The New York Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1877, Page 6

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EMBER 26, 1877, “Toate © hace 0 ico Insure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely necessary that they be handed in before eight o’ bia every evening. From our Wenocty has ee morning ‘the probabilities ave that the weather to-day in New York and its vicinity will be wa Wat Sree Wall street was active and there Was a general recovery in the prices of stocks. Gold fell trom 10314 to 1031g. Government and State bonds were steady and railroads quict. Money on call Jent all day at 5 a 6 per cent, with the closing rate at 5 per cent. Ecuty-one Tnousanp PasseNcens sailed from this port during the past year. More than one- fourth landed in England. Tue PRESIDENTIAL Panty was warmly wel- comed and pleasantly entertained at the home of Jefferson yesterday. WILKESBARRE is exceedingly rejoiced at the action of the miners in that vicinity, who have sensibly ended the long strik An Importaxr Porst has been decided by a referee in a bankruptey proceeding—namely, that a promissory note is not a valid gift as ayainst creditors. Davis, THE Connecticut Prison KEerer, who was bribed by some convicts to uid in their es- cape, has been captured and is now behind the bars he formerly gua Rosuery is reported this morning, and, as in the case of the Cortkind Bank, the depositors are the only sufferers. The to say the least, a little strange. NT COMMANDER Banker, who, has been searching for sailors supposed to have been shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean, reports that he could find no trace of them and that the re- port was erroneous. Ex-Governor Brown, ot ‘Tennessee, emphat- ically contradicts a number of reports im regard to the Texas Pucitic people, who, he says, will considerately allow the next House to organize without their interfé No AGREE. a the city authorities and the ferry companies. The decision of the Sinking Fund Commis- sioners, who ‘© the adjustment of the dispute, will be watched with interest. Du eding Justice is making himself and his Court exe y ridiculous. He ought to know that the police officers will-obey the orders of their superiors, and if the rules is judicial establishment are violated he certainly should hold the Commissioners, and uot the policemen, responsible. It is to be hoped the shysters ap- interest. Tue Suarr Action Berar PLevxa which was the result of Osman Pach: inquisitivencss regarding the strength of the I ans forins the subject of an interesting letter from our cor- respondent. Although there is a sameness about Dattle descriptions that becomes monotonous this letter is enlivened by an account of a brill- jaut cavalry skirmish in which the Russians won much credit. It is a notable fact thatu correspondent attached to a besieging army gains little information except of what transpires im- mediately around him, and we can readily un- derstand how willing he always is to brave any amount of fati; and vexation for the sake of capturing a sti t.—The Gonditions prevailing in the Gulf indicate that the eycloue which was re- ported yesterday as approaching Jamaica in ite westerly movement has made some progress. But we do not believe that the storm will pass westward of the 90th. meridian, and it will prob- ably veach the apex of its northward curve about the western end of the island of Cuba. The ba- rometer this moruwiog was highest on the Middle Atlantic coust amdJowest in Dakota, The winds on the South Atlastie and Gulf coasts continue northe: rly and easterly, respecti with light rains. In all other districts the south- erly and southwesterly, except in Minnesota, where they are northerly. Morning fogs pre- vailed yesterday im the Ohio Valley, Minnesota und on the Middle Atantic coast. The tem- perature has risen in the districts cast of the ssissippi. River und fallen somewhat west of that Jino. Cloudiness prevails in the Missouri Valley, in the upper luke region and in the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States. Weather reports from the European Coutinent announce unseasonable eudd und heavy rains in the northern sections of the Continent. The re- tent storm which left our coasts in the early part of the month has descended to Southeastern Europe, and heavy rags add to the hardships of | the eumpaign in Bulyuria, A storm is now mov- ing toward the British Islands across the th Atluntic, ‘TheCanadian Meteorological Depurt- ment will extend its system of observation to seventy-itve points of Qnebee, in addition to those in the lower and maritime provi nfter the Ist of October, The weather i York and its vicinity to-day»will be warm and fair. te the gallant fight Mr. Duffy is making in | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1877.