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NEW YOKK HERALD
EROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
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NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1877.
NOTfCK TO COUNTRY DKALKRS.
Tlio Adamt Expreat Company rnn a apecial newapuper
train nrcrth* l'uniiaylvauia Railroad und it* connoctiona,
loavini; Jeraey City at a quartnr-iiaat lour A. M. daily and
Huralay, carryinic tlit regular edition of the lltRill) aa fur
Wu?l a> llnrrUliuric and South to Waihinirion reaching
Philadelphia at a quarter past tlx A- M. and Washington nt
one P. M.
Prom our reports this morning the. probabilities
are that the weather in yew York Unlay will lie
slightly warmer, and partly cloudy or cloudy,
possibly uyith light rains.
Wall Strkf.t Yesterday.?The stock mar
ket was active nntl stronger at the opeuiug.
letter the priueipal active stocks fell off again,
but closed generally above Saturday's closing
prices. The coal stocks fell off in the morning
and advanced in the afternoon upon a false
rumor tbut Mr. Oowen had agreed to stop min
ing. Gold opened at 10<?;,4, advanced to 107
and closed at 10(5Government stocks were
quiet but firm, and railroad bonds were strong
aud higher. Money on coll was easy at 1 ty a HUj
per cent.
Thk Catholic World is getting reudy to
celebrate tbe til'tietb anniversary of Pius IX.
Peru, in true South American fashion, is busy
trying to suppress an insurrection and com
pound with her creditors. Happy land 1
The Brokers Accused of circulating false
rumors to injure tbe Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company are to get a trial at an early
day.
Tuk Brooklyn Politicians are busy fighting
for the spoils. Commissioner Fowler was cast
into outer darkness yesterday. His successor is
J. W. Fluherty.
Senator Woodinu Bill is a hard nut to crack
for the members of the Assembly. It is needless
to say tbat the Senator's bill aims at giving the
Htute over to the repuliliraus.
Good News.?The temperance advocates are
nlnuit to visit the rum stores in order to hiok up
ndulteruted liquors. This is a work in which
they will have tho sympathy even of Confirmed
tipplers.
Coney Island is to have a legal war for pos
session of the beach. Some of the litigants are
likely to get stranded before the end of the
struggle. It is cousoling to rcllect that the law
yers will eouie out all right.
A Bargain.?A practieal swain named Steind
lor, sued for a breach of proiiusc of marriage,
ofie.s to go to the ultar ou condition tluit the
luir plaintiff secure liiui seven hundred dollars,
which lie alleges was part of the consideration
of the promise.
Jt'DGfi Davis has made a decision that a cor'
poratiou is not liable on forged bouds where the
corporation has done nothing to induce the pur
chase by the innocent party. A sound decision,
which will itupres.) on business men the necessity
for greater cure in their transactions.
Woman's Inconstancy has received a new
illustration in tbe fate of laipez, cast otf by tbe
fair Ueorgiauu Morrison. The lady married iu
haste and repented at full speed. Yesterday
?he elected in court to stay with papa, and sent
?way her adored Lopez disconsolate.
Tiie Appraiser's Department of the Custom
House seems to be sadly in need of reform, judg
ing by the evidence given before tbe investigat
ing committee. Waste and incompetency seem
to be the rule, not tbe nxceptiou. This is a natu
rul result of mukiug tbe Custom House, part of
the political machine. A huge dose of civil ser
vice reform would do good service.
Police Reform*?Aide bodied policemen are
no longer to li? appointed to easy posts ou the
recommondath.n of politicians. In future only
those men who have served for a long period
with fidelity are to be given the light details,
w hile the able, bodied w ill have to do the rough
work. This resolution b\ the Police f'omiiiis
?ionerswill meet with general approval. It is
one step in the right direction, uml we hope it is
ouly the beginning of a long march iu the direc
tion of a thorough reform'. Teach police officers
that faithful service w ill meet with reward and
recognition, ami New York will soon be able to
boust of a police force second to iionu.
Tiie Weather.?The barometer is very low
?11 over the country, particularly in the western
lake region. The heat area yesterday after
noon I needed southward of the lakes and of
Philadelphia on the Atlantic coast, lint imme
diately below that city the temperature
rose very high, causing a steep thermal
gradient between Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Tbe violent wind accompanying the storm ut
Washington, D. C., was due to this variation of
temperature. At New York the weather was
decidedly cool, tho change which we predicted
having taken place during the curly morning.
