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the precautions taken by the Russians are o’a most extensive scale. Guards are sta- ioned all along the line of railway at such short distances from each other that any accident tending to delay or interrupt com- munication can be instantly repaired, CHOOSING THE PLACE, The Russians are in great force on the Danube, opposite Turtukoi, and the indica- tions point to the probability of their at- tempting the passage of the river at this point, The Turks at this point havo been slow and negligent in their preparations, thys enabling the Russians to avail them- selves of every advantage. ‘The latter have established strong batteries along the bank, which play upon the Turkish side and pre- ‘vent any progress being mado in fortifying the position. Efforts made by the Turks in this direction during the day time are im- mediately interrupted by Russian shells, A HEAVY FLOOD, The river has never been so swollen dur- ing the last thirty years, and the flood is not expected to subside before the end of June. The passage of the river by an army before the month of July would be extremely difii- cult owing to the melting of the snow in the Carpathian Monntains, and it is not probable that the attempt will be made much before that timo. Not A MAN ACROSS YET, The Hrzarp correspondent at Rustchuk Rays that, notwithstanding the reports pub- lished in the English journals, not a single Russian soldier has yet crossed the Danube. Attention is now concentrated on Nicopolis and Oltenitza, but everything is now com- paratively quiet at those points, It is announced that General Ignatieff will visit Bucharest soon. TURKS TO ATTACK FROM WIDDIN. Information received by the Roumanian government, according to the Daily Tele- graph’s special correspondent, leads to the belief that Osman Pacha intends attacking Kalafat, which is directly across the river from Widdin, in force, SIGNIFICANT—-IF TRUE. A Vienna correspondent asserts he has been informed from an unimpeachable source that the Grand Duke Nicholas re- cently said to foreign Consul:— “Neither Prince Bismarck nor Lord Derby will prevent us from enter- Ing Constantinople, os the Germans entered: Paris, only to leave it again.” The Grand Duke Nicholas has communicated to St. Petersburg his disappointment at the difficulty of coming to terms with the Rou- manian government. Letters from Bucha- rest indicate that active co-operation by the ‘Rotmanian army is doubtful after the Rus, #ians cross the Danube. BRAVE BASHI-BAZOUKS. The Heratp correspondent at Rustchuk Sends an account of a gallant exploit per- formed by a band of Circassians and bashi- bazouks, about a hundred in number. They volunteered to cross the river at mid- night in face of the Russian batteries and capture the Russian sentinels. They suc- ceeded in the attempt, surrounded a guard house, attacked the guard and killed several Russians. They also captured fifty head of cattle and took some prisoners. An cxami- nation of the prisoners revealed the fact that Giurgevo and the neighboring villages were crammed with Russians, Much ex- citement was created by a statement made by one of the prisoners to the effect that a Bulgarian church in Rustchuk had been undermined by Russian intriguers with a view to have it blown up and the Turks ac- cused of the crime so as to arouse the indig- nation of the neighboring Christian States, THE TURKISH DEFEAT EXAGGERATED. The Daily Telegraph's story of the destruction ot Moussa Pacha’s Circassians is a gross exaggeration. The Russian oMicial account says the Circassians Were dispersed, losing the modest number of eighty- three Killed out of a total of 4,000 engaged, which {smuch more probable than that 4,000 lrreguiars Stayed to be sluughtered alter a night surprise, It seems to be the cne of the Turks at the present | moment to exaggerate their reverses and the dim- culties of their position. Thus they almost give up the hope of Mukhtar Pacha’s escape with his urmy, to say nothing of saving Erzeroum, and a semi-ofti- elal despatch yesterday stated that the Circassian revolt was ended, Undoubtedly Mukhtar Pacha has and wili continue to have the worst of the cam. paign, but his army is not compromised in the grave | manner hinted from Constantiaople, and oMeial despatches from the headquarters of the Russian army of the Caucasus, received this noroing, re- port frequent encounters with the Circassians from the 24th to the goth of May, at various points in the mountains cast of Soukoum-Kaleh. The numbers of insurgents at one place are stated at 500, at an- other 3,000, and at another 6,000. WHY TORKEY CRIES WOLF. The pessimist despatches trom Constantinople | regurding Asia Minor must be intended to force the hand of the British government. Thus the Stan dard's Constantinople correspoudent says:—“The fate of the campaign in Asia is practically settled. Mukhtar Pacha is avout to fal back on Erzeroum, which, a3 I learn from the best authority, is wholly open and cannot be helped, The Russians are ad- vancing in force toward Diarvekir, and there is | nothing to prevent them trom getting