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FOREIGN NEWS.
The East.

| The Russian circular on the failure of the
Constantinople conference has made It's ap-
pearance. Prince Gsrtschakof reminds Eu
rope that by the efforts of Russia an under
standing was reached on the Eastern ques-
lEon at Berlin, which was disturbed by the
rejection OF England, thus leading to the con-
ference. But all the powers were in harmony
as TO the guarantees there proposed to Tur-
Key and Russia will be guided In her future
course by that agreement, awaiting the decis-
ion OF the other powers as to what course
they mean to pursue in view of the rejection
OF the conference proposals by Turkey.
The London Times regards the circular as
an invitation to begin war, and says England
will reply that she shall hold herself free to
guard her own interests, and that If Russia is
more precipltate she must act on her own
responsibility.
Meantime the negotiations for peace be-
tween Turkey and Servia and Montenegro
are progressing slowly but with favorable
prospects The porte has sent representa-
tive to Prince Milan, who is to be received at
Belgrade with all due honors.
Midhat Pasha, the grand vizicr, has been
removed. Numerous causes are assigned for
1t, but the most probable seems to be that he
had disagreed with the sultan In regard to
the new constitution, one account saying be-
cause it was too liberal and eHtrenched on the
sultan's prerogatives, and another, that it was
not liberal enough At all events, Midhat
became dissatisfied and began to plot against
the sultan, was found out, ousted from his
office and banished from the country. Ed
ham Pasha becomes grand vizler in his place.
The only symptoms of coming war are that
Russia is concentrating troops towards the
crossing OF the Pru,h, and Turkey is massing
troops apparently to meet them.
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Oriskany and Benn ing tom.

The battle of Oriskany, the anniversary
of which was commemorated yesterday, and
the battle of Bennington, which will be
brought to mind on the 10th, were two of
the minor victories in the Revolutionary
war which had a controlling influence on
the successful termination of the struggle.
They were fought and won at time when
the skies were dark, when repeated re-
verses had fallen upon the patriots, and
when the royalist generals were maxi
ing some of their strongest efforts to
put down the colonies. Their effect on
the patriot forces everywhere was electrical.
Hope was revived important strategic adj
vantages were gained on one side and lost
on the other the comparatively raw levies
of the Revolutionary army were taught con-
fidence in themselves as against the splen-
didly trained and disciplined soldiers of
Great Britain. Neither Of these battles las
been given its proper place in history.
They have been lost in the splendor of
| greater achievements, where larger forces
were engaged and where decisive re-
suits were obtained. But if it had
not been for the numerous Oriskanys and
| Benningtons of the struggle there would be
no Yorktowns or Saratogas. Celebrations
like that OF yesterday will be useful in draw
ing attention 10 these points and enabling
the present and the coming generation to
study and weigh every point in the great
struggle and give each its due importance.
Again, they will serve to recall to our
minds the story of the Revolution which we
are too apt to forget. No study can pos
sibly be more Useful or interesting to us,
not so much for the past as for the
present and the future. The principles of
the Revolution are the only safe lights by
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Arctic Relics.

Some correspondence will be found else
where worthy the attention of all who take
an interest in Arctic exploration. 1t cor
reefs some mistatements that have been
made in regard to the discovery of relics OF
Captain Hall, and details final touching
incident in the melancholy story OF that
navigator's life and death. Arctic explora-
ton bids fair to become c,dtsts. The more
distinctly it is recognized that northwest
passage, if ever discovered, can be OF no
practical value to the commerce Of the
world the more plainly it is recognized on
all hands that these great expeditions are
only grand trials of human skill, courage
and endurance, and the more evidently
every trinket and trihe related to them &C
quires that interest of association with great
purposes which gives significance to the
scrap of steel that was a conqueror's sword
or the decayed wood that was pilgrims
staff.
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Atrocities md the War.

