself against them in a new at- tempt to run away from trouble. He bit at the air also—that is, at the phantoms of his canine delirium. This dog was indubitably mad. In an attempt to drive him out of the house a gentleman received several bites, | One mouth later this gentleman was taken ill, He exhibited in his illness some of the more definite symptoms of hydrophobia— symptoms that cannot be voluntarily pro- duced. He died, and after death his body was found in the condition that follows death by violently spasmodic disease. With all these as the plain facts of the case it has been bruited all over the country that this gentleman was ‘‘frightened to death;” that there was no mad dog, no hydropho- bia, no disease at all—-but only the results of a morbid imagination. A Just Indictment. It is with the utmost satisfaction that we announce this morning that the Grand Jury of Queens county have indicted Gaff, Fleischmann & Co., the venders of poison- ous swill milk, ‘Lhe Henatp has exposed the foul traffic so completely that the authorities could no longer remuin blind to the enormity of the outrage perpetrated on the community. Mr. Bergh has also taken an active part in bringing these heart- less torturers of dumb animals to justice, and deserves the thanks of every humane person for his efforts. Now, however, the question arises, will theso dealers in the deadly. swill milk escape unpunished through the loopholes of the law created by juries composed of men of their own class? Our criminal records are filled with cases in which men lost.to all sense of decency, or obtuse enough not to see their duty clearly, have: sheltered the most daring trans. gressors from the punishment due to their crimes. Here is a case, however, where the safety of the whole community is at stake. If, through any failure of the machinery of the law, these men escape, the public health will continue to be threatened by a danger at once fatal and disgusting. We ap- peal, therefore, to the citizens who will try the cases of Gaff, Fleischmann & Co., and all of their class that may be in- dicted, to remember that on their verdicts depend the lives of helpless infants and of the sick, and while dealing in strict justice with the evidence that will be presented in each case the interests of the public health must be protected and a great and dangerous nuisance must be abated, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Saylor boy of Ohio is ahead, Bret Harte ts in Washington, Deucon Richard Smith goes to horse racea. Pinney and the drought sull ravage Calj/ornia, Edwards Pierrepont is the most ridicalous thing, If butter would only bo as soft as that in winter! Mr. Theodore D, Woolsey, of New Haven, ia at the Everett. Secretary Evarts returned to Washignton yesterday morning. Pillow wants a few sheets from Washington to give bim a comforter, Georgia can raise better sheop to tho square inch than any other Siate, ‘The sugar beat ts ively. He lounges and he takes lumps from the top of the barral, Boston Post :--*‘A young man whowent to Texas this spring telegraphs home, ‘iatted call tor onc.’”? Dr. Ratael Nunez (Presideut of the State of Bolivia) Governor Rice and the other indorsers of Collector Simmons, of Boston, are receiving much criticism for inconsistency. Mr. Cross, of Pennsyivania, bas anew son for whom he wants a name, Cail him Christopher, and then the boys will think he ts Chris Cross. tu a game of whist on the Erie Railway yesterday one man fed the Sultan of hearts, but his opponent trumped it with the Czar of shovels, A woman thinks aman brave if be only picks up a ent which had proved so damaging under ced and elected Recorder Hackett and the | whole anti-ammany ticket by an over. whelming majority. It would be doubly as | perilous to allow Mr. Kelly, not only to de- stroy the non-partisanship of the Police Board, but to place the control of the police force and of the election bureau wholly in the hands of Mr, Kelly's poiitical servitors. There is, fortunately, no need of hurry about the appointment of Police Commis. sioner or Park Commissioner, ‘Uhe Com- missioners whose terms have expired hold c over under the law until their successors are suffer by the delay. ‘Lhe Mayor is not likely, it is said, toseud in any names to the Al- dermen to-day, and certainly he will never destroy his reputation as a business citizen and a faithfal public officer by yielding to Mr. Kelly's unauthorized attempt to force him into improper nominations. Hydrophobia or Wright, Some time since a wandering, skulking cur made his way into a house in Hartford, where he was not at home and not known, and stowed himself in a corner—taking refuge as it were against the world and an adverse destiny, In the whole history of the race of dogs it would, perhaps, be im- possible to produce an instance in which a appointed, and ihe public interest does not | cockroach With his (iugers, bat sho dovap’t think it requires any courage to swear off tor three weoks, Nashville American:--"The New York Herany } says:— With @ Ui-metallig currency we should have the advantage of two sources of euppiy.’ Well, lot's "pi" some," Geneval Joseph E, Johuston ts childless. in ap- pearance he is much the same as during the war, ex- copt that bis hair aud beard Lave whitened and the furrows tn biz face are deoner, ‘The watering place season promises to ve lively, aud as the man who tas only a Sunday to epend at the sea side contemplates the tronble of getting a bed ho thinks of the cotter’s Saturday aight. A correspondent wants to know how we prefer to purchase eggs—by the quart, pound or dozen, Pere haps they are better by the quart for milk punch, bat for domestic use we prefer thom the way they are Jaid—by the dozen, The shores tho Vaguaic River are for many miles lived with thousands of sumking dead fst. Jersey City 18 interested In this water, A great deal of thy milk sentto New York comes from this river, We Jeurn, too, that several Paterson gentiemen havo ree cently eigned the pledge, and & would be crimiat to discourage them in the ase of water at this time, At any rate there js death in the Passaic. The Baltitaore Americun:— “The mode iu which thetr s0-Called jokes aro concocted is vitaple enough, Takew pound of Burton's ‘Wit and Humor,’ to it add a page of Josh Billings’ maxims, flavor it with a sprinkling of Artomus Ward, knend it well with a pleuteous quantity of Tom Hood, and cover it with a light paste of Joho Phoenix, Then lot it simmor on a slow (tre?) no~ brain, for a few days; allow it to gradually cool, and serve up iniinntesimal portions as required, with au ral | body. | sition to the army. E WAR. Russians Swarming in the Valley of the Arras, FLOODS ON THE DANUBE. The Passage of the River Delaved for Days. PROPHETIC — WORDS. “We Shall Enter Constantinople as the Germans Entered Paris,” TURKEY'S DiPLOMATIC TRICK NICHOLAS’ She Exaggerates Her Defeats So as to Call Out England’s Aid. THE MONTENEGRIN STRUGGLE, [B¥ CABLE TO THE MERALD.] Lonnoy, June 5, 1877. The heavy rains on the Danube detain the Russians, and forthe time the scene shifts to the Valley of the Arras, in Armenia, The troops of the Czar are making wonder. ful progress toward Erzeroum. A despatch from that city dated yesterday at four P. M. contains .some startling imformation. It says:—Russian scouts have been seen from the heights of Jenikey. The retreat of the Ottoman corps, from Karakilissa, Toprak- Kaleh and Delibaba is threatened by an ad. vance detachment of the Russian centre. “Tt is now denied that the Russian right wing has reached Kizil-Kilissa. It has not advanced beyond Olti.” THE TURKISH DEFENCE. Intelligence has been received, at Con- stantinople that Mukhtar Pacha has estab- lished his headquarters at Heuprikay, about thirty miles east of Erzeroum, for the pur pose of barring the advance of the Russian left wing from Toprak Kalth. Ismail Hakki, commandant at Erzeroum, has taken a position near Kizil-Kilissa, between Bardez and the Songalu Pass, to meet the Russian centre and right advancing via Songalu and Olti. FIGHTING NEAR SOOKOUM KALEE. Tho news received at the Russian head- quarters at Ploejesti from Asia is very meagre. From the army operating in the neighborhood-of.-Kars it is announced: ‘that | beayy. fighting has taken place at.Attgr,, on the lower Rodor River, but no details are given. The fighting arose from an attempt of the Abchasians to pass the river. From Pera the Hrratp correspondent announces that the Levant Herald confirms the report that on the night of May 29 an engagement was fought at Benkli Ahmed, in which a body of Circassians were defeated. The same paper also confirms the report that the garrison of Kars have been placed on half rations. Mukhtar Pacha has fallen back upon Koprikoi, while the ad- vanced guard of the Russians has advanced to Kizil-Kilissa, ‘ ARE THE TROOPS, DISPIRITED? The Hunaxp correspondent at Schumla re- ports that the fall of Ardahan has produced a painful impression on the Turkish troops there. The number of deserters has largely increased since the news of the disaster and the men are very much discouraged. An- other despatch from Schumla, however, re- ports that the Turkish army there is in fine condition and the spirit of the men admira- ble. The army is encamped on a great plain which is unrivalled as a military posi« tion. The incessant preparations have ren« dered the army thoroughly efficient, and the troops are feady to take the field at a moment’s notice, DON’? LOOK PISCOURAGING, Thirty Circassians recently arrived at Schumla under their own chieftain, and bear- | ing a magnificent banner embroidered with gold, heralding the arrival of a numerous ‘These Circassians are a great acqui- They are invaluable as cavalry, combining extraordinary activity with great personal courage. The whole army is enthusiastic and eager to be led against the encmy. REVOLTS AGAINST RUSSIA, ‘The Hxxatp correspondent in Vienna states that the latest advices from the Cau- casus show that the insurrection in that region is spreading. ‘The efforts of the ‘Turks to stir up the Qircassians have proved successful, and the ingurgonts will be able to give occupation for a considerable time to a largo Russian force so as to prevent the communications of the army operating in Armenia from being seriously interfered with, ‘THE ROUTES OF ADVANCE ON THE DANUBE: ‘Tho Henanp correspondent at Ploejesti telegraphs that the Grand Duke Vladimir and Duke Louchtenburg have arrived there, ‘The statentent that the Czar had reached there is incorrect, ‘The railroad communi- cation, which had been considerably intere rupted between Jassy and Ploejesti, has original sauce which totally obscares the flavor which ought properly to belong to it’? been completely re-established and there is now little danger of further breakage, 9@