possession of | the Ruplirates Valley. Reports from Turkish sources concerning the Danube army are, on the other hand, exceedingly hopeful” Notwithstand- ing this sort of pressure British intervention seems at present the most unlikely thing in the worid. The only dangers now apparent to prevent tue fovalization of the war are the participation of | Bervia ani Greece. ‘the first of these might pres is excellent. The hospitals are quite empty. | day the ' summoned to the palace last Thursday, and the | practical effect of cipitate Austrian intervention, the second might give rise to outrages and disturbances in Epirus, ‘Thessaly and Crete such as would render interven: | tion of the Western Powefs imperative on the score of humanity. THEIR ASIAN VICTORY, | ‘The Turks claim that they have driven the Rus- sians from the neighborhood of Soukoum-Kaleh, thirty hours’ march in the direction of Mount Elbroug. The iusigniticant population of the town of Soukoum-Kaleh is chiefly Armenian and Greek ; the former are traders and shopkeepers, thé latter boatmen and fishermen, Most of the ofticials are Russians ; but the natives proper—the Abhases— are seen from time to time only, when they bring | cattle, hides and timber, which they barter for cot- ton stuffs, tobaccoand gunpowder. The Abkases, @ branch of the 'Tcherkess (Circassians) were at one Ume noted pirates in the Euxine, and are’ now, after the Swamy, certainly the wildest and most Unmanageable mountaineers in the Caucasus, being lawless and greatly addicted to thieving and highway robbery, In 1771 they rebelled and for a time threw off the Turkish yoke, but they most readily fraternized with the troops under Omar Pacha in 1855, and had the temerity, so lately as in 1866, to invest Soukhoum-Kaleh during the space of three days. ‘The garrison, a very small one in time of peace, is made up chiefly of soldiers who, be- coming physically unfit for general service, require @ mild climate, which they enjoy at Soukoum- Kaleh, in good quarters, with a spacious hospital, on an clevated site above the unhealthy town. The Eucalyptus globulus has been extensively planted at Soukoum-Kaleh since 1861; the tree thrives, grow- ing rapidly, and hopes were entertained that the salubrity of the place would in time be greatly in- creased. THE MONTENEGRIN Wan. A despatch from Danilograd states that the bulk of the Turkish forces at Podgoritza—about fifteen battalious—has advanced to Spuz, probably with the Intention of attacking Soganu. Suleiman Pacha, the Turkish commander in Herzegovina, has re- ceived considerable reinforcements. A hard fight is expected at Krstaz, Four hundred and fifty tn- surgents and Montenegrins attacked the village of Stozer,on the sistof May and destroyed the village. ‘The Turkish loss was 118 regulars and thirty irreg- wlars killed. The Montenegrins lost 111 killed and nineteen wounded. ‘The Prince of Montenegro has gone to the Duga Pass. A FIGHT OMINENT, Am engagement is also expected near Nicsics. The bulk of the Montenegrin 1orces and their whole artillery have come to some place above Nicsics, It 1s supposed that the Montenegrins will make an effort to take Nicsics before Suleiman Pacha can come down through the Duga Pass, which is held by the bulk of the insurgents. A despatch to tbe Political Correspondence, of Vienna, trom Ostrok reports that the Prince of Montenegro has effected teraay for two hours and a balf continuously, A por- tion of the village suflered severely, butthe attempt of the Turks to take the place by agsault was brilliantly repulsed by six companies of infantry, supported by two guns, A great number of the enomy’s dond wero left Inthe roads, We had none killed or wounded, but six Cossacks bave disappeared. ‘To-day the enemy holds out, ‘THe BATTLE SEVORE KARE. On tho 16sh ult, Majer General Komarof made a recounolssance before Kars at the head of a detachment composed of four battalions, two butteries, the ir- regular brigade of Daghestan cavalry, three sotnias of the irregular cavalry of Aloxanaropol and the Karapa+ pash militia ‘The two iast named bodies, which marebed in advance upon the left flank of the detuch- ment, wore attacked by Turks 1,000 strong, supported by eight battalious anda battery, We sent six com- panies of the Daghostan brigade to tue assistance of the bedies engaged, The fighting was very fierco, the men of Dagbestan fighting udmirably with the white troops. The Turks je{t sixty-iour dead upon te fleld. Tn addition to the wounded we captured two prisoners anda great many horses and muskets, We bad one ollicer and twenty cavalrymen killed, five officers and tilty-lour cavalrymen wounded. Among the wounded was Major Geueral Tebélokaiell, of the imperial stall, who commanded the Dagbestang, HOW ARDAHAN WAS TAKEN. The following despatch from the Commander-in- Chief of the Army of the Caucassus to the Eniperor of Russiaon May 19 explains the manver in which the Russians took Ardahan :— Lhave the honor to congratulate Your Majesty on the occasion of the taking of Ardauan, 1 have just re- coived the following despatch trom the Aide-de-Camp, Genera! Louis Melikof:—‘The