Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NATIONAL FINANCES. T/te Public Debt.— Following is the monthly public debt statement for Aug. 1: Hix per cent, bonds. . $ 841,525,250 Five per cent, bonds 703,261!,650 Four and a half per cent, bonds 155,000,000 Total coin bonds $t,7C2,791,900 lawful money debt $ 14,000,000 Matured debt :................... 11,979,280 Jz-gal tenders 3f1f1.158.1K Certificates of deposit 5f1.495.1XX) Fractional currency ...... 10,784,335 Coin certificates 37,807,300 Total without interest $ 472,241,818 Total debt . $2,201,015,998 Total interest 29,(95,129 Cash In treasury—coin $ 97.803,995 "ash in treasury—currency 9,811,956 Currency held for redemption of fractional currency Special deposits held lor redemption of certificates of deposit, .i. 55,495,000 Total in treasury. Debt less Cash tn treasfiry... A.. TfS’.nra.iJ) Decrease of debt during July , 818,904 Bonds issued to Pacific jtailroau Companies, interest payable in lawful money; principal outtanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 323,117 Interest paid by United States 35,957,629 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 8,671,625 Balance of interest paid by tho United HUks... P Internal lleoenue. — The receipts from internal revenue during the month of July were ♦8,764,574. The estimated receipts were reduced at least $1,600'000 in consequence of the Ute Htriko. Customs receipts during the month, $10,060,860. National Bank Securities.— Tho total amount of United States bonds hold as security for the circulating notes of national banks is $337,528,100. (Jail for Bowls.— The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the fifty-fourth call for the redemption of $10,000,000 of 5-20 bonds of 1865, $7,000,000 of coupon and $3,000,000 of registered bonds, as followw : Coupons—sso, Nos. 40,001 to 44,000 ; SIOO, Nos. 66,001 to 76,000 ; SSOO, Noh'. 50,001 to 57,000 ; SI,OOO, Nos. 85,001 to 96,000. Registered—sso, Nos. 1,401 to 1,600; SIOO, Noh. 11,!M)1 to 13,100: SSOO, Noh. 7,751-to 8,300; SI,OOO, Noh. 25,101 to 27,400; $5,000, Noh. 7,301 to 7,650 ; SIO,OOO, Nos. 11,751 to 13,550.

THE WAR IN THE EAST. A Berios of desperate battles wan fought between a portion of the right wing of the Bussian army and 50,000 Turks in the vicinity of Plevna, n</i th of the Balkans, on the 30th and 31st of July, and resulted in a great victory for the Turks. The Russian defeat was owing, it appears,their being flanked and attacked in Hie rear by a Turkish division, the artillery of which mowed down the Muscovites at a fearful rale. The Russians were completely routed, but managed to save their cannon. Both sides lost enormously. Some details of the fighting will be found in another part of this paper. The Russians hayc resumed the offensive in Asia Minor. A dispatch from Erzeroum says there has been continuous fighting on the advanced lines before Kars, and that the Russian light is marching on I’erek. London dispatches state that “ the Russians an-so much stunned by their reverses that it -will require ten days to reinforce themselves, to strengthen the points possessed before the late defeats. It is asserted that Russia, discouraged by the result of the war, is laboring to secure intervention by some third power, and that Austria, instigated by Germany, .will lend her influence toward aiding Russia to secure desirable peace. The defeat of the Russians is owing to jealousy and lack of cooperation among the commanders. German sentiment is growing hostile to England, and high authority at Berlin declares that her policy as to the occupation of the Dardanelles will not be permitted.” A Berlin correspondent telegraphs that in consequence of the defeat at Pelvna, the Czar has asked the Emperor of Austria to withdraw his former protest against the Russians entering Hetvia and conjointly with the Servians operating on the left flank of the Turks. A St. Petersburg dispatch says a ukase has b?en issued ordering tho immediate mobilization of the entire corps of the Imperial Guard and several other divisions. Another ukase, signed by the Czar at Biela, orders a levy of 188,600 of the landwohr. The levies meet with general enthusiasm.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS Gen. Grant is traveling in Sweden and Norway. lie will go to Berlin to witness the autumn maneuvers, and at the end of October intends to visit Paris. Ho will pass the winter partly hi Paris'and partly in Italy, and will revisit Switzerland later should no unforeseen circumstances prevent. While five men were digging a sower on Strachan avenue, Toronto, tho earth caved in and smothered three of them and injured tho others seriously. Two British gunboats and two iroh-cladshave been dispatched to the Danube, “to protect British interests.” The English claim a treaty rigtit to maintain gunboats on the river to look after tho interests of commerce, and the ironhie smaller vessels to see that lII’ It’ IO lHHVlVDnuvp|>vnnnon «o . 4.4 A Vienna dispatch of thelst inst. says : “A ministerial council under the Presidency of the Eniperorl sat from 7 o’clock until 4. Mobilization has been decided upon in principle, but it will be for Count Andrassy to fix the time when these measures shall be put into execution. Contingencies may cause this at any m intent. Tho importance of tho resolution is not that two or three army corps will be placed on a war footing, but that the empire is going to abandon its passive attitude for one of armed neutrality." A convention has been signed by the Governments of England and Egypt, providing for the suppression of the slave trade in the dominions of the Khedive. An imperial decree has been issued at Constantinople decreasing the salaries of all Turkish officials 50 per cent, until the end of the war. ,