—TRIP!.R SHEET, New York and New Jersey. The republican journals and party lead- ers of New York and New Jersey show a strange hostility to the President's South- ern policy. That policy is not only prac- tically successful, but it has been so gen- erally accepted by the people that, in the public mind, the Southern question is dead, the settlement is final; and yet a considerable number of influential parti- sans treat it as a live question, refuse to approve of the Southern policy, and in some quarters even utter threats of de- feat to the party if any one shall insist on its committal to this policy. They are willing enough to fight shy of it, as Mr. Blaine did in Maine; they do not refuse even a few empty and half insulting compliments to the President's good inten- tions, phrases which praise his honesty at the expense of his good sense and patriot- ism. But they carefully and absolutely re- fuse to commit themselves to the justice, the constitutionality, the wisdom or the good results of the policy, although by the great mass of the Northern people these are unreservedly admitted. What does all this mean? The political leaders and managers who take this course are not rash, hot-headed or bigoted men, but quite the contrary. They are men of the world; they are shrewd politicians who know very well that it is not usually wise for a party to quarrel with the administra- tion which it has put in power. Nor are they illogical or muddle-headed men. They profess to be alarmed and outraged at what they call the ‘solid South ;” but they know very well that it is their own attitude on this Southern question, and that alone, which can keep the South solidly united in one party. That is the plain fact. The Southern vote will remain ‘‘solidly” demo- cratic only so long as it has reason to fear that the republican party, if it should win in 1880, would re-establish the carpet-bag policy of‘the last eight years; and the repub- lican leaders who reject the President's Southern policy or condemn him with faint praise do give just cause for these fears in the South, they and they alone. That is to say, these Northern republican opponents of the Southern policy, pretend- ing to fear a ‘solid South,” are doing pre- cisely that which alone can force a contin- uance of this great evil. Nothing is more necessary, in the political sitnation, than a division of parties in the Southern States. What is needed there, for the good of those States and of the whole country, is the division of the white vote into two-parties, each containing a portion of the intelligent and property owning voters. While the misrule of carpet-bag gov- ernments supported by federal troops lasted it was impossible to bring about such ao division, because the whole community was perforce united in opposition to this scan- dalous maladministration. If the republi- can lenders had at once and zealously accepted the President's Southern pol- icy no one who knows the South doubts for a moment that one of the first and immediate results would have been the appearance of a respectable, honest and influential administration party {in all those States, Tho temptations of federal office, the desire to be on good terms with the ad- ministration, the natural divisions of senti- ment.and policy in so great a population new questions will break ‘aun the old party lines and force new combinations and new fellowships. The Southern question is dead. No convention talk can revive it. Far 1 can 4 combination of political ‘‘soreheads” prevent the permanent pacification of the country, or keep back the new issues which are pressing to the front. Opinions of Staniley’s Discevery. In our cable despatches will be found some expressions of the opinions entertained in Europe of what has been done by Stanley in his latest achievement in Afriea. One of these opinions is from Professor Kiepert, of the University of Berlin. Kiepert is one of the highly distinguished geographers of Europe, and in this branch of science is reputed a learned man in Germany, where people do not get such a reputation on a lit- tle knowledge, His opinion is, therefore, one of real value. His declaration on the object of Stanley's journey was that the ;actual es- tablishment of the identity ofthe Lualabaand the Congo would be the greatest feat in geo- graphical discovery ever accomplished by any single individual. Stanley's dis- covery, therefore, is, as weighed in this mature and capable judgment, an achievement of the first magnitude in exploration. It will be seen that this opin- ion differs widely from those expressed by the great geographers who write for some of our contemporaries. On all hands men who are either capable judges or who are them- selves distinguished for their courage and would all have concurred to bring about this result. ‘The assurance that the repub- lican leaders believed in the justice and the necessity of the new policy would have re- lieved entircly those fears for the future which alone can maintain a ‘‘solid” politi- cal South. The great and serious mischief which is done to the South and to the country by the rejection of the new policy by an influential wing of the party is that it keeps alive the fears of the Southern people and prevents political disintegration there. When Messrs. Robeson, Foster, Kilpatrick and others at Trenton declare openly against that policy ; when at.Rochester other influential partisans take the same ground, what