The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1877, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, UCTOBER 3, 1 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. ‘Three cents per copy (Sundays excluded), Teu dollars por your, or at wrate of une dollar per mouth for auy period loxs than six wonths, or tive dullars lor six months, Sunday edition inet ree of postaxe, y HEKALD.—Ono dollar per year, tree of post- WEEKLY ERS.—In order to insure atten- ir address chauged must give mldress. rs or telegraphic despatches must be a w Youk Hiunat, Letters und packages should be properly sealed. Rejected cominunteations will not be returned, piresuanac-dbvendboaantsh PUILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTIT N OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— 0 —AVENUR DE LOPERA, NAPLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRATA PACE. Subseriptions and adverti its will bi forwarded received and AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, ps EE PARK THEATRE—Cuvusuep Tracroiax, EAGLE THEATRE—™. y Dotan. WALLACK'’S THEAT! MARKIAGK, AMERICAN INSTITUTE—Iy: RY AND MECHANICS, BROADWAY THEATRE—La NIBLO’S GARDEN—Tuk Law or tae Lanp, GILMORE’S CONCERT GARDEN—Scmurn Concert! OLYMPIC THEATKE. BAN FRANCISCO MIN EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanier COLUMBIA OPERA HOUS: VARIETY» wok Ol. Maxnxee, tv ausIC Hata TRIPLE "NEW YORK, W Norick to ApveRTIseRs.— To insure the proper classification of advertisements it is absolutely necessary that they be handed in before eight o'clock every evenin From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warm and cloudy or partly cloudy, followed by increasing winds from the eastcard and rain, Wat Srreer Yesterpay. he stock mar ket was active and showed a good deal of strength. There was a general advance, which was shared in by the coal stocks during the afternoon. Gold rose from 1027, to 103. Money on call opened and closed at 4 a 5 per cent. ‘Tue Crry Dest at the end of last month was three million dollars less than at the same pej riod last year. A Ruope Istanp Courr decides that pigeons are not covered by the word “animals” in the Prevention of Cruelty statute. JupGeE Rosrnson’s sharp comments on the ex- cessixe charges of lawyers are timely, but there is not the slightest probability they will do the least good. Tue Lone I “> Rattroap affords thes! latest illustration of the folly of railroad ex- pansion. The main live is all right, but the branches are in an unhealthy condition. Tue Supreme Courr of the United States maintains in an elaborate opinion that Congress has the right to prohibit the sale of whiskey to the Indians in States bordering on reservations, as well as on reservations. Sxventy-rive Tuovsanp Dotiars are re- quired to make up the amount necessary to build the Seventh Regiment Armory, which will undoubtedly be obtained in time. The founda- tion will be laid to-morrow. Tue Lone Srnrxe in the coal fields is practi- cally ended. In the Wilkesbarre region work has been resumed, and the reports indicate that the workingmen of the other sections will follow the example im a few days. ‘Tur Hon. Cassiu: SLAY sends the HERALD adespatch in which he says that he shot the negro White in self-defence. he deceased was a bad character whom he had ordered off his land, and who had in consequence threatened his life. A Portion or Peter B. Sweeny’s real es- tate, held conjointly with Hugh Smith, was sold yesterday for the benefit of the city. It brought six hundred and fifty-tive thousand dol- Jars, subject to mortgages amounting to three hundred and forty thousand. Tue Arripavir of President Gilbert, of tho Elevated Railroad, read in court yesterday, con- tains a good deal of information not generally known in regard to rapid transit affairs, the ccn- struction of the road and the selfish opposition of the Sixth Avenue monopolists. The result of the contest will be awaited with interest. Cuter Joserit has certainly earned the repu- tation of being one of the greatest of Indian warriors. He has completely baffied and worn out the different officers sent against him, and is now on his way to Canada to join Sitting Bull, having succeeded in crossing the Missouri River, Howard is in pursuit, but Joseph is si Toe Wearuer.