The effort of the Turks to bring odium
upon the Russians by tarring them with
their own atrocity stick is failure.
Ever since the memorable exposures of
the horrifying inhumanities of last
year the Porte has been exercised
to put itself in a decent light be-
fore the world. First the atrocities
were denied, next they were belittled, and
then great parade was made of nm lnten-
ton to punish the perpetrators This last
was merely for effect. The Porte could not
quarrel with it's bashi-bazouks and Cir
cassians on the verge of n war; and
what was done last year in Bulgaria has
been repeated this year in that province and
now is in progress in Roumelia. Hence
it was natural that the Turks should seize
the first opportunity of charging the
Russians with cruelties on the principle
that two blacks would make a white.
Sundry old wounded Turks were
brought into Shumla and paraded before
the eyes of the newspaper correspondents,
who were invited to testify to what they
saw. Our special despatch from the Rus
sian headquarters at Bjela puts a new face
on this matter. At that point there
are wounded Mussulmans in hospital, at
tended by Russian doctors and nursed by
Russian ladies. and these people received
their injuries, not ct the hands of the troops
of the Gear, but Mt those of the Cir
cassians in the Turkish service, who
have no squeamishness about rob-
bling man because he believes in
the Prophet. The runaway Turks from the
villages have been brought back by the
Russians and are now tilling their fields
To this state of affairs Colonel Wellesley
the British military attache, was witness,
and he has returned to London to testify
thereto.
South of the Balkans q condition of
things is reported in our special dispatches
which threatens to leave the land desert
The marauding Circassians began by burn
ing villages inhabited by Bulgarians,
and the latter, spurrod to despera-
ton, have risen, and, in revenge,
are destroying the habitations and
crops of their Mussulman neighbors.
This is civil war in its most horrible form.
To end it short of the complete destruction
Of the inhabitants and all that would sup
port q population prompt Russian adj
vance is the only remedy. This, unfortu-
nately for the Roumelians Of all creeds, is
likely to be somewhat delayed.
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Is a5lish this than now. The most intel
ligent citizens of those countries visited our
Centennial Exhibition and there became
aware Of our manufacturing skill. Their
products, shown in the same exhibition,
became known to our people. We need
their raw materials to work up in our
factories they need our finished prod
ucts, and would gladly take them IN
exchange for theirs. Secretary Evarts said
rightly, in Philadelphia. "If we want
to sell, we must buy;" and we hope he
will soon show the country that he is busy
in opening the way for such a revival OF
commercial intercourse. We have now
settled all the internal questions which have
so long and so mischievously absorbed
the attention OF political leaders. President
Hayes has the opportunity, if he will use
it, to make his administration famous in
our history for great revival of industry
and prosperity. If he will direct his atten-
ton to that object he will find that, as COM
merce revives, strikes, labor troubles, COM
plants of all kinds will cease, and the peo-
pie will be happy.
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General CAmpOs' Appeal.

General Martinez Campos only partially
appreciates the situation in Cuba He sends
word to his government that the Cuban in
surgents twill only surrender on receiving
their independence" and that if the insur-
rection is to be "crushed" it will require
fifty thousand more troops from Spain to do
it. His first proposition is undoubtedly
correct but his fifty thousand soldiers
would be as powerless as five thousand to
reduce the rebellion. According to his own
account '.the insurgents are SO we'll sup
piled with spies, and their facilities of dis
banding when pursued are such, that it
takes five hundred soldiers to look after ten
insurgents" BY this calculation the fifty
thousand additional troops asked for could
only attend to one thousand insurgents,
and this would scarcely be straw in the
way of the onward flow of the struggle for
independence.
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Perilous Plea sure Seeking.

