The New York Herald Newspaper, September 28, 1877, Page 6

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From our reports this mornjng the probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and partly cloudy or cloudy, Tollowed by light rains and falling temperature, Watt Srreer Yesrenpay.—Ti he + stock market was fairly active and strong, except for the coal Issues. Gold fell to 103. Government bonds were weak, States dull and railroads generally steady. Money on call lent at 5 a6 per cent, advancing to 7 and closing at 4 a 5 per cent. Taree Persons Have Been Kitten and sev_ tral wounded by the explosion of a locomotive boiler in Kentucky. Tue Free Barus will be closed next month. The statistics of their patrons show their ex- ceeding popularity. Tue Coat Orerartons in the Hazelton mining district have resolved that the price is too low to justify an increase of wages, and the strike un- fortunately continu Os.y Five on Srx of the thirty-three buildings occupied by the government in Washington are regarded as fireproof. It is fortunate that there are even that number. Eigur Tnovsanp two hundred and thirty-one dogs fell victims to the dog law during the sum- mer. Eleven thousand that ought to have been drowned were licensed. Tur Resutr of the last election so preyed upon the mind of E. P. Miller, of West Farms, that he hurried himself into a world where electoral commissions are unknown, Jersey Crty Recorps the failure of a heavy real estate operator, who illustrated his love for his neighbor by making his fellow church mem- bers sharers in his little di Tue Tria EASON, of the Penn- vania militia, wis, has been arrested on a arge of murder, growing out of the Pittsburg riots, will be interesting to our » has been ti tacked on to the prohibition platform, and Congress is asked to exert its power. A reform democratic House of Representatives will, of course, be only too glad to grant the demand. Broapwewt, the President of the broken Clairmont Bank, has been caught im a trap of his own setting, which will luckily bring the unfortunate depositors some twenty thousand dollars more than was expected. CourTNeEY was again the victor in the seull- ing race on Owasco Lake at Auburn yesterday. ‘There can now be no doubt that he is the cham- pion in this country, and he probably cannot be beaten by any one in the world. Is THE Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church there was quite an exciting contest between the High and Low Church parties, result- ing in a victory for the former. Bishop Potter's review of the religious situation was quite hope- ful. Sirtrxe Butt is naturally flattered at the prospective visit of the commission, and is pre- paring to receive them with all the pomp and circumstance of savagedom. Fitteen hundred warriors surround him, and he evidently regards himself as a pretty big Injun. Tur Weatner.—There is aconsiderable varia- tion of pressure over the whole territory west of the Alleghany Mountains and chictly in the Up- per Mississippi and the Missouri valleys. The lowest barometer has moved northeastward from Dakota, and now extends from that Terri- tory into the region north of the upper lakes. The depression in the Gulf has made but little advance to the northward, and, from present in- dications, will not move westward of Cuba. | The decrease of pressure over Missouri, ‘Tennes- sce and North Carolina furnishes a cause for a diminishing of the wind force on the northern and western margin of this disturbance that will tend to adecrease of its energy betore reachin, our coasts, but there is still a probubility tha new combinations of conditions may develop it | ‘ ‘ ;, a | again when moviug eastward. Rains have tallen | on the South Atlantic coast and in the Northwest, and fog prevailed on the Middle Atlantic coi and in the Ohio, Upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys yesterday morning. ‘The prevailing | winds are now northeasterly and southeasterly | on the Atlantic coast and the Eastern Gulf, | northerly in the West Gulf and the Eastern | States and St. Lawrence Valley, westerly in Dakota and British Columbia and south i all the other districts. The temperature Sete} risen in the Eastern and Central districts, but | has fallen in the Western and lak The | principal area of cloudiness wow extends over the lakes, The weather in New York vicinity to-day will be warm and jy or cloudy, followed probably by falling temperavare, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, _ SEPTEMBER Senator Conkling and the President, ‘The remarkable events which occurred at Rochester 6n Wednesday will havé a good result for the country if they awaken the President thoroughly to the fact that prom- ises, good intentions and general orders are as vain in a civil executive as in the com- mander of anarmy. Mr. Hayes took posses- sion of the White House with, as everybody knows, the very best intentions in the world, He published them far and wide, He followed ‘them