A seriea of ureas of low pressure urc now
moving across the upper lake region, and
exhibit constant variations during their
progress from; the Itook.v Mountains to the
Atlantic. Some have passed uv tar to the north
as the fiftieth parallel, descending again to
the forty-tilth when muring the ocean. Such
a depression is now moving eastward into the
A tian tic from Nova Moot in. Ruins have fallen
In the Upper Mississippi Valley and in the
Middle States. High winds prevail around tho
northwestern storm centre. The weather in
New York Vedny will be slightly warmer, and
partly cloudy or cloudy, possibly with light
Federal Ottleaa In th? Sou I her a States*
Wo read once yiore in the Washington
despatches that there are numerous applica
tions lor offices, particularly from thefckmth
ern States. The President is apparently in
no hurry to make removals or new appoint
ments, but there are very good reasons tor
believing that he means in general to select
Southern men of character and influence
for the prominent federal offices in the
South. In doing this he will have the cor
dial support of the Northern public, because
a long und troublesome experience under
the lust administration made plain to every
body the inexpediency of filling such places
wtth strangers, men who had no hold on
the communities in which they held office
and no influence, and who were but too apt
to misuse their positions for partisan pur
poses.
There are in the Southern States a large
number of Northern men who have removed
there since the war, and who follow useful
industries and live comfortably and as they
please. There is another class of Northern
men who went to the South as political ad
venturers, and who have lived exclusively
by politics. It is this last close, a kind of
political tramps, who are properly known as
"carpet-baggers." The character of the car
pot-bagger is not understood in the North,
because we have no such class here. He is
a person who lias migrated to a Southern
State, not to engage in business or any other
usual occupation, but to control its politics,
lie has no other interest in the State he in
fests than to hold office there, either federal
or local. When he ceases to hold office by
reason of his party's predominance being
overthrown'he is usually ready to remove
from the State to which he hus no ties, either
social or of business. Thus Governor Ames
no sooner ceased to rule Mississippi than he
removed to Minnesota; Mr. Chamborlnin,
being no longer Governor in South Carolina,
removes to New York; and hundreds of other
instances might be cited of the same kind.
We have no "carpet-baggers" in Northern
States, because the circumstances favorable
to their growth do not exist. They need,
first, a numerous class of ignorant and timid
voters, on whose fears and prejudices they
can easily work; and, second, the coun
tenance and assistance of the federal gov
ernment to overawe political opposition, to
help them keep the ignorance and poverty
massed on their own side and to sustain
them by force when they are overcome by
votes. Being thus independent of the morul
sentiment of the community, depending for
his political success, not on giving the peo
ple honest and efficient government, but on
the overwhelming force of the federal ad
ministration which he summoned at will to
his aid, the carpet-bagger, no matter with
what honest purposes he set out, inevitably
became corrupt or inefficient. If he was a
State officer he did not attempt to enforce
the laws, but called for federal troops to do
this for him. If he was a federal office
holder he did not attend to his duties, but
became a partisan leader und misused the
influence of his office to secare the pre
dominance of his faction. In both cases he
rather welcomed than discouraged disorders,
because these made him important in the
North and enabled him to appeal to North
ern sympathy and for federal troops.
It was the bad habit of President Grunt to
select tbe federal office-holders in the South
ern States chiefly from among the class we
have described?Northern adventurers, stran
gers in the States where he suffered them to
rule: mere politicians, the leaders of the
negro vote, which saw in such federal offi
cers, marshals, collectors and their subordi
nates, the direct representatives of "General
Grant," whose orders they obeyed blindly,
because the negro was constantly taught by
the carpet-baggers that "General Grant"
alone stood between him and a return to
slavery. If, therefore, the Southern preju
dice against "carpet-baggers" has seeined to
Northern men extreme and unreasonable, all
the circumstances we have recited should be
remembered as the causes for this feeling. If
President llayes should appoint a South
Carolinian Collector of Boston and a Louisi
anian United States Marshal of Massachu
setts the whole of New England would cry
out indignantly at once, though they might
be respectable people ; but if these persons,
on taking possession of their places, should
at once seek to combine the poverty and ig
norance of the State against the intelligence
and property, in a party depending upon
federal troops for protection in public theft,
there would be such a din about the Presi
dent's ears as would compel him to remove
these carpet-baggers without delay.