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE East. v Herbert Blanchard, of Savory, Mass, was ordered to discontinue his vinitsto thedaughter of E. Trask. Ho mot that gentleman in church last Sunday, shot him doad, fatally wonnded a brother, and missed his third shot at the woman. Homo excitement was caused in New York the other day by a street attack upon Jay Gould, the well-known stock gambler. The assaulting party was one Col. Selover, who claims that Gould gouged him in some transactions. jh e i a tter was soundly thrashed, and made to cry for mercy. A horrible accident occurred in an iron foundry, at Pittsburgh, last week. Seven men engaged in lining the furnace were nn a scaffold, aipported by ropes. These took flje and juceipitoted the niou into the furnace Two of them were taken out dead, and the other

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five were so badly burned that their lives are despaired of. Now York papers record the death of William B. Ogden, for many yearn ft wealthy arid leading citizen of Chicago. He died at his residence near the city <>f New York. He leaves an estate valued at upward of $10,000,000. At Scranton, I’n., a few days ago, a mob of striking coal -miners, numbering upward of 5,000, visited the railroad premises and forced the workmen to quit their occupations, assaulting and injuring some of those who protested against their interference. A company of local volunteers, after a fierce assault from the mob, tired into the crowd, killing four men and wounding many others. The mob then dispersed. This strike of

the coal-miners promises to be a more oerious affair than that of the railroad linen. Dftpatches state that the Wyoming coal region is one vast military cam]), alxmt 5,000 State troops being icattcred through the valley. Many of tho trains bearing soldiers were attacked and Stoned by tlie rioters, and hundreds of the Utter were being Mrestcdi Got. Hartranft Assumed personal command of the troops. Several edfapanips of United States soldiers were also sent to the scene of the troubles. The Pennsylvania State troops recently sent into the Wyoming coal region have been re. lieved by twelve companies of United States troops. The Utter will remain in the disturbed districts until tho strike is ended. The miners express a determination to stand for an increase of 25 per cent., and there is little prospect that they will give/a for along time. Wort, A dispatch from Portland,'Oro., says : “Gen. Htfiiard at present is at Kamia, awaiting the arrival of Maj. Sanford. As soon as that officer joins him, Howard will take all his available force and push vigorously after Joseph and White Bird, who have already crossed Bitter Root mountain by way of the Lolo trail. He will go through to Missoula as rapidly as bis command can move. He will have in the neighborhood of 500 men. Another force under command of Gen. Wheaton will leave Fort Lapwai, and, moving north, paHH through the Spokane country and cross over into Montana through Sahon pass. It is confidently believed that this movement will result in the capture of the entire band of hostiles.

Henry Miller, residing near Camden, Ind., murdered a widow woman named Houk, by cutting her throat from car to ear, and then hung himself. Eight of the striking employes of tho Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw railroad were arraigned be fore Judge Drummond, of the United States Circuit Court, at Chicago, last week, for obstructing the movement of trains. Most of them confessed the violent conduct alleged, and the proof as to all of them was clear enough; and, after listening to their counsel’s presentation of extenuating circumstances, the Judge sentenced the ring-leader, Mack, to four months’ impris onment in jail, and the others to two months each. A fine of SSO was also entered against each of the rioters, the imprisonment to continue until the fines are paid. The Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw road is in tho hands of a receiver, and the strikers were warned, during the existence of the late troubles, that no Interference with the. running of trains would be tolerated by the United States authorities. Dr. C. F. Winslow was cremated at Salt Dake lust week. The process occupied three hours. The heart bad been taken out and sent to his birthplace, Nantucket. The ashes are to be sent to the grave of his wife, near Boston. Cincinnati has been the scene of a horrible calamity. A cigar-box factory, in which a number of persons, mostly boys and girls, were working in tlie upper stories, took the, and so rapidly did the flames spread that six of the unfortunate creatures were cut off from all hope of escape and perished miserably in the flames. Five others were seriously injured, some of them, it is feared, fatally. A horrible murder was recently perpetrated in Clark county, Mo., the victims being Lewis Spear and his four children, consisting of two girls aged 15 and 17, and two boys aged 11 and 13. They were attacked in the night time, their heads being crushed by heavy blows with an ax. The object of the cruel deed was robbery, Mr. Spear having in his possession SI,OOO of public funds, he being a Township Trustee.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Republican State Convention of Ohio met at Cleveland on the Ist inst. and nominated the following ticket: Governor, W. 11. West; Lieutenant Governor, Ford. Vogeler ; Supreme Judge, W. H. Johnson; Attorney General, George K. Nash ; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Dwight C. Rowell; School Commissioner, J. T. Lukens ; Board of Public Works, A.W. Luckey. The following platform was adopted : Resoloed, That wc reaffirm and adopt the platform and resolutions of the National Convention of the Republican party adopted in the convention at Cincinnati in June, 1876: 2. That the Republicans of Ohio reaffirm their uh-" faltering oonfldepcc in Rutherford B. Hayes as a statesman, patriot and Republican, and cordially approve and support his efforts for the pacification of the country and the establishment of its civil service upon a basis of purity and efficiency. 3. That we reaffirm it as the unalterable purpose of the Republican party to maintain and enforce the provisions of the recent amendments to the Federal constitution guaranteeing the equal rights color, and to insist on lhe' v fuVi r, mP5 <, t?i¥Bc < ?(iff performance by the Federal Government, in the execution of all its powers, of its constitutional obligations in that behalf. 4. That wc are in favor of both silver and gold as money ; that both shall be a legal tender for the payment of all debts, except where otherwise specially provided by law, with coinage and valuation so regulated that our people shall not be placed at a disadvantage in our trade with foreign nations, and that both metals shall be kept in circulation as the money of the nation, as contemplated by the constitution, and we therefore demand the 'remonetization of silver. 5. That we arc opposed to any further grants of public lands, or money subsidies, or the extension of the public credit of the General Government to aid in the construction of railroads. 6. That we are opposed to the renewal of patents by act of Congress which are burdensome and oppressive to the masses of the people, and especially to the laboring classes. 7. That we view with alarm the present disturbed condition of the country as evidenced by the extensive Strikes of the workingmen, and followed by the destruction of life and property in different parts of the country, and, while wc deprecate each and every resort to violence and disorder and cordially approve the action of-our national and State authorities in thsir efforts to enforce the supremacy of the law, yet we do most heartily sympathize with the condition of the honest and industrious laborers who are willing to work but remain unem ployed, or are employed at wages inadequate to comfort and independence, and as an earnest of our desire to find a remedy for their condition we recommend—first, that Congress establish a National Bureau of Industry; second, that Congress exert its authority over all national highways of trade by prescribing and enforcing such reasonable regulations as will tend to promote the safety of travel, secure fair returns for the capital invested, and fair wages to employes, preventing mismanagement, improper discriminations, and the aggrandizement of officials at the expense of stockholders, shippers, and employes; third, that provision be made for statutory arbitrations between employers and employes, to adjust controversies, recouoUe interests, aud llsh Jtisifi'W and equity