advanced works of Arda- han, its fortifications, sixty cannon, an immense quan- tity of provisions and aminunition aud the camp, com- prisiog fourteen battalions of Turks, arc ut the feet of 18 Imperial yy ‘Tho adinirable fire of our artil- lery, Kopt up on May 6 from three to six P, M., made a breach in the walls of the place and at six o’clock I decided to make an assault with the regiments of Erivan and Tiflis aad tho sappers of Bakou, The ensiwy, unable to resist our attack, re- treated, leaving a grout many of their dead within the lines. The cavalry started in pursuit, nowwitbstauding the darkness, By nine o'clock in the cveving the troops had overrun the whole city us well as the torti- Hications, the bands playing the bymn ‘God l’rotect the Czar,’ and they celebrated the victory with de- light. Tho staudard of Russia supplauts that of the ‘Turks over the fortifications, “Our losses are not vet exactly known, We believe our losses are ono ofiicer killed and four wounded, thirty soldiers kilied and nearly one hundred an eighty wounded, Asolemn ‘Te Deum’ will be cele. brated to-day in the centre of the fortifications aud in the presence of all the troops.” ‘THE CONDEMNED MOLLIES. APPLICATION FOR COMMUTATIONS OF DEATH SENTENCE. {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1 HanrispurG, Pa., June 4, 1877, To-day petitions were received by the Board of Par- dons from Michael J, Doyle and Alexander Campbell, Molly Maguires, of Carbon county, sentenced to be hanged on the 2lst inst, for the murder of John P. Jones, praying tor a commutation of the death sen- tences to life imprisonment. No applications have reached the Board of Pardons {rom the con- demned Molly Maguires in accordance with the rules of the Board, which requires them to ve filed ten days beiore the regular mecting. pains! os it was announced a few days ago that Gov- ernor Hartrapfs would wot consider applications for reprieve iu the case of the murderers until alter the Board of Pardons bad considered tt, it 1s believed that determined eflorts will be made by friends of a num- ber of the Mollie Maguires under gentenco of death tor postpovement of their execution. The Governor has no further power in the preinises, independent of the Board of Pardons. THE & junction with the corps under General Vakovitz, which holds the Duga Pass, The Turks tried to pre- vent the junction, but were repulsed. A: SICKNESS AMONG THE TURES, . A despatch from Orealuk says a Christian doctor, who desertea irom Trebinje, gives a gloomy ac- count of the condition of the Turkish army. Two thousand four hundred men have died at Trebinje since the campaign began, that city being the hos- Pital depot of the army now concontrated at Gatschko, which consists of thirty-six battalions | of three hundred to four hundred men each. Of these at least half are suffering chiefly from scurvy. There is also much dysentery. The physicians and surgeons” are. subject to fanatical outbreaks of the Mussulmans, are continually men- aced and insulted and never paid. Three thousand men are sick at Mostar, and deserters from Pod- goritza report the same condition of affairs as pre- valling there. The troops are underfed, having nothing beyond the barest means of sustaiming life. They are compelled to work continuously on tne earthworks. The health of the Montenegrin forces SOME PEACE TALK. Ze Nord, the Russian organ at Brussels, pub- lishes aletter from St. Petersburg which says:— “If, after crossing the Danube, Russia is able to conclude a peace and at the same tiine realize her programme, and if the Powers adopt toward Tur- key an attitude sufficiently firm tocomplete the lesson received from the arms ot Russia, then an equitable and dignified peace might be arranged, and the necessity of pushing the war to cxtremes be avoided.” From Pesth it is announced that a communiqué published in oficial papers states that despite her objections the initiative relative to peace must be taken by Russia. SERVLA RAISES HER VOICE. The Servian government has sent the Porte an energetic note declaring it will recover the island of Bujaklie, in the Drina, by force, if the Turks re- iuse to evacuate it. Copies of the circular will be sent to the European Powers. GREECE'S ANGRY ATTITUDE, Ata meeting of 8,000 persons at the Stadium in Athens on Sunday night resolutions were adopted declaring the necessity fur forming a Ministry of leaders of the respective parties, so that dissen- sions in the Chambers may be avoided, and that | the government carry forward military preparations promptly and energetically. A deputation nominated by the meeting waited upon the party. leaders, urged united action, and requested in each case that a distinct reply be made public. The Greek Chamber of Deputies yesterday adopted a resolution calling upon the party leaders to come to an understanding at once about the fermation of a coalition Ministry in view of the extraordinary circumstances in which Greece is now placed, Atelegram from Athens reports that MM. Cou- moundouros, Zaimis, Tricoupi and Deligcorgis held @ long conlerence yesterday and drew up a basis of