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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNET T,
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double rates.
From our reports this morning the probabilities
it re that the weather in Neve York to-day will be
eartn and fair or partly cloudy and threatening
toward evening, with falling temperature.
Wall Street Yesterday.?The stock market,
Although not as much bo as on Thursday, was
Fairly active. There was also a more steady
reeling, but there has been so decided rally as
yet after the sudden break. Government and
railroad bonds were lower. Hold tell from
1071* to lOSTg. Money on call continues to lend
?asily at 2 per cent.
Central Park will be made more attractive
to-day by the first of the summer concei ts on the
Hall. Now, if the restaurant prices could be
reduced the garden of the jwople would be all
that could be wished.
The Oak?.?Yesterday the ninety-ninth anni
versary of what is called the Ladies' Day in
Knglaml was celebrated ut Kpsom. Placida was
the victor, but the pleasure of the day was
marred, as our despatches say, by a storm which
olew down some of the stands, and wm unfortu
aately attended by loss of life.
The Boston Scandal.?The notorious C'ool
klge-Rice suit is not to be tried in the courts, but
Is referred to three lawyers, who will decide it
privately. While the public will lose the flavor
uf a new scandal, the judicious portion will be
glad to be spared the weariness of a long trial.
Suits of thin kind, when prolonged for weeks, are
store tedious tbau a dull story "to be continued"
? ? magazine.
Fleetwood Park.?The races yesterday at
this popular track were attended by a large
dumber of ladies and gentlemen, and the sport
was ftill of interest and excitement. The utt
tinished races of Thursday were won by Big
fellow and John H., and the principal event,
(he race free for all, wus made conspicuous hv
the speed of the Philadelphia mare Nettie, who
trotted a mile in 2:lftl>t. Thin time was the
last est ever made ou the Fleetwood track.
Flowers tor the Sick.?We have not heard
ninch this year ol' the sociuty which makes it a
uleasnnt duty to distribute flowers to the sick
poor, but ?lo not douht that the ladies who di
rect this true charity arc not neglecting the
work. None but thone who have been confined
long in a sick room can realize bow theeon
ralcseent patient welcomes a flower. -It comes
like a breath of new life, and in many rases is
wore beneficial than nicdicine.
1'hat Gaiuiki.h Letter.?A letter h*n been
printed purporting to have been written by the
President to Gcueral (torlU-ld asking him towitli
draw from the Senatorial content and holding
out the hope ol' his becoming Speaker of the
?ext House. It was a pretty letter?only tieH
cral Garfield says that "it in u forgery iu every
line and word.'' That aeems to clear away
Muother piece of rubbish a>>out which tlio anti
Hayes people have been making a good deal of
pother for a week or two. The next !
Tire Retirement of Eha?nts Brooks from
the editorship of the Evening Kr/trr** after more
.bun forty years' service on t hat. journal is an
event in the Mwspeper history of t hit city. Mr.
Brooks has always enjoyed in a large measure
the personal esteem of bis professional cm
frhm and of other citi/.cns who have. ha<l I he
advantage of Iuh acquaintance. We infer from
his valedictory that lie is about to uiake a voj age
to Kuro|>e. All his friends will wish him a
pleasaut trip and a sale return.
The -Weather. - The northwestern storm
?entre isgradnally moving northeastward over
the upper lake region, followed by rising barom
eter and falling temperature. Heavy rains fell
yesterday in the vicinity of 1'enihina and in the
Upper Mississippi ami Lower Ohio valleys. The
winds attending the storm movement in these
regions were high and will continue so from
loutherly points until the stofm area moves
Mustward. We may expect its reappearance,
with heavy rains, at the mouth of the St.
I<awrence by Tnesdsy next, lu the mean
time the low temperature will slowly approach
from the Northwest. The area of seventy de
grees of temperature yesterday embraced the
Northeastern regions as far as Quebec ami Hali
fax. the lower hike region, the f'ppcr
Mississippi Valley as fur s* l~i Crosse,
the Platte Valley and all districts south
ward of these point*. The temperature hits
decreased decidedly in the Northwest. A lower
pressure and higher thermometer prevail on the
Pacific coast. A torn;wlo will probably be re
ported from the vicinity of St. Louis to (lay.
die highest barometer at New York during May
iras 30.38 inches on the lL'th, and the lowest
in the 22d, when it was L'tMO inches. Thu
highest temperature was 90 degrees on thu
19th, and the lowest 00 degrees, on the ltd. The
greatest wind velocity was thirty-six miles per
bonr, on the 3d. Only three-quarter* of
sa inch of rain fell dnring the month, agninst
acorly foor inches in May, 1870. Thr great
{ale in England at present is due to an elongated
iepression which is now moving ever the Atlan
tic. Our warning cablegram dated the 'Jfith
*ave due notice of this disturbance to our London
niireaII for publication. The weather in New
fork, to-day will he warm and fair or partly
Bloody and threatening toward evening, with
failing teaaperaturc.
