The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1877, Page 6

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BEW YORK AQUARIUM BROADWAY THEATRI BERMANIA THEATR! MIEATRE FRANCAISE OGYPTIAN HaLL—Vani BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE. TIVOLI THEATRE—Vanierr, THEATRE COMIQUF—Vani AMERICAN INSTITUTE—Inousery axp Mzcnamion, TONY PASTOR'S—Vaniety. OLYMPIC THEATRE—Vauiery. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 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 vicinity today will be cloudy and cool, with rain and in- freasing southeasterly to westerly winds, followed by clearing weather. Watt Srreer Yesrerpay.—The stock market Was very active and showed at times consider. able strength. Gold was steady all day at 10215. Government bonds were firm, States Steady and railroads strong. Money on call was active at 6 a 7 per cent. Sonora, in Mexico, is beginning to talk about State sovereignty and secession. Premprna has been thrown into transports of enthusiasm by the beginning of work on its branch of the Canadian Pacitic Railroad. Tur One Tuousanp Douiar greenback notes of 1869 are all right. There are no counterfeits, as reported, and it will be safe to take them in change. A Sripciarion Acarsr Surcipr in an ineur ance policy releases the compuny when self-de- struction is committed. So the United States Supreme Court decides, ee San Francisco the first 1 savings bank to imble is appropriutely named the Pioneer. There is, fortunately, a prospect that it will have no followera. Tue Repvcrion or Waces on the Third Ave- nue Railroad was generally expected by the employés, who have shown their yood sense by accepting the situation. Bostox Has Mape its contribution to the forgers’ roll. Her model citizen was in the habit of forging the names of his friends on promis- sory notes and raising money on them in the banks. N Zayp?, of Riode Island, em- phatically denies the sentiments attributed to him that the Southern trip of the President con- vinced him of the failure of the conciliation policy. ALL tHE Hornipre Turouws about the Patent Office have been exploded by the official report. It was entirely accidental, with the ele- tent of gross carelessness on the part of some- body not named. In Sourn Carorina’s Ring days there was a sliding scale in corruption. The evidence in the cases of Smalls aud Maxwell shows that a Con. gressman’s vote was worth five thousand dolls th of that amount. NQUIRY promises to be ws long as the Tweed investigation. Mr. Har- dott was examined yesterday, aud Clara Morris ls to be summoned. Mabel’s own testimony proves her to be more interesting on the stage than off it. Wuat ARE THE Potice Commissioners going to doin the case of Mink, the brutal police officer? The evidence was so strong against Lim that he has been held for trial. In justice to the re- spectable officers on the force the Cominissioners should promptly dismiss men like Mink. Tue Sare or Seats for the Edwin Adame benefit was a very great success, and the rare compliment it carries with it will be all the more valued by the recipicut because the good work is mainly the tribute of his own professional brethren. One and all they have played a truly noble part. Tuere Witt Be a Cuarrer Evecrion in New- ark, N. J., to-day, and from the fact that it is the home of two republican members of the Elee- toral Commission an effort is made to give the contest an intensely bitter partisan turn. If the property owners of Newark are wise they will vote for the best men, irrespective of considera- Tue Wearuun. re of lowest pressure has moved from the Mississippi and Lower Ohio valleys to the lake region and Canada, attended by very heavy rains and high winds. The undu- lation of high pressure behind the disturbance is | following it closely and with a steady barometric rise. Another area of low pressure is developing a short distance west of the Missouri Valley, but ae yet without threatening indications. The slow movement of the depression now in the Jake region is due to the resistance of un area of unusually high pressure directly in its track. The highest barometer continues on the coast, but has moved toward Nova Scotia, where the pressure is gradually falling. The zones of high and low pressure are now arranging themselves aiter the recent great storm. The present storm is but aniucidentof this process, and owing tothe unusually high preasures prevailing in ad- vance of it is one of marked enc: Low tem- peratures continue to prevail. The weather iu New York to-day will be cloudy and cool, with rain and inéreasing southeasterly to westerly winds, followed by clearing weather. SS ad NEW YORK HERALD, TU. Stanley's Letters—Unveiling the Mys-| perilous retreat of famine-stricken men teries of Eqaatorial Africa. There is a length and breadth to the work of exploration in Africa which tends to dwarf our conceptions of achievement which would be deemed almost superhuman if accomplished on a known and limited field. ‘The very magnificence of the tri- umph is often the cause of its partial ob- scuration from the vulgar recognition that takes only into account commonplace di: culties magnified and multiplied according to the mental calibre of the observer. A large majority of those who possess only uncertain ideas of the geographical position and the physical character of the continent of Africa will reduce their opinion of a march from Zanzibar to the mouth of the Congo River to a mere expression of wonder that a man could walk so far. Others, perhaps, may conceive something akin to contempt for an undertaking that took so long to accomplish after all, Many of our readers will remember the story of the old trapper who, during a visit to the settlements, heard a preacher describe the wanderings of the Israelites under the guid- ance of Moses for forty years in the Arabian deserts. Learning, also, on inquiry, that this desert was only a few hundred miles long and broad, the practical- minded old man exclaimed:—‘ An’ they took forty year to git out of that thar bit of country! Why, my friend Billy Spencer ’ud have fetched them out inside of three weeks.” There is no doubt we have many Billy Spencers in our midst who imagine they could have followed the Lualaba to the Congo, circumnavigated the Victoria Niyanza and Lake ‘langanyika, and all that, while Stanley was getting ready to do these things, and have plenty of time besides to spare for wild forest sports an other amusements, : Really it is no exaggeration to say that not one man in one thousand who reads of Stanley’s work as an explorer gives himself time to consider the nature of the task un- dertaken or the significance and importance of its results when accomplished. Setting aside for the moment all considerations but those bound up with Stanley's work in the solving of a geographical problem we are at once struck by the grandeur of the system to be investigated. It was no less than the drainage of a mighty continent through the main arteries called rivers, which uncéas- ingly pour their enormous volumes of water downward to the ocean. Whence did these waters come? Where did they first com- mence to flow? What were the directions they took from these sources toward the ultimate ocean basin into which they are discharged? These questions were pro- pounded to man by his hunger after a perfect knowledge of the earth he in- habits. They also arose out of a desire to profit by that knowledge, and may be said to have been suggested in some degree by a wish to bring the enlightenment of civilization to the dwellers in these wilder- nesses of forest and plain which extend over the face of Central Africa. But the motive moral force which put men like Liv- ingstone, Speke, Grant, Burton, Cameron and, lastly, Stanley, the most successful of them all, on the forest or desert pathways, the lakes and’ the rivers of Africa in search of geographical truths, was that of curiosity, insatiable, uncontrollable curiosity, which cannot be satisfied with less than that which destroys it. The Hzraupand London Duily Telegraph, os journals representing the aspir- ing thought of two great sections of the human family, have been the agents in pro- viding the means for accomplishing the geographical triumph which Stanley has won, But in the effort to attain the ends of ex- ploration there are otherthings to be consid- ered which always dominate and often frus- trate the most strenuous exertions of the ex- that beset him from the start, and which in- unknown. In the case of Stanley's labors the highest degree involved in these physi- cal difficulties, we can readily understand their arduous character from the very out- set. Surrounded bya retinue of ignorant savages whose contact with civilization on the coast imparted to them all the vices and few or none of the virtues of the higher state of being, he undertook to penetrate a country without roads or eyen reliable pathways. ‘This region he found in- habited by hostile natives, kindred in race to and scarcely more ignorant and superstitious than his own followers. © He traversed a region where by reayon of local wars the tribes were arrayed against each other, but all united to oppose the advance of the dreaded white man. To add to these dangers food was scarce and often entirely wanting. A burning sun by day and chilly dews by night created those conditions that caused the deadly fevers to assault even the acclimated natives with fital effect. Wild beasts in unknown numbers, but well known ferocity, prowled around the camp at night, while by day every turn in the forest or jungle path might bring the traveller into a trap where the poisoned arrows of the savages would end his life and his ambitious schemes at once. And this was no mere | occasional danger, but a permanent cause of anxiety, which kept the | traveller's nervous system on a stant strain at the expense of his bodily | strength. Now we read of thrilling scenes on the Western plains, where the soldier or hunter runs the gantlet of the lurking Indian's fire, and escapes, after being kept days, even weeks, in constant dread of mas- sacre. But what if these horrors, fatigues, uncertainties and dangers are prolonged to a year’s time, and multiplied as the travel- ler's powers of resisting are wasted in a long resistance? Take