WEEKLY OREGON STATESMAN.
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LATEST DISPATCHES
TORY LATEST HEWS REPORTS.
EASTERN.
Niw York, Jane 11. A relative to Mat
thews has arrived in Washington. A special
suys it is supposed ho will confer with the
President on the subject of the Ohio cam
paign, the programme for which gives Ohio
Bepublicane unusual concern. They are
aid to fear that without the adoption of a
definite policy on the subject of silver rerono
tixation the party will be badly defeated in
October.
-: Gaawo Havm, Coon., June ll.-W1nmf" atl P-t two or three months
Jerry is considered materially better, and he
in almost oat of danger.
Niw Yobs., June 11. The Tribune' edi
torial says the collector of the Mew Orleans
custom house is a wily reformer. He
quietly bundled 29 employes out of the back
door and goes around to the front and in
quires of , the U. 8. gnvernmast in a loud
tone ef voice. If it has any remarks is make.
The New Orleans ooUaetor mast have heard
the news from New York. At its present
sets ef speed it ought to reach Saa Francises
in a fortnight.
Chicaoo, June 11. The Inter-Oosan's
J(w Orleans special says ths suspension of
Frtkia without chargi, simply ia install
Jack Wharton, who ksld the nwtorioM
Vaddoa Mark mail letters, ia regarded by
KepuhliosDS here nod many Democrats as a
grass injustice. Pitkin is a nativs Whig and
leading Republican eretor, a man of cul
ture aavd- Faekard's foremost friend and
etiampien. Be organised the tali campaign
sad to him especially President Hays owes
his electaoa. Wharton was a M issippian
rebel throughout the
Waskzkotou, June 10. Front and after
July 1st the following Pacific coast offioe
will be made money order offices: Calif or
is Anaheim. Areata, Gendalupe, Forters-
vule, Quincy, Riverside, Santa. Ana, Somer
YiTle, Yuba City. Nevada Cherry Creek.
Genoa. Utah Brigham city. Oregon
Junction City, Empire and Pendleton. A
number of other money order offices will be
established in the Pacific State and Terri
lories on the 1st of October. The extremely
limited appropriations made by Congress
hurt year for pnitmv blank, etc., are el
ready exhausted, which compels the de
partment to defer necessary preparations for
further extension of the money order sys
tem until appropriation become available
for the next nacal yea.
Nsw York, Jun 11. Congressman
Jiarksoa Jv rotter, tniwn trora a carnage
yesterday, was senoaaly injured.
The News says Gen. Keyner and Fields
are to be allowed to settle with the city on
the same basis on which tha Sweeney
was arranged. It is just possible that Tweed
may come under the com promise, but if he
does it will be by refunding a much less
amount than be originally offered.
The out train on the Pennsylvania Rail,
road due Jersey City -this morning, wai
boarded by a band of rohbers who robbed
and nearly beat to death Thomas Downing
of New York, conductor. The brakemen
who attempted to rescue Downing were
driven away with revolvers, but locked the
ruffians in the car and telegraphed the po
lice at Jersey Laty to lie ready at the dejioL
While the train was running 30 miles an
hour, three of the desperadoes escaped by
jumping out of the car window. The
fourth man was arrested.
The Times' Washington special ssy : The
appointment of R. T. Smith to be Collector
at Mobile, Ala., occasions great surprise
among Southern Republicans. This place
was first offered to ex-Oov. Smith upon rec
ommendation of ex-Gov. Noyei and Stan
ley Matthews. The ex-Governor declared
in favor of his brother, R. T., ex-Auditur of
Alabama, who has recently been apxinted
by the President. When the appointment
was announced. Sherman was informed tint
Smith wa a lemocrat and voted for Tilden,
and be was removed to make way for Smith,
a strong Republioau of influence.
Upon Kasson's arrival in Washington the
miasiun to Austria, which it is understood
he would originally have preferred had it
been vacant when he wax appointed Minis
ter to Npain, wan tendered him by the Pres
ident and he has accepted it, and James E.
Russell Lowell has W.u tendered and ac
cepted the mitudon to Spain.
