The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1877, Page 4

0 after as far V | Goudy or cloudy toward night, 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ee Goll THE DAILY HERALD, pullishal every day tn the yoor. ee eee copy (aundey excluded.” Vou’ dollars’ per year, or at rate of one dollar por month for any period less Jeet. oi nonthe, or five dollars tor glx ‘moaths, Sanday tuition included, tree of norte. 1 fr legtapn Ali business, news letter or tele ie despatches must Letters and packaces should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be returned, —_—___-___—_. PERpARetrnts OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON “OFFICE. or tae NEW YORK HERALD— pigis OFFICE. AY ENUE DE VOPER. “AL FICB—AV! Fane OFPICE-NO. 7 STRADA PROt. AMUSEMENTS TO- UNION SQUARE THEATRE,—Miss Morton. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—Aguni: BOOTHS TREATRE.—Dan't, Duver. BOWERY THEATRE,—Tut % GUARDSMEN, GERMANIA THEATRE,—Cxatexman Sounvansn. GRAND OPERA BOU! LYCKUM THEATRE.— PARK THEATRE.—L BROADWAY THEATRE. TONY PASTOR'S THEAT TIVOLI THEATRE.—V EAGLE THEATRE. NEW YORK AQuaRit 8AN FRANUISOCO MIN GILMORE’S GARI KELLY &L(.0N'S MI HELLER'S THEATRE. EGYPTIAN WALL.—A COLUMBIA OPERA HO THE NEW AMERICAN THEATRE CoMIQU: OLYMPIC THEAT ious or Mysrery, Vanterr, —Vauwery. —Vaniery axp Draws, W. YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY NOTICH ‘The regu 10 COUNTRY DEALER edition of the Hukaxp will be gent here- 9s Jlarrisburg and as tar South as Washington b; Express Coinpi newspaper train, run by Adams gual rates, From our re are that the be cold and 3 warmer ancde) night. s morning the probabilities in New York: to-day will udy or clear, followed by | cloudy or cloudy toward | Harry New YEAR To ALL, and may good luck be 4s plentiful as good intentions. Tae Hexcry anv Hom their friends to-d Nor THE Crosstncs Akk Beina cleaned, to the de- struction of a gfeat deal of first class profanity. will be glad to see ‘eshments, Ir “Tre Roap To Heus is paved with good inten- tions’ this is a good day in which to take paving | contracts on the opposition thoroughfare. Ir Bap Cuaracrrrs CaNnor keep away from the disreputable tenement Known as the “House of Blazes” why not establish a mission chapel there? THERE Is A GRAVE Story told about the con- struction of the Ash a bridge and something ala more than mere denials will be needed to disprove Last WE of respectable people laid | in liquors for New Year's Pay and to morrow morn- | ing other respectable thousands will curse them for it. Boys Wno ¢ running away to sea shout drop yelle ered novels long enough to Tead “In the Jaws of the Alligators” in to-day’s HERALD. Wi Cruriry beerns sport ends, The man- agers of the ring at the Hippodrome should remem- ber this if they wish audiences of gentiemen instead of ruil A Hunxprep Ann Fiery-nine divorces were granted in New York city last year, and yet good men go on » women for their beauty and pure giris nen with the hope of saving them. BerGLAR who considers the ed THOUGHTFUL THe means by which the button thieves were de yesterday is tie proper man to deliver a strong lec- ture on “The Ruinous Influences of Modern Science.” Smoorrxe at Sicutr is the proper treatment for rascals who obstruct railway travel, even if they | happen to be Canadian engine drivers. The acts reported in another column constitute a crime— not a strike. Tax Figur Over Tie Parts WILL has ended by the withdrawal of the contestants, and the peopie who have bung lovingly upon the reports in the hope of finding some indelicate disclosures to feed upon are starving. It is a pity that such starvation floes not cause death. Warne TH pitz Dog is attracting the attention due to his viclousness the Siberian bloodhound should not be neglected. He comes from as cold a locality as his white-robed relative, he is just as depraved in disposition, and bis size makes him ten times as useful ina bone-dust factory, a sansage mill or a manure-heap. ‘Tue SERMONS OF YESTERDAY Were upon the years which at'midnight met for a single second, and about the purposes which alone make the years worth living in. On no other day are men so capable ofcomparing time with the great hereafter in which time itself is to be lost, and the occasion was im- proved in the pulpit with an earnestness which lifted the day above its sacred fellows. A GuastLy Recorp.—The Hrrap’s special re- port of deaths from unnatural causes is one which calls for more than ordinary attention, During 1876 more than a thousand persons died from violence, and there is an excess of more than a hun- dred over the simiiar record of 1 A peculiar feature of this exhibit is that the increase is due to accidental causes; the increase of deaths from sun- strokes and drowning more than account for the | total excess over last year’s casu. .e4, In spite of law and precaution the hideous roll of homicides and infanticides is as large as 1475, and thet of suicides is considerably greater. The increase of | hydrophobia is alarming, five deaths having oc- | curred, against none last year, The whole list | should nd only be thought over, but acted upon by | some means besides mere talk. Tun Wearnen.