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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 21, IS77.
NOTfCB 'in' COCNTKI DKALKRS.
Ti e Adiitnt Expret* Company run n pei-ial tiewapaper
tiuin over the Penn-ilriinia Railroad and It- (?uiiniction*.
JvavlOK .leimy City at a oaarter pail lonr I M. daily and
Sunday, rarrylnir the repnlur cditinn o: lb" II :un a. lar
Mill a. llurrl.bury nnd South to WaU.il).'i.iu u-iu'lilug
i'hiliid. pliiu at a >iuarter putt six A. M. and Wushin^lun at
line P tl.
From our reports this mornhtg the probabilities
U11 thill the weather in -XeW Fork to dug will he
Cooler and generalli/ clear, except (taring the rarlg
morning, when light rain mag fail.
Wall Strilt Yesterday.?-Tin- stock market
v.;i? rufii-c active ttml was generally weaker.
The report of the cutting ol' passenger rates lye
twee n CI lien hi 1 .mil New York sent New York
. 'eiitral ilmvn, ami the rest of the list was not
strong 1 Hough to resist the weakening effect of
this report, (loltl ojteneil and closed at lOti'i'g,
selling in the meantime at 1(17. Governments
were quiet and tinu, and railroad bonds strung
mid higher. Money 011 call lent at llg n 12 per
cent.
New York is to be blessed with half a dozen
free baths on the 1st of June. This is good, hut
it dozen would he better, and still leave room for
improvement.
A Terribly Dramatic Scene was witnessed
nt tlie burial of Gunscr, the victim of the mys
terious assassination at East Williamsburg. Jlis
wife at the grave frantically begged the dead
innu to reveal liis murderer's name. L3ut tlcatl
men tell no talcs.
The Spuing Meeting of the Maryland Jockey
Hub bus i>roveil thoroughly successful.' Yester
day the Pinilieo Course was t^i rouged with tbe
beauty nntl fashion of tbe Stale. The events
were well contested, ami general satisfaction was
expressed by tbe patrons of the turf.
Tin: City ok Brussels.?The disabled ship
has bccu again signalled by tbe steuiuer Ohio,
and reported all well. We append to the de
spatch announcing this pleasing intelligence an
explanatory statement of the weather conditions
attending the voyage of the City of Brussels after
tbe 1 ritli inst. from data collected by the Herald
weather service regarding recent movements of
tbe atmosphere on the North Atlantic. There is
now no doubt, thut tbe long-looked-for arrival ol'
tbe City of Brussels will be reported by Friday
or Saturday at furthest, and an end put to the
anxieties of the friends of the voyagers.
Swill .Milk.?Mr. Bergli is to be congratu
lated on bis efforts to put an end to tbc infamous
truffle in swill milk, to which the Herald
some time ago called attention. In sup
pressing this dmth-deuliug truffle Mr.
Bergli will render n really impor
tant service to the community. He can
depend on the support of the public and the
press in bis operations against the dis
honest dairymen whose nefarious traffic is so
fatal to infant life in this metropolis. If the
law a" it exists at present is not sufficiently
stringent amendments most be made; but much
can In done under existing laws to abate tlie
traffic in swill milk, ami we trust to the fearless
energy of Mr. Bergli in the cause of humanity to
see that every guilty person is punished to the
full extent of the law.
The Chester Horror.?The evidence elicited
nt the inquest on the bodies of the men killed at
the launching of the steamship Saratoga at
Chester fails to clear up the question us to
whether or not sufficient warning was given to
the men to enable thcin to escape. On this
point the evidence is very contradictory, some
alleging that fifteen minutes elapsed from the
time the word was given to get from under to
the slipping of the ship into the water. Others
state tliut a minute and u half at
most elapsed between tbe order to cut away
the stays and the moving of the ship oft the
stocks. The truth of the matter seems to be
that tbe men who should have watched tbe tlrst
movement of tbe ship performed their task care
lessly, and that when it was discovered that the
?ship had moved it was too late to do more than
Whs done. Any hesitation about cutting the
stays might have led to still greotet loss of life.