The order of Secretary Sherman dismirs
ing clerks from the Treasury Department
so that no more than one of a family shall
be employed, has demoralized the whole de
partment, and will prove to be one of the
greatest frauds of civil service reform. It is
only a pretense to make places for frionds of
officials, and it is openly proclaimed as such
ou tl: streets of VV'a.sumrtou by Republi
cans. Col. John Pope, now of Missouri but wcli
known in Cahfornia as captain of various
Stooktou and Sacramento steamboats, has
annouueed himself as a candidate for the
iiosition of Doorkeeper of the next House of
iepresentativea, and is now here for the
summer with flattering prospects of sacoess.
Wabhinoton, June 11. The Times' spe
e:l says the list of relatives employed in
the Treasury Department has been com
pleted, and those to be discharged under the
recent order of Sherman will be given no
tion to resign after June 30th. Sherman
ays this matter will be the subject of gen
eral complaint. For many years it has
grown to )e an abuse which demands cor
rection. Iri the Treasury office are seventy
employed who are related, and in the Inter
nal Revenue llureau over thirty. The
weight of thi large influence is said to be
very great and always combined to maintain
themselves iii places and secure the appoint
ment of other members of the same families.
The Secretary says, in co'.ne instances, tiiin
family inQneuce has become ho ;:tUBivc
thiit it controls ome dmr.k-OH of the depart
ment. Jfe Bays he wilt, for the ptiw ul, ton
flue operations to blood relaiioujiiip. Cotil
rt was r-t!y published in the u-wvpaper,
he didn't know the Hhnaa!i fam'!y wm j
xten.nie. I ocpt t-'bi. rmaii' j bej hKW, now
in New Mexico, ja U. S. Marshal, he has no
knowledge thai any other blood relations of
his are in the public service.
Senator Mitchell starts for Oregon in about
a fortnight. Judge Lorenzo Sawyer ha left
Washington for California via his old home
in the west Justice Field and Mrs. Field
depart for San Francisco on or about the
20th inst, Senator Jones i still here, re
vising proof sheets of his report in behalf of
ins majority OI wis stiver ammmnn, wnir.n
together with accompanying testimony, will
make quite a voluminous, but extremely
valuable book.
Nxw YoHk, June 11. The World Lon
don correspondent says it ha been a matter
of notoriety in political and commercial cir
cles herethat Minister Pierrepontheson many
endeavored to draw the attention of import-
it English capitalists to tha feasibility of
organising n company to construct the long
mooted Nicaragua oenal. With on gentle
man, at least, n member of Parharasot and
banker of nnosual abilrtT. PierrepMit in nn
(Weened to have intimated that ex -President
Grant would accept the presidency of such n
company, provided it -were organised by per-
eene eomMtant to ruaranue u suceem oi
the enterprise. This conversation occurred
reek before Grant sailed from Fhda
delvkia, and the matter has sue bees
mooted in financial circles. Fierrepont inti
mated that one American capitalist, a New
York gentleman, heretofore prominently
identified with several projects for uniting
the Atlantic and Fneine eeeann by an Amer
ican oanal, stands ready to take held of the
work m sooa as oommcneed in England
WssHiweiWR, June II. Jasper fSmitb,
new causal at Funchlaland, formerly chief ef
the eonealnr bureau of the State Depart
ment has bean promoted to take charge ef
the esanmarea agency t Nottingham, Eng.
The onunittee considering what amount
of fmetkmnl currency circulating has h
destroyed will make their report in a day or
two. Their appropriation will probably fall
below ViO,WO,0W.
CLt-vsLia, Jana 11. Tha first tset train
from Chicago on tha lake Shore railroad
under tha new schedule, arrived in Buffalo
at 6:62 a. at. on tima. Tim from Chicago
to Buffalo ia thirteen hoars and forty-seven
minutes.
Yfirjii xgtuk, June 12. The Prendaut to
day commissioned Wa. H. BabaneyBostaias-
dsr at Kaa muffs, Caiilomia.
The Preeident has esmmisriened Jack
Wharton U. 8. hlarshsl of Lcmisiana.
Csiraoe, June 11. Secretary Sbarmau
fnruiihea the Tribune' Washington an
posdent a statement of his financial policy
of which the following is the nubetanea:
The silver question has two extremes
equally threatening and plausible ; one rep
resented ia tha Eset aad the other ia the
West. The disputes will result ia a refresh
ing shower of silver ta replace paper and fa
cilitate resumption in both gold and silver.