policy for a Cabinet, of which all four should be members. Jt is stated that to- necessary agreement will be com- | pleted. A despatch from Constantinople | via Athens, says:—“Variiament will be mmediateiy dissolved. The Presidents of the two houses were Sultan discussed with them the best means of closing the Chamber without public scandal.” The Standard understands the Christians of Larhica, in the Island of Cyprus, have asked the British Admiral of the Mediterranean fleet to send a man-of-war to protect them should necessity arise. x | ROUMANIA, THE SUTAN'S COURSE TOWARD THE CITIZ AND \issELS OF THE UNITED PRINCIPALI- ‘TIKB. Wasurxaros, D, C., June 4, 1877. The Turkish Minister at Washington bas notified our goveroment that notwithstaudiag the United Princ:palities of Moldavia aod Wallachia have divre- | garded their obligations to the Sazerain Court of | ‘Jurkey and bave coucluded a treaty with Russa, tho which is to place themselves @ latter’s control in the war agatust Turkey ence ot which the Sultan haus suspended | of their agency at Constantinople), the roinent will vevertheless lion of its faws and a hians residiDg in oF py Turkish extend the (From Lo Nord, Brnssels,} On May 15, the Russian Major General Kraotchouko Teported to St, Peterabury a8 follows:—Two Turkish t CoLumsrs, Ohio, June 4, 1877. | parison with the corresponding date of Inst year, as 9 P.M 78 12 M.... St 80 12 1 iat | Average temperature yesterday... co) Average temperature tor corr | year... 7535 | FOREST FIRES IN MICHIGAN. [BY TELEGRAPK TO THE HERALD. ] Derxoit, June 4, 1877. The forest fires in the lower peninsula ot Michigan extend from Tawas to Harrisonville, a distance of forty miles along the shore of Lake Huron, and for an indefinite distance inland. The destruction of stand- ing Umoer, saw logs banked, fences, farmers’ barns, dwellings, &., 1s very great. No towns are in imme- diate danger, but unless a heavy fall of rain soon comes none can tell where or when the fires will cease. Persons arriving here report the smoke from these fires as b ing very dense and extonding over tho length of © Huron, making all navigation dan- gerous. The firesare raging in Volta, Marquette and School- craft, counties in the upper peninsula, FIRE IN A OHURCH. The Holy Cross Catholic Church im this city was Partially destroyed by fire yesterday. It is suppored the fire was communicated by the drapery of tho altar being blown by the wind into the fiame of the candles, The fire destroyed the altar, and, running along the painted walls to the organ loft, burned the $3,000 organ and the decorations. The loss ts about $6,000; fully insured, PAY OF JUDGES AND SURROGATES. ALnany, N, Y., June 4, 1877. The Govornor has signed the bill to amend the act @atablishing the comwponsation of county Judges and Surrogates. The salary of the New York Surrogato is fixed at $12,000. of Kings county at $10,000, and of the Kings County Judge ut $10,000. ‘oN, Iowa, June 4, 1877. A watorspout this morning flooded the country two miles northwest of this city, causing Hawkeye Creek to suddenly overflow, domg damuge to foundries, ma- chine shops and agricultural works to the extent of several thousand dollars MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. War Derartuent, Orrice ov THe Cuikv SiGyaL Ovricer, Wasuineron, Jane 5—1 A, M. Indications, For Now England rising followed by stationary or falling barometer, northwest to southwest winds, sta- | tionary or lower temperature, clear or partly cloudy weather and possibly occasional showers, P| For the Middle Atlantic States, nearly stationary, followed by falling barometer, noarly stationary or lower temperature, partly cloudy and cloudy weather, with rain areas and winds, variable, but mostly trom southeast to soutuwest For the Sonth Atlantic and East Gulf Statos, tionary or falling burometor, southerly winds, clo: partly cloudy weather and stattonary temperature. Vor tho West Gult States, stationary or falling barometer, stationary temperature, southerly winds, partly cloudy and cloudy weath: ith occasional rains. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, failing barome. | ter, winds mostly from the south, stationary or lower tomporature, partly cloudy and cloady weather, with Tain areas, For the Lowor Missouri and Upper Mississippi val- | leys, falling barometer, stationary or lower tempera. ture, winds variable, bat mostly from the north and east, partly cloudy aod cloudy weather, with rain areas, For the lake region, falling barometer, stationary or lower temperature, partly cloudy and cloudy weather, | with rain areas and winds, variable, but mostly from | the north and cast, The Lower Missouri River will gencraliy rise and the Lower Mississippi fall at and below Memphis, sta- or THE WEATHER YESTERDAY, Tho following record will show the changes tp the temperature for tho past twenty-four hours, in com- indicated by the thermomets Hrranp Building: at Hudnut’s pharmacy, 1874, 1877. 3:30PM . 84 6 P. THE HERALD WEATHER SERVICE, [Prom Le Figaro, May 21.] Tae TesreRaTeRe.