The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1876, Page 4

‘a ve NEW YORK HERALD |=" > BROADWAY AND ANN STFEET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —_—--___ THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Three cents per copy (Sun- day excluded). Ten dollars per year, or at rate of one dollar per month for any period Jess than six months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henrap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ee a } PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH S'TREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, Subscriptions and advertisements will be teceived and forwarded on the same terms 1s in New York. TOLUME AUSENENTS THIS APTERNOON AND EVENING. ee PARK THEATRE. PRRETABARTS and TOM COBB, atS P.M. Matinee at TUPRATRE. BR ; HENRY IV., at 5 Matinee at 2 PM, s1LMC BARNUM’S GIRCL PTH AVE ATRE, |. Matinee Charles F, Coghlan, G FERREOL, at 8 N BABA, at8P. M. AMERICAN ID GRAND NATIONAL EXHIBITION, BOWERY THES MARKED FOR LIFE, at 8 P. it TWO ORPHA Matinee at 1 \ HOUSE M. Matinee at 2 P. M. UNCLE TO: d EW YORK AQUAKIUM. Dpen daily. IEATRE. |. Matinee ut 1:30 P.M. Mr. BOOTH: SARDANAPALUS, at 8 bangs und Mrs. Agnes B THOMAS’ CONC! E COMIQUE Matinee at 2 P. ML TR! THE, VARIETY, at 89. OTH oO; vl TARIETY AND DRAMA, at E. Matinee at 2 P. M, TON FARIETY, at SP. M. y VARIETY, at 8 P. TIVOLT THEATRE, VARIETY, at 8 P. M. EAGLE M. Mat FARIETY, at 8 P, RAN FRAN "0 MINS’ 3 wS8P.M. Matinee at 2 a ‘ i MABILLE. THEATRE, (HE MYTH, at 2and8 P.M. KELLY & iN INSTRELS, usPM. set 925 COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE. VARIETY, at8 P.M, Matinee at 2 P.M. PHILADELPHIA THEATRES, KIRAT. RA PA SROUND THE iTY Sy iad FOX's THFATRE, NEW N THE BLACK CROO! KREUTZBERG'S THE 3 Paps from * A.M. to 10 P in Exposition Buildin; PHILADE Ninth and Arch street NEW YORK, ICAL MUSEUM. OF PARIS. east of the Philedelphia 28, ATURDAY, OCTOBER 1876, NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the action of a portion of the carriers and ewsmen, who are determined that the public shall not havo the HERALD at three cents per copy if they * can prevent it, we have made arrangements toplace tho Meravp in the hands of all our readors at tho reduced price. desire at No, 1,265 Brodway and ) Newsboys can purchase any quantity they may . 2 Ann street, NOTICE TO NEWSMEN. All those who will prominently display on their Stands a notice to the public to the effect that they are selling the Hrratp at three cents per copy will ‘Moct with no opposition by boys or others sent from this office, Stands on wagon Toute of Kominsky Brotners supplied with HeRaLps free of commissions, From our reporis this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day wili be cool and ¢lear or partly cloudy. Warn Srreer Yestrrpay.—The stock market was dull and irregular. Prices were generally lower. Gold opened at 109 3-4 and closed at 1097-8. Money on call was supplied at 3 and 2 per cent. Government and railway bonds were firm. Ovr Sprcran Despatcn by cable from Paris this morning gives information of a painful pictare of American culpability at the Centennial Exhibition by M. Du Som- merard, the chief of the French Commission. The good people of Philadelphia will be very much scandalized thereby, and the ig- norant European judgment of America will be very much strengthened. Beyond this there is no harm eitherin M. Du Sommer- ard’s charges or his invective. A false tale only acquires importance through an at- tempt to disprove it, and fortunately in this case the allegations are too silly to be cred- ited. The price of the Hera to-day and hence- forth will be three cents. Tar Enorisx Anctic Exprprtiox.—From the very meagre report of the return of the Alert from the Arctic seas we know only that the expedition has failed in its main purpose, but cannot perceive why. We are informed that progress to the North Pole was impracticable, but our curiosity in re- gard tothe nature of the obstacles is not satisfied. ‘No Iand was discovered to the north of 83 deg. 20 sec.” There must, then, have been water or ice. If it was water why did not the Alert go ahead, as it was understood she would? If it was ice why did they not push on with the sleds, which it was understood were to be a great feature of the exploration? The roughness of the ice shows that it was pack ice rendered solid by the temporary fall of temperature, and it by no means proves the impossibility of reaching the Pole. The ex- pedition sledge parties state that they pene- trated to within four hyndred miles of the North Poie, but for some unexplained reason returned when success was almost attained. It is to be hoped that this expedition was not one more victim to mutinous disorganize- tion, | happen. NEW YORK HERALD. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28. Canvass—Startling Pos- sibility. We called attention yesterday to a feature of the Presidential canvass which is worth the consideration of all politicians, because the contingency we exploited is not unlikely tohappen. We desire to point outat present another and more startling thing among the possibilities of the canvass; but the contin- ey is more remote and the reasoning by which itis made apparent will be more hypo- thetical. We showed yesterday that there is something more than a possibility, even a near approach to probability, that the vote for the rag baby may decide the Presidential election, We need not repeat in detail the statistics and reasoning by which that proba- bility was supported. It arises out of the extreme closeness of the contest, which will enable an insignificant body of voters in two or three States to determine the result, as the small Birney vote decided it against Clay and in favor of Polk in 1844. It is generally conceded that New York is the pivot of the present canvass, and that the party which carries this State will elect the next President. It is expected that the vote in this State will be very close. It is possible that even a single thousand, and probable that fifteen or eighteen thousand votes for the Cooper ticket would change the result. In 1844 Clay received in this State 232,482 and Polk 237,588 votes—a difference of only 5,156 between the two principal candidates, But the Birney ticket received 15,812 votes in New York, or three times as many as were needed to give the State to Clay. The Birney votes were given by citi- zens who really preferred Clay to Polk, but elected the candidate most opposed to their own views. The supporters of Mr. Cooper, although intending, like the Birney men of 1844, merely to assert their own princi- ples, may likewise accomplish more than they expected when they nominated their ticket. It is certain that they intend to have’ their ballots distributed at every polling place in this city and throughout the State, and they count upon from three to five thousand votes in this city alone and three or four times that number in the State at large. If this expectation, which seems modest enough, should be realized, there isastrong probability that the greenback | vote will turn the scale between Tilden and Hayes and elat the President. This rea- soning seems to rest on a pretty solid basis, if it be true that New York is as close and evenly balanced as intelligent politicians consider it. The other and more startling possibility, which we are about to explain, goes further into the realm of conjecture, and depends on contingencies less likely to But it is, nevertheless, worth the attention of politicians. In so very close a contest as that which will terminate on the 7th of November, if Mr. Cooper could get the electoral votes of any one State in the whole thirty-eight, the | Presidential election might be thrown into the House of Representatives. A plurality does not constitute a choice in the Electoral Colleges; it requires an absolute majority of the whole number. If the leading candi- date should fail short, even by a single vote, of the requisite 185, there would be no choice by the people and the House would elect the President. The chance of Mr. Cooper for getting the electoral votes of any State looks slender enough at present, but the canvass may assume a new phase before the end of next week. If Mr. Cooper should receive the electoral votes of any State it will be those of Indiana, Both parties in Indiana are ste+~ed in the inflation heresy, and so far as they have taken a different position it is a simulated conversion from motives of party expedi- ency. The State platforms of both politi- cal parties in Indiana for the last two or three years have steadily indorsed in- flation up to the time of the Presidential nominations. If that could be presented as the sole issue, disentangled from all others and separated from party expediency, there would be an inflation majority in that State of four or five to one. We could make this abundantly clear by a copious citation of facts ; but in this stage of the argument we will merely assume it to be true, and at- tempt to trace the possible consequences, If, before the close of next week, the re- publican leaders in Indiana should become satisfied that they have no.chance of carry- ing the State, there is an easy and dexterous game by which they could take its fifteen electoral votes from Tilden. They have only to carry their party over to the Peter Cooper ticket, and thereby deprive Tilden of fifteen electoral votes and probably defeat his election. Morton is astute and bold enough to play this game, and it is the most adroit thing the Indiana republicans could do if they become convinced, on the eve of the election, that their party cannot carry the State. In any event it would take so many votes from Tilden and impair his chances to that extent. It would probably accomplish a great deal more. In so close a contest the loss of fifteen electoral votes might defeat Tilden and elect Hayes in the Electoral Colleges; but if Tilden should prove stronger in other States than the re- publicans expect the diversion of those fifteen votes to the Cooper ticket might pre- vent either of the principal candidates from getting a majority and transfer the election to the House. It may be asked what the republican party would gain by that. The House is demo- cratic, and would be quite certain to elect Tilden, This is true; but the republicans would, nevertheless, save a great deal from