Tk* Msrwtu sad III* Herald*
Two attempt* withiu the last six days to
assassinate our correspondent at Salt Lake
City will be thought by the publio to justify
bouo plainness of speech from the IIbbald
to the Mormon hierarchy. On Saturday
evening last, as Mr. Stillaon was returning
to the Lion House from a drive, he was shot
at by a stealthy miscreant who had con
cealed hiiubclf behind a tree at a distance ot
fifty feet from the point where the buggy
was passing. 1'hc intending assassin missed
his aim and fled. On Thursday last the
Bame individual or another'gained access to
Mr. Stillson's room at the hotel, and, under
pretence of delivering a paper, stabbed at
him with a knife, failing of his purpose by
the interposition of a portemonnaie, two
photographs and a suspender buckle be
tween the knife and the breast of the corre
spondent. There is only oue conceivable
motive for these dastardly and repeated at
tempts at assassination. Our correspondent
is a gentleman in his bearing, who never in
his life provoked personal hostility. His
letters and telegrams from Utah liavo been
sxtremely offensive to the Mormon chiefs,
?nd a Sunday or two since were made the
;opio of an indeccntly vulgar and infuriated
iiarangue in tho Mormon Temple. The at
tempts on hia life are, of course, a conse
quence of his exposures and the indignant
commotion they have stirred up among the
"Saints." Now, we submit to the "Saints'
that they aro going too far. The assassina
tion 'in their capital of a truth-telling
correspondent would bring upon them
swift destruction, which they have no reason
to court. To do them justice, we ore alow
to believe that they are seriously plotting
a new addition to their hundreds of mur
ders under present circumstances. The
Mormons are not deficient in shrewdness,
and they know too well that the assassina
tion of a newspaper correspondent, who fc
r exciting the attention of the country by ex
posing them, would invevitably be ascribed
to their instigation and raise a universal
cry for justice and vengeance. It is more
probable that they wish to alarm the corre
spondent and frighten him away. Having
tried to win his favorable opinion by cour
tesies and blandishments on his first arri
val and failed, they now resort to terror.
We believe they have mistaken their man as
egregiously in the last appliance as they did
in the fir3t.
The Hkioxi) has had experience in this
sort of strategy before. Five years ago it
undertook to ascertain and publish the truth
in relation to the insurrection in Cuba. The
world had been deceived and bamboozled
by the Spanish accounts, and we under
took to send correspondents within the
rebel lines to explore the situation and
state the exact truth. The first man we
sent did not quite como up to the mark
of enterprise and daring which is the
usual characteristic of our plucky employes,
whether among tho savages of Africa, on
the Indian frontier, in tho interior
of Cuba or in the great wars on
both continents within the last six
teen years. The first correspondent
we sent to Cuba was a partial exception to
an otherwise pretty uniform experienoe.
He allowed his fears to be practised upon
by the Spanish officials at Havana, and
made a sudden retreat from the island
which equally mortified and surprised us.
This disappointment was but a transient
interruption ot our plans. We at once
despatched on the next Havana steamer
correspondents incapable of flinching. One
of them, Mr. O'Kelly, was treated with great
courtesy by Ceballos, the Governor General
of Cuba, who signed a passport giving him
permission to visit every part of the island.
But when Mr. O'Kelly applied for a safe
conduct Ceballos put him oft' with,
courteous excuses, telling him that
ho could easily get in Havana from
deserters and prisoners all the information
possible to be had within the rebel lines.
Being under imperative instructions from
this office Mr. O'Kelly proceeded at his own
risk without a safe conduct, but when he
reached the camp of General Morales ho
was told that if he persisted in prosecuting
his inquiries he would expose himself "to
be shotasuspy." ThelbutAi.ncorrespondent
told General Morales in return that he would
do such an act at his peril. He was warned
that tho shooting of an American citi/cn who
had violated 110 law of Cuba would oautte an
outburst of public indignation in this
couutry which would foroe the government
into measures of redress.