—T storm in the Gulf of Mexico has now approached the coast south of | Mobile and presents the characteristics of a cy- clone. We are still of the opinion that the de- pression now on the Eastern Gulf is the, same one that was announced as passing the Wind- ward Islands on the 21st, southward of Porto Rico on the 23d and near Jamaica on the 25th. The same rate of progress as that ny the Windward Islands to the south of Santiago de Cuba would bring the cyclone centre thence to its present position in seven day low degree of energy, which promises to de- crease still more as the centre moves northeast- ward along the South Atlantic coast. The course of the storm, as indicated by the data to band, has been westward along the fifteenth parallel and gradually drawing to the northward, so a4 to pass just south of Jamaica and thence northwestward — to Yucatan, rounding the western end of Cuba and | then northward and eastward to the vicinity of St. Mark’s, Fia, Heavy rains have fallen from the northern to the casteru margin of the de- pression, but the an extraordinary velocity. In the Northwest the area of low pressure has consi creased, with rains in the upper lake re narrow band of high pre arated the Galf ¢; storm having now been dissipated the two low areas are merged, aud the result will be, a8 able reduction of the velocity of the marginal winds and a more general tribution of the rainfall. The ther in New York and its vieinity today will be warm and cloudy or partly cloudy, followed by increasing winds from the eastward and rain. ay of the disturbance indicates « comparatively | Is have not yet developed | ‘The News from the Rio Grande. We have at last a perfectly authentic account of what took place during the ex- cursion of Lieutenant Bullis across the Rio Grande in the latter part of last week. ‘The sensational reports of the San Antonio news- papers are exploded, which is a great relief to those who feared that blood had. bee shed in an encounter between American and Mexican troops. Fortunately, there has been no conflict of arms between the soldiers of the two republics, but this seems to have been more due to acci- dent than to any Inck of a hostile dispo- sition on the part of the Mexican troops, Lieutenant Bullis expected to overtake and capture an Indien encampment of whose location his superior officers had been ap- prised. He crossed the Rio Grande with something less than a hundred men, but his Mexican guide betrayed him by sending word to the Indians and enabling them to destroy some of their booty and escape with the greater part of the rest, The conse- quence was that Lieutenant Bullis suc- ceeded in capturing only four squaws and a boy, with a few stolen animals. Oar army officers in Texas evidently had no confidence in the friendly disposition of the Mexican troops, for Colonel Shafter, with seven com- panies of cavalry, crossed the Rio Grande soon after Lieutenant Bullis and put himself in a position to support Bullisand bring him safely off in case of disaster. The reason assigned by Colonel Shafter for this strong supporting movement is that the Indian camp was close to a Mexican town contain- ing two hundred Mexican soldiers. Of course those Mexican soldiers were pre- sumed to be hostile, for otherwise the strong supporting movement of sevon com- panies would have been unnecessary. ‘The event proved that it was a wise precaution. A party of Mexican cavalry was discovered following up the trail of Lieutenant Bullis on his retreat, and he would undoubtedly have had to fight if Colonel Shafter had not been close at hand with a force which over- awed the Mexicans. Colonel Shafter thought it inexpedient to attack the Mexican cavalry following in his rear, and ina short time they disappeared. This brief history, which is the substance of Colonel Shafter’s official report, is very suggestive. Itisonly by the prudence of General Ord in sending after Lieutenant Bullis a supporting cavalry force too strong to be resisted that we have escaped a bloody fight between American and Mexican sol- diers. Had the troops of the two republics been brought into collision the inflamma- tory effect on both sides of the border would have been deplorable. Public feeling on the frontier is already excited to a dangerous pitch, and it would be regrettable if any- thing should occur to fan the flame. These recent occurrences dispel some illusions with which the country has been soothed during the summer. Mexican co-operation in sup- pressing the border raids proves to be a comedy very clumsily played. Whether the Mexican government has been acting a double and deceitful part we cannot yet judge. If its professions of co-operation have been made in good faith they only demonstrate its powerlessness. What avails it to send troops to the border if the men, and even the officers, immediately succumb to local fecl- ing as soon as they reach the frontier? Mexican officers have resigned their com- mands rather than assist in the surrender of criminals under the extradition treaty. Mexican guides offer their services