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The New York herald., 1877-09-20
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

No man sneezes to suit you.
Count Auguste Itchy, of Austria, is at the Bruns-
wick.
Senator Thomas F. Bayard, Of Delaware, is at the
New York
Walnut hulls very thick this year, and this indi-
Gates that we shall have early Gail Hamilton
A despatch from Portland, Oregon states that Gen.
eral Sherman arrived Walla walla yesterday morn.
ing
We are informed that after all the lark get
up very cary. II he doesn't got up till nine O'Clock
just call US, please. "Y-e-s,s, I'm conn
Heinc, In describing feminine character, described
himself when he saii IA hot volcano OF cnth usasm,
over which there fell occasionally snow-avalsnche Of
laughter"
The hoodlums of Oakland Cal. Opposite to San
Fraucisco( fire pistol shots into church galleries on
Sunday evenings, SO as 10 scare tho girls They
Gently did SO while Dio Lewis speaking
N. Charles Lassalle says that NJ. Gaillardet not
editor of the Courier des Eats Unis At the time
1s4S when Mr.. Hiram Cranston assaulted by some
one certainly not NJ Ga,harde aferward represented
as connected with that able and brilliant paper.
Warsaw correspondent says that Polish ladies have
turn-up noses, 1Irt in public but do lot Of 1t
IN private; dre beautiful and not vouptuous, but cold
and keen, and ENJOY tho propriees of lie easily and
dignlfedly and much more so than the mon, who
nervous scheming and self Econscious
The New York herald., 1877-09-20
Bemus Heights.

The one hundredth anniversary Of the
battle Of Bemus Heights was celebrated
with appropriate ceremonies yesterday on
the ground on which the memorable engage
ment was fought. To that battle and its
result is attributable the ultimate surrender
of General Burgoyne's army-an event
which is admitted to have had most i'm
portant bearing on the final triumph of the
republican cause. But for the check then
given to the British arms a junction of the
forces of Burgoyne and Sir Henry Clinton
might have been effected at Albany; the
State Of New York, then as now the most
important of the brotherhood, might have
been held completely under the power of
the enemy, and the struggle for indepen-
dence would at least have been protracted.
The engagement of September 10, 1777, was
by no means q decisive one. The British
had hoped to gain possession Of the high
ground which commanded the left wing Of
the Americans; but tn cir right, under General
Frazer, who fell in the second engagement,
on the 7th of October, encountered the
fiery Colonel Morgan with his rifemen and
hours fighting were stopped in their adj
vance. General Burgoyne, indeed, because
he remained in possession of the field of bat
tie, claimed victory as the result Of the days
struggle but a check was under the cir
cumstances a defeat to his army. The Amer
leans were constantly receiving additions
to their force and were well supplied, while
Burgoyne could hope for no re:nforcements
and his supplies could not easily be replen-
ished. The American position was too strong
to be successfully assaied and now the
British had been taught that they had some
hard fighting to do before they could hope
even to approach the patriot camp. Every
days delay brought new dangers to General
Bureoyne, and the fact that his army re-
NAMED inactive from September 10 until
October Z a period of eighteen days, is the
best proof that the result of the first battle
of Bemus Heights was substantial victory
for the republicans.
In this year of centennial celebrations,
when we live over again our early trials
and our early triumphs. no events are more
deserving of commemoration than those
which have made the picturesque region
along the Hudson River between Saltwater
and Schuylerville landmark in our ma
tional history. Yesterdays jubilee was the
first or preliminary one only, and will be
followed by more imposing celebration at
Schuylerville on the date Of the surrender,
when the corner stone of q monument COM
memorating the event will be laid. But
the patriotism which found vent in Saratoga
county yesterday had sufficient to justify
it. On Freeman's farm the blow was struck
which paralyzed Burgoyne's movement and
made the eventual surrender inevitable.
The ceremonies were held on the heights,
ut the spot where the fortified log barn,
dignifed with the name of Fort Nelson,
stood and where the American breastworks
confronted the royalist army. Although
this was not the real battle ground its ele-
vated position affords view OF the entire
field Of operations. From the heights the
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