It requires no special courage for a jour
nal which successfully defied the Spanish
government to persist in its efforts to expose
the pestilent nest of Mormons. Kven if
they should assassinate Mr. Stillson he
would be followed by successors as ener
getic, intelligent, determined and plucky
as himself. For the Mormons to evade ex
posure is quite impossible now that the
public uiind has been so awakened, with
scorcs of sharp, fearless men at the com
mand of tho Hkralp. The Mormons may i
be quite sure that whatever may bo the !
fate of any particular correspondent we
shall uncover and roveal their iniquities.
If they murder any of our^gents tho wholo
country "will know the reason why." Tho
life of Mormonisni would not be
worth a year's purchase after Rnch
an atrocity, in the present excited
state of public leoliug. We think
they are too shrewd to provoke the
swift and terrible vengeance that would
ftrilow t>nch a crimc. Wo incline to think
that instead of meditating a murder in the j
recent assaults ou our correspondent they
expected to shake his nerves and frighten
him out of tho Territory. They will not
I suceocd in this, and if they should aesassi
; nste him we have other unquailing men in
our service who would promptly take his
! place.
After tho execution of John D. Lee wo
thought the time had comu for probing this
I Mormon ulcer to the bottom. The publio
i had been kept in as deep ignorance as it
was 11 vo or six years ago respecting tho
interior of Cuba. We think it a part of our
mission to tear away the veil, and our
success thus tar is attosted by tho
foars and tho murderous rage of the
Mormons. As the Spanish authorities in
Cnba tried first to flatter and seduce, and,
; failing in that, to frighten away our corre
I spondents, to the Mormons have been im
pelted, by the same dread of truth, to prac
tise the name tactics. When oar present
correspondent arrived in Utah he tu
treated with extraordinary courtesy. Brig
bum Young, surrounded by the assembled
magnates of the Church, accorded him a
reception at which they gave ready answers
to all the questions he thought fit to ask.
They probably expected that so much defer
ence and consideration would satisfy and dis
arm his employers and send him away with a
favorable impression. By similur treatment
they had beguiled most travellers who
have visited them in quest of in
formation, and the fears excited by
Lee's execution made them unusually suave
and insinuating in their bearing to the
Huuld's correspondent. He is not the
kind of bird to be caught with such chaff,
even if his instructions had permitted it.
He was commissioned to remain in the Ter
ritory and ferret out the whole truth, so tar
as it is ascertainable; and the Mormons,
having found by his letters that he is not a
fly to get his legs caught in honey, have
changed their method and attempted to
drive him away by alarm for his life. This
method will have no better success than the
first. They dare not murder him, or
if they should there will be a great
deal to follow which they will not
relish. The Hkbaljd may reasonably feel
a great deal more secure of its ability
to protect its correspondents in our own
country than it was to avenge ill treatment
in Cuba. Even Spain dared not barm
them, and a more signal vengeance would
overtake the Mormons than was possible in
the case of the Spaniards if they had exe
cuted their insolent threat to shoot our
commissioner as a spy.
The long and interesting letter from our
Salt Lake correspondent which we publish
this morning will give the Latter Day Saints
more occasion to squirm and flutter than
they have had yet, and we ask them to ac
cept it as a proof of the utter futility of
either flattery or threats to shield them
from exposure.
The Correct Policy Toward Mexico.
The new policy toward Mexico, which
was sanctioned by the Cubinet yesterday
in the absence of Secretory Evarts, is well
known to be Mr. Evarts' policy. We do
not think at all that it requires to be de
fended in an apologetic tone. We repu
diate the idea that it needs any precedents
to justify it. We think it ridiculous to fear
that it portends war with Mexico or looks
forward to a rectification of boundaries
or acquisition of territory. It is, in
deed, a vigorous policy, but neverthe
less a policy which the government
ought to have pursued with unflinching
steadiness during all these recent years
while our citizens on the ltio Grande have
been robbed and plundered by Mexican
cattle thieves from tho other side of the
river. Forbearance in such a case is a
ridiculous weakness, and we are glad that
Secretary Evarts is not disposed to give
quarter to any such sentimental non
sense as that wo are to tolerate
robbery by a neighbor because that
neighbor is feeble. In proportion as she
is feeble the wrong can be so much more
easily and Bafely redressed, and it is inex
cusable for a government so strong as ours
not to protect its own citizens on its fron
tiers. It is the duty of every government
to control its own subjects and restrain
them from aggressions on its neighbors.
Mexico bus no right to be treated
as a nation unless she performs this plain
and ordinary duty of nationality. If she
cannot or will not protect us from her cattle
thieves we must protect ourselves. We are
glad the Cabinet has indorsed the view of
Mr. Evarts and sanctioned the policy of
following the marauders into Mexican ter
ritory and inflicting condign punishment on
foreign soil.