the wreck, When there is no choice by the Electoral Colleges the Senate and not the House elects the Vice President, and the republican Senate would be sure to elect Wheeler. If Mr. Tilden should die in the early part of his term this manceuvre would give him a republican successor. The chances of filling such # vacancy and making Mr. Wheeler President would soften the republican defeat, and even if Mr. Tilden should survive his term the republi- cans would still have the second officer in the government. They could not lose any- thing by playing such a game if they become satisfied that they cannot carry Indiana, and the gain would be great and munifest. It would improve their chances every way. It would certainly deprive Mr. Tilden of fifteen of the electoral votes on which he is count- ing, It might elect Hayes; it might, Tilden is too strong for that, defeat a choice in the Electoral Colleges and enable the re- publican Senate to elect the Vice President. But could the Indiana republicans be car- ried over to the Peter Cooper ticket? We have no doubt that they could by the in- fluence of their leaders, They are not hard money men by conviction, but only by ex- pediency ; and if expediency requires them to go the other way they will be quite at home in the greenback camp. No longer ago than February 22, 1876, the Republican State Convention in Indiana declared their strenuous and decided opposition to the Re- sumption act. In a strong anti-contraction resolution the Indiana republicans said, last February:—‘‘Therefore, so much of the so- called Resumption act as fixes the time for resuming specie payments should be re- pealed.” This is the deliberate opinion of the Indiana republicans, proclaimed in the most formal manner only eight months ago. There can be no great difficulty in carrying such a party over to the Peter Cooper ticket, when a coup of this kind might elect Hayes, and would certainly elect Wheeler if there should be no choice in the Electoral Colleges. The price of the Heraup to-day and hence- Sforth will be three cents. An Uptown Water Famine. It is to be regretted that the officials of the Croton Water Bureau do not deem it necessary to consult the convenience of the public when they desire to make experi- ments on the pumping engines at High Bridge. Inthe pursuit of knowledge they do not hesitate to cut off without warning the water supply from a large and thickly peopled section of the city, and they are apparently utterly regardless of the in- convenience to the public, to say nothing of the risk, attending their fantastic efforts to solve the water problem, A red hot “waterback” suddenly filled with cold water from the service pipe is about as destructive an agent as a housekeeper can well imagine. Explosions from this cause have frequently resulted in serious injuries to the unsuspi- cious servant maids, and, indeed, it has now come to bea mere choice between the two evils of being maimed or drowned out for those who occupy houses in the upper dis- tricts of this city. The misery of ~ water famine has already overtaken the unfortu- nate residents of the high-level districts, and, as stated in the article published elsewhore, in to-day’s Hznaup, the search for the precious fluid has grown to be painfully in- teresting. Ifa great fire had started while the engineers were experimenting on the pumps and a vast amount of property been destroyed we would probably be informed that want of rain was the chief cause of the disaster and that the season had been un- usually dry. We are at the mercy of the elements, for our engineers are confessedly helpless in the face of the danger that threatens the city. We have a vast area of watershed, but no water ; plenty of storage accommodation, but nothing to store. The Independent Voter. Does the independent voter realize his supreme importance in this Centennial of our national existence? Does he recog- nize the fact that all these fine speeches, all these brilliant torchlight proces- sions, all these brass bands and banners,~ and rockets and the sticks that belong to them, all these appeals inthe partisan papers, these solemn asser- tions that the Union is in danger, that the Goddess of Liberty is threatened with cerebro-spinal meningitis, that the public credit is about to wilt and that the public creditor has already engaged ‘a provisional suit of mourning and provided himself with a book of strong language—does the inde- pendent voter know that he is the object of all these patriotic efforts? We fear he does not. We see him plod- ding along Broadway, hurrying to his train with desperation in his features and terror in his walk, enduring with sheepish equa- nimity the fiery appeals of his neighbor to help save a perishing country ; we notice him reading the republican journals and going bodily over to Tilden as he does so, or reading the democratic journals only to go over to Hayes; we hear him denounced as unpatriotic, and see him laugh at the charge as though patriotism were indeed what old Doctor Johnson asserted, ‘‘the last refuge of a scoundrel.” It is lamentable to a truly loyal electioneerer of either party to see the vile equanimity with which the independent voter