The Democratic sentinel.

The Democrats of Mississippi met in Btas> Convention at Jackson, on the Ist just., and jionpnated Gov. Stone for re-election" as Governor, W. H. Sims for Lieutenant Governor, W, L. Jlemingway for Treasurer, 8. L. Gwinn for Auditor, I*. C. Catching for Attorney General, and J. A. Smith for Stqierintendent of Public Education. The convention adopted the following platform: Fidelity to the constitution of the United States. Home rule and preservation of State governments, with all their'ijpservedarid guaranteed fights unimpaired. No interference by military power with the freedom of elections amt with the civil and political rights of citizens of the UnitcdStates. Protection and equal rights of all classes. No discrimination on account of race, color, or lire's ious condition of servitude or birthplace, and no rpceftl legislation "for the benefit of the few at the expense of the 111441 y. . , Strict adherence in the selection <M puUie agents to the time-honored .Trflcrxoffiart ftSndard : “Is he honest? Is he capable? Is he true to the constitution?” ContinuaUtitlCcf the policy of retrenchment ami reform inaugurated by the Democratic party. Hednction of the burdens of taxation to the lowest point compatible with the efficient execution of the laws. Corporations of every description snpervisable within constitutional limits by State authority, and subordinate to State legislation in the. interest and for the protection of the people. As ilw perpp(uity of free government depends upon the virtue and intelligence of the people, we pledge ourselves to tjie maintenance of the State system of free schools. We favor granting such aid as may be extended without violation of the constitution of the United Slates or departing from the established usages of the Government to the Texas Pacific railroad, and for rebuilding and keeping in repair the levees of the Mississippi river.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Secretary of the says that the new 4 per cent, bonds having bet ; u issued in exchange for gold coin, they cannot be redeemed by anything but gold coin or its full equivalent. Henry W. Hilliard, of Georgia, has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Brazil, vice James 11. Partridge, of Maryland. Hilliard, previous to the late civil war, was a Representative in Congress from tlie Montgomery (Ala.) district. The total popular subscriptions to the 4 per cent, loan up to Aug. 1 were $6,310,700; total received by the syndicate, $60,000,000. The total subscribed in London reported to the Ist inst-. was $10,200,000, making a total of $76,519,700. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have appointed Commodore Van Rensselaer Morgan, late of the Confederate navy, Inspector of Works and Repairs on the roads and streets of the District. It is announced that the President is to give extended attention, in his coming message, to the questions brought into prominence by the recent civil disturbances. It is thought that he will ask Congress to create a commission to go over the whole ground and report some scheme for righting the wrongs of tho shipper, carrier, capitalist, producer, and hired laborer, wherever such wrongs may crop out, and whoever may bo the immediate victim.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The steamship Montana, which sailed for Liverpool, last week, took among her passengers fifty carpenters, residents of New York and Brooklyn. They were engaged by the firm of Neil A Son., contractors and builders, of Manchester, England. The terms of agreement arc that they shall be engaged for one year certain, and receive 6 shillings a day. The hours of labor, for five days in the week, are from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., with one hour for dinner, and on Saturdays a half holiday. During tho railroad war, the Maryland State troops were fed at a cost of 25 cents per man a day. Capt. Howgate’s schooner Florence has sailed from New London, Ct., for the Arctic ocean, under command of Capt. Tyson. The Florence will establish Capt. Howgate’s polar colony at a point on the coast on the north side of Cumberland, and there store the supplies upou which the main exploring expedition, which sails July, 1878, under Capt. H. W. Howgate, United States Navy, is to subsist. Now that the rioting incident to the railroad strike has been suppressed, the authorities are directing their attention to the punishing of the ringleaders. At Chicago, St. Louis,.lndiana]K>)is, Harrisburg and various other places we read of the arrest of numbers of men who were conspicuous in loading the mobs, and their commitment for trial. Nows of a melancholy borror conies from Simcoe, Ontario. The alms-house located near that town, containing sixty-one paupers, caught fire at night, and so rapidly did the flames spread that seventeen of the unfortunate inmates perished in the flames. Five men while attempting to rescue the paupers. Of those burned, eleven were men and six women. They were nearly all bedridden old people who could not move without assistance. The insurance companies suffer to the extent of $6,736,000 by the great fire at St. John, N. B. Tlie English companies are the heaviest losers, their share aggregating $4,822,000, against $1,469,000 by the Canadian and $445,-

