The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1877, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD! “BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, TUE DAILY HERALD, puMished every year. Maree cents per copy Goundays Sclndeds” “Tin dollars pot per month for auy period less ithe, oe hve dolinte er ic months, bunduy ef post WELLS. Pcs Soltar per gear, tree of poat- “Sorick TO su BSCUBERS.—In orioe to insure atten. on vulscrtbars wishing thelr address chuaged must give ibeir old aa woll us thelt new address. “All business, mows letters Of telegraphic despatches must Le 4 eg Yous, can should be irl, aled. Ore Aa ares shoul pr ly se: Rejected communications will not be revurued. PULLADELT MIA OFFIC. Oo. 12 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE Roe se THE NEW YORK HERALD— ARIS ‘OFFIC RC AVENUE aise Pts ting APLES: oF ‘A PACE. Shveeri pt api Swill be received and warded on w Yori. f e MEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1877.-W1TH SUPPLEMENT. Senator Conkli Shore Will He Swim? There may have been a good deal of sud- den impulse in Mr. Conkling’s extraor- dinary coup at Rochester, but there was also @ -great deal of calculation. If he gave way to his impulses it was be- cause they ran in the same direction as the deliberate purpose which he had formed while standing so long on the bank of the stream before making the decisive plunge. What he intends to do further and how he expects to come out make an interesting topic for political specula- tion. He may have ‘‘reckoned without his host,” and all-his plans may be upset by events; but there is so much method in his madness as to suggest a deliberate purpose. It may not be difficult to sketch the outlines of the chart which he. has mapped out for VOLUME x AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, mise) ONION SQUARE THEATRE—Srapcs: Oi, PALK THEATRE—Cavaired Teackolax. BEAGLE THRATRE—Tus Ticker ov Luave Max, WALLACK’S TABATRE—Romiysos-Cacsox, ' AMERICAN INSTITUTE—Inpustar ano Mucuamca, MASONIC TEMPLE-Bi Tow * BROADWAY THEATRE—O: ‘Twist. BOWERY TUKATKE—Jasrau, BootH’s THEATRE —La. GILMOKE’S CONCERT GARDEN—Suxxn Conoxaz, BKYANT’S OPERA HOUSE. TIVOLI THEATRE-—V. THEATRE COMIQUE. SEW YORK aQuaRIUuM SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. EGYPTIAN HALL—Vaniery. ea Norick 10 AbVERTISERS.— —To {nsure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely necessary that they be handed in before eight o'clock every evening. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinily to-day will beswarm and cloudy, with morning fog and possibly with light rain. -Waut Srnver Yesrervay.—The stock mar- ket was active but weak. Gold was dull all day at 103. Government bonds were heavy, States higher and railroads irregular. Money on call was easy at 5 a 6 per cent, clos- ing at 4 per cent. Jupce Buatcnyorp has rendered no decision of very great importance to mariners. It is else- where printed. PENNSYLVANIA'S Boarp oF Parpons will bo asked to listen to the appeals of half a dozen murderers next week. Tur Lnoration of the operation of the dog law would be a great mistake, and it is to be hoped the attempt will be defeated. Crry Rear Estate Owners will be interested in a decision just given the point of which is that assessors, even when they have made a mis- tuke in their awards, are powerless to correct the error. To-Dar Is Micnarumas Day, a holiday of considerable importance in the Episcopal and Catholic churches, and associpted in many ways with the social customs and traditions of Great Britain and Ireland. New Mexico's Ixprays_ have caught the in- fection of rebellion and assassination from the Nez Percés. Scores of settlers have recently been killed. Nine of their vietims were buried the same day a few weeks ago in Silver City. Vermont Has A New Law which other States might profitably copy, making liquor dealers responsible for injuries inflicted by those whoso reason they have taken away. The first suit under it, that of a woman thrown out of a wagon by a drunken husband, has been won by the plaintiff. Preswents Have nor Suown any greater in- clination to abdicate than emperors and kings. An exception, however, must be made in the case of the President of Costa Rica, who has just thrown down the reins of power. Costa Rica is one of those happy spots where it is sometimes prudent to abdi ieute. Tne StorsixG AND Recarrure of one of the redoubts before Plevna is graphically told in other columns. It is ditlicult to say whieh is to be more admired, the splendid bravery of the young Russian General Skobeleff and the men he led; or the rare word painting of the corre- spondent les describes their hereto deeds. Tue Pouce Justices cannot oppose the salu- tary rules of the Commissioners of Police against the “shysters” without leading the majority of people to suspect that they are under the influ- sought to drive from the minor courts, ‘These peo- ple have been for years a disgrace to the Bar and their operations a stain upon the administration of justice. The justices cannot atford to stand in the way of so sreqt a ref Tue Wearner.