The Wi vtim k.?The barometer is rising
steadily in the Northwest mid West as tbe area
?1'high pressure extends southward Ironi Mani
toba toward thctifllf. I Miring the early morning,
the period of lowest temperature, this area has
extended to the Gulf eonst. but receded again us
tbc day advanced. On the Atlantic coast tbe
pressure is low. but gradually rising. The
centre ol tbe lov urea has already reached
Nova Scotia coastwise, and is leaving the
continent. Light rains tell on the .Middle
Atlantic seaboard and in the lower lake region
during yesterday. -The winds have continued
brisk to high in tbe lake region and on the coast,
being generally from the northward, except in
fbe Northwest, where thev are southeasterly
and easterly, blowing toward a depres
sion advancing through British Colum
bia. The isotherm ol 70 degrees, uhub
was during the morning south of Tennessee, ad
vanced during the day to the Ohio and Lower
Missouri Valley, embracing tin. lower Middle
State*. Another heat area has descended lioin
the Northwest, where a very high temperature
prevnils in comparison with more southerly
points. The progress of this heat area will be
noted with interest, as it is likely to ennse vio
lent local storms in the 1'pper Mississippi Valley,
fin; weather in New Yoik to-day will be |eo>
rrnllv clear, except in tbc morning, uud cooler
than it was yesterday.
England's Attitude and Knounn.
Iu what contingency is England likely to
become a party to the war in the East'( Is
there any event the occurrence of which
will inevitably be followed by an English
declaration of war or by the certainty that
England trill maintain the attitude of a
more or less discontented yet peacelnl
spectator ? England at present exercises on
the councils of the belligerents such an in
fluence as follows from a standing menace
toward one and a hope never desperate
held out toward the other. She is
so far from being an absolute neutral
that if the Sultan did not count upon her
he would make peace to-morrow; and if the
Emperor of Russia did not know that he
must count with her he would put two
hundred thousand more men in the valley
of the Danube. Her threat that iu a certuin
contingency she will interfere compels
Russia to hold herself in readiness in other
quarters to that extent, and induces the
Sultan to ventnre a mad struggle on the
chance that a happy accident may make
England a party to the conflict ere he is
quite brayed in the mortar of war. To delude
an ally to his ruin by false hopes will
not rest on the British conscience ; but the
ethics of a threatening attitude are as clear
for nations as for individuals. Thoreisa re
sponsibility to the common opinion of man
kind involved in it; for the Power that threat
ens virtually pledges itself before the world
to act in a given way on the occurrence of a
specified fact, and if it fails it is set down
as a vain and noisy bully. Is it possible to
draw precisely at the present time the line
at which England must redeem her pledge,
or beyond which her threat must be re
garded as only a part of the posturing and
attitudinizing by which her government has
sought to frighten Russia from the pursuit
of its policy i
In the debate on Mr. Gladstone's resolu
tions the gentleman who was put up
to respond on the part of the Minis
try to the onslaught of the great lib
ral orator cudeavoered to emphasize by
iteration the declaration that England
wished the war had not occurred aDd wished
it was well over, and had no concern in it,
and did not wish or intend to fight Russia,
but could not but recognize that there
were certain interests which she must
defend if they were menaced. In
saying this much even the spokesman
for the Ministry was apparently almost
frightened at what he had said, and ex
plained that really the likelihood of these
interests being menaced wns so remote that
it was hardly worth while for England to
say what she would do in such a contin
gency. The interests thus referred to were
specified. They are the Suez Canal, Egypt,
the Dardanelles and Constantinople. There
wn& also a vague reference to "Batoum and
other places," as if it were in the Ministe
rial programme to hint that Russia
must not be over successful in any
neighborhood that was in the direc
tion of India, and as if a sudden'
report of Russian successes near Ears had
made it injudicious to put out just then a
hint so little likely to bo respected by the
Russians. As to Egypt, the Suez Canal and
Constantinople, therefore, the position just
taken by England is clear. As to Russian
successes gained in countries that command
other important routes to India it is less
clear, but there is in the British official
mind n conception that England should not
regard such successes with indifference, and
this conception may show itself in acts if
the circumstances are favorable at the time.
England may fight if Russia is suddenly
successful in Armenia. She must fight if
Egypt, the canal or Constantinople is in
danger.
