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NEW YORK HERALD
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tYom our reports this morning the probabilities
are thai the iceuther in New York to-day will be
partly cloudy or clear and slit/hlly wanner.
Wall Street Yesterday.?The stock market
was iictive, with a fair distribution of business.
There was some weakness at anil immediately
niter the opening, but the list soon steadied and
the afternoon saw a sharp advance, stocks clos
ing at about the highest prices of the day. Gold
was steady at lOG?#. Government stocks were
also steady and railroad bonds generally higher.
Money ou call continues easy at 2 a 2Lj per cent.
The Principal Point op Interest to city
officers just now is the point of Governor Robin
sou's pen.
The New Jersey Mutual's Spoilers need
bother themselves no longer about newspaper
indictments?the Grand Jury supplied them
with half a dozen yesterday.
Maryland Is Having a Coal War all to her
self, with the unusual probability that the prin
cipal sufferers will be strong corporations that
can bleed a long time without dying.
The Dog Tags are to be ready Monday morn
ing. Similar tags, inscribed with owners' names,
might bo attached to the collars of certain anti
rapid transit legislators lor the information of
voters.
The Original Mhs. Partington appeared on
Broadway yesterday, and a roper-in for a banco
den found her, as the old lady herself once
found her neighbor's flowers, "most flagrantly
odious."
The Kings county Board of Excise has
lately rejected nearly live hundred applications
for licenses, but no one has yet seen a Brook
lynite thirsty while he hud the price of a drink
in his pocket.
Conspiracies Will Be Unpopular for the
present near Abbeville, S. C., where three
negroes were hanged yesterday for tho crime o*
conspiring to seize a village and slaughter tho
white inhabitants.
The Description given in another co]jimn of
General di Cesnola's Kurium "find" will doubtless
send many people of taste to the Metropolitan
Museum, whero these antiquities have just been
placed on view.
As a Natural Result of the manner in which
?he fragment called the "New Code" was in
flicted upon the legal fraternity an appeal for a
year's .delay of tho operation of the code is to
be freely signed and sent to Albany at once.
A llTDROpnoniA Remedy, said to have been
nscd with success, is published in another col
umn. As the family of Spit/, has not yet been
exterminated all possible information about
hydrophobia should be kept where it can lie
referred to at once.
Yesterday Was a Field Day at Albany.
Tho Governor vetoed several bills and offered
good reasons for his action, while the Supply
bill wits railroaded through, the taxpayers l?cing
interested to the extent of more than two and
? half millions of dollars.
A Nkw Yoiik Aeronaut offers to tnkc a bal
loon across the ocean if uny one will defray tho
necessary expense. This seems to bo the golden
opportunity for the gentlemen who are trem
blingly anticipating the Tweed disclosures, for
no warnings flushed under the sea would enable
KngliHh detectives to lie in wait for travellers
by balloon.
Lord Hautinoton, the Knglish liberal leader,
gained a decided victory yesterday. It was on
the turf, instead of in the House of Commons;
but its racing is the leading Nport of England I lis
Lordship will probably lie lmppier over the
capture of the Newmarket Thousand Guineas
Stake by his little filly than if he. had defeated
the Ministry on some public question.
The WBATHER.?Three depressions are now
within the area of obse rvation in the United
States; we might say four, counting that on
the Pacific coast. The first of these is
that one on the northeast const, which
slowly moves northeastward with a very
low barometer nnd an extensive rain area, which
embraces the New Kn^land States and Nova
Scotia. The second depression is that which
moved southeastward from Dakota into the
Lower .Missouri Valley, and thence
toward the (Sulf, where it is now
central, with coast rains and ill the Mississippi
Valley. The third depression has appcurcd in
Dakota, with light rain and very low barom
eter. There is. therefore, no point east of tho
Becky Mountains where the pressure is
at. or above tho menu of thirty inches.
Tliu tonifH-rature, notwithstanding, has fallcu
generally, although locally it has risen in the
West and 011 the Atlantic const. The weather
in New York to-day will be partly cloudy or
clear and slightly warmer.
GoTtraar Roblaion'i Duty la Rela
tion to the Omalbai Bill.