Tliis brings me to the question of Irish discontent. There can be no doubt that it is quite as deep and passionate as ever. Of course it ought not to be if Mr. Gladstone’s predictions were worth anything at the time he disestablished the Protestant Church in Ireland. Thenceforth, he assured the world, the Irish would be contented and happy. What are the facts? Au Irish landlord of the greatest influence in his own country assured me the other day that never had he known the country to be in so disturbed and dangerous a condition. “Everywhere,” said he, “ the peasantry are being drilled with the utmost care and regularity, and they are now all well armed. The police dare not interfere. The people hope that England will get to war with Russia, and then they expect to give her some trouble, and’they will do it, too.” It would be of little use to tell this to the majority of Englishmen, for they would only laugh at it. Yet it may turn out to be anything but a laughing matter. In the event of a foreign war there would not be many troops to spare for the suppression of insurrection in Ireland.— Afr. Jennings' London Letter in the New York World

The early mornings witness the gathering of the hard-up and hungry along the wharves, all armed with bait and fishing-tackle. An old darkey was heard talking to the fishes he saw swimming around his line yesterday, and among other enticing things he said was: “Give me abite, honey; de children am a-orying down to my house, and I tell you it’s fish or nothing in dat establishment, •’ Oati.Adit's.

MWMMk>IANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST «», 1-77.

Irish Discoutent.

A Direct Appeal.

Firm ,4dherenee> to Correct

FRESH PARAGRAPHS.

The latest figuring places the tax upon every man, woman and child in Pittsburgh on account of the riots at $lO eacllThe Julian Bureau has some fears of tjunctiol Between) Sitting Bull and ties The latter is thought to makiiK A connection with Sitting Bull Lola pass. of Internal Revenue for Illinois has given it as his opinion that the Federal Government will lose at least $300,000 in Illinois alone l>y the recent strikes. The loss in tlie Peoria district he estimates at one-half that sum. Emancipation day, commemorative of tho fraeing .of the slaves in the West Juices, waf 4 celebrated on the Ist inst. byAhC -colored population of many cities and towns throughout the country, although not so generally astically as in years past. A Washington correspondent gays that the recent labor riots bait the.efie&t" to reduce the estimated receipts of internal revenue during the past month at least $1,000,000. The internal revenue receipts in July were only $8,764*574. The custom receipts were $10,060,860. Frank Walworth, who was sentenced to impirißonment for life for the murder of his sassier, at the Sturtevant House, in New York city, has been pardoned. It is stated that the mental condition of the young man was the fact which operated most strongly in influencing the Governor’s action. The worry of England over the sad spectafele of «ur riots is. turned to the contemplation of a little display of a similar character at home j ust now. A mob of 6,000 attacked a hotel at Grimsby, a few nights ago, where an unpopular Member of Parliament was stopping, and tried to burn it. A number ; of persons were injured, and troops were called out to suppress the disturbance. A witness before the Coroner’s jury at Reading, Pa.,_ stated that five cartloads of stones were, thrown at the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment while it was passing through the deep cut at that point. These were nearly all thrown before the first shot was fired by the troops. Five cart-loads of wellaimed stones was a good deal for either human nature or raw militia nature to stand, and little wonder the men fired without orders. Gen. Garibaldi would like to settle the Eastern question in this way : ‘ ‘ The Turks at Bagdad; the Russians at Scutari; on the Bosphorus, a confederation of all the peoples of European Turkey, with Constantinople for the capital; the Bosphorus and Dardanelles free to all.” This would give the Russians all of Turkey in Asia south of the Black sea; retire the Turks to their old capital of 500 years ago, and still would save Constantinople from the Russians. The great civil war continues to rage in Japan. The imperialist army has been recruited to about 50,000 men, and it is believed that the rebel force is not weaker in numbers. The rebels, commanded by Saigo, have so far had the advantage of the imperialists. The Japandie Government has embargoed all telegrams from the seat of war, and this is considered, with reason, an indication that the news is bad. Saigo seems to be pursuing a Fabian policy, equally harassing and destructive to his foe. The Mikado’s affairs are evidently in a preearioufr-eendition, though the rebels pretend not to be making war upon him, but upon his advisers. The Pittsburgh papers which abetted the strikers and belittled the militia have been making a hero of a young railroad employe named Robert Ammond, who undertook to ruu the road in the interest of the strikers. He did so for three days, and it is proudly recorded of him that in that time no accident occured and no passes were issued without the young man’s countersignature. He is in his 25th year, tall, slender, intelligent, quick and forcible. With all his mistakes, he avers that he has never tasted a drop of strong drink. A year ago he came with a letter of introduction to Mr. Layng, admitting he had been wild, but expressing a desire to reform. He was plticed on the road as brakeman, and soon attained a wonderful influence among his fellows.

A Thrilling Adventure.

“ With every year the number of Sacramentans,” says the tThion, “who go out on ‘ roughing it’ expeditions, hunting, fishing, and otherwise enjoying themselves, is on the increase. A party of five left the city yesterday for the mountains, to be gone about a month, and another party of folir returned home day before yesterday. Tlie latter hail intended to stay out longer, but the Indians in their vicinity began to grow exceedingly saucy, and to make the demand for small things in a tone which it was thought indicated that they might, if provoked, help themselves. Speaking •of tlie Indians, the party tell a funny story of their main camp. One hot day o i tueiu 4.„ n ot di ß - tant to have a bath, taking with mm ms rille. He had removed his garments down to his red flannel underclothing on the bank of the stream, when he heard the brush cracking, and, thinking perhaps the noise was made by a deer or other large animal, he deployed himself as a skirmisher and cautiously began investigating. He had not long to wait, for a moment later he observed a figure dodging from tree to tree, rifle in hand, and evidently watching him. It flashed through his mind that he was being followed by an Indian bent on mischief, and his heart rose in his throat so that he could almost taste it as thoughts of home forced themselves upon him. He determined that he would fight to the last, however, and, braced by this determination, advanced upon the enemy. The latter was evidently not prepared for such tactics, for he retreated faster and faster, and finally threw down his gun and ran. The Sacramentan, fearing that this was only a piece of strategy to lead him into an ambush, returned to the creek, donned his garments and hurried to camp. There he found a member of the party who had just come in from hunting, relating to the other two members how ne also had experienced trouble with the Indians, one of whom, he said, had followed him for two or three miles, and he had only escaped from him by striking him over the head with his gun. This, he went on to say, broke the stock in two ; the barrel flew into the chaparral, and he did not deem it worth while to wait and search for it, when the Indians might attack the camp at any moment. The man who had been to the creek begun to feel a suspicion that two members of that hunting party had been making fools of themselves, and he

