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NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 187?.
From our rcp?/rt* this morning the probabilUiet
art that the weather in New York to-day trill be
warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, with occa
sional raitu.
Wall Street Yesterday.?The stock specu
lation was less active and there was a
flight weakness apparent, but there were
few changes. Government stocks were strong
Mid higher, and railroad bonds wexe irregular.
Money on call lent easily at 1 a 1 Lj per cent.
Sold opened at lOo1# and closed, at 1053g, with
ftll sales between these figures.
PRESIDENT IIaYEs' IiKCKITION in Ithode
Island in to be a cold water arrangement. Not
a drop to drink, but plenty of good cigars.
Some Important Decisions of the United
Stutes Supreme Court?one of them specially in
teresting to life insurance companies and their
patrons?will be found in thin morning's court
reports.
Boston Boii.kd with patriotic enthusiasm
yesterday over the anniversary of Hunker Hill.
In the way of oratory the uoteworthy feature
viu the address of Wendell Phillips, who iruuio
one of his characteristic raids on uverybody and
everything. Hie special grievance seemed to
be the denial of female suffrage.
Cuiejt Justice Daly used strong and indig
naut language yesterday in a dissenting opinion
in a sewing machine ease where u poor woman
was mortdly if uot legally wronged by the
t gents of one of the companies. Sewing
machine contracts are ingeniously framed so as
to leave their victims no redress.
Tnis Annual Rkgatta of the Harlem Associa
tion yes'erday attracted thousands of spectators,
representatives of all classes and conditions in
life. River and shore were brilliant with the
beanty aud fashiou of tlic city, showing the
interest that is token in aquatic exercises. All
the arrangements were perfect and the different
races spiritedly contested.
Mr. John D. Dkerkex, the Public Printer,
finds it necessary to write a card informiug ap
phcunts for places in the government office thut
the supply is greater than the dewaud in Wash
ington. and that it is no use to go to that city iu
the hope of obtaining employment. Ilis an
nouncement that the establishment is neither a
religious nor a charitable asylum is doubtless in
tended for Congressmen who have always ap
peared to look upon it in that light.
During the Last TtN Da ys we have reeoived
a large number of letters complaining of thu .
crowded condition of excursion steamers leaving
this city, aud inquiring where tlic rcs|>ousibility
rests. The Treasury Department answers the
question iu a letter printed this morning. It
rests with the Supervising Inspectors. They
have the authority under the law to regulate
the number of passeugers each boat shall carry.
In case of accident from overcrowding we shall
now know whom to blame.
The Postmaster General, by direction of
the President, makes the important announce
ment thut the Post Office Department is a busi
ness and not a political institution, and will be
conducted on business and not on political prin
ciple*. The fact that a good officer is not u sup
porter of the administration will not he con
sidered a ground for his removal unless in his
seal as a politician he neglects his duty its post
master. This doctrine will appal the politicians,
but it will please the country.
Jerome Park.?The spriug meeting came to
on end yesterday and was made memorable by
some of the Iwst racing c\er seen on an Ameri
can course. Everybody and everything seemed
to contribute to the success of the occasion. The
weather was delightful: the track was perfect
and the horses in the principal contests were
well matched. The great race Is'tween Clover
brook and Ha/il was won by the latter, which
was a disappointment, the betting having been
nearly all the other way. Cuba. Tom Ochiltree,
Mary, f'hiqulta and Deadhead were the winners
iu the live other race* that were run.
The WkaiUKR.?The temperature yesterday
wus more than usually uniform over the region
south of the lakes and east of the ltocky Moun
tains. Kxccpt on the New liruuswick coast, in
Upper Dakota and in the immediate vicinity of
New London, Conn., the thermometer indicated
70 degrees ami upward. A warm belt overlay
the Lower Missouri, the Central .Mississippi
aud the Lower Ohio valleys, where a tem
perature of over !?<) degrees prevailed, but
at nearly ail other points it utis between
75 and *"? degrees. The depression
that wits central on the New Brunswick coast on
8tuiday evening lias now moved into the Atlan
tic. but the low pressure that was at the same
tiinv in Minnesota and Lower Dakota now ex
tends trom the Missouri, near Lcuvcuworth, to
the upper lakes. Light rains ha\e fallen from
Cincinnati northwestward and at New Orleans,
but by oiir latest reports we learn that u heavy
foil is in progress in tho Lower Mississippi V;d
ley. Kain fell during the inoruing at points ou
the AtJuntie ooust southward from Capo II at
tains. The weather iu New York to-day will be
warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, with occu
loaai rains. i
The Death ?f th* Ktpikllcu Party.