To compel creditors to take silver coin for
all debts when it is ten per cent below gold
now, would immediately depreciate the pur
chasing power of a dollar five per cent, be
low gold, and would utterly destroy public
credit, stop our funding operations which
are reducing the public debt, drive from the
country all gold and leave us with what our
silver friends so mueh denounce, a single
standard o' silver bullion. Good sense re
veals the results of this doctrine. The other
extreme opinion would demonetize silver
which is absolutely eventual for the daily
want, which is the coin more universally
used by mankind than any other, and
which the rich and poor are alike interested.
The free use of both metals convertible into
one another and liuth of equal current value,
of the genuine bimetalic standard of value.
is assumed to be impossible by monomelaliats
in the face of the fact that cold can t be ui
vided so i
to meet one of the hundred daily
wants of life.
Both thee extreme opinion
will assuredly be abandoned eventually.
It
i an old dispute which the government bat
always adjusted by istuing both metals as
coin and maintaining them equal in value at
a fixed rate ; by limiting the amount of its
issues. The metal is more valuable in the
market than its legal ratio can be, issued
without limit. The metal leaa valuable in
the market than its legal ratio, must be liin
ited in its issue; leaving absolute need of it
to fix the amount. In our country, where
we are struggling to make our paper money
equal to coin, wj are happily in condition to
do thus easily with protit to the government
The way ia to issue silver coin whenever de-
niandoil, the smaller coins Iwing exchanged
or either lraetioual paper money or u. b.
notes which may then be retired. Silver
coins have already superseded the body
oi ttie tractionai currency and tney are
leijal tender to the name extent. Let go
eminent buy the silver bullion at what it is
worth, coin silver dollars and issue them
freely to everybody who will surrenders pa
per dollar. 1 tils ia a lair and voluntary ex
change. The silver dollar ought to be re
ceived by the government and made a legal
tender precisely as the paper dollar. In tin
way perhaps 00,000,000 silver dollars will
probably supersede 50,000,000 of paper dol
lars more or less. This process will bring
both paper and silver nearer to the stand
point of gold, and will soon bring our money
to the same value. This will make all in
terchangeable and make gold the ultimate
standard. We may one silver alone as China
does, and plenty of countries are ready to
take all the gold we have. We can not af
ford to buy and sell in the world at the
gold standard and compete with them, nor
can we deny ourselves the great convenience
of an ample silver currency just equal to
gold by confining its issue to actual demand
for it. We are now so near the uniform
standard of all kinds of money, that I have
too Enoch confidence in the uhrewdnens of
our people to believe that they will take a
step backward.
Kx Yolk, Jugs 11. The New York
Kxpre) says Secretary Sherman will call in
fl. 000,000 of 6 20 to-day or to-morrow.
Dosto, June 11. II. A. Blood, for
merly jeiieral manager of the .Ronton; Clin
ton Had Fitr-hburg liailtc-sd and countcted
w.lh other roadx, has Chd a vilunt-'-iy pcli
ton in bankruptcy; liabilities over $!,f00,
OUO: aweta, 1,310,000. lie baa H.,c-- Wn
troubled lin.incuklly, and carriw wifh him in
bin full, S.domou JI. V)W, u w;S Imcwu
ry goods jobber, who loses 40d,000. They
ave both been carrying too neavy loads.
Ths creditors are numerous. .
Lmu Rock, June 11. Sorrtf damage
from high water. The river is tiigher than
ever knwn before hore." -
St. Lor is, June 11. The freshet in ths
Missouri continue destructive to property in
ths vicinity of Kansas City, and Mine rail-
road art still submerged in places. I
The letter of Senator . MdYfmt,' f Ala- i
bama, to the Attorney General, demanding
the suspension of criminal prtsecutio
against the ballot box staffers in thst -State,
was even more dictatorial than at ,nrst re
ported. He spoks af ths offense as trivial,
and said the President should issue sn order
which would (weep all ths cases aside - im
mediately. - I ' 4
Niw York, June 12. The Herald's Lon
don special my the fact is pretty jjeatrally
nndtrstood that Russia is deterauned is
emancipate Bulgaria at all kasarda trout the
rule of Tarkev. It is said the Csnr cam to
a perfect understanding with Oi'ji naay and
Auna aa tail paint. 1
Niw Tori, June 12. On Friday 4ivrs
from a Turkish hip saccesded in pidkisg up
torpedoes placed by Run ia the (hauaeU
belswWiddin. The Danube has Vseaeo
thickly est with torpedoes by the Bawiaas
as t neatrek to a grant extent the fiw men
el Tunuaa ueaclada,
Cucaoe, June 15. Ths Tribune's Loud as
special ears there are no nw develop esseats
England. Tksre never was each a divsrsiea
ef English eeatiiaent ea the question ef war
or peaoe as at present. A deelarutien ef
war at this memeat would without deubt
nest with vast-eppesitiea in ths grsSt eea
ten of population all ever Knxland, . The
only ebanees ef seeing a uuioa af all parties
weald be m the RBmisns takizur tti sd van
tage af their victories to push their eonewest
wbick would iniare tss Kagtiak aussaewial
mtereets.