* What did jte look Mu’ve ffeafd of them being called red devils ; well, this fellow wa&oso ot Uwni. He was stripped right to the skin, was qnQ had painted himself just»«fi yed as You needn’t laugh ; ’twhsn’t Anything to laugh at.’ It was til most too cruel io say anything about the red flnnnel tinderolotites and Ute throwing of the gun away, but it be told.”

THE RUSSIAN DISASTER.

Same Details of the Kecent Series of Bat- - ties Between Ixrfteha and Plevna—The Causes that Led to the Bussian Defeat. [From the Chicago Tribune.] Close upon the serious disasters to the Russian arms in Asia comes the news of a crushing defeat in Europe, which has apparently ended in a rout. The Russians, beaten in a two days’ battle Plevna, hajp? no£ only beep compelled to retire-phut haft been ..driven fairly over tho Danube into Rotimanin, so tLaftmeir plans for the present campaign have been thrown into the utmost confusion. The reports of the two days’ battles at Plevna are conflicting in many of their details, especially as to tho numbers engaged and the extent of the loss, but they all agree in the essential point of a decided Turkish victory. As far back as the 19th of July, the Ninth corps of the Russians was attacked in the vicinity of Plevna by Osman Pasha and so severely handled that it had to fall back and await reinforcements. The Eleventh corps was sent to its relief from Rustchuk, and, after making a long forced march, effected a junction, the small force which had been garrisoning Nikopolis also joining them, its place having been filled by a contingent from the Roumanian army. It was over a week before the army could re-‘ sume the offensive. Marching southward again, it encountered Osman Pasha’s forces, 50,000 strong, securely intrenched near Plevna, the Russians numbering 60,000. The battle commenced July 30 with a terrible artillery duel, in which the Russians, being in the open field, suffered severely. Under cover of their artillery, the infantry attempted to storm the intrenchinents, but without success, and at nightfall the Turks held their position, having recovered. some of their outworks from which they had been forced. The next day the Russians resumed the attack, but, although they fought with the utmost desperation and performed prodigies of valor, they were defeated in a hand-to-liand engagement, and compelled to retreat with a loss, according to Osman Pasha’s bulletins, of 8,000 lulled and 16,000 wounded, besides a heavy loss in war material. The Russians have fallen back to Sistova in disorder, and it is reported arc pouring back into Roumauia, while the Turks hold their position awaiting reinforcements. At last accounts the Roumanians wore ordered across tho Danube, but they will add nothing of consequence to the Russian strength. Had the Turks been powerful enough to have followed up their advantage, they might have crushed the Russian right wing/and perhaps ended the campaign for this summer. It never rains but it pours. On the same day of the defeat of the Russians north of the Balkans, the Russians south attacked Raouf Pasha, and after seven hours’ fighting captured Eski-Saghra, but Suleiman Pasha, coming up with a fresh force, defeated the Russians with heavy loss and recaptured the place. The crushing defeat in Bulgaria will now more than ever jeopardise the small Bussian force in Roumelia, as they are hemmed in by two powerful Turkish armies, which may cut off their supplies and retreat. It is not a cheering outlook for Russian success this summer. In searching for the causes of this surprising series of defeats, it seems as if the Russians had made the same mistake, in underestimating the numbers and strength of the Turks that the North made in the first two years of the war with the Southern Confederacy. The North did not achieve decided successes until it realized the actual strength and fighting quality of the South, and Mri Lincoln called out “the6oC,ooo more,” who overcame the Southern forces by overwhelming weight of numbers. . The Russians have all along affected to despise the Turks and their ability to fight, and have disposed their forces as if they expected that the Turks would not dare to meet them in the open field, but would gradually fall back to Constantinople, where they could bwattacked eu masse. The statement made some time since by the London Times, that tlie actual force of the Russians in the vicinity of the Danube only numbered about 200,000 men, is undoubtedly correct. This force, which would have been powerful in concentration, has been weakened by constant division. There is one small force in the Dobrubscha, another at Rustchuk, another in the vicinity of Widin, another south of the Balkans, and the last was in the neighborhood of Plevna, until it was dispersed the other day by the victorious Turks. The latter have also been compelled to divide their forces to observe the Russian divisions, but in every case they have met them man lor nave ii<wv tional advantage of fighting on the defensive, some of their divisions holding almost impregnable fortresses and the others fighting behind strong intrenchments, armed with the very finest American long-range rifles, and their works protected by heavy Krupp guns. Events have shown that the Turkish soldiers are as desperate fighters as the Russian; that they are just as well if not better armed; that they are led by experienced German and Hungarian officers in many instances; and that they have English military men for advisers. Under such circumstances, it seems almost incomprehensible that the Russians have not attacked with superior force if they have it. We have all along been informed that they have over half a million men under arms, but where are they, and what are they doing ? At the present time the Turks have half a million men opposed to 200,000, a large part of whom, of course, are engaged in holding the quadrilateral, but it will not require many more such victories to release them and cut off the Russians in detail. The only hope for Russia now is in speedy reinforcements. These she has. In the number of men and in tlie resources of the country she is superior to Turkey, but if they are utilized in driblets she will meet "with certain defeat. Her only salvation is to go into Turkey as Germany went into France, with overwhelming numbers, and with a force so large that defeat in detail will be impossible.

