The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1877, Page 8

‘NEW YORK HERA BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ——— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, phat Satin eon THE DAILY HERALD, published eve Mize cents per copy (Sunday excluded). ‘Year, or ut rate of ope dollur per mouth for any period less then’ six mouths, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, free of postnze. tern or telegraphic despatches must Henan. ould be properly sealed. ms will not be returned, PRADEEP EIA OFFICE-NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE 20% INE NEW YORK HERALD— day in the year. ‘Teo dollars per NO. 46 FLEET 5° t, PARIS OFFICE—AVENUR DE L/OPERA. NAPLES OFF) 7 STRAD. 1K. Subscriptions forwarded on GILMORE’S CONCER NEW YORK AQUARIUM CENTRAL PARK GAKD) NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, In future all advertisements presented for pub- Uication after etght o'clock P. M. wilt be charged double rates, From our reports this morning the probabilities @re that the weather in New York to-day will be @artly cloudy, or cloudy and warm, with threat: ening indications toward night, possibly with rain. Watt Srreet 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 11g per cent. Tis ArrerNoon the boys will enjoy a free swim, the Bureau of Supplies and Repairs hav- ing at last succeeded in placing at least one of the public baths in position. Tue Trary 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. Tum’ Yacutixc Procramae for the season will be found in other columns. Among the in- teresting features this year will be the new cat- amarans, with which American yachtsmen are not as yet very familiar. ? Tue List or Centenniai 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 fair play all around. Sour Goop Racine may be expected at Je- rome Park to-day, if the weather is favorable. The greut 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 ran. Tux Suuran still takes a fatherly interest in Moldavia and Wallachia, The Turkish Minister at Washington has formally notified our govern- ment that, notwithstanding their rebellion, the Empire will still protect their citizens abroad. This is as much as the Sultan can do just now. Nor Onty New Yorx but the whole country \as a deep interest in the investigation into the munagement 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 Noxsexse.—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 pases 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 dctuil as public as possible. Mr. TrupEn DRICKS, Governor Robinson and Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer will be given a reception at the Mauhattan Club this day week, and it is announced that all the war horses of the democracy throughout the country have been invited aud accepted the in- vitation. What does it all mean? Not, it is to be ‘hoped, a reopening of the Presidential cam- paign, as is darkly intimated. The people do pot want any more of that kind of business for a year or two. is A Deciston or ConsiperaBLe ImPporTANCE 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 recog: nize them as members in good standing. Judge Barrett held that the bylaw under whieh they were expelled was contrary to good policy, un- reasonable and oppressive, and ¢ da man. damus to issue compelling the! instaiement. Tun Weaturn.—The stor utre which re- mained so long west of the Mississippi has reached the Atlantic coast via the pa north of Canada, and has descended to the latitude of Nova Scotia, attended by } uM ‘The lov pressare in the Northeast has cansed brisk winds along tho coast of the Middle and Kastern | States, with light morning rains us far south as Washington. A local disturbance in the Central Mississippi and Ohio valleys has caused heavy reins to fall in these regions. A waterspout in Towa caused great damage along its path. These disturbances were predicted receatiy in the Herarv, the attention of the res certain States being called to their pro! occurrence. ‘The terrible disaster reported tro Mount Carmel, Iil., furnishes a ghastly fuifil- ment of our predictions. ‘Ihe heat area of 70 degrees embraced the New England and Middle Atlantic coast and the Upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys, excluding the lake region. The isotherm of 80 degrees co:nmenced on the coast abont New Haven, Conn., passing thence throngh Pittsburg, southward of Louisville, Ky., porth of Cairo, I1., and thence westerly and " Northern Texas. Other local storms soable for the river valleys of the central along the Middle Atlantic const. , — in New York to-day will be warm elondy, or clondy, with threatening peony paalily with rain, ts of Rapid Transit Inqair! 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 mcans 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 righteons 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 n 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 the city is now such that a movement to | let the driver fee! that the business is at | healthy dog acted In that way. Healthy | 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 foursuch lines. But for the 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 tens of thousands of poor women and children now crowded into tene- ment houses would before this have been decently, cheaply and comfortably lodged in the 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. than a miledin 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 j 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. Itis hardly necessary that the Herxarp 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 pcople 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 attempts 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 abundant 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 | 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. | they will make their decision known as speedily