A citizen who lias long been an intelli
gent observer of our municipal government
writes us from Albany 5 letter which we
print elsewhere, setting forth what he con
ceives to be the merits of the Omnibus bill,
anil asking the Hkbald to urgo Governor
Kobinson to sign it. We decline to (lo any
thing of the kind, although wo willingly
print this gentleman's communication. Our
attitude toward measures pending in
the Legislature and toward bills in the
hands of tho Governor must generally bo
very different. Our experience has taught
ns to have but little confidence in the intel
ligence, judgment or motives of an average
Legislature; but most of our Governors have
been upright, experienced men, well versed
in the uffairs of the State, and lew of them
have entered their office with better titles to
respect than Governor Robinson. ^ o think
him quite competent to form a correct esti
mate of the merits and demerits of this
municipal bill, and he will bolio an honor
able record if ho signs or vetoes it from any
other motive than tho public welfare.
While an important bill is pending in the
Legislature we feel no such confidence. So
largo a proportion of the members are raw
and ignorant, so many of them are tho tools
and puppets of party leaders, so many are
subject to tho influence of a scheming, mer
cenary lobby, that we consider it the indis
pensable duty of tho press to watch their
pn>ceodings with vigilance, to detect anil
expose their plots, and to bring tho
influonco of a sound public opinion to
bear upon their proceedings. There
is no reason for tho samo solicitudo
respecting tho action of tho Governor.
He is a competent judge of the merits
of bills, and he cannot, in a caso bo impor
tant as tho present, refuse his signature
without fully stating his reasons. liy the
soundness of these he must bo judged; ho
cannot afford to assign flimsy reasons for tho
veto of so important an act. When respon
sibility is narrowed to ouo able man who
has a character to protect we feel no call to
be his tutor; we expect to acquiesce in
whatever action ho may take on this bill.
While it was pending in the Legislature we
warmly supported its good provisions and
hoped that its defect* might be remedied by
amendments. When it passes into tho
hands of tho Governor we are willing to
trust his judgment of its character as a whole.
Our correspondent must not understand
ns to deny that the bill has several good and
some excellent features. Indeed, two ot
the principal changes it proposes havo been
strenuously advocated by tho Heiiald for a
long period. Wo refer, of courso, to spring
elections, which tend to divorce municipal
from Stato politics, and tho giving of single
instead of plural heads to departments,
which is conducive to economy and to effi
ciency of administration. Tho first of these
two reforms i3 one of whose necessity we
have long been convinced, and whoso merits
wo havo taken unwearied pains to set forth
and enforce. Immediately alter the election
of the last Legislature wo sent correspond
ents to interview all its members on this
question, and had the satisfaction of finding
our own views indorsed by a very largo
majority of the Senators and Assemblymen
elect of both political parties. We then
began to hope that we had secured the suc
cess of this important reform in that Legis
lature. Wo had got the unbiassed opinions
of tho members and had put them all on
record, with a majority of three or four to one
in favor of a spring election. But when they
assembled at Albany they woro too much
occupied with other questions to give atten
tion to this. The uppermost topic in all
minds was tho approaching Presidential
contest, and nothing was done for muni
cipal reform. In tho present Legislature,
however, tho affairs of this city have been a
leading object of attention and discussion.
There has been an epidemic eruption of
crudo proposals and disjointed efforts ; but
among the multitude of bills presented there
were two or throo that had good points.
Quito the best of the batch was the
Bo-callod Omnibus bill as originally
drafted and before it had boon muti
lated with amendments. Even in tho
form in which it passed tho Assembly it re
tains several valuablo features which wo
should bo glad to see put into a new bill
and passed if tho Governor should think it
his duty to veto the Omnibus.
On the question of a veto we do not wish
to influence his action one way or tho other.
We have confidence in his good judgment,
and do not believe that he will act in so im
portant a matter from mere party motives.