only to betray our officers. Mexican troops stand ready to fight our soldiers who cross the Rio Grande at the first opportunity when they can pounce upon an inferior force. This treachery and hostility will not be abated but increased by what is tak- ing place near the Rio Grande. ‘This being the dangerous pass to which matters have come on the frontier it is for- tunate that Congress is so soon to meet. The executive has proceeded quite as far as it can properly go without express authoriza- tion by the legislative branch of the government. ‘The Mexican policy of the President may be right enough, but the President cannot decide ques- tions which are within the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress. So long as his Mexican policy did not endanger peace between the two countries it was very well, but Congress alone has authority to change our relations with a foreign government | from peace to war. When pacific remedies | are exhausted or prove insufticient it is the clear duty of the Executive to stop, to com- municate all the facts to Congress, and to | remit the whole question to that body for its action. It is not merely a question whether the policy pursued is justifiable | tion which relates also to the partition ments of our government. It may be right to go to war with Mexico, but Con- ! gress alone has authority to declare war, It may be right to resort to measures of re- dress which, if forcibly resisted by Mexico, would lead to war, but such measures should not be pursued by the Executive t the extent of embroiling the two countrie | without Congressional authorization. Noth- ing can be clearer than that this is the dritt | of the constitution. Congress alone has power to grant letters of marque and re- prisal—a mode of redress which falls very far short of war, but which, as it may possi- bly lead to war, the constitution has taken {out of the hands of !and confided to Congress. Letters ! marque and reprisal are issued against | ships and cargoes or property on the sen, but they are of the same nature as reprisals on land. | cross a frontier and put a military force on | the territory of a foreign Power it és wiser and safer as well as more constitutional to have the authority of Congress. In the crossings of the Rio Grande during the of acts were not displeasing to the Mexican - | government, which made a show of cordial 1 the vorthwestern | and even vigorous co-operation. While | things stood on this footing American citi- | zens could have nothing but applause for the order given to General Ord. ‘That same | policy may still be the right one now when it has become so evident that the pretended | Mexican co-operation is a hollow sham, but at this stage of the business it hax nased as between the two nations; it isa ques- | of powers between the different depart. | the Executive | When it becomes necessary to | | summer it has been understood that theve | beyond the constitutional jurisdiction of the President. The Mexican troops are ready to fight any party we may send across if they think they can fight to advantage, and a conflict between the troops of the two nations would create a breach that could not easily be healed. It may be n | Wisdom or it may be folly to push things to this extremity ; but whether it be wise or foolish is a question which the Executive must not take the responsibility of deciding. Congress, which has the sole authority to decide such a question, meets only twelve days hence, and it is the plain duty of the President to hold matters in slatu quo until that body assembles and then to submit the whole subject for its deliberation. It is no light thing, under any circumstances, to send an armed force into the territory of an- other nation to punish its citizens; but, while the provocations are sufficient to justify so strong a proceeding against the Mexican cattle thieves, it is better in the stage to which the business has now advanced to hold on for a couple of weeks in order that further steps may not want the supporting authority of Congress. It would be inex- cusable for the President to precipitate the country into a war with Mexico by bringing about sucha condition of things as would virtually take the question out of the hands of Congress and leave it no choice. If we are to have war Congress must declare it, and the wisest thing the President can now do is to submit the whole subject to its de- liberation before proceeding further. Horse Racing and Fox Hunting. Lovers of those exciting sports into the enjoyment of which good horsemanship and nerve enter so fully will have little cause to grumble this season at a want of opportunity to prove their