The Tribune's Constantinople spsoial save
there is great rejoicing ever the reported re
pulse ef ths Russians ia Asia and ea in
Danube.
Waskikstow, Jnn 12. A letter is :
eeived at the Times' bureaa, dated Jackson,
Hiss., June 8th. It my Jndge Lea, U. &
district attorney for tks district in which oc
curred the Chiaholm massacre, bat eon
meneed an investigation into the tragedy.
Judge Lee left Jackson for Meridao, Jnn
5th to meet J. L. Wells and Mrs. Chisholm.
Wells is fully acquainted with all the facts
of the massacre, having keen presentwith the
Chiaholm family from the time of the tragedy
to the death of Mis Chiaholm. In his letter
the correspondent says: "From all you have
read you yet knew comparatively little of
the horror of that habbatn day, and the oc
currences which immediately followed.
Wells informed me that the physician sent
from Meridaa to attend Judge Chiaholm aud
his wounded daughter had to obtain a pass
from Democrats and had to present ths pass
to a mob at UeK.alb betore be would be per
mitted to visit Chiaholm ' house, and at that
time Judge Chiaholm and his heroic daughter
wounded unto death, were suffering intense
pain for lack of surgical aid. Before the
body of the little sou of Judge Chiaholm,
whose hand was first shot off and hi heart
afterwards blown from his body, could be
interred, permission had to be obtained from
the Merman mob. The last hours of Chis-
holm and his daughter were passed in bodily
and mental anguish, guarded by a lew rela
tives and friends, the windows of the house
boarded up and the doors barricaded against
apprehended attack. -
Washington, June 12. In the interview
with the Alabamians yesterday the Preai
dent in reply to ths statement that under
the former administration a man was ap
pointed to a responsible and lucrative posi
tion in Alabama and credited in that State,
when he had never been in it six months alto-
gether, said tiiat was not right; also that
it was not his policy to appoint to offices or
retain in office, Northern men who went
South iinply for the purpose of obtaining
places. The President also alluded to the
case of a gentleman who had left Ohio in
1 872 and went to New York for the purpose
oi being elected a member or (congress Jrom
that state. In regard to henator spencer
the President said that it was very natural
that spencer had exercised his influence to
put into office all of his own personal friends
just as other Senators hail done, but he
thought that such a course as this was calcu
luted to lead to dissatisfaction and put such
Senators' friends in the minority. He would
be glad to have the assistance of such Sena
tors in making his appointments, but the
views of other Representative men must also
have consideration, lie is determined that
when the Itepublican party is divided in any
State, he would not allow either wing to
control appointments, but he would alwayi
endeavor as far as possible to reconcile con.
Hiding views and interests of both sides
The views of the President cave entire satis
faction to the delegation, and the gentlemen
assured him that as representatives of the
Republican pany of the State, they fully
concurred in the propriety of his view.', and
those of them who held Federal offices
would support his administration regardless
of any effect his action might have on thein
personally.
Senator Conklinc, who was here for four
days, secured his passport for Europe through
a subordinate of the State Department, as his
relations w ith Evarts precluded personal cn
tercourse with that gentleman. During
Conkling s stay here, it is said by bis intimate
friend, that he did not call at the White
House nor did he meet the President, and
further that he has abstained entirely from
recommendations of any nature in behalf of
icrsons who seek Presidential favors, leaving
iimself free to oppose or support the
President whrn ( VigrebS meets as he may
see It
New Yojkk, June 12 At the Mauhat-
tau Club reception Gov. Tildea said :
EverylKdy knows that after the recent
:lctiou the mm who iM-re elected by the
popl President aad Vice President of the
United Stt were counted out, (jud the
men who were not elected were counted is
!id seated. I disclaim sny tf?uht of per-
m J roni7 iavulved in this t-.u&ctwn.
ky aa actor v.crd cd: siali tk:
v i ... '. .. ... . .
b dwarfed1' or degraded .into a personal
grievance, which in truth i tha greatest
wrong that bai stained our national annals.