—The cyclo nic. * disturbance which yesterday morning upprouwched the Caro, lina coust, and which is now slowly anoying northward over Cape Hatteras, is not the ey- clone recently reported trom the Caribbean Sea ports. It has been developed in a deep indenta- tion of the great arca of high pressure which ex- tended for the past two days over the eastern portion of the United Statea and into the Atluw tic Ocean. ‘The character of the disturbance is not dangerous, and its comparatively low degree ot energy docs not indicate that it will prove to be so on our coasts. It is.,one of these himself in,his own, mind. He may have miscalculated his longitude ; he may have underestimated tha force of opposing winds aud cnrrents; but it will not do to assume that a politician of his great ability has no_ settled plan, nor that his plan, whatever it may he, does not look beyond the approach- ing State election. It may be safely assumed that his ulti- mate aim isa re-election to the Senate by the Legislature of 1879, and that whatever he has done, omitted to do, or contemplates doing has reference to that object. His continuance in public life depends on his re-election, for he cannot expect an appoint- ivo office from the President, and without a reelection to the Senate he has no chances for that higher station which is the crowning achievement of political ambition. His whole plan may be a miscalculation and his first step in executing it on egrogious blunder; but he had to consider the possi- bilities of the situation and accommodate his tactics to the obstacles which lie in his way. The chief obstacle, in his own es- timation, is the opposition of Mr. Hayes’ ad- ministration, which would in any event have done qll in its power to prevent his re- election to the Senate. He, therefore, pre- ferred an open quarrel with the administra- tion to a hollow truce, which would be used to quietly undermine him. He precipitates o fight now in order to take advantage of ex- isting republican discontent with the policy of the Fresident before it is healed. He thinks that his chances of success are greater while 2 considerable portion of the party is not yet reconciled to Mr. Hayes’ policy than they would be if he should wait until the dissatisfied elements gradually come into line. He means to transfer his opposition to Congress—to turn home from Washington next summer wearing the laurels of a victor, and calcu- lates that he can then easily crush Mr. Car- tisand all his republican rivals. Ifthe repub- lican Senators stand by the President and uphold the civil service order, Mr. Conkling will of course be foiled; but therearea great many astute and experienced politicians who believe that Mr. Hayes’ civil service reform will end in failure. Mr. Thurlow Weed, who is not partial to Conkling, ex- pressed this opinion very strongly in an in- terview printed by a city contemporary yesterday. General Grant has recently ex- pressed the same opinion. It is well known that a majority of the republican members of both houses of Congress disapprove of the civil service order. It is possible that Mr. Conkling does.not entirely miscaleulate in supposing that the President can be forced to abandon it, and if such shoy}d be tlre case Conkling will claim his share of the victory, and will fancy that he is stronger at home for having so boldky fought it, There is another point on which Mr. Conkling has probably acted from calcula- tion, even in the heat of angry and yindic- tive impulse, We refer to his slashing on- slaught on Mr. Curtis. The immediate effect is to make Mr. Curtis a more impor- tant and conspicuous man than he was be- fore, It has been asked in wonder why Mr. Conkling should thus have helped to bring forward Mr. Curtis as his principal rival for the United States Senatorship. We suspect that Mr, Conkling knew very well what he was doing. He may have choice as to who shall be his principal competitor, and may prefer Mr, Curtis to a different type of politician. What took place at Rochester makes Curtis an inevitable candidate, and as Mr, Conkling does not consider him a formidable one he was willing to: promote his aspirations as a means of shutting off o more dangerous rivalship. <Any general would be glad to appoint the commander of the opposing forces, and it may be in this view that Mr. Conkling has done so much to make Mr. Curtis his Senatorial