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The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-29
WALL PAPER.

NEWEST STYLES JUST RECEIVED,
From the Richest co the Cheapest.
Rosewood and Walnut parlor and bedroom
Furniture. with hume GUS fancy articles
Furniture renewed in the best manner, at
40 Royal street,
my5 2m HENRY N, SIEBRECHT,
The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-06-29

TWENTY EIGHTH ANNUAL STATEMENT
Or THE-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26
Cheap Cabs!

What blessing these would prove to the
weary or hurried business man who has now
to jolt up and down town in the slow and
oyercrowded street car, or to suffer from the
extortions Of the hackmen! Many efforts
have been made to organize cheap transit
cab company in New York, but for some
reason or other they have failed II GER
tainly could not have been through any
want of confidence in the support
of the public, because any promoter
of such o scheme could not fail
to perceive that he was aiming at
supplying great public want. Although
these failures have occurred we are glad to
know that new effort to put this laudable
enterprise on its wheels is being made, and
with fair prospects of success. We can
promise those interested in it that they will
be heartily sustained by the citizens OF
New York, provided they carry out the
system of cheap cabs as it ought to be man.
aged. The hanson cab is almost ex-
clusively employed in London for rapid
transit through the crowded streets of
that city when the underground railroad
leads to IN inconvenient distance from the
travellers destination. In New York they
would have no competition from the lum-
bering street cars or stages. Light, open
coit,res, on the Paris plan, should be intro
duced for summer USE They are Just
suited to our warm climate, and would be-
come very popular for shopping parties and
business men going to and from their Offices
down town. We must have cheapness and
convenience combined in the new cab sys-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

It is reported that reinforcements have
reached the Turkish commanders in adj
vance of sErzeroum, and have in
spired them with SO much confidence
that they are already talking Of assum-
ing the offensive. Indeed, it is stated
that Mukhtar Pacha is marching to
retake Ardahan, and that the Turks at Kara
Kilissa are about to advance along the road
toward Bajazid. The first report we do not
credit, because tho idea is so wild that it
must have originated in the brain OF
some individual who knows nothing
Of the character of the country or OF
the relative strength and positions of the
hostile armies, or it may have been circulated
to appease the sofas. If the Russian scouts
have approached Olti, which is some twenty
five miles to the westward Of Mukhtar
Pachas position at Bardess, the adj
vance guard of the Russians must
have been close at hand and the
main force advancing from Ardahan not far
away It must also be remembered that
Mukhtar Pacha's army cannot leave its in
trenched position in the Souganlu passes in
confronting it. The advance of the Turks
on Arabian is therefore based on the absurd
supposition that there are no Russians
nearer to Bardess than Kars. Be-
sides, we have report that the
Russians arc advancing rapidly on
Erzeroum, which they dare not do If
the Turks were in position to commence Of
fensive operations. Indeed, both reports sug-
gest game of military hide and seek in the
mountains and valleys of Armenia which is
utterly opposed to the fact that neither Nell
koff nor Mukhtar Pacha are fools. Our opin-
ion is, therefore, that while the Russian wings
are slowly and cautiously closing around
the Turkish main army at Bardess the
centre has not and will not move just yet,
at least until the fianking operations pro-
duce decided results 1t is easy to per-
ceive that the Turks are making active
at. Kara Kilissa and Olti. They now
confront the converging Russian columns
in semi-circular formation, with their
right and left wings resting on the points
named. The despatch announcing the pro-
posed removal OF Mukhtar Pacha's head
quarters to Erzeroum is almost conclusive
evidence that the Turks are too much occu-
pied in the effort to retreat in safety to
organize any advance. Batoum is reported
to be in serious danger of capture by the
Russians.
A Turkish gunboat has had O sharp en-
gagement with Russian battery near MIC
opolis. The battery being on low ground
suffered considerably.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26
Safe and Nearing Port.