fitty Indian cam- paigns, and so far as an experience of their dangers could be centred in one individual, it would not adequately represent that of Stanley in his journey from Nyangwe to the mouth of the Congo. One long, bloody, exhausting, life-wasting struggle was waged by the exploring party from the start to the finish of that journey. When the savages retired hunger and fatigue took their places and surrounded camp and canoe without cessation, From being an adventurous advance for the benefit of | geographical science the movement becames in Africa, which may be taken as being in | which con- | Senator to succeed Stanley Matthews, toward a far distant point of safety and relief over a route wholly unknown as to its diffi- culties and natural perils, and through the tg | midst of cannibals who harassed the travel- lers at every opportunity. Yet, despite all this, the object of the expedition is held sacred by Stanley. He fulfils his duty to the Hxnaty and the Duily Telegraph and to civilization in the midst of perils ‘fi calculated to awaken only the most selfish thoughts in the mind of man, To judge of the cool deliberation with which Stanley em- barked in this his last and greatest enter- prise we need but read his letter dated at Nyangwe, ot which we print this morning acopy of the duplicate preserved by him, the original having been sent to the East Coast. He fully appreciated the dangerof the journey down the Lualaba, but wholly undaunted by it he remarks, ‘‘It must be a very strong tribe indeed that can turn us back now.” By this simple sentence he in- dicates his determination to proceed, no matter who or what barred the way. Just before. he had penned this expression of heroic resolve he had lost many men by de- sertion and sickness, His hitherto most faithful follower, Kalulu, had left him, al- though he afterward returned to his duty. He was short of supplies and six months’ journey from Zanzibar and assistance. Yet, with the true adventurous dash that half wins the battle, he plunges into the un- known and emerges a conqueror. Stanley’s first letter from the West Coast of Africa is that of a man who has been just relieved froma great mental and physical strain, He claims the forbearance of those who so anxiously await his story until his strength and nervous tone return, He deems himself unfit to deal with the grave matter of his journeys and discoveries until with recruited health the absolute newness of his existence among civilized people wears off and he begins to feel again equal to the task of writing. ‘oa man in his con- dition and after accomplishing his work this allowance will be generously made. The pleasure of knowing that he is safe and about to unveil the mysteries of Equatorial Africa recompenses for any delays that may occur in the publication of. these important records and discoveries, So far we give the letters that have reached us, addressed by Stanley to the Herarp and the London Daily Telegraph, in whose service Mr. Stan- ley has accomplished the greatest geograph- ical success on modern record. The Ohio Election To-Day. The chief interest in the Ohio election, except within the State itself, hinges on the question whether President Hayes is to be indorsed by his own State. The President and Secretary Sherman naturally feel a great deal of solicitude on this point, as do also Mr. Conkling, Mr. Blaine, General Butler and the dissatisfied republicans whose sen- timents have been expressed with more plain- ness by Benjamin Wade than by any other republican opponent of. the policy of the administration. If Mr, Hayes loses his own State in the first election which takes place after his inauguration Messrs. Conkling and Blaine will attempt to turn the loss against him by holding it up as a proof that his policy is weak- ening his own party even in that part of the conntry where he is held in greatest personal esteem. If, on the other hand, the republicans should carry Ohio to-day by a fair majority, the republican opposition to the new policy will be discouraged and mat- ters will go smoothly enough for the Presi- dent during the extra session of Congress which is to begin next week. In the only important election which has yet been held, that of Maine, the republicans are so strong that they were in no danger of losing the State, and even had the parties been more evenly balanced Mr. Blaine would have de- sired success as a means of maintaining his plorer, These are the physical difficulties | own influence. But republicans of Mr, Blaine’s way of thinking in all parts crease with every mile he penetrates into the | of the country would not be sorry to witness a republican defeat in Ohio, they could use to embar- tass the President and discredit his policy. But all his supporters desire a re- publican success in Ohio. Mr. Hayes car- ried the State in 1875 when he was elected Governor, and again by an increased ma- jority in 1876, when he was running for the Presidency, and the prestige of his great position would have made a third victory easy if his policy had not caused differences in his own party. He may think himself fortunate if the party barely escapes