antagonist. Advertisements and News. The plan of a great journal includes the publication of every kind of news that in- térests the public, from a war which con- vulses#a continent to a local fire. In this wide news gathering service one depart- ment, that of advertisements, is not the least interesting and important. Advertise- ments are to hundreds of thousands of readers news of the utmost value, as strictly and truly news as reports of mar- “carry the war into Africa ;’ and what he did at Rochester is only the prelude to what he purposes to do in Washington. Meanwhile he has adjusted the party machinery in this State to his future exigen- cies. ‘The new Republican State Com- mittee, which consists of his supporters, is to hold for two years, which gives him control of the organization for o period which overlaps the Senatorial elec- tion, This is done on a plausible pretext. Owing tothe three years term of the Gov- ernorand Lieutenant Governor there will be no State election next yeaPexcept for choosing a Judge of the Court of Appeals; and it is only ‘by the accidental ‘cireum- stance that Judge Allen’s term expires by the constitutional limit of age that there will be a State election next year at all. The State Committee was empowered by the late Con- vention to nominate a candidate for the Court of Appeals judgeship, or to call a State Convention for that purpose consisting of one delegate from each Assembly district. The artful thing in this arrangement is that it insures a continuance of the Conkling State committee. If a convention should be called it will have no power to electa new State Committee, because it will not be a regular convention of the party, which must consist of delegates chosen in each district in proportion to the number of re- publican votes in the preceding election. A convention consisting of one delegate from each district would not conform to this rule and would have no authority to discharge any other duty than the one pre- scribed to it by a regularly organized con- vention. It is certain, therefore, that Mr. Conkling’s new committee cannot be dis- placed before the next Senatorial election, It is empowered to fill vacancies in its own body, and so every point is guarded. Next, as to this fall’s election. After this fracas at Rochester the republican State tieket will, of course, be defeated; but the chances were in favor of the democratic | ticket in any event, and probably nothin ences of the disreputable persons whom it is | ssa on F y 8 has been lost which it was in the power of the Convention to save. All that Conkling needs is to secure a republican Senate—the same Senate that is elected this year being ithe one which will participate in the choice of Mr. Conkling’s successor. That he has impaired the chances of electing a republican State Senate is by no means certain. gor aught we can see they are as good as they were before, and, on the whole, are very favorable. ‘The republicans have at present nineteen of the thirty-two Sena- | tors, and unless the democrats should gain foar the next Senate will be republican. Now, the republicans of this State of every shade and stripe. haye an equal interest in keeping control of ,the Senate, whether local depressions which rapidly, form and ox quickly fill up when its immediate causes cvase to operate. Heavy rain hus fatlen near its centre, and the wind force has increased with its progress, It is possible that the, storm will bi us some light rain to-day, but we do vot vt that it will be of long . Tho ment of the Gulf disturba 8 indicated by the wind directions and the pressures along the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts, is still to the southward of Cuba, with a tendeney toward the | westorn oud of the island, Heavy rains and high winds prevail in Southern Florida, and the winds along the coast weatward are vortheasterly. The depression in the Northwest is central in Dakota, with high winds from the south and { southeast, but no rain. The highest pressures are now in the Eastern States and the Canadian provinces and the lake region, Light rains have fuilen in Northorn New England, The temperature has risen in the Northwest and has fallen somewhat over the Eastern and Middle States. Fogs have prevailed on the Atlantic const and in the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri vali and will continue in the first nained district. The weather in Now York and its vicinity to-day | that their opponents will have n they be Conkling, men or Curtis mon or Moxgun meu or Fenton men, Mr, Cur- tis himself, if le intends to be a candidate, has as,,deep a stake in this. as, Mr. Conkling. Moreover, the whole party, withont reference to the Senatorial election, regard this as a vital necessity. If