Perhaps this is tolerably safe ground for
the British Ministry to take. It is vagne on
the one point as to which Russia's action is
certain to bo precisely what England must
object to if she expresses any opinion at all;
and the declaration of England becomes
distinct and sharp precisely in proportion as
it approaches those points on which Russia's
course is uncertain, as to which Russia
either has no policy or her policy is not
known. Here it seems safe to vapor and
bluster, and the British Ministry does
it. To threaten war in case the Rus
sian armies should rapidly succeed in
any quarter would make it necessary to fight
or apologize early, because the Russian
armies are very likely to gain substantial
triumphs in a short, time in Armenia.
Hence it was unsafe to be tempted, even for
the sake of the Euphrates Valley, into words
that might have to be swallowed before mid
summer. But the probability that Russia
will make any naval demonstrations in the
Mediterranean is. so slight that there
can be few things safer than for Eng
land to commit herself to a declar
ation based on that remote probability.
Consequently the declaration well nigh
positive that England will defend the Suez
Canal and Egypt and the Dardanelles?will
defend, in fact, what it docs not yet appear
that any one is likely to menace. Indeod,
Russia i? so little prepared to make any
demonstration with regard to Egypt that
the story which represents her as disposed
to make a convention with England in re
gard to that country is very probably true.
This report is practically to the effect that
England it to buy Egypt from the Sultan
with the consent of Russia, the price to bo
a capitalization of the Egyptian tribute. If
England should thus become the suzerain
ot Egypt she would do more to dismember
the Ottoman Empire than has been done by
idl others together ; for, with Egypt taken,
theothcr Mediterranean dependencies would
fall away of themselves, and the Padishah
would thus lose twenty millions out of his
forty millions of subjects. This is no doubt
the easiest way in which England can take
care of her interests in the Suez Canal und
in Egypt, for she is able to pay though she
cannot tight; but before this bargain is
completed some other governments in
Europe will want practical guarantees for
the neutrality of the canal.
England's policy, therefore, as disclosed
by the stuteiuent in the House of Commons,
is that of weakness?the policy of a Power
which feels that it has not the strength to
enforce its will, but is painfully solicitous
! lest this helplessness shall be noticed by
! others, and therefore boisterously declares
| how terribly it will deal with its enemies if
i tliey codip 1* its way?particularly as it
happens to know tliey are going in another
direction. The statement we give to-day
of England's resources, and of her com
! purative incapacity to take any effective
l part in the waruguiust Russia exhibits fully
that this policy is enforced by tho facts of
her position. Any declaration made by
I England of a purpose to interfere with the
operations of Russian armies would be idle
and even laughable. With wars conducted
on such a scale as is now seen on the Danube
and in Armenia the twenty-five or thirty
thousand soldiers that England can
send from home would be a mere
drop in the bucket, und she can
not move her armies from India for
the simple reason that her tenure of that
country in such that it will cease to be bers
if sbe does not continuo to hold it with nil
the force she has in it. She has a fleet, and
Russia will not put herself in a way to corue
in collision with it just at present ; so that
England, perhaps, will be able to play to
the end the safe rvlt of bullying everybody
and not firing a shot, and gathering up care
fully, when peace is made, such crumbs of
plundei' as are within her reach.
Garbage in tbe Sound?.% Threat*
eneil Peetilence.
On behalf of the residents of the towns
and villages lying along the Sound we
again protest against the outrage perpetrated
by the bureau for the removal of garbage
from the streets of New York. Instead of
towing the garbage scows far out into the
Sound, where it is wide and deep, tho men
in charge of them dump their horrible car
goes by night iu shallow water, in the vi
cinity of Whitestone, Tbrogg's Neck, the
Stepping Stones, City Island, S.nds Point
and other places, in direct violation of law.
The scows carry on the average two hun
dred arid fifty tons each, and as from ten to
fifteen or more of them are emptied every
night the amount of garbage dumped
into the Sound every week reaches the
startling figures of more than twenty
live thousand tons. All this filth, instead
of being washed out to sea, is enst ashore by
the tide ; tlie carcasses of dogs, cats and
other animals and fragments of infected
bedding and clothing lie rotting for miles
along the beach, polluting the air and
threatening pestilence. Many families who
own summer residences along these shores
will be driven from them if this outrage is
permitted to continue.
