The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1877, Page 4

‘4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR LY FERALD, ublished every day in the year. oree conta hay excluded), “tea doltery per Oey Galler per month tor any period less jars tor six mouths, Sunday mB h or Bye. gs a tun inel iree o cut Tasueen bews letiersor telegraphic éespatches must 6 Naw Youre Hxxatp. ettare and Tuckayes should be properly eouiad Rejected ceutmunieations will not be returned. et ealinkie OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— LERDe® atin Fess BAPLES OFFICES NO. ‘Subscriptions and adver AMUSEMENTS “YO-NIGHT, UNION SQUARE TUBATRE—Since BOWERY THEATRE—. GRAND OPRRA LOU; TONY PASTOK'S—Vani COLUMBIA OPLEA HO! CENTRAL PARK GARD! TIVOLI THEATBE—Vaaisty. WITH SUPPLEMENT. “NO TICE TO “ADV. ERTISERS. In future au ecamaecbncs presented Jor pub- lication ajler eight o'clock P. M, wilh Ue charged double rates, Brom our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and cloudy, with rain. Watt Srreer Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- kot continued active and there was a further de cline in prices. This was chiefly noticeable in the coal stocks, which reached their lowest figure as yet. Gold opened and closed at 1053g, with some sales in the interim at 10514. Gov- ernment bonds were lower and railroads were quiet and higher. Money on call lent at.1 a 2 per cent, the lowest rates being at the close. Tune Crry or Hartrorp rejoices in a first tlass defuleation. Its collector of taxes is forty thousand dollars short. Mr. Beecner told the Plymouth Church people how to mect trouble last night. He bught to be an authority. Lovis Rovssrav, who was executed in Louis- lana yesterday, did not die too soon. It was his eighth murder since the war. Two Prize Ficurers pounded each other yesterday for a couple of hours, but the finest police in the world knew nothing about it. GeNeRaL Minus’ latest victory over the In- dians is graphically described in the letter of a United States. officer printed elsewhere this morning. Jerome Park.—Five well contested races were run at Jerome Park yesterday. Should the weather prove favorable to-day some capital Tne Rerresentative Cocorrp MEN of the country, it is reported from Washington, are entirely satisfied with the administration thus far. This will be sad news for Mr. Blaine. Tne Fast Mart Service has been extended to New Orleans. Beginning next Sunday atrain will run from New York to that city in sixty-two hours, which will be a great advantage to busi ness men, Tue Gnocers told their grievances to the Custom House Commission yesterday. Four years ago they tried to obtain redress from Con- gress, but failed. Our statesmen were saving the country then and had no time to attend to the grocers, Brincerort, Conn., was the scene of a terri- ble calamity yesterday, resulting in the loss of eleven lives and the destruction of a large amount of property. What with tornadoes, mining accidents and shipwrecks the summer death record is assuming startling proportions. Mr. Kavanacu Asscres THE Pusiic that cheap cabs will certainly be on the streets in October—one hundred coupés and fifty hansoms. We cannot have them too soon. Similar euter- prises yield a handsome profit in London and elsewhere, and there 18 no reason why they should not pay here. Tue Synpicats.—Mr. Belmont and other bankers, representing the Syndicate to place the government loan, are in Washington in consulta- tion with the Secretary of the Treasury. They are anxious to make a new contract with the department for the purpose of disposing of the four per cent bonds. AN Assurance TO Mexico.—Seior Mariscal, the Mexican Minister, yesterday formally pro- tested against what he called an invasion of Mexican territory; but Secretary Evarts as- sured him that our government has no designs against Mexico, and no des or in- tention of territorial aggrundizement; we do not went our border pe pil laged--that is all. By the way, Mv. Lerdo and Mr. Iglesias, both claiming to be Presidents ot Mexico, at present residents of New York, protest against the administration's policy. Why do not these gentlemen go to the border and put | down these brigands? Then wo should not be put to the expense of doing it. Tux Weatiren.—Tho snow at Bismarck yes- terday morning was in extreme contrast with the conditions thas prevailed there u day or two | ago, when the thermometer stood at above 70 | degrees. But the cold northwest winds follow- ing the depression now moving over the lower Jako region have brought this sudden change, This disturbance is attended by very heavy ruins, which extend from the Upper Mississippi Valley to Tennessee and eastward as 8 Lake | Evie. The temporary clearing up of the weather | experienced here wiust therefore be followed by increasing cloudiness as this vain area advan toward the coust. A very high pressure prevails inthe northeastern districts, with rains on the New Aand und Nova Scotia coast. Vho ten: perature bas risen decidedly ia the St. Law- rence Valley and southward and south- westward through the Atlantic States and the Otio Valley. but in the Missouri and Upper Miusiasippi vaileys it bas fallen consider: sly. | It wis very warm yesterday at veland, Bufialo, Pittsburg, and Burlington, V ch of | which had « terperature of 8O degrees aud up- | ward, ‘The indications in the vicinity of St. Lonis, along the southern shores of Likes Evio | and Ontario, aic favorable for the development of local storms and tornadves. Tho weather in New York today will be warmer and cloudy, erohably with rain. | which could then be sold at par. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1877——WITH SUPPLEMENT. Ways and Means of Specie Pay- ments, We do not donbt that it is in the power of Secretary Sherman to resume specie pay- ments on January 1, 1879, with the means put at his disposal by the act of January 14, 1875, nor that he will do so unless Congress shall provide other methods. It is better to reach a sound currency by means which are clumsy and costly than not to reach it at all, ‘Lhere is conclusive evidence that Secretary Sherman does not consider the method prescribed by the act of 1875 as the most desirable, He proposed at tho last session a Dill author- izing the funding of greenbacks in a long bond bearing a moderate rate of interest, with the avowed object of retiring the surplus greenbacks and dimin- ishing the demands for gold which will be made on the Treasury at the date fixed for resumption, Such a monsure is in accord- ance with the plainest principles of busi- ness prudence and common sense, Why should the ‘I'reasury accumulate a reserve of two hundred millions of gold to be paid out “at one fell swoop” in the first days of January, 1879, when all that trouble and turmoil might easily be dispensed with by so simple an expedient as funding the re- dundant legal tender notes? It would dis- turb all the gold markets of the world with- out any compensating advantage during the process of unnecessary accumulation, and then disturb them again by a great inunda- tionof gold when the dam was removed. It would be much better to gradually bring the greenbacks to par by reducing their amount and thereby save the necessity for hoarding up more gold than may be neces- sary for maintaining the currency at the specie level when it shall have been brought to that level by cheaper methods. Such an act as was proposed. by Mr. Sher- man in the Senate last winter is about all that is necessary for safely bringing about specie payments without any sudden shock to business or perceptible disturbance of the gold market or obstruction from foreign financiers. And yet resumption in 1879 is undoubt- edly practicable without new legislation. The fact that it is practicable, and that this administration is determined to force it by the means in its power if other means are not provided, may bring Congress to con- sent to the previous funding of a considera- ble amount of greenbacks. The present law may be made, in resolute hands, a potent instrument for extorting from a re- luctant Congress a method of resumption which will bear less heavily on the business interests of the country. When Congress finds that the administration is inflexibly determined to resume in 1879 it will proba- bly consent to smooth the way toa result which it would be vain to resist. Ever since the passage of the act of 1875 the inflationists have hoped and the resump- tionists feared that the act would be re- pealed before the date fixed for specie pay- ments. The nurses of the rag baby had no expectation of a repeal during the adminis- tration of General Grant, who certainly would have vetoed a bill for that purpose ; but they hoped that by putting off all measures of preparation his successor might be brought to think that it was too late to keep the pledge and consent to a law putting off the day. But it happens that Mr. Hayes is as stiff and inflexible a champion of resumption as was General Grant, and that the veto of a repealing act would be not less prompt and sure under this administration than it would have been under the last. Congress will, there- fore, be reduced to this dilemma—either to accept resumption in 1879 by a hard, bung- ling method, or to provide an easier and simpler method. Specie payments we are to have at that date in any event, and it is for Congress to decide whether it prefers re- sumption under the law of 1875, which can- not be repealed over President Hayes’ veto, or under a new law which will attain the same end with less trouble to the Treasury and less inconvenience to the public. The act of 1875 provides only two re- sources for redeeming the legal tender notes which may be outstanding in 1879, One of these is the surplus revenue of the govern- ment not otherwise appropriated. This amounts to little practically, —be- cause there is no considerable surplus. As Secretary Morrill said in his annual report to Congress in December, ‘it is not deemed at all