If ho votoes tho bill wo do not
doubt tliat ho will state cogent rea
sons ; if he approves it we shall
rejoico that, in his judgment, its defects
are not so fatal as to deprive tho city of the
important reforms which the bill unques
tionably embodies. We discredit the rumors
that Governor liobinson is already commit
ted to a veto. These rumors are put in cir
culation by democratic politicians whoso
"wish is father to tho thought." We give
them their true value when we interpret
them as moaning that democratic politicians
will bring a strong pressure to bear upon tho
Governor to induce him to interpose his
negative. That ho has given any assurances,
or even any intimations, that he will do
so we utterly disbelieve. It would bo a
broach of official decorum of which wo
do not think Governor Robinson capa
ble. Tho bill is not yet before him and will
not be for the ensuing throe days. He does i
not know in what shape it will appear niter
all tho amendments have finally been acted
upon. Even alter a bill of so much im- j
portane.o reaches him it would be an un
warrantable exhibition of disrepect to tho j
Legislature to givo out an intention to veto
it previous to a deliberate examination, j
The objections to it are important enough
to prevent him trom signing it at once;
but, on tho other hand, its good
features are so highly valuable that
ho should be anxious to save them if it bo
possible in consistency with larger interests.
As soon as it becomes known that his mind
is in doubt proposals will be made to him to \
listen to counsel, and he will undoubtedly
give both its opponents and suppoitersa fair
hearing before deciding whether ho will sign
it. Wo think it so important to secure
spring elections, even at a considerable cost;
wo ore so desirous of unity of administra
tion in the city department#, and have so
l(Tng advocated giving the Mayor the sole
power of appointment, that we should be
sotry to see these reforms miscarrv
after passing the Legislature by reason of
their connection with inadmissible ad
juncts. Certain wo are that Governor
Robinson has not made up his mind in ad
vance to veto it, and we do not think it
incumbent on us to dissuade him from an
intention which ho has not formed. We.
are confident that he will weigh its merits
as well rb its defects, and that he caanot be
induced to thwart important reforms for
trivial and much less lor party reasons.
An Impudent Raid.
Bad measures always put on a bold front
and make desperate efforts to push them
selves forward in tho last hours of a legis
lative session. When city members are
anxious to get back to town and country
members display restlessness in their seats
and begin to talk of thoir crops, "about
these days," as tho old almanacs would say,
look out for sudden raids of black horse
cavulry and the popping up of deformed
jobs which everybody has supposod to be
dead and buried. Forewarned by history
we aro not surprised at this time to see As
semblyman ltobert PI. Strahan spurring his
steed into the lists and shaking in the face
of the Assembly tho hideous, misshapen
thing known as the Hayes Anti-Rapid
Transit bill. Wo shall, however, be aston
ished if the abominable measure should re
ceive tho slightest encouragement or coun
tenance. Tho bill is, indeed, not only an
absurdity but an insult to tho people of
New York. It is as if the Sixth Avenuo
Railroad corporation, notrcontented with hav
ing its orders carried out at Albany, to tho
fatal injury of the interests of New York,
should require its agents to spit in the face
of the people of the metropolis.
Assemblyman Hayes seems determined
not to do anything by halves. In City Hall
slang, he "goes the wholo hog." Having
earned his spurs, at least, by his determined
opposition to every measure that could favor
rapid transit, he seems to have considered
it necessary to signalize his devotion to the
horse car idol by framing a measure which
would enablo any lifty men in the city, with
out the slightest real grievance, to stop
either tho building of any sort of elevated
rapid transit road or the operation of any
now in existence for fifty years. Ho desires
to provide that any person conceiving him
self directly or indirectly damaged by such
rapid transit road, whether living on the
line of tho road or not, whether a property
owner or tenant, shall have cause of action
in any court of record, and that no such
rapid transit road shall be built, constructed,
operated or used until all damages so
claimed 6hall have been ascertained and
paid. In plain language, he provides that
New York shall never have such a rapid
transit road ; that all such roads now in uso
or in process of construction shall bo dis
continued, and all tho money invested in
them thrown to tho dogs. The bill is, in
deod, such a preposterous one as to seem
almost like a burlesque on the opposition to
rapid transit. It is, however, to be regretted
that a gentleman of the reputation of Dr.
Hayes should allow himself to bo used in so
miserable a larce, and all for the selfish pur
poses of a corporation that has already made
its millions out of a franchise bestowed
upon it gratuitously by tho people of tho
city at whose interests it now seeks, through
its agents at Albany, to strike a deadly
blow.