defeat now, or even if it should elect the Governor and lose the Legislature, since an equivocal success would be better than sheer defeat. The prospect in Ohio is so very doubtful that nobody can predict the result. That the supporters of Mr. Hayes are anxious and alarmed is proved by the fact that the Ohio clerks in Washington have been sent home to vote, which seems ridiculous enough, in view of the fact that fifty thou- sand republicans in that State who reside within their polling precincts will not take the trouble to vote. Neither Mr. West, the republican candidate for Governor, nor Mr. Bishop, the democratic candidate, has ex- cited any enthusiasm in the canvass) The supporters of either would gladly sell him out for a majority of the Legislature. The Ohio Legislature serves two years, and that chosen to-day will elect a United States The republican majority in the Senate has be- come so very slender that the election of every new Senator has become a matter of national interest. An Appeal for Heip. In our despatches this morning will be found an appeal from the Mayor of Port Royal asking assistance for the sorely strick- en little community over which he presides. About two weeks ago the yellow tever un- fortunately made its appearance at Port Royal, ond since that time the forty or fifty families who make up its population have been making a gallant struggle against the fatal disease. In the meantime many of them have died, and the condition of the survivors is truly pitiable, To quote the words of the Mayor they are in want of tood, nourishment and means to procure nurses for the sick, The fact is the littie settle- ment with its two hundred men, women and children, nearly all of them very poor, has become a plague spot, where to the horrors | ESDAY, UCTOBER 9, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. of yellow fever must be added those of want | bending of some other elbows besides the and starvation. It is diffienlt to imagine a | elbow of the river on the evening the condition of affairs better calculated to ex- | monster was seen, and that the formidable cite sympathy or one that appeals so irresisti- bly to the charitable and humane. Strikes and Arbitration. About a fortnight since there ended a strike of the shipbuilding trades upon the Clyde after a duration of six months. Ten thousand workmen during the greater part of that time remained unemployed, Idsing, on the lowest estimate, in wages alone, from $350,000 to $400,000. What the master ship- builders lost we are not informed, but, apart from the loss of interest on their sunken capital, there is a story, welcome enough to us, that they have been losing trade which has come to America. Here, then, is a case for capital and labor in this country to study with advantage. The struggle in theshipyards along the Clyde had been so bitter and its tension so severe that both sides were glad in the end to approach a settlement of their differences in a sobered frame of mind, The. proposition fora set- tlement came from one of the largest cus- tomers of the shipbuilders, showing that while the labor and capital directly involved in the dispute might continue to fritter away their forces in a losing battle for both there were other interests which could not stand by without an effort to bring it to an end. A marked increase in the shipbuilding business in the beginning of the present year was seized by the men as good ground for demanding increased wages. This was refused, The men asked for an arbitration but wereagain refused, and early in April two thousand shipwrights “struck.” The other trades continued at work, but six weeks later the masters decided on retaliation by a gen- eral “lockout,” and ten thousand men were discharged. For three months.the vast in- dustry of the Clyde was absolutely sus- pended ; not a sound of labor was heard in the shipyards.. The process of exhaustion was in progress, At length, toward the close of August, the masters accepted the principle of arbitration, and some of the men went back to work provisionally at the old rates, the shipwrights and iron workers holding out seyen weeks longer, but at length yielding to a proposal, which seems so fair that it is painful to think so much time and money should have been wasted on both sides before arriving at it. Each side is to name an arbitrator and the two arbi- trators may select an umpire, They may hear evidence where information is necessary. Their decision is to be binding, and in case an increase of wages is declared just the award is to be retrospective, going back to the time of the men’s return to-work, The questions submitted to the arbiters are:— “Did the state of trade on the Clyde at the time of the strike warrant, or does it now warrant, the Clyde shipwrights in seeking an advance of wages? If so, what ad- vance?” After our painful experience here during the railway strikes we may well watch with interest the progress of bo im- portant a step in the adjustment of the two great industrial forces, and hail with pleas- ure everything tending to a seasonable set- tlement by an intellectual process of troubles which are at present