probsble that any considerable sum not otherwise appro- priated could be devoted to this end.” ‘The other resource, and the only substantial one available, is (to quote the language of the law) ‘‘to issue, sell and dispose of, at not less than par in coin, either of the de- scriptions of bonds of the United States described in the act of July 14, 1870, to the extent necessary to carry this act into full effect.” At the time this act was passed none of these bonds could have been sold at par, and had that condition of things continued the resumption provided for would be a nullity, ‘This is what the inflationists, who voted for the law, expected and intended; and President Grant, who signed the bill, | evidently thought it of no value as a resump- tion measare, unless Congress could be per- suaded to inercase by further legislation the annual revenues. ‘Lhe President accord- ingly in approving the bill sent in a special message sirongly urging an increase of reve- nue to meet its requirements, apparently attaching no importance to the permission to sell the designated classes of bonds, none of But the five per cent bonds subsequently became marketable and have all been disposed of for refunding purposes, which takes them ‘out of view for the purpose of redemp- tion, The next class, the four and a | half per cent bonds, have also become salable at par, and about two hundred and sixty million dollars of them are not yet disposed of-~an ample amount for | Providing all the gold that will be needed for resamption, Of course if they are sold for this purpose the refunding of the public debt must stop ; but the carly resumption of specie payments is more important than tho immediate refunding of the public debt. plary Sherman is compelled to elect 1 the two he will prefer resumption and postpone refanding. It would be bet- ter, on all accounts, for Congecss to author+ ize him to fund the greenbacks and dispense with o heavy accumulation of gold for the purpose of redeeming them ; but if he is not permitted to do this he will sell the four and a half per cent bonds and hoard the proceeds in the Treasury to be paid out for the wholesale redemption of greenbacks in January, 1879. Resumption is so great a good that it is worth having even by this clumsy method, and when Congress finds that resumption will inevitably come by this method if a better is not provided that body may be disposed to listen to reason and facilitate a result which it has no power to prevent. We have no doubt that President Hayes and Secretary Sherman will retain the strong grip on this question given them by the law of 1875. “The Pres- ident has only to put his foot down firmly on attempts to repeal that law to. make him master of the sit- uation, The law as it stands is mandatory and imperative, absolutely re- quiring resumption on the 1st of January, 1879; and the fortunate ability to sell the four and a half per cent bonds at par will furnish sufficient means. Other means are more desirable, and Congress will probably grant them when it finds that no amount of kicking and squirming can shake the pur- pose of the President as to the main object or as to the date, Russia’s Success in Armenia. Mukhtar Pacha ‘is apparently on the run for Trebizond. ‘The report by way of Con- stantinople that he has decided not to de- fend Erzeroum puts the case very mildly; but the facts that the Russians are in force in the neighborhood of Olti, and that their cavalry is not far from Baiburt, indicate the peril of his communications, and furnish the most solid reasons for his decision to put the Kap Dagh between him and his en- terprising and victorious foe, From the tone of the despatches it may be thought that the Russians will be forced to storm the heights northwest of Erzeroum, reforred to as thepresent position of the Ottoman army; but, in fact, they can get the doughty Mukhtar out of that position by the same bloodless method that has forced him from Erzeroum, for the Valley of the Tchoruk Su, which the Russians have open to them, will lead them in rear of every position on his line of retreat os far as the Kolat Dagh, which is the last range of heights between him and the sea. With Mukhtar driven to that height and held there as tightly as the garrison of Kars is held in its place, all Armenia will be open to the Rus- sians. Kars will necessarily fall, and there will be only irregulars to impede their progress at any point, and these they will put down with effective severity. Indced, the imminent fact is that the Ottoman resistance in Armenia is to snffer sudden and almost absolute collapse ; that it is to be shown to the world that the Ottoman Empire in Asia is merelya name. his fact does not seem to be yet observed or recognized in England except in the highest quarters. ‘There it is plainly seen, and it is the cause of the anxiety in regardto Egypt... It is the reason why organs, especially inspired, urge the immediate seizure of that country. Before the full effect of Russia's