The fear that this will lead to a war with
Mexico is chimerical, if the government of
that country is so weak that it cannot con
trol its own population on the Bio Grande
what resources eun it have for making war
on tho United Statos? But if it is strong
enough to perform this plain duty
and yet wilfully neglects it, we
must bring Mexico to a proper Rense
of its international obligations. The
vigorous policy of Mr. Evarts requires
no apology ; what doos need apology is the
shilly-shally, sentimental forbearance prac
tised on thin subject since tho civil war.
No duty of tho federal government is clearer
or uioro imperative than that of protecting
our citizens from foreign aggression, and if
Mexico will not take care of her own ban
dits wo must perform that task for her
when they infest us.
An Impertinent l)em?n<l.
Thorn seem* tu bo something ho defiant of
public opinion in the attempt of Mr. John
Kelly and Lin Tammany agents in the Board
of Aldermen to force the nomination of Mr.
Henry P. l'urroy as Commissioner of Police
or of Public Parks that we arc constrained
to recur to the subject, although we havo
no idea that Mayor Ely will yield to cither
demand. Mr. I'urroy may possess many
good qualities, but he has no public record
to recommend him to the confidence of tlie
people as the head of an important munici
pal department. Ho in known to most of
our citizens only as a Tammauy member of
the Board of Aldermen and the strong parti
san of an orcrbearing Tammany leader. A
Commissioner of Police should be a citizen
of proved capacity, of experience and inde
pendence. A Commissioner of Public Parks
should be a gentleman of refinement, cul
ture and artistic taste, holding a responsible
position in the community. In selecting
such officers the Mayor is bound to study
these qualifications, and it is unwarrantable
obtrusivencss on the part of any political
leader to attempt to coerco him into an unfit
appointment. It is said that the Governor
bus been called to the city to aid in foroing
the Mayor from the position he occupies in
regard to theso appointments. Governor
Robinson could not commit a more fatal
mistake thaa to interfere in such a matter ;
! but even if he did, the Mayor who stood
> firm against the power of the old Tammany
Ring in the Board of Supervisors is not
likely to destroy his reputation at the bid*
ding of the new. Tammany Ring. The at
tempt to force him to make improper nomi
nations for partisan purposes proves how
I fetal it would be to allow the city govern
! meut to pass wholly under the control of
the present Tammany dictatorship.
All Aboard for Jerome Park.
A few day* ago London poured out hor
tens of thousands on the Epsom road, to
celebrate the great English national event,
tho race for the Derby slakes. No other
metropolis in the world could produce such
a motley crowd as covers the downs and
tlirongn the highways on that eventful occa
sion. To-#ay the people of New York will
flock through the Central Park and up
the Harlem Railroad to Fordham, on their
way to the great racecourse of the Americap
metropolis, Jerome Park. While the British
capital may beat as in the numbers it oon
tributes to the Derby race it must yield the
palm to New York in the beauty and fashion
of the attendance that will mark the first
June meeting of the American Jockey Club.
There will be a greater number of well
dressed and handsome ladies at Jerome
Park to-day than can be seen at any race
course in England, not excepting the famous
Ladies' Day at Ascot. The weather promises
to bo fine ; the track is in splendid condi
tion ; the roads are to be well watered and
kept free from dust; the collection ol horses
is one of the finest that has been known
since racing bccame an established sport in
America; tho arrangements are all perfect,
and everything holds out the hope of one of
the most sucoessiul and enjoyable opening
days ever yeti recorded in the glorious annals
of Jerome Park.
The American turf has made such rapid
strides within a few years that it will not be
surprising if we soon take the lead of Eng
laud in the sport which has been so essen
tially a British nationality. When we see
such names as Belmont, Lorillard, Jerome
and Astor among the "stables," we have a
right to predict such a future for the Ameri
can turf as must place it on a par with the
English turf in the letter's palmiest days.
The gentlemen of America will make home
racing on this side of the Atlantio what the
English nobility made it on the other side.
New York must necessarily take the lead in
the sport, since no city in the world has so
splendid a track as that at Jerome Park, so
conveniently and desirably located. The
drive through the Central Park and up the
road is unequalled, and tho grounds are un
surpassed in boauty and accommodations.
