The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1877, Page 6

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Tre SrrvatTion iN FerNanpina is improving and the worst is believed to be over. Tur Rerortep Bank Panic in Montreal fortu- nately proves to be wholly untrue, Caxapa’s Inprans are quiet. The reports to the contrary were set afloat by interested con. actors. TWEED 18 IN DEMAND as a witness. If he will only tell the truth he may possibly save the city as much as he has stolen from it. Is tae Fuentes Trtat the testimony is so contradictory that an unprejudiced public will be apt to suspect something like perjury. Morton, the great Philadelphia bogus stock operator, was surprised at his arrest. Ie proba- bly expected an ovation from his swindled stock- holders. ALBXANDER H. Stepuens is back in Washing- ton as lively as ever, enthusiastically in favor of the Southern policy, and prepared to die happy ithe can only see Herschel V. Johnson on the | bench of the Bdpreme Court. Tue Proumirionists now in session seem to be satisfied with the progress they are making. ‘They are puzzled as to which party they shall trust to carry out their peculiar ideas, which would seem to indicate a growth in virtue on the part of the democracy and a painful decline in the rival establishment. Tue Exptaxation of the Engineer of the Croton Department in regard to the searcity | of the water borders on the ridiculous. We can, of course, understand that a heavy fall in the level of the Croton basin would necessarily create a short supply in the pipes, but that a decline of five inches extending over nine months should bring about such a result is | nonsense. The explanation that the impurity | of the water is owing to fruit falling into the | streams is equally absurd. Tr Seems Inpossieie to get a jury honest or fearless enough to do its whole duty in a case where a policeman is involved. Ten days ago a poor old man declared before death that he was brutally elubbed by an officer, but an accommo: | dating jury found that he died from | causes. | atural Tn the case of the unfortunate woman Nellie Hayes another jury has returned an equally absurd verdict. Previous to her death | she, too, declared that she had been brutally beaten by the man who arrested her; but the jury, while finding that she died from the wounds thus inflicted, say her murderer is un- | known to them, Coroners’ inquests ure getting to be a farce. | ish | Tue Wratu rthwestern disturb- | ance has developed in energy and area and may be said to affect all t) rf Mississippi and the lakes and northward of Texas. The lowest pressure is still Dakota, where it is att el by high 9 winds, Heavy rains have prevailed in the Up per Mississippi Valley and the upper lake di triet, aud lighter southward to the Ohio Valley | and along the lower lake shores. ‘The 4 tion attending this storm is at 1 nt limited to | the Upper Mississippi and Low In the Northeast a branch of the main Mek sion has detuched itself and passed rapidly through the regions north of Canada to the mouth of the St. Lawrence, where it is develop- | ing into a distinet storm centre. The progress | of the cyclone through the Caribbean Sca is slow, but already a marked decrease has taken pla in the pressure over the South Atlantic and E: ern Gulf States, with rains on the Florida « As yet the winds in these districts, though trom | the northeast and cast, continne very moderate, but will probably become fresher during to-day, The avea of highest pressure remains over the Middle Atlantic coast, but is slowly moving enst- ward and southward under the influence of the disturbances in the Northwest and Northeast. This movement affects the progress of the ¢ clone considerably by retarding ite advanco westward. Tho temperature has risen in the | Western and is stationary in the Eastern districts, but falls behind the depression now advancing from Dakota. ‘The weather in New York and | its vieinity to-day will be warm and cloudy or nartly cloudy, possibly with light rains. region west of the | alin | inal | m1 | President would, no NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1877 TRIPLE SHEET. The Rochester Convention. The intense curiosity which has been felt respecting Senator Conkling’s attitude to- ward the administration is surpassed by the astonishment which will be excited by the affronting boldness of his opposition now that it is openly declared and by the of- fensive singularity of his methods. He has not only drawn the sword and thrown away the scabbard ; he has dipped his weapon in venom. The election of Mr. Platt as per- manent President of the Convention at Mr. Conkling’s instance is the most astound- ing thing in our recept politics, When the Committee on Organization selected Mr. Conkling for that position, and'the Conven- tion promptly ratified the selection, it wasan expected and merited tribute to the distinguished