Charles Lamb, who was an acute ob
server, remarks somewhere that he had
frequently seen men walking ubout the
streets as dead as Julius Casur, but utterly
unconscious of the fact. What is thus true
of men may be even truer of political
parties, which, being aggregations of men
more or less successfully protessiug to hold
more or less similar opinions, are capable
of maintaining their momentum for some
time after the corporate animating spirit has
fled, and thus present an appearance of life
deceiving the less acute part of the commu
nity. All the organs of such a defunct po
litical body display a preternatural liveli
ness; the whole body breaks out into bad
language at the slightest public suggestion
that it is moribund; its principal members
repel the insinuation with the ghastly ac
tivity of a galvanized frog. The thing never
seems more alive than for some time after it
has given up the ghost, und it is as much as
a live man's life is worth to declare it dead.
We speak from a fresh experience, having
imprudently ventured somo days ago to
declure the democratic party dead. It is
dead. No shrewd observer of public events
doubts this fact. It hardly needed Mr.
Tilden's blow at the Manhattan Club last
week to tinish its existence. Yet the public
announcement of its decease, made first in
the Hkbald. according to our confirmed
habit of making the earliest pub
lication of all important events, bas
drawn upon our journal a whole
shower bath of vituperation. It is,
therefore, with a vivid sense of what will
follow that we hoist our umbrella before de
claring, as in the public interest we are
bound to do, that the republican party also
is dead?as dead as it can be; as dead as
Julius Ciesar in his deadest moments; as
dead as a door nail, or as the rat in the
proverb ; as dead, in short, as the demo
cratic party ; or if anything could be deader
than the democratic party, as dead as that
The republican party was, in its day, one
of the most important, one of the most pow
erful and one of the most necessary parti
san organizations this country has ever
known. Political parties are partnerships
for the accomplishmont of certain public
objects, and the object of the republican
party was in a constitutional manner to
check and ultimately extinguish sluvery.
It was formed for that end and none
other. The old abolitionists were not
statesmen or politicians, but moral
ists; they saw an evil and moved at once
and peremptorily to extirpate it, and with
it whatever stood in tlieir way. Thus they
denounced the'Union and the constitution
as a leaguo with the infernal powers, while
arousing the moral repugnance of the coun
try to the slave system; but it was
left for the republican party to
dense constitutional, and therefore prac
tical, means to check and extirpate the
evil. It was a special partnership to ac
complish this purpose. The partners came
together from both the previous parties;
they surrendered for the tiino and lor the
purpose of their new partnership their dif
ferences on all other questions, and thus |
the republican organization contained free
traders, moderate and extreme protection
ists, men favoring and others opposod to in
ternal improvements, the supporters of
centralization and the friends of local self
government : men, in short, of all opinions
on all the questions which have agitated or
divided opinion in this country: all sinking
for the time their beliefs on these questions,
in order to pull together against slavery.
With the help of the slaveholders the
republican party extirpated slavery. It had
the gTeat good fortune to head the war for
the Union, and naturally drew to its ranks
the greater part of the intelligence and
ability of the Northern States. It
was a great and powerful party and
did its work with astonishing and
irresistible determination. It counted
among its leaders many of the greatest
names of the country. It played a part in
our history which made its name dear to
the greater and probably the best part of the
country, aud which, even now that it is
dead, makes its good will and fixtures so
valuable that there is likely to be more than
one quarrel over them.
But slavery is dead, the Union is re
established, the freedmen are freemen and
havfe become with the consent of all men
part of the body politic; the Southern States
have been finally relegated to self-govern
ment under the constitution. "The South"
was the occasion of the republican party,
and there is no longer a "South." The
objects for which the party was formed
have been accomplished, and when Presi
dent Hayes ordered that federal inter
ference in South Carolina and Louisiana
should cease he in effect dissolved the part
nership which had tor twenty-one years
existed under the name, style and title
of "the republican party." Wo are here
only repeating what Mr. Blaine, Mr.