up with written instructions and orders, And then—he did not entirely stop, but he began to go very slow; so slowly, in fact, that the people, who at first flung up their hats in universal acclaim, have been ever since waiting, doubting, wondering and becoming constantly more and more puzzled, It will not do to say that there is no cause or excuse for the outburst of fury and re- sentment among the politicians at Roches- ter. Of course everybody understands that personal disappointments, grievances and hatreds had a large share in that curious event ; but we do not believe that even the strong personal devotion of a large number of poiiticians in this State to Senator Conkling would have carried them with him to such lengths as they freely went had the Presi- dent's course upon the question of the re- form of the civil service not been felt by them to be so halting, lame and inconclu- sive as to invite attack and inspire resent- ment. We doubt evenif Senator Conkling, a man much less fond of “patronage” than his opponents are accustomed to represent him, and who has at least the merit of having caused the appointment of some of the best officers in the civil service, would have chosen to head such a mutiny had the President performed as rigidly as he promised easily. ‘Patronage” has become dear to the Senatorial heart; yet the plain truth is that the greater Sen- ators, the men of real ability, care little for it, and would gladly lay it down—but only on the condition, very naturally, that it shall be entirely abolished. ° There are dozens of Senators, third and fourth rate men, who, unfortunately, make up the mass of the Senate, who perpetually haunt the White House for ‘‘patronage” and are furi- ousif they aredenied. ‘hey need it; as one of them said only last spring, cursing Presi- dent Hayes because he had refused him an appointment:—‘“If this thing goes on, if I can't get my men appointed, how the deuce am I to be re-clected?” But men of ability, of power, who have a real hold on the pub- lic, do not need to stoop to such intrigues, and we repeat that such men would feel relieved if the mischievous system of ‘‘Sen- atorial patronage” were entirely abolished. But they will not tolerate that it shall be only half abolished. They will help the President divorce the civil service from politics, but on the prime condition that it shall be a total and not a limited divorce; that if their friends are not to be considered neither shall the Presi- dent favor his own or anybody else’s friends. For our parts, we consider this a perfectly fair condition. Let us have a thorough re- form of the civil service; but not a kalf- way reform. Let us abolish political fayor- itism, but let us abolish it entirely. When everybody stands on equal ground nobody can reasonably complain. But we repeat what we have said to the President before; half measures are not tenable. For in- stance, it is generally understood that Mr. Hayes intends to remove the heads of the New York Custom House, on civil service grounds, of course. Butit isa fact that he keeps in the New Orleans Custom House a person like J. Madison Wells, a man who was shown by the committee of a republi- can Congress in 1875 to be guilty of the most disreputable practices ; who ‘is notori- ously a politician of the lowest type, and whose appointment or retention in oftice is totally indefensible on reform grounds, or on any others, except the most unblushing and cynical of all. Nor is this all, for he has appointed as Collector in New Orleans a person also notoriously incapable, and who is commonly understood to represent in that place another member of the Returning Board, Mr. Anderson. Now, while the re- moval of the heads of the New York Custom House might offend their friends it could never become the occasion of a general or formidable attack on the President, if men did not remember that he has acted on very different principles in his New Orleans and other appointments, Again, Mr. Hayes prohibited federal ofticc-holders from taking part in partisan politics. We believe he was right and wise in so doing, and dissent entirely therefore from Senator Conkling’s views on this sub- ject. ‘The interference of federal office- holders in politics has been for years a grow- ing abuse and evil, until under the late ad- ministration every petty postmaster thought it his duty to sneeze when the administra. tion took snuff, and the conventions were made up almost entirely of inspectors and tide waiters, who held their places and drew their salaries mainly because they could “run primaries” and manipulate conyen- tions. The President's order on this sub- ject was eminently wise and right; but by the time some thousands of postmasters, Custom House inspectors and other petty officials had abandoned their political machines, behold they saw the Secretary of the Treasury going openly to Ohio to take part in the canvass, and read his letter to the Republican Committee, urging them to spare