more absolutely it requires the widest
markets, because the more certainly will
what it can produce exceed in quantity
what it will itself consume.
1t pleases us, therefore. to believe that the
administration of President Hayes is to be q
business more than political administra-
ton. and that the President and his Cabi-
net really mean to attend to the industrial
questions, which have been Sc long neg
lected, because the war and its conse-
quences fixed our attention on other mat
ters. Nor Is Mr.. Evarts mistaken in believ-
ing that If the present administration re-
stores the country to prosperity that will
give it an honorable and glorious place in
our history. There are high and mighty
politicians who turn up their noses at such
petty considerations as these, and who
scorn ''bread and butter policy" just rs
when Mr.. Hayes began his new Southern
policy and restored the country to peace
there were politicians who manifested
noble contempt for peace and were certain
that the Southern policy was blunder
But this kind of craftsmanship finds no
enduring sympathy in the public mind.
Let the administration go on. 1t has given
us peace; let it now give US prosperity, and
it will matter little what the chronic
grumblers, theorists and partisans have to
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eye is enabled to trace the routes by which
the British army advanced to the engage
ment; the line along which Morgan and Ar
mold led their eager troops against Frazer's
command; the spot where the hostile
forces suddenly found themselves face to
face; the farm on which the fercest part OF
the struggle occurred, and Mill Creek, at
the bottom of the middle ravine, across
which the contending troops were driven
backward and forward, as the tide OF battle
set now in favor of the English and now OF
our sountrymen, until its ripping stream
was Redeemed with the blood of the slain
Certainly no more important events than
those which marked these stirring days OF
September and October one hundred years
ago can be commemorated by Americans,
and the people of Saratoga are to be con-
graduated on the marked success Of the
first of their centennial celebrations.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20
stanley and tho Prcss.

In a judicious article on Stanley's latest
success the Tribune says of the expedition
thus ended that lit stands alone in variety
and Importance ofachievement in the records
of African travel" This seems to us fair
judgment. 1t is, we suppose. the opinion
of O writer who, by an extensive study OF
the subject of African exploration, is better
know what is new and important in African
discovery. AS the opinion of such writer
it prefgures what will be the ultimate judg-
ment on Stanley's labor; for it is the privi-
lege of intelligence to perceive Immediately
that which is only to be seen much later by
the many, whose first vision of any great
event is always distorted by prejudices or
clouded by the various vapors Of their sur
roundings. AS further evidence Of the
fact that superior intelligence perceives
Immediately what is OF really great
value in the substantial acquisitions Of
knowledge we notice that our always able,
but sometimes tart, contemporary, the Sun,
promptly offers it's congratulations to Stan
ley as having "gained the distinction Of set
tling the only remaining problem of African
geography" This is tribute to be held
in peculiar esteem and to be treasured like
certain gems that connoisseurs value less
for their splendor than for their rarity.
Our contemporary recognition of the i'm
portance Of Stanley's last contributions to
geographical knowledge is not open to any
suspicion that it is base result of per-
sonal admiration for that traveller At
time when the whole world Of journalism
was in blaze of generous admiration over
Stanley's discovery of Livingstone the San
distinguished itself by lofty superiority
to the passion of the hour, and proved that
It was not as other journals are, at least so
fur as relates to sympathy with the impulses
of the people. At the risk of showing that it
could not tell real news from o counterfeit
article it elaborately endeavored to show that
Stanleys stories were not true; but at least
it showed then the resolute honesty Of its
intentions, and that resolute honesty gives
value to its present recognition From the
Times also comes q very handsome and
hearty recognition and appreciation Of the
success Of our correspondent. In the
country press the tone Of comment is all in
generous recognition of the great achieve
ment. In fact, they are all proud of it,
for all Justly perceive that o triumph like
this is not the possession of any one estab-
lishment, but of the whole newspaper
press
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Progress OF the War.