do they in effect say to the Southern people? They give plain notice that while for the moment they can- not resist or interrupt the President's pol- icy it has not their confidence or approval, but that if they can they will over- throw that policy and re-establish the old system with allits evils and wrongs. They declare that they mean to keep open this Southern question; that they do not regard the present settlement as final, but hold themselves at liberty to begin a new interference whenever they may have power, And with that threat suspended over the heads of the South these gentlemen cry out against a ‘solid South.” Giving them the credit they deserve for common sense, it is impossible to believe that they do not see how illogical is their course. It is far easier to believe, what has | ‘already been hinted in some republican | quartets, that the real object of this re- markable political manwuvre is to keep the two sections in wn attitude of suspicion toward each other, with a view of repeating in 1880 the extraordinary political campaign of last year, and once more making a can- vass by an appeal to the fears, the preju- dices and hatreds of the North. ‘A solid South means a solid North,” a prominent | republican politician once said. Is it possi- ble, then, that the desperate hope of secur- ing a “solid North” in 1880 animates those cent policy of pacification? We hesitate to | believe that so disereditable a purpose lurks in the minds of even the most extreme fac- tionists.. Such “playing with fire” would bring down on them the wrath of the people if they were discovered. But it matters Jittle, atter all, what party leaders reduced to desperation may attempt. It would be most propitious for the tuture | ofthe republican party if its leading men heartily accepted the new policy, for this ‘would prove that they are really the friends of reform, and it would powerfully assist | the patriotic purposes of the President. Their opposition, while it may embarrass him, must be ruinous to them, It places them before the country in the attitude of obstructionists--of men who oppose the pacificatign which the people desire and welcome. But it is useful to remember that these struggles of a moribund political | partisan leaders who now reject the benefi- | organization have but little real importance, i The new questions are coming up, and the | success in exploration unite in generous and almost enthusiastic congratulations to the explorer. Captain Burton's word of welcome is hearty and manly, and in the voice of the press throughout Europe there is heard only the same tone of high appre- ciation and praise, Justice in Court. There are few things more thoroughly scandalous than an ordinary trial in our courts, and the trial of Inspector Grace for a roffianly assault upon General Sharpe is so markedly in contrast with the ordinary proceedings in our tribunals as to consti- tute a class by itself in the annals of metro- politan justice. Without reference to the merits of the case, which are so plain as not to call for comment, we desire to say that the manner of the trial affords a brilliant exception to what is ordinarily furnished on such occasions, Commonly trials of this sort degenerate into new assaults ten times worse than the one it is proposed to punish, and a court of justice becomes an arena in which the counsel on one side simply en- deavors to outbully the counsel on the other side, Only a few days since a counsel said on n public trial, ‘‘We have frightened off one of these complainants, and if the Court will give‘us time we will frighten off the other.” ‘That is the spirit of justice in our tribunals, and the Court always gives them time. Whether it is because the Court is frightened at these bullying advocates, or because it is ignorant of its duties, or whether it is a little of both, we cannot say. We only know that the result is shameful.. It was evidently the intention of counsel in the case to which we refer to go into an ex- tended series of Custom’ House- scandals which had no relation to the case before the Court, but whieh it was thought would “frighten off” the complainant. Judge Sutherland refused to give time, and simple justice was done. It would be good for the city if more judges knew as well what they are on the bench for. Sitting Bull’s Convention. If the reports sent from Montana Terri- tory are correct, Sitting Bull is about to hold a grand convention in Canada, to which he appears to have summoned not only Chief Joseph, but the chiefs and braves of nearly a dozen other bands. When these warriors meet they will proba- bly consider the merits of the President's policy—his Indian policy, we mean, of course; and if Sitting Bull has really said what is reported of him, that the United States officers are all liars, it is easy to see that the platform of the convention will not contain such an approval of the President's policy as the administration would like. We think it doubtfal, however, that Sit- ting Bull has used the obnoxious expression imputed to him. He is a remarkably silent man and it will probably turn out that the harsh