The Blockade In the Black Sea.
The Ottoman government has informed
the representatives of other Powers at
Constantinople that it has "declared" a
blockado of the "wholo Russian coast of the
Black Sea." This has tho aspect of an in
tended paper blockado, as distinguished
from one made effective by the presenco of
armed ships; for if tho blockado is to bo
made effective in this sense "the whole Rus
sian coast of tho Black Sea" can scarcely bo
watched by tho whole Turkish navy. This
cannot, therefore, bo an actual blockade,
because of impossibility, unless it bo con
sidered that the presence of two or three
men-of-war in the Bosphorus or at tho mouth
of the Danube establishes u blockade within
tho limits of tho l'aris declaration of
185(5. That declaration is a guaranteo
for neutral ships against capture for
entering or leaving ony ports where the
blockade is not maintained in the immedi
ate neighborhood of tho port by an armed
force sufficient to nmko capture reasonably
imminent. Such a blockado tho Turks can
not make of tho -district they declare block
aded. Will neutral nations assent to a
blockade of that district maintained at tho
Bosphorus? This cuie is peculiar, for,
whilo as to the ports such a blockade could
be constructive only, no one can deny that
it would be effective as to tho capture of
ships. It has been held in English courts
that an effective blockado cannot be consti
tuted by drawing a line to prevent ships
going to particular ports if tho lino include
other ports to which they have tho right to
go. On thin ground, if on no other, neu
trals might object to tho sort of blockado
tho Turks apparently intend.
An Empr?M for Canada.
Tho loyal Canadians desire that tho good
Queen Victoria, in addition tj her other
honors, shall assume the title of Empress of
Canada. Well, tho United States will cer
tainly make no objection. Indeed, wo shall
rejoice to have the Viame of so excellent and
amiablo a lady more closely connected than
it is at present with the American continent;
and in future years, when our neighbors
across tho St. Lawrenco find it to theiv in
terest to seek a resting place in the commu
nity of States, no person will bo more
cheerfully welcomed as a citizen of the
liepublio than the first lady of tho Dominion.
Wo imagine, however, that there may bo
some hesitation on the part of Queen Victo
ria and her Ministry to accept any more
titles at present for tho head ol the British
nation. The last now dignity of Empress of
India might, in case of a general European
war, become a merely nominal one, and it
is not advisable in these days for sovereigns
to bear empty titles which signify nothing.
They bring crowns into contempt and place
those who bear thein too muoh on ? level
with the proad and penniless Continental
princes whose principal nso is to turnish
husbands and wiveB to more substantial
rulers.
The Extra ?eaalon Postponed.
The President decided yesterday by ad
vice of his Cabinet that he will not assem
ble Congress in extra session until Octobor
15. This decision will damage a great deal
of political ammunition. Mr. Blaine and
his mutinous brigade who have got their
blunderbusses loaded for discharging a
tremendous volley against the Presi
dent at the beginning of June may
find thoir pieces nisty and their
powder spoilod by the middle of
October. When these belligerents have
lain on theirloaded weapons for five months
thoir military ardor may have suffered as
much as their ammunition. The noted
phrase about "a wise and mastorly inac
tivity" would seem to be pretty well under
stood by President Hayes. His slowness
and delay in the cases of South Carolina
and Louisiana answered a very good pur
pose in gradually discouraging the carpet
baggers and bringing them to act reason
ably when the troops were at last with
drawn. His postponement of the extra ses
sion until after the summer heats will liavo
an equally cooling influence on tho passions
of the recalcitrant republicans. If peace,
order, industry and contentment should
prevail in tho South during the spring, sum
mer and early autumn months, the acqui
escence of tho country in the Southern
policy of the President will bo so nearly
universal that his assailants will lose most
of their supporters. Of course tho Presi
dent and Cabinet see their way clear to
maintain the army until autumn. The
soldiers will perhaps be a month or two be
hind in their pay, but as they do not exceed
the number authorize^ by Congress they
may be legally kept in service, as
our soldiers so often were during
the war when their pay was several
months in arrear. Whatever Congress may
do about the army when it assembles it cer
tainly will not refuse to pay it for service
already rendered. A summer session is un
desirable on many accounts, and we are glad
that the administration sees its way clear to
got through without new appropriations
until fall. The country needs rest from po
litical excitement, and by Octobcr Congress
will be able to form a more intelligent judg
ment as to the manner in which our trade
and industry will be affected by tho
European war.