Evidently the repeated reports from Con-
stantinople to the effect that Suleiman
Pacha's army had passed the Balkans were
all erroneous, for the attempt to storm
Fort st. Nicholas in the Shipka Pass an
nounces his continued presence there. It
is likely that the originators of those re-
ports intended it to be understood that
Suleiman had passed over the mountain
by the disputed pass, presenting in
that delicate form their declaration
that the Russian resistance was over
come. But they will have to wait yet
q while for that especial fruition of their
hopes In the latest Balkan battle there
was practised against the Turks maneuvre
that in their hands has several times sue
ceeded against the Russians. AS Schackoskoy
carried in the first great fight at Plevna the
redoubts on the Turkish right and imme-
diately lost them, and as Skobeleff lost
again the redoubts he had stormed with
such slaughter near Grivitza, so the
Turks, having carried the Russian
position with great carnage, lost it
Immediately upon the arrival of Russian
reinforcements. Already the fighting in the
Shipka Pass has cost the Ottoman army
about half corps Of veteran. troops-an ir-
reparable loss and one very likely to tell
ultimately on the results of future battles,
for Suleiman Pacha's troops fight as they
do not because they are Turks but because
they are old soldiers. 1t is announced
from Constantinople that thirty thousand
mon to reinforce Osman Pacha are ut
Orchanie. II is strange that fact Of that
nature should be announced. Indeed, such
An announcement suggests doubt in regard
to the fact for the authorities of Constan-
tinople have not been in the habit of
furnishing the Russians with intelligence
of the movements of Turkish troops AS
the London Times correspondent at Plevna
reports that Osman Pacha will soon be
entirely cut off from outside help it is pos
sible that the troops ut Orchanie, if there
are any there, will have to reckon with the
Russians before they reach the general they
ore sent to strengthen.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20
ADJUSTMENTS.

"a WONDERFUL WOMAN" AT wooD's THEATRE.
Woods Theatre, Brooklyn, formerly Hoocy's Opera
House, opened last evening for the season, and
the improvements made gave the interior neat and
comfortable appearance The attraction was
play entitled "a Wonderful Woman" with Miss jean
Burnside In the principal character. 1t Is
adapted from novel by Miss Fleming and
appears to follow tho story closely. The plot is ex-
tromcly sensational, and deals with English society
as we presume, and hopc, i does not Mystery
murder, madness, revenge. resurrection and other
crimes and surprises arc the clements OF
tho tale. The drama has plenty Of pow
erlul situations, and evidently written
for strong stage effects TNis results in hurried
movement anu an abrupt manner of working up the
cl,maxes. Much OF the dialogue is clever ami fire.
quenty amusing, and the characters strongly
outlined. The curtain was raised at the
close of each act, In obedience the
demands OF tho aadence Tho heroine
Katberine Dangerned, Is one OF those vonde RI al
women beiicved TO be dead but rcturn to re-
vengc their wrongs disguised as governesscs Mss
Jean Burnside performed the character in unccr
tam crude manner, and interrupted tho
acton by recitation Of the battle of
Fontenoy." error tor which. arc sorry
10 say, The reading did not atone. The rc.t OF
the acting ordinarily fair, with the cxcep
ton OF n very gloomy, comic scene 10 churchyard.
where two hilarious rcsurrectiontsts open an cmpty
grave. The scenery good and the play well mounted
throughout
The New York herald., 1877-09-20
General McClella n.

Yesterday was proud day for this distin-
guished and popular democrat. TO the great
surprise of everybody he was nominated for
Governor of New Jersey without any personal
effort and while he was absent in distant
State. At about the same hour when he
was SO unexpectedly nominated at Trenton
in one of the widest scenes ever presented
by political convention, General McClel-
Ian was receiving a splendid ovation
at Faneuil Hall in Boston, offered
by personal admirers and old COM
panions in arms, without any thought that
what they were doing could be OF any politi-
cal significance. Nor would it have had any
if those who assisted at that splendid COM
pliment had not unconsciously exceeded
their intentions. The Boston friends of
General Mcclellan "builded wiser than they
knew" and helped his canvass for Governor
all the more effectually by not intending it.
His nomination, as soon as it is known, will
send on electric thrill through the New Jer-
sey democrats, and their enthusiasm will
be kinded to the highest pitch when
they find that their candidate, at the very
hour of his nomination, when neither he
nor his Boston admirers knew what was
coming, was receiving great ovation which
demonstrated his wonderful personal popu
larity. The demonstration in Faneuil Hall
is worth to his canvass hundred ratifca-
ton meetings, because it was great COM
pliment paid to the man and the soldier
under circumstances which attested it's full
sincerity and unaffected warmth
General Mcclellan owes his nomination
to the rivalry Of the contesting candidates,
which had become so heated as to threaten
the unity of the party. In this state Of
things his name was suddenly sprung upon
the Convention. It ran like wildfire in o
heap of combustibles The frantic efforts to
fight it by friends of the other candidates
caused grotesque and lively hubbub; but
it was all in vain, his personal popularity
blazing through the Convention and sweep
ing all before it. There can be no doubt of
his election. The democrats would have
carried New Jersey this year with any can
didate on whom the party could have
united; but they will now carry the State
with brilliant enthusiasm, which will be
famed into sudden intensity by the oppor-
tune Boston compliment
The New York herald., 1877-09-20
Maemxhon's manife.to-.My Poiicy.'