1t will scarcely pay to invest large sums
of money in building handsome hotels on
Manhattan Beach if the pleasure seekers
who go there are to undertake the journey at
the risk of their lives. Two railroad acct
dents within q week and a narrow escape
for boat load of passengers only few
days before are not pleasant things to
contem plate, especially when carelessness
or incapacity lies at the bottom Of all the
accidents. In one railroad collision the
fault was with two engineers, who, al
though approaching crossing within
full view of each other, chose to run
their trains recklessly along Mt full speed,
each hoping to get across first. The
accident on the Gunther road last Sat-
urday was due to q carelessly misplaced
switch, through which the engine ran off the
This mishap blocked the down track, so
shat the up track alone could be used. Yet
the simple precaution OF signalling trains
coming in was neglected, and the conse-
quence was that down train ran into an
empty train preparing to go up, and there
was general demolition Of engines. For
tunately or we might say miraculously, no
passengers we're seriously hurt, although
panic and severe shaking up resulted.
If this criminal neglect continues it will
not be long before Coney Island slaughter
will be recorded that will do serious damage
to the business of the place. People ought
not to be reckless or wicked enough to take
their families on excursions where the en-
ployes of the railroad companies are so
criminally negligent of'their duties and in
different to the sacrifice of human life. An
excursion train should be much less liable
to accident than On ordinary train, yet
either of the Coney Island collisions might
have caused score of painful deaths, and
it is wonder that such calamity was
avoided. People who value their lives and
the lives of their children should stop going
to Coney Island until there is some positive
assurance Of better management on the part
of the railroad officials and more strict
enforcement Of the rules regulating the
number of passengers to be carried by ex-
cursion sfeamers
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The Russians have set about the task
OF retrieving their misfortune at Plevna
with an alacrity that promises good re-
suits. Schackoskoy and Kriidener have
reoccupied the positions they held
before the battle, and four Russian
corps are reported on their way to Sstova
to assist the army in Bulgaria. AS
1t would be very dangerous to depend
wholly upon the timely arrival of these
reserves, the notifications of the Russian
plan Of campaign are no more than prudent;
but 1t does not appear that the changes
will be as radical as in the first mo-
ments Of the Plevna defeat were predicted.
AS We have already had occasion to say,
an army OF upward Of quarter OF a million
men could not be whipped by a battle that
put seven thousand men hors de combat,
and we must recognize, therefore, that the
fighting at Plevna, though not to be incon-
siderately regarded as of slight consequence,
should not be exaggerated to such point
as to be deemed catastrophe from which
the Russians cannot recover. 1t will not
drive them out of Bulgaria, but it will teach
them, probably, that they are not to carry
all things before them by an enthusiastic
rush. This is not a bad lesson for princely
commanders to learn at the outset. Accus-
toned to have things done rs they order,
a reverse which gives them pause
will, in the end, be productive of
much good, and prevent good deal
of the heroics of military vanity. The re-
tirement of General Gourkha to the Shipka
Pass is confirmed, and he will doubt
less be able to hold it and send q
large contingent of his men to keep
open the Russian lines of communication in
Bulgaria and keep Mehemet Ali east of the
Jantra until the new Russian forces have
dealt once more with the Osman Pacha, the
victor of Plevna.
In Asia Minor the Russians, with a force
of ninety thousand men, have begun to adj
vance again and this time on less extended
lines. The Turkish right is falling back in
the direction of Kars, and we may soon OK
poet to hear stirring news from that quarter
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lspicuous go-by on

Southern question conspicuous go-by on
the Fourth of July. He knows it is dead.
We are more curious TO SEQ what the
Maine platform will say on the currency
question. 1t is generally understood that
Mr.. Blaine was one of the authors of the
Resumption act and We hope to see the
Maine republicans outspoken for resump-
ton. And then, as to internal improve
ments. Mr. Blaine is believed to favor large
appropriations for the Mississippi levees,
and the Maine platform may have some
thing to say on this subject. We look for
an approval of the Presidents policy from
the Maine republicans.
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From All Parts Of the
World.
GENERAL GRANTS MOVEMENTS
Divisions Among the Irish Home
Rule Members.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN PRUSSIA
rpY CABLE TO TIE HERALD. I