Deede, Not Words.
We are assured by Mr. S. E. Churctf, of
this city, in a letter published elsewhere in
to-day's Herald, that Assemblyman Lang
bein's name should not be included in our
Black List of New York representatives who
by their vindictive war against rapid transit
have proved their readiness to sacrifice tho
welfare, growth and prosperity of the city
to the selfish interests of the horse car cor
porations and the unnecessary fears of a
handful of unenterprising property owners.
We aro assured that rapid transit has
no truer friend at Albany than Mr.
Langbeinr that he voted against tho Eccle
sine bill, much to his present regret, be
cause he was ignorant of its provisions; that
ho will do his best to secure the revival and
success of that measure, and that ho will
steadily oppose tho H\yes-Strahon bill to
perpetuate the profits of tho street railroad
companies. While we are glad to receive
Assemblyman Langbein's assurances of re
gret for tho past and promisosof amendment
in tho future we must insist that his vote
on the Ecclesine bill was inexcusable. He
represents a district every resident of which
is in favor of rapid transit and whero every
foot of real estate would bo largely benefited
by the completion of any rapid transit road
through tho city. It is the special need of
Mr. Langbein's constituents, while it would
be a great advantage to tho whole city. It
was, therefore, Mr. Langbein's first duty to
make himself thoroughly familiar with every
bill introduced on the subject of rapid tran
sit. Mr. Langbcinowes it to his constituents
now to do as ho promises and to use every
possible exertion to revivo and carry the
Ecclesine bill. Although it is late in tho
session an earnost effort may yet undo the
mischief that has been dono in the defeat of
that measure.
The Mimic Preti.
Long before he fights in earnest the boy
shoulders his harmless gun, and the young
Napoleon beat upon his toy drum tones
that afterward alarmed all Europe. In
everything "the child is father of the man,"
and the serious occupations of manhood
are the playthings of youth. Education is
so universal in this country that it is not
surprising that our young people should
find amusement in the most difilcult of
professions. Playing at newspapers is now
ono of the most popular of their pleas
ures, and the amateur journalism of the
United States is assuming immense propor
tions. The fascination of newspaper life
must be very great when wo see it actually
adopted as a substitute fov baseball, cricket,
or the old-fashioned amusements of school.
The mimic press is now an institution and
resembles the real press about as much as
a baby six months of ago resembles its
parent. "Law, me ! ho is the very image of
his pa." It is charming to see how the
passions, ambitions, rivalries and dis
putes of tlio real press are reflected
in this small mirror. The young lions
at play show imaginary claws and roar"
at each other with amusing rago. The
little papers which are published by schools
and colleges have their foes and friends, and
love a quarrel as much as their prototypes.
To see their contests is liko watching the
miniature yacht races on tho Park lakes,
where little vessels about throe feet lotog
tack and haul close and stand off with as
much dignity as the Sappho or Columbia. If
they should happen to be wreckcd tho world
would not bo much tho loser, but what
sorrow would not the youthtul owners
know! So with our mimic journals, which
bear the ambitions of youthful hearts, to
whom the future is all a dream and the
present a revelation. The mimic press
ought not to bo discouraged by the real press,
because in its clear glass tho latter can see
its own features in little. Are our strug
gles and aspirations, defeats and victories,
much greater than those of the boy* and
girls who give to the publio in print es
says and poems which Beventy years
ago would have been consigned to the
teacher's desk or found brief tame only
at a school commencement? The difference
is perhaps not as great as we in our pride
suppose. So, let the young ladies write
upon the rights of women, and let the young
gentlemen who so ably manage college jour
nals continue to warn the Czar of Rus
sia always for the last time or predict the
destruction of Turkey. We shall all be
well pleased if the mimic press will only
imitato the virtnes of the professional press
and strive to avoid its errors.
Fresh News from Utah.