Marshal MacMahon's address to the peo-
pie of France is pitched in tone that
would be proper and in character if he, in
stead of being citizen temporarily intrusted
with the duties of the executive Office, were
an absolute sovereign who disdained other
intercourse with the nation than such rs
sufficed to declare his supreme will and in
dictate tho consequences of disobedience
He tells the country that he dissolved the
body which represents the nation and
is the constitutional exponent of the ma
tional will because it "forgot the share
of authority which belonged to me-"
He stigmatizes the majority of that cham
ber as demagogues. 1t is proverbially easy
to call names, and the use Of opprobri-
Gus epithets will not help bad cause and
is not likely to be resorted to in the interest
of a good one. It is the policy Of the re-
dictionary party in France to endeavor to
frighten the nation out of its republican
principles by holding that in republicanism
there is no mean--that it is impossible to
draw line between Theirs and the Com
munists. Hence the policy of constantly
gogues. But the French people have sud-
denly parted with a great deal of shrewd
good sense if they do not see through this
contemplate manDuvre. But suppose for
an instant that the men called dema-
gogues are demagogues- what then? If the
French nation in choosing it's representa-
tives chooses majority Of that sort, has it
not the sovereign right to do SO? and is
there any one possessed of 'divine right"
to review and correct this expression Of the
national will? Yes this is the claim of the
President--a claim presented in words of
unparalleled arrogance and evidently put
forth as the official answer to Gambetta's
''Se sownettre on Sc dkmettre." When France
has spoken, said the republican orator,
they who now dispute her will ''must
submit or resign" When France has
spoken, says MacMahon, there will be
tranquility if she speaks the words
have set down for her; but if she pre-
tends to anything like will and words Of
her own there will be can aggravated con-
fict between the public powers )" and as to
me personally, II can neither become the
instrument Of radicalism nor abandon the
post in which the constitution has placed
me-" I cannot resign, and / will not ac-
cept as On expression of the national will
the votes of Chamber Of which I dis
approve. Never did IN Executive address
free people in words more astounding
than these.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20
Il RIPPLE SH Ell
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEpTEMBER 90. ISM.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. - TO
i''s'0e the proper classification Of advertisements
1t is absolutely necessary that they be handed IL.
before eight o'clock ere,y creming
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

GENERAL GBBoN's command suffered severely
in the late fight with the Nez Perces, twenty
nine having been killed and forty wounded.
Nearly ninety of the savages were destroyed.
There ought to be way of furnishing those
persons in Montana who have helped to prolong
the war by selling supplies to the Indians.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-Thc stock market
was dull and irregular. The advance in prices
halted for while, and the loss was not recov-
cred before the close Gold rose from 1O3 to
1881 and closed at 1O31s. Government bonds
were higher. States dull and railroads irregular
Money on call was easy at from 3 to 5 per cent,
closing at the latter figure.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20
ConkIing vietorious nj uomo.