The Russian military authorities have lately been making experiments in lighting. fortresses by electricity, and have decided to supply all the principal fortresses with the requisite apparatus.

THE DRAWN BATTLE.

Will tlio Kailroad Managers Keinember Hie Lesson that Has Been Taught Them ? [From thejjew York Times.] Nt? < >ae nt’dtendi that these reductions, tryihg m»4lta*Jiave been, and these supplementary regulations, cruel as they are, have be<?n resorted to by Die companies in sheer wantonness. Most of them arc more or less embarrassed. We have Mr. Vanderbilt’s admission that the trunk lines tributary to the Atlantic cities are in excess of the legitimate wants of trade. In other words, th< railroad business, even in the older States, has been overdone. Their exigencies have prompted managers to compete in a way that entails loss upon all concerned. Evidently, then, the companies, considered only with reference to their inevitable expenses and their actual receipts, are in a condition that calls for rigid economy. Bring everything down to “hard pan,” and their in these times would call for eKtjenic thrift and care. So much the work men seem generally to have understood, as their concurrence in reductions shows. The great misfortune of the railroads is not that business is dull and comparatively uprofitable, but that they are required to face hard times burdened with the consequences of former errors of management. They are organized on a basis whieK presupposes a continuance of the era of inflation. They added enormously to their bonded debts, entailing fixed charges from which tliere is no escape stive through bankruptcy. They entered into leases and guarantees which are now so many millstones about their necks. To crown all, they capitalized their stock according to the then inflated values and the exceptional amount of their earnings. The stock thus largely “ watered” naturally craves dividends; and, as one of the conditions of good credit, a company spares no effort to enable itself to pay them. Hence the . exigency fix m which direct and indirect reductions of wages proceed. There is an obvious danger that the road itself will be neglected and that desirable improvements will be postponed. On this point an outsider cannot pretend to have positive knowledge. But the fact is undeniable that to pay interest on their bonded debts, to fulfill specific contracts, and to check the depreciation of their stocks, the companies are obliged to reduce their pay-lists to tlie lowest possible limit. The enect upon the condition of the workmen is ignored by the companies in their natural anxiety for their own solvency. If the whole matter ended as it now is, we might accept the cessation of the strike, however 1 nought about, as a positive deliverance from danger. This we cannot do. For, while ’tis ceHwflV that the lowest practicable point of wagereduction has been reached, it is not at all certain that, with business in its present condition® the companies can congratulate themselves upon tho completeness of their escape from peril. ’ Their managers, if prudent, will therefore direct their attention toother modes of relief from financial embarrassment than that which is gained at the expense of their workmen. The duty is unwelcome, but it cannot be much longer postponed. Every other great interest has in one way or another adapted itself to tlie altered condition of affairs. All are compelled to recast their accounts with reference to tho shrinkage that has occurred. The turn of the railroad companies is come. They have cut down wages, and if the reduction operate equitably the world will hold them justified. When the time arrives for another application of the screw, their wisest course will be to revalue their properties, and to reconstruct their 1 lalance-sheets in the light of the amended valuation.

Baltimore’s Losses by the Strike.

Attention Jias been called in the Gctzette a number of times to the serious losses, caused by the strike on the Baltimore and Ohio road, to nearly every industry and branch of trade, wholesale and retail. It is of course impossible to estimate witli absolute accuracy the amount of loss, in dollars and emits. Inquiry by the Gazette into this question makes it certain, however, that it does not fall short of several million dollars. The railroad company itself has done no freight business, its passenger traffic has fallen off to a mere nothing, and freight of “all kinds, detained at various points, has suffered more or less damage, some of it having been rendered utterly worthless. The railroad property near Mount Clare destroyed by fire was alone valued at about $50,000 and the loss by other causes has been at least $500,000. The petroleum trade has been one of the greatest sufferers. The loss to this branch of trade may be put down at SIOO,OOO, the loss to the grain trade at $50,000, to the coal trade at $25,000, to the wholesale liquor trade at $50,000, to tlie liquor saloon&at $50,000 (estimating that the 500 saloons made an average of only $lO a day), to the cattle trade at $60,000, and to other trades at $500,000. Besides these items are to be considered the cost of the burning of the sash factories near President street depot, $50,000; the maintenance of tlie troops, $25,000, and of the special police, ©IO,OOO. Thora aro, furthermore, to be taken into account the stoppage of manufacturing, and consequently of wages, the effect of this upon the retail trades, and another item is presented. of not less than $1300,000. This makes a grand total of nearly $2,000,000, a sum that will, it is believed, come with - in the actual figures could they be positively ascertained. The following table will show more clearly an approximate estimate of the losses incurred by the various trades: Baltimore and Ohio, by fire f 50,000 Baltimore and Ohio, other causes 500.000 Petroleum trade IOOjOOO Grain trade 50,000 Coal trade 25.000 Wholesale liquor trade 50,1)00 Retail trade 50,0< 0 Cattle trade 60,000 Other trades (including hotels) 500,000 Sash factories burned 50,000 Maintenance of troops 25,000 Special police 15,000 Wages, retail trades, etc 300,000 Total $1,775,000 —Baltimore Gazette.

Secretary Sherman.