Cameron, in fact all the republican
loaders, at once saw and acknowl
edged. Many of them were iurious
at the President's act ; they looked more to
their party advantage than to tho peace and
welfare of the country. But they were
wrong to blame tho President ; he was
merely the instrument in recording a fact;
events which not even the ablest leaders of
his party could control had brought the
country to the point where Mr. Hayes' policy
was inevitable. Even General Grant saw
this, and prepared the way lor his
successor. President Hayes has only fol
lowed out the policy bagun by General
Grant in the last days of his administration.
He is now, in the spirit of true patriotism,
devoting himself to efforts to complete the j
reconciliation of the sections; to fuse all tho j
elements, North and South, and make a
harmonious nation. Those who oppose or
try to hamper him in these efforts deserve
ill of the country, and wo believe will be
punished by the people. There are repub
lican as well us democratic Bourbons.
But it must not be forgotten that during
the whole twenty-one years of its existence
the republican party was united upon only
ono thing?its opposition to slavery and the
sequelw of slavery. On all other points its
members were so bitterly divided that it was j
with the utmost difficulty the quarrelling i
factions could be held together even |
during the war. The discordant elo- (
ments were silent and united only while
there remained a "South" to oppose;
they can no longer be held together The
first time that any one of the "new issues"
! appears in Congress the party will neces
I warily burst asunder. The free trader*
and moderate tariff' men will divide
Irom the protectionists ; the internal
improvement men will divide against the
opponents of internul improvements; the
hard money men will vote against the infla
tionists; and the huge body which has still
momentum enough to move on, though
dead, will thereupon stop and fall to pieces.
Of oourse somebody will inherit the name,
though the complex and perfect machinery
will hardly be worth much if President
Hayes keeps his promise to the country of
divorcing the civil service from politics.
When we say that a man is dead we do not
mean that the family name is extinct. There
will be two parties in the election of 1880, and
they may call themselves republican and
democratic; but the policies, the leaders, the
rank and file will be different in each. The
present parties are dead, and their death is
a benefit to the country. No greater curso
could befall us than to have the two old par
ties perpetuated, with their old and past
date issues, their old and now absurd and
wicked war cries; their sohemes for success,
not by serving the country, but by keeping
sectional suspicion and hatred alive. It is
natural, und, indeed, inevitable, that the
old purty leaders and war horses should
desperately uttcmpt to maintain their or
ganizations. A clever French man remarked
that we always leel a little contempt for
a man who dies; und besides the general
repugnance to giving up the ghost, middle
aged and elderly gentlemen are shy of going
house hunting, and find it difficult to make
new political alliances. They will make a
vigorous fight for the old issues against the
new questions which they have for so
many years quietly burked or straddled
in their conventions. But it is in vain.
The stars in their courses fight against
them, and he will be the wisest among
them, be he democrat or republican, who
first looks the facts of the day in the face,
acknowledges that his party is dead, and
grasps the new questions. On these, when
they come up, the country will see former
democrats and republicans standing side by
side, Southern and Northern men voting to
gether; and the inevitable Bourbons of both
sides, the men who, to use a Western phrase,
"tread on the coattails of progress and cry
whoa ! whoa !" will be left out in the cold.
General Grant Yeaterday.
General Grant begun the week by break
fasting with Mr. George W. Sinailey, at
whose house he met a number of distin
guished literary men; among them Profes
bor Huxley, the historian Kinglake, Mr.
Tom Hughes, the poet Browning, Matthew
Arnold, and the editors of the London 8pec
tutor and Setos. In the evening he dined at
the Reform Club, and appears to have had a
real ovation. Earl Granville presided.
Mr. W. E. Forster, one of the ablest and
most eminent of English statesmen, made
what our correspondent reports as a singu
larly eloquent speech, dwelling upon the
great services of General Grant to the cause
of human freedom ; and the importance to
modern clVlll2Htlrvn of the two great English
speaking peoples living in friendship
together. Mr. Forster complimented
President Huyes for his Southern
policy of peace and reunion, and
proposed the President's health amid great
cheering. Earl Granville proposed the
health of the illustrious statesman and war
rior, General Grant, and spoke of the benefi
cent result to both nations of the settle
ment of the Alabama claims, recognizing
General Grant as one ot the extraordinary
instruments of Divine Providence for bene
fiting the human race.
General Grant appears to have been
deeply affected by the language held toward
him and toward the United States. He con
fessed in a few, but evidently graceful, words
that his emotions were too great for expres
sion, and lamented his inability to reply as
he would like to, but hoped that
the friendship of the two countries
would ever continue. Earl Granville
pressed the same hope in the strongest
words. The dinner appears to have been
the greatest demonstration yet made in the
ex-President's honor. To-day he visits the
Times oflice, and later dines with the Prince
of Wales.