the democrats, who have the Governor, should elect both branches of tho Legislature they can reapportion the State to suit themselves, and in such « manner hance of controlling the Legislature for the next ten years. All the republican factions will work with equal vigor to elect their State Senators, and Mr. Conkling saw clearly enough that he hazarded nothing in this important part of the field. So far as he has put anything at risk which is important to him it is the election of a republican As- sembly next year. But ho expects a great deal to happen between this year and next, Nobody can doubt now that he will carry his fight against the civil service order into will bo cloudy and warm, possibly with light rain and probably with moring fog. the Senate. If ho wins there, if the Presi- dent is forced to retreat and abandon the . kets or politics: or wars. Of this fact the Hxnatp daily furnishes proof, but rarely more emphatically than it did in the quintuple sheet published on last Sun- day. A paper of such dimensions is unusual at this season, but it was compelied by the enormous pressure of advertising. That issue of the Henaxp con- tained 64 columns of solid advertisements, of which the number was 3,067. These were classified under 72 distinct headings, em- bracing every leading branch of busi- ness in the city. Among tliese were 495 advertisements of persons seeking board- ers ; 246 offering furnished rooms ; 139 offer- ing unfurnished rooms; 102 business oppor- tunities; 103 offering to buy or sell horses and carriages; 93 for house accommodations, besides thousands of wants of all kinds, Upon the usefulness of the Hznatp as a medium for this interchange of the buyer and the seller it is needless to dwell, but it is well to point out that suclpan array of advertisements constitutes a vast news de- partment in itself and that its value is thoroughly understood by the people who are at once its creators and readers, Reinforcements for Sitting Bull. A Hxnaxp correspondent at Fort Shaw, M. 1., confirms the report that Chief Joseph and his warriors are on the way to Canada, and adds the startling intel- ligence that they are believed to have es- caped the pursuit of our troops and are now near the Canada line, with plenty of horses, Considering the course of the long pnrsuit perhaps it would be wise in us to follow Dogberry’s advice and thank Heaven wo are rid of them. Sitting Bull conceals his: intentions as carefully as though he were a republican Senator hostile to the administration. In | fuct, since the Rochester Convention and since Mr. Blaine is supposed to have begun negotiating for peace, Sitting Bull is the great mystery of the day. General Terry is on his way to ask him what he wants; if ho puts that question to Chief Joseph he will probably get for reply that the Nez Percé leader wants the United States government to stop cheating his people. Considering many things this must be regarded as an unreasonable request, and yet—General Sam Houston, who knew the Indians very well, used to say that if you treat them with strict honesty and justice they are a very reason- able people. The Border. Tho Texas brethren aro getting into almost as fearful a state of mind as their neighbors across the Rio Grande. Here is a wild report that an American invading army has triumphantly captured Mexico, though so far as we can hear President Diaz has not yet surrendered. Lieutenant Bullis, with one hundred men, has pursued some maurauding Indians acroas. the border, as under the agreoment between our own and the Mexican com- minders he is authorized to do, There- upon comes a rumor that he has ‘‘capturea” the town of Zaragossa, Bullis is a most effective Indian fighter, and the truth prob- ably is that he has overtaken the Indians and captured those he did not kill, Mexico is still safe from our clutches. The © try to th President, There is an old story of a traveller sitting at a Western hotel table. He ordered beef- steak for his breakfast, and the waiter pres- ently brought a small piece on a large plate. The traveller turned it over, inspected it carefully, then said to the waiter, ‘Yes, | that’s the kind ; now go and get mo some as soon as you can,” That is what the country is saying to the | President. It hay been looking at the little dish of civil service reform he has brought. *s Plunge=To What | civil service order, Conkling expects to re- “and it likes it. Now it wants enough foro square meal, and it would like the President to know that it has waited » good while and is hungry. Mehemet Ali’s Retreat. Mehemet Ali’s retreat is the most impor- tant fact lately chronicled in the news of the war. Precisely what it implies in the condition of the Turkish army is not yet apparent; and