Nor is this all. The dumping of so vast
an amount of poisonous gurbage into the
shallow water at the entrance of the Sound
is rapidly destroying the rich oyster beds
of City island and other localities and ex
terminating the fish. Immense mischief
has already been done in this respect, and
if the garbage outrage continues unchecked
during the summer the injury to these im
portant interests will be irreparable. The
shores on both sides of the Sound and
of the inlets and bays are dotted
with pretty, thriving villages, built up
by honest, intelligent and hard work
ing fishermen, whoso industry is thus
threatened with annihilation. A plague
stench rises over the shores of Little Neck
Lay, Cow Bay, Hempstead Harbor, East
Chester Bay and City Islund, and makes
them unendurable for human habitation.
The utmosphere is at times worse than that
of a cliurnel house. We invite pestilence in
penuittifig this outrage upon the rights of
our fellow citizens. The danger from this
source is imminent and ularming; and from
selfish, if not from higher and more gener
ous motives, prompt measures should be
tuken by our sanitury officers to put an end
to un abominable outrage which deprives
thousands of worthy people of the means of
livelihood and threatens the metropolis with
pestilence. The fishermen of City Island
talk openly of taking the matter into their
own hands. If our authorities do not move
promptly, wc may hear of a fight between
the outraged fishermen and tho garbage
men resulting, perhaps, in deplorable loss
of life.
There is still another evil connected with
this outrage. We learn, on the testimony
of two intelligent and trustworthy pilots,
which they are willing to give under oath,
that within the past six months the depth of
the channel opposite the Stepping Stones
has decreased from nine fathoms to five.
Will our merchants sit quietly by while the
gateway of this great highway of commerce
is thus choked and closed ? Why expend
hundreds ol' thousands of dollars in deepen
ing Hell Gate if the Street Cleaning Bureau
is permitted to create a more effectual ob
struction at the very throat of the Sound?
In a few years, if this goes on, millions may
be required to dredge out the channel, and
then wc shall wonder at the folly, supine
ness and imbecility that made the expendi
! ture a necessity.
Wnr News.
The dearth of stirring news from the
seats of war in the East suggests the calm
before the storm that must soon break in
thunderous uproar from many points along
the Danube Valley oh well as in Asia Minor.
The secrecy with which the Russian move
ments are surrounded gives little chance
to speculate with any approach to accuracy.
Great movements are so often made only
as a mask for greater that the massing
of largo bodies of troops in Western Iiou
tunnin most not be regarded as a reliable
indication that the grand advance is to
take place from that region. It is certain,
however, that the coining week will witness
grout events and will supply important
material for history. The Turkish fleet
continues its incendiary industry along the
eastern shores of the Black Sea, and also
menaces the south coast of Russia. But we
notice that a Russian threat to the Bey of
Tunis, which uiny be executed by the
Czar's fleet, is agitating the Sultan's vussul
in Africa. The departure of the Sultan to
take the command of the Army of the
Danube in prosecuting the holy war
has been decided on. In Asia Minor
Batoum has been invested by the Russians,
and, according to our lotest despatches, a
sanguinary battle is in progress for the pos
session of the town. The Cossacks scour
the country on Monhktar Pacha's right,
completely jutting him off from any sup
ports from the south, and everything points
to the probability of a desperate bat
tle in front and on both flanks of
Souganlu position, now occupied by that
commander. Kurs may bo said to bo ? n
tirely isolated now, for the flying Turkish
garrison from Ardahan conld not seek
refuge within its fortifications. lu the
meantime fanatical rage rules the discus
sions of the Turkish Parliament.
The Mormons Once More.
Our Salt Lake correspondent sends us
some curious documents, signed by Brig
hum Young, showing his defiant spirit
toward the United States, and also the very
great powers lie possessed in former days.
The letter in which he notifies John D. Lee,
in 18f)8, that the President has oondoned
the offences of the Mormons, exhibits the
spirit of the leaders at Salt Lake in those
days:?"He pardons yon because he can't
kill you without its costing him too much,"
writes Brigham; "but he calculates to spit
on his hands and begin again. We must
save our provisions and get ready." When
General Sidney Johnston's array approached
Utah Y'oung declared martial law and forbade
I the passage of any person through the Ter
I ritory without a passport froiii Mormon
j authorities, and specimens ot these passes
are sent by our correspondent. The un
fortunate Arkansas emigrants, to quote the
words of John D. Lee after his condemna
tion, had not the right sort ot pass.