To every nan of tha four and a quarter mil
lion, who am defrauded of the (raitt of
their, elective f rancbise, it i aa great a Wrong
a it ii to me, and no lea to every man of
the minority wiH the ultimate eomiequenoe
extend. - Evil in .government grow by sue-
and by imnuntv. They do not arrest
their own. program. They ean never be
limited, except by external force. If the
men in poeeemiria of the government can in
one instsnoc maintain themselves in power
against an advene deciaion at election,
tuehan example will De imitated. Tempta
tion exist elwayv Devices to give color of
law and pretenses on which to found fraud
ulent decisions will not be wanting. The
wroi f w.u grow into practice, if condoned.
The j..d's history of the changes in the
succession of governments have usually
been the "result of fraud or f ores. It ha
been our faith and pride that we had es
tablished a mode. of .peaceful change to be
Worked out by the agency of the ballot box.
The question is now whether our elective
system ia its substance, as well as its form
m to be maintained, in is is the question sf
qantieas. Until it is finally settled there
ean be no politics) founded on inferior qnas
tions, or edmialetrativ asjeatien ef peltey.
It iavetve- the fnniUeaental rights of the
people. It involves the elective principle; it
involves the whole system of popular gev
ernment The people must signally ' con
demn the great wrong which has been dose
to then. They must strip the example sf
everything that can attreet units tore. They
mast refuse s prosperous immunity to crime.
Thie is not all. The people will net be able
to trust the anthers or beaaQaeria of wrong
to devise remedies, but when those who con
demn the wrong shall have power, they
must devise measures which shall render a
repetition of tha wrong forever impossible.
If my voice eould reach throughout our
country, and be heard in Ma remotest' ham
let, I wonld say : "Be of good cheer." rthel
republic will live. The tnetitutiona of ear
fathers are not to expire. U some way -tee
sovereijjnty of the people shall be rescued
from this peril and re-established. Sucoaas
ful wrung never appears so triunrpbntstry us
on the very eve of its fall. Seven Tears age
corrupt dynasty culminated in its power
over the million of people who live in the
city of Hew York. It had conquered or
bribed or nattered, and wen almost, very
body into acquiescence. It appeared to be
invincible. A year or two later its member
were in penitentiaries or m exile. History
abounds in similar examples. We must be
lieve in the right and in the future. A
great and noble nation will not sevsr its po
litical from its moral life.
Governor Hendricks after
expressing
his gratitude and acknowledgment for the
honors said he would not disturb the pli
ure of the occasion by undertaking to re
eount the means whereby ths will and judg
ment ef the people were defeated. The re
sult a declared in Louisiana, Florida and
Washington could not be satisfactory to the
people because it was not true. Even should
the President and cabinet adopt a part of
the whole nolicias and nnrnoses for which
the jJemocratic party naa been contending
for many years, and, which became so dis
tinctly denned last year; even that cannot
remove or quiet public sentiment. The
Democrats will make no factious opposition.
nor will they seek to embarrass the de facto
administration. The fraud triumphant in
American history for the first time must be
a-efx led to ite proper place among Crimea
acai ist popular government and mads so
odious that no party will attempt a repetition.
All Democrats rejoice that free governments
are once more allowed to the States of Lou
isiana and South Carolina, and rejoice in the
good fruits that stunt follow; but in the lan
guage of Gov. Morton, it had become inev
itable. For years the Democrats had con
tended in Congress and before the people for
free Republican States throughout the south
and finally it became inevitable, because
right and truth were too strong to be longer
suppressed.
The Attorney General has called upon ac
counting officers of the Treasury for a copy
of the accounts of Brigham Young, Mormon
leader, hied m the lreasury some twenty
years aeo, when he was Indian Agent, ap
pointed by the government. These accounts
are called for at the request of Howard, U.
S. Attorney for Utah, who will examine
them carefully in connection with the At
torney General. It is intimated that they
will furnish important testimony against
Bngliam Young, and upon them a prosecu
tion will be based for various illeial acts
committed by him while acting as Indian
Agent.