The anxiety caused by the non-arrival in
Europe OF the City of Brussels and her in
teresting company Of pilgrim passengers
has long since given place to sense of sat
isfaction growing out OF the knowledge Of
her safety. Already her fourth officer has
reached Cork harbor, being taken off by the
Russia, and has sent out tugs to bring the
disabled steamer into port. When he left
his ship on Thursday she was only two
hundred and seventy miles from land, and
is, therefore, by this time beating along the
south coast of Ireland, or probably in tow
Of the steamers sent to her assistance. The
HERALD estimate of the time of her arrival
off Cork harbor will prove correct to the
day. The history of her voyage will be
read with deep interest by those who feared
for her safety, and the sorrow that shrouded
the hearts of SO many will be turned into
JOY and thankfulness for her preservation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26
How TO Celebrate the Fourth.

correspondent, whose communication
we print elsewhere, suggests that if the
Mayor will forbid the use of firecrackers,
torpedoes and miscellaneous fireworks on
the Fourth of July the insurance compa-
MES might be induced to make grateful
and moderate subscription toward sending
the children of the poorer wards on excur-
sions to the Sound, the Lower Bay or the
Hudson River. This strikes us as happy
thought, and we shall be pleased to hear
from some of the insurance men. very
moderate subscription would suffice to give
n large number OF poor children an uncom-
monty happy. healthful and harmless Fourth
of July.
1t is also suggested that in many neigh
borhoods in the city parents might use the
money they would otherwise waste on fire.
crackers and torpedoes in buying the
children cooked hats and marching
them in procession to some square
near at hand, where-the police re-
straining the rowdy element-the young
sters could be RECALLED with rounds Of ice
cream and perhaps an address. This plan
strikes us as excellent and practical !:
but there is no lack of ways to
amuse the boys and girls OF Now
York on Independence Day. What is
needed, to begin WITH is a command from
the city authorities which shall make it I'M
lawful for any boy on that day to blow his
head off or set fire to his neighbours house.
Wecan have quiet and safe Fourth of July
if the Mayor will forbid the use of frecrack-
ers on that day, and we have little doubt he
will respond to the desires of the'citizens in
the matter if they are made known to
him. How would it do for the insurance
companies to lead of in petition to the
Mayor and Common Council? In Balti-
more they have done this already, and the
people have become accustomed to celebrat-
ing the national anniversary in q sensible
manner. Why not New York?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26
Trouble In conssa nsinople.

In Constantinople the Moslem fanatics are
prepared to play the same sort of game with
the Sultan and his government as was
played in Paris in 1870 by extremists, who
pretended to favor very different cause
Between the mob that bowls for freedom
and the mob that howls for the repression
of freedom there might seem but little SIM
ilarity but they are alike in the impor-
tant fact that each for the time
practically claims to be the supreme
power in the State-to dictate policies
and plans to GUST Ministers and Executives
and appoint their successors; and the same
general principles control them whether in
Paris or Constantinople. Frances efforts to
resist Germany were crippled to On incalcu-
liable extent by the overthrow of the govern
ment in September, 1870. On that occasion
the nation did worse than ''swap horses
while swimming stream" for Mr.. Lincoln's
famous smile supposes that even in change
one government will take the place of an
other But in France this did not occur.
No government worthy the name was
really ever organized until the peace was
made, in place of the one cast down.
This fire in the rear this assault on the
nation when it is detenceless at home be-
cause it's forces are engaged by the public
enemy, may occur in any country; but is
only likely to be of considerable conse-
quence where the patriotic spirit OF the
people has been destroyed by corruption or
tyranny--where the nation is really demon
allied. There has never been nation in
Europe where this LIBERALIZATION was SO ex-
IRENE as it is to-day in Turkey; for it is
within the limit of numbers to say
that three-quarters of the populace would
prefer the triumph of the public enemy to
that of the domestic robbery and tyranny
that is called government. There is, there
fore, no support to the government but its
armed force, and it is ut the mercy OF fac
one sort or another in favor of prominent
statesmen just in proportion as it fails to
have handy soldiers enough to clear the
streets on any occasion. The last demon
stration of the sofas was in the interest Of
Midhat Pacha, who was exiled three months
been put aside without effect it has indefi-
nitely deferred his return.
1t was evidently Of alarming proportions
at one moment, since, as our dispatches
show, the Sultan fed to the Asiatic side of
the Bosphorus; but a judicious display Of
force made firing unnecessary to secure
tranquility. But the trouble remains ever
ready to recur, and it is an element Of
danger that cannot be extirpated, unless
there shall come to power sultan of o
more vigorous spirit than any recent occu-
pant OF the throne The news that the
Emperor of Austria is to visit the Emperor
OF Russia at Ploiesti may we'll alarm the
government in Constantinople even more
than the sofia demonstration did.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

