The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1876, Page 7

4, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS Frofn All Parts of the World. THE OTTOMAN CRISIS What the Appointment of the New Grand Vizier Means. THE QUESTION: OF OCCUPATION. Will the Porte Resist a Joint Demand of the Powers? VON MOLTKE’S VIEWS. Has President Grant Apologized to MacMahon ? THE FORGER BRENT COMING BACK [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. ] Loxpox, Dec. 21, 1876. Thore seems to be little doubt that the informal meetings of the Conferenco at Constantinopic have Tesulted in somo kind of agreement among the Powers as to the general nature of the propositions to be sub- Miited to the Po and now the question is, How will Turkey receive them? The Times yesterday devoted ‘a long editorial to the subject, and the fecling seems to be pretty general that if Europe is united im lis de- mands the Vorte will eventually yield, The recent Ministerial change in Constantinople is regarded as do- cidedly tavorable to the latter theory. MIDHAT PACHA’S APPOINTMENT. Atelegram trom Constantinople siys tho appoint- mept of Midbat Pacha is very favorably received by the entire population. The Turkish people, while willing to accept reforma, resolutely object to any concessions detrimental to the dignity of the Empire HAS THE ARMISTICE BEEN PROLONGRD? The recent reports about the prolongation of the armistice do not seem to be known in St, Potersburg, or if the government has received any confirmation of them it has not been made public. A deepatch from Bt. Petersburg says nothing is known there about a prolongation of the armistice. OCCUPATIGN BY NEUTRALS, A despatch from Constantinople says:—'Great Britain's reply to the Russian proposal regarding the occupation of Bulgaria by neutral troops has not yet been reccived here. it is understood, however, that Switzerland bas declined, and it is believed that ‘Belgium will also decline toact.” THK TIMES ON THE KASTERN QUESTION, ‘Tho Times to-day in a leading editorial article on tho Conterence says ‘It is interesting to observe how far tho conservatives as well as tue liberals have travelled from their original position respecting tho * Eastern question, A few days ayo we indicated that Russia would abandon her design for the occupation of Bulgaria if the Conference should provide some other effective guarantee, and we also mentioned a sugges- tion that the duty of police should be undertaken by the troops of somo small State like Belgium. THE FORCE OF KVENTS. “We have yet to see whether Belgium will undertake 80 delicate a task; but in the mere fact that the Powers ‘will allow such « scheme to be laid before the Confer- Bnco wo frit a striking illustration of the distance to which the friends as well he enemies of Turkey bave been driven by force of « -uts.” OAN TURKEY RESIST UNITED BUROPE? It may be said that such arguments are futile, be- eause they leave out of account the will of Turkey her- soll; but the 7imes thinks uncompromising resistance on the part of Turkey is out of the question if Bhe be not permitted to believe that she would have England’s sapport in case of a conflict. The articie concludes as follows:—“‘If the Marquis of Salisbury should be instructed to tell the Porte that St would forte:t the support of England by uncompro- mising resistance, the new Grand Vizier woald, wo Delieve, sec the necessity of submission, and the last danger of war wouid ay.” THE POWEKS MUST ACT AS WELL AS DELINERATR, ‘A second editorial article appears in the Times ridi- culing the idea of Belgian occupation, and if peace is to be preserved by a union of the six Powers they must be resolved to act for themselves as well as to deliberate. VON MOLTKE ON THR CHAXCKS OF WAR. The Berlin correspondent of the Times, in a letter to that paper, quotes a reported saying of Count Von Moltke at amilitary gathering as follows:—‘Russia, in making war against Turkey, embarks in a great and difficult entorprit Should such a war break out it would probably bo laborious and irksome to the sol- dier and witheut any decided result for the com- mander-in-chief.”” INCREASING THK GREEK ARMY. Every fresh item of news from Greece shows that the ‘Hellenic factor in the Eastern question” is going to amount 10 moro than was at first supposed. A tele- gram from Athens says:—‘‘The Chamber of Deputies has unanimously parsed a bill raising the strength of the military forces to 200,000 men.’’ ANOTHER AUSTRO-SERVIAN DIFFICULTY. A despatch from Vienna says that while the Austrian monitor Maros was passing the fortress at Belgrade yesterday several musket shots were fred from the fort against the vessel. Tho Austrian Consul Genera!, Princo Wrede, who was on bvard, immediately ordered the Maros to advance and take position vefore Belgrade, Tne Maros took posi- tion and, as a gun in her turret was boing loaded, a shell accidentally exploded, seriously wounding ono ensign and four sailors, and slightly wounding seven others. Tho sentries {rom the fort again tired thei muskets, supposing that the monitor was firing on the fort, Prince Milon sent Minister Ristics to the Aus- trian Consul with apologies, and informing him that the commander of tho fort bad been dismissed. ‘There is a rumor that the Servian Ministry bave ro- Bigned in consequence of this incident, but It Jacks confirmation. CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS OF THE AFFAIR. A later Vienna despatch says accounts of the firing on the Austrian monitor Maros by the Servians are conflicting. Tho Servians allege that the Maros came too near the guns of tho fortress, Alter she bad been three times warned off a sentry fired on her, The German as well as tho Austrian Consul was on board tho monitor at the time, Austrian reports represent that several shots were wantonly fired at the Monitor as she was lying in the Stream, the bullets striking ber mast. Ono Austrian was killed by the subsequent acctdental explosion. Minister Ristics has tendered bis resignation and otber Bieps are pending. FURTHER DETAILS. Further details from Peath seem to show that the German and Austrian Consuls and the Austrian De- marcation Commissioner boarded the Maros ‘alter she was first fired on, The Russian Consul General used his friencly oMces with Prince Wrede in favor of the Servians, The Prince wished toquit Belgrade imme- diately. HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENTARY ACTION. In the Hungarian Parliamens to-day Deputy Somsich questioned Minister Tisza on the affair, and demanded that the government should exert its influence to ob- tain sabstantial satisfaction for this new insult. Tho Chamber unanimonsly adopted the interpellation as its own, M. Tisza promised to furnish toformation, 1c is suggested at Vienna that the Servians possibly planned tho outrage ia order to provoke Austrian pecupasion and thus escape the dictation of Russia, ‘THE FRENCH SENATE AND THE BUDGET. From Versaiqes it 18 reported that the Financial Committee of the Senate have agreed to a proposal to rermsert in the budget grants of $40,000 for increasing mipends of the clergy, and $26,200 tor scholarships in semiparics, these items having been sirickén out by ___ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1876. —TRIPLE SHEET. the Chamber ot tapien 3 The committee, however, have accepted tbe suppression of two other grants o! smaller amounts for religious purposes, M. Duclerc ‘Will move the appointment by the Senate of a delega- tion to confer with the Financial Committee of the Chamber of Depaties on the contested points. MAS PRESIDENT GRANT APOLOGIZED? A despatch from Paris says the report published there yesterday that United States Minister Washburne had presented President Grant's apologies to the French government for the arrest at Philadelpbia of Captain Aufrye, naval attaché to the Freneh Logation at Wash- ington, is contradicted. It is now said that Mr. Wash- burne took no action in the matter. BRENT'S SURRENDER. Charles Brent, tbe Louisville forger, has been deliv- ered into the custody of an English detective desig- nated by United States Minister Pierrepont to rece:vo him, and left Inst aight for Qaeenstown to embark for the United States, LABOR TROUBLES IN ENGLAND. The Manchester Guardian to-day snys tho conditions for a settlement of the dispute submitted by the opera- tives of the Laneashire cotton trade are strongly op- posed by the masters, Another meeting of the joint committee will be held at Blackbarn at the beginning of January, when the masters will state their decision, SPECIE FOR AMERICA. The White Star line steamer Adriatic, which sails from Liverpool for New York to-day (December 21), takes out $250,000 in specie. i TERRIBLE GALES ON THE ATLAN TIC. THE CITY OF BRISTOL OBLIGED TO PUT BACK TO QUEENSTOWN—LOS8S OF SEVERAL LIVES— SEVERAL STEAMSHIPS OVERDUE. [From the Evening Telegram of yesterday. } Quesnstows, Ireland, Dec, 