A delegation of colored people from Lou
isiaua had two very satisfactory interviews
with the President and called on Secretary
Sherman this morninz. Ihe secretary was
askod whether he thought one-third of the
patronage was too much for the colored peo
ple. He replied that if men of integrity
aud intelligence were chosen he though!
they were entitled to a fair share of patron
age, and further remarked he would write
to Collector King at New Orleans upon the
subject.
Wasiusgtom, June 13. Baily, U. S
Consul at Hong Kong, China, reports to the
Department of State that the number of
Chinese who left that port for the United
States during the year ended December 31,
1876, was 5,134 less than that of the previ
ous year, and that only fi'2 of the emigrants
were women; showing that the act of March
3, 1875, has been vigorously enforced. Of
steamers leaving that port during the year,
over 83 per cent, were British, and less than
one per cent, ui.dor the ilag of the United
States. '
Senator Allison, who has just arrived here
from Iowa, says there is every probability of
a stormy time in the Republican State Con
vention there, which will meet on the 2Cth
inst. He docs not believe any resolution,
condemning the administration for its South
ern policy, will be adopted. Such a resolu
tion would, however, be offered aud vigor
ously advocated. It is the Senator's opin
ion that the platform will contain uo allusion
to this policy.
Nearly all the papers which usually pub
lish w.ir department advertisements have re
fused them at the rates fixed by the depart
ment, and probably tie Department of Jus
tice will consider the matter.
Nw Yohk, June 13. Kx-Gov. Hendricks
sailed to-day in the steamship Scytbia for
Europe. He was aecon:p.'uii;d to the sh ip by
a large crowd of frisr.di', who wifketl hits
bun ,:.
FOREICN-
Rdstschck, June 9. Cannonade from
Turkish batteries near here ha continued all .
day. According to latest accounts it was
lirected against large bodies of Russian
troops, and Russian batteries on the otitxi-
te bank of the Daae.be. causing considerable
damage.
Viknma, June 11, The Turk are col
lecting an army of reserve to the westward
of Sofia. The garrison of Widdin is being
reduced, part of the troop still remaining
being detached to atrengthen the army iu the
field. ,
LoKbon, June 11. The Danube is fall
ing-
Tot Roumanian' militia will be disbanded.
Albxakdkls, June 11. The Turkish men-
of-war to escort the Egyptian contingent
hare arrived." The contingent is expected
to aail immediately.
Ebxhodh, June 11. The Turkish head
quarter with 18 battallioB of. infantry, 4
batten aad 000 Kurdish cavalry are es
tablished near Zerwin, The Turks hold
strong position commanding the Zerwin
road, in prospects appear to be unproved
that Mnkhtar Pasha contemplates attacking
the Russian nght wing in three separata
columns operating from Zerwin, Erseroom
and another point.
Tt. PTsjuaCKO, Jane 11. The loan of
two hundred million rubles, at five per cent.,
te o, opened through a Stat bank, i under
consideration.
LoirDOir, Jnn 11. The Bulgarian legion
in Koumanm numbers 10,000 men, hair
foreigners, especially Servians.
The insurrection in Skuknm Kalah ia
spreading.
Commander are vigorously attempting te
cut Russian communication
- It weald appear the Russian point for
crossing the Danube will be chosen east and
west of Turkish quadnllateraL and that
while the eastern column keeps in cheek
Turkish forces massed in md around the
fortreases, the western voluma will act a a
field army.
Co9rAinwL,Junell. MukhtarPasha
telsgrapha that tile garrison of Kara made
uccesaful artillery sortie and pursued
the
enemy.
Admiral Mustapha state that five Rus
sian torpedo boat were destroyed in the at
tack on ua xuTHiaa ironciaa.
Vis, June 11. The Danube suddenly
rose yesterday, overflomng its bank. The
rise was caused by melting anew on Car
pathian Alps. This will again delay opera
tions.
Emkbcio, June 11. The lord provost of
Edinburg has notified Gen. Grant, through
the American legation at London, of the
desire of the corporation and citizens to make
in the event of Gen. Grant's visiting Edin
burg. a public recognition of the high esti
mate they hold of his character, and the
service which he, as President, rendered to
ths cause of general peace, particularly
the continued friendly relation between the
United State and Great Britain. A reply
ia daily expected.