War Newt from the Ernst.
I Our special despatches this morning an
nounce some stirring news from Armenia
and the Caucasus. It appears that a sud
den forward movement of the Russian cen
tre in the direction of Erzerouin has re
sulted in the capture of several Turkish
redoubts recently constructed to cover
the approaches to the town. It will
i be remembered that the Russians re
cently withdrew from Olti and Penek,
both of which positions were promptly
reoccupied by the Turks. We called atten
tion at the time to the probability that this
Russian retreat was a ruse to induce the de
ployment of the Turkish lines and their
I consequent weakening at the centre. The
sudden assault which hus resulted in the
capture ot the redoubts bears out our
opinion and looks like a well matured plan
lor cutting the Turkish line in two. An
other Russian victory over the Circassians
ut Soukonm Kaleh is also announced. It
will lare badly with the insnrgents if the
Russians succctd in crushing them now.
The diversion on the Circassian coast was
made on too small a scale to secure any
really important results. Had it been made
I with fitty thousand men its effect on tho
Russian plans might have proved disas
trous. The innate ruffianism ot the bashi
bazouk is again asserting itself under
the very walls of Constantinople.
These outlaws have commenced to
assault foreign officers, who, relying on the
protection of the government venture into
the outskirts of the city. It remains to be
seen what action the governments of the
outraged officers will take in the matter.
According to a despatch from Slavonic^
sources the Turks gained little in re victual
ling Nicsics. Indeed, it looks as if they ac
complished a disastrous success which may
lead to their extermination Bhould they
attempt to retire from the town by
the Duga Pas*. On the Danube all
is mystery and preparation yet. The
indications are, however, that a crossing
into Bulgaria will soon be made near the
mouth of the Aluta and below Bustchuk.
Large bodies of Russian troops are concen
trating at Giurgevo, opposite the Turkish
fortress. Meantime an order has been
issued to all the English dockyards that no
vessel shall be put on the ways whose re
pairs will take any considerable time.
These preparations on the part of England
indicate an early abandonment of that
questionable neutrality under which she
has sought to oover her warlike designs.
A Sew Mexican Boondarjr.
The map which we published yesterday
morning showed two possible new bound
aries to take the place of that which now is
so impossible for us to protect against the
Mexican robbers. We have reason to believe
that this mup was made at the desire of
prominent persons in the late administra
tion who saw that the border raids would
never cease until we had a boundary
line much shorter and more easily
defensible, and who preferred, on
many accounts, the southernmost lino
marked on the map. The advantages of
this line were set forth by the correspond
ent to whom we are indebted for the map.
It is only 660 miles long, the present line
measuring 1,573 miles. But it appears to
have still greater advantages in the fact that
it runs along a mountain line which con
tains but five passes, each of which is easily
defensible, if we may believo our corre
spondent, by five hundred men placed in a
properly constructed work.
While Mexico possessed a constitutional
government, or, in fact, any settled govern
ment at all, the American people were in
clined to bo very long suffering toward it.
But that unhappy country is once more in
a state of disorganization. We can cherish
no hope that the Diaz government, or any
other which may succeed it, will do its
manifest duty of guarding the pres
ent or any other border line and
protecting our people against robbery
and murder. But if this is true we may
certainly claim the right to make our labors
of defence as cheap and convenient as pos
sible. One thing is certain?the adminis
tration does not mean any longer to endure
the incursions of organized robbers into
our territory, and in this determination it is
very evident the whole country and both
parties sustain the President. But the evil
is left to us to cure. What are we to do ?
The Secretary of War instructs General
Ord to pursue marauders across the Bio
Grande, catch and punish them. But a stern
chase is a long chase. Suppose General Ord
should pursue a band to the capital of Chi
huahua? Suppose the arrival of the Ameri
can troops should lend to a public
demonstration asking them to remain?
Suppose the property owners of the
State of Chilruahua should on seeing
our flag fall in love with it? Suppose,
in short, the pear is ripe and falls into
our lap ? We are not making a wild suppo
sition. It is very well known that the bulk
of the peaceable and property owning
claaHos in all the Northern Mexican States
wait only for an assurance of protec
tion from the United States to fling them
selves into our arms. It is not a conquest
but a deliverance they look for; nor is it
probable that once they had ventured to di
vorce themselves from Mexico Diaz or any
possible successor of his would have strength
to interfere with them.