Link after link of the chain of evidence
which will criminate the leading Mormons
seems to be riveting. Evidence already in
the District Attorney's hands fixes guilt on
Colonel Dame and Height. But it seems
that Mrs. Haight professes to have a paper
l in lier possession with which she ex
j pects to shield her husband. Colonel
Damn has nlso expressed himself con
' fident of being able to show by whose
| authority he ordered the massacre. That
I is to say, Lee's execution has shown other
' Mormons that Brigham Young and the
! prophets may in the end try to sacrifice
I them, and they do not mean to die as Lee
! did. On the whole the Mormon business
never was so interesting as now. Mean
time the correspondents of other journals
begin slowly, but completely, to confirm
the reports of our own correspondent. "If
Brigham Y'oung were to be put on trial, say
for murder, either as principal or accessory,
bo convicted and sentenced to the Peniten
tiary for a long term, or to execution, there
would be great danger, I think, of an out
break ; only in view of such a contingency
is there any need of additional troops in
Utah so writes one of the correspondents,
and justifies thus the request for more troops
made by Governor Emory.
Fourth of July Fireworks.
The anniversary ol' American indepen
dence is always a day of peril to our large
cities, and is looked forward to with unea
siness by the insurance companies, which
will have to make up the losses occasioned
by an indiscriminate scattering of burning
combustibles in all our streets and avenues.
The danger is multiplied by the growing
custom of entertaining the children of sep
arate households by evening displays of pri
vate fireworks. This custom ought to lie
dispensed with, except in the country,
where there is umple space for setting off
these explosives and combustibles in the
grounds and lawns at a safe distance
from buildings. It might seem harsh
and ungracious for the city authorities to
forbid it; but they ought not to wait until a
terrible conflagration, kindled by this dan
gerous practice, enforces the necessity. Fire
is the great enemy of property in large
towns, and no regulations can be too strict
for guarding against losses from this source.
If the two or three weeks preceding the
Fourth of July should happen to be a season
of drought, converting the dry woodwork
of structures into tinder, thirty or forty
thousand separate sources of ignition flying
through the air and liable to strike window
frames or light upon roofs, would bo a cause
ol" more peril than the celebration is worth.
We are not so churlish as to advise a sup
pression of fireworks on the Fourth of July,
but we would not leave it to the discretion
of every careless individual in a city of a
million inhabitants to do things which
might set dwellings and even whole blocks
in a blaze. If private fireworks were dis
pensed with and citizens of each ward or
smaller district would subscribe the sums
they spend lor such purposes to a fund for
a display in tlieir own neighborhoods, the
children might be entertained with n much
finer spectacle without going far from
their own doorsteps, and without being
jostled and jammed in the disor
derly crowds which attend the great pyro
technic exhibitions given at the expense of
the city in the public squares. It is very
proper that the youtig people should be
amused, and no discreet parent wishes to
take them into a noisv crowd where they
can see nothing unless liftod up on the
shoulders of grown persons, and are exposed
to listen to a great deal of rude language.
But the plan we recommend would exempt
thein from this inconvenience and yet give
them a far more brilliant spectacle than is
afforded by the ordinary private fireworks.
The combustibles could be put in charge of
discreet and carefnl men, who would mun
nge them with perfect safety to property.
An liifuntous Apportionment Hill.
A simple inspection of the election figures
makes it evident that the democrats ot this
?State arc not lairly represented in the Legis
lature. Governor Robinson was chosen last
November by a majority of more than thirty
thousand, and yet the Legislature chosen in
the same election by the saute voters con
sists ot nineteen republicans against thir
teen democrats in the Senate, and seventy
republicans against fitty-eight democrats in
the Assembly. With a perfectly fair ap
portionment the political party which
elected the Governor bv a handsome
majority would also elect a majority
o! the Legislature. It must be ad
mitted, however, that even with a fair
apportionment this could not take plnce in
every election, because the State is reappor
tioned in accordance with population only
lit intervals of ten years, and within so long
a period great changes take place in a Com
monwealth where the growth of cities is so
rapid and the population of the rural dis
tricts remains neatly stationary. Rut this
discrepancy between party strength on the
State ticket and nartv strength in the Legis
; lhtnre cmght not to have been so great in the
election of last year, because it was the next
year after a State census. But the Legisla
ture of 187G failed to make the new appor
: tiouuient which the constitution commands
, at the first session following a State census,
j and the consequence was that the democrats
were cheated out ??f the Legislature although
; fairly entitled to it.