as possible. If it proves to be ad- verse to the city we shall then have the more time to prepare for the next Legis- the courts and to discover who their manwuvres. If, on the contrary, the decision should be favorable to the best in- terests and the universal desires of the city, will the work yo on. will tell us whe are the opponents of rapid transit; who so constantly and industriously place impediments in the way of Now York's | greatest n to “run” New utianimous will of its people. When we know that it will not be difficult to get up indignation mectings all over the city; nox, | we umagine, would it be impossible to pun- ish, in the next Legislature, some at least of ‘There is a widespread | these opponents. belief that some of the horse railroad cor- | perations 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. |Lhey oceupy the strects and use ‘them as their own, without charge; to be made to pay tor the paving and clean- ing of the streets in which they ran ; a great this road will be continued as rapidly as \ But we may at least hope that | lature a measure which will stand befove ; are the | secret foes of rapid transit and counteract | then the guickor it is rendered the sooner | But we hope the speakers this evening | ¢ Let us know who presumes | York in opposition to the | Indian Troubles und 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 statemonts 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 caution on the part of our government, while encouraging the coming in of the dissatisfied 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 all 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 butchery 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. Vid Drivers and the New Cab Come pany. There is very little doubt that the new cheap cab company will be a success so far quired 2mount of capital is. concerned. But there are other things just as necessary prosperity. | Good 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. wise stroke of policy on the paxt of the managers and stockholders of the new cor- ' poration to enlist in ¢ | presont New York hack dvi them a certain amount of pany on casy terms and rivers of the new ca terprise all the , by giving in the come hiring them as A driver might be ed by the company, ior instance, and given a share of stock {for every three | amount, in addition to his wages. ‘This, or other plan by whieh the driver could be made to feel and to have an ine some ' good conduct and faithful work, By | employing the pyesent drivers as a body the company would sweep a from its | own path a large amount of effective oppo- | sition, or at least of competition, he pres- ent New York hack drivers are as arale well behaved, obligiug meu, and they have the great advantage of experience in dviving timate knowledge of the city, In Europe drivers are given,in one shape or another a direct interest in the business, and the policy is found to work well, | London cab company admits the drivers as stockholders, and this gives them a pe- euniary interest in the company's success, In some instances large owners or combina- tions in London and Paris hire out the cabs | itis mot impossible to make them pay for | their right of way. Nor would this be | wrong or unfair. The street railroads ought | 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 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 it will at least be only a common sense pre- j as the important point of raising the re- | | | | | as money to its popularity and permanent i | 1 it would be a | mouths’ faithinl service, up to a certain ; terest in the undertaking, would insure | on our crowded thorougtfares and of an ine | | One | least partially his own, end 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 a 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 Roumania, as it has already begun its ravages among the Turks. The activity of the Montenegrins in Western Turkey promises to embarrass the ‘Turks consider- ably, and will probably result in the evacu- ation of Bosnia and Herzegovina when the Ttussians 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 veryrapidly, The disposition of the Turkish | army at the present moment indicates noth- ing more or less thon 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 will lose 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 on 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 Sexson. 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 canses as afilict 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 female member of | this pestilent family may bore into many | branches to deposit her eggs, and the branch bored dies. No Need of Haste. The attempt 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, Erhardt, 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 Tammany judge, himself under the | control of the Lammany leader. The people | | saw the danger of a repetition of an experi- | | ment which had proved so damaging under } Tweed ana elected Recorder Hackett and the 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 escape trom the light, the noise, the movement of the outer world; to secure the silened, 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 a characteristic of the healthy dog it is pre-eminently a characteristic of the rabid animal, whose nervous system is in such a state of exalted function, whose sensibilities to irritation are im such an ex aggerated condition that ordinary sounds and sights excite him to agony. This habit of stowing himself 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 in which 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 secn 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 of a 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 month 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, ‘The Heratp has exposed the foul traffic so completely that the authorities could no