sweeping success in Armenia is recognized every- where Russia will not object to England’s occupation of Egypt. After that success is recognized, when it is seen that the Otto- man Empire ‘‘is a shell,” Russia might take a different view. Hence the advice that England should seize her opportunity. Coincidently with the agitation of this sub- ject in England it will be noted that the tion with Prince Gortschakoff, presents views in regard to Russia’s disposition to make peace which leave no doubt of her intention to exact the utmost results of suc- cess, Some Ohio Politics. Governor Young, of Ohio, has written a letter explaining his reasons for refusing another nomination, which almost makes us sorry that he has declined. He says he is too poor and the Governor's salary too small to allow him to take the place for another term. That shows him a sensible man, If only all our fellow citizens who cannot afford it would go out of political life a great number cf helpless women and children would be saved from disagreeable struggles with gentee! poverty, and a good many ambitious men would preserve them- selves from inevitabl> disappointment. In this country of smal salaries for political services no prudent man can enter public life unless he has at least a moderate com- petence. Governor Young pltases us also by recog- nizing the fact that “in the next campaign there will be none of the old time issues.” The rag baby, he says, is dead; the Hayes Southern policy will be enthusiastically ap- proved by the Republican Convention,” he adds, and ‘the dolla: of our fathers,” he asserts, is favored ly both parties. We wonder if ‘the leading men of both parties” remember that the dlver ‘dollar of our fathers” was worth generally about three cents more than + gold dollar, and whether they intend to give it the value which “the fathers” guve it? Of course the Gowrnor gives the dem- ocrats a slap for their impudence in being pleased with the President's policy. We donot quite understand, however, what he means by saying that the Southern policy is ‘‘at presert deemed a success.” But, a8 it is to be “indorsed” by the Con- vention, this does mt matter. Mr. Young thinks the campaign will concern men rather than measurms, and in that case we make our complimeats to both parties, and “May the best man vin Senator Jonew’ Two weeks ago sur Washington corre- spondent reported that Senator Jones, of Nevada, favored a 1ew financial plan pro- posing an irredeemible paper currency and | the total abolition d gold and silver coi. The story seemed s+ improbable that it was not generally credted; but it is now re- ported that Mr, Jores has prepared a con- stitutional amendrent, to be submitted to Congress in Octoter, providing that irre- | deemable paper noney shall be the only currency of the caintry, and that it shall be issued at the rac of twenty dollars per Nord, an organ in more or less direct rola- ' head of the population, the amount to be fixed by an annual census. Mr. Jones began his Congressional career by a brilliant speech on the tariff; he was then a hard money man. But he seems to have got a bee in his bonnet. He ought to go home to Nevada for a few months and talk with the miners, The air of his moun- tains might clear away some of the cobwebs. The Mormon Prosecutions to Go On. District Attorney Sumner - Howard, who has been engaged in investigating the Mountain Meadows massacre, is in Wash- ington and has been for some days in con- sultation with the Attorney General, who is so impressed with the facts Mr. Howard has laid before him that he has authorized the expenditure of a’sufficient sum of money to secure the attendance of witnesses before the Salt Lake Grand Jury, some of whom are to be summoned from California and others from points as far East as Illinois. Mr. Howard also saw the President, who promised him the fullest support. He as- sured the President, it seems, that additional troops were needed in Utah to maintain the peace and enforce the laws, if the prosecu- tions are to continue; and in this he is con- firmed by a report we have seen of a leading Mormon’s interview with General Crook. This Mormon assured the General that there was not the least danger of trouble, unless an attempt was made to arrest Brig- ham Young; in that case the Mormons, it seems, would resist. It may be well to be prepared for this emergency. Of course, if there should be no more investigations everything would be lovely. But Mr. How- ard returns to Salt Lake assured of the ad- ministration’s ‘thorough support. Ifthe evidence ho will now bring forward should lead the Grad Jury to indict Brit ham Young He! would hhve ‘to'be cert Why not? if'it shiould be (proved ‘that’he had ordered the murder of the ‘emigintits, or had “permitted ‘it, he would Thive to be hanged. Why not? We can- not see that Brighain Young, if he should turn out to bo o murderer, would be any better than any other mur- derer, Mr. Howard, by the way, speaks highly of the value of the Heraxp's