We are not seeking to deprive Mexico of
territory, but we have a right to a good
boundary if she is unable to defend us. We
do not mean war, nor is her government
able to make war. If our troops to-day held
the paases in the southern boundary pro
posed on the map wo published yesterday
we doubt from all we hear whether
any attempt would be made to dis
turb them. Elsewhere our Washing
ton correspondent sends us a report of an
interesting conversation with Mr. Schleicher,
the able member of Congress representing
the Texas border district. He confirms the
report of our New Orleans correspondent
that his people are stating their claims for
damages against Mexico. What he says
about the condition of Chihuahua and
Sonora also confirms our reports. He thinks
no Mexican leader would venture to organ
ize a secession of the Northern States, and
no doubt he is right But suppose the'pexr
is ripe ?
College Commencement!.
The season of college festivities has set
in, and within the ensuing five weeks all
the principal seats of learning in the United
States will have celebrated their annual
commencements, have listened to orators of
more or less distinction on topics connected
with scholarship and culture, have conferred
honorary degrees on a multitude of more or
loss deserving persons and have dismissed
some thousands of young men from the
tutelage of professors to make such mark
in the world as may bo possible to their
talents, training and opportunities. To a
majority of the community these interesting
occasions are a mere show of a highly respect
able order; but to a small number they are
fraught with a deep and almost pathetic in
terest. To a large share of the fond parents
and affectionate brothers and sisters of the
graduates this period seems a turning point
in human life. The sacrifice which many
families make in sending one of their mem
bers to college is a noble proof of pride,
hope and afteotion. It implies fewer luxul
lies on the table, fewer ribbons and flowers
on the bonnets of the sisters, a hard and
painful economy in the household, richly
compensated by a feeling of generous self
sacrifice, by family pride in the member
who is credited with mental superiority,
and by hopes of distinction for the one
who enjoys these advantages. When Web
ster was told by his hard-working fathor,
during a sleigh ride over the New Hampi
shire hills, that he was to receive a college
education, he fell upon his father's breast
in a torrent of sobs, overpowered, doubtless,
by a sense of the family sacrifices to be
made for his sake. The country has grown
richer, and the sending of a boy to college
is no longer so great an event in family his
tory, but there are still many instances in
which family comforts are abridged and the
scale of living lowered in order to give one
I promising member a handsome start in
the world. It is needlesB to dwell
on the frequent disappointments which fol
low such expectations and so much self-aac
rifloe; the motives are none the less gener
ous and noble by the failure of many young
men to realize fond family hopes. The
deepest interest felt in college commence
ments is by families of this type, who regard
the graduation of the favored member as
the culmination and reward of a long seriei
of domestic self-denial*. The e occasions
are also of interest to the families in easy
circumstances who supply the majority of
students to our institutions of learning, and
who regard college honors as a satisfactory
step toward eminence, or at least success, in
what are called the professions. But to the
general public these commencements are
merely a passing feature of the ordinary
summer news.
The college commencements, which make
several bright days in the social life of
Boston, New Haven and many small places,
ought to be looked upon with a feeling of
mortification by the great commercial me
tropolis of the country. What an insig
nificant feature do our local institutions
make in this annual literary parade ! The
doings at Harvard and Yale are reported in
every newspaper in the United States ; but
what newspaper outside the city of New York
takes any notice of the commencements of
Columbia College or our lesser institutions ?
Men famous in literature or in public life
are invited to deliver addresses at other
college commencements, but our local col
leges pass unmarked by such displays;
which is a proof that they have no hold on
popular feeling. ThiB is humiliating be
cause a city so populous, so wealthy, so
abounding in cultivated people, so capable
of supporting an institution of learning of a
higher order than any which yet exists in
the United States, has reason to be ashamed
of its indifference to literary culture. New
York ought to be the seat of a truly great
university, a university which should
eclipse Harvard and Yale and be a centre
of illumination for the whole coun
try. It is not' too late to sup
ply this great want The private
munificence which has built up so many
noble local charities, which has made such
magnificent donations to colleges in other
parts of the country, would supply the
necMsary funds if an enterprise of this kind
were started under good auspiccs. What
we need is an institution of a higher order
than Harvard or Yale?a well endowed
university which could induce the most
famous men of scienoe and letters of both
continents to accept its professorships, and
thereby take the lead of all similar institu
tions. There is no reason why there should
not be a university in New York as famous
and useful as the most renowned universities
of the Old World, and we would fain hope
that the time approaches for its establish
ment.