Senator, and a personal triumph of which he had just reason to be proud. Had ho accepted this position and discharged its duties this signal mark of party confidence would have been regarded by republicans in other States as evidence that if he has been | slighted by the President he has not lost j influenceathome. But he used his personal triumph for flinging a firebrand of discord into the republican party. {mstead of ac- cepting the position which had been so handsomely proffered, he thanked the Con- vention, asked to be excused, and moved that the name of Mr. Platt, the temporary Chairman, be substituted for his own. Considering who Mr. Platt is and what Mr. Platt had just done, such a mo- tion by Senator Conkling was like an electric shock, Mr. Platt hud made a violent and virulent attack on the administration and on leading mem- bers of the Cabinet—an attack which tran- scended all bounds of moderation and decorum, and even of political decency. This intemperate assault came with especial bad grace from him, because Mr. Conkling had recommended him as a mem- ber of the Cabinet, and the President chose to make a different selection from the State of New York. His tirade looked, therefore, too much like venting a personal grudge, too much like the invective of a disappointed office-seeker. It was an ebullition of spite which his friends ought to have apologized for or, at least, have silently condoned with an ingenuous sense of regret. But, instead of this, Mr. Conkling thought fit to indorse it and to reward it with a distinguished mark of honor. It is a very unusual thing for the temporary chairman of a political convention to be promoted to the position of its permanent president. Still itis sometimes done, and nothing would have been thought of it in this instance if it had not been a bold and deliberate in- sult by a republican convention to the republican President of the United States, Yo confer the highest honor of the Conven- tion upon a man whose tongue had just been dropping venom upon the President and his Cabinet was such a declaration of war, such an act of insulting defiance, as puts an insurmountable barrier in the way of any future reconciliation. It is a great deal more wounding than the strongest declara- tion that could have been made against the President in a mere platform. Besides con- demning the policy of the administration it is a personal affront to the President. And Mr. Conkling was strong enough to carry this bitter, audacious insult through the Convention by a majority of two-thirds! Of course this astonishing manceuvre was not prompted by motives merely political. Mr. Conkling is incensed against the Presi- dent for what he construes as personal slights. He thinks he was entitled to be consulted in the composition of the Cabinet ; | but his wishes were disregarded and the Cabi- net was made up in a manner which gave him great offence. But he hasa fresher grievance. The President has threatened to remove all the chief officers of the New York Custom House, some of whom are Mr. Conkling’s friends and protégés. This intention was given out from Washington, » few weeks | since, after a Cabinet consultation, while the contumacy of Naval Officer Cornell was exciting so much attention. The under- standing is that when Congress mects in October the President will send to the Sen- ate new names for all the important places in the Custom House. Mr. Conkling is a man who stands by his friends, and when these nominations are made he means to defeat them if possible. He was unwilling thatanything should be done by this Convention which would restrain or embarrass him in making that fight. He knows that a majority of the republican Senators dislike the civil service order, and as they have interests in their own States similar to Mr. | Conkling’s in New York, he means to bring the question to a test at the extra session, Conkling would rather | bring the controversy to a focus then than | at a lator period. The Ohio election will have taken place meanwhile and the New York election will be still to come, If, as seems not unlikely, the re- publican party is defeated in the | President's own State Mr. Conkling thinks that that would bea good time for | making an onset against the civil service elections will be tes, and Mr. Conkling order, The November pending in sever | caleulates that the natural reluctance of the President to put anything at hazard ‘after a defeat in Ohio will weaken his position and give courage to that | large body of republican Senators who disapprove of the civil service order. If the barransing position by the votes of demo- | cratic Senators there will be a pretext for the ery that he has Johnsonized and is will+ ingto break up his own party. How tar these expectations of the New York Senator may bo verified remains to be seen ; body can now doubt that when Mr. Hayes | undertakes to reorganize