ought to show Mr.. Morton and the other
republican leaders that they need states
manship and q real and live policy to regain
spite of their long possession of power;
in spite of their superior political
skill; in spite of patronage unscrupulously
used; in spite of custom houses, and troops,
and eminent debaters, and tho affection of
the country for their party, and its sus-
picion of their opponents, they have been
steadily losing ground for four years? Can
they not see that, having lost the House, in
which, SO late as 1875, they were able to do
what they liked, they have now almost lost
the Senate? And all the while they have
been screaming about ''solid South" and
the more loudly they have cried out the
more districts and States they have lost.
The country is tired of this cry. The
American people are practical, even in their
political notions. They are not prosperous,
and they want party which will restore
prosperity. They have no foreign COM
merce, and they will applaud party which
will enable them to revive that. Their in
dustries are at standstill, and they
seek for party that will set the
mills going again and reopen the work
shops. They have no ships, and they will
support party which knows how to get
their flag on the ocean again. They have
long suffered from currency of uncertain
value. and they want party that will give
them one Of definite and fixed value 1t is
because President Hayes and his Cabinet
promise the country these things, because
they have begun by giving US peace and con-
stitutional government, that they are the best
friends OF the republican party; and we adj
wise Senator Morton to cease his outcries
and support the Presidents wise policy in
all it's parts.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

THE WEATHER.-Rains have continued on the
northeast and middle Atlantic coast and through
the Middle States, attendant the low pressure
now moving eastward from the New England
States. They are not, however, heavy ut any
point. In the Platte Valley heavy rain fell
throughout the day, and also in the South
west, but the area of precipitation in each case
was very limited. The winds throughout the
country have been from fresh to moderate and
generally from the northward, except in the West
aud Southwest where they are from the south
aud southeast. The area Of highest pressure is
still over Lake Superior. whence it has extended
southwark toward the Gulf The heat area
within the isotherm Of seventy degrees extends
from the Atlantic coast at Cape Hatteras south
ward of Tennessee, to the Mississippi Valley,
thence rorthward to Manitoba in n narrow neck,
where IL expands into much wider proportions.
The area Of eighty degrees and upward embraces
,nly the Southwestern States. The weather in
New York to-day will be warmer and partly
cloudy, probably with showers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26


Our Washington correspondent explodes
in few words the somewhat startling re-
port that ono hundred and fifty prominent
republicans had met in secret to form new
and powerful organization opposed to the
Presidents policy. The hotel registers do
not show the presence of even half dozen
prominent republicans at the capital,
and the secret meeting turns out
to have consisted of dozen or
two clerks in the public Offices who do
not, for sufficient reasons, like the talk about
civil service examinations. Mr.. Blaine, our
correspondent adds, will get his first news
Of this famous demonstration on his home
ward journey, and we may take it for
granted that for the present the country is
safe.
There is one peculiarly about all these
rumors of opposition to the President
when anybody is accused Of being the
leader Of the mutiny he presently and very
publicly denies. Mr.. Ingersoll was the first
mutinecr, but he promptly showed himself
loyal and true Mr.. Blaine was talked about,
but he too seems to be well enough salts
fed. Mr.. William d. Kelley was accused of
having attacked Secretary Sherman, but he
says he has the highest opinion Of Mr. Sher-
man. General Logan was supposed to be in
opposition, but he gives no sign. In fact,
there is nobody to bell the cat.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26
Mexican Enterprises.