When our city grows to two millions of pop
ulation wo shall have our Derby Day at
Jerome Park beyond doubt, and the short
distance, especially when the upper part of
the island shall be densely covered with
population, will draw out the masses, on
foot and in all conceivable conveyances, just
as the English Epsom does. But at present
the surroundings of the track are like a
beautiful flower garden. There to-day will
be gathered the youth and fashion and love
liness of a metropolis famous for the beauty
and tuste of its iemale population, and the
sight will be one which will richly repay
the study of an artist's eye and might well
excite the fervor of a poet's fancy. May
Providence and the Hkbald weather prophet
provide a sunshine worthy of the scene!
Tb? Military Operation*.
Steady if not rapid progress is mode by
the Russians in Armenia. By to-day's de
spatches it will be seen that they have car
ried some portion of the Turkish lines con
structed for the defence of Kars. How im
portant these captures may be we cannot
say, but that they are not mere outpost rifle
pits is evident from the fact that there was
artillery in them, and artillery that was ap
parently too heavy for the retreating Moslems
to take with them. This capture may well
offset the retirement to Bujazid, the cause of
which is not yet clear. In the confusion of
the rex>orts with regard to Ardaban there
is yet some light. It appears that the
Ottomans have "retaken'' the placc where
the fortress stood, because the Russians,
having destroyed the defences, moved their
troops elsewhere. That they could not have
retaken it if the Russians had seen any
reason for holding the position seems to be
made more than commonly clear by the
fact that Mukhtar Pacha's whole urmy num
bered only thirty-four thousand men, nearly
without supplies. That they have imposed
any serious obstacle to the Russian advance
is astonishing. The hysterical correspond
ent at Batoum of the London TeitijraiJi
credits the Turks with tremendous victories'
every day that thore is a sk'irmibh not fol
lowed by the entry of the Russians into the
town; but the Russians have certainly made
no serious attempt to capture that place.
They have contented themselves thus far
with cutting its communication with the
country above, and have done this thor
oughly. Will the Russian operations in
Armenia be seriously endangered by tbe re
volts near its lines of communication in the
Caucasus? Probably not. All this force
can be supplied by another lino?that,
namely, by way of the Caspian Sua
and the Araxes. ft is likely that
tho treaty with Persia, which was
discusscd some weeks since, had reference
to the possible necessity of using this line
of supply which crosses Persian territory,
in Constantinople they are at least wise
enough not to rest all their hopes on tho
remote possibility that the Russian armies
will be destroyed in Bulgaria. They are
consequently making a fortified line for tho
defence of the capital in the last resort.
The line it is proposed to fortify is an old
one and the scene of many desperate con
flicts. It runs from Dernous, on the Black
Sua, to Bujak Chekmadje, on the Sea of
Marmora ; is one of great natural strength,
and can be made practically impregnable.
Our despatch' from Ragusa states that the
Montenegrins have recommenced hostilities
by capturing a Turkish blockhouse with its
garrison. All rumors of peace negotiations
are discredited at Berlin.
Th? IjiVABiow or N*w Jconey. ? New Jer
sey awoke yesterday morning with a start
ling din in its ears and found itself invaded
by millions of seventeen year locusts, whose
busy hum filled the groves. It is the genu
ine red-eyed locust, and the creature no
sooner emerges from the ground than he
climbs the nearest tree, sticks his claws into
the bark, bursts the back of his jacket,
awkwardly gets out of his old clothes and
appears with a sot of brand new wings and
? head a little uglier than his original one.
How much harm these invader* will do
remains to be seen. For (be present they
seem to be mainly musical.
Hurry lip, Mr. Bfajr?rt
A gentleman at Hartford has just 4ie?l of
hydrophobia. Ha was sitting in his office
when a rabid dog ran in and bit bitn.
Within a day or two a boy, ten years old,
and a younger child have been bitten by
mad dogs in the same city. Some weeks
ago tho Alde rmen of New York passed a dog
law, designed to lessen the risk of similar
disasters here. The owners of dogs are re
quired to get out licenses ; all unlicensed
dogs are to be captured, and all dogs,
whether licensed or unlicensed, found in
the streets tfnmuzzled or not led by a string
or ohain are also to be-seized and carried to
the pound. After a certain time such dogs,
if not claimed and redeemed by their own
ers, are to be killed. This is a simple and
proper law ; but we are in the midst of un
seasonably hot weather, and the law, so far
as its most valuable public features are con
cerned, is a dead letter. The Mayor has
not appointed dog catchers, first, because he
waited for owners to get out licenses,
which was fair enough, and, next,
because the new pound is not ready.
Now, if there is delay in building the new
pound we ought to have some temporary
place of deposit for the captured animals, or
we may remain without a law all the sum
mer, and be at the mercy of rabid dogs.
The Mayor should act at once in the matter.