| The duty of reapportioning the State,
! which was neglected by the last Legisla
j ture, has been postponed by this until the
{ closing days of the session, and u bill wus
! passed yesterday by the Assembly which is
I so brazenly dishonest that even republi
cans who have any sense of decency ought
to denounce it. It is what is culled the
Hugebooiu bill, and was carried through
the Assembly yesterday by tho unscrupu
lous parliamentary tactics of Mr. Alvord,
the republican leader in that body. A
tolerably fair apportionment bill, of which
Mr. Woodin is the uuthor, had already
passed the Senate, and it seems probable
now that a disagreement between the
two houses will prevent the passage of
any bill at this session. In a narrow par
tisan view nothing could serve the interests
of the republican party better, because a
further postponement of action on the
census of 187-> would deprive the democrats
of any increase of representation in the next
Legislature; whereas Senator Woodin's bill,
and even the Hogeboom-Alvord bill, would
give them some gains. The infamous Hoge
boom bill was not passed by the Assembly
with any expectation that it can become a
law?for if accepted by the Senate the Gov
ernor would certainly veto it?but with a
simple view to put off the reapportionment
for another year in defiance of the constitu
tion, wi.li the hope of another unfair
republican majority in tbe next Legis
lature. This manoeuvre is as bad in
tactics as it is disgraceful in morals.
If the dishonest Hogeboom bill passes
or the apportionment fails Governor Robin
son will call an extra session. True,
it will be a session of the same parti
san Legislature which has so grossly abused
its trust, but it will enable the Governor to
make an appeal to the moral sense of the
people which will deprive the republican
party of more strength than it can expect to
gain by its unscrupulous violation of a plain
constitutional duty. The fact that New
I York and Brooklyn are democratic cities is
| no reason why they should be deprived of
i their constitutional representation in the
I Legislature.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Essipoff Das gone.
Grins arc cut broader,
lien Hill Is a good shot.
Greece burns tu bo snuffed.
Justice Bradley is In Florida.
Hugging lovors are pressed veal
Gaily Hamilton touched ber guitar.
Sum Bowles is registered In Chicago.
The Duchess ol Edinburgh is at Coburg.
The apron aud corslet are out 01 fashion.
Charley Boss U trying to Qnd 1'. T. Bnrnnra.
Georgia farmers are shearing a good wool crop.
The Indian crop In the West Is nearly batched.
The nowest stylo of dress in Paris is called the eel
skin.
Orange county, New York, Is troubled with mad
dogs.
Ex-Empress Eugenie will reach Madrid in a few
days.
Hydrophobia bas reached Buffalo, and Eli Perkins is
In California.
Bochelort's daughter Noeuiie will marry Dufnux, a
Genove.se painter.
Tbo Spanish are so unchangeable that they will not
become good cooks.
General Nuthaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, U at
the Filth Avenue.
Phil Sheridan beard it was twins, and exclaimed,
'?The deuce you 6ay."
The Roumanians are handsome and well dressed,
but not especially bravo.
General Joe Johnston thinks that in America volun
teers are .superior to roguiar soldiers.
A Massachusetts tour-year-old boy wished he wae an
angel, so that bis legs would not get tired.
Mrs. Valentino Baker has hastened to Turkey to
nurso her husband in his illness Iroin typhoid fever.
Senator Georgo F. Edmunds, of Vermont, was in
the city yesterday, on Ins way home front Washington.
Secretary Evaris struck a Russian soutenco yester
day on which he Is still chewing. He says It is suds to
him.
If yon go Ashing be prudent enough to take your
own bait with you. There may be no taverns on the
road.
Professor E. S. Morse, of Salem, Mass., will sail for
Japau, where he will study natural history for several
months.
Mgjor General John H. Lefroy, of England, retnrned
to the city from Washington yesterday and Is at the
Brevoort.
1 Since the war began country journalists try to ahow
1 tbclr knowledge by goiug into a store and asking for a
vltch?l:l sour.