the Custom House at the extra session Mr. Conkling will make democratic support necessary for carrying them through Mr. Conkling will have made | a frivolous point which will do him but little good. But if majority of the re- publican Senators should act with him in | open hostility to the civil service order the doubt, bosition, be put in We do not on embarrassing President should be rescued from his em- | bat no- | ‘a strenuous effort to defeat the new | | Nominations, If the opposition should prove to be strong enough to make see ey he can hesitate in carry- ing out his proclaimed intention after the defiance which has been flung in his face by Mr. Conkling. If he again post- pones uction, as he did in the case of Naval Officer Cornell, and puts the matter off till the regular session, it will be,regarded as an evidence of timidity. The platform adopted yesterday is very pronounced against Mr. Hayes’ civil ser- vice order, although pretending to favor civil service by other methods, We single out this part of the platform, because the rest is of little account. The Southern policy of the President cannot be brought up in either house of Congress for any action. What he has done in the South is an accomplished fact. There is no possibility of reversing it. That part of the platform which relates to State affairs is of no consequence for another rea- son, By this open quarrel with the Presi- dent the Convention has apparently thrown away such slender chances as it had of carrying the State, and the promises of a party destined to defeat are not worth serious attention. The only significant thing in the platform is its animus of intense hostility to the President. It proves that Mr. Conkling is strong enough to stir up a serious revolt against the administration in the most important State of the Union. There is a great deal of opposition to the civil service order in other States which has been suppressed from motives of party expediency in view of the | elections, The action of the New York Convention will have no perceptible effect on the mutinous element in other States, but it is fatal to the success of the party here and to Mr. Conkling’s chances of a re- election to the Senate. Even if the republi- cans should carry the State next year the supporters of the President will be able to defeat a man who has so openly and egre- giously affronted the republican administra- tion. He seems to have gone to Rochester with an intention to pursuea more moderate course, but the arrival of Mr. Curtis and his proclaimed purpose to offer a resolution strongly indorsing the President threw Mr. Conkling off his balance, His passionate hatred of that gentleman hurried him into what all cool observers must regard asa great mistake. But he is so vigorously supported by the Convention as to prove that it was alsoa mistake of the President to under- value the great strength of Mr. Conkling in his own State. The Senator has acted the part of a blind and infuriate Samson who crushed himself beneath the edifice against whose pillars he leaned his mighty shoulders. Mr. Curtis’ resolution indorsing the Presi- dent was defeated by a vote of nearly three to one, and the republican party of this State lies in ruins which cannot be recon- structed for this election. The Fall Races at Jerome Park. Unless this weather is too beautiful to last there will be a brilliant assemblage at Jerome Park next Saturday, when the fal races will begin. The track has been put in perfect order, and every arrangement made for the comfort and convenience of the public. The four-in-hand coaches have returned from the watering places and will enliven the scene, while the drive through Central Park and the road will be gay with hundreds of fast teams. The meeting promises to be of unusual interest and value. Beginning on the 29th inst. it will close October 13, including seven days of racing, with twenty-nine events. The arrangement of dates fortunately gives the public the advantage of three Saturdays, the other meetings being on Tuesdays and Thursdays, The fall meeting at Jerome Park has been always noted for the magnifi- cent array of horses entered for its principal stakes, and this year is not an exception to the rule, as there are already over a hundred horses in readiness, with the prospect that the number will be raised to one hundred and fifty in a few days. Most resented, and among them may be men- tioned those of the Messrs. Lorillard, Bel- mont, Astor, McDaniel, Clabaugh, Bowie, Keed and Carr and company—all names which are guarantees of fast time and excit- ing contests. Thus the plans for the races are as complete as human _ enter- prise can make them, and nothing is likely to interfere with their success, un- less the weather should prove perverse. There are rumors of a cyclone approaching from the Gulf and a storm threatening from the West, but we hope they are merely