The intelligence from the Salt Lake
country wUlch we print to-day will attract
wide attention. There is a piece of news
of remarkable significance. The Mormons
are industriously reviving and perfecting
their military organization, and secretly
arming and drilling their able-bodied men.
The explanation given by our correspond
ent of these busy and clandestine mili
tary preparations is an -apprehension
that Brigham Young will be arrested
as an accomplice in the Mountain Meadows
massacre, and a determination on the part
of the faithlul to protect and defend him to
the last extremity. Tlio whole Mormon
community is sensible of the feeling kindled
against it by John D. Lee's confession, and
the Saints have formed a desperate resolve
to stand their ground.
The Herald Does Not Brag.
We find the following in the London
Court Journal:?
The N'ow Yorkers had the account of the boat nice
that Saturday morning at thoir breakfast table, while
lu Loudon tlio evening papers wero publishing thei ac
count ot tho race, rowed under their nusus, that Oxford
bad won. The New York Ukiiald does bray; but It
lias earned the right.
This is all right, except tho last sentence.
Tho Hekald, as our readers know, did give
the result of tho Oxford race to its readers
on the morning when tho race was rowed.
It was not a difficult matter to do, tho man
agers of the Atlantic cable being very ready
to help us. But the Hebald did not brag
about it; it merely informed its readers
that they would find the eagerly expected
news of tho race in the appropriate column.
If we were not afraid that tho Court Journal
would again accuse us of bragging we
would modestly say that the achievement
which seems to our contemporary so remark
able was not thought so by us. The
Herald means to give its readers tho earliest
and the most correct news from all parts of
the world ; that is its duty and function,
and as we are constantly doing so it does
not occur to us to brag about any particular
instance.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Don Carlo* drives In Parts.
Tho l'rlnco ol Wales is Earl of Dublin.
The Queen of England will visit Ireland.
Sona:or Hamlin's son has takoa a prize at ado
claltner.
When the editor o! the Worcester Prttt goes to bed
bo U bald-hoailcd.
New black silk dresses aro made partly ot brocade
and partly of gros grain.
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks that Garfield does
not carry all the guns of a man-of-war.
Miss Jessie Deaton, of Virginia, has been discovered
by her brother a:.tcr twonty years' search.
A Charleston planter began life on a dollar and a
bifif a week, but he now works for a dollar.
A snake at a Hichmoud circus escaped and ran up a
girl's sleeve and coiled round her want llko a Satanic
lover.
Wanted, oy all tbo newspapers of the country, a
San Frnuoisco correspondent who will not writo up
?'China-town."
Tho Czar, with righteous indignation, has deter
mined to make hard war on tho basbt-bazouka (or
proof readers) of Turkey.
A Uoorg'a call, six inontbi old, gives a gallon ol milk
a day, aud yet thorp aro men llko Wendell Phillips who
think that the South Is behind tho age.
Buffalo Ezprrtt:?"The Nnw YoitK Hkoald says
'Greoco cannot hold a candle to the Russians.' But
she can hold 'tho light of other days.' "
It Is lunny that when tho Czar Nicholas sends a mes
sage from tho other world by a spirit medium he can
not speak Hussian, but utters his slang in Ilackonsack
English.
President Hayes thinks that the greatest average
Intelligence Is in Northern Ohio, and the greatest
leadership in Southern Ohio. Hayes comos Irom mid.
dio Ohio.
Chicago Tri'itinr:?" 'Hoes spring spring?' asks the
P. 1. of tho Nkw Yoiik Hkralu. Wo do not Know how
It cavorts along the Atlantic, but in this climato it
turns a back sunnniT-hot."
If you want to won? a low-neck dress and want your
moral principles otfl>hasizod with gush and Illusion
give an invitatiou to a lady correspondent to attend
your rceopitou in Washington.
Mrs. Jane English, mother of tho lato I.uclllo and
Helen Western, Is lu dostltuto circumstances at Mai
den, Mas*., and members of tho iboatrlcal profession
are forwarding subscriptions in her behalf.
As tho traveller from tho East rldos through Ohio
he sees larins deeerted, llolds unploughed, stores un
tonanteil, aud ho wonders why all tho smart men
were horn in that Stale and why they wero appninied
to ofllco.