words reported were used by some of his overzealous adherents, We hope much from the influence of General Terry, the ad- ministration delegate to Sitting Bull's con- vention. If he cannot get the convention to ndopt a hearty approval of the Presi- dent’s policy, he may at least persuade it to pass the whole subject over after the fashion set by Mr. Blaine in Maine, and content itself with a few resolutions on the supply of buffalo meat, the necessity of more blankets as winter is approaching, and the policy of keeping your powder dry. Reinforcements for the Frontier, The Hexatp's San Antonio correspondent reports that Gencral Ord has instructions to raise several regiments of Texas State troops tor service on the frontier at once, and that he has gone to Austin to consult with the Governor. Our Mexican neighbors are in such a nervous condition of mind ; that this report will doubtless fling them into profound, but, in our judgment, en- tirely needless agitation. We understand that by agreement between Generals Ord and Benavides our troops are to guard the western and by far most difficult part.of the border line—that part which is exposed to incursions by hostile Indians. For this service the few regulars now on the border are entirely insuflicient, and no doubt the troops now to be raised are to help them. Final Words About the Ohio Clerks. The President has spoken the final words ubout those Ohio clerks whose political necessities have engaged the attention of an unhappy country for the last ten days. Being asked at Atlanta whether it was true that these unfortunates would be expected or coerced to subscribe to the campaign fund or to go home to vote Mr. Hayes re- | plied at once that there was not the least truth in such reports; “The clerks know perfectly well that they are not expected to pay money or do anything of the kind re- ported.” That is decisive, and now we hope everybody, including the Ohio clerks, will know that the President means what he says. A Bresthing Spelt an the. “Bast. For the moment the fighting in Bulgaria has come to a standstill. Mehemet Ali has not renewed his attempt against the Rus- sian leit, because he ‘bas found it well de- fended and because the Turkish soldier is less at home in the assault than in the de- fence of places, and the commander does not see his way to success. Before Plevna the Russians and Roumanians are exhausted for the offensive by their late terrible failures, while Osman Pacha, no doubt desperately hurt, is unable to utilize the enfeebled condition of his foe. In the Shipka Pass even Suleiman Pacha is tranquil and can do no more. At all points the conflict is so evenly balanced that it in- clines to neither side. If the Russians are unable to prosecute the purposes of their invasion at least they hold successfully the ground they have occupied, and the Otto- inans, who can only triwmph by the expul- sion of the Muscovites, are unable to make any impression that tends to thatend. It is obvious that the tension of such a posi- tion in three theatres of war is too great to last. It must give way at some point, and where is that point to be? Per- haps at Plevna. It is probable that the Ottoman defence will collapse at that point, because the important ele- ment of war in a situation such as we have described is the commissary depart- ment. In the Turkish army if there is a commissary general he hasa sinecure, for his army “‘lives on the country.” All the coyntry within reach of an army at Plevna must be well nigh exhausted by this time, and the labor of tapping the country at a distance must be difficult in the presence of the Russian cavalry. As the Russians have a tolerable commissary department they can hold on. Suleiman Pacha has all Roumelia to draw from, and Mchemet Ali half of Bul- garia; but Osman Pacha must fight, surren- der, starve or retreat, and he will perhaps try retreat, The reported landing of a Turkish force on the Roumanian shore of the Danube op- posite Silistria recalls attention to a move- ment against the Russian railroad line of communication between Galatz and Bu- charest, which we have frequently sug- gested as one of the possibilities of the war. But it is clear that the Turks cannot now muster a suffi- cient force to render it successful. Their opportunity to do so presented itself just before the first shock of the defeat at Plevna had begun to decline and when the Rus- sians were thoroughly demoralized. Now it is too late, for even if the Turks gained the railroad by a forced march they would be overwhelmed and destroyed by superior numbers, Besides, infantry cannot under- take such an enterprise in Roumania, and not less than five thousand good cavalry with light artillery would be sufficient to make the raid anything approaching to a success even under favorable circumstances.’ The news from Armenia is not important, except so faras it indicates Russian preparations for the offensive. ‘The garrison of Ardahan is strengthened, as also is the Russian centre, It is evident that the Russian left wing covering Erivan’ is no longer threat- ened and that heavy drafts have been made on it to strengthen the right and centre preparatory to another advance. An Unsatisfactory Proposition. The proposition of the directors of the Long Island Savings Bank to pay eighty percent to depositors, half in thirty and half in sixty days, or to pay the full amount of deposits in instalments, in six, twelve, eighteen and twenty-four months, provided the Attorney General will withdraw the proceedings he has instituted against the bank, is saidto meet with a favorable re- sponse, This statement comes, however, from the officers of the bank, and should, therefore, be received with some caution. Ex-Senator Perry, the counsel of the bank, according to the Brooklyn Eagle, makes the assertion that many of the depcsitors ‘‘are surprised at the liberality of the offer.” That is {o say, the people who have been induced to place their money in the keep- ing of the Long Island Savings Bank, in the belief that the institution was in as sound a condition as the sworn statements of its officers have alleged it to be, are ‘‘sur- prised” at the “liberality” of the men who, having victimized them by false representa- tions, now propose to rob them of only twenty per cent of their deposits. The depositors will be fortunate if they receive back eighty per cent of the money they have been foolish enough to intrust to the bank. But they cannot safely rely on the honor of men who have combined to cheat them into the belief that the bank was solvent in order to obtain their deposits. If the directors and trustees mean honestly to pay the amounts they.propose they can do so through a receiver as well and better than through any other agency. If they intend to secure the depositors it must be by making good the deticiency out of their pri- vate resources. This they can do through o receiver. If the bank and its assets should be left in their own hands there is no cer- tainty that their promises would be carried out. The bank has been insolvent since 1869 and has been a fraud on depositors ever since that year, If the trustees and di- rectors are now repentant and are willing to make the best amends in their power to their victims they certainly cannot object to do so through the medium of an honest and disin- terested receiver. The very fact that they are so anxious to retain the trust they have abused in their own hands is sufficient to cast suspicion on their motives. Let Us Have Cheap Expresses, but No Touting. An ordinance in relation to the baggage express business, passed by the Board of Aldermen on the 19th inst, is now before the Mayor for his consideration, It regu- lates the rates to be charged for the trans- portation of baggage, furniture or other ar- ticles in the city, and establishes prices less | than are now pnid forsimilar service. Thus fur its provisions may be regarded as in the interest of the public, but it contains some features which demand careful considera- tion before it is suffered to become opera- tive. Among other things, it makes it law- ful for ‘owners or drivers of express wagons to solicit of strangers, travellers, citizens or other persons, at any steamboat landing, railroad station or depot, ‘convey- ance of baggage or other articles from any: such steamboat landing, railroad station or depot,” Unless this privilege is to be exer- cised under careful police supervision we fear it will lead to a return to the old system of struggling and fighting for a passenger’ baggage, which a few years ago proved so annoying to persons arriving in New York. At that time a traveller would find his valise absolutely wrested from his hands by the rival expressmen iu their efforts to sectre the job of conveying it to its destination, and the New York railroad depot or steamboat land- ing wasa place ofterrorto strangers. There- fore we say that if the present ordinance contemplates reopening the depots to these express agents it should certainly not re- ceive the Mayor's approval without adequate restrictions under the control of the police. There are other features of the ordinance which demand careful scrutiny. It is evi- dently very loosely drawn, and while o de- crease in the rates now charged for the baggage express service may be desirable it would scarcely be worth while to secure that advantage at the expense of a return to the very objectionable system of touting” which prevailed a few years ago. Hand Shaking. General Grant's opinion of the custom of hand shaking, expressed lately to a cor- respondent of the Henaxp, is that itis a nuisance, Upon this point he was very emphatic, having just shaken hands with ‘several thousand Scotchmen, with the Eng- lish people still to come, ‘The General said that only a strong man could endure such a hand shaking as he had had in 1865, and it must be a severe tax upon the strength of any one person to have to withstand the grip of a succession of hundreds of hands, He was surprised to have found hand shaking so common in England, as he had supposed it to be an American custom ; but this shows that he does not study as he should his Shakespeare, in whose plays he will find many references to the habit. The English are responsible