wind. Let those steeds of the tempest race over the ocean and the prairie, but leave to Jerome Park the golden beauty of its woods and lawns and cloudless blue of the autumnal skies. New Born % Mr. George William Curtis appeared at Rochester as the most zealous defender of the President’s Southern poliey.. All right ; the policy is sound, and entitled to every- body’s support. But it ought not to be overlooked that Mr. Curtis is a very recent convert to that policy, and that compared with him Senator Conkling is a veteran on that side, While Mr. Curtis was ardently supporting the carpet-bag policy Senator Conkling was doing his best to find an in- | telligent way out of what he saw was a false course, and if he now chose to recall his own reccrd and compare it with that of Mr. Curtis ‘on this question it would not be the Senator’s turn to blush at inconsistencies or to admit himself to have been short sighted, We doubt it he has anything to take back on that question. The Ruin of Epithets. In the course of the “gentle and joyous passage of arms” at Rochester yesterday there was not merely a shower but a flood of epithets, a kind of equinoctial storm ; demugogue, trickster, Pecksniff, men mil- | liners, dilettanti, carpet knights, hypocrites, wolves in sheep's clothing, inordinate vanity, disappointed ambition, blasted hopes, and so on to the end of a long chapter or a simall volume, being passed around as at country parties they pass ice crealin, furiated patriots will be wiping the rotten eggs trom their faces, getting their clothes | brushed and looking around to see if any- | body dared to Inuch. of the great stables of the country aro rep- | To-day a considerable number of in- | Secretary Sherman’s Letter. We print elsewhere a briof letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Ohio Republican Committee. Mr. Sherman expresses an almost nervous anxiety that Ohio shall be carried by the republicans. As he bas long been a mem- ber and a prominent leader of that party his desire that it shall carry the election is only natural. But it seems to us that the reasons he gives for it have little weight. Briefly they are, that he thinks a republican victory in his own State necessary to the success of the Southern policy and of re- sumption in finance. Now, as to the Southern policy, we must say that a democratic victory in Ohio will help it rather more than a republican suc- cess. The republican platform gives but a halting and perfunctory approval to that policy, while the democrats have adopted it with entire heartiness, Moreover, that policy is already successful ; it ean never be reversed, and the growls of .certain repub- lican “‘soreheads” about it are of no impor- tance, except as they show that it is not on republican successes that the President can depend for support on that head. As to resumption, Mr, Sherman ought to know that he will not carry his measures in Congress by a party vote ; he will depend for support there on the votes of hard money democrats as well as republicans, and he will find some of the most vigorous oppo- nents of resumption in his own party. The resumption plank in ‘the Ohio republican platform is certainly far more sensible than that of their democratic opponents ; but the result in Ohio will not influence a vote in the coming Congress on that question. It is to be wished that Secretary Sherman could realize that he is part of an adminis- tration which must look for support from the best men of both parties. Mr. Hayes is in a very peculiar sense the President of the whole country and not of a party, and the questions which must arise during his ad- ministration, the new questions, will not be decided by strictly partisan votes. It is, in our opinion, of not the least. conseqnence to the President’s comfort or'success that Ohio should:be carried by the republicans: We should be sorry to think that'it was, for we wish him well in all wise measures, and it is, at least, an even chance, according to the belief of both parties, that Ohio will be carried by the democrats. If the President should stake the success of his administra- tion on the victory of his party in‘ this or next fall’s elections, or if he should attempt to so frame his policy as to please and advance only his party, he wonld not merely make the great mistake of his career, but he would, as must be by this time evident to him, have to change his course in many things. His administration is safe only so long as he carefully bears in mind that ‘the serves his party best who serves his country best.” If he and his Cabinet could become perma- nently and entirely oblivious of party, and could see and appeal: only to the country, his success would, be assured, i The Shotgun Policy at Rochester. The Honorable’Mr. Platt will probably go down in history as ‘‘the old lady who spoke out in meeting.” Who ever heard of the chairman, temporary or