Because he moves slowly dogs will not post
pone rabies, and mad dogs will bite people,
and people so bitten will die of hydropho
bia, despite the doubting doctors, who in
sist that they ought not to die at all and
only do so out of contrariness. Will Mayor
Ely please wake \fp and do sdhiething
toward protecting the people before the dog
days are over?
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Charles Kranote Adams expects 10 freeze several teas
?t cream tbi? year.
When tho editor of the Chicago Timtt swears the
printers bave to take a mile dash.
Bob Ingarsoil aaya that tbe question of a resumption
or specie payments ts aim ply ouo ot prosperity.
An ltaluo with a long iron hook was early this
morning tisbint; In aa ash barrel lor a map oi Europe.
The difficulty in shelling peas ia bow not to throw
tbe peas among tbe pods and tbe pods among tho peas.
Major General Sclby Smltb, cummandor oi Ihe
militia of Canada, has boen created a Knight of the
Urder of 81. Michael and tit. George.
Ben Butler may, aitor all, not go Wast to grow up
with the country, and bis Massachusetts enemies may
bave made much adieu about nothing.
Women ilka to beloved; but it tba woman with a
blgb hat at tbe theatre knew how mach she is hated
tor many pews round she might not feel so vain.
It Is said or General Grant that ha selected (or civil
officers to go to the South the same ctasa of men that
he selected to ko as military officers to the South.
Louisville Courier-Journal:?"I gat along well
enough in the cavalry, bat somehow this Infantry,
with lis boiler squares and things, gets me.?[P. H.
Sheridan."
Tha new endless rape arrangsinont, by which a
hodiul of bricks Is piacod in a socket and drawn to
au upper story is very simple, and It saves labor. We
Qnu it qutto useful in getting up paragraphs.
Mr. Krank C. l/ucallcs, Saooad Secretary of tho Brit
ish Legation, arrived at the New York Hotel yesterday
from W?shiiiKton and will aall, with bis'family, lor
England to day in Ibe steamship City or Berlin.
Milwaukee Commercial Timet:?'?'The American girl 1
who reads Emerson and discusses Wagner and Chopin,
and generals lunch parties and Saturday morning '
clubs with snob bewitching grace, too oltoa unlor- i
tunately shuts her books and har piano wnen sho
turns over tbe new leaf of matrimony,"
Tbe Yonkers Gazette editor occasionally wakos up in
the morning and writes such a thing as this:?"Tbe
editor or the Burlington Hawkey* wonders if soda
water will tuatc as much like whiskey thie year as It
did last. What is whiskey, anyhow T?Kjxhany. u Is
the key that unlocks tho door to untold misery iw>d
debasement."
Denver (Col.) '/Yi&une.?"Tbe Sultan has peremp
torily relused to allow a Naw York Uksald corre
spondent to accompany the Turkish army iu the Held.
This may seem arbitrary, but It is a necessary meas
ure of self-defence. Tbe Hkkalo has deolared Tor
Russia. And with hall a chance its correspondent
would bave tho Kussiaa army In Constantinople
within a month."
Keitren's Julienne soup:?Cut the red part of lour
carrots, four turnips, three onions, tbe white ol one
head of cclery and ol six locks In straws about one
Inch long; put'Uiotn In a slew pan with a quarter ol' a
pound or butter aud a pinch of powdered sugar; fry
them to a light brown color; moisten thoin with three
quarts ofclear doublo broth; simmer all very tJowly on
the stove corncr for three hours and twenty minutes
beforo serving; add a cabbage, lettuce and a handful
ol wood sorrel, cut lu tbe uue way as the other vege
tables and previously bleached; skim of! tlie fat and
serve.
L1TEKAHY OHIT-CHAT.
Mrs. Florence Berber, who writes "A Winter in the
City ol Pleasure,'' which city Is Bucharest, in Kou
muma. describos ihe wickcdnevs of that place, where,
however, she seems to have had a Terr good time
oi it.
Csptaiu Klchard F. Barton, the volumiaous traveller,
lias produced two more volumes, under the title o
?\3ald Revisited," la which he describes Indian rail,
ways, the English army in Hindostan, Ac,, in his
usu.il vigorous and olluuUvo style.
"shoddy" is tho title ol the last nuw tbrce-volume
Kn^lisb novel, by Arthur Wood, and describes the
roin.inoo and llio fact ot an Kngltbh mauulaciurinu
district In which the inferior cloth known as "shoddy''
Is made. ,
Victor Hugo is writing an elaborate history of the
atup dtilat ol Napoleon III., which will appear in
October in Frencn, Knglisb, Italian and German
simultaneously.