20, 1876. The City of Bristol, ot the American steamship line, bound for Philadalpbia, bas put back into Queenstown, afer encountering the most fearful weather in the At. Jantic. The second officer, who was noted for his gal- Iantry and efficiency, was washed overboard and drowned. Four of the crew, who were engaged in their labors, suffered the same fate, Tbe deck was con" tantly swept by heavy seas and the deck saloons were stove in, Several of the boats were damaged and several sails were lost. COURAGE OF THE PASSEXGERS. The passengers showed great courage, although it was thought more thanonce that the good ship could not outlive the tempest. The passengers are to be trans. ferred to the Iilingis steamship, which vessel wil) probably arrive at Philadelphia about New Ycar’s Day, TUR VOYAGE. The City of Bristol, Captain Ellison, sailed from Liverpool! for Philadeipbia on the 6th of December, at three P, M., via Queenstown, which latter place she lett the fullowing day. When she put back in distress she was consequently fourtecn days out. The Illinois, Captain Shackford, which is a sister ship in the Ameri. can line, plying Nxewise between Philadelphia and Liverpool, was announced to leave the latter port to- day ana Queenstown to-morrow. SKRICH OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL. Tho City of Bristol, formerly tho Etna, 18 of 3,610 tons burden, and was built in 1855, at Greenock, Scot- land. ‘She isthe property of the Inman line, but for some time past she has been in the employ of the American steamship line, of which Messrs. Peter Wright & Sons, of Philadelphia, are the agents, OVERDUE STRAMSHIPS, Up to tho time of going to press there is no news to hand of the arrival of the overdue steamships City of Berlin, of the Inman line, from Liverpool, due since the 17th inst., and Victoria, of the Anchor line, from Glasgow, due since the 19th inst, At the foreign mail department as the Post Office to-day a Telegram reporter was informed that they had received no tidings of the arrival of the Hecla, of the Cunard line, from Liverpool, due at Boston singe the 17th inst, A DREARY SCENE ON THE NORTI RIVER. Not a single ocean steamer was to be seen on the North River front to-day, between Canal street and the French wharf adjoining Christopher street. Sach a sight ts te tigi painful evidence ot dull times, Past. tl to the north a couplo of sicamers are to be’ Hoboken there are only three ocean steamers; one adjoining tho Pavonia ferry and none at the Cunard dock, in Jersey City. The at- mospbere was murky and the river filled with floating ice, which greatly impeded the passago of the ferry- boats. MASSACRED BY INDIANS. WAGON TRAIN ATTACKED—TWO MEN KILLED. Hat Creex, Wy. T., Dec. 20, 1876, Four treight teams, accompanied by five men, were attacked by Indians woilo encamped on Indian Creek, six miles north of this place, at about nine o'clock last night. Three of the party escaped, arriving here at midnight barefooted and half clothed. A detachment ot soldiers and @ party of citizens repaired to the scene of the fight atan early hour this morning and found the bodies of B. C. Stephens, of Salt Lake, and a German named Fritz, from Colorado, horribly muti- Jated with a batcher’s cleaver, which had been taken from one of the wagons. The contents of the wagons were found scattered over the ground, tne flour and corn lying in piles as it had been emptied from the sacks, Six horses were missing. ver forty bullet hoies were found in one wagon. The eholls found are of cho Sharpe’s rifle cartridges, The dead were brought to this place and buried, SCOUTS FOR GENERAL CROOK. Two hundrod and ferty-eight Arapaboe and Sioux scouts from this agency, in charge of Lous Richards, a halfbreed, passed here on Sunday last en route to join General Crook. FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A COLLISION ON THE BOSTON, BARRE AND GARDNER RAILROAD—ONE MAN KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED, Wor » Mass., Dec. 20, 1876, Tho first serious accideyt which b. ver taken place on the Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad occurred about mile north of the|Princeton station early this afternoon, when a passenger train ran into a mixed traiv, completely demolisting both engines, enc pas. senger, one baggage and titce freight cars, and fatally injuring three persons. ‘train No. 4 was a passenger train going north, under the ebarze of Conductor T. Mirtek, with Edward