otherwise, of a political convention calling his own Secre- tary of State a demagogue and trickster, and his own Postmaster General a political Peck- sniff? This is too bad. And they say it was all written down, too. “What will political harmony be worth if such things are to be said out loud in political conven- tions? And then ceme Mr. Foster and insinu- ated that Mr. Platt was angry because he was not made Postmaster General. Is it possible Foster imagined he was adding to the general harmony by these remarks? Could he not see that he was only making Platt angrier all the time? This introduction of what may be called the “shotgun policy’ in political conven- tions is certainly not judicious. Let us have pence ; by which we mean, let members of conventions confine themselves hereafter to abusing the other side. It is all very well for battle-scarred veterans like Mr, Platt to go about shooting the deserters, but when he blazes away at his own officers he ought to understand that by the articles of war that is rank mutiny. As to Mr. Foster, how does he know Mr. Platt wanted to be Postmaster General? His as- sertion is entirely unwarranted. On the contrary, it has been supposed in the cen- tral part of the State that he wanted to be Pension Agent. See on what flimsy grounds Mr. Foster based an injurious insinuation. The Courtney-Riley Race To-Day. The sculling race to-day between Court- ney and Riley on Owasco Lake, near Auburn, amounting practically to a return match, promises to. be more closely con- tested than their recent meeting on Sara- toga Lake. Riley is said to claim that Plaisted directly interfered with and | washed him at Saratoga to such an extent | as to half fill the former’s boat with water, Courtney meanwhile rowing undisturbed. Not ten miles from Courtney’s home at Union Springs, in a region naturally very proud ot the best sculler America ever pro- duced, Riley has to-day an uphill fight, and the manly way in which he goes at it does him much credit, Nor has he any mean antagonist in the third man who will start, the well known “Frenchy” Johnson, | considered the fastest sculler in New Eng- land, and familiar with every move known to the professional oarsman. Should John- son be able to press Courtney at all hard on the outstretch he may even break the great sculler’s pace, and so help Riley to win the race. In this battle of the giants Johnson himself perhaps may prove to be the best man, of African blood though he be. Inany case the gentlemen of Auburn, in following Saratogn’s lead, and offering generous purses, open to the world, haye done much for fast rowing, and may congratulate themselves on securing for the maiden contest on their beautiful lake so illustrious a trio, How Does It Look? If tho chairman of a democratic conven- tion should denounce Secretary Evarts as a demagogue and trickster and Postmaster | General Key as a political Pecksniff it would be regarded by everybody as a scandalous piece of brutality: and if the Convantian. after such a speech, should make the speaker its permanent president, it would be thought an indecency; but when a re- publican speaker and a republican conven- tion do these things it is a little different. It is a family quarrel, and outsiders ought to stuff cotton in their ears as « matter of common decency. The War—Watching and Waiting. ‘The latest news from Bulgaria is by no means thrilling. Both sides seem to have had enough of fighting at Plevna and are now watching each other very closely and waiting patiently for a chance to begin the bloody work anew. So far Osman Pacha has maintained his position against the heaviest assaults and under the severest bombardments, but in other respects his prospects are but little improved. He is still separated from Mehemet Ali by the impenetrable barrier of the Russian army that stretches from the Danube to the Shipka Pass. We do not attach any credence to the report of another Russian repulse at Plevna, The conditions of the siege do not admit of any such partial attack on the Turkish lines as is stated on Turkish authority to have taken place. If Plevna is assaulted again it will be by the whole Russian army of invest- ment, centre and wings at the same time. Since the announcement of Mechemet Ali’s victory on the Banica Lom, but which really turned out to be his defeat, Turkish claims of success must be regarded with: suspicion. Our despatches repeat the statements: re- garding the unfavorable weather that now prevails at the seat of war, and which se- riously interferes with the operations, An Unseemly Interruption. | It was unkind in Mr. Foster, of West- chester county, to take exception, as he did yesterday at Rochester, to what he called the Hon. Mr. Platt’s autobiography. That interesting little history of himself which Mr. Platt gave to the Convention evidently delighted and instructed it. When he re- marked: that ‘‘there has not been a cdm- paign”-—-meaning, of course, a political campaign—‘‘which has not found me in the front of the battle,” the Con- vention saw in the excellent Platt almost a ‘‘Bigger man than old Grant;” certainly a bigger man than old Hayes. When, enlarging on this interesting part of his biography, he added that there had not been an election in which he had not ‘‘stood at the polls from sunrise to sunset and fought without rest or weariness for the ticket, the whole ticket, and nothing but the straight republican ticket,” the Conven- tion naturally applauded the tattle scarred veteran. And then the envious Foster meanly got up and objected to biographical sketches, It is @ wonder the Convention tolerated him.’ If it had not been for his interrup- tion no doubt Mr. Platt, when he became permanent Chairman, would have con- tinued his autobiography, which could not fail to be interesting. We hope he will print it, in spite of Foster. Untiniely Indignation. It is difficult to underatand why the Police Justices should so fiercely resent the order of the Police Commissioners by which the precinct returns are directed to be sealed and delivered directly to the presiding jus- tice, instead of being, as heretofore, handed over to the clerk of the court. The inten- tion of the order is very plain and is not concealed, Prisoners charged with crime are constantly induced to place their cases inthe hands of certain lawyers who make the police courts their headquarters, and who generally manage to squeeze out of the unfortunates or their friends all the money they can possibly raise for their defence. It is suspected that the ill-gotten fees are shared with those whose influence secures the client. The Police Commissioners profess a desire to stop this cruel exaction, and, asa preliminary step, refuse to allow the charges to be seen by any court official until the justice ison the bench prepared to hear the cases. The justices insist that the order reflects on their clerks, implying that they may be the mediums between tho prisoners and the class of lawyers called “shysters,” by using their knowledge of the names and charges to bring them together. It is possible that the justices construe the inwardness of the Police Board’s order cor- rectly. But, if so, instead of raving against it, they should welcome it as a means of proving the innocence of their clerks. In- deed, the clerks should themselves be glad of the opportunity to clear themselves of such an imputation, By their present course they seem a little over-anxious to re- tain the old system, Surely their dignity cannot be hurt by the polite act of a police sergeant in handing to them a sealed envel- ope containing the precinct returns. Be- sides, what great necessity or what public good demands that a police justice should leave his court for two or three hours to bo run by an irresponsible clerk? The justices are well paid by the city, and they are sup- posed to hold court themselves, and not by deputies, in return for their liberal salaries, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Sir David Wedderburn, of London, is at the Wind- sor. Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of Utica, is at the New York. Count Auguste Zichy and Count Joseph Zichy, of Austria, arrived at the Brunswick yesterday from Washington. When you hear a political spoaker talk about bis “‘grandsires”? make up your mind that he bas nothing else to talk about. Whenever # Chicago journal announces that ‘another old citizen is gone,’ the Detrow Free Dress remarks that bo hos gone to Canada, Many political speakers say that thoy trust in God; but they have just ma "8! it soventy-five conts a vote, a quurter ofa dollar less than votes wore last | year. Boston 7'ranscript:—'' ‘You are as pretty as a pic- ture’ is no longer the correct compliment to pay | a lady, Simply say, ‘You put me in mind of a | chromo,’ ” It 18 beginning to be safe to predict the approach of the oquinoctial storm, with showers or clear weather, veering round to tho south or east, with local areas of west and a little north, “Ned."—A “pan roast” means that six to ten oys- tors are stewed in their own liquor without the ad- dition of water, Tho “roast”? should have butter, Pepper and salt added while it is hot from the fire, The stew while ou the fire should ‘bubblo’’ thirty sec. anda THE WAR.” | No Fighting of Consequence ip Bulgaria. SLIGHT TURKISH SUCCESSES Improbable Story of Another Russian Repulse at Plevna. OSMAN PACHA CONSIDERED SECURR The Rainy Season Making Opera- tions Difficult. SYMPATHY FOR THE GESHOFFS. [Bx caBie To THE HERALD.) Lonpon, Sept. 27, 1877. From the statements of special correspondents concerning the operations in front and in rear of Plevna it seems probable that the Turkish accounts are correct that Plevna was revictualled and rein- forced on the 23d inst. by twenty battalions of in- Tantry, two batteries of artillery, 