General Escobedo is said to be on the
point Of leaving San Antonio for the Mex-
can States, and the latest news is that
several States are ready to pronounce for
Lerdo, who is regarded as the constitutional
President Mr.. Lerdo is now in this city,
but his adherents are evidently active on
the border, and he has by no means
given up the hope of regaining con-
troll of the country. There is some
reason to believe that he has the sympathy
Of the powers ut Washington, the tradition
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Collars have frozen up stiff again.

Collars have frozen up stiff again.
Logan may be Collector OF Chicago
Christine Nilsson is in glorious health.
The social language OF the Bugarians is Greek.
The Hunsarians claim the Turks as blood cousins
The latest is fried liver which has got down to hard
pan.
After all, gentlemen, give Mr. Tden some credit Tor
patience.
General Beauregard is said to dress Beauregardess
Of expense
Chancellor Runyon, Of New Jersey, will spend the
summer in Europe.
President Hayes is looking for four-loaved clover
and old line whig
Let US remove the carpo-baggers to the Black Hills
and lose them the way.
A Western paper asks, "why not have both the
paper and the silver dollar2" Cos.
Gail Hamilton takes up her quill and says:-"Look
out for mel III strike you with feather"
The 81. Louis Republicans (dcmocrat) says that
CRAMPS country men think more OF him than they did
six months ago.
A Massachusetts Newfoundland dog drowned him.
self because he had been muzzlcd. The Massachusetts
mind IS nothing If not free.
The Buffalo Express wants to know whether VIC arc
in favor OF silver money. Certainly, my son. pay that
dollar any way you please
The Mobile Register is willing that Hayes should 60
Gratis should 60 over TO him.
General William I. sherman and Colonel John L
Tourtciloc, OF the Generals sta arrived the Fifth
Avenue last evening from West Point
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirey-.Sun :--"Thc republicans
have a very gloomy future before them, and IL re-
joiccs heart OF every true Southorncr know II. "
when q man has vest pocket full OF wet hvc.ccnt
pieces IL is morally certain that he has been one o.
those stores where they sell sort OF German drink
called lager.
Buffalo Express :-"Thc NEw YORK HERALD P. L.
will shortly a recipe book. We select from the
advance shects--'Buttcr hot biscuits with your nn-
gers; knife applied to them causes soggyncss.'"
Chicago and St. Louis cannot agree. One charges
tho other with having big feet and the other charges
the one With having big ears Let them compromise
by trying st. LOUIS Arctic rubber on Chicagos ear
Colonel james Baker says:-"Thorc is no combna-
ton Of circumstances more favorable for cruelty aud
massacre than that terror nation
like man, in panic, Is In a state OF temporary in
sanity
Boston Giobe:-"Mormonism should not DO dealt
with as system OF religion, for such tho govern
men has right to take cognzance OF IL. 1t Is only
specific practices against which laws and governmental
action should be aimedn
Burlington Hdwkeve;-An ingenious girl up on
North Hin, who has never "a fcller' in the world,
goads the other girls in that ncigLborhood to madness
by lighting up the parlor brilliantly and then setting
her iather's hat where its shadow will BIO boldly
marked against the curtain.
There Is no need for going far as DR.. Crosby pre-
scrioes Tor vacation ramping excursion One OF tho
best routes Is from Paterson the Preakness HILLS
ara up the Jersey Highlands TO Greenwood Lake, aud
thence into the Warwick Valley toward Greenwood
| where tho Hudson Hills lead to West Point
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26
The Athletic Meeting ON Decoration
Ony.