mettle, The canons of the turf have made the préfessional jockey only the representative of the human element in horse racing. The owner of the swift brute may not ride him during a match, so he deputizes a youth of skill and courage to represent him. This rule, of course, has its exceptions, and not the least of the attrac- tions of a spring or fall meeting at Jerome Park is the ‘‘gentleman’s race,” wherein non-professional horsemen have a chance to enjoy a good hard run on their own or their friends’ horses. The hunting field, therefore, furnishes the needed opportunity for enjoying this healthful and exhilarating sport, but heretofore there has been no properly organized hunting association in this country. ‘The want is now being hand- somely supplied, at least for New York and its vicinity. ‘The Queens county hunt will be informally initinted this afternoon on the plains of Hempstead under the auspices of a number of gentlemen well known among the liberal sportsmen of the metropolis. No matter how important a race may be one can only witness it; but in the hunting field it is different. There one can be both a spectator and a partaker of the sport, and become a part of the game that affords so much pleasure and excite- ment. When the objective of the hounds is a fine dog fox with a bushy tail, a robust constitution and an inordinate desire to maintain a respectful distance from his eager pursuers, the fun is fast and furious, The run becomes a steeplechase over an un- marked and sometimes unfamiliar course, and individuals struggle for the lead as on aregular race track, The little risks inci- dental to the chase but help to stir the blood and send it coursing warmly to the cheek of the true sportsman. As to horse racing, the fall meeting at Jerome Park is proving an immense success, and the beau- tiful grounds have lost none ot their attrac- tions for the public. With such unsur- passed opportunities for enjoyment as the races at Jerome Park and the hunting fields of Queens county will afford the present season must eclipse all those preceding it in the brilliancy and popularity of its field sports. African Railroads, We print elsewhere a communication from Mr. Augustus Watson to the African Reposi- tory, in which he urges that Congress shall a»propriate fifty thousand dollars to make a preliminary survey fora railroad from the Liberian coast northeastward into the Afri- can interior. Mr. Watson reports that sixty- five thousand colored emigrants are now ready to go to Africa from South Carolina and sixty-nine thousand more from the in- terior of Louisiana, and he seems to think that these people would be helped by the expenditure of fifty thousand dollars ona railroad reconnoissance, We are sorry we cannot agree with him. In the first place, if there are any colored people here anxious to remove to Africa | they ought to understand that they must go | at their own expense, and it would be only humane to tell them that they ought not to go in great numbers at first. They ought also to be told that Liberia isan unhealthful country, and so far unprosperous that, | though its people would probably be greatly benefited by « considerable emigration to their country, they do not seem to be able to offer help to persons ready to join them | from this side. The recent exploration of | Mr. Stanley shows the true highway into | the interior of Atrica—a true highway be- cuuse rivers are more available than rail- | ways inthe first settlement of a country. We agree with much which Mr. Watson says about the natural wealth of the interior of Africa, But it is now all accessible by the Congo River; and we adyise him and others interested in the development of Africa to | labor for the establishment of trading posts on the upper Congo, and of asteam flotilla to connect these with thiscountry, When this is done there will be inducements to emi- | grants, which will lead them to go out there a3 soon as they can accumulate enough to pay their passage. But with all this Con- | gress hus nothing to d Wholesaling Postage Stamps. ; On the recommendation of the Post Office Department Congress two years ago enacted a law which the next Congress will be ur- yently asked by the present Postmaster General to repeal, and which, in the mean- time, has opened a rather lively business for the second, third and fourth class post. | imasters, ‘his law gives to those post. masters a commission, varying from fitty to ten per cent, on the amount of postage stamps they sell, It was intended, of thet thav shonld sunnlv only tha nonrea, natural demand at their offices; but the law is 80 loosely worded that it allows the postmasters to sell stamps wherever