no efforts to carry the State. Ifit is an offence in Naval Officer Cornell to call he State Convention together—a merely | mechanical act, exerting no influence what- ever; ifa Custom House inspector may not use his petty influence in his ward, these people not nnrcasonably ask on what prin- interfere in the most opem manner in the Ohio canvass ? Again, while many Senators and members of the House would, we believe, gladly help the President to abolish the ‘‘patronage”’ system, we can hardly blame them if, sceing, for instance, all Senator Morton's friends and favorites provided for in a lump in Washington and in Indiana; seeing the Pres- ident taking of his own friends and care trains and | favorites with afree hand; seeing him ap- | borhood of a million, | point to oflice the members of Southern ro- | positors have held a ieecting and secm to be | counties iple the Secretary himself, whose influence | is a thousand-fold theirs, can be allowed to turning boards, persons certainly not of exalted character ; seeing, in short, that Mr. Hayes, while refusing “patronage” to some grants it to others and uses it himself in ways and for purposes not a bit better than those of the most confirmed machine poli- ticians, they are angry and cast doubt on the sincerity of his professions, The President proposed to appoint men to office for fitness only; let him keep to that promise. He proposed to remove officers for cause only; let him stick to that also. If he observes his own rules strictly and without respect to persons he need not fear the poli- ticians. The people will stand by him. ‘The public does not care for the grievances of a parcel of “‘soreheads ;” it is only when it sees that profession and practice do not meet that it begins to give its sympathy to the politicians, Senator Conkling’s mutiny would be of very little consequence if the President had lived squarely up to his promises and if the public had not forsome time. begun to suspect him of an amiable attempt to carry water on both shoulders. ‘The Hxnaxp strongly desires his success; it has given a steadfast support to all his policy; but we must warn Mr. Hayes that he needs to act. We understand that he some- what prides himself on his deliberation. It is said that when, not long ago, he was re- proached by a fricnd with being ‘‘slow” he replied, ‘none of you have yet discovered how slowI can be.’ It was a pretty epi- gram, but it will not do. His slowness brought on this New York mutiny in his party. We do not know how serious he may think that; if he will begin to redeem his promises he need not fear it, But the coun- try just now does not believe in him as much as it did some months ago, An Opportunity for Greece and Sere via. Notwithstanding the success of the Turks in throwing ten thousand men into Plevna by forcing an entrance from the westward through the Russian lines of investment we cannot regard this large body of troops as an addition to Osman Pacha’s strength. Indeed, circumstances may prove that it is but an increase of the number of mouths to be fed at a time when the diffi- culty of getting regular supplies is daily increasing. For the defence of such a strong position as Plevna proves to be extraordinary reserves are unnecessary. ‘The place is likely to hold out only so long as @ sufticient garrison can be fed. It is now improbable that the Russians will waste any more troops on donbtful assaults on Plevna, but will direct all their efforts toward the complete isolation of the Turkish army. This would be decidedly a more dif- cult operation with a large and active field force threatening them from Sofia than it will be with the bulk of the Turkish forces within the lines of defence, In many re- spects Plevna is becoming a second Metz, and we may soon learn of Osman Pacha’s attempts to break out and escape. But there is no outside army to help him, for Mehemet Ali is already in retreat, forced back to the Lom Valley by bad weather and a difficulty in obtaining supplies. Now, if Mchemet Ali cannot maintain himself with the Varna Railroad and the Shumla depots behind him, how much more desperate must Osman Pacha’s posi- tion become from the same causes, Time end the weather will fight half the battle for the Russians if they will only content themselves with what they now hold and wait the operation of such effective allies. Gallant lttle Montenegro has won some splendid victories recently and has driven the Turks from almost every position of advantage along her frontiers. If the overprudent Servians and the hesitating Greeks would only strike now a complete change in the situation would be effected. It is an opportunity such as they may never have again. How Shall It Be Wound Up? The Brooklyn Eagle strongly favors the acceptance of the proposition of the Long Island Savings Bank trustees, and advocates leaving the assets of the bank in their hands, The Eugie has for years condemned the management of the bank, and is therefore entitled to be