longer remain 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 créated 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 inust be protected and a great and dangerous nuisance must be abated, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Sayler boy of Ohio is ahead, Bret Harte jg in Washington, Deucon Richard Smith goes to horse races. Pinney and the drought sull ravage California, Edwards Pierrepont js the most ridicalous thing, If butter would only be as soft as that in winter! | Mr. Theodore D. Woolsey, of New Haven, ia at the | Byerett. Secretary Evarts rctarned to Washignton yesterday morning. Pillow wants a fow sheots from Washington to give bim a comforter, Georgia can raise better sheep to the square inch than any other State, ‘The sugar beat ts tively. He lounges and he takes lumps from the top of the barral. Boston Post ;--"‘A young man whowent to Toxas this spring telegraphs home, ‘Matted calt tor one. ’’? Dr. Ratuel Nunes (President of the State of Bolivia) arrived in this city yesterday by the steamer Etna, Governor Rice and the other indorsers of Collector Simmonsg, of Boston, are receiving much criticism for inconsistency. Mr. Cross, of Penusyivania, bas anew son for whom he wants aname, Call him Christopher, and then the boys will think he ts Chris Cross, Tn a game of whist on the Erie Railway yesterday one man led tho Sultan of hearts, but his opponent | trumped it with the Czar of shovels, 1 | Awoman thinks a man brave if be only picks upa cockroach with his dugers, bat sho dovgp’t think it | requires any courage to swear off for three weeks, Nasbville Americun:--“The New York Heranp | whole ‘ammany ticket | 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 e | the hands of Mr. Kelly's poiit servitors, i There is, fortunately, no need of hurry | about the appointment of Police Commis. sioner or Park Commissioner, ‘’he Com- missioners whose terms have expired hold over under the law until their s SOrs Are | appointed, and (he public int it do | suffer by the delay. Lhe Mayor is not likely, | itis said, tosead in any names to the Al- | dermon to-day, and certainly he will never destroy his reputation as a business citizen | and a faithfal public oficor by yielding to Mr. Kelly's unauthorized attempt to force him into improper nominations. | | H | | | Hydrophobia or right, 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 os 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 iu which a by an overs | ction bureau wholly in | not | eays:—With @ bi-metallic currency we should havo | the advantage of two sources of supply.’ Weil, lot's ‘ot’ some.” General Joseph KE. Johuston ts childless, In ap- pearance he is much the same as during the war, ex- copt that his buir aud beard bave whitened and the | furrows in his face aro decner. | ‘The watering place season promises to be lively, aud } as the man who bas only a Sunday to epend at the sea. | side contemplates the trouble of getting a bed he thinks of the eotter’s Saturday aight, A correspondent wants to know how we prefer’ to purchase eggs—by the quart, pound or dozen, Pere haps thoy are better by the quart for milk punch, bat for domestic use wo preiey thom the way they are laid—vy the dozen, The shores of tho Vasunic River are for many miles lived with thousands of stmkiag dead fst, Jorsey City 1s interested in this water, A great deal of thy milk sentto New York comes from this river. We Jeurn, too, that several Paterson gentiemen have ro. contly eignod the pledge, and & would be crimimat to discourage them in the ase of wares at this time At any rate there is death in the Passaic, The Baltinore American:— (The mode iu which thetr s0-Called jokes are concocted is simple enough, Take a pound of Burton's ‘Wit and Humor,’ to tt add a page of Josh Billings’ maxima, flavor it with a sprinkling of Artomus Ward, knend 14 woll with a pieuteous quantity of Tom Hood, and cover it with alight paste of Joho i | nc meer E WAR. Russians Swarming in the Valley of the Arras. FLOODS ON THE DANUBE. The Passage of the River Delaved for Days. PROPHETIC — WORDS. NICHOLAS’ “We Shall Enter Constantinople as the Germans Entered Paris.” TURKEY'S DiPLOMATIO TRICK She Exaggerates Her Defeats So as to Call Out England’s Aid. THE MONTENEGRIN STRUGGLE, Ponte ces [BY CABLE TO THE BERALD.] Lonnon, June 5, 1877. The heavy rains on the Danube detain the Russians, and forthe time the scene shifts to the Valley of tho 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 saya:—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 heavy. fighting, has taken place at.Attor,, 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 wos 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 | body. These Circassians are a great acqui+ | sition to the army. They are invaluable ag cavalry, combining extraordinary activity with great personal courage. The whole army is enthusiastic and eager to be led against the enemy, REVOLTS AGAINST RUSSIA. The Henatp correspondent in Vienna states that the latest advices from the Cau- casus show that the insurrection in that ‘The efforts of the Turks to stir up the Gircassians have proved | succegsful, and the insurgents will be able to give occupation for a considerable time | to a large 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, Lhe Hexaup correspondent at Ploejesti telegraphs that the Grand Duke Viadimir and Duke Leuchtenburg have arrived there, ‘The statenfent that the Czar had reached ‘The railroad communi- region is spreading. there is incorrect, cation, which had been considerably intere Phoaix, Then let it simmer on a slow (lire?) no~ brain, for a few days; allow it to gradually cool, and serve up inimitesimal portions as required, with au original sauce which totally obscares the flavor which Ought properly vo belong to it’? rupted between Jassy and Ploejesti, has been completoly re-established and there is now little danger of further breakage, #@