Willey, cngincor, aud congsted of an engine, a bag gage and smoking car cohbined, and one passenger car. ‘The down train was know, as No, 5, and consisted of a heavy freight engine,a box car, three freight cars loaded with potatoes, one baggaze and one pas- senger car, arranged in th@ order named. The train was in charge of T. 8. Heali, conductor, with Wiilis Hall engineer. © Train No. 4 left Worcesterjat 12:15 and arrived at Princeton on time. After whiting eleven minutes Con- auctor Mirick claimed the rijbt of way and started on, When about a mile northlot the station and whilo rounding a cutve train No, 5) which Jeft Winchendon at 12:40, hove in sight, comifg down the grado at the rate of twenty-five miles nour. The danger mg- ant the crash came, leaped from the engines, pt Mr, Willey, who was eseapea injury e: struck in the back, und which will probably ‘prove gage Master Hopkins wi dactor Mirick bad his chin to Worcester in chai gers, abont twenty im noi brung, though none were| seat In the passenger car escape was miraculous, ASEWING MACIIIN! On train No, 5 Charles 0. agont, had bis bead crushed) four hours, remaining unco: his death. Tho brakeman on the freig’ Charles Ferrar, the sigoalma: was running extre, His leg to require bps an | The maa in charge af the train and eseaped injary. | exception of Mr. Lamb, sca; A Wrecking train, with from this city, and #fter tho attended to the work of cles the road will wot be clear bet us open, and was bronght physician, ‘ihe passe: r, were all more or Jess seriously injured. Every vas ripped up, and their GENT KILLED. mb, a sewing machine that he dred tn about Hous up tothe timo of cars of this train was ie passengers, with the uninjared. ee sUrgcons, Was sent jared persons bad been 3 the track began, but morning. THLE Y he accident rests Is un- are very reticent | Where the responsibility to! known, as the railroad officy garding be affair, Conduet® Mirick claims to hive been ruuning according to pried instructions, which gave him the right of way ait@watting ten minutes at Princeton, as he did, Condve® Heala was rauning by telegraphic information and 8 that he lollowed in- structions at each station, Ti Coroner's inquest overs body of Mr. Lamb will p ys WASHINGTON. Growing Unsteadiness in the Republican Column. RUMORS OF COMPROMISE AFLOAT. Tilden and Wheeler Attracting Public Attention, UNFAVORABLE NEWS PROM THE DOUBTFUL STATES, Feeling of Cautious and Im- partial Senators. NO PRESIDENT ELECTED THROUGH FRAUD. Everything t> Hinge on the Report of the Committees, FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. Wasnixeton, Dec, 20, 1876, REPUBLICANS BEGINNING TO TALK OF TILDEN AND WHEELER—CHANCES OF THE ELECTION BEING THROWN INTO THE HOUSE—ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI TO BE THROWN OUT IF NECESSARY—A BREAK FROM THE LINE OF EX- TREME PARTISANSHIP ANTICIPATED—AWAIT- ING THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTFES. The belief gains ground here among republicans that Florida beiongs properly to the democrats. Private information, some of it from responsible republican sources, has braced tho hopes of the democrats, Thero are also {fresh signs that the republicans begin to give up the election, Report says that a Scuator, one of the wost vigorous and extreme on the republican side, said to-day that he would not ho content to accept anything less than “Tilden and Wheeler,” and politicians of both sides who are in a position to know what 1s doing and what is looked for in the ;highest party quarters privately prophesy to-night, with apparently a good deal of con- fidence, that this will he the successful ticket. Iti not pow expected that any decisive movement will be made on either side till after tho holidays. The Speaker and the Vice President are still iu conference about the appointment of the joint committes to report amethod of examining the electoral vote, and the members of this important committee may not be namod tor some days, It is reported this evening that the republican programme as to counting the voto has been modified, and that it will bo held that, while tho Vice President may rightly count ana declare the votes, if objection is made to the vote of any State he must eubmit tho question to the houses and not decide it himecif. If Fiorida and Louisiana, or doth, should turn out to bo rightly democratic an at- tempt will be mado by tho republicans to throw out the votes of Alabama and Mississippi and thes