It is because he saw this, probaljy, that
the venerable cx-Presidont Woolsey, of
Yule, last full pnbliely advised Mr. Hayes,
if he should become President, to "put
Southern men in Southern offices." It is
understood that the President remembers
and appreciates the soundness of this advice
and that he moans carefully to act upon it.
In doing so wo have no doubt he will select
his appointees, as he nmy rightly do, with
due regard to their political antecedents;
and it is here tha' he will probably en
deavor to help forward such a reorganizat ion
of political parties in the South as will
'?rente in those Stub s, gradually, two white
parties, each seeking to attract to itself a
portion of the colored vote, and both thus
concerned to bring out the negro voters on
election day and to secure them the fullest
measure of protection. The political divis
ions in most of the Southern States since
the war arc unnatural, and wore caused and
have been perpetuated only by the neces
sary opposition of the intelligent and prop
erty-owning class to the misrule of the
carpet-baggers, protected by federal inter
j t'erence. In Louisiana h-ss than five thou
sand white men voted the republican
ticket. In South Carolina the num
ber was not greater. In other States
it was the safne. Substantially the .whole
oi the intelligence of thes ? States was com
bined on thi democratic side. This could
only continue while lederul interference
lasted. When federal troops are withdrawn,
when Southern men of character and Influ
enco in their communities hold federal
offiees, the '*hito vote, no longer forced to
combine against robbery, misrnle and op
pression, will divide. Only an extraneous
force can hold all the brains of n commit
j nity on one side.
, It matters little, in the lone run. what in
dividual Southern men, so long jw they are
persons of character and influence, the
President may appoint to the Southern
federal offices. It is not likely that under
President Hayes federal office-holders will
be allowed to take such a truculent and
mischievous part in politics as under the
last administration; but it is probably
true that the whigs in the South, rather
than the democrnts, will be druwn to the
republican side by the republican pol
icy ; and when the white vote begins to
divide, as it will, on policy and principle,
the President can, without improper inter
ference, help the new formation of parties
by his federal appointments. He can do
this the better because, as he said the other
day to a friend, he "has no pet personal
plans or projects of his own to advance he
will not use the federal patronage to secure
his own re-election or the nomination of a
favorite ; he does not seek to create a Hayes
party, and will not be tempted, therefore,
to make appointments to serve personal
ends, or for any consideration other than
the public good. His selection of "South
ern men for Southern offices" will in that
cuse help to break up the present and mis
chievous party lines in the Southern States.
The Salt hake Grand Jury,
The United States Grand Jury which as
sembled at Salt Lake City yesterday is an
exceptional body. It is composed only
in part of Mormons, the majority of ils
members beiug persons not of that religious
persuasion. The federal District Attorney
will bring before it a considerable number
of witnesses to testify concerning the
Mountain Meadows massacre and other
Utah murders, and the reports we have
published show that the offioers of justice
believe they will be able to produce such
evidence as will lead the Grand Jury to find
indictments against several prominent
Mormons.
Our Suit Lake correspondent sends us an
important list, now for the first time made
public, of Mormons charged by Lee with
complicity in the massacre of the Arkansas
emigrants. The list is taken from a paper
in Lee's own handwriting and was written
out by him in his lust days. Of ihe forty-six
names in the list thirteen are marked
??dead;" of the remainder some, perhaps the
most, are fugitives. Our correspondent also
gives a list of the children who were saved
aud suggests that the publication of their
names may bring some of them forward as
witnesses. But it is evident that the assas
sins took care to save only the very young
children.
Pr?M> Trade in Ship*.