—The predictions ofthe New York jouraal, the Herany, appear this time to be too weil | Tealized, Since yesterday evening the tempest was ualoosed and the rain, hail xnd wind have raged over these regions, It bas been announced from the dis- tricts visited yesterday that bailstones have fallen as large as pigeons’ eggs, In many districts the dam- age is cousiderable, The north aud porthweat winds w lust evening still blowing with all their force, let us bepe that the second part of the prognostica- tons of the Amorican journal —of which wo have given the substance—will be realized as the first bas beon, aud that in some days a higher temperature will suc- unboats bombarded this place (cukoum-Kaleb) yes- | geod the storms aud heavy rains which lash ug at presout. | TELEGRAPHIC. NBWS From All Parts of the Wortd. FRENCH MINISTERIAL SEVERITY Funeral of the Honored American, John L, Motley. A PERUVIAN CRUISER CAPTURED. An Alleged Portugese Conspiracy at St. Thomas, {BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. ] Lonpox, June 5, 1877. ‘The Duc de Broglic’s administration in France in- sists on stirring up tho political hornets’ nest, Yester- day the President of tho Municipal Council of Paris, M. Duverdier, was arrested and imprisoned for the offence of alluding to MacMahon in an after dinner specch the other day, The acle d@accusation states that he was inciting to murder and civil war. To say the best for the government this action is unprece- dented, Parties implicated in writing or making speeches having a tendoncy to depreciate or carica- ture the President and his Cabinet have hitherto been allowed to yo on paroie until the trial, Ball was offered by two mombers of the Council, but the gov- ernment, alleging his offeuce to be serious, refused it. He is, therofore, shut up like a common butcher, Duyerdior is a strong man with tho popuiace, and any unjust papichment may produce serious conse. quences, PUNISIENG ANOTHER REPUBLICAN, M. Habenck, a republican, who was) at the head of the press service connected with the exhibition of 1878, has been dismissed from his office, FUNERAL OP JOHN LOTIROP MOTLEY. ‘The funeral of our revered countryman, Jobn Lo- throp Molley, took place at Kensal Green Cemetery yesterday. The cortége passed up Maida Vale and was quite imposing, althouga evory attempt had been made to render itas private as possible, Among the followers were Sir William Vernon Harcourt aod wile and Mr, and Mrs, Algernon Sheridan, Mr. and Mrs, R. B. Sheridan, Lord Houghton, the Duke of atgyle, Joho Bright, dr. and Mrs, Russel Sturges, Mr. Tom | Hughes, the Minister of Belgium and the Netherlands, Mr. Hoppin, Secretary of tho American Legation, and Consul Geucral Badeau., Dean Stanley read the burial service, Mr. Motley’s remains were interred in the same grave as those of his wife, who died two years ago. THR “BARON'S” LAST APPEAL. The case of Twycross against Baron Grant (the Lis- bon tramways matter) has been further appealed tothe House of Lords, Baron Grant's appeal having tailed before the Court of Appeals. A SEA FIGHT AT IQUIQUE, The rear admiral in command of the British naval forces on tho Pacific station bas sent the following message to the Admiralty under date of “Iquique, June 1” :— rs ‘The Peruvian rebel turret sbip Huascar committed piratical ucts against British subjects, Her Majesty's ships Shah and Amethyst engaged her off Ylo on tl 29th of May. She escaped alter dark, but was so dai aged as to surrender to the Peruvian squadron, The: were no British casualties, A YORTUGESH CONSPIRACY DISCOVERED, A despatch trom Lisbon states that a conspiracy has been discovered at St. Thomas, in the Gulf of Guinea, which alimod at a separation of the island from Portu- gal Arms ang documents were found in the house of a well known merchant, which plainly indicated the turn events were to take. Since the publication of the papers found tho merchant alluded to has com- mitted suicide... DAHOMEY PAYS HIS OIL, A tologram via Madeira states that the King of Dahomey paid the One of 500 puncheons of ofl and the blockade was raised on the 12th of May. Two hundred punchcons of this ofl were lost by the wreck of the steamer Gambia. THE INDIAN FAMINE. A despatch from Calcutta says the latest news from the famine districts is much moro cheerful. A general rainfall has greatly improved the prospects, COLOMBIA, BRIGHT PROSPECTS OF ANOTHER REVOLUTION SOMEWHERE—-A FINANCIAL COMMISSIONER NOW IN NEW YORE, Paxama, May 26, 1877. Allis quiet onthe Istumus. General Correoso, who has been expected in Panama from Barranquila for several days, has not yet arrived, and the latest ad- vices state that he has now gone back to Rio Hache with a force to settle matters there with the robel General Farias. The brig Florence, last from Trinidad, with a cargo of arms and ammunition consigned to Messrs, W. P, Maal & Brother, arrived at Aspinwall on the 24th inst, She has on board as supercargo and part owner tne somewhat notorious Captain Gordon, of the steamer Goneral Sherman, which was seized by the Unied States steamer Wyoming in 1873, whtle engaged tn a filibustoring heel pg i against Honduras, The revo- jutiovary General Sevel de Goda has also arrived