throw the election into the House, which would of course leave the Senate to elect Mr. Wheeler Vice President, On Mr. Morton’s theory of last Ma¥ch, as explained by him, where two returns appear the State must loso its voto, unless both houses ugree upon one return. Under the twenty-second Joint rule a State lost its vote on objection being made to its reception unless both houses agreod to r9- ceive it, tis not impoesible at this moment that re- publicans may agree to re-enact this rule. Everything waits, however, for the reports of the committees in the dispated Statee, and, meantime, more and republicans undoubtedly waver, and the question which begins now to be privately discussed is, who will lead im a break from the straight line of extreme partisanship. Thero are people who imagine thero may be a foot raco when the break does come. On the whole, the election of Mr. Tilden may bo said to boa very Probable event atthis moment. Shrowd observers in tho Senate remark that aside from Senators Morton and Sherman there is not a Senator on the republican side who nowadays assert, that Mr. Hayes was elected. Some of the m who signed Senator Sherman’s Louisiana report with him are getting ashamed of it. The report has fallen dead, and Mr. Sherman’s speech the other day {n dolence of it was regarded by several republican Senators proving too much and showing really that there was no election at all in Louisiana, and that the vote of tho State ought not to be received, It turns out here, on republican authority, that the reason why the Louisiana Returning Board so obstinately refused to elect a democratic member to fill the vacancy, as the law directs, was that they feared that the two colored members would go over to the democratic side. Yet Mr. Sherman culogized theso two members as eminently respoctable and trustworthy citizens. It does not appear that he knew the reason for the ex- clusion of a democrat from the Returning Board. Peo- plo nere, who wero in New Orleans whilo the Grant committee were there, say that these gentlemen wero taken posscesicn of by Kellozg and the other repub- Nean leaders; that they never looked into the demo. cratic evidence, and those familiar with Governor Kellogg’s peculiar way of putting things say that they recognize his hand inthe Sherman report; not that Kellogg wrote it, but that he inspired it and supplied the tono and the arguments, FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. pe HSL Ry Wasnixctox, Dec. 20, 1876. THE RUMOR OF NEWS UNFAVORABLE TO REPUB- LICANS FROM LOUISIANA—FEELING OF CAU- TIOUS AND IMPARTIAL SENATORS—BETTER TILDEN THAN HAYES THROUGH 1 RAUD. Senator Morton says that he has received no in- formation in regard to the rumored unfavorable news said to have been received here to-night in regard to the republican electoral rote of Louisiana Generally speaking, anything which reflects an un- toward stato of affairs for the success of Governor Hayes 1s not credited, thongh there is het much buoy. ancy among the leading republicans, and possibly some inclination to a gloomy sentiment that&ho re- sult may not turn out well, They ure all, however, waiting anxiously for full and final devolopments, and {it cannot be dented that tho indications, even from a repudiican standpoint aro looking more stronzly im favor of Tilden than heretofore. The moro cautious and impartial Senators are disposed to have a full and fair develop. ment of everything, and even though it may prove un- favorable to the republicans, yet think that it will be better for their party t have a correct reanit reached than to try by any meaus to count in the republican candidates, In the former isstance they feel that {t would be certain ruin to their party, and that they can better aflord even to have Governor Tilden declared wrongfully elected than to have thetr own candidate pronounced successful by any system of froud or unfairness, WHAT Witt BE DONE ON THE ELrcronay | QUESTION IN THE EVENT THAT LOUISIANA 18 SHOWN TO HAVE GONE FOR TILDEN—- SFECULATION AMONG THE QUIDNUNCS—VIEWS OF PROMINENT REPUBLICANS—MR. HOAR'S SKETCH OF PROBABLY, EVENTS. Speculation was rife to-night as to what action y ould be taken by the Senate should tho Louisiana Investi- gating Committee present a report signed by repub- Hicans, a8 well as democrats, showing that tho Tilden clectors of that State had been fairly elecied. Tho rumor ron that tho republicans foresaw that the Senate would have to confront this