Tit* Debate in the French Assembly.
Yesterday was another tumultuous (lay in
the French Assembly. The Minister of In
struction asserted the President's right to a
policy of his own, and deolared he was not
the blind tool of Parliament. His remarks
produced hisses from the gallery. M. Jules
Ferry replied, and threatened that any
abuses perpetrated by the government in
the elections would be scrutinized on the
meeting of the Assembly. This declaration
seems to have produced great excitement.
The debate went over till to-day.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
The following arrivals have registered in the Nkw
York Hibaad Paris Bureau. From New York?Mr.
Courtenay Scbenck, Mr. Horace Waters, Jr., and
wife; Mrs. and Miss Duval, Mr. W. T. Colbron, Mr.
Kicbard T. Kelly, Mrs. Wheeler and family, Mr. L.
Wolff. Mr. W. Doutsch, Mr. Peter Speare and wile,
Mr. James Davis, Mr. U. Keenau, Mr. and Mrs. Wick
liaun, Mr. A. Parmelee and Mr. S. P. Avery. From Phil
adelphia?Mr. William Sapor and Mr. Ellis Stokes.
From Boston?Ex-Mayor Cobb. From Buffalo?Mr. S.
lUthoona. From Chicago?Mr. John C. White. From
Wheeling?Mr. J. H. Hobos.
Dr. Kodtield is in Washington.
Bierstadt U preparing lor Europe.
Blaine was iu Boston on Saturday.
Bancroft rides horseback at Newport.
General (itdeon J. Pillow is coutlned to bis bed.
Colonel Jack Wharton has gone to New Orleans.
Webb Hayes will soon visit W. D. Howolls st New
port.
Ben Hi'l Is doing a great deal of law business In
Georgia
Uoncral McCoou's blaek mustache was on Broadway
yesterday.
Frost Johnson is painting tho portrait of a daughter
of Lord Dufferln.
Lowell's appointment ts said to be a great dlsap
polutmont to Banics.
Kate Ciaxton still finds fault because she was Joked
about in regard to the Ores.
Hon. H. P. Hall, editor o( tbe St. Paul (Minn.)
Pionetr is visiting Chicago.
Colonel Jarnos H. Blood, of Woodhull famo, is prac
tising mcdlclno In Memphis, Teon.
Ex-Governor Noyea, ol Ohio, Is in Washington wait
ing lor Instructlous as Minister to Franco.
Sonalor Jones, of Florida, is a Urge man who likes
to laugb, bat Is practically In deud earnest.
Governor Hampton spends bis summers at tbe base
ot Chimney Top Mountain, North Carolina.
Mr. Washington McLean, of tho Cincinnati E/i'/uirtr,
was enjoying him^oll in New York yestorday.
James Kussell Lowell: ?
"And what Is so raro as a day In June?"
lnness, tho artist, Is sketching at Pouipton, N. J.
Ho will not go lar iron) New York during the sous on.
The Mobile U'fjister says that Furragdt went to the
masthead through cowardice, tho deck being an un
safe placo. ltocouclllaliou t
It was Collector Simmons and not Stanley MuttbowB
to whom tbe Prosidem suid that no man in oGlce
should activoly participate in local politics.
It looks as If the younger democrats of Ohio were
trying to run Sum Hunt, ol Cincinnati, abead ol tho
other candidates lor tbe gubernatorial nomination.
Newton Boom had beon called upon by tho Sun
Francisco Chronicle to smash tbe Grant.Sargent power
In California; but at last accounts Sargent was refusing
to bo sinaKbed.
Cbiel Justico Waite, during his racont visit to Soutb
Carolina, whither bo had goue in regard to tho Ellou
lon cases, roceived no social consideration. Mr.
Knott explains that this was because the Chief Justico
was associated with Judgo Bond. It might be well to
say that even Northern conception of Southern hos
pitality ana chivalry, has boeu that tbe so-caliod mis
fortune of association would not prevent Southern gen
tlemen from paying the respect that is duo in Charles
ton to the Chief Justice of the United States and bis.
daughter, who were strangors.