crodited with entire inde- pendence and a sincere desire to aid the depositors in the position it now assumes, We believe the bank should be wound up by other parties than the trustees, and for these reasons :— The bank trustees propose to pay de- positors eighty per cent in thirty and sixty days, or one hundred per cent in four equal half yearly instalments. Ifthey had proved themselves capable and trustworthy business men, and it the assets were of a character to increase in value by wise management, there might be some merit in the proposition, But the assets, exclusive of the banking house and lot, a small parcel of other real estate and a trifle of money on hand or loaned when the doors were closed, consist wholly of bonds and mortgages, the stocks and bonds of cities, and villages of the State. hese will not increase in value by keeping. The latter, indeed, are worth | more to-day than they will be two years hence ; while, if there are no frauds covered up in the bonds and mortgages, they ought to fetch their face now, when safe invest- ments are sought after. ‘Together these assets amount to eighty per cent of the total deposits. Under a receiver the depositors ought to receive this amount forthwith, and they would then be able to hold on to the real estate until a good sale could be effected. and If frauds are concealed under the cover | of the bonds and mortgages the depositors had better know it at once. They cannot | get at the facts if the business is lett in the hands of the trustees, The latter may be honest men, but as they have by mis- management brought a promising business | to ruin we should not select them to wind up its affairs. ‘heir anxiety to retain in by time has a suspicious look, and although our contemporary states that the depositors are not asked to rely on the honor of the trustees it must be remembered that the | bond they offer is for two hundred thousand doilars, while the deposits are in the neigh- ‘To be sure, the de- their hands assets which cannot be improved | very eager to close with the proposition made by the trustees. But there were pres- ent at this friendly demonstration, accord- ing to the most liberal statement, ‘about two hundred persons.” Now, the last re- port of the trustees of the bank shows that there were in January four thousand, three hundred and seventy depositors. ‘the num- ber is probably about the same now. We submit whether two hundred depositors is a fair representation to speak for over four thousand. The Attorney General has the interests of the whole number to watch and guard, and we must still insist on the ex- pediency of allowing the bank's affairs to be wound up by an honest and capable dis- interested party rather than by officers who have, through bad management, brought the institution into its present condition. Remove All Obstractions, It seems odd and unreasonable that after the decision of the Court of Appeals declar- ing that the Rapid Transit act is, in all its parts, constitutional ; that the charter of the Gilbert railroad was not invalidated by the constitutional amendments, and that the Rapid Transit Commission had author- ity to change the Gilbert plan with the con- sent of the company—it seems, we say, odd and unreasonable that further delay should be enforced by any court in the building of the road, Every argument and every ground on which Judge Sedgwick last year granted the injunction has been swept away by the recent decision of the Court of Appeals. Of course the injunction stands until vacated by some court of competent jurisdiction. But it ought to be vacated at once on the application of the Gilbert road. There could not be a plainer, legal proposi- tion than that when an injunction has been granted on ‘a mistaken view of the law it ought to be dissolved at once on the appli- cation of the party against whom it operatos, when the court of last ‘resort has decided that it was granted on false grounds and an incorrect construction of the law. The Sixth Avenue Horse Car Company has an interest in interposing pretexts for delay, but no court can afford to accommodate the wishes of this unscrupulous and wealthy company when the law is so clearly on the other side. An application to vacate the injunction was heard yesterday before Judge Van Vorst, and after listening to the arguments he re- served his decision. A delay of more than two or three days would be inexcusable in so cleara case, All the points of law in- volved have been decided for Judge Van Vorst in advance by the Court of Appeals, and no magistrate can be justified in resort- ing to technical legal artifices for postponing a decision which every competent lawyer in the State knows that he will be compelled to render at last. ‘The Gilbert road is ready to prosecute its work at once as soon as the injunction granted on a false view of the law is raised. Great progress in building the road will be made between now and winter if the company is permitted to pro- ceed. Any court