little importanco is to be at- tached to the reasons for it that are given out by authority, It is said that the Turks are ‘satisfied to maintain their present ad- vantage”--this is one reason, That they were compelled to place their army nearer to their supplies because the rain had so greatly increased the difficulties of trans- portation—this is a second reason. But a third is given—which is that the Russians were ‘massing consider- able forces'on the Lom.” With so many reasons as these, all valid, it might be shame- fal not’ to retire. But if Mehemet Ali has withdrawn from his menace of the Jantra because the Russians have a heavy force on the Lom--if, that is to say, he has moved to the rear because his army was in peril—how is his retreat to be regarded as an evidence of satisfaction with his present advantage? Doubtless the “present advantage” referred to is the evident check of the Russians in front of Plevna. But Mehemet’s army in front of Biela was one of the pieces that made the combination of which that check was the result. If his army is with- drawn beyond the Lom half of the army with the Czarewitch may join the force against Plevna, and the Turkish satisfaction with the ‘‘present advantage” may soon be less lively. But if Mehemet’s army is with- drawn because of the difficulty of getting up supplies what will be the condition of the army of Osman Pacha when it has eaten what was brought forward by Hifzi Pacha? There is doubtless some substance in this reason in regard to supplying the army. But there are other indications than this in the retreat. Either Me- hemet Ali's force is far weaker than it has been, represented, and he has no hope to make head against a Russian ad- vance in his direction, or the collapse of Osman Pacha’s resistance is imminent. If Plevna should tall it would be bad for Mehemet Ali to be west of the Lom in pres- ence of the Russian armies that would be thereby set free. Moreover, the force with the Czarewitch has shown itself abundantly able to hold Mehemet Ali, and thus the Russian right wing could pass the Balkans with safety, and with that force at Sofia, and the force on the Jantra able to protect its communications, the ‘Bulgarian quadrilat- eral would cease to be of importance as a defence of Constantinople. It is probable that Mehemet’s retreat has regard mostly to that contingency. Cypeap Cabling. The Hxratp has so repeatedly expressed itself in favor of cheap cabling and lively competition that we can scarcely add any- thing new in the way of argument or illus- tration, even in noticing so promising a scheme as that of the Pouyer-Quertier Com- pany. M. Pouyer-Quertier is a wealthy French Senator, formerly Minister of Fi- nance, who, with several other capitalists, formed an association, about a year ago, for the purpose of laying an additional cable between France and America. It was the design of the projectors to subscribe the wholo amount of capital among themselves and rua a sharp opposition to the existing companies. The French government, how- ever, in granting the privilege imposed the conditions that one-half the stock must be open to public subscription; that the rate of charges should never exceed a low fixed maximum, and that the company should never be permitted to sell out to, or amalgamate with, any other. Upon this basis the scheme has gone before the public for subscriptions, and is now, we understand, to be put in this market. That it has a wide and productive fidld be- fore it may be inferred from the experience of the Direct Cable Company, its imme- diate predecessor. In December of last year that company, which had been but re- cently started against odds in opposition to the Anglo-American monopoly, had suc- ceeded in getting twenty-six per cent of the whole ocean traflic and earning a net income of £135,000 on a capital of £1,300,000— enough to place ten per cent of its income to a reserve fund and pay a dividend to its shareholders at the rate of nine per cent per annum, This, too, was accomplished in the face of a reduction of one-fourth in the rates for telegraphing of which it was the direct cause. We do notintend to become the ad- vocate of any particular company, but we shall be glad to see new lines laid, on the general principle that competition is the life of trade, and because we think there will be plenty to do for several more cables, both in the way of earning dividends for their shareholders and in making cheaper rates for the public generally, We shall do all we can to make ocean telegraphy cheap and easy, satisfied that when the full trans- mission of news frqm the other side of the water is no longer the special function of the Henatp we shall find other directions for our enterprise and new attractions for