listens to his entreaties. The most horrifying tale of cruelty to the Southern blacks only makes him grin. The most urgent plea for reform fails to move his stolid soul, If it were possible to bundle up Belknap and Tweed, the two Butlers of Massachusetts and South Carolina, Boss Kelly and Boss Chandler, in asingle huge brown paper parcel, and fling this at him, we believe he would only “duck” his head, as the abolition orators used to duck when they saw a dead cat in the air, and placidly resume his walk. * We suspect the reason of the independent voter's equanimity. He reads his own or- gan, the Heranp, and draws comfort and patience from its columns. He is not ex- cited, because he does not believe the mil- lennium will come with either Hayes or Til- den ; he is not uneasy, because he does not believe the American eagle is that kind of a bird that yo. can easily sprinkle salt on his tail. Messrs. Hewitt and Chandler are very anxious to know what the independent voter means to do next Tuesday week. We can tell them, because the Hera is the independent voter's organ. Hoe means to scratch, He means to go to the polls and vigorously scratch the tickets which the patriots there gathered will urge upon him. He will carefully se- lect his Congressman and his Assemblyman and his city and county officer; where he finds that either party has put a knave ora fool on the ticket he means to mark him out, And as he sits before thé fire on the evening of election day the independent voter will grin at the thought of the trouble he has in this Centennial given the can- vassers and counters, and tho disappoint- ment he has prepared for some of the party war horses, Vorars will bear in mind that this is the last day of registration. All citizens should re- member this and prepare to exercise the + of freemen by registering to-day, The Herald for Three Cents. The reduction in the price of the Henaup has had one singular result. It has discov- ered to the press and the public the exist- ence of a set of fat and prosperous middle- men, “news agencies,” so called, who really seem to imagine that the newspapers exist for their benefit and by their toleration, and that the reading public has no rights which these monopolists are bound to respect. In their present opposition to the Hzrarp they assume to dictate not only the price at which a newspaper shall be sold to them, but also what additional price the retail dealers and the readers shall be com- pelled to pay to them, the middle- men. They are very willing to get their papers at a reduced rate from us, “but they refuse to make a reduction to their customers and to the public. They insist on exacting four cents for a paper which we sell them at two anda half cents, and thus | they aim, by combining together, to force every reader of the Hxxanp who buys of them to pay them one and a half cents profit on each paper. Fortunately for the reading public it does not depend upon these mid- dlemen what the renders of the Henan shall pay for it. A great metropolitan journal is too powerful to be controlled in that way. It cannot afford to live under such a menace as is implied in the present attitude of these news agencies. The great news agencies started from very humble beginnings ; but in the course of years, and by swallowing up rivals, crushing out small dealers and forming combinations so as to occupy the whole market, they have become wealthy and powerful corporations. The reading public is scarcely aware of their existence; and yet it is forced to pay tribute to them with every purchase of ao daily, weekly or monthly journal. Originally very useful and harmless persons these corpora- tions have for some years so enlarged their enterprises that they are now foolishly am- bitious to control the whole periodical market. They undertake the distribution of whole editions of important weekly journals; we believe we are not mistaken in saying that the larger part of the editions of most of the illustrated papers now reach the small deal- ersand the readers through the hands of these monopolist middlemen. For some years past, whenever it was proposed to establish a new weekly paper here, it has been thought necessary, first of all, to propi- tiate the news agencies; and to propitiate them means toallow them a temptingly large margin of profit as against the readers and buyers—that isto say, the public. It is natu- ral, under the circumstances, that this power, which has become a monopoly, should be abused. At one of their meetings they went so far as to offer to dictate on what day Mr. Bonner should issue his widely circulated Tedger. Some years ago they actually de- manded that the distribution of the whole metropolitan morning press should be placed in their hands; and it is very well known that there are now weekly journals which exist by their tolerance,.because they are the distributors, and which they could ruin if they wished. They have even inter- fered with postal legislation in Congress. Mr. Jewell had to mect their demands when he undertook to frame new and more liberal regulations for the distribution of printed matter. This is not an entirely new phenomenon. Some time ago Smith & Co., English news