We have received several communications
protesting, with lively emphasis, against I
any change in onr navigation laws which
would admit foreign built ships to the pro
tection of the American flag. One writer
asserts that we already possess more vessels
than can find employment, and that hun
dreds lie idle at onr docks. This is perfectly
true, but it does not sustain the argument
sought to be founded upon it, that the pro
posed change in the navigation laws would
merely increase this burden of unemployed
property. The writer overlooks an impor
tant distinction. Our shipping consists of
two classes?that engaged in the coasting
trade and that employed in foreign com
merce. Foreign ships are totally excluded!
from our coasting trade, whereas the*
vessels of all other nations are perfectly free
to carry freights between this country and
foreign ports. The American vessels which
lie idle at the wharves belong principally to
the class enrolled for the coasting trade.
Their want of employment is due to the
stagnation of our domestic commerce which
has existed since the panic of 1873. The
advocates of free trade in ships have never
contemplated the admission of foreign built
vessels to the coasting trade of the United
States. They are willing that American
shipbuilders should continue to enjoy the
monopoly they have always possessed of
this great branch of our commerce, which,
in prosperous times, gives employment to
nearly as much tonnage as our whole foreign
trude. But American shipbuilders are not
benefited by the law which forbids
American merchants to buy cheap ships for
the foreign trade, because the foreign trade,
unlike the coasting trade, can be conducted
in foreign bottoms. The great and profita
ble lines of steamships which ply between
this port and England, France and Ger
many, and monopolize the best part of the
carrying trade, have reason to rejoice in our
narrow and restrictive navigation laws,
which exclude Americans from participation
in this lucrative business. Whnt diflerence
does it make to American shipbuilders
whether these great steamships are owned
by Americans or foreigners? The profits
of construction do not come to them
now any tnorc than they would if Ameri
can merchants were free to buy such
ships in the cheapest markets. The
profits of navigating ships are much greater
than the profits of building them. Whv
should this country lose the profits of both
branches of business? The loss of one is
quite sufficient. The opponents of free
trade in ships reason ns if American .ship
builders would be deprived of employment
by a change in the navigation laws. Thin is
absurd. Aro they now building the great
steamships which are the vehicles of our
foreign trade ? Certainly they are not; and
what difference can it make to them whether
these foreign built ships yield the large
profits of navigation to American or to for
eign owners? Onr commerce goes in for
eign built ships in spite of the navi
gation laws. A relaxation of those
laws would bring a rich harvest to
American shipowners and increase the
wealth ot the country without injury to
American shipbuilders. They do not build
the ocean steamships now, and might not
buil.l thetn then ; but they would be no
worse off than they are ftt present, and the
country would save some part of the eighty
or a hundred million dollars it now pays to
foreign shipowners for freights. This dif
ference of eighty millions in the balance of
trade would facilitate specie payments by
forestalling a drain of gold for freight
charges to the owners of foreign ships.
1 he Hiciiai.o does not advocate a radical
change of our navigation laws. It is willing
that the coasting trade should continue to
be the monopoly that it has always been.
But the foreign trade stands on a different
footing. It is now chiefly conducted by
foreign built and foreign owned ships, and
we should lose a great deal less if it went in
whips of American ownership, though built
abroad. We should be quite content to have
free trade in ships limited to steamships of
say eight hundred or a thousand tons
burden, at least until the value of thnt
experiment had been tested. If, mean
while, it should be found that we can build
such ships cheaper than we can buy them,
the self-interest of owners may be relied
upon to prevent their paying more for such
property than it is worth. They will, of
course, buy in the cheapest market, whether
it be the home market or the foreign, and
from the moment that American ships can
be had at less cost no foreign ship will bo
purchased.
Progress of the War.
Evidently the Russians are making regu
lar progress in Armenia. One of the fea
tures of the campaign in those mountain
lands is the Daily Telegraph reports which
persistently "darken counsel with knowl
edge." No sooner is it certain that the Rus
sians have captured some place than we get
from London a transcript of the Daily Tele
graph despatches showing that the Russians
have been shockingly beaten at that par
ticular point. This is due in some cases,
perhaps, to the fact that that journal's de
spatches started before those that give tho
result of the same operations ; but it is due
oftenor to the fact that tho correspondent,
us he is within the Turkish lines,
is imposed upon by Turkish reports
and dare not forward other state
ments than such as he is informed by
authority are "true"?as that word is ofii
cially understood. Roumania, it will be seen,
has declared her independence, and casts her
fate gallantly into the scale against the Otto
man enemy. It lias been darkly hinted
hitherto that an event of this nature might
lead to tsomplicutions with Austria; but it
may very likely turn out that Austria, fuirly
challenged by tho progress of events, will
prove herself ready to seize any pretext to
maintain that attitude of masterly inactivity
that is so satisfactory to her purse and so
characteristic of the timidity of a nation all
whose recent wars have been great blunders.