our readers. ; Great Father Huyes to Some of His Chitidrea, If we comprehend the proposition made yesterday ‘by Spotted Tail to his Great Father in the White House it is that he wishes the whites, and not the Indians, re- moved to reservations and kept there. The idea is not a bad one at all, but we fear that, like many other excellent ideas, it is impracticable. When we remember how the Indian agents commonly manage a reserva- tion we do not blame Spotted Tail for wish- ing that the whites might be placed for a while in such limits, ‘Your people,” the poor fellow told his Great Father, ‘‘make roads and drive away the game, and thus make us poor and starve us,” and he added, “I wish you would have the roads go around us, not disturbing our homes.” One cannot help but pity this poor savage, who comes all the way to Wash- ington to protest against a road ron- ning through his property. If he only knew how vainly multitudes of white mon | havo protested against roads he would havo saved himself a long iourney. The rond ' builder is a being who moves ahead against all protests, and like time and tide waits for no man, White Tail, another chief, re- marked that he ‘took the white people for rascals,” adding, as is usual in more civil- ized society, “present company excepted.” And then this excellent suvage added that he too ‘wants to be civilized.” ‘The Great Father gave the chiefs some wise and sensible advice, which, if they understood it, must have been very unwel- come to them. It was as though somebody had advised Mrs. Partington to throw away her broom and move her house to higher ground out of the way of the tide. They make melancholy reading, these conversa- tious between the Great Father and his red children, because they talk at cross pur- poses, and the Indians go away perhaps. convinced against their will, but of the same opinion still. ‘Jerome Park To-Day. The first day of tho fall meeting at Jerome Park is always an event in the world of fashion, and every year adds to its attrac- tions. The racing season properly finds a climax in the meeting of the American Jockey Club, which possesses metropolitan importance and dignity. '[o New York these races are especially attractive, for they are a charming’ continuation of the outdoor amusements of the summer, and more than compensate, in certain respects, for the Pleasures of Newport, Saratoga and the mountains. ‘They bring to this city the most celebrated horses in the country and the owners of the great stables in the South and West; they offer large purses and stakes, and they never fail to pleasé the public with first rate and ‘exciting contests. The pro- gramme for this year gives assurance of splendid racing during the next two weeks. To-day. the meeting will be brilliantly: in- augurated by a purse race, in which there are eight excellent horses entered ; "by the Jerome Stakes, a two mile race toe three- year-olds; the Nursery Stakes, for two-ycar- olds, three-quarters of a mile, and the Man- hattan Handicap. All of these races are important, and us*the weather signs al- though somewhat threatening, are not such as to indicate any danger that the sport will be seriously interrupted, we believe that this afternoon will find Jerome Park filled with beauty and fashion and the ardont admirers of one of the noblest of outdoor sports. Opening of the Evening Schools. “Knowledge,” said Lord Verulam, ‘is power,” and though Bulwer wrote one of his sophistical stories to disprove that ax-. iom universal experience proves it to be true. Mental strength alone does not con- Yer power, for in every walk of life we meet with men of rare abilities crippled by the want of education. In this country ‘the facilities for obtaining at least an ordinary education are unequalled, thanks to our system of common schools, which are open alike to the children of the rich or poor. Tho day schools, however, do not entirely fill the wants of society, for there are many young men who have been deprived of early training and aro obliged to labor during the day. For the especial benefit of this large class, as well ns for all young per- sons of studious minds, evening schools have been established by the Board of Edu- cation, and next Monday they will open for the winter term of 1877. Five nights of each week from the hours of seven to nine any person can attend these schools and study those branches in which he feels himself deficient. At the end of the term the con- scientious student will be delighted to find how much he has learned. Knowledge is power, and in this age not to have an aver- age degree of knowledge is to be miserable and weak. Whoever understands the ele- mentary branches of education has the keys to innumerable locks and can pursue un- assisted