2,000 cavalry and an immense quantity of food and ammunition. Several correspondents mention that rainy weather is impeding operations. The Vienna Fremdendiatt, ministerial organ, denies that Osman Pacha has received sufficien? reinforcements to enable him to take the offensive. NO FIGHTING OF CONSEQUENCE. Since, the day General Skobeleff was driven from the redoubts he had captured tliere has been no fighting of serious consequence. The Roumanians, however, have persisted in making useless assaults on the second Grivica redoubt. ‘TRIFLING TURKISH SUCCESSES. ‘A Constantinople despatch, however, says Osman Pacha reports three considerable engagements since the 12th inst., in all of which the Turks were wietorious, ‘ RUMORED RUSSIAN REPULSE. A despatch: dated Constantinople, eleven o'clock, ‘Wednesday night, says:—‘‘Private telegrams state that the Russian centre attacked Plevna yesterday and was repulsed with loss of 7,000 men and four guns.’ This report is probab!y unfounded, as no ‘oMicial confirmation has been received. PLRYNA CONSIDERED SAVE. Osman , Pacha’s, position is now believed to be secure, and the impression at Constantinople and Sophia is that the Russians and Roumanians are Withdrawing gradually from the attempt against Plevna. ANOTHER CONVOY FOR PLEVNA. A correspondent, telegraphing from Orchanic under date of Monday, suys:—“Another immense convoy of provisions, munitions of war and forage ia ‘about to start for Plevna, escorted by a division. Many merchants and other inhabitants of Pieyna, who left the town when the Russians first advanced, are accompanying the convoy, as Plevna is now looked ‘upon as sale irom capture, The road is reported te ve entirely free of Russians as tar as Dubnik, at which. place we hear Ahmet Ifzi hag,arrived, Hakki Pacha sends to say that the Russians beaten by Ahmet Ifai in his advance appear to have drawn off altogether and abandoned all idea of further in terrupting communications.” THE RAINY SASOX BEGUN. ‘The state of the weather will speedily render th¢ carriage of provisions and ammunition for any dia tance an absolute impossibility. During the lasi ‘week there have been several very heavy down pours of rain, and to-day it is coming down with tropical violence. The inhabitants accustomed t@ signs of the weather are of opinion that the aw tamn rains have commenced and that there will be little more weather fit for campaigning. TURKISH FEELING OF SRCURITY. ‘There is no necessity for the retention of a large force here or. at Sophia. Itis too late for the Rus sians to attempt a dash on the latter, and even could they doso an army could scarcely force this pass if held by three or four thousand men. It has been rendered practically impregnable by two lines of redoubts along the sammitand Jormidable works at the entrance. — ‘ DISCONTENT IN THR RUSSIAN ARMY. Acorrespondent at Zgalince telegraphs as fol- lows:—“Discontent and discouragemeut are greater in the Russian army even than I had ex- pected. I have mot spoken with a single officer who does not regard successas hopeless. While the personnel of the headquarters staff remains un- changed no,improvement seems likely. The health of the army is still tair;.bat it is evident a few more days of cold 4nd rain would cause much sick- ness., I predict that half the army will be invalided soon after bad weather really sets in. TURKISH LOSSES AT PLEVNA. “The Turkish losses at Plevna seem to have been as heavy as the Russlan, Trustworthy information is recetved that 14,000 wounded are still in Plevna, whom the Turks are unable to re- move.” THE PORTE PROMISES REDRESS. A Paris correspondent telegraphs the follow- ing:—News has been received here that the Porte has assured Greece that the parties who attacked the Greck Consulate at Larissa shall be punished.” ANOTHER MONTENRGRIN SUCCESS. A special degpatch trom Cettinje announces that Goransko has surrendered to the Monte- negrins. SERVIAQUUST HURRY UP, A Belgrade correspondent telegraphs as fol- lows:—‘Two million francs have arrived from Russia, This 18 said to be the final instalment of the loan. The mobilization of the troops con tinues. A new Russian Consul General is expected with instructions trom the Russian headquarters, Ruasia insists on Servia speedily finishing the work of mobilization, and complains that Servian hesite tion enabled the Turks to relieve Plevna.” A SIGNIPICANT FACT, The Vienna Abendbdiatt’s Belgrade special says: “Servia is about to demand the witndrawai of Turk+ ish troops trom the Servian frontier. It will be re- membered that a similar demand formed the pre. lude to a declaration of war last year.” A despatch from Vienna says:--“The peace party are gaining the upper hand in Servia.” EN ROUTE FOR THE FRONT. Generals Skebetoff, Sr., and Todieben left Bucharest yesterday for the army in front of Plevna. INTERCEDIXG FOR THE GRSHOFFS. Tard Nerhy haa infarmed the Mayor of Manchas,