—In our weather article yesterday qe stated that the winds in the Southern States in- dicated a Guif disturbance, ‘The depression has | already reached the coast, and {s mow cen: | tral in the vicinity of New Orleans, with | rain at that point and sleet at Shreveport | and Vicksburg. Another depression. only reia- tively low, however, extends over the upper lakes, with an attendant rain area. The storm of Iriday Jast is now off Nova Scotia, and an area of rain and | snow extends westward as far as Toledo, Ohio, and along the southern shores of the lakes. Severe cold | has conunued throughout the country cast of tho | Rocky Mountains, with a morning temperature of wero st Nashyilio, Tenn, and only forty de | above at Punta Rasea, Fla, The highest pre is now in Southern Pennsylvania, and will pass over New York to-day. The weatuer will then grow | perceptiply warmer, with increasing cloudiness as the low barometers in the Northwest and South ap- | proach. The latter disturbance may develop during the next two days into @ heavy storm similar to that witch has just passed us, Heavy weather will be experienced in the Atlantic during the week, Wut gradualiy receding from our coast. weather in New York to-lay wil! be cold and partly eloudy or clear, followed by warmer aad paruly NEW YORK The Latest Phase of the Situation. | an extra session in sonfon to provide for The Washington despatch which we | subsequent necessities./ In the new House printed yesterday shows that political sen- | the democrats will safe ® majority of not timent is settling back into the condition | more than five orsix/und there would be which immediately followed the meeting of Southern members enctiga to unite with the Electoral Colleges on the Gth of Decem- | the republicans and pes: ‘Ye appropriation ber. By the face of the certificates Mr. | bills before the public po enffers, even them would not be Hayes had 186 votes and Mr. Tilden | if the effect of stopp): 184, making a majority for Hayes | to convulse busines’ nore violent con and electing him, unless the prima traction of the currency than wr facie result can be overthrown. It | known. By the middie of duly the sour’ was strongly asserted by the demoerats | would be practically nuanimous that the votes of three States had been given | subject, and no member of the House » ad to Mr. Hayes by wilful and stupendous dare to face his constituents after recor ing frauds, and committees of investigation were his vote against appropriations. A con- immediately appointed by Congress toin-| traction of the currency proceeding quire into the facts. These committees steadily to the full amount of the have, as yet, completed their task in only | Public revenues would be regarded as one of the three States, but in that one the | even a greater calamity than a civil war. investigation does not confirm, but explodes The country may be fully assured that no the confident and noisy claim made by the | such experiment will be ventured on. If democratic party. South Carolina is thus there should be a little interval between the taken out of the list of disputed States and | Ist of July and the appropriation bills of conceded to Hayes by the unanimous judg- | an extra session it could be easily bridged ment of a committee of whom a majority are | over by advances from bankers and mer- democrats—a result which encourages and strengthens those supporters of Mr. Hayes whose hopes had begun to waver and, in the samo mensure abates democratic confidence. It affords a conspicuous proof that democratic assertions are no criterion of truth, for if Mr. Tilden’s friends could be so egregiously mistaken respecting South Carolina they may be also in error respect- ing the two other disputed States: At any rate the country will no longer place much reliance on what the democratic politicians assert, but only on what the committees of investigation prove in regard to the dis- puted votes, On the face of the regular cer- tificates Mr. Hayes is elected, and the burden of proof rests with the democrats when a claim is made that certificates are invalidated by fraud. Electoral votes can- not be rejected on mere doubts or sus- picions, but only on conclusive evidence. If full investigation leaves the result in any State doubtful the arraigned Canvassing Board is entitled to the benefit of the doubt. It is not surprising that republican Sen- ators are recovering from their recent mis- givings. According to present appearances the republican party will exhibit vigorous unity in insisting that Mr. Hayes shall be declared elected and be inducted into office. Democratic resistance will be