such studies as he chooses. Tho evening schools as supplementary to the greater system of public instruction are of great value and we trust that this winter they will be fully attended, i PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Gec-haw-safat used to fo an ox team. A tract colporteur at Juda, Wis., stole a horge and then mado tracts, ‘The young lady who plays Mauda Mullor must be ac- companied by a rake. In Virginia the bell punch follows the gin punch as the kettle follows the dog. Autumn stretches its color over the Southern flelds and dyes them a beautifal revet yellow. Leigh Hunt waited until the last moment to go to work, and then he caught up to a half dozen ordinary men. When McClellan was nominated ho sat right down and wept, and thought of the daya when he mado mud pies. It was a Hohokus girl at ber socond plate of ico cream who asked tho brilliant question, “Does cream cremate?” ‘Thg editor of the Kansas City Zimes tried toimpound cow the other day, but afterward found that he had committed a bull. senator Conkling, with his square shoulders aud peaked beurd, looks like the portrait of a courticr of the time of Queen Elizabeth. Jobn Y. Foster, of Now Jersey, who opposes tho ad- miulstration, is a Biaine man; and it must be con- fessed that Foster 13 not without sympathizors, As tho crimson loaves waver downward trom tho trees one cannot avoid thinking that tho brightest evou in human life ure the first to go, “Parsnips,”” said a New Jersey farmer, ‘aro sweet, but you havo to bo disgusted a good deal till you get used to them,.’’ The same may be said of Stowart L. Wooulord, Three thousand bushels of tomatocs spoiled in one duy ie an lndianapohs town. ‘They ought to bave becn sent to New Jersey to be thrown at tho political speakers, A Twenty-third strect man sat two hours at a board- ing house dinner yesterday with tho lower Joint of a spring chickeu in his fugers, He tried tho lathe oo it for a hilo and then said, “Bring on a baseball bat, or something easy.”? Vuns ven ter times was koot, Den I shmokes der nice shoroot; Oon | bays vor him yoost aree vur a quardor; Put now der times ain’t fair, Oon I glimbs der kolten shtair, Mit ter hot on my sboulter tull ov mordi An Ottor Tail coumty (Minn) editor says:—“We don’t propose to suggest apy likeness between Judge P-g- and Judge Jel—&c, We ain't a going to say any- thing about anybody being ad-sp-t or b-lly, or even h-g. We shall not suggest that thore is a iun-t-o and nu-s-ne- loose down in M-w-r county, We aro a free- born American, and we ran an Unshackled and unin. timidated press.”” A young lwday of Pennsylvania was tho othor evening mistaken for a burglar for whom a crowd of twenty- seven men, armed with buckshot-loaticd doublo bar. rolled gune, were waiting. Not soolng that sho was not a man the twenty-seven men Brod their fitty- four barrels of buckshot all at once, Every shot pierced her clothing, bat fortunately tho young lady heiself was not touched THE WAR. Significance of Mehemet All's Retreat Across the Kara-Lom. RUSSIA AND. THE GENEVA CONVENTION Nearly Four Inches of Snow in the §hipka Pass. PROSPECTS OF MEHEMET AND SULBIMAN. A More Hopeful View of the ‘ Russian Position. (Bx caBLE TO THE HERALD.1 Loxpon, Sept. 29, 1877. MEBEMED ALI'S RETREAT. ‘The retirement of Mehemit All behind the Kara+ Lom seems to indicate that the Turks will be satis- fled to maintain their present advantages and. de- pend upon the winter to force the Ruasians back across the Danube. ‘The 7imes’ Shumla special says the retrograde movement was partiy because the recent raiug rendered it dificult to bring up supplies and partly on account of the Russians massing considerable forces on she Lom. 1t would appear irom this explanation that the idea of hold- img the country between the Lom and the Jantra has been abandoned by the Turks. ‘2 COMI NG OPPORTUNITY. ‘Thus it once:more» becomes possible for the Rus+ sians to isolate’and blockade Rustchuk, which, however, has probably been supplicd for the win- ter during the past mionth that communication has been open. Mehemet Ali’s right wilh again be about Kazelevo, with Rasgrad as a base, while his left will extend as far as the defiles south of Osman Bazar, being within easy support from Shumla. 