at Aspinwall, afd it ig suspected that these gentlemen, with (beir war materials, do not mean anything good, But whether their uttention 1s directed to the Istnmus or to Venezuola no one yet knows, = * Dr, Rutael Nutiez, Prosident of the State of Bolivar; and late candidute tor the Presidency of the Colombian Union in opposition to Parra, jerves tor New York to- day by the Etna, It ts understood that he goes on an important tinagcial mission for the national govern. ment. ‘The rainy season has now fairly set In, Tho weather jg very hot and oppressive. The Britis® gunboat Alba- tross 1s the only nad-ol-war at Panama, Tho Swatara has not yet returned to Aspinwall trom Old Providence, VENEZUELA. EX-PRESIDENT BLANCO GOES TO EUROPE AS ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY, Sr, Thomas, May 24, 1877, The late President of the Venezuelan Republic, Genere! Guzman Blanco, has arrived here, and afer a Jorivight’s wtay will proceed to Europe, Ho goes as Envoy Extraordinary to all the courts of Europe. General Blanco states that he lett Venezuola for several reasons, the principal one being that it was said that the new President (Alcantara) was ruling through him (Blanco), and as the revolutionary party might use this as a pretext he preferred, for the sake of the country, toabsent limself. He will probably return to Venezuela to about two years. REGATTA, Puiapeirma, June 4, 1877, The regatta of the’Quaker City Yacht Club took plat on the Delaware River to-day, the course beiug trom Shackamaxen street to Chester and return, The first prize for the first Class was won by the Minervain 3u. Slm,, and the second by the Columbia in 3b, A7in, The first prize for the second ciass was won by the Lillie in 3b, v4m., aud the second prize by the Stella in ah, 46m, ROWING CONTEST. Hauvax, N. &, June 4, 1877, Articles of agreement for a boat race between W: Smith, of Halitax, and Wailace Ross, of St, Jobn, hava p signed by the former and lorwarded to the latter. The ill take place op the 24th of Jaly on the Ken- nebecassie. The stakes are §590 each, Sinith to bo allowed $100 expenses, bee MINING IN THE BLACK HILLS, Deapwoon, June 3, 1877. Plerson’s ten stamp mill, located at Central City, alter a nine days’ ran cleaned up 359 ounces of gold, which is now on exhibition in the window of « bank. ing house tn this city, The ore, 157 tons of whic! wero ernshed, caine from tbe Fairview mine; the vulue Of the retort is $7,100. CANALS LO KEEP SUNDAY, Mostra, Canada, Juge 4, 1877. Proceedings have been tak gnipet the lockmaster and laborers of the Williamsburg Camal for tocking veeselt on Sunday. Jt ia understood that in future tho locks will be closed on that day. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. BANK OF MONTREAL, OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE YEAn's BUSINESS, Monrrear, June 4, 1877. At the annual meeting of the directors of the Bank of Montreal to-day the following report for the year ending April 30, 1877, was made:— Profit and loss balanee at beginning of year. ,. $567,926 Half yearly dividends paid (7 and°6. > ni POF cont)... eearbgensienn s+ s<c GU, SOQRSE Profits atter uliowing for bad and doubtful debts,........ eoeere 1,189,312 Profit and loss balance carried torward...... $199,031 ‘The large falling off in net profits is owing Yo the lower rate of iuterest and beavy !osses; but the rectors, believing the circumstances exceptional, felt justified in using portion of the profit ana loss balance of last year to meet unforseen contingencies, HELD FOR MALPRACTICE, Bostox, June 4, 187%. The Coroner's inquest on the death of Mrs, Mary Douglass, of Dedham, resulted to-day in a verdict of death trom abortion performed by Dr. James Dilling- yan who is held to await the action of the Grand ury, OBITUARY, REY. BALPH BULL. The Rev. Ralph Bull, for thirty years pastor of the Presbyterian church at West Town, Conpv., died on Saturday, aged seventy-four years. He was an alum- nus of Yale College and V’rincetou Seminary, H. 1, REDHEAD. H, L. Redhead, late President of the Brockville and Ottawa and Canada Central railroads, died yesterday at Brockyillo, Ont, SIM HENRY ©. PELLY, A cable despatch from London announces the death of Sir Henry U, Peily, member of Parliament for Hunt- ingdonshire, from. sunstroke, in Hyde Vark yesterday, ENGLAND AND RUSSIA, NO SYMPATHY YOR RUSSIA, To tas Evivor or tun Heray:— Asarogular subscriber to your valuable paper I have carelully perused its columns, noting especially your war articles and the letters of your correspond- entson the above question, Now] confess to boing an Foglishmaa, but have lived for many years in America, and admiring your laws (when carried out), have beéncontent to abide by them. {am bound however, to say that from the opening of this question you have showa the strongest sympathy for Russia, nay, I svould call it prejudice. Now | intend to show that it is pet justified, I have always considered the HERALD the people's organ, but L venture to aflrm that on the Eustern subject it does not represent the feelings of one third of the population of the United States, notwithstanding ‘‘Justitia’s” opinion to the contrary, and whom I very much question being an American, although he calls himself one, Ostensibly Russia bas taken upon herself to assume the protectorate of the Turkish Christians, Now it cannot help but strike any one having a smattering of European history that it would have been far more becoming forthe autocratic Czar to havo instituted means to ancliorate the condition of his own subjects and to have remedied the defects of his own govern- ment, What has been the treatment of the thousands of opposite creeds who have been compolled to conform to the faith of the Russian National Church? They have beon subjected to tho cruelest of tortures, beaten within an inch of death, aud then driven through half frozen rivers to the parish church where their names were entered in petitions praying to be received into the Russian Church, Liberty of conscience in Rugsia is not known; thousands who have been faithtul .o their religion have been riven in exile to Siberia, Clergy- men of opposite creeds are held under the strictest police surveillance, most especially (boso of the Roman Catholic Church, for a whisper of disaffecuion would congigu them to Siberia for life. Crucities too numerous to mention aro practised upon the poor Muscovite peasant who dares presume to know bis own mind. * Look at the unhappy Polos, and bear in mind how many of them ure pining away in Russiao dungeons—ay, at the present time. So the autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire treats bh subjects, ‘There is pleaty of authority for what I have written, and now to Americans | say, is this the country you should waste your gencrous sympathies upon? 1 ven- Vure to allirm that there isnot av Engiishman to-day who would cura if the Ottoman Empire was erased from the map of Europe, but that 1s no reason why our sympathies should be with Russia, who ander talse colors has assumed the protection of the Chris- tian Turk, We look with abhorrence upon the cruel by the Turks upon the poor Curisuen. Wheels within wheels, Mr, Editor. ‘the whole of Burope kuows the Russ too well, and you also will know her in time. I have too strong a faith in your common sense to pay much attention to what my countryman calls your belittling of England, and pass it by as a littie journal- istic chaff, which a slight pull would blow into space, I could say a great dex! on this question, but having relieved my mind for the timo being I content myself by saying, MULTUM IN PARVO, LIVERPUDLIAN TO ‘‘AN AMERICAN.” To Taz Epitor oF THe Heratp:— I do not believe the sympathies of Americans should go to sustain Turkey merely that England might have a road to the East in tho interests of commerce; neither have the English people so expressed the:rr thoughts and desires, Guurantee thom the neutrality of the road to the East is what thoy require; then Turkey to her fate, Apart trom commerce is not [1 land attempting the civilization of India, A careful perusal of Seward’s travels will show this very plainly. Then alter your question in this wise—for we cannot believe were Englandand Russia fighting for possession of India, your sympathies would be with the Does an Englishman imagine that Americans will sustain Tarkey so far that the English toterests of humanity as well as commerce in the East may not be imperilled by Russia’ He will theo answer, Yes. LIVERPUDLIAN, THE SIOUX IN BRITISH AMERIUCA, [From the Montreal Herald. ] From time w time, since the troubles between the United States authorities and the Indians have been going on, we have expressed our belief that the com- plications on the other side the lines would be likely to place us in the position of having to control a num. ber of the hostile Indians whom the exigencies of their case and their own rebellious conduct bad driven acrogs the lines, Several small bands came across @ short time ago, while others, emissaries of Sitting Bull, came over and threatened our own peuce- ful Indians if they would not go over and == help them ry ther confict with the Americans We find from Fort Walsh advices that carly in March Major Walsh came acrosa ja p of the Yankton Ludians about 120 mites west j Ot the fort, Be found the head ghiet of the Tetons and fitty-seven lodges crossing the !ife and making a camp three-quarters of a mile north of the lino und close to the Yauhton camp. He ut once put hin { 19 com- munication with the Teton and Yankton chiefs, and a counct! was belt at which ho was informed that the Todians bud been told by their fathers they woula tind peace in the land of the British, They tiad not bound for years and were wbxious to fad a where they could lie down and fect safe. They were Ured of fiving im such a disturbed site, Being asked ag to their ultimate intentions thoy aflirmed that they bad no tdea of recrossing the lunes to make war, and said they would obey the jaw in this regard, ‘This particularly reters to the Tetons, As to tho Yanktons, the whole of their bands uot having are rived they could pot answer catil after « council nad been held, but it is believed they would return to thoir agency on the other