The latest Instance or literary longevity is (bat or
Mr. John Kcnrick, whose books on Pha-nicl* and
Ancient f.gypt aro well Known, and who died this
month nt I tie age of ninety.
'lh? punch bowl or Robert Burns was sold at auction
lately hi Duinlries lor ten guinea*, but we do not iwrn
that any pootical Inspiration went with it.
"The Cold Itoglons of SoathnMiorn Africa" is the
title or an illustrated book by T. Raines, just out in
Loudon.
A new Frolssarl Glossary, by Angast Hcheler, haa
appeared at Brussels In the French language.
Bcbulorft l.iibbcu's "Mlttelnicdendcntecbes Worter
buch" has reached tho fourth volume at Bremen.
Miss Clarissa Uailcr has written iu French a large
volume entitled "The Roman Woman; a study or
Ancient Lite." ?
Mr. B. F. D. M. Smith's "Arctic Expeditions from
British ana Foreign .Shores," trora tho earliest to the
exi>ediliOB ol 1476, has rsaohod three voImm in
quarto.
A new book entitled "Studies on the Finances and
F.conomy of Nations," by H. Price, is just oat in Paris,
in two volumes.
Mr. J. I.. Sliadwell haa favored tbo world with "A
System of Political Economy," of (ISO pages, printed
In London.
Brrtbold Aaerhaeb's latest work is entitled "Nach
Dreizig Yabrcn; Neuo Dorfgeschlckten," In three
volume!.
An elaborate contribution to botany Is- Oswald
Herr's "Fossil Flora ol tho Arctic Regions," published
at Zurich In four quarto volume.*.
Scribncr, Armstrong k Co. have In press "Charlotte
Bronttf, a Monograph," by T. Weinyss Beld, whloh
will be ready In Jane.
Oinn h Heath anhoance Chaucer's poem, 'The Par
liament ol Fonles," edited by Professor J. R. Loun*.
bury, ol the Yale Scleultte SoheoL
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
From All Parts of the.
World.
GENERAL GRANT.
An Introduction to tie Heii Ap
parent of England
OFF TO EPSOM.
Invited by the Prince of Waleg
to Witness the Baces.
GAMBETTa AND THIERS.
What May Happen Should
MacMahon Resign.
GLADSTONE'S BIRMINGHAM TRIUMPH*
[BY CABLE TO TBS BEBiLD. 1
London, June 2,18T7.
General Grant was formally introduced to tlie
Prince of Wales yesterday, It being hi* first visit
01 Importance alter reaching this city, tie was
invited to go to Epsoin by the heir apparent. At a
few minutes to one o'clock the royal equipage con
taining the Prince of Wales drove up to the Vic
toria station at Pimlico, followed by the
carriages of the AmerlcnVi Minister and
others containing General GraDt, l.ord Dud
ley, Lord Eicho. the Duke of Hamilton, the
German Ambassador, Count Munster; the Duke ot
Cambridge and a uumber of peers. The distin
guished company passed into the statlou amid the
most enthusiastic cheering. The Prince of Wales
and the Duke of Cambridge entered the same com
partment with our ex-President, and all three were
in earnest conversation us the train moved otr at
one o'clock. It was expected that ex-President
Grant would go to WindHor and pay a visit to Her
Majesty.
CLl'R OjNSKKS ASRA.NI.Et) sob.
The Anglo-Jnuricun Timet mates that a dinner to
General Grant has been arranged at the United Servioe
Clue, which is tbo representative of the Britisb army
aud navy. This honor la ouly tendered to officers of
tho highest distinction Tbo other military clubs have
followed the example of the United Service in inviting
tho Geuerul to become au honorary member. Among
the political clubs the way has been led by the Reform.
FBEMl'H POLITICAL DIFHCCI.TIKB.
M. Gambetia has evidently made up bis mind to u*?
every effort lor tbe purpose of bringing M. Thiers lor
ward agaia to tako a commanding position in regard
to the Loft. We are told tbat the aged statesman lias
advised the Chamber of Deputies not to vote tbo bod.