they cun find customers; and as it is a cash business, attended with no risk or expense, many postmasters in the country have ex- tended their business to the larger cities, with, of course, considerable profit to them- selves and loss to the Post Office Depart- ment. The sale of stamps at the New York Post Office, for instence, has fallen off from $592,614 for the quarter ending September 30 of last year to $556,487 for the quarter just ended—a decrease of over $36,000, and a loss, seemingly needless, to the govern- ment of nearly $150,000 per annum shown here alone, Of course this is but a small part of the total. The ims and the Outs—A Mighty Contest. Our full despatches from Albany give o pretty complete history of an exciting day. The subject in dispute is so small and petty that impartial spectators can take but a feeble interest in this miserable squabble of factions. It is merely » vulgar scramble for offices between the outs and the ins, A nomination at Albany being considered by each aspirant as equivalent to an election it is natural enough that the contest should be lively and animated; but why should the rivals descend to so much back- biting and cast so many aspersions on the character of fellow democrats? Is office worth purchasing by such violations of courtesy and charity? The public would appreciate a generous competition for posts of honor and trust; it would understand a controversy which turned on important questions of principle or policy; but o mere vulgar scramble for place and spoils between the ins and the outs debases poli- tics and disgusts spectators. According to present. appearances the party of the ins isstronger than the party of the outs in this lively squabble. The Democratic State Committee is, indeed, the old Tilden Committee, which was ap- pointed last year, and may not reflect the average sentiment of the party. But itis still a great advantage for the ins thata majority of the State Committee is on their side. It insures them control of the pre- liminary organization and the appointment of the committees, which gives them astart in the race, The action of the Com- mittee on Credentials will probably decide the fate of candidates. The admission of «the anti-Tammany delegates and other con- testing delegates favorable to the old State ticket would secure its renomination, and the Committee on Credentials will be made up in the interest of the ins. They have also a powerful ally in Governor Robin- son, who is respected by both parties, and whose judgment will control the action of doubting delegates. Governor Robinson, while disclaiming any desire to dictate, is very pronounced and outspoken for the old ticket, and his admirers will think that a set of candidates cannot be bad whom he so emphatically indorses. He ought to be a betler judge of the capacity and efficiency of the present State officers than anybody else, for they discharge their duties under his constant inspection. If he deems them worthy and honorable the average democrat will not think it against the interest of the party torenominate them. The Tammany threats of a bolt if the old ticket is renominated is a mere game of bluff, and even if the threat were sincere it would have little effect on the Convention, The consequence of a bolt against regular nominations would be merely to shut the doors of the next State Convention against Tammany delegates and put that organization outside the pale of the party. In spite of their bluster they will be in no haste to put themselves in that position, The tug of war will come to-day, and we may expect some tumultuous and angryscenes, The Four Per Cent Bonds. We are reminded by an evening contem- porary that the ten millions of four per cent bonds which appear in the debt statement of October 1 do not represent the full amount ofostensible sales. We are aware of that, the ostensible sales being seventy-five millions. ‘the ten millions which appear in the monthly debt statement are the amount of completed transactions. The subscribers to the residue advance two per cent, and if they choose to forfeit this ad- vance they are not bound by their subscriptions. At present the four per cent bonds are at one and a half per cent discount, and if they should not further decline the subscribers will take the bonds. But if, before the transaction is closed, the bonds shoald be at a discount of two per cent or more, they will be likely to selves from further loss. ‘The bonds having declined one and a half per cent since they were offered a further Cecline of one-half or three-quarters per cent is not impossible, and in that case the subscribers would pay the forfeit rather than take the