Los don, June 10. The movements on
the Asiatic side were recorded last week, which
showed that the Russian center and right
wing had joined hands and advanced, the
former on passes of the Soghanlu mountain
and the latter on Olti and along the Choruk
valley. There must now be added the fact
that the Russian center has obtained com.
munication with the left wing, so that the
eastern heads of passes between Soghanlu
and Kiretch ranges nesr Midshlncr are al
ready in their hands, Mukhtar Pasha having
withdrawn from his position between Olti
and B&rdiz and taken up afresh linehetween
Kapraki and Hasscn Kaleh. Mukhtar has
thereby improved his position, if he has suffi
cient force north of Eraeroum to check the
advance of the Russian right wing. This,
however, is very doubtful, especially as his
position at Kalli, south of the Araxea, is
threatened by the extreme left of the Rus
sian left wing. A portion of the Russian
left was detatched at Joranos, probably with
a desire to turn Mukhtar's strong position at
Kapruki Araxes ; for the descent from Sas
hanlu through the passes leading down to
the valley of Araxes is steep and difficult as
indeed is also the descent from the Kaspar
range to Kalli, which is about a half hour's
march from Araxes. If the Turks stand
their ground, which they can only do if they
have sufficient men guarding the northern
approaches to Erzeroum, the plain of Araxes
will be the scene of a sanguninary battle.
The great length of the Russian line of com
munication, with the two fairly garrisoned
fortresses, Kara and Batoum, in their rear;
necessitates great caution on their part, be
cause if the Turks hadsullicient enterprise or
available forces, they would long since have
sent Urge reinforcements by sea to Batoum
and endeavored to break through the circle
which the Russians have formed on the
heights around the land side of that town.
London, June 11. The Egyptian contin
gent for Turkey has sailed, escorted by four
Turkish men-of-war.
There are 220 newspaper correspondents
in Roumania.
Poti is deserted, shops are closed, and the
inhabitants have fled into the interior.
Only a few soldiers remain to oppose the
landing of Circassians from Turkish trans
ports. A Constantinople dispatch reports heavy
firing south of that city.
A dispatch from Srzeroum states thatM ukh
tar Fasha's aroy is decimated by sickness,
and that the comzn'scariat Is in a frightful
eondiiicu. Ihe roods art swarming with de
sorter from hi.1 wmy.
lU'UR.utaST, June ll. Prime MiUstor
Bratiano, a:coir.paiiied by the iniuster of
foreign alTiirs, has gone to Pluiesti to mike
definite arrangements coKornin Rouman
ian participation, in military operation.
Priuce (nirtrfcbakcil hud not obtaiued leave:
of absence for a six wwk tour.
The ri' Wv ff )(i..::tn cops iu crowing the
IViii.b:- .-i L L:v..' c 1 i& ,r!U-t on th.j &n.
PLOIWTI June 12. It is understood Prince
G.irUchsko l is still very anxious for puac,
but he considers the Turks not yet sufficient
ly beaten to warrant propositions looking te
that end.
Several important tolegianis have been re
ceived from Cmnt Schouvaloff. In London
there are rumors of some considerable Turk
iah successes at Rutschuk.
The Emperor travels in a luxurious car,
fitted either for railway or ordinary ' roads.
He look far from being well. He has Diet
with a most enthusiastic reception at all
points on his journey.
Athkns, June 12. The Greek army is te.
be reorganized. Thirty thousand men are te
constitute a standing force. In 1872 pa
army was fixed at only 12,397.
Con3TAirrtOFi.E, June 11. The Cham
berof Deputies voted the credits required
by the miniatrin of war and marine, aad
adopted a resolution in favor of suppressing
a nnmbet of superfluous posts in various de
partments.
YlsTrNs, Jun 11. The question whether
the Roumanian army is to take an active
part in the war seems to have been decided.
La the negative. The forces now mostly con
centrated in Little Wallachia are to main
tain at any rate fur the present their defen
sive attitude, lacing Widdin andlorming ta
extreme right of the Russian army. -
Bikun, Juns 1 1 Order have been is
sued by the Russian Government to accel
erate as much as possible the levy of 218,000
men. Despite this th opinion continues te
prevail here that Russia wishes to settle with
Tnrker on the basis of the nominal integrity
ef Turkev ia Europe, and some such settle
ment will be advocated by powerful persona
at Constantinople if the Russians succeed ia
crossing tne Danu be and assuming aa ener
getic offensive in Bulgaria.