A correspondent in Vermont, who met -Secretary Sherman when he visited that State a few days ago, photographs him in this wise : “ His personal appearance is striking, if not imposing. Over six feet tall, lean and lank, he is the type of a true Westerner. Carelessly dressed, wearing a sack-coat of dark material anything but broadcloth, with a dark, high-crowned straw hat, not recently purchased, his feet incased in brogans, with cotton socks, which might have been covered had his trousers been an inch or two longer, he reminds one of a careless, well-to-do stock-buyer or a patent-rights peddler, rather than the chief financial agent of this great nation. In conversation lie is affable, and when

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not being interviewed by a newspaper correspondent, which, by the w’ay, is his especial aversion, he is free and somewhat careless in his remarks.”

The Retreat of the Philadelphians from Pittsburgh.

The officer who returned from “the front,” and when asked how he got back, replied, “ in an envelope,” gives the following description of the return of such of the Philadelphia “ soger boys ” as have been heard from. Though the description may be obnoxious to the charge of being somewhat hyperbolical, yet it must be confessed that it has enough verisimilitude about it to be recognized as not a pure fabrication: “ An effort was made by one or two inventive individuals to climb into their muskets, but, as this was found to be impracticable, not for the reason that the muskets were too narrow, but that the men were too long, the ruse was abandoned. One gentleman tried the extraordinary experiment of impelling himself homeward by swallowing his musket and touching it off within himself, but discovered his mistake in time to avert serious consequences. In the excitement of the moment a terrified Brigadier General offered to ‘ ship ’ on a passenger train as a man before the ‘mast,’ and, being refused, wanted to know whether he could go through as an invoice to the stuffed department of the Permanent Exposition. In despair, several veterans pinned postal cards to their shirts and threw themselves by the track, determined to trust to luck and some conscientious mail agent to pass them through. To add to the terror of these unfortunate men, they couldn’t get anything to eat that was palatable; and, as the crows knew this, they hovered above the emaciated soldiers and ‘ cawed ’ in joyous anticipation of a big Quaker City lunch. Happily for aching breasts at home, ‘ the boys ’ began straggling into the city yesterday evening. One gallant Major was attired in military boots, a brakeman’s pantaloons, no coat worth mentioning, and a telegraph operator’s cap. His friends met him at the depot and greeted him with cheers. Though travel-stained and weary, he told the story of his heroic charge upon the enemy with the modesty becoming in so great a man. He reviewed his course briefly, merely touching here and there upon the number of rioters he had strangled and otherwise put to death, and remarked that if somebody didn’t hurry back to Blairsville with some sandwiches and beer for the First Division somebody would starve to death. It was his impression, also, that the strike was over, so far as the West was concerned, at least, as the great majority of the strikers had chased him all the way home.”— Philadelphia Times.

How the Late Strike Was Inaugurated.

The Trainsmen’s Union, which inaugurated the late strike, was organized between June 2 and July 10. It was started when the Pennsylvania Company and the Pennsylvania Bailroad Company ordered the reduction of 10 per cent, in in the wages, to take effect on June 1. Mr. A. R. Ammon, then employed on the Fort Wayne road, was dismissed from the service, and at once proceeded to the organization of the Union. Three years ago, when the engineers struck, the firemen took their positions at the throttle, and there was no interruption to business. This time it was concluded to begin at the other end of the trains, and flagmen, brakemen, conductors and firemen took the oath, which the members refuse to disclose. Ammon was the first to sign the roll and take the oath, and following came the names of the Fort Wayne men. This was all the organization there was about it. A trip was made over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad by the leaders, and trainmen the length of the line took the oath. About this time the managers of the Connellsville division got wind of the association, and discharged all the men who joined the Union. The work of organization meantime went on, and a strike was ordered for June 27, the going out of the Fort Wayne men to be the signal for a general strike on the trunk lines. The men on the Fort Wayne line weakened, and the etrike did not take place. Mr. Ammon predicted that a general strike would follow the action of the Fort Wayne road, and the news by telegraph from all parts of the country seems to justify his statement. The union was a strong one, considering that it was a little over a month old. The engineers, although not members of the union, are nevertheless in sympathy with the strikers, and it does not require much intimidation to cause them to desert their engines. This is the statement made by the leading strikers in the union. — Pittsburgh Chronicle.

Able Liars.

The Sazarae Lying Club meetings arc reported in the Austin (Nev.) Reveille. The members are very able liars, according to what we read about them. One of them stood up in a recent meeting and said: “The telegraph company are now using the quadruplex system over the Virginia and Salt Lake circuit, by means of which four messages can be sent simultaneously over a single wire. The increased strain on the wire is not visible here in Austin, but I was out at Dry creek yesterday, and in that vicinity the wire was just humping itself, and groaning and straining, and dropping words off in chunks. I examined the wire and found a knot in it, and came to the conclusion that a quadruplex message had struck the knot and got tangled up at that point. I tried to straighten the wire out, but a section of an account of a battle between the Turks and Russians struck me on the ear . and knocked me down, and I concluded that it was not advisable to fool with the thing. ”

On the Fly.