left to the crade and often brutal remedies which labor and capi- tal alternately apply. Gambetta’s Defiance. When M. Gambetta repeated in his elec- tion address the phrase ‘‘submit or resign,” for which he had already been prosecuted, he doubtless discounted the cost. Hence he cannot have been much surprised when the Ministerial journals exploded with rage at his audacity and demanded that he be tried and condemned again. Gambetta and his party have too mucb at stake to afford even the semblance of retreat. The Marshal and his Cabinet have been cracking the whip all over France, but the repub- licans have not been intimidated and will not be as long as their leaders can show that there is nothing to fear. Gambetta ‘was prosecuted for hurting the feelings of the obstinate and testy old soldier, who wonders that when he cries, ‘‘Pre- sent arms!” the nation does not hug his official candidates. Those pachyder- matous beings, De Fourtou and De Broglie, declared their feelings had been wounded also, and it looked as though every time a republican scratched with a pen he lacer- ated some official bosom. But, as omelettes may not be made without a breaking of eggs, Gambetta did not hesitate to risk another sentence of imprisonment by prick- ing once more some of the bubbles and bogies of the Marshal and his men. It was a formal défi and no more. A hint of the deep interest taken in the French elections outside France is given in the news that Italy and Germany are not combining for ‘‘aggressive” pur- poses, but lest they should ‘‘find themselves after the election confronted by a clerical, and consequently aggressive, France.” Bismarck does not see in the French con- servatives the lambs they represent them- selves, Mysteries of the Doep. Mississippi stories are proverbially tough. The one told by Captain John Carraway, of the towbout Lee Wing, is no exception to the general rule. According to the state- ment made by that gentleman to a St. Louis paper, a8 published in yesterday's HxnaLp, the famous river monster, which has on former occasions been heard of on those waters, has again made his appearance much to the dismay of Cuptain John and his bold crew. It was near “Devil's Elbow Cut-Off” that the captain caught sight of his strange visitor, and we do not wonder that he evinced no desire for a closer acquaintance, A hideous monstrosity, neither fish nor beast, having a black head resembling that of a bulldog, a slimy neck, an enormous serpent-like body, and a tail that lashed the waters with fury, travelling at the rate of ight miles an hour, with its head and neck raised twenty feet out of the water, and uttering unearthly howls, could cer- tainly not have been a pleasant object to discover in’ one’s track. The monster attacked the fleet which Captain Carraway had in tow, and drove its beak through one of the barges, leaving a portion of the beak sticking in the wood. There are probably | bill presented to the captain was nothing more than a Mississippi River snag. But we see no reason to be sceptical, The “devil fish” which we can now see as& reality, with its body ten feet in length and seven feet in circumference, and its ten arms, two of them measuring thirty feet, is certainly not quite equal to the Mississippi leviathan. Nevertheless, it shows that there are some queer kinds of inhabitants down in the deep waters. We should have more faith in Captain Carraway's story if the monster he encountered had not been seen at a late hour, and if there were no snags in the Mississippi and no liquor in the towboat lockers, . A War Interval. - Moukhtar Pacha goes on rolling up his es- timate of the Russian losses until they now reach fifteen thousand men in the last séries of battles in Armenia. In this way he will kill off the entire army of the Grand Duke Michael unless the latter © stops his deadly arithmetic by once more attacking the ‘Turkish lines. It is pretty evident, however, that the Russians have failed in their attempt to cut off Moukhtar from Kars, In Bulgaria things are quiet. The Russian reinforcements must now be well in position, and a few days will tell whether they have come too late to be used in this campaign or whether the series of btunders may not be in part re~ trieved before King Winter orders a truce. He is already sending out his white uniforms for the Balkan Mountains and is making the bridges at Sistova and Nicopolis unsafe, so that the Czar’s generals have very little time left this season to capture thrice- assailed but untaken Plevna... Suleiman Pacha has arrived at Tchernavoda, on the Lom, and the Czarewitch will probably hear from that bull-headed fighter’ before long. A Singular Development. Mr. E. K. Apgar, the Deputy Secretary of State, wrote a communication to the Hzratp explaining the letter addressed by him in 1868 to William M. Tweed and produced by that person before the Aldermanic Investi- gating Committee last Saturday. The mat- ter is so trivial that no person outside those immediately interested would care a button whether Mr. Apgar had written one or one dozen letters to Tweed about his pay as a city employé or on any other sub- ject. But avery