difficulty and that thoy were preparing to accept their reverse with as good grace as possible. In their effort to save ng much as they could trom the conflict they were, it was said, anxious to bave the election thrown into the House, whereby they would secure tho Vice Presi- dency. Senator Jones,of Florida, had not heard of yea movement of this naturo or of onc looking to the rex newal of the twenty-second joint rule. In fact, he thought the democratic Senators were apprehensive that tho twenty-second joint rule would not mend matters, but would leave things in as much doubt as ever—that is, if it were applied, a8 it might be, im a partisan spirit. The constitution requires that the candidate for President to be successiul shall receive & majority of the votes of all the electors appointed. Trouble would occur over this word *tappointed.”? It might mean either every possible elector from all the States or it might mean the residuo after the rejection of some of the States, where it could be made to ap- pear that ne electors had been honestly appointed. General Garfield, of Ohio, knew only what was al_ ready known generally 10 tho public, He had signed the report of the visiting committee in the full belief that the Louisiana Returning Board would do and Would be justified in doing just what they did. Mr. Georgo F. Hoar said he bad heard nothing new on the @ect. “The fact is,” Mr. Hoar continued, “nothing definite will be done until the investigating commiticrs on both sides return from the disputed States; then one of three things will, in my judgment, take place, namely “First—The committees will present such a report that the republican leaders will make no further oppo- sition and allow Mr, Tilden to be inaugurated. “Second—Vhat they will present such a report that the moderate democrats will concede the election of Mr. Hayes and allow him to be inaugurated. “n) (and this 18 the most probable course of the three)—That the committee will, on their return, pre. seut reports diametrically opposite, accompanied with a mass of testimony so voluminous that the country and not even Congress itself will have the time to digest it, and we sball have A propositioy to refer the question to some outside tribunal, That proposition will fail, first, because there is no provision in the constitution or precedent in our history for it, and, second, because in the strug- gie of both parties for the advantogo in the composi- tion of the tribunal an agreement would be almost impossible, This being the situation, the Senate and House will meet and the President of the Senate will count the vote and declare Governor Hayes elected. The administration will see that he is inaugurated. Now, in my opinion, there will be no trouble, no revo- lution, no war, and for these reasons;—The democratic party 18 so strong, has polled go lnrge a vote and has so many advantages in its favor that its triumph four years henee is as certain as anything ever will be. The leaders of the party will not bo likely to do anything which would throw them back into their old condition of a hope- Jess minority, as they would certainly do by imaugurating avything like rebellion. Tho South will be tranquil, because it knows very woll that the inev- itable end of a resort to force and violence on its part would be to bring about a rennited North, and it knows what that means, Then, again, Mr. Tilden’s competi- tors in bis own party will not be very sorry to see him beaten this time, for they know that his Buccess would mean his success four years hence, Above and beyond all these considerations there is the additional ove that democrats are pot any more anxious to have their sons#hot down than are Fepublicans. All the interests of the country lie inthe direction of peace. Representative Pierce, of Massachusetts, said he had Not heard any strange news from Louisiana to-day, ‘an if thore was any of a étartling or important char. acter he thonght we would certainly huvo had somo intimation of it, He was surprised when he came to Washington to find it 80 dull and unexcited. When he left Boston there was a great deal of fecling on the enbject. He was stopped at almost every step by persons anxious to kpow the sitcation of affairs and the probatle result, Here no one would suppose, from the surface indica- tions, at least, that we have a disputed Prosidential election on hand, or, in fact, that we had an election at all. Mr, Pierce regretted that for the