risk of sav- ing themselves by a resale of the bonds. Mr. Sherman himself raises a suspicion | He has given out that he will ask Congress for authority to sell them for greenbacks, It this request is granted the four per cent bonds will be worth only their fuce in legal | tender notes, which are now about three | per cent below the price of gold. But as this measure, if adopted, will no doubt ap- preciate the greenbacks it is uncertain whether it will be for the interest of the subscribers to forleit their advances. What is certain is that there can be no further sale of these bonds for gold, and that Mr. Sherman cannot replenish his stock of gold from this source. To be sure he ean go back to the four and a halt per cent | bonds which he so proudly withdrew from | the market four months ago ; but this would | beso mortitying a retreat that he will avoid | it it possible. It is in order to avoid it that | sion to sell the four per cont bonds for | greenbacks, and thereby save himself from | an unpleasant dilemma. We sincerely hope that he may not be forced back upon the four and a half per cent bonds, because the sale of the four per cent bonds for legal tender notes would be so much wiser and less cumbrous a mode of bringing the cur- roney to war forfeit the small advance and save them- | | that these bonds will still further decline. | he has resolved to ask Congress tor permis- | 877.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Wall Street Forgery: The discovery yesterday morning that William C. Gilman, one of the most respect- able and trusted men in business in Wall street, had been engaged in a clumsy but apparently systematic and extensive series of frauds, caused not merely alarm but grief in banks and banking houses, with many of whose managers Gilman had had friendly relations for many years. Tha house of which he became the head on the death of his father some years ago was regarded as one of the most respectable and trustworthy on the street ; indeed, the forgeries which have come to light ure so clumsily done that they could not have deceived their victims if they had been uttered by any one to whom suspicion would attach. The whole extent of the alterations of cer- tificates is probably not yet known. It was hoped at first that only the scrip certificates of the Atlantic Insurance Company had been tampered with, but it is now known that bank stock owned by Gilman was also “raised” to larger amounts, and it is thought that the sum of the forgeries, which reached over two hundred thousand dollars yester- day, may turn out to involve a much greater figure. When this crime was first discovered there was a natural indisposition to believe that Gilman could be guilty of it, but several circumstances seem to leave no doubt that he alone was the author of the forgeries. He appears to have acted with remarkable coolness and deliberation, and there is no doubt that he was in town yesterday morn- ing, and disappeared only when the crime became known. Coming so close upon the heels of the Morton frauds in Philadelphia this event will shock confidence all over the country. In this case, as in Morton’s, the criminal is a man of respectable connections, of the highest standing among bankers and of an apparently blameless life, and this adds to the painful and irritating impression which the event produces, Men naturally ask who can be trusted when such men break their trusts and take to the most vulgar of crimes. What Is Cruelty to Children? The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children on Monday tore a little girl from the arms of her mother and sent her toan asylum, It strikes us, as it will many others, that the society is either misnamed or it is engaged in a piece of business of which it ought to be ashamed. There has been a long quarrel over the little Mabel Leonard, in which the society does not, on the whole, appear to ad- vantage. The end of it, for the present, is that Mabel Leonard's mother is in jail for contempt of court in having got posses- sion of her little girl after she was taken away, and the girlis sent in tears to the House of Mercy. There is no doubt that she is fondly attached to her mother; in- deed, she wanted to go to jail with her. We do not notice any attempt in court to prove the mother a bad character, or to show that she would mal- treat her child or endanger her morals, We suppose the mother must suffer for her contempt of court; but we confess, after making inquiry into the case, we should prefer to see the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children take their heavy hands off; we should even prefer to see the little girl go to jail with