The loss of a bridge on the Roumanian
Railway will delay slightly tho movement of
the Russians into Western Wallachia, hut
this cannot greatly influence their strategic
combinations in that direction.
Egypt and Russia.
Egypt's relation to the Ottoman Empire,
and the interest that the commercial nations
have in Egypt's exemption from certain of
the possibilities of war, make her position
one of peculiar conoern at the present time,
both in the capitals where the word Egypt
means the Suez Canal us well as in those
where it more strictly suggests defaulting
payments on Egyptiun bonds. With re
gurd to both these aspects of Egypt's posi
tion the interview with the Khedive that
is reported in our cable despatches will
be found instructive and in some de
gree reassuring. His Highness, it will be
seen, declares to a Herald correspondent
that his obligation to the Kultan will be dis
charged without any infringement of the
rights of the holders of Egyptian securities.
80 much the better for the holders of his
bonds, nodonbt; but ns the Khedive has a
division of his troopB in tho Sultan's army,
and as his son is there commanding them,
he is, in fact, a party to the war, and war is
commonly not a mere one-sided game. He
is exposed, therefore, to the likelihood of
such recognitions of his relation t? the strug
gle as a bombardment or a blockade; and it
is this likelihood, of course, that accounts
for tho array of British naval force in Egyp
tian waters that is chronicled in our de
spatch. Is that array anything more than a
British menace?a mere "bluff"?the pre
tence on the part of John Bnll that
he would do something desperate in
case Russia should attempt to punish
the Khedive for sending troops to make war
uguinst her urmies ? Thcie cunnot be u
doubt that, under any possible construction
of international law us to the rights of bel
ligerents, Russia is fully justifled in strik
ing at the Power that strikes at her; and if
the presence of the British fleet was in
tended to intimate that England would pre
vent the exercise of such u right, then the
case merely affords a new indication of how
little England, with all her prate about hon
esty and virtue, cures for any right of any
Power by comparison with her precious
pocket.
The Hunter Truublm.
This Mexican business grows interesting.
Onr New Orleans correspondent reports
tliut agents of ex-President Lei-do are re
cruiting there, uud have fixed upon Sua
Antonio as a rendezvous. Onr Chicago cor
respondent reports that General Ord, who
commands on the Texas border, is in con
sultation with Sheridan, and wishes per
mission to chase Mexican outlaws uaross
the border and deal with thuiu "us the
Sioux are treated iu the North:" by which
he does not mean that whin caught they
shall he put on a reservation, clothed, led
and fattened tor new expeditions?but the
contrary. General Old said lo our corre
spondent that it was nccessury to deal with
these marauders directly, and that we might
as well appeal to a Central Atrican poten
tate to protect Stanley us to Diaz in the
centre of Mexico to restrain his border
robbers.
He is quite right about this ; and if a
Mexican army is to be concentrated at Shu
Antonio, in General Ord's rear, lie ought to
have liberty at least to drive them over
the border into the country they arc hired
to reconquer. President Diaz ought to know
that a good deal of American capital has
within live or six years been invested in
silver and other mines in the Northern
Mexican Stutcs. 'Die owners of these
mines have the tantalizing belief that they
conid make handsome profits if the coun
try were not so lawless. It would be a
stroke of genius in Diaz if he should ac
cept an assurance from President Hayes
that no annexation projects would be fa
vored or permitted, and should then say to
the American mine owners, "Come over
and work your mines, and bring
with you men enonuh to protect
yourselves, not only against Indian*, bat
against the predatory Mexican politicians.
Only no annexation, no politics ; but get out
all the silver you can." Such a policy on
his part would go far to settle the Mexican
troubles and disarm the filibusters. As for
the border robbers, we do not believe the
Mexican government, if it is wise, would
find fault if General Ord followed them into
Mexico and exterminated them. Certainly
the honest people in Northern Mexico
would think Ord their benefactor; for these
wretches, with even-handed injustice, rob
both sides.