safety of the business interests of the country the question could not be settled iminediately, He enter- tains no apprehension of disturbance or violence, and believes that the sober sense of the people will lead them to submit to tho result as it shall be declared by the Senate and House, or by the Senate alone, if it ‘snall be held that the Senato has the sole right to de- ‘G@ SENATORS WAITING FOR THE EVI- DENCE BEFORE ARGUING THE CASE. It isthe Intention among the Icading Senators not to take part in the debate upon the counting of tho electoral vote until the return of the committees who bave gone South, and until after their statements of all the facts are made and the evidence is in, Any other couree 18 deemed unwise. FRIENDS OF HENDRICKS OPPOSED TO COMPRO- MISE. Congressman Foster, of Ohio, says thet if there in any compromise movement on foot to secure the in- augaration of Tilden and Wheeler it will make as much of a row among the democrats in the West as would the inauguration of Hayes, because it would disappoint and anger the numerous friends of Mr. Hendricks, whose success is with them as much an objcct as the triumph of Mr. Tilden, SENATOR CONKLING'S HEALTH RESTORED—H'!S VOICE SOON TO BE HEARD IN THE Dk- BATES, Senator Conkling says that the rumers circulated about his contemplated retirement from public life to take up the practice of his profession anid the reports of interviews had with him on the subject aregn- tirely without foundation, and, to use his own words, “made out of whole cloth’? There is no time during the past ten years when the same thing might not have been said of him with equal truth and accuracy, Not only has he never spoken with any one on the subject, but he has not even thought of it, His health 1s rapidly tm. Proving, and it was not until within tho past three days that ho could feel himseif able to prepare to speak on current subjects in the Senate. But now he ia, for the first time tn a long while, equal to the task of sustaining himself in the discussions of the Senate, THE ALLEGED OPENING OF MR. HEWITT’s LETTERS IN THE NEW YORK POST OFFICR— HOW ME WAS WALNED BY AN ANONYMOUS CORRESPONDENT—APPEARANCE OF THE LET- TERS. Mr. Hewitt created a great stir among all parties in the House to-day by his assertion that his private gor- respondence passing through the New York Post Oflico had been opened, tho contents noted and the letters sealed up again and del.vered to him. When interro* gated privately ax to this charge, which he preferred in the course of asprech im the debate on the Orton telegrams, Mr. Hewitt) suid that bis attention was first directed to the matter about five or six weeks ago, or just whon the result of the Presi« dential election begun to be a grent conundrum, by an ononymous letter warning him that his ietiers wero the subject of seritiny and had been opened at the New York Post Oflice by partis des rous of getting at their contents, The letter was anonymous to the tent that the writer signed no but sabseribed bunseif “A Clerk in the Post Ofice.”? Accordingly he noted the appearance uf every instalment of mail de- livered to him, whethor in Washington or New York, and he found that all letters which had passed throngh the Now York Post Office were puckersd and rumpled, He called friends and experts to louk at them, and they gave it ae their opinion that the levers had been wilfully tampered with and opened by hold- ing the sealing gum to the influence of steam. This pecutiarity of being puckered was confined to the let- ters whieh, going of coming, kad passed through the New York Post OMice, A resolution was offered fora committee of investization, but objection being made Jt was not entertained, MR. CHEITESDEN'S BIL, POR THE FUN GREENDACKS. Mr. Chittenden offered and had read a bill for the KDING OF funding of the greenbacks mto forty-year four per cent government bonds, as recommended by the Secretary of the Treacory im b's anuaal report. as RUANIMONS consent wus necessary, and ws ovjoction was made to the present consiteraiion of ihe bill, it went over. GENERAL + WASH! INGTON DESPATCHES, Wasutxatox, Dec. 20, 1876, TELEGRAPHIC OFF.CIALS NEGLECTING TO OBEY THE SUBPQINALS OF THE HOUSE cCOM- MITTEE. Superintendent Brown, of New York, and Captain Whitcey, of the Wastington office of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who were some days ago Low oaed to appear before the Election Jnvestiwating Committee at Now Urieans, bringing with