for that as for many other vices which are ignorantly credited to this country. It is singular that this custom, which is now the sign of confidence, had its origin in distrust. Half civilized men, strangers to each other, meeting extended their right arms to show they held no weapons, and grasped each other's hands so that neither could have the advantage in the case of treachery. Thus the manners of barbarians are continued in the courtesies of the moderns. It is eminently fitting that the custom should have had a savage origin. ‘Lhe promiscuous hand shaking we are com- pelled every day to endure is, as General Grant says, one of the gteat petty nui- sances of society. Bony hands, hard hands, finger-crushing hands, dirty hands, greasy hands, and, worst hands of all, those cold, clammy, corpse-like hands, which make one feel as if he had tuken hold of a toad, are held outto us every day. There is the person who nearly dislocates your joints to show his friendship, and the man who ex- tends a couple of fingers, as if to express his contempt. ‘‘The hand of brother in a foreign land” may be welcome; but gen- erally the custom is one more honored in the breach than the observance. It is a pity that some less familiar method of salutation or farewell is not adopted. Cer- tainly, unpleasant as hand shaking fre- quently is, it is better than the nose rubbings of Africa or the kissing and em- bracing of Continental Europe. Probably the bow of the Japanese or the Chinese, who are in many respects more civilized than even we are, would be the best substi- tute, As it is, the custom of hand shaking has become altogether too common to have any value as a token of civility, and, indeed, it often happens that when,we shake hands with a man, if we obeyed our honest impulses, we should kick him down stairs. The New Jersey Republicans, The Republican Convention at Trenton yesterday nominated ex-Governor Newell, a thoroughly respectable gentleman, for Gov- ernor, and took pains to point out in the platform that he is not a ‘‘carpet-bagger” like General McClellan. Besides this rather unkind cut at their former Southern allies and protégés, whom, nevertheless, Messrs. Robeson, Foster and others refused to give up to the President's policy, the plat- form opposes subsidies; demands six per cent as the legal rate of interest ; cod- dies the workingmen; abuses the demo- crats; ‘‘points with pride” to the republi- can party, and praises the good intentions of the President, but fights shy of his policy. It is, on the whole, a conciliatory document well calculated to “catch,” and “we suspect Mr. Newell will give General McClellan trouble to beat him, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The President sings, Come, love, come.’” The Chicago Journal thinks that thero is » revival of tirade. Kear Admiral Reed Werden, United States Navy, is at the Evorett, The Detroit Free Press, looking at a hop-toad, can’t tell a runner from a trottor. The summer souson having closed, the Harvard boys will give up rowing for billiards, If the mountain will not come to the Prosident, the President gues to the mountain, General floward is an embryo angel, bat he seems possessed of a back action engine, General McClellan will, of course, build a corduroy road from Urange toward Trenton, Sam Bowles belioves that by the time Congress convenes we shail buvo a so!id nation, From the indications of the weathercock on the Post Office the wind must be pursuing the straight and ar- Tow way. What is more beautiful in autumn, on tho cold, white beach, than @ shell, with its flickering pinks and greens? The St, Louis Journal has a poem in which tho poet makes “piano” rhyme with “guano,” It mw on “Autumo.” i The drinking fan usually has about two fingers of destiny pointed at him. N, B,—You understund this oae, don't you? Ch.ef Justice Morrison R. Waite, of tho United States Supreme Court, ts at the St, Nicholas Hotol, on his way to Washington. 00 Sunday, at the noon hour, a gontlemangwh wished to have a letter weighed at the New York Post Office found every window closed and saw the sign, “Gone to dinner.’ This would do for across-roads “yflice, but not tor New York. Maxime Outrey, the French Minister to this coun- try, who has just returned to Washington ior the winter, and Geocral Torbert, our Consul Goneral at Paris, who i» home on leave of absence, were at the State Department vestorday, THE WAR’ Reported Raid of the Turks Into Roumania. A DASH ACROSS THE DANUBE The Allies Lose Twenty-Five Thousand Men Before Plevna. MONTENEGRO * BANSHING THE TURK The American Legation Asked to Interfere in the Ceshoff Case, [Br caBLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, Sept. 26, 1877. The most startling news this morning ts con. tained inf a despatch from Bucharest, dated Sep- tember 2%, which reports that a Turkish detach- ment nas occupied a natural stronghold on Roumanian territory under cover of the guns of Silistria, This torce apparently intends to at- tempt to cut the railway between Galatz and Bucharest. Had this scheme been attempted several weeks ago it would have been productive of