Evening Tsleyram ? "Suppose tbst Mr. John Jay and
tho old logics of the Historical Society suspend their
Motley quarrel till afior tho warm weather and then
organise a high Joint commission to investigate and
report on the mysterious subject of 'Who Was Mo
Crackenf Ihero are grave doubts whether Mc
cracken was not as purely a product of Mr. Seward's
imagination as Mrs. Harris was of Sairey Gamp's. We
offer this suggestion in tbe intorest of peace between
Mr. Jay and nls adversaries. If tbcre was "no slob
person" as McCrackon Mr. Seward's assertions and
Mr. Motley's denials of tbe sayings and doings of that
creature of fancy beooms alike Immaterial."
THE WAR.
Detailed Account of the Battles
Before Kars.
DESPERATE TURKISH DEFENCE
Newspaper Correspondents Undez
Surveillance.
MORE MOSLEM MADNESS
Insults to English and American Officers
and to the French Flag.
DIFFERENCES IN THE ENGLISH CABINET.
The Turkish Ministry Considering
a Peace Proposition.
ON THE DANUBE'S BANK.
[BE CABLE TO THE BXBA.ZJ3.]
London, June 19, 1877.
There is no longer any reason to doubt
that'the Turks have suffered a severe defeat
at Ears. Every effort is being made by the
authorities at Constantinople to conceal the
truth in reference to the Asiatic cam
paign from iear of the discouragement
that would follow the news of a se
rious defeat. Hence all the news
from Mukhtar Pacha's headquarters is
tinged eouleur de rose. The Hebai.p corre
spondent at Constantinople telegraphs that
the true account of the affair which took
place near Ears had reached the Turkish
Ministry, but had been suppressed from
prudential reasons.
THE STORY 07 THE EIGHT.
Mukhtar Paeha had established a portion
of his forces near the river Phasis, at a
point between Ears and Erzeroum, with the
object of covering his communications
with the latter city. This force had
taken the precaution to erect earth
works for the defence of their
position and considered themselves safe
from any sudden attackjby the Russians.
This feeling of security probably caused
them to neglect the necessary precautions
to prevent surprise. On Thursday last the
Russians unexpectedly appeared in foroe
and began a vigorous attack..
redoubts captured.
The Turks, though taken by surprise, of
fered a vigorous resistance, repulsing thl
attacking columns several times and only
giving way when driven from their positions
by superior numbers. TJie battle continued
till nightfall, the advantage resting with
the Bussian forces. Several redoubts had
been captured and held.
TBI flOBT BENBWED.
At daybreak the battle was renewed and
oontinued during the day with great obsti
nacy. Notwithstanding the devoted valor
of the Turkish 'troops they were driven from
all their positions by tho sustained vigor of
the Bussian assaults.
MOT AN EASY DEFEAT.
The heavy losses sustained by the Turks
bear witness to the obstinacy of their de
fence. The loss of this position is very
serious for Muliktar Pacha's army, as ths
Bussian force now directly threatens his
communications with Erzeroum. It shows
also that the Bussians are preparing to deal
vigorously with the Turkish field army in
Asia.
uore RUSSIAN successes.
There was some severe fighting on Satur
day at Soukoum Kaleh, which resulted un
favorably to the Turkish arms. The Cir
cassian troops especially suffered hcavj
losses.
ANOTHER SORTIE from TBE citadel.
The Herald correspondent in Vienna
telegraphs that information has reached
that city from a trustworthy source to the
effect thut the Turks have made another
successful sortie from Kurs.
ERZEICUUM HE vict CALLED.
A large supply of provisions has arrived
in Erzeroum bom the interior, according to
the Herald's Peru correspondent. This will
doubtless infuse fresh spirit into the garri
son, as the supplies of all necessaries have
been very deficient for some time.
CORRESPONDST8 TREATED AS SPIES.
A circular has been issued by the Sirdar
Ekren at Bustchuk ordering all newspa
per correspondents to present their firmans
within three days. It is understood that
any correspondent who is found not to be
provided with this important authorization
will be sent to Constantinople under guard.
frPIES SHOT.
The cause of this stringent measure
against the newspaper correspondents is
alleged to be tho discovery of seven Bus
sian spies within the Turkish linea. These
enterprising gentlemen were tried, found
guilty and shot. Indeed, the position of
correspondent is becoming far from agreea
ble, owing to the suspicion with whichfUl
unbelievers are regarded.
atrocities IN TBE TUREISH CAPITAL. |
The Heiiald's correspondent in Constat