them certain telegrams from Secretary Chandler and other. premi- nent republicans, have not yet obeyed the summons, and the time at which they were cited to appear has expired. Yesterday Mr. Orton, the President of the company, was served with a subparna to appear in person betore that committee and produce certain de. sired telegrams on ihe 26th of December, The action of the House to-day gives authority to the Sergeant- at-Arms to enforce all neediul process in that direc. tion, THE PACIFIC RAILROADS-—-ACTION OF THE NOUSE COMMITTEE—A NEW PROPOSITION FYROM THE FRIENDS OF THE TEXAS PACIFIC ROAD. The House Committee on Pacific Railroads to-day reconsidered the vote by which they heretotere au- thorized their chairman to report for passage the Sen- ate bili extending the time for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad, this action veing taken with & view to considering certain amendments tor the protection of homestead and pre-emption settlers, Ac, The session was mainly occupied in ais- cussing a now proposition, which was to-day informally submitted by the friends of the Texas Pacitic Rail- road. It provides thatthe Southern Pacific Company of California shall be allowed to build 700 miles of the western portion of the transatlantic line under the provisions of the original Atkins bill, making the through line an open highway for the government and people and all other railroad companies, and reserving to Congress the right to regulate the charges for freight aud pas. sengers, This concession is understood to be satistac- tery to the Califorma interests, The coinmittee adjourned till to-morrow without action on the matter NEWSPAPER Li Lr TIGATION. Bostox, Dec. 20, 1876 In the Supreme Court to-day a hearing was had of a petition in the nature of a quo warranto, in which J. Willard Rice and Augusta Scott, araignces of Ezra D, Winslow, sot up a claim to the Boston Post, and seek to restrain the Boston Post Company trom the forther exercise of corporate rights. The hearing will bo re- sumed to-morrow, MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. War Deranturst, Ovrice or Tun Cuier Sigsat Orricen, Wasmineton, Dec, 21—T A. M. Probabilities. For New England, partly cloudy weather and slowly rising temperature, winds shifting to easterly aod southerly during the day, with falling barometer, fol- lowed in tho evening by threatening weather and pos- sibly light enow. For the Middle States and lower lake rogion, creasing cloudinese and occasional snow, with ¢ south winds, falling barometer and slowly rising tem- porature during the day. For tho South Atisntis and Gulf States, partly cloudy, shghtly warmer weather and light local rains, with winds from east and south and stationary or slowly falling barometer, For Tennessee and the Ohio Valloy, slightly warmer, southerly to westerly winds, with slight changes in pressure and partly cloudy weather, except occasional snow or light rain north of Tennessee, For the upper lake region, occasional snow, with light southeast and southwest winds, temperature generally below freezing, and during the day falling barometer. For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri val- leys, warmer, partly cloudy weather in the southern portions and occasional snow in the northern por- tions, with slight changos tn temperature, and falling followed by rising barometer, THR WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes In the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- parigon with the corresponding date of last year, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, Heranp Buildin: aa 1876. Avcrage temperature yesterday. o temporature for corresponding dato HOTEL ARRIVALS. Congressman-elect George B. Loring, ot Massachu- setts; Sherman D. Phelps, of Binghamton, and tsaac V. Baker, Jr., of Comstocks, N. Y., are at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Professor 0. C. ‘sh, of Yale Col- lego, 1s at the Buckingham Hotcl D. Thomas Vail, President of the Troy and Boston Railroad Company, is at tho Windsor Hoiel, General Edwin A. Merritt, of Potsdam, N. Y., is atthe Metropolitan Hotel, Profes- sor Alessandro Koss), of Italy, is at the Union Square Hotel. W. K. Muir, General Manager of the Canada Southern Railway, is at the Hoffman House, Ex- Mayor John Screven, of Savanuab, is at tho New York Hotel. Professor J. B Wheeler, of West Pornt, is at {he Coleman House. 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