curious feature is devel- oped by this correspondence which gives it some sort of importance. Mr. Apgar states, and Mr. John D. Townsend admits, that the original letter produced by Tweed on Saturday last was on the Wednes- day previously in Albany in the hands of a delegate to the State Convention, and that it was there to be used as a means of influencing the action of members of the Convention. Mr. Townsend says that he sent from the Convention hall of the demo- cratic party to Mr. Tweed, in Ludlow Street Jail, for the letter, which was forthwith sent from Ludlow Street Jail to the hall of the Democratic Convention, This transe fer from the pocket of the master thief of the age to that of a delegate to the Demo- cratic. State Convention appears to prove conclusively that the hand of Tweed. was'at work in the Convention and that the great malefactor was deeply interested in the action of that body. It is handy, even if it savors of uncleanness, to have a terrible old democratic “client” in jail who can be relied on by one-half of a democratic convention to produce at call letters and checks that will prove the other half to be knaves, fools, beggars, or impostors, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The Duke of Cambridge is gouty. Miss Susan B, Anthony Is at Denver. It was a backward debtor who said, “The dues you say.” A Long Island ditch diggor has named bis heroine Mud Mauler, Governor Hendricks has his name mentioned last in a law firm of three. Mr. Nicolas’ Shishkin, Ruosstan Miniter at Wash- ington, is at the Clarendon Hotel. General Taylor thought that no woman could have her husband in the army and be happy. Mr, R. R, Hitt, Secretary of the United states Lega- tion at Paris, is at the Buckingham Hotel, Whon a Mormon husband goes off on a new wedding tour he says to his former wives, ‘‘Utan-ta,”* Admiral David D. Porter and family arrived at the Hoffman Heuse last evening from Washington, The journals of Rome state that M. Réoan, author of the “Life of Jesus,’’ is staying ta that city. Says a contemporary, “Be strong for yourself.”” ‘This remark was originally made to boarding houso butter, J ‘The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks that the time has come under the reiga of reconciliation when Con- federate postage stamps should be used. s Chicago Journal:—“The men who dress well and stand on hotel steps, so far as the New Yorx Hesmaip has observed, grin through dyed mustaches,” Boston Post:—“When Lyman Tremain recom- mended milk tor babes be was probably thinking that he would prefer government pop for bimeol£”’ Alcott says that the first sign of age is loneliness, This is what makes a young man go round the street at midvight singing “Dear mother, I am growing old.” Mr. Halsey, a loading New Jersey republican poll. tician, reports great apathy amoog the old tim publicans of his State, aud declares that General McClellan wiil be elected, Mr. Tweed confesses that he used to love to lie, but | that since his vacation tp Spain the trath surges |. through his manly bosom wo that be says, “1 took a back at your municipal cherry tree. I cannot—can- not—Ob, do not ask me to tell a he.’”? Barlington Hawk-Hye :— “General McClellan now do- nies that he ever killed a moth. It appears that he had fairly circumvented the moth, had lai¢ his paral- lels up to within pistol shot of iis works, had thor- oughly and closely invested 1t, cut off all avenues of retreat or supplics, and then, just as ho was fhally on the point of winning some of its most important works, with a view to following the movoment up with an Assault aud certuta capture, the provoking moth weat and died of old age.”” . Kvening Telegram:—“Of the thousands who pay pe- riodic visits to doctors, and run up yearly bills, few appreciate the fuct that they could avoid all this ex- pense and trouble by taking every day alittle gym- nastic exercise. Itis not necessary to devote a great doul of time dally to this specie of exertion, One hour & day, adhered to pertinaciously, a8 2 habit of life, will accomplish wonders, ‘The majority of people are pothivg More than grown up children when they begin to undertake a course of athletics, Not one in filty has the se plunge into it, apparently thinking that ifa cise 18 @ good’ thing excessive exercise |i better, forgetting that violent und long continued ex- ertion j@ « possibility that has to be steadily and pa- tiently approached, Hence the disgust of those who make a blind rush atthe toig. Tho muscles, not used to this unwonted demand, got extremely sore, and tho embryo athlete drags hi home to his easy chair vowing shat nothi tompt bim again to some who will insist that,there had been o | seek health through such » dolorous pathway.” THE WAR. Sharp Fighting Reported in the Rear of Plevna. THE TURKS CLAIM A-VICTORY Moukhtar Claims Too Much in the Battle Before Kars, BAD WEATIER ‘THROUGHOUT TURKEY Correspondents: Not To Be Permitted at the Front Until a Battle Begins. (8¥ cazLE TO THE HEBALD.] } Lonpon, Oct. 9, 1877, A» telegram from Orchanie to Constantinopl: states that it is reported there that twenty-foui Turkish battalions escorting @ convoy to Plevna