agents, made an extravagant demand upon the London Times, an attempt similar to that now made against the Heraxp, to inter- tere with its business ; but the great English journal put its foot down firmly and resisted the arrogant pretensions. It could not afford to do otherwise, and the Hzratp will do no less. It is resisting these monopolists not only in the interest of the reading public, for whose benefit it has made the re- duction in its price, but in the interest of the retail dealers and of the whole metro- politan press—in fact, of the press of the country at large, which has been made to feel the oppression and dictatorial spirit of these fat middlemen. In its fight with these corporations and combinations of newsdealers it has the sympathy, prudently unexpressed, of a multitude of newspapers— daily and weekly—who have become so far subject to this monopoly that open resist- ance is to them very inconvenient, and in many cases dangerous. We have the open sympathy also of a multitude of honest, in- dustrious and expert newsdealers, who have been brought into subjection to this un- scrupulous monopoly, and many of whom see themselves threatened with ruin if they refuse to submit to exactions which are scandalously unjust. The news agent monopolists have crushed out small and useful industries by their tyranny; they have taken the bread from the mouths of many industrious distributors of newspa- pers, and either entirely destroyed their business or compelled them to become agents of the monopoly. We do not interfere in anybody's busi- ness, but we do not mean to submit to interference in our own. It is preposterous that a little knot of monopolists should persume to dictate to us at what price we shall sell the Hzraip to the public, or at what price the public shall buy it. Aw Appgzan mom a Mexican Jan—We have received, by telegraph from Browns- ville, in Texas, a letter addressed from the “Common Jail, Matamoros, Mexico, October 25,” and addressed ‘‘To the Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State,” with a request that we make it public. In doing so we must say that we do not know anything of the writer of the letter, have never before heard of his case, and, therefore, cannot certify to the accuracy of his statement or to the existence even of the petitioner. We print the communication because it is an appeal for justice from one who ¢laims to have been a soldier of the Union and to have been dis- abled in the service. If his complaints are just they deserve immediate attention from the government. If they are unfounded the pretences of ‘the letter can be easily and quickly exposed. Ratnoaps Ovt or New Yors.—If passen- gers on any train running into New York are hereafter charged five cents per copy for the Henan they‘will confer a favor on us by re- porting the fact to this office, designating the train and time of arrival. Proper meas- ures will be at once taken to correct what is an abuse, 1876: -WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Weather. The rain area which passed over the United States during last week has now moved into the North Atlantic, and is fol- lowed by an area of high pressure, which extends from the lower lake region to the Gulf, accompanied by clear, cool weather. Westward of the Mississippi another disturb- ance is now central in Dakota, and will soon reach our vicinity, probably by Mon- day next. The much-needed supply of rain to replenish our exhausted Croton reservoirs may come, but there is good reason to believe just now that we shall get only a moderate rain- fall, which will make little change in the water levels above the Croton dam. The weather in New York to-day will be cool and clear or partly cloudy, with winds veer- ing from north to northeast. The startling news which reaches us from Central America regarding the destructive cyclone in that re- gion gives new interest to the subject of me- teorology, on account of the remarkable oc- currence of such a tempest in that low lati- tude. The Central American cyclone must not be confounded with that which swept over Havana, ‘The latter did not appear until sixteen days after the former was felt. The track of the isthmus storm was appar- ently asharp parabolic curve, commencing about the tenth parallel of latitude and hay- ing its apex in the vicinity of Lake Nica- Tagua. The capital of Nicaragua was flooded from Lake Managua, showing that the city was on the western quadrant of the storm, and, therefore, got the full force of the northerly wind. The cyclone seems to have spent its force in the mountains of Honduras. The price of the Henaup to-day and hence- Forth will be three cents, The City Estim: for Next Year. The estimates of the departments and officers of the city government forthe year 1877 are now before the Board of Apportion- ment, and it is evident that the taxpayers cannot expect any reduction in the present large expenditures of the city government except through the action of that Board. The estimates are in nearly all cases as large, and in some ‘instances much larger, than those of last year. The principal increased appropriations asked for are in the Depart- ment of Pyblic Works, the Department