Soxiha, Jane 1 1. One of th prisoner
taken at th repulse ef the torpedo boat at
tack en the Turkish ironclads, is an Ameri-
a.
Gittbssvo. Jane 12. The fire from the
Turkish forts during the past few day ha
been unusually heavy, ana ueir gunners
have improved very much by their practice.
For a week heavy artillery duel have been
reported from various points along the Dea
he. We have suffered her considerably,
more than military officers care to admit,
the accuracy of aim on the part ef the Turk
ish artillerist being something remarkable.
On several days no fewer than from fifty to
sixty shells have fallen within the fort, ant
not more than one-third have exploded or
the work would coon prove intolerable.
PACIFIC COAST,
Saw FxANCiaco, Jane 12. The Senatorial
Commission appointed to inquire iate al
leged fraud in th election of Senator Gre
ver ef Oregon, arrived tn thi city last even
ing, en route to Salem, Oregon. The com
mission consists of Senators Morton of In
diana, Sanlsbury of Delaware, McMillan ef
Minnesota. The commission is accompanied
by J. A. Burbank, Clerk of th Committee
on Privilege and Elections, D. S. Alexan
der, Secretary, and C. W. Stagg, reporter.
Senator Morton decline to be inter
viewed at length, but says the commission'
will make no inquiry whatever into the Cro
nin crookedness, having no authority to
meddle with that affair.
Los Akgblis, June 11. An immense fire
is raging in the mountains between here and
Santa Monica, and has already burned over
thousands of acres, destroying a number of
dwelling houses, together with barns and
other buildings. The people of the neigh
borhood have been fighting it constantly
since Saturday afternoon, but tho strong
winds, together with the scarcity of water,
render the efforts futile. It is now swoop
ing down upon the plains, and by to-night,
if its progress be not stayed, it will have
consumed a great deal of valuable property.
Between four and six miles are now on fire,
and residents of the vicinity are exhausted
and discouraged. No loss of human life ha
yet been rep"rted.
Lompoc, June 12. About noon of th
10 th inst., a Are broke out on Don Jose
Rochin's ranch, some six miles south of thi
place, snd is raging fearfully in an eastern
direction. It is consuming stock and every
thing iu its way. At first it was making a
direct course for Honda river, but yesterday
the wind blew heavily from the southwest,
which turned it toward Young Bros, and
Buell's rancho, over which it spread rapidly.
After burning about 150 head of cattle on
Don Rochin's ranch aud completely making
away with all grass on the third ranch, it
came down into San Marieta canyon, where,
were it not for citizens who turned out
and fought it in the hot sun for fifteen
straight hours, without food, it would have
undoubtedly burned up every house in the
canyon. Young Bros, are thinking o 1
butchering what stock they have left to pre
vent starvation, while Messrs. Bunll k
Rochin are looking for new range. It is im
possible to estimate the loss. All now ia
quiet. No further danger is a; rehonded.
At the present there is a fire raying on the
Santa Monica ranch seven miles r;orthwest,
owned by Don J. Rochin also, win 'h has de
voured over 2,000 acres of his l;?st grass
which he was saving to winter l is sheep,
with. The ranchoros are all workc'. down,
endeavoring to save something for their
stock, and are almost hopeless. The fire
seems to have been the work of au incen
diary. Saokamexto, June 12. Tho Rcpubliciin
county central committee met to-day and
fixed the date for holding the primaries for
July "1st and for the county convention July
2lith. The session of the committee was
very harmonious, and tho long list of in
spectors and judges of election selected givea
great satisfaction to the people. The con
vention was fixed late in July to avoid inter
ference with the grain and fruit harvest in the
butistt days. The outlook, nay the leading
members of the party heio, is one of great
promise for the party. There is no elomont
of inhannony known within the lines of the
party here and no prospect of it for the com
ing campaign within the Republican party.
That the ticket to tm nominated will poll the
strength of the party in September is con
ceded hero on all hands.
San ltAN'asco, June 13. Crop anp
weather reports from all principal points ia
the Si.it ihow no material variation from
previous rtpoits. A slight shrinkage re
jxirt' J in t-ime Inctlities, and in some placed
the iiiirth wind which prevailed ahaUenxl
the grain a little, but the main effect of the
bent. -ee:iss t j hive Iwiii to hasten ri'.tm.niu
a w.k or c. -.!.