Ex-Pruidtst Grant in Bnrap*.
Some whimsical discussions have been
raised respecting the etiquette which may ?
be observed toward General Grant during
his visit in Europe. General Grant is a
mere private citizen of the United States?
an unofficial person travelling for amuse
ment and recreation. He has no title to
any other recognition than is accorded to
an American gentleman. He will receive
many social, but no official, attentions.
Eminent official people will, no doubt,
make a tender of pleusant courtesies, but
only such courtesies as might be
offered to any foreigner of distinction.
Ex-President Van Buren made a visit
to Europe in 1853 and ex-President Fill
more in 1855, and were treated merely as
private gentlemen of social eminence in
their own country. They received a less
marked and effusive hospitality than had
been bestowed on Mr. Webster during his
visit to England in 1839, who was courted
by the nobility on account of his greut rep
utation for intellectual gifts. General Grant
will probably receive more attention than
was bestowed on Mr. Van Bnren or Mr. Fill
more, because his great military career has
madeiiim the most illustrious of our living
citizens. His social success abroad will also
be favored by the faot that he makes the visit
so soon after bis retirement from office. He
did not wait, like Mr. Van Buren and Mr.
Fillmore, until he had settled into the ob
scurity of ordinary private life. The Ameii
can Ministers in the.chief European capitals
are men whom he appointed, and they will
be forward to exert their social influence to
secure him a gratifying reception. tBnt the
attentions certain to be given him will be
only tributes to bis character as a man and
his eminence as a citizen, and will not have
the slightest tinge of official significance.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Colicumber vines are growing.
Russians import French cooks.
Blue china is still the rage in England.
Ueuerul Butler wean a buttonhole bouquet.
The Inus ol Belgium supply iue Quest Burgundy.
Carl Wollsohn, ol Cnicugo, will summer in the East.
Senator Christianity's son failed to "pass" into tbo
Pension Office.
In some purls of Fiji you must be either a mission
ary or a cannibal.
A spoonful ol vinegar should be put Into the water
in which Qsb is boiled.
Sir John Lubbock has left the study or ants in order
to bo uncle to Cladstoue.
1'oni Scott's mission in this country is to supply his
own private car to people.
Before he gets through Uariiold will bo mad because
he did not take iheSaualerablp.
When Presidout Hayes was a boy and went to base
ball matches ho waa always counted In.
The trades' union feeling against women doctors is
making a hard Qght in tho University ol London.
The California poacher tried to show up the repub
lican fathers?1 bat is, to mako a I'lnnoy poppy ahow.
Mr. Horatio Seymour, of Ullca, and Senator Tbeo
dore K. Randolph, ot New Jersey, are at the Now York
Hotel.
HalJ the Episcopalians in England believe that
bishops are useful or ueccxsury because the Stale ap
points them.
The French some times when peeling onions put a
lump of bread on the point ot the kuilo to prevent
their eyes from being affected.
saye a school authority"The best way to evoke
trutbluloMs iu boys Is uniformly toboileve them, even
when appearances are ugitlnot theui. "
Jubloehkoff, a Russian, bas invented a new candle
so powerful that six ure equal lou hundred gas burners.
M bother lor light or lor the national dish wears not
informed.
A man with a ragged edge to his collar no longer has
to swear ut that ragged edge. Ho wonders a by tho
Gorischakotf Dombrowskt will keep up such an
lgnatlell'ot a molting for.
Robert Buchauau: ?
"Tbon hand in hand, against tho wind,
Thuy Tailored upward slaw
On siairs or crimson and of gold.
Climbing the wondroea Bow. "
A rooont writer says that the Freuch peasant is a
suspicious, prying icltow, who is always getting some
body into trouWo; vory much like a certain class ol
Americans who live on their nerves and haunt
oil-colored subjects.
Worcester /Vss.??a writer Ir. the Toledo Bladt
says that every man may spell tho names of Russian
uud Turkish men and minus Just at be baa a mind to.
Thts is a roller. Uenceiorth we shall acknowledge no
superior lu Rnsslun and Turkish orthography."