which should play into the hands of fhe horse car company in so clear a case would expose itself to suspi- cions which judicial purity should shun, We Want Those Cheap Cabs, There appears to be some hitch in the cheap cab project which was started some time ago in this city under the active super- vision of Mr. Frank Kavanagh, who stood forward as the chief promoter of the enter- prise. According to the representations of that gentleman he had secured a good amount of English capital for investment in the business, and under the influence of these representations several American sub- scriptions to the capital stock of the pro- posed company were secured. The time fixed for putting the new vehicles on the streets of New York was October 1. We are now within a few days of that date and there is no prospect that this promise will be ful- filled. It is said that some American sub- scribers have paid the required instalments on their subscriptions, but that the English money is not forthcoming. Ifthe project is to be carried out the capital should be promptly paid in, and any delay on the part of the English stockholders would be exceedingly unfortunate, as the American subscribers have only the word of the promoter for the capital alleged to be ready on the other side to aid the enterprise. If the English sub- seribers are not satisfied with the prospect before the company and desire to withdraw the fact should be honestly stated, and then the American stockholders would bein a condition to carry out the project on their own account. <A meeting of the company is to take place to-morrqw, and it is to be hoped that there will be no further haggling or uncertainty about the matter, but that it will then be positively decided whether the alleged English subscriptions are to be paid or not. Tho question as to the remunerative character of a cheap cab enterprise in New York has already been decided affirmatively. There is no doubt on the subject. ‘The only difference of opinion that exists relates to the details of the management. Many per- sons believe that the best plan is to form a company with capital enough to purchase a large number of close and open cabs and a sufficient supply of horses, and to let them to licensed drivers at a rate which will pay o handsome interest—say twelve per cent—on the investment, over and above all expenses of wear and tear, repairs and main- tenance. It is calculated by competent per- sons that a cab, with a change of horses, could be let out at two dollars a day and pay this intorest. A driver who plied for ten hours per day or night might assuredly calculate on obtaining fares for five hours, or one-half the time, at the rate of one dollar an hour or twenty-five cents a mile. This would bring him a clear profit This is the plan pursued In the former city in | in these times, in London and Paris. | dred cabs, ran by two thousand eight hun- numbered over ten thousand, or more than the whole number of cabs, showing that the driving business is profitable. We want cheap cabs in New York, and it is to be hoped that if Mr, Kavanagh's company is 28, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. of three dollars a day, which is fair wages | 1874 there wero seven thousand eight hun- | dred proprietors, and the licensed drivers | A Choice of 'Epithets. We hope the next republican conven- tion which meets will insist that its tem- porary chairman when he begins to abuse the administration shall at least select his billingsgate with some slight attempt to make it fit. Here, for instance, Senator Conkling allowed his friend, Mr. Platt, to call Secretary Evarts a ‘“demagogue” and “trickster.” Such a ridiculous misapplica- tion of epithets is enough to make the late Noah Webster roll over in his grave. A demagogue is a person who attempts to con- trol the multitude by specious or deceitful arts, or who panders to public prejudices. Pray how is Mr. Evarts a demagogue? Where has he played that part? He has never run after the people for office ; he has never attempted to make for himself a party in this State ; he is not even a politi- cian in the usual sense. If, now, the injudicious Platt had said that Mr, Evarts was a joker of jokes, a wit, perhaps even a little frivolous, the country might have forgiven him, But to stigmatize him asa demagogue! It would be ridicu- lous if it were not an inexcusable indecency. Why could he not content himself with tell- ing the Convention that he did: not like Mr. Evarts? Custer and His Mon. Our correspondent “Justitia,” not with- out cause, complains that the American people neglect to honor their illustrious dead by- the erection of monuments and statues. One excuse may be that there are so many great men and so few good sculp- tors, but a deeper reason is ‘that the tendency of this century is not to perpetuate fame in marble. Even in Europe the custom is not so general as in ancient times, and her best statues belong to the past more than to the present. Still, as