Utah reports, and says our effort to expose the iniquities of the Mormon leaders has the sympathy of the respectable people in the Territory. We should hope so. An Ovation to Governor Robinson. Arrangements have been made by the democrats for giving Governor Robinson the most showy and flattering reception ever tendered to a chief magistrate of the State on a visit to this city. Such an ovation will be a new experience for Governor Robinson ; but we trust he is too solid and sturdy a man to let his head be turned by it. ‘Tam- many Hall has been bent on capturing him ever since his inauguration, it being the aim of that ambitious and unscrupulous organiza- tion to control the politics of the State as well as of the city. There are people who think that the espousals between the Governor and Tammany were arranged during the session of the Legis- lature, and that he is to come to New York on Monday in the character of a bride- groom to eélébrate ‘the ‘marriage’ festival. We would fain believe that tho affair has not yet gone so far, and that Monday's ova- tion is merely a mode of continuing the courtship. We wish no ill to the demo- cratic party and should be sorry to see the rural branch of it inveigled into subservi- ency to Tammany Hall. The great ovation so elaborately arranged for Monday tends in that direction, and Tammany hopes to seduce by flatteries a man who would be impervious to grosser forms of intrigue. But it would be a fatal error for Governor Robinson to permit himself to be cajoled into a surrender of hié in- dependence by the seductive attentions of which he is to be made the object. It would be bad for his personal reputation, which has heretofore been high and enviable, and bad for the prospects of the democratic party of the State, which cannot afford to march as captives at the chariot wheels of triumphant Tammany Hall. The undoubted purpose of this grand ovation is to cement such an alliance be- tween the city and the rural democracy as will install Tammany as the ruling influence in State politics. Such an alliance, once established and known, will cost the détho- cratic patty of” the State a hundted thousand votes in the next election, Tammany Hatl—both the. ame ‘and ‘the | thing—is a stench in ‘the ‘nostrils of rival voters. if, a8 a result of this ovation, the Tammany chiéfs shall control the next Dem- ocratic State Convention, everybody will see that the whole party cuddles together under the Tammany blanket. Governor Robinson ought to understand the senti- ments of the rural districts too well to be- lieve that such an association can promote tho interests of his party. The Tammany chiefs have still another object in their attempts to capture Governor Robinson. ‘They have found Mayor Ely a little too independent, and they hope to bring him into the traces by gentle coercion from the rural democratic leaders. If they succeed in consum- mating the union which they project between the city and the country democracy they expect to be in a position to say to Mayor Ely that he must choose between be- longing to the democratic party and stand- ing outside it. If he afterward persists in his refusal to make such nominations as ‘Tam- many dictates they mean to bull-doze him and read him out of the party. We trust he has too much self-respect and manliness to succumb to such tactics, and that he will not be swerved from his sense of right by this coalition if it should be successful. ‘This cajoling ovation to Governor Robinson is a movement that needs watching by all democrats who think they have any claim to be peers and not vassals. Of Course. Here comes the Hon. Ben Hill, head down and tail up, and we trust everybody will now climb on the nearest fence as quickly as possible. Mr. Hill wants a convention to make over the Georgia constitution. He complains of the present instrument be- cause “it brands the late war as a rebel- lion” and because ‘it declares that para- to cue national government.” All this, the telegraph reports, in a recent speech at La- grange. Mr. Hill is notoriously the best talker to Buncombe in the whole of Georgia. Nobody need imagine that he believes all he seems to be saying. He is at bottom a very sensi- ble man, and he knows that the late war was a rebellion, and that every Georgian, just as every New Yorker, does owe paramount al- legiance to the federal government. But he wants a constitutional convention, and so he is giving those reasons for it which he im- agines will carry his point, Thatisall, Only, is it quite right in so eminent a man, soable @ man, so sensible a man, to go about among his fellow citizens uttering balderdash? He has just been elected to the Senate for six years, and no Presidential election is at hand. What is the use? Mr. Hill made a good deal of campaign thunder for the ree publicans in the winter of 1875-6. Why not, as the street boys say, ‘give us a rest?” From the D. and the Duga Pass. The latest despatches from the Russian side of the Danube show that active