side of Tort Peek. claim that the Sioux are British Indians; that sixty- live yeurs 220 was the first they ever know of being under the Americans. Their futhors were told at tuat ume by a chief of the British fathers thatif they did not want to live under the Americans they could go further north jato British verritory again, They could not tell why the British gave them and their iandsto the Americus. From ehildren they had beon taught that they were British, ‘They had in their cainps todals given thetr fathers by the British for fighting the Americans, with whom they had never made peace. The presence of #0 cousiderable a body of “hostiles’’ among us ts certainly calculated to inspire uneasiness, but Major Watsh believes that the chiela apd old mea will do their best to keep iw the: places those who may be of @ restless temperame | and {t 1s more than porsible that, like the Minnesot: Sioux, who took up their abode with us, they may vecome as quiet as any of the rest of our wards. Although we may not desire their advent, it ts likely we shall have to make the best wo out of i, o A boy named William Valentine, aged oight, of No, 119 East 109th street, was missed from home yestor- day morning. His clothes were subsequently found on the dock at the foot of 109ch street, East River, and late jo the day bis body was found in the Hariem River, A MURDEROUS HUSBAND, severe wound in the bead, which was inflicted wit a vatchet by her basband Daniel, during au altercation yesterday morning. Mrs. Graham hed been visiting friends oo Sunday in Greenpoint and did not return until an early bour yesterday morning. She came back intoxicated and quaarrelied with ber husband. solved the hatcnet end struck ber with it and ran ‘a aii U0 V0 6 lee hour tans ana be bad not been ‘The Tetons | Kate Grabam, of No, 13 avenue B, was lying last | nigat at her residence 19 a dongeroas condition from a | T PROTESTANTISM IN FRANCE, The Paris correspondent of the Pall Malt Gasette . writes:—'The ultramontane party will perbaps some day render justice to the Bishop of Gap and acknowl. edge the wisdom of that prelate in calling upom Catholics vot to embrace any political code in an ab- solute manner, The liberals, irritated with the Church for leaning towara despotic institutions, are become indiflerent or are quitting her all ia Among the iaboring classes in Puris there is a very decided movement in favor of Protestantism, and several of the reformed eburches are atteaded by Catholics, who, without openiy brepking communien with their own Church, prefer the doctrine of Calvin tothe Syllabus. M. Sarcey gives a carious account of a wholesale conversion whic! pears to hav taken place in the Department of the Aim, In the: village of St, Maurice do Gourdans was a school- master who gave general satisiaction to the habitants. He was suddenly removed, at the insti- gation, it is supposed, of ¥ curé. The villagers nt a deputation to their bishop to demand the dise issal of the curé, but the bishop refused wo receive the delegates, Their next step was to go to Lyonsand ask the synod to evangelize their parish, The next Sunday two. pastors repaired to St, Maurice de Gour- dan: nd ali the bigwigs of the place, with the ae at their head, were converted, to the number of 150,” A committee has been formed to receive turther adiie- sions, - At the same time that this episode was passing beyond the walls of tho second city of France the Arche bishop of Lyons was sheneee in sending a pastoral to his clergy op the subject of the tete of the Immacuiite Conception, in this circular the prelate declares that it was solely owing to the protection of the Virgin of Fourvieres that Lyons was saved from the German fn. vasion in 1871, 'y,’ says Monsignor t, ‘saw the prayers and supplicatious of the diocese ascend to ber throne, and with hor hand she drove buck tho ene+ my, who had almost arrived at our gates,’ ”” AN INSANE WANDERER, Some days ago Androw R, xamedale, a clothier, re- siding in Springfleld, Mass, left his nome, Search was mado for bim by his friends, but not the slightest. clew to his whereabouts could be found. Yesterday an unkoown insang man In the cells at Bellovue was found to be the missing Andrew. He said that be hud walked the whole distance to New York, GROWTH OF HOTEL ARRIVALS, Goneral Albert J, Myer, Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, and Joshua Lippincott, of Philadelphia, areat tbe Fifth Avenue, Rev. Dr. W. C, Cattell, Press Ident of Lafayetto College; General William T, Clark, of Texas, and ex-Mayor H. D, Colving, of Chicago, ar at the St. Nicholas, Ex-Senator Daniel P. Wood, of Syracuse, is at the Hoffman. Captain Aaron W. Weaver, United States Navy, and Assemblyman George West, of Ballston, N. Y., are at the Grand Central General J.T, Wilder, of Chattanooga; Chiet Engineer Henry 1. Snydor, United States Navy, and William G, Fargo, of Buffalo, aro at the Astor. Thomas Dickson, Presi- dent of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, and Edwin C. Cushman, of St. Louis, are at the Giisey. Judge Charles 3. 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