A large establishment has boen oponod In St. I.oum
for drying eggs. It is In lull operation, and hundreds
of thousands of dozens aro going into Its Inisatlablo
maw. The eggs nro carrluliy "cai.dled" by baud?
that Is, examined by light to usccrtalu whethorgood
or not?and aro tlion throwru Into an mimenso recep
tacle whoro they are broken, and by a contrlfugal
operation tho white and yolk are separated Irom the
shell very much as liquid honey is separated Irom tho
comb. Tlio liquid is thon dried by boat, by patent
IDcees, and tho dried arnclo is loft, resembling sngur,
and It is put In burrcls and m ready for transportation
anywhere.
LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.
8lr Francis H. Doylo'g "Lectures ou Poetry," deliv
ered at Oxford last year, wiu the hearty praise or tbo
Saturday Rtvino.
Albert Carlisle, a San Francisco publisher, boa ready
for publication a volume giving a history ol tbo work
ings of the cadet system in tho Pacific Mail SloanisUlp
Companv-s service.
The Bryant History ol tho United States, published
by Scrlbner, Armstrong As Co., was suggested by the
late Kdw.ird .-oyiuour, of that firm.
Tho ??Leopold Shakespeare," published by Cassell,
l'etter A: Onlpln, and edited by F. J. Furnival, Is an
nounced n? ready.
William S. (Sharp, o( Treuton, X. J., ?iiDounr.es a
reprint ol Smith's "History of Xew Jersey," tbe
original edition of which was printed in 17o.\ and
v/binh Is one of the most prized books among book
collectors and brings tho largost prices at sales.
Henry Holt fc Co., New York, will publish two
now novels In the "Lelsuro Hour Series. " They ore
"Pauline," by L H. Walford, outhor or "Mr, Smith,"
which was ono of the successful novels of two yeare
ago; ?nd "Kugriale,'' by Miss llratrieo May llutt.
Maker'* "Turkey" will foon be pubilsliod by Henry
Holt k Co. Tbe book will he u companion to Wallaco's
"Russia," and will ho published uoilorni with II, but
will bo sold tor a trillo less. The author, Lieutenant
Colotiol James liaker (a brother ol Sir Samuel \V.
Maker), has lived In Turkey about tnreo yours and
ownsestatos there. Tho smie publishers will soon
add to the "Leisure Hour Horles" a new novel, "In
Cbtnge Unchanged," by Linda Villari,
TELEGRAPHIC HEWS
From All Parte of tho
WcrldL
THE WAR.
Cannonading Resumed
on the Danube.
GREEK MEETS TURK.
Further Details of the Ad
vance Upon Kars.
ROUMANIA AND THE PORTE.
Montenegro To Be Given Over
to Pillage.
[bt cable to the herald.]
London, May 5, 1877.
It Is reported at Bucharest that the bombardment
of Ibrall and Barboachi recommcnccd Thursday
evening. In the Roumanian Chamber of Deputies
on Thursday the Minister of Foreign AfTalrs, in re
ply to a question concerning the bombardment of
Ibrall, stated that the Russian batteries fired first
upon the Turks, who replied. Five bombs Jell Into
Ibrall, two or which struck the residence of the
Prefect. There was a slight loss of Hie and one
house was destroyed. This occurrence, although
deplorable, was not intended by the Turks. The
Minister concluded by saying he had opposed every
solicitation to declare the independence of Rouma
nia, and that the country did not consider itself in
a state of war with Turkey.
A despatch from Bucharest says the Russian ad
vance guard has reached Urzitchenl, south of
Buseo. The road tbere divides, one branch
leading eastward to Gura-Jaloinici, nearly op
posite the Turkish town of Hlrsova, and
the other south to Kalarach, opposite Silistna.
At Hlrsova the Danube is compressed lntoone chan
nel, the banks of which are not marshy. The
passage here is much easier than at any other
point between Sillstrla and Galatz. Hlr
sova is also much less strongly defended
than Sillstrla. It is probable a strong corps
of Russians will be concentrated at Gura-Jalomici
and Kalarach, either to force a crossing or keep
the garrisons at Sillstrla and Hlrsova occu
pied while the crossing is effected else*
where. Kngllsh travellers from the Inte
rior of Turkey state that the reports ol
Moslem enthusiasm aro much exaggerated. The
Grand Duke Nicholas has ordered General Fadaieff
to repair instantly to Jassy. Russia Is maktnggreat
efforts to raise a loan in Paris. It seems French,
German and Dutch bankers liave nearly arrived at
an agreement About It.