. get while De liroglie remains at tbe bead of tbe CabU
net. This statement, coming Irom tne newspaper eon.
trollod by Gambetta, rcllocts the Judgment which ha
wishes communicated to France. It also corroboraiag
what Gambetta aald immediately after tne crisis, "JtH
useless lor tne President to demand of tbe Chan.bit
tbat they voto the budget at tbo end or tbo month'*
suspension. You have usod tbe law to burl tbo Ke.
public as much us you can. feu ciaitncd to have tbe
right to do it. We must, then, use the law against
you. We have the logsl power to atop tbe supplies
you ask for. We shall not vote tbo budget." Another
proor of bis desire to aid tbo oause of Tnii :* is shown
In bis reply to tbe students of Paris. These somewhat
erratic repreaentatlves of the colleges sent an addraai
to Gambetta on lhuredav congratulating bimonbis
recent speech at Versailles and tbanklug him
tor bis able dolence of tho republican constnu
! tlon. In return Gumbetta congratulated tbo students
i on their urm and pationt attltudo. He expressed ths
conviction that the bounds ol legality would not bo
overpassed, aud that the question must bo referred to
| the judgment of tho country. In the possible con
I tmgency of President MacMabou's resignation, he said
M. Thiers is a statesman weli lilted to oecomo again a
perfectly constitutional President.
MIXISTEUiAI. TTIlAV'Xr.
Meanwhile, tbo Ministry continues a policy of re
I presslon. Tbe Ministor ol the Interior, M. do Fortou,
; has decided to arrest all political agitators if ho may
meet together to tbo number of twenty and upward,
on the ground that tbey may secure publication of
seutlments in opposition to tbe views of the admiais*
tratlon. In a speech rnude by the President of tbo Paris
Municipal Council at t>L Duuis (be other cvcnlnz, an
alluslou was made to President MacMabou's fickle
ness und bad temper, hinting that ho was administer,
ins the affairs of Slate in about tho same spirit no would
deal with a cnrjii d> armie. This bas been decided as
inaultiug, and so M. le President Is to bo prosecuted
fur treason, or something to that effect.
moi:k runts frosscctioxs.
Tho editors or tho Kadica' have been sentenced to
tbreo months' imprisonment and lo pay $1,000 line lor
insulting President MacMahon and defending the Coiu*
niunc, and Uiu publication ol the liadicul is suspended
lor six months. At l'crpiguuu the edltora ol tbe two
republican newspupors hove been sontenced to fifteen
mouths' lnu>risoument and $-100 flino aud two yoara'
imprisonment and $100 fine respectively lor similar
offences. Prosecution bas also boon instituted against
the Algtrlau newspaper, Courrler of Oritii.
IIKNKI IJIATRK FAVOIIH DISSOLUTION.
Ihe MonUrur states that tbe Count de Cbambord
has advised Ills adbcreuls in tho Senate to vote in
favor of tbo dissolution of the Cuainbcr, so as not to
render tbo legitimist pifrty responsible lor tbe grava
conscqueoces which might ensu. if dissolution was
rolused.
a sr.co.no prorogation tai.usu ok.
Tbo government bus not yet taken any cteAnit*
rosoiuliou about rcproro^ulng the Chamber. Tho I.olt
appears resolved to oppose a second prorogation ai
unconstitutional.
MR. OLABSTOKB AOA1N TO TilK FRONT.
Mr. Gladstone scorns to bo a uatural leader, and his
spcech at Birmingham ou Thursday will, uoubtle.^s,
create a strong feeling against tbo Eastern policy of
the conservative government. Ills groat experience,
breadth ul conception and oratorical ability command
for him an attontlon even greater than that given to
the present Premier. Moreover, be carries wild bim
tbat wonderlul lever in British politic*.?ths working
mau. He believes that England should unit*
with tbe other Powers and eolorco from Turkey a
guarantee of reforms and belter government for bcr
Christian subjocts. He bas no suspicion tbat Russia
can or will interiors with English Interosts in India.
In case hbo should make tho attempt, alter her ex
plicit duciaratlons to the contrary, he appears to
think ihe caso would be plain, and England could aoou
bring tne Czar to au aeooustlng in a manner tbat
would secure the approbation ol ths world. Tbe lib
eral and independent metropolitan journals seem to
regard bis Birmingham address as an Indication that
the liberal party in general rely on blm instead of ths
Murquis ol Harlington. Fully 20,000 persona
greotcd him at Hingley Hull. Many persons
pa.d at much as $1 20 for reserved scsis.
All tbe liberal associations of any Importance
were renresented, Including those o( this c.ty. Uir?
miujbaui, Leeds, Shclfiold. Manchester and other pro*
vinolal tow us. Mayor Baker, of Birmingham, gavo a
banquet last evening, at which Mr. Gladstone, Mr.
Bright and onombors ol the City Council Were present,
and again briefly referred to the necessity of watching
carefully tbo course ol Her Majesty's advisers. He
said tbere was much political lethargy. Tbe prop*