prep- arations continue for the invasion of Bulgaria at more than one point. On the other hand, the Turks are making dispositions of their troops with a view to contingencies which, judging from the distribution of their forces, are not antici- pated with the liveliest satisfaction. The flotilla on the Danube, on which the Turks reposed great confidence, appears to be utterly worthless, We believe that want of fuel has a great deal to do with this con- dition of affairs, because otherwise it would reflect disgrace on the Turks that they do not boldly employ their gunboats to interrupt the preparations for crossing the river. Montenegro still continues the war. The Duga Pass is not yet forced by the Turks, and Ali Saib has retired on Spuz after his defeat at Maljat. The rumor that England is considering the purchase of Egypt will add another complication to those that vex Europe at present and does not inspire much confidence in the hope of pence. The Tur- kish blockade of the Russian ports proves a failure, and we are tempted to inquire where is Hobart Pacha and his invincible armada? The Czar is now in- stalled at Ploejesti as Commander-in-Chief of the Russo-Roumanian Army. Quackery in the Professions. The novel spectacle was presented in the Marine Court on Thursday last of a plaintiff nonsuited through such gross neglect of his case that the Judge on the bench thought fit to administer to the attorney a severe rebuke for his alleged incapacity. ‘There is a lesson in this incident. We are altogether too lax in our admissions to the Bar, as well as to other professions. Ex- aminations are in some instances considered such mere matters of form, or in others made such farces, that almost any incom- petent person may get through. A great deal of mischiefis done through legal quack- ery. People are led into litigation need- lessly and hopelessly, or defeated in just Silits owing to'the iticapacity of the lawyers they consult or employ. We have too many practitioners at the Bar who would not be there if they had to pass a thorough ex- amination before admission. The evil is worse when it affects the medical profession. It is not unusual .to see a batch of four or five hundred young practitioners turned out from the several New York colleges at one time, and let loose to hang out their signs if they please, and armed with their diplomas, to practise on unfortunate hu- manity. It is bad enough to lose a law suit through the incapacity of a legal quack ; it is much worse to lose life or health through the ignorance of a medical quack. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Randall ts gotting fleshy. Don Piatt is in Cincinnati. Conkling refuses to talk politics, C. J. Vanderbilt is sammering at Yonkers, Justice Bradley is holding court in Alabama. Governor Walker has been talking with Bayes. Bret Harte is going buffalo hunting if he caa got up a party. Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massaebusetts, is going to Europe. Tne New Zealanders thought that Mra, Scott-Siddons was n Shrewsbury, Evarts’ brain is like a baseball ground on which the gontences are all long stops, George William Curtis will go to bis summer resi- dence at Ashfield this month. Mr. Goorge H. Pendleton, of Ohio, arrived at the Now York lust evening from Nowport, Chiet Judge Santord E. Church, of the New York Court of Appeals, is at the Metropolitan, Sitting Buil wants not only to smoke, but actually to be a pipe of peace, Peace to his ashes, Miss Runyans, of West Virginia, cloped with aman and ho hung her to a tree by the roadside, Lieutenant Fred Grant has been detailed to select a mail route from tho Missourt River to the Biack Hills. Wo have put of buying a pair of dumb bells for ex- ercise. It will soou be time to siam around at mos. quitoes. When Gall Hamilton went for Joe Medill he felt like aseven-by-nine bunch of rhubarb boiled down to a sauceriul, Worcester Sauce:—“'We suppose that the milk of a bob-tailed cow may be appropriately referred toas the lack-tailed flaid.”? Newark Call:—“If you want to find a Newark police. man strike the first trail of peanut shells you come across and follow it up,’? Snoody ate green gooseberry ple yesterday noon and vecame the Inside of a mustard plaster lust evening, and now he sings, “Old Gripes is dead.” A Virginia republican says that if you put to an ox- Confederate the question, “Is there anything you ro- gret about the late war except your dofeat?”’ ho will inevitably answer +No,”? 'Yho cable says that the great difliculty with which Rugsia will have to grapple is the want of money. Then, probably, Russia will not ve able to take a vaca- tion this year with the rest of us. London Fun:—"Lady—'The kale was not done enough yesterday.’ Cook—'l know you said so, bat there was four witnesses against yor, for my mother and sister was bere tu dinner, and there’s Lizor and me—anod twas dono beautiful,’ ” Norwich Bulletin: “Nothing so thoroughly pleases a man who has learned that a collection is to be taken in his church on Sunday morning, and who has con: quently been unable to be presont on account of a severe pan in his back, as to attend the evening sor- vice and hear the clergyman announce that ‘as many who desired to give were not present atthe morning collection it will now be repeated,’ ”” Cincinnati Enquirer (Stupid editorial) :—“Thero is an ancient rhyme—ot doubtiul authenticity—about a ce: tain hen of uncommon fecundity, which laid two eggs each day and on the Sabbath three, But this waya barron old lady in comparison with the astonishingly prolific fowls of New York, as appears by the conclud- tug clause of this from the HeRaLv:—‘A correspundent ‘wants to Know how Wo prefer to purchuse eggs—by tho quart, pound or dozen, Perhaps they are botter by the quart for milk punch, but for domestic use we mount allegiance is due by every Georgian prefer them the way they are laid—by the dozen,’ ”) THE WAR. Visit of the Czar to the Prince of Roumania, ADVANCE ON ERZEROUM. Armenia Practically in the Possession of Russia. IS THIS FOR AUSTRIA? Another Immense Levy of Men Ordered by the Ozar. ENGLAND TO ABSORB EGYPT. The Montenegrin Campaign Still in Progress. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. ] ; Lonpow, June ¥, 1877. The mecting between the Czar and Prince Charles of Roumania has been looked for- ward to as an event of considerable impors tance in its influence upon the future con- duct of the war. The Hxnatp special core respondent at Bucharest telegraphs that the Emperor Alexander arrived from Ploejesti at noon yesterday (Friday), with his entire military and diplomatic suite. The demon- strations were enthusiastic in the extreme, The streets of the Roumanian capital were decorated with flowers and flags, and relig- ious and civic ceremonies occurred. THE ROYAL PROCESSION, The Roumanian authorities joined the grand procession, which included sixteen carriages. The first vehicle contained the Czar, the Princess Elizabeth and the Princes Vladimir and Sergius. The second car- riage was occupied by the Czarewitch, the Grand Duke Nicholas and Prince Charles of Roumania. Other carriages followed, con- taining Prince Gortschakoff, General Nepo- koitschitoky, Chief of Staff; the Russian Minister of War, the Roumanian Foreign Minister, Generals Ignatieff and Souvaroff and many others. SCENES IN THE STREETS, One hundred thousand people were in the streets, having gathered from all the neighboring country to see the Czar of all the Russias. The Czar received many depu- tations during the day, and to all was ex: ceedingly affable. His Imperial Majesty seemed to be in the best of humor and thoroughly satisfied with his reception, RETURN TO HEADQUARTERS. ‘The Czar returned to Ploejesti on aspecial train early in the evening, where a grand illumination was given in his honor. The gardens of the buildings occupied by the imperial party were hung with lanterns. The weather throughout the day and even- ing was superb, From all that can be gathered at headquarters a perfect under- standing was arrived at between the Czar and the Prince, and hereafter nothing will be likely to oceur to mar the good feelings existing between the temporary invaders of the friendly territory and the inhabitants, A STATE OF SIEGE, The Henatp Vienna correspondent fure ther confirms the statement forwarded yes« terday that a state of siege has been pro claimed at Bucharest, Galatz, Giurgevo and Ploejesti. DEFENCE OF THE DANUBE. From the Turkish side it is announced in Vienna that at Shumla an army of 60,000 men is being concentrated to defend the Danube shore at the points near there at which it seems probable that the Russians will cross. IMPOTENCY OF THE TURKISH FLOTILLA, The Heraxp correspondent at Rustchuk telegraphs that a portion of the Turkish fleet is blocked in the Upper Danube, and that another portion is in even ® worse con« dition near the mouth of the river, below Ibrail. Thus the passage of the enemy (the Russians) above ‘Tultcha cannot be pres vented, and all the hopes of great deeds from the Turkish Danubian flotilla oid iair to prove utterly delusive. BULGARIANS, REMEMBER BATAK ! The Turks are also in great fear of a gen- eral uprising of the Bulgarians, who have not forgotten the horrors perpetrated upon their countrymen at Batak. Throughout many of the larger towns of Bulgaria the news of the fall of Ardahan was received with wild demonstrations of satisfaction and cries of “Long Live the Czar!” The Turks threaten more horrible butcheries, but the first outrage of the kind will set the the country in open rebellion. THE DEFENCE OF RUSTCHUK. A despatch from the Heraup commit! sioner at Pera says that the whole popu! tion of Rustchuk will be ordered out construct a new railway terminus at greater distance back from the Danube, t gether with several switch lines to the riv banks, for the speedy forwarding of troo and war materials from one point to anothe THE ADVANCE ON ERZEROUM. The news from the seat of war in Ai Minor is rather meagre. The