of Charities and Correction, the Health Depart- ment, the Police Department, the Board of Education, the District Attorney's office, the Board of Police Justices, the Sheriff's office and some of the courts. The Public Works Department asks about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars more than last year’s appropriation; but as the increase is mainly for repaving downtown strects and the repairs and maintenance of the aqueduct it will not be begrudged by the people and should be suffered to stand. The department under Mr. Campbell is be- lieved to be honestly administered; henco there will be no disposition to be niggardly in supplying it with the means of useful- ness. The Department of Public Parks asks three-quarters of a million this year against less than half a million last year, and to this the taxpayers will object, especially under the present park management. In the De- partment of Charitics and Correction an in- crease of over six hundred thousand dollars is asked, for which no justification. can be found. The Health Department has the modesty to ask one hundred thousand dol- lars’ increase, when its business is felt to be very extravagantly done at a cost this year of nearly one hundred and forty thousand dollars. The Police Department demands six hundred thousand dollars’ increase over the present year’s appropriation, and the Board of Education wants an additional three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to carry it through 1877. 3 The Department of Taxesand Assessments is about the only department of the city government that shows a steady decrease in its expenditures, It costs now just about one-half what it cost under the old Tam- many régime, and its estimates have been steadily decreased as it has found itself ina condition to retrench without impairing its efficiency. The Comptroller is contented to do next year with about the same approprin- tion he receives this year. The expenses of the city government aro in the aggregate much higher than they ought to be, and the Board of Apportionment will do well to use the pruning knife with discretion, but still with firmness. The estimates for 1877 could be made at least twenty per cent less thun the appropriations for the present year with- out any detriment to the public interests, The Board of Apportionment has the power to cut down the expenses, and tlie people will expect to see it perform its duty with- out fear or favor. To Henaty Reapers at Wuirxstone.—If twenty-five readers of the Heranp at White- stone, who give us notice that they have been charged five cents for the Henaxp since the reduction in its price, will buy their Hzratps on the trainer in the depot at Whitestone they will be charged only the proper price. Filigree Railroad Bridges. The New Jersey Midland Railroad may be called o filigree railroad. Not only can plenty of daylight be seen through it for a great part of its length, but tho trestles on which it crosses so many spaces of country have in the landscape such a light and airy effect that the train seems to run on the out- side thread of a spider's web. It was in- tended in the construction of the road that the space under the trestles should be fijled in with earth, but the want of money has delayed that operation, and a succession of accidents on these trestles has been antici- pated fortwo years. But the accident that bas just occurred did not happen at one of these scenes of discounted danger. It re- sulted from the destruction of an iron bridge which spanned the space over the Erie Railway, and this accident serves to show the great insecurity of this class of bridges. The bridge is ono of those which, seen at a distance, resemble gigan- tic bird cages—intricate combinations of slender iron rods, which brace and tie and bind one another, and seem wonderfully to unite lightness, grace and strength. But a car that jumped the track and broke one or two of those rods destroyed the bridge ; for, as every rod binds some other rod or tie, the destruction of one rod is like the removal ne Sea ee the critical piece in a Chinese puzzle, at which the whole falls to pieces. In this case some iron beam, deprived of the sup- port of the perpendicular or vertical rods that were broken, gave way, and the weight of the train did the rest. The price of the Hera to-day and hence forth will Le three cents. _ Why the Oriental Negotiation Halts Ordinarily negotiation can proceed at least more rapidly than armies when these find other armies in their way ; but this is not true in the east of Europe, There the negotiation still drags and makes no per- ceptible progress, while the Ottoman army has since the recommencement of hostilities made such important advances as to rendes it altogether likely that the treaty of peace when made will have to provide for a Turk- ish evacuation of the Servian capital. Rus- sia's demand of an armistice asa primary step, with the addition that the term of peace shall, during the suspensioxz of hostilities, be determined by the great Powers without the assistance of Turkey, only puts the armistice further away, since if Turkey accepts that she would beheld, perhaps, as committed to the addition. She