LONDON, August I, 1871
Ex-President Grant has arrived at varese. There
was grand concert and display Of fireworks In his
honor last night.
DIVIDED HOME RULERS
A meeting OF homo rulo members was held yesterday
to consider the in Parliament The
proceedings private; but is understood rcso.
luton was proposed censurng the obstructivea Aei
three hours stormy debate the meeting broke up
without passing any resolution
PUTTING SETTLEMENT.
The Standard says 1t is understood that In conse-
quence the abortive result yesterdays meeting Of
homo rulers tho point at issue between tho obstruc
tvcs and their opponents will DO decided In Ircland
during the recess
RIOrfNG
The nationalists yesterday held demonstration IA
Belfast celebrate the birth Of O'Connel Disturb
ances occurred In several parts of the town. Some
houses wrecked and q number Of persona
wounded Up to late hour tonight the military,
both infantry and cavalry patrolng tho streets
HOLIDAY IN ENGLAND
The first Monday IN August being one Of the days
appointed by act OF Parliament as bank holiday il
was observed a general holiday throughout tho
United Kingdom.
DESTRUCTIVE PRUSSIA AND SWEDEN
Special dispatches to the Times report that the
village OF Garusec, Marenwcrdcr Prussia, has
been destroyed by fire and 800 persons rendered
homeless, and that tho town OF Sundsvall, Sweden,
has been almost totally burned
CONCLAvE.
despatch from Romo says:-Cardnal Simeoni
has addressed circular to the Papai
Nuncos, instructing them to inform the va
rous governments that whatever notifications
may be found requisite tho ceremonies OF the next
concave they will not be Of nature to Interfere with
the rights Of Catholic Powers lessen tho factiea
for their exercising them fully and freely
THE INDIAN FAMINE.
The latest official reports state that Nepau we'll
as Burmah and Assam have had sufficient rainfall.
and how safe.
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THE WEATHER.-Tlc depression of Dakota
has now moved to the upper lake region at
tended by rains in the southern margin. The
northeastern depression is slowly moving over
Newfoundland. also attendcdby light rains on the
Nova Scotia coast. Rains have fallen throughout
the Northwest and West and along the Atlantic
coast. The temperature has generally risen in
The central districts with the prevailing south
erly winds. 1t Is also high in the Northwest,
but will probably fall there during the day In
the Northeast the Temperature continues rea
lively low. The weather in New York to-day
will be warm and cloudy or partly cloudy, pos
ably with rain and followed BY falling tompera-
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REPUBLICAN REoRGANHArIoN.--The repub-
lican city Assembly district organizations appear
to have no difficulty in filing the places made
vacant under the civil service rules. There is
no lack of candidates, and they seem to be fully
respectable and capable i'll every way as the
gentlemen who think their retirement will ruin
the party, but who ut The time would
rather see it ruined than resign their comfortable
berths in the Custom House. The trouble with
them is they are afraid they will lose their
places as soon as they are driven away from the
machine.
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TRAIN WRECKING.-It is to be hoped the
scoundrels who attacked the train on the Jersey
Central road last evening will be punished as
severely the law permits. They need not
hope to escape. The outrage was dastardly and
cowardly, and we trust no one in the employ of
the road had anything to do with it.
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BRooKLYN's CoLLECToR-The charges against
Collector Frceland with one exception Sc
rous. That he is personally and politically OPP
posed to the President, if such be the fact,
ought to make very little difference if he is all
right in other respects. 1t does not really make
much difference whether Mr.. Frceland supports
the policy of the administration not
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-07

THE BATTLE OF PLEvNA.-We present this
morning plan of the battle field OF Plevna,
complied from the most reliable sources OF in
formation, including the HERALD special cable
despatch describing the action. The analysis of
the military situation accompanying the map
will be found interesting, it traces the opera
tons which led to the disastrous defeat of the
Russians.
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DOUBLY MURDERED.