The annual spring meeting of the New
York Athletic Club at Mott Haven on Deco
ration Day promises to be one of the finest
athletic gatherings Of the year. Prompt
ness in starting each event at the time set,
instead of last years quite unnecessary de-
lays, shorter programme, care taken that
too many shall not start abreast, and imme-
date and unhesitating disqualification of
any one who in any Of the walking races
breaks into skip or run-these are among
the points to which especial attention
should be given, while no pains should be
spared to have the track in exceptionally
fine order for good work.
II would also be well, as there is danger
that there will be no intercollegiate athletic
meeting this year, to see that the invitation
to participate in the games be made as gen.
eral as possible among the college boys. If
the army and navy could contribute good
men, or if any representatives from clubs
would like to have brush with our boys,
this is the time to ask them in. The meeting.
is, as it should be, near the city, and we trust
it will always be. The day is unusually
we'll chosen, being alike a holiday and at a
time Of year when the air is neither
cold nor hot. Preparation for the various
struggles is inexpensive, no costly boats or
other apparatus being needed. The invita-
ton is a wide and generous one, and good
behavior is assured, as the many ladies who
enjoyed the pretty spectacle last year can
testify All, then, who wish an afternoons
fine sport should arrange to see these manly
pastimes and lend their aid in popularizing
IN institution the like Of which should exist
in every city and town, and even village,
throughout our land.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

Of our government being to look with favor
on the maintenance of constitutional rule
in the neighboring Republic; But, after all
sympathy in such cases means but little.
Mr.. Evarts will probably be glad if Mr..
Lerdo succeeds, but he will not help him.
Meantime, as Mexico possesses in the
eyes of some Mexicans an unconstitutional
ruler, and as the country is in revolution
airy condition, it can hardly be held Of
fensive on our part if our troops should
pursue Mexican robbers across the border
and make cattle raiding and robbery trife
danperOus
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

THE CoRESA Observation-Disclosures is not
without influence on war, and an illustration is
found in the effect which the Turkish govern
ment has made upon the IIungarians by return
ing to them the valuable Corinna Library which
was captured during one OF the wars between
the two countries. 1t is reported that this act of
courtesy, or justice, has caused Hungary to SYM
pathizc with Turkey, and some Of the prophetic
statesmen even 80 so far as to say that by this
feeling Austria will be finally placed in oppo-
sition 10 Russia, else lose the moral support Of
the Hungariails. At any rate the return of an
ancient library must be rs gratifying to that ma
ton was the restoration to Italy and Spain Of
the pictures and marbles taken away by Napo-
leon the Great.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

Mr.. BEEc1IER on THE WAR.-What Mr..
Beecher thinks Of the European war is of in
terest because of his influence. The opinions
expressed in his lecture last evening are positive
and all his sympathies appear to be with the
Russians He believes the Turkish Empire in
Europe should be ground to powder and de-
nounces England as being always the ally Of
despotisin. The address will please the Gar,
but Mr.. Beecher will henceforth have the bitter
ll-will of the Sultan.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

STOCKS OR BcNDs.-The imaginary distinction
between stocks and bonds as used as business
erms has been set aside by decision of the
United States Court, sitting in Trenton. The
Court ruled that an indictment in which the
.erm stocks was used for bonds could not for
hat reason be invalidated. This decision seems
sensible for while there are no absolute syno-
nymes in the English language slight shades of
meaning should not be allowed to interfere with
business matters in which the intent is clearly
understood
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket was comparatively dull, and there was
q general advance in prices during the fore
noon. This advance included all the really
active stocks, and the market closed stronger
than it has done for some time past. Gold was
steady at 1O7. Government stocks were strong
and higher, while railroad bonds were irregular.
Money on call lent easily at 1l2 n per cent,
the former being the closing quotation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

THE COACHING CLUB.-The first parade of our
four-inhands this season will occur to-day, and
will be brilliant and pleasant event. The
coaches, led by President Jay, will start from
Madison square, and after a drive through
Central Park will return to the city in the even
ing. Coaching promises to increase greatly in
popularity this summer, and we have already
two stage lines successfully established, one to
Concy Island and the other to New Rochelle.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

The RIFLE did splendid work at Creedmoor
yesterday. The contest for the Leech Cup was
signalized by the highest score ever made in
public match at eight hundred, nine hundred
and one thousand yards, Major Jewell winning
the prize by two hundred and thirteen points
out Of q possible two hundred and twenty-five.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-05-26

GERMANY has adopted system Of patent
laws, and it is curious that until now she never
had laws Of the kind. Yet it is country
famous for its inventions, and it is claimed that
many Of the most important American mechani-
cal improvements originated in German thought.