will not, therefore, consent toa suspension of arms until she is ready to put, herself entirely in the hands of the Powers, and she will scarcely do that until she knowS it she hasa single friend to sil in that conference. The form of Genera) Ignatieff's proposition, therefore, seems faulty if its purpose is to further the nego- tiation, Ifthe purpose is to returd negotia- tion and give Russia a substantial reason for the movement of troops on the allegation that Turkey will accept no terms, it is happily framed. An important point in the case is as to, the guarantee of the reforms to be extorted. These, it seems to be assented, must be put under the protection of foreign troops; but of what nation? Russia would like to have her troops there. Germany seems to prefer that the troops should be English. This must be determined before the negotiation can go further; for the nation whose troops are “‘in possession” in the sick man’s house will be his heir when he dies. If Russia were now certain that those troops should be hers the proposition to the Sultan would be put in a form that would make it imme- diately acceptable at Constantinople; but sa long as this point is doubtful the negotia tions will be kept at a point which will leave Russia the option to invade the country in dispute. Her troops must be there in one way or another. Oxe Huxprep Pzr Cent.—Tyson Brothers are newsdealers who control the sales of newspapers in the Fifth Avenue, Windsor and Rossmore hotels, and at the Gilsey House. We are told that they charge five cents a copy for the Heraup. That is to say they make from their customers one hundred per cent on every copy. The hotel proprietors ought to protect their guests from such extortion. The price of the Heratp is three cents, and Tyson Broth- ers can afford to sell it for that to the guestsofthe hotels. We will fill their orders for two and a half cents per copy, delivered at their stands, Fovur-In-Hanp Dax.—The Coaching Club will make their first parade of the season to- day, starting from Madison square. Thous- ands of spectators will doubtless witness the display. Central Park will be the best point to observe it, and it will be seen from the letter of President Martin that the Park Commissioners are taking s commendable interest in the occasion. Notice. to Newspearers.—We are in- formed that the news companies are now charging retail dealers in the city from ten to fifteen per cent for deliver- ing them their Hzratps. This is not just, but extortionate. If any dealer will bring us his orders we will deliver the Heratp to him at his stand at any hour he may desire, and in any quantity, from two copies up, without extra charge, and for twa and a half cents per copy for whatever num- ber he may order. Notice to Travertens.—Hereafter the Hznatp will be sold by the Union News Company on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road at the same price as on all their other lines—namely, for four cents per copy. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prince Milan 18 an indolent man, Don Carlos says his flag ts furied. The Belfast linen trade is dull, Périgord truMes will be scarce but good. You may wear violet velvet for mornings, Bismarck will retarn to Berlin this month. Co-operative farming in England is a failure. Bradlaugh wrestied # disturber out of @ public meet fo, Hort; stout ladies shoald not wear chunky double fresses. The vegetarians are unable to form a society in Glasgow. English laborers object to soldiers Selng employed in harvest flelds. 5 ‘The man who nibbles round a grocery store is now cal jugar beat, ‘i ishmen have a mania for oysters this season, and the supply ts short. A London girl of thirteen bas # mania for smashing windows and has been sent into confinement, There is to be reform in the government of Irish cities, especially in regard to police and hquor selling, The mince pie season having began a down town rostaurant has erdered ten barrels of old asphalt pave. ment. Seventy-five losses by fire havo eccurrod within the Last eight years by workmen carrying matches in their pockets. Spurgeon says he does not lke men to come inte church with squeaky boots, or women with evor-falling parasols. Colonel Charles H. Gibson is running tor Congress is that distriet of Philadelphia in which Charles O'Neil formerly beat the venerable democrat, Hon. Benjamis Rash, Winter colors in fashions are sombre, inky blue, green bronze, mulberry slate, prune, raisin, &c. It may bo well toadd tho republican olack-cye for Now vember only, Tho Washington Chronicle says that tho papers that howl against sending troops to Sowth Carolina are the same that called Lincolo’s proclamation in wich he asked for troops a usurpation of power. The German authorities in Alsace-Lorraino seem 1¢ be carnestly striving to supply the waotol qualified teachers of tho kind it desires to employ—persoas, that is, who shall be free from French sympathies, At Glasgow tho other day a farmer was charged by tne santtary authorities with selling to the sagitary inspector's officer a quantity of adulterated orem, ‘The city analyst found the cream to be adulterated with skim milk to the extent of seventy-three per 4