LEWISTON, n T., August g. 18Th
Tho body Of Elias NJ. Bromley, OF Clifton, was found
In tho Niagara River at Lewiston, on Saturday. AZ
the inquest held tho following verdict was
"Elias N. Bromley camc To his death Wednesday, Au-
gust at the whirlpool, Niagara Rocr, by violence at
the HANDS OF Christopher NJ. Flanagan, by blows on
the head with n stone or other hard implement break
Ing his skull and produung injuries sufficient 10 cause
death was then pushed or thrown into river and
drownedD
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-07

THF FACT that Secretary Luckcy, Of Utah
Territory, who worked SO zealously to shield
some Of the st. Louis Whiskey Ring men, is in
tercsting himself in the retention of Surveyor
Gene.al Kimball is a very excellent reason why
Mr.. Kimball should be removed-a. least most
people will think so.
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The Maine Repu b1tcRns.

1t is generally understood that the Repub-
lican Convention of Maine will make such
platform rs Mr. Blaine desires it to. He is
the brains of the State. Some people
imagine that the Maine platform is therefore
likely to dsapprove of the Presidents
Southern policy but we do not anticipate
ANYTHING of the kind Mr. Blaine gave the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-07

SARATOGA RACEs.-Good horses, good weather
and good track cannot fail to make good races.
And such was the case ut Saratoga yesterday.
The attendance very large and several of
the contests were close and exciting.
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which we can be guided rs people, and
they cannot be too closely followed. When
we forget or depart from them there is
danger and, it may be, disaster.
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WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket opened strong, fell off and closed generally
stronger Gold steady Mt 1862. Govern
ment bonds were firm, State bonds dull and rail-
roads quiet. Money on call opened Mt 212
per cent, advanced to per cent and closed easy
at l., q per cent
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THE New YORK YACHT CLUB will rendezvous
mt Glen Cove to-day preparatory to starting ION
the Eastern cruise. A large number Of yachts
will, it is expected, attend.
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JUDGE VAN BRUNT, in ending the famous suit
of the Countess Hcinruch yesterday, was moi
very complimentary to the fair artist.
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BALTIMORE WATER LOAN,

BALTIMORE, Nd, August 9, 1871
Bids were opened to-day tor the $4,000 900 i've per
cent city water loan. There wero slxty-thrce bids
amounting s. frora par to 103 all of which
were awarded. Among the largest bidders were sew.
ernl Now York banking FIRMS
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The HERALD special newspaper h'ain 10 Sara
foga, Sharon and RiehfeM Springs, Lake L't-e'7,c
and Lahc George and all intermediate points, ria
Hudson Rirer, Abany aud Schenectady, runs
eray Sunday during the summer season Ncms-
dealers must send in their orders direct to The NEW
YORK HERALD.
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From oar reports his morning the probabilities
are that The ireaDter in Nep York today ,cW be
sca'm and cloudy or partly cloudy, possibly sclh
rain and fOlLorcd BIZ fitLiiMa temperature.
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THE SITUATION at Scranton, Pa, where the
miners will neither 20 to work themselves nor
allow others to do so, cannot, of course, be toll
Grated very long. When a strike assumes that
phase it becomes the worst kind of injustice aud
tyranny
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AVOIDING JURY DUTY is rather expensive.
Nearly forty gentlemen were fined two hundred
and fifty dollars each yesterday for nOn-attend-
ance.
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OYSTERS grown in Virginia waters belong t.
Virgini,lls so the United States Supreme Cour
lccides and thus ends long controversy.
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Ir Is THE OLD STORY with the Newark Citi-
zcns' Insurance Company. A fancy business
extravaganza; retrenchmcnt when too late, and
the receiver.
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KENTUCKY elected Legislature yesterday
and Of course went heavily democratic.
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TIE COUNTESS OF DUPrERIN is still in stays
legal ones.
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The HERALD mM be sent 10 any address, free OF
POSTAGE, for One Dollar pei, month.
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

NEW YORK, TUESDAY. AUGUST I. 1877.