The lively contest which has been going
on in Oneida county between the republican
friends and opponents of Senator Conkling
has resulted in decisive victory for his sup
porters So large preponderance of
Conkling delegates are getting elected to
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

From o'tr reports this morning the probabilities
are that the ,ceaAer ia New York today .riA be
cool and cloudy, sciM rain and Increasing NORTH
eQstesly uissds.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

The WEATHER.-'The progress of the Gulf
cyclone is now the most interesting mcteorologi
cal feature. Our special dispatches from New
Orleans describe the ravages OF the storm, which
include the destruction of valuable dwellings
and crops. The cyclone is now central on the
coast of the Eastern Gulf and is moving into the
South Atlantic States in u northeasterly direction
that will bring it over very near Cape IIattcras.
as announced yesterday. The high pressure
Immediately in advance of the disturbance re-
tards its progress considerably, but this resist
sncc will pass away to-day and the storm will
advance quite rapidly. Tho Nova Scotia
depression has already passed OF the coast
and is followed by another which ap-
proachcs the lakes from Manitoba. The
temperature is rising in the West, but has
fallen in the Eastern and Southern districts very
decidedly. Rains have fallen chiefly within the
area Influenced by the cyclone They have been
heaviest ut New Orleans, Mobile and in Northern
Florida. This storm liz of local development,
dependent on peculiar relative arrangement of
the areas of high and low pressure. Consequently
It lacks the fierce energy OF n storm originating
further to the eastward and gathering force as it
advances in "a westerly direction before it de-
scribes its peculiar parabolc curve and takes
nm oppositc direction. The weather in New
York today will be cool and cloudy, probably
with ruin aud increasing winds from the north
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

A LARGE Portion of the estete of the late
Father Mooney, amounting to over one hundred
thousand dollars, has been left to Cardinal
McCloskey
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

UNTIL WORK on THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE is
further advanced it would be just as well to
allow no one to cross it. 1t is almost miracle
that there was not fatal accident on it yester
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

The FRAH FEMALES who relieved Officer
Jollie OF his pocketboOk had O. jolly time until
he returned to claim it.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

the local party convention that the anti
Conkling candidate for State Senator has
thrown up the sponge and made formal
Joseph r. Swan, Jr., writes a manly and
creditable letter to the Utica Herald stating
that he finds the opposition to him so great
that he is unwilling to endanger the har-
mony of the party by permitting his name
to be longer used. This signal retreat of
the leader of the opposition proves that
whatever may be Mr.. Conkling's strength in
the other parts of the State it is vain for
republicans to fight him in his own county.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

MR.. STEwARTs MEMORIAL c ArIIEpa,AL CHURCH
has begun an important part Of its good work
The schools have been opened, and it will he
seen by our reports, promise to attain wide
popularity.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

The New ORDINANcE regulating baggage
charges was sadly needed.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

CRoToN WATER PIPES less than ten inches
diameter will not be laid in future. Why not
tear up the ones now down2
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

The TAILOR who made his wife jump from
third story window, and nearly killed man,
had better take his own measure for o nice
striued suit
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

TwEED's REVELATIONS promise to put an end
to Navarro's famous seven hundred thousand
dollar water metre suit against the city
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

some Light Is THROWN on the Paris Com
mune in our court reports. 1t is charged that
one of our labor agitators was member of the
directory that decreed the death Of tho Arch
bshop of Paris.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

The ONLY WAY to satisfy the ferry companie.
Is to make them present of the leases and lei
them charge what they please.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

In HALE's PIANO FACTORY, according to the
Fire Marshars report there was no provision
whatever for extinguishng the flames. How
many equally dangerous fire traps are there in
the city
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

THE UNION PACIFIC train robbers made
clean sweep of it. Travel on the Plains is be-
ginning to be more perilous than in the early
days when the Indians amused themselves by
throwing trains from the track.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

IT BEGINS TO Look rs if the notorious "Jim
Brady" committed half the burglarics in the
country
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

THE HUDSON RIVER band of burglars have for
tunately been captured.
The New York herald., 1877-09-20
EDWIN ADAMS.

This talented and much loved young actor has boon
dangerously NJ for many months. He is now on his
way from San Francisco to New York, and we learn
from note by Mr. so,hcrn that grand compliment
tary benefit is being arranged for him, which occa
sion .'Hamet" will be produced with the following
somewhat amazing cast. The compliment Is full OF
kind thoughtuness aud the disposition of characters
il thus twisted inside for tho purc akc
OF gaining splendid house. which assurcdy viii be
tno suIt
The New York herald., 1877-09-20

THERE WE'RE SOME INTERESTING and well
contested games of polo at Newport yesterday.