her mother. Pre- vention of cruelty to children surely does not consist in dragging them away from their mothers, unless these are notoriously vile or cruel women. It looks to us likea case of harrying a poor woman who prob- ably knows nothing of law and whose affec- tion for her child leads her to try to be with that child at all hazards, Are there no other cases for the society to use its superfluous energies on? Suppose it should investigate the lives and sufferings of the numerous little street beggars, many of whom ask for charity with the dreadful certainty that they will be cruelly beaten if they go home without theirstint of pennies. The public is a little tired of the society’s energetic persecution of Mabel Leonard. The little girl’s tears make the society's name ridiculous. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ‘The Servian is a coward. Age 1s woman’s chief secret, Curtis doesn’t rhyme with Conkling. Mrs, Abby Sage Richardson is lecturing in Colorado, Georgia mouniatneers call watermelons ‘chill pilis,’? Now 18 the time to borrow pumpkins for pumpkin pies. ‘ ‘The Danbury News man !s making monoy from his book. Brown is so egotistical that ho always gives an I for onl The punctuating proot reader is the man of the period, We suppose that Mr. Doubleday doesn’t go homo til morutng. Senator J, Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is at the Brevoort House, The Cincinnats Haguirer is of opinion that every one inkes the how! of his own dog. Nothing can exceed the vanity of the youth who has learned how to roll a cigarette, Mr. Medill, of the Chicago 7ribune, caile Senator Conkling a bully and a coward, It is sufo to say that there will be no brandy in ad- ministration mince ples this winter. Before a Colorado man could mark his tlock of 5,000 sheep they all went off on a rampage. Dono Piatt says that General McClellan fought the pattie of tho Nihil, at which Nibil dt, ‘Tho depositors of the savings banks have ostab- shed a picket line along the Canada border. General Robert U. Schenck, of Ohio, arrived at tho ‘St, James Hotel yestorday [rom Washington. Chromos bave gone out of fashion, but a great many papers give away a man with every subscriber. When a Colorado man 18 asked whethor he likes to be lynched, he says, ‘No, lil be hanged if I do”? Blue Joans Williams thinks that a man can drink as much whiskey in commoa clothes as he can in purple and tine linen, The President expects, alter this, to kiss Morton by telephone, At least be hus a sort of telephone attach- ment for him, Alroady there aro signs of the next Presidential cam- paigo. Several men at Youkers have organized a Mra ‘Tilden anti-temperance society, In the time of Switt there was an idea that Mars must have two moons, because tho earth bas one and Jupitor four, and Mars 1s between them. Mr, Schurz is of opinion that ove of Gall Hamiiton’s incendiary iettors must have got into the Interior De- partmont and set things going by spoutancous combus- tion, Dr. John Hullah, tho musical critic, believes that home piauo playing should be subdued, and ho com- monds Bach’s fugues and Mozart's works, and criti- cises the modern bravura playing. A New York politician, who was recently sont to Sing Sing to pick oakum for four years, sang, “Yakum, oakum, and I'll go alongwith you, to whore the abawings ave cavarad alar with alna 1? THE WAR. \a Curious Report of a Turkish Victory in Armenia. NOTHING NEW AT PLEVNA. Russia to Build a Railway In Bulgaria. HEAPING HONORS UPON THE PACHAS. | (Bx CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, Oct. 3, 1877. Moukhtar Pacha telegraphs to Consantino- ple that eight Russian battalions, with cay. alry and artillery, attacked his rear guard at Nechjoran on Monday. ‘The Russians, after five hours fighting, were repulsed, with the loss of four hundred killed. Four battalions of Russian infan- try and three regiments of cavalry, who, al the same time, attempted to create a diver. sion by attacking the Turkish right, were also repulsed. If the Russians attacked Moukhtar’s rear guard his troops were probably in retreat upon Kars. If they were not falling back it is incomprehensible that so large a force of men, at least 7,000, could have forced its way through to Moukhtar’s rear guard, Altogether the despatch has an indefinite. ness which is far from satisfactory. NO NEWS FROM PLEVNA. A special despatch to the 7imes, dated Sofla, Oo tober 1, says:—There is no news from Pleyna,” From the above it will be seen that the reported repulse of a Russo-Roumanian attack by Osman Pacha, as telegraphed irom Sofia Sunday evening, is not contirmed. PREPARING TO WINTER IN BULGARIA, The Russians have ordered