Rochester DtmoertU:?" *Oivo the devil bis due,'
says the Cliictgo Times. All right, Mr. Storey; make
out your little bilL " '
A young English iady at a party wore a plain pink
dress so tight that when she sat down aha appoared
; like a statue in Ice cream.
Lt Manager Franco-Aneriwin, a journal which has
long been a necessity to s large number ot French clt
Uens, has reduced lis price to three cents.
Richmond Whig:?1"The carnival is not suited to the
genius ol a coinmonttv which lives and mores and bus
Its being in an atmosphere of discounts and par
te utages.''
At the Pope's reception on the 1st of May two girls
appeared to be much fatigued by carrying huge and
scemingiv hoavv bouquets of lilies ol the valley.
After the reading of an address to the Pope the cause
ol ibe display of fatigue was explained, as large pack
ages ol gold coins fell out of tbo bouquets.
Cincinnati Enquirer:?"GarAcld's sacrifice was made
in vain. He lost the .Seuutursnip which be possibly
might have had, listening io the promise of the .Speak
ership, which he can't get, and which the mail who
promised It had not to give. H was the old sior.v of
Satan standing on tbe mountain top and offering Ins
companion all the real estate iu sight when the devil
ilidn'l own a foo' ol it."
'flic Orilith Qtmrtrrip Is severe upon Dr. A. Muhau,
whowrl'esa "Critical History ol tbe Rate American
War,'' aud who says that il his advice bad been taken
at the lie. inn ii ? of the war It would have soon been
ended, awl that t was iafehed only when bi? scheme
was adoptej by the 'oderal authorities. Dr. Mahan
calls "SUKTinan's MarcV' a gigantic military blunder.
firming Tr'rgram .'?"It seems to bo-conquered a
necessity iu Ronton lor the respectable young rowdy,
of whom the disorderly college student ,s a type, to bo
furnished by society with n safety valve for Ms
exuberant spirits. In that moral city, of whose supo
rlor virtue to Now York wo are in no dauger of losing
sight so long ns .Judge Hoar Uvea, tbe tree love con.
{ volitions take the place in this respect which In old
times the conventions ol tbe Garnaonian aboiitlonlste
used to All, Tbo reports of the invasion ol one of these
assemblages last night by a party of twenty young
evangelists irom Harvard College are very lively.
Tbcy made addresses m opposition to tbo male speak
ers, and they muled up to the lemalo participants and
Inndfed them against the prtiieit of ibo officers ol the
meeting. They also put questions of an indecout char
acter to tbo chairmuu. It is diUlcult to decide, on the
face ol tho report, whether the free lovers or these
well connected young men made the more disreputa
ble appear anco. So much Is sure, that If this is a
specimen of the discipline or Harverd Col'ege no care
ful ??-?Hi aim,ilil wiah to educate a sac Wieta."
THE WAR
The Sultan Preparing to Unfurl the
Standard of the Prophet.
A BATTLE IN PROGRESS AT BATOCJf
Concentrating for a Decisive Strug
gle at Bardess.
THE MAGYARS CLAMOROUS FOR WAR.
Roumania and Servia Making Ready
for the Straggle.
A TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
Rumored Understanding Between Russia,
Germany and Italy.
[BI cable to TUB HEBALD.]
London, May 34, MT7.
There Is little news or active operations at the
scat or war in the Hast thin morning, and we are
awaltiDg with almost breathless anxiety the flrat
news of the Russtuu army attempting the passage
01 the Danube. The reports of the extensive pre.
parations ror that event which have been pub
lished recently have directed public atteution to
the subject, and the absence of decisive news tends
to deepen the anxiety as to the result.
But while the preparations tor an active prosecu
tion or the war are being pushed with all possible
vigor Russia. as u assured of victory, beglhs to
hint at the conditions on which she is prepared tu
conclude n peace. A Berhu despatch has
the following:?1"ft is pretty universally be
lieved at St. i'etersburg that the Kussiuu gov*
eminent would not object to Constantinople and
the Sue/. Canal beiug placed under the protection
or England provided Russia is allowed 'o protect
Rotimama, Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro aur
annex the village of Erzeroutn."
SKCRKCY OF THE RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS.