great results. If successful it would have thrown the Kussian army south of the Danube into @ panic, A SHADOW OF DovpT. The gencral impression now 1s, however, that the hour for such a dash is past. It 1s hardly pos- sible that the Turks could cover the landing of a detachment of cavalry—and cavalry alone couid successfully carry out such a raid—with the guna of the Silistria fortifications, when the Danube, both above and below that point, is known to be swarming with Russian gunboats. The danger to the Russians from a dash of this kind, owing to the proximity of Silistria to the Ibrail Railway, was pointed out more than two months ago ina special despatch from one of the HkRaLD’s corre- spondents at the front. A COUNTER-IRRITANT, Aside from the menace to the railway, the mer fact that a Turkish force has established itself on the north bank of the river will be enough to draw offa share of the reinforcements which were push ing forward, day by day, to the support of the armies at Bjela and Pievna and the Shipka Pass, Should the move accomplish no more than this, it might prove to be a very important factor when the results of the next great engagement at one of the three tronts of the Russian army come to be added up. Therefore, its confirmation or dental will be waited for with great anxiety. TURKISH AID FOR OSMAN. An Orchante special, dated Monday, says:—“Prep- arations are making for an advance of all the troop? now at Orchanie toward Plevna, They include large numbers of Circassians belonging to the Sul- tan’s Guard, some regular Alhanian battalions and numbers of undisciplined irregulars. Another imy mense convoy of provisions and munitions of war id on the point of starting for Plevna, escorted bya division."? THE ROUMAMIAN SAPPERS, A special, dated Verbitza, Sunday, says:—The Roumanians have approached by fying sap ta within eighty yards of the second Grivica redoubt. Undoubtedly an assault will be made in two or three days) The Turks are not pushing counter saps, and, if the assault be delivered with resolution, the redoubt should certainly fal. When this redoubt is taken there is unother, about halt a mile distant; then two or three intrenched camps along the northera midge, Whose western termination is an elevated position overhanging the River Vid. The Russians mean to pursue the same tactics on their side of the Turkish positions as soon as they can get spades.” THE RELIEF PARTY. The correspondent was aware of the approach of the Turkish relieving forces, but at the time he sent off his despatch it was hoped the cavalry under General Kriloff would bar their way, as they were not believed to be regulars. He says Hifal Pacha was reported to have entered Pievna with only a small escort, OUTWITTED AGAIN, ‘the Daily News in a summary of the war consid: ers it evident that the Russian staff has been again outwitted “and has permitted important ald to reach Osman Pacha. RUSSIAN AND ROUMANIAN LOSSES, It is stated at Bucharest on good authority that the total losses of the Russians and Roumanians during the recent operations before Plevna exceed 25,000 killed and wounded. THE IMPERIAL GUARD Three infantry divisions of the Russian Guard have reached Bjela. One will remain in that neigh- vorhood, the two otbers have been despatched to Plevna. Nearly all the cavairy of the Guaré isdes- tined for Tirnova, FOR THE BENEFIT OF JOBBERS. A Vienna correspondent telegraphs as fol ows:—It is reported that by the Czar’s order the question of war or peace has been dia- cussed by the Council of Ministers at St. Petersburg. The Grand Duke Constantine, who presided, and the Minister of War pronounced for the continuance of the war, The other Ministers were in favor of peace negotiations. This seem@ sensational and is altogether contrary to the gems eral tenor of the news. SEVERE RAINS. A Shumla despatch, dated yesteraay morning, says:—Nothing important has occurred since Fri- day. Heavy showers yesterday and to-day wilt delay operations for some days.” THE MONTENEGRINS STORMING GORANSKO. An oMecial despatch received at Bucharest yes- terday announces that the Montenegrins arc now attacking Goransko. ‘THE RUSSIANS STILL AT ARDAHAN. A despatch from Erzeroum says it is rumored, that the Russian garrison of Ardahan has received a reinforcement of eight battalions. The Russian centre has also been reinforced, and now contains sixty-four battalions of infantry. Part of these reinforcements were drawn from General Ter- gukassom’s force, which now consists of only twelve battalions, ‘THK UNFORTUNATE GESHOFFS. The Edinburgh Scotsman’s correspondent, writ- ing trom Cariova under date of September 8, says:— “Tne Messrs. Gesnoft, the Bulgarian merchants, who are under sentence of death, were still impris- oned when I left Philippopolis, but I was able to leave their case in more powerful hands than mine, Mr. Calvert, the British Vice Consul, consented to temporarily represent the interest of the United States, whose Vice Consul one of the Geshoffs 1s, fnd to his charge I contided the papers‘with which 1 was intrusted. AN AMERICAN INQUIRY, | “Before starting I got away sately, by private