Turgot was the Urst man on me Continent who estab
lished a poor law giving the pauper* work, uotaaa
right, but as un alms, while he sent all the boggors In
the province to prison, and ordained that no tenant
saould be turned out ol his holding until the harvest
had boon reaped.
Si. Louis 2iu\'t When beacon Richard Smith, of
the Cincinnati UmeUe, nts down 10 a desk to show me
boys how to do it, mil le the style of joke be turn*
out!?'Tlio tiibt hsieh-l boiouko that have figured in
ihe present couto?t showed their lighting qualities
j Friday at Batoum.'''
macJaeood:?'"To play billiaids as billiards can be
j plnyod require* the energy ot a tire. Hero and tboro a
man has tho ieisure and the intellect, and, in tho ab
sence ol a higher amh.tion, ho devotes hit life to elucl
datu a game. We admire his ingenuity, but we do not
think very muco o. in* career."
Count Von iloltko says?lV|?a a city would St.
Fetricourg buve been hud us wide Btf?..|? extended to
liulukhivu; had the Winter I'uiaoe looked down ujiou
[ tho dacp blue mirror of the Black Sea; had the Isaac s
j Church stood upon the heights of the MaUkofT, and
| had Alusbin and O.lauds b.iou the I'eterbot and 'cat
| siiina of tho imperial lainllyl"
j A rich tostuuio is a ilre-s of rieuesi vert naissant
' poult do solo, trimmed with volants o! line Valeu
cleunou lace and bundles of red io-cs ana li.ro leave*;
tram Louis XV I. of richest brocudo argealde, wrought
with red and different colored roses, lined with rod
poult do soio and trimmed with frills of Valenciennes
luce. Coiffure of diamonds, ostrich feathers, with red
aigrette and luce veil; ornaments, diamonds.
Buckmimler make juitenuo soup by Qrat "passing"
odious and leak*, with u largo piooo of buttor. "ovor ?
the fire. Then in another vessel small, mm pieces of
carrots, turnips, celery, caobage, lattuce. torroi and
chervil are put into boilhig water to rust for ffvo mm
uies, after which (bay uro strained. Then putting
both portions into a copper -.aucepuu, with a bit of
sugar and butter, they ureaiuimt rcd in a little bouillon
or stock lor two hours, when hot bouillon is added and
the soup ia served.
.ValurtUtff ffro.cic ? "Exporienco of life baa shown
that in life novols, so to speak, do uot develop them
selves. A romance begins in a man's or a woman's
history, and goes as far as tbo middle of the secoud
volume, when facts get In the way and bar H. Life in
this respect ia roally luce a bream, for affairs move in
an Interesting and exciting manner so far, and then a
slight unnoticed diversion stops lb* movement and
tends it in another direction, to no cstastropho, to no
denouement, but only fur.her into lk? dalneta and
caittt of commonplace."
THE'AVAR
Repulse of the Russians
at Kars.
TURKEY BURNING RUSSIAN PORTS.
Roum&nia Deolaree Herself an
Independent Power.
THE CZAR'S PLAN OF ATTACK
Interview of a Herald Corresponded
with the Khedive.
1IOW ARDAIIAN WAS TAKEN,
[BY CABLB TO TBS HSBAtiD.]
London, May 22, 1877.
An unconfirmed despatch from Krzeroum aa
nounces that on Friday last the Russians attacked
the outer Hue ut Kars with determination, having
preceded their attempt by a heavy, but ill directed,
cutmomule lrurn the siege artillery. The powerful
guns in the Turkish batteries replied with better
efl'cct. The duel was vigorously maintained
until the llussiaus brought up columns of
infantry as close as tlioy dared to
the fortifications, apparently purposing It
possible to take the place by storm. The Ottoman
commander, observing this, drew together a largo
body of troops behind the ramparts and launched a
tremendous sortie upon the Russian flank and rear,
under the shock or which the enemy were obliged
to retreat into a disadvantageous position. A
bloody engagement followed ut close quarters, and
at its termination the Russians were obliged to
retreat beaten, leaving upon the field 300 corpses
auti a large numbei of wounded. There was a
slight encounter, meantime, bctweeu the cavalry,
without any special result.
THE AUUKKSSIVX WARFARE OF TURKEY.