contractors to com struct 300 kilometers (about one hundred and eighty-six miles) of railway in Bulgaria, to build huts for 150,000 men and hospitals for 15,000. Rus- sian reinforcements continue crossing the Seretb into Wallachia. REVIVAL OP THE TURKISH RAID RUMOR. Two hundred Turks were reported in Bucharest last night to have crossed by @ pontoon bridge ta Kalarach from Silistria, ONLY A LOCAL PLOT, A Vienna despatch says that only 800 rifles were seized in Transylvania, The projected raid into Roumania was a scheme of a few enthusiasts and adventurers, and had no connection with the Hun- garian popular sympathy for Turkey. HONORING THE VICTORIOUS PACHAS. The Sultan has couferred the title of Ghazi (com queror) on Osman Pacha and Moukktar Pacha, MONTENEGRO’S FUTURE, A special despatch trom Vienna says it is an. nounced trom various quarters, with an appear ance of probability, that the Prince of Montenegro will not push operations any further in the direction of Herzegovina, as he has gamed ag much Herzegovinian territory as he can hope to retain when peace is concluded. Itis thought he will now attempt the acquisition on the Albanian frontier of the Plain of Moratscha down to Podgo- ritza, which territory has long been coveted ‘@ the Montenegrins, TURKISH SPECIAL PLEADING. WANION DESTRUCTION OF SACRED PROPERTY AT BAJAZID—A LETTER FROM MR, ASHBURY— COMDLIMENTS EXCHANGED BETWEEN THE PORTE AND ITS REPRESENTATIVE AT WASH INGTON. The following is furnished by the Turkish Minister to the United Stat ROOM FOR THE KURD! The following cominunication is uddressed by tho Armenian prelate of Bujuzid and Utcn Kilisse to the ‘Armenian Patriarchate at Constantivuple:— Kurds were my friends and protected have been kil We have hud to suf and of all this nothing ds lett to us, Our cattle have newrly -five Kurd chiets have been re, und oven I owing to my reaistauce to leave the place. Jocts und precious manuscripts have been destroyed stolen. Father Arakel, member of the congregation +f John, was killed, ‘The’ v have burned every vacant house belonging elther to Mussulmans or Christians. A LETTER PROM EX-COMMODORK ASHBURY. SMUMLA, ust 25, 1877. ‘To Tux Epitor ov me Darcy Tetnanarit:— ‘At various times some telegrams or lotters have appeared ‘or denouncing the atroc on non-combutanis, harness tases. Knowln, in your paper conimitted villagers, wo or pr he Turkish your constant sympathy for ¢ ause a portion o the puuite would perhaps attach little timpncgance to suck, publications, believing you to be capupte of publishing uny communtention tonding to confirm your views without tuke ing any an yussortaln the truth, . HK MAS SERN THEM STRUCK. ‘Tho small minority of your readers why would still host~ tate to believe that the ‘soldi t a self-styled Cork Power, Kussia, could deliberutely have killed and wounded countless numbers of womeu and childre! credit th 1 vod you to permit me to say tuat in the wgrad have scen old mi by Russlau Coxsacks, screaming fewrtully, A wom dangerously wounded w saying that her three children had been murdered in hor presence. I do not deem it necessary to enter into tuils relating to tho w vf wounds of the vic simply limit myself to coulirming In # general way Tecthess of your news concerning the atrocities perpetrat wt Rasgrad. 1 have no personal knowle the cruelty which have taken place anywhere el abstain trom glving them any publicity, alt! s Heving what has beeu reluted to me avout them, ‘Yruly yours, ruly Yours, J A wes ASHBURY, M. P. for Brighton, EXCREDINGLY INDEFINITE, Suptime Pours, Ministky OF FoREIGN Arrains, ‘ConstaNTINOPLE, Sept. 3, 1877, M. ENVOYK:— ‘Siu;-The news published about certain madsacros is without toundation, ‘Those ramors, put in circulation by our enemie enuute the impression caused by the borro by themselves. Be pleased to ace &e., SERVER, copt, Bia Suisranont Buy. GENERAL EUROPEAN NEWS, THE SETTLEMENT OF THE VINGINIUS AWARD 70 BE MADE THIS WEEK—GAMBETTA AP= PEALS AGAINST THE SENTENCE OF THE COURT—NO 81. COLUMBUS, (By CADLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, Oct. 3, 1877. The Henatp's correspondent at Madrid telegraphs that the Spanish government, through its Minister of Foreign Affairs, has promised Minister Lowell to pay the second instalment of the Virginius award during this week. Whether any other Cuban claims are to be paid at that time is not stated, GAMBRTTA’S APPRAL, M. Gambetta to-day formully lodged an appeat Against the sentence passed upon him by the Correc. tional Tribunal, Tho appeal will probably be heard the boginning of next week. M. Jules Simon ts seri- ously ill, ‘M. GREVY TO SUCORED M. THIRRS, M. Qrévv a now formality nut forward as the sua