“ Landlord!” “ Yes, sir.” “ What’s that ?” “ Butter, sir. ” “ Does it belong to the League ?” “Sir?” “ Has it any ambition to excel as a base-ballist ?” , “I don’t grasp your meaning, sir.” “ Well, it should, for it’s the best flycatcher I ever saw. ” ‘ ‘ Oh, I see ! John, take this away, and bring the gentleman some of the muffin butter.” Silence prevailed.— Louisville C'ou rier-Journal. Last year the Prince of Wales laid the foundation of the new Glasgow postoffice, and now the bill of costs has been published—s44,ooo. The expenses seem to have been almost entirely for decorations, stands, platforms, triumphal arches, etc. Eating and drinking items do not amount to SIOO,

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TOO I.ATE. If you had come to me, my friend, Only one year ago, To ask this question I should not Have answered you with No. That was a time when I knew naught Of lessons lately learned, Of trust betrayed, of hope deferred. Of Ibve half w> n, half spurned. How could I know you only sought To pass an idle hour. Unmindful how you plucked er dropped Your once admired flower ? How could I dream vows were false Since mine were only true ? If I am changed at last. I’ve learned The lesson taught by you. And now you come again to nifc To ask my love, my trust? Thq flow'er you spurned a year ago Has perished in the dust Of its own hopes. When you can raise That flower to life again, Then you may hope to teach once more My heart’s forgotten pain. And so, farewell I Ido not bold For you an unkind thought. Nor yet regret for what has passed The lesson that you taught Of heedlessness, indifference (Or call it what you will). My woman’s heart so surely learned, It heeds the lesson still.

WIT AND HUMOR.

Entirely Baron of interest—Baron Rothschild.— York Commercial. The Russians were worsted in Armenia, and now who knows but that they will be cot-ton the Danube ? Dare to do right; dare to be true—kick at yotir mother-in-law if she kicks you. “You seem to walk more erect than usual, my friend.” “Yes, I have been straightened by circumstances.” An Irish lover remarks: “It’s a very great pleasure to be alone, especially when yer sweetheart is wid ye !” The origin of the word muff, applied to a fool, is said to be that a muff holds a woman’s hand without squeezing it. “ There must be lawn order,” said the Judge, yesterday, pushing his little mower vigorously.— . Rochester Democrat. “ Gracious me !” exclaimed a lady in a witness-box, “how should I know anything about anything I don’t know anything about?” The married ladies of a Western city have formed a “ Come-home-husband Club.” It is about four feet long, and has a brush on the end of it. Spots on newly-painted doorsteps show that lovers oft forget; and when tired of promenading, are not careful where they set. A Brattleboro paper records the marriage of John Sard and Mary Dean. And now they are Sard-Deans—only two in a box. The Czar is accompanied by Suwaroff. We have heard of the latter frequently about the Ist of January, but never saw him in the flesh.— Courier-Journal.

Some men can sit on a candle-box and lay out the European campaign, and tell almost everything that is to occur in the future, except where their next dinner is to come from. Graphic. It was a Vassar girl who, when a sailor of forty years’ voyagings had been pointed out to her as an “old salt,” subsequently alluded to him as “ an ancient chloride of sodium.” “Where is the dollar of our fathers ?” shrieks an exchange excitedly. You needn’t look this way so intently. We’re willing to be searched.— Dockland Courier. Some of the members of lite Legislature must be serving with the Russians, for the telegraph told us on Tuesday that there were “two passes in their possession. ” — Boston Bulletin. “ Miss C——,” said a gentleman, one evening, “ why are ladies so fond of officers?” “How stupid !” replied Miss C ; “is it not natural and proper that a lady should like a good offer, sir ? ” “My mamma has got a chatelaine on her watch,” said a small sojourner at the seaside to her playmate. “Ho! that’s nothing,” responded the challenged scrap, “ My papa has got a chattel mortgage on his -watch.” — Boston Bulletin. \ Nothing undermines one's faith in a man’s liberality to the. church so much as to see him stick his hands down deep into his pockets as the contribution box is traveling his way, look astonished, and thou remark to his next neighbor, “ I’ve got on my other pants.” Cabbvgi'., veal, mackerel, beef, and trout, And all J loved in other days, G.'ze on inc with lugubrious gaze And turn my liver inside out. And through their ranks one glaintive 11 From lip to lip has ever crossed ; “ ’l'is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all I”

Literary young man at a party—- “ Miss Jones, haye you seen ‘Crabbe’s Tales?’ ” Young lady (scornfully)—“ I was not aware that crabs had tails.” Literary young man (covered with confusion)—“ I beg your pardon, ma’am; I should have said, read ‘ Crabbe’s Tales ?’ ” Young lady (angrily scornful) —“ And I was not aware red crabs had tails, either. ” Exit young man. The young couple glided deftly through the giddy dance. Their countenances beamed with the light of love and pleasure. She seemed to move in a delirious ecstasy, when, crash ! they came into collision with an elderly pair, who seemed to have taken lessons in dancing late in life. The young maid fell; tenderly her partner assisted her to rise, and poured a stream of condolence and apology into her ear. “ Oh, it doesn’t much matter,” she sa’d, “as I had my new cardinalstriped stockings on.” “ Tuß’BELstrike downtown,” remarked a South Hill man, in an explanatory tone of countenance, as lie crawled vaguely into bed at 3a. m. “All roleraid shops shutup. Dreffel excitement. Workinmen all on strike.” And his loving wife sniffed the surrounding atmosphere suspiciously before she replied, “Yes? I should think by the way it smells, that all the barkeepers were on a strike.” And then he gave himself dead away by explaining that he had to chew cloves for his asthma. — HawkEye.

The Nathan Murder.

The Philadelphia North American says that the police of New York had the murderer of Nathan in custody at one time and knew that they had him. Mr. Nathan’s coachman had the idea that his master owed him SIOO,OOO, and the murderer entered by the area way, just as the ooachman was in the habit of doing surreptitiously. Also for several nights before the murder the coachman had slept about the wharves on North river, and the murder was committed with a “ ship’s dog.” The police detained him sixteen days and then sent him Ho the Ward’s Island Asylum, without tioning the fact publicly, the family being satisfied that he could not be convicted on account of his insanity. In India bats are called flying foxes, and generally measure six feet from tip to tip,