long as nations are grateful to their heroes and art is appreciated such monu- mental honors will be rightly paid. ‘‘Justitia” properly calls attention to the apparent stop- page in the movement for the erection of a monument in honor of General Custer. Immediately afterthe death of that brave soldier the proposition to build a monu- ment was received with enthusiasm through- out the United States, and in a short time a large fund was subscribed. ‘The battle in which he and his gallant command were killed occurred more than a year ago, and something definite should be now decided in respect to the statue and its site. West Point would be the place which General Custer would have chosen. Nothing need be added now to the eloquent appeal of ‘Jus- titia” except to express the general wish that the committee having charge of the scheme should inform the public of its re- sources and purposes. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, “Blue Jeans” Williams does not expect to be re- seated, Gencral Kilpatriek as a speaker is energetic; but he is a foolish fellow. Many of the opponents of the administration talk as if it was of the wrong sex. Wo suggest that every time Chief Josoph takes a scalp he be compelled to ring the bell punch. if you rise carly in the morning you may see the moon like a pale pancake in the western sky. General Forrest and nis son-in-law have 800 acres of cotton and 400 acres of corn just below Memphis, A stag wil} be turned Joose In Charleston, on the race track, next Tuesday, and twenty-five dogs will be set upon him, “Honest” Jobn Hill was not nominated for Gov- ernor of New Jersey; and soho took the first postal card for home. Genera! Howard is moving westward, and we hope nove of the Indians will mistake him for the president of w Chicago bank. Said George William Curtis:—“Please give moa quart of damson plums to lend a {uneteal pucker to my mouth, and after this write my name G. Willto.”’ Norristown Herala;—“This appears to be an ‘off’ yoar with presidents of savings banks, They are ‘of to Europe with most of the cash of the institu. tions.”” The girls of lilinols beg ten cent pieces to make ankiets of, If the girls of Illinois aro anything hke the girls of New Jersey it must take a good many ten cent pieces to go round, Now that everybody has been South and bas found out ali about it, will somebody from the South please come North and fud out what a nice lot we are, There may even be something about us. London Fun :—"Old gent to boy (who 1s smoking the ond of a cigar be has picked up)—Ugh, for shame, throw that nusty thing away.’ Boy—‘What, for you to pick up and smoke, eh? Gar-arn; I knows yer!’”” The Louisville Courier-Journal says that neither Yale nor Harvard bas ever produced a great news. paper oditor. We suggest to our Western contem- porary that Mr, Charles A. Dana was a Harvard man. Colonel Chesney, tho best of English military critics, who recently wrote about our civil war, said that MeCiellan’s plan of operations on the James River was strictly in accordance with military prin- ciples. A Scotch dialogue trom Punch :—“ ‘Beon to school, little laxsic?? ‘Aye, sir,’ ‘Good girl—there’s a ponny for you.’ ‘hank you, sir, 1°ll bae to be steppin’—put awm gaun to skeull i’ the mornin’—wull yo bo this way 1? the efterneun ??"” Republicans used to find fault because when General McClellan received an engineer's office in New York he lived in Now Jersey. Now that he bas received a nomination in New Jersey they find fault because they think he lives in Now York, Let the man live somo. where, , Henry Watterson says that Albert Rhodes, tho Mmugazine writer, does not know what good breeding or good manners are, and implios that Mr. Rhodos has studied in lewd society. Now, Mr. Rhodes, you aro eithor an indecent slanderer or you will mash Mr, Watterson, At Lynchburg General Jubal A. Early refased to call on the President uud made the remark that Hayes should call on bim, as he owed him a visit. Said Early, “I planted two batteries and a brigade of men ono night to greet him » the morning, but when day proke he had gone away,’ Washington Star;—“At Orange Court House, Va., when the Presidential train was moving off somo one proposed three cheers for the President. ‘No,’ said a leader, ‘by the way of a change let's give him the rebel yolk’ It was attored with a will, the first time it had boon heard during the trip, and, it 16 said, pleased the | Prosident much, as it was given with entire good fuith,’? MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC Miss Kate Claxton has had a successful tour through | the New England states with the {wo Orphans,” NOTES, | Boucicault’s “Shaughraun” cembination 1s doing wellin New England. Mr, W. B. Cabiil has made a | nitas Harvey Dat, ‘This evening Miss Lydia Thompson will take a bene- fit wt Wallack’s Theatre, when “Robinson Crusoo” will be given for the last time but two, “Our Oddities,” Mr. Stanley McKeuna’s new comedy, was performed for