CANNONADING ON THE DANUBE.
A Consul at Galatz telegraphs that a Turkish
monitor has been firing on the batteries below
Reni since eleven o'clock yesterday morning. The
point of attack is probably lsaktchl (or Isakia), be
tween Rent and Tulcha, where the Russians ar<
constructing a bridge. The cannonade was be
tween the Russian batteries and a gunboat whicl
was exploring the mouth of the Pruth.
GKKF.KS IN CONFLICT WITH TURKS.
A telegram lrom Athens reports that through
some misunderstanding a conflict occurred on the
frontier of Epirus between the Greek troops and a
Turkish detachment which had crossed the frontier
in pursuit of brigauds.
An extraordinary session of the Greek Assembly
has been convoked/or May 28.
RKPORK KARS?VIA TCRKKT.
According to a despatch from Moukhtar Pacha,
dated April 30, tho Russians having advanced id great
force toward Kars in a wosterly direction, with the
objoct o! intercepting Turkish communications wltn
Erzeroum, the Turkish oominander, leaving m
sufficient forco at Knrs, marched out with
nine battalions acd occupied the village ol Ichilnkii,
near Yardin and west of Kars. A subsequent telegram
from Moukhtar Panhu, dated May 1, announces that
gome of tho inhabitants ol Kara had brought him re
ports that tho Russians had attacked Kurt, but were
repulsed witn Iosh. According to a telegram from the
Turkish commander at Batoum, Russian military
operations wero arrested by rainy weather.
MORS OUTRAUKB IN PROSPECT.
The Montenegrins, according to advices lrom
Rncu.oa dated May 2, hold tho I)uga pass, blockading
Gorausko and Nlcslcs. Suleiman 1'acba, with 20,000
mpn, is advancing to reilevo Gorausko. Severe
lighting Is expoctod. It Is stated that the Turks
have persuaded 20,000 South Albanians to take arms
on conaitlon of Monlonegro being given up to plun?
der. All the Northern Albanian clans lavor the
Montenegrins.
ROl'IfANIA AND THE PORTS.
Safvet Pncha has Informed, by tolograpb, tbe Otto*
man Ambassadors abroad that in consequence of tba
convention between Roumanla and Russia he baa
notified the agency which represents Roumanla at
Constantinople that its lunctions are suspended.
Roumanians in Turkey will, nevertheless, eon>
tlnuo to enjoy the protection of tho laws.
Roumanian vessels will remain undor the pro
tnction of tbe Turkish authorities or Ottoman
consuls abroad. The official Journal at Bucharest pub
lishes Prince Charles' assent to the convontlon with
Russia. ,
A Turkish circular, dated May 2, was presented to
tbe German government on Thursday In reference to
the Russo-Roumanlan Convention. Tho Porte pro*
tests against tho convention us un Illegal act of the
Principality facilititlug invasion, and furthermore do
claret that the Prince authorizes Roum.mta to b? la
the power of n hostile usurping government.
AUSTRIA Dim 14 IIKK TOSITION.
In the Austrian Rntchsrnth and the Hungarian Oiel
yesterday the Ministers in ide Identical replies to in.
tcrpellntions about tho Eastern quostion to tho follow*
Ing eiroct:?
Austria maintains an attitude of benevolent interest
in the Christian subjects of ibii Porte, and, while ot>
serviug strict neutrality, reserves the rljibt to protect
lis own InturuHiN, or intervene with cflorts lor the ces
sation or loasllElDg of the conllicL The Ministers recog
nize ihe Empire's intimate connection with and interest
in tho iillairs ol European Turkey, but d.teut a resort
in warlike ineisures tor tiioir protection unnecessary,
In view of tho attitudo of tne other I'uwers ami the
cordial support tbo government can command Irom
the representatives of the people whenever action bo
comoM neces'ary.
The Vienna rrtut states that Const Zioby, tbe Aua