, The Grand Duke Michael telegraphs to St. Peters*
burg from Tillis, May 20, us follows:?"Along the
entire coast, from Cupe Adler to Cape Ptclientchyr,
Turkish men-of-war are bombarding aud burning
undefended aud peaceful settlements, and landing
Circassian emigrants at various points, who seek
to excite the AbchasLuus to rebellion. 'IToops have
been despatched to suppress any rising." It will
be remembered that this aggressive policy of Tur
key was outlined several days ago. A complete
confirmation of the Hrralp's special from Constan
tinople at that time is therefore found above.
ROUMANIAN IN DEI'ENDENCB.
The Russians are making a decided movement
below the river Aloota. The Herald's Bucharest
correspondent telegraphed last night that the Higli
waters on the river Aloota had carried away the
bridge on the rood leading to Krajova.' Ten can
aud the locomotive have been engnlphed. The
Routuuuiun Chambers, now in session, have unani
mously proclaimed the independence ol the country
and declared war uguinst Turkey, but directed tliafi
Roumaulu should remain on the defensive. A Bu
charest correspondent announces that he has lia4
an Interview with the Prince of Roumania, who
stated Ills belief tnat no arrWt pmtie of annexa
tion is entertained by Russia.
The .senate has unammously voted the Independ
ot Rou mania.
THE ECMIAN PLAN IN El BOPE.
The Ueuald's correspondent at Kualchuk tele
graphs under date of the 19th as folio we:?"There
is good authority lor Haying that the Russian plan
La to await a complete development of the Invasion
of the Astatic frontier, which everything, so far at
learned, indicates will be vigorously pressed. Rue
sla, having her hands freer there than on the Dan
ube, can move more rapidly. Meanwhile, the Euro
peau invading torce will endeavor to tire out the
Turks by worrying and harassing them with fre
quent feints along the river. The Turkish Dana
biati fortresses, especially the quadralateral
formed by Rustchuk, Sliest, na. Shunt la and
Varna, are In admirable condition of defence,
amply provisioned and stronger now than ever
before. The Turkish plan is a strictly defensive
one, awaiting the onslaught at Ruitchurk. There
have notbeen any active hostilities here yet, butthe
river landing stages have been cleared, and barges,
having unloaded Immense quantities of grain, have
been removed to a place of safety, only an occa
sional tug, hugging the sonthern shore, breaks the
smooth surface of the Dannbe. A gunboat recently
launched here has received her armament, and, it
Is stated, Is about proceeding in search o) a my*
tertous Roumanian steamer. The Wallachlan
earthworks have not offered any opposition, but
remain silent. It Is believed that the Turkish mili
tary authorities have instructions not to open Are
first."
Right thousand Russians belonging to twelve di
visions march toward Krajova to-morrow. They
will be succeeded by thirty-three divbuous, which
are already waiting at the next stage In the reur.
A railway bridge over the Alula, near Hlatina,
fell to-day. A train of ten wagons carrying ammu
nition to Little Wallachia was engnlphed with its
attendants. Five passengers were drowned.
Within the last forty-eight hours rumors of peace?
which, however, are not traceable to any source
have been circulated among the Russian officers.
The Czar will start for the Danube on the 2d of
June. He will be absent about three weeks.
The Turks are concentrating large masses 01
troops at Tnrtnkai and Nistova expecting the Rus
sians to make a powerful attempt to cross the Daw
ube wiUiln the next few day a
THK kllKOlVE KKCOM MENDS I1IS BONDS.
The 11 ukami's corresnondent at Cairo telegraph*,
under date of May . .?"I had an audience with the
Khedive on yesterday. '1 stated to His Highness
that the Heuald would be glad to publish any state
ment which he might be pleased to make concern
ing the attitude of Kgypt during the war. The
Khedive received nie very graciously, and replied
that he felt less restraint In speaaing to the corre
spondent of an American Journal, because America
had no Interest in the saceess or either party to
the flglit. Concerning Egypt he said that the
rlgh ts of Egyptian creditors would be most strictly
guarded. No hinds whatever which are now ap
plied to the payment of the pnWc debt or debts ot
the Dalra would in any cose be diverted to other
purpeseo. His nighness stated that among certain
ortioaa ol ma anbiacts the most ten** war feeiiae