3 Correspondents with the Czarewitch are not san- guine of his ability to force the line. of the Kara Lom, notwithstanding the arrival of several divisions of the Imperial Guard. IN THE SNOW. Snow has been falling in the Shipka Pass since Monday and is now ten centimetres (3.oFinches) deep at the foot ofthe Balkans, FAITHFUL TO THE TREATY. The Austrian and German Ambassadors, in the name of the Rassian government, have appited to the Porte im virtue of the Geneva Convention fora permit to transport timber across the Danube tor huts for the Russian wounded. Tne Porte has de- ferred a reply until it is made certain that tho huts are only to be used for the wounded. ' A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. A correspondent at Bucharest, writing unde date of Wednesday, takes a decidedly hopeful view of the Russian prospects; but it must be ob- served-that this was before the Roumanians at- tempted and tafied to take the second. Grevica re. doubt, if indeed, this report (which comes from several directions, but not yet oMcially from any) be not entirely baseless, The correspondent says:— A GRAND PLANK MOVEMENT, “The staff officers in front of Plevna express the utmost confidence that the place will fall into their | hands. Should Osman Pacha’s army be finally de- stroyed there is nothing to prevent @ great flank movement down the valley of Sota to Adrianowse and the Turkish capital itself. NO PEAR OF SULETMAN. “Suleiman Pacha has squandered the lives of hiv army on the forts.in the Shipka Pass, and, were he to attempt to withdraw, to oppose this flank move- ment, he would have General Radetzky at his hecls, and his army would have its hands full without at- tempting to meddie with the Plevna army. Should Mehemet All attempt to move to the southward Russian hordes of cavairy would entangle him at every step. Perhaps it 1s with a view to some- thing like the above that the Russian command- ers keep their hold on the Shipka Pass and peraist in thelr attacks upon Plevna. STRAINED TO THE TrMost. “There is no doubt that the Turkish powers of resistance are strained to a high degree of tension, and in such circumstances semi-civilized organiza- tions like those of Turkey are liable to collapse in a most unexpected manner, so that in spite of the gross blunders of the Russtan staff @ great chango 18 possible at any moment in the military situawon in Bulgaria. ABUNDAXCE OF PROVISICNS. “There is an abundance of whest and barley re- matning in Buigaria. Every bamiet ts crowded with immense stacks of these grains, while a very large crop of Indian corn is awaiting the husband+ man. Very little of the crops mutsed this year in Roumania has been touched hy the Russians, con- soquently they have provisions in abundance for man and beast, and if they can: surmount the dim- culty of obtaining ‘fhe they can winter in Bulgaria very comfortably. THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERY. “As to the present morale of the Russian forces there is some difference of opinion; but from my own experience with tliem I am convinced that, although the Russian soldicr is unreserved in hia. comments on what he deems bad management on the part of his commanders, he forgets all his past grievances when he sees the hated Moslem, and goes at hint as though he had always been com. manded by a Napoleon.” The contingency on which all these projected operations admittedly rest—namoly, the capture of P.cvna—has been rendered more distant than ever by the facts which this correspondent did not know when he wrote. PLEVNA REPROVISIONED, Whatever the explanation may be of the canse that has led to the success of Rilzi Pacha, the fact is now uncontested that he has safely carried ro- inforcements, supplies and munitions into the en- tronched lives held by Osman Pacha, and his being able to do so demonstrated that the fortress is not invested but 1s being merely attacked on a portion of its front, and the two former disastrous failures to carry it by assault forbid the expectation that it will fall by spade and pick while the Turkish force defending it is not inferior to the attacking army in numbers or fighting capacity. LAUDATION OF SULEIMAN, The Times’ military critic #ays of the operations of the third Turkish army:—‘It 1s dificult to per- ceive the full objects of Suleiman Pacha‘s strategy, but he has certainly proved himself a bold and in- trepid leader, and, until the result of his operations is mado manifest and their full purport discovered, itis only fair to suppose he is acting with adequate reason. AN ANGEL IN DISGUISE. “fis characteristic bravery, the set+-demal and Abstomiousness of his mode of lise, his cool nerve and undaunted courage and his high military rep» utation, which was appreciated on all hands tll his check in front of the formidable Fort St. Nicholas, should now be remembered.” DELAYED BY BAD WRATHER, A correspondent writing from Cnerkovna last Saturday, says:—“1 do not believe It possible, at present, to advance even with the reinforcements which havo arrived. A day or two of rain hag made tii roads almost impassable. The ground ts sodden and the mud ankle deep. The immense number of horses have caten almost all the forage, and bav is vere scarce at any price. Conseaucatlly