The Russian movements are conducted with the ut
most secrocy, and probably the first reliable new* ws
shall receive from that quarter will be an account ot t
sudden movement la great force across the river, fol
lowed by a great and decisive battle fought on tbe Bui.
garisn side. A buobarcst correspondent says:?"De
tailed statements or the movements of the Raasiana
are lorblddon, but even without this restriction tho
movements are so silently conducted that It woold be
exceedingly difficult to report them."
A correspondent at Vienna things tbe disposition of
tbe Russian forces leads to the Inlerence that they do
not mean to attempt to cross tho Danube between
Slllatria and Ilustchuk.
A HOLT WAR.
A Vienna despatch says the Sboik-uMalam proclaim*
inz a holy war against Russia and the almost simul
taneous announcement from Constantinople mat the
departure of the Sultan for the Danube has uaen ae
elded upon would seem to show that the advice ot
those who all*along looked anon the present straggle
I as one of existeuco for tbe Ottoman Empire has gained
the ascendancy in the councils of the Porta
THE WAR IN ASIA.
From Constantinople It is reported that the com
inander of the Ardabsn garrison will be court mar
tialled. Tho Turkish official account of the taking oi
Ardohan admits tho loss of COO killed and wonnded.
Horses belonging to all civd and military function*
aries have been requisitioned for tbe army. A de
spatch from I'era says a portion of tbe Ardahan garri
sou took the road to Ardnnutsch, having cut its way
through the Russian column which endeavorod to Inter
cept it A Vienna despatch says. Achaacnen, to which
tho remnant of the Ardahan garrison retreated, Ison the
road toward Dili and Er/.eronu. Retreat on Kara was
already cut off by the Russians, who blocked 'he road
at Pamsew. A telegram from Erzeroutn says the Rus
sian left wing has advanced from Ipeck to wi'.bln two
hours' march of Kara-Kilisa, while an Ottoman de*
lacbtnent holds position at Toprak-Kaleh. Two regi
ments ol Cossacks are scouring the country around thb
Penek villages within sevsn hours' march ot Mukbtat
l'acba's camp for provisions for tho Russian right
wing. The Russians are said to have closed in upon tho
rear ot Batonm. which is once more seriously threat*
| encd. ' ' ?
Tbe combined forces of the Russians ire marching
against Mukbtar Pacha's positions at Olti and Bardox,
bnt Hukhtar expects to be able to hold bis ground.
A RATTLE COMMENTED AT BATOCM.
A despatch from Bstoum says there was a tremen
dous cannonade to-day Irotn tbe Russians. A battle
has Just commenced. Firing Is becoming genera)
| along tho entire line. The Turslah batteriee
| are roplylog vigorously. Tbe utmost enthusiasm pre
vails among tho Ottoman troops. The Bashi
Bazouka are preparing lor action. F.verythmg
Indicates a desperate effort on the part of the onemy.
It is stated the Russ.an force assigned to tbe assault
of Batoum has been strengthened l>y 20,000 men, who
' have Just arrived from Ardahan. It is reported that
tbe brand Dulto Michael commands tbe attack
in person. The Turks iro ianzuinu. A despatch
from Erzeroutn, dated Tuesday night, says the Rus>
slan* are moving rapldiy forward In the direction of
the Turkish left.
SKRVIA PHKrARINO FOR ACTION.
A correspondent at Belgrade reports tk.it tke got
eminent has ordered iku formation of twolve new
battalions of artillery. All the reserves of tho sedeu
tury army are summoned to assemble, and ail
troops have keen ordered to present themselrea
on or btfore May '_'u lully armed. Prince
Milan will not go to liucbarest until after
the next meeting ol the SLuptscluna. It is believed at
Constantinople that the Russians kave arranged tor ?
passage through Servian territory. The Servian police
yesterday removed placards on tke walls In Belgrade
threatening Prince Milan's expulsion unloss be renews
the war. The general opinion in Vienna Is be will do
?o when the Russians cross lbs Danube.
Tke Time*' special Irom Belgrade confirms the rt?
port ol Sorvla'a military preparations.
TIIK roBTK'S IIOMK TBOCUI.KS.
The troubles which have arisen between the Turkish
Parliament and the Ministry still continue, and will
doubtless tond to paralyse the uctlon ol tho Ottomao
government at a time when all Its energies should bo
j concentrated on the struggle with Russia. A abort
! nine ojco ik# initicackinuni of Redlf Pacha wna threat