have defeated a Russian detachment sent to op pose them. . MAY END THE CAMPAIGN, Extremely bad weather prevails in Constantino ple. Snow and rain are continually falling. A con: tinuance of this unfavorable weather is considered probable, and it is thought it will suspend ali operations in Buigaria and in the Balkans. A VERY DANGEROUS DISCOVERY. ‘A despatch trom Bucharest states that the trost and storms have rendered the Sistova and Nicopo- Us bridges impracticable for vehicles during the last two days, OVERDOING A GOOD THING, A Constantinople despatch confirms in every par ticular the account of the battle before Kars tele. graphed to the United States in’ these despatches on Saturday morning last, except that a despatch Tecetved yesterday from Moukhtar Pacha increases hus former estimates of the Russian losses during the recent fighting to 15,000 men and places the loss of the Turks at 2,600, "CORRESPONDENTS AT THR FRONT. A Times despatch from Gorny-Studen says:— “‘ Newspaper correspondents will hereafter only be admitted to the lines of active operations on daya of engagement. At other times they must remain at the corps headquarters, because it is believea that information sent out by correspondents has several times compromised the success of the Russian plans.” SERVIA CAN BE TRUSTED. The Servian diplomatic agent at Constantinople has formally renewed to the Porte assurances of the pacific intentions of Servia.. SERVIA AND RUSSIA, Negotiations between Servia and Russia are not concluded. Servia requires a guarantee of in- dependence and a promise of an extension of territory in the direction of Bosnia, ' The Rusaian envoy awalts further instructions. The Vienna Political Correspondence alleges that nego. tiations have been concluded. The real explana tion of these contradictory reports probably is that Servia is waiting until ahe is able to interfere with the least danger and the most profit. apt < WHO WILL CONQUER SERVIA? According to advices recetved from Qonstanti« nople, Achmet Eyoud Pacha will take command oi the Turkish forces on the Servian trontier. A SURPRISE PROMISED. Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, in a speech at Exeter yesterday sald:— “I cannot help thinking myself that there may be & surprise which may disappoint the prophecies of those who have been declaring that the wal cannot terminate till after another and more de cisive campaign. One thing is certain, that bot sides have displayed such gallantry that if an op- portunity for a settlement should arise they might accept it without any loss of prestige." THE RUSSIAN SICK. A letter from Odessa states that within ten daya 2,500 aick from Bulgaria have reached the Odessa hospital. The sick are chiefly suffering from fever WELL-GRIEVED MEHEMET. It is probable that Mehemet All will be ap pointed to the chief command in Theséaly. Sulel- man Pacha took command of the Army of the Lom at Tchernavoda on Saturday. RELATIONS BETWEEN GERMANY AND ITALY, The Berlin Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung cone firms the statement that no alliance has been com> cluded between Italy and Germany. It says: “Any negotiations which may be pending would have no aggressive significance, but would tend to secure the cohesion of Germany and Italy, should they find themselves, after the French elections, confronted by aclerical and consequently aggres- sive France.” THR BLACK SEA BLOCKADE. ‘Tne Pesther Lloyd states, under reserve, that the Prince of Reuss, German Ambassador to the Porte, has been instructed to declare the Turkish blockade of the Black Sea insufficient and there- fore void. GENERAL EUROPEAN NEWS. A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK IN NORTHEGN INDIA— PROSPECTS OF GOOD CROPS AND THAT THE FYAMINS WILL NOT EXTEND TO THE PUN- JAUB—CHAMPIONSHIP BOAT RACE ON THE THAMES. . [Bx CABLE TO THE HERALD. ] Lonpon, Oct. 9, 1877, Later reports from the Indian famine 1) tho last from the Viceroy show a considerubie genoral rainfall on the 6th inst, which it is believed will save Bebar, the Punjaubd, Rajpootana and the northwest provinces trom all dangers of a failure of the autumo crops, It will be remembered that the Viceroy of In» dia in bis report stated that the conditions of tho Punjaubd, Rajpootana and the northwest provinces was unfavorable. YRANOR ARMING HER FORTS, A special despaicd irom Frankfort says:—Accord- ing to trustworthy intelligence received here the fortrosses on the Franco-ltalian frontier are being harriedly put in a state of defence. Fenostreile, Exilles and Winadis are being armed with new steel and bronze guns.” ‘MOKE SILLY GOVERNMENT ORDERS. The French government on Monday detained all packets of English and Belgian newspapers afriving @t the Parse railway stations, A BOAT RACK ON THE THAMES. Asinglc scuil race for £400 and the championship was rowod on the Thames yesterday from !utucy te Mortlake, betwoen Higging and Boyd, Higgins do feated Boyd, the champiou, ‘¥ six lengths. Time, Ls 10a The betting was 7 to 4 in favor of Boyd. AN BARTAQUAKE IN SWITZERLAND, & special despatch from Geneva says:—"'A sovere earthquake abock was expersenced here on Monday , 4 } Se |