the first timo on any stago at the Opera House Albany, on Wednesday might, and hada decided success, The audience was large and received it with merriment and applause to the ond, Mrs, Fanny Hodgson Burnett’s ry, “That Lass o’ Lowrie’s,”” which has been dramatized by Messrs, | not to be a speedy and assured suc- | cess it will be superseded by some other scheme, Hatton and Matthison, has made a pronounced success: in London, The dramatic: véréion of the work is calied “Liz? Miss Rose Le Clerca plays the beroine, THE WAR Mehemet Ali Retreats to the Kara Lom. CUT OFF IN THE SHIPKA PASS Further Details Regarding the Rum- ored Invasion of Roumania, M. TISZA AND HUNGARY'S POLICY. A Perfect Understanding Besween Aus- tria and Germany. MONTENEGRO’S MANY VICTORIES. {BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonvon, Sept. 28, 1877. The Henary's correspondent at Con- stantinople telegraphs that a rumor is prev- alent in that city that Suleiman Pacha has at last succeeded intercepting | the communications of the Russians occu. pying the Shipka Pass with the town of Gabrova, Also, that the Turks have suc. ceeded in cutting off the retreat of the Russians, surrounding them on all sides. ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR OSMAN, Another rumor prevails in Constantinople, as telegraphed by the Hznatn’s special cor- respondent, to the effect that Osman Pasha has achieved an important success at Plevna, It is stated that he repulsed a Russian at- tack on the eastern redoubt, and the Russian loss is set down at eight thousand and four guns. in ROUMANIAN ATTACK REPULSED. A correspondent before Plevna tele- graphs Wednesday night as follows:— “The Roumanians have been une successful in their” attempt to cap. ture the second Grivitza redoubt after having sapped close up to it, They displayed great gallantry and suffered severely. The unsuccessful attack on the second Grivitza redoubt reported in the foregoing despatch may be the foundation for the sensational despatch from Con- stantinople cabled yesterday, stating that the Russian Centre attacked Plevna on Tuesday, and was repulsed with a loss of 7,000 men and four guns, ANOTHER ASSAULT IMMINENT. A Bucharest correspondent, telegraphing Wednesday, makes no mention of the at« tack, but says the Roumanian trenches have been pushed to within fifty yards of the re- doubt. An attack must therefore have been imminent. PRINCE HASSAN’S RAID, Tho Hzraxp’s Constantinople correspond. ent also reports another rumor to the effect that Prince Hassan, son of the Khedive, who commands the Turkish right wing, hae crossed the Danube below Silistria with 30,000 men, HIS PLANS. He purposes to intercept the Russian communications with Sistova, while Mehe« met Ali assails the Russian front at Bjela, Correspondents with the Russian army have not as yet received any definite information regarding this rumor. The project is pro- nounced eminently feasible, however, and is casily within the grounds of probability. MEHEMET ALI RETREATS, Newspapers in Vienna announce that in consequence of a large concentration of Russian troops and the difficulty of obtain- ing supplies on account of bad weather, Mehemet Ali, on the 24th inst., began retreating to his former positions on the Kara Lom. A correspondent at Shumla confirms the report of the retreat of Mchemet Ali to his former position on the Kara-Lom. As the Turks permitted this news to pass it ir doubtless true. OSMAN'S REINFORCEMENTS. A Russian oficial despatch, issued at Gorny- Studen, says:—“On the 22d inst., about ten thou- sand Turkish infantry from Sofia, supported by artillery, forced their way through our cavairy posted to intercept them and entered Plevna. Further details are wanting. All 1s quiet around Rustchuk and in the Balkans." IN HERZEGOVINA. A HERALD correspondent at Ostrog confirms the report that the Montenegrins have captured the important Turkish position of Gorasko. He adds:— “More than one-third of Herzegovina is in the hands of the Montenegrins. Important events are about to transpire.” MONTENEGRO’S SWREPING VICTORIES, At Goransko the Montenegrin’s took 300 regulan prisoners and captured three cannon and 600 rifles The Montenegrins have also occupied Piva, cap tured Fort Erkvica and now hold the whole terri tory as far as Fotscha. They have totally burne¢ Dilek and the surrounding villages after sending the sick, wounded and non-combatants tu Trebinge. SICKNESS IN THE RUSSIAN RANKS. The correspondent with the Czarewitch’s army telegraphs from Vairkoi:—“Fever is prevalent, and dysentery has increased much with the bad weather. The spirit of the troops ts unchanged. They are always cheerful, and undergo hardships without a murmur.” A BATTLE IMMINENT IN ARMENIA, Aspeciai dated Erzeroum, Thursday, says that 22,000 Russians have arrived at opposite Mukhtar Pacha’s centre, and a battie is imminent. AUSTRIA AND SERVIA. In the Austrian Reichsrath yesterday, replying te interpellations, Prince Adolf Auersperg, President