futile, unless so strong a case of fraud is made out in Louisiana as to evoke a vigorous remon- strance by the public voice. As Tennyson finely says in his new drama:— The voice of any people is the sword That guards them; or the sword that beats them down, We are persuaded that no other sword will be drawn from its scabbard, and with- out a resort to violence Mr. Hayes cannot be thwarted if he should be inaugurated as President. Mr. Tilden might indeed take the oath, but it would be an empty form. His friends might claim that he was President de jure, while Mr. Hayes was only President de facto; but the republicans would insist that Hayes was both de jure and de facto President, and would have the means of making their claim efficient. After Mr. Tilden had taken an idle oath what further could he do? The first official act of a new President is to send the names of his proposed Cabinet to the Senate for confirmation. The Senate would not even receive his communication, much less confirm his appointments. A Pres- ident administers the government through his official subordinates, but no officer, civil or military, would give any heed to the com- mands of Mr. Tilden, whereas all Mr. Hayes’ appointments would be promptly confirmed, and the whole civil and whole military service would yield him ready obedience. There would be perfect unity between the head of the government and all its members, while Mr. Tilden would be us powerless as any other private citizen. It will be said that the democratic House may stop the supplies; but this is a vain flourish—a threat which the democratic party would not dare to put in execution. “The voice of the people” would indeed prove to be a ‘‘sword” if the House should be reckless enough to attempt to throw the country into anarchy by recourse to so mad an experiment. But even if the House could be insane enough to refuse to pass any appropriation bills how would that help Mr. Tilden? With- holding the usual appropriations would be atwo-edged sword, and its sharpest edge would be turned toward Mr, Tilden, It would at least effectually cut off all his means of conducting a government, but it would not necessarily be fatal to the admin- istration of Mr. Hayes. It would call forth such yeneral indignation that Mr. Til- den and his party would be crushed morally as well as politically, and the business community would come to the rescue of the government. The House alone cannot repeal the tariff and tax laws. Money would continue to flow into the Treasury, although none could be drawn out of it. Do but consider the effect on the country of locking up money in the public vaults at the rate of three hundred million | dollars per annum. How long could this process go on before the whole business community wonld be in rebellion? What would Mr. ‘Lilden’s anti-con- | traction friends in the West say to a device | | which would drain all the money of the ! country out of the channels of circulation about two years? How long would community stand contrne- tion at the rate of twenty-five mill- ion dollars month? How many turns of this tremendous screw would the people endure before the whole country would rise as one man against Mr. Tilden and his pretentions? The threat of stop- ping the appropriations when three hun- dred millions a year are flowing into the ‘Treasury is so insanely wild, so stupidly absurd, that the House will never dare to ls | in the business | execute it. It is baroly possible, but altogether im- | probable, that the present House may neg- | lect to pass appropriation bills, for the gov- | ernment and the country could get on very | well for the first four months after the ad- journment, The wants of the government are’ provided for up to the Ist of which affords sufficient time for Hayes to get his administration in snocesafal operation, He could on | at chants. Our London Cable Letter. The English their winter's experience, seem satisfied with rough as it is, which proves how eminently con- servative they are as a nation and how necessary shadow is to light. Any other peoplo on the footstool would be in agonies over a blustery season that sends them into raptures. They deservo a happy New Year. Out of London's rains and gales we are permitted to glance into | England’s sunny Oriental wonderland, where to-day Victoria will add the ti- tle of empross to that of queen. From all the splendors of the East we are brought back to consider various views of religion with a princess alleged to be devoting her royal belief to the beauties of Spirit- ualism, as exhibited by Slade, whom her royal and imperial mamma's law officers are about to prosecute. Ghastly stories of smallpox and a comforting recipe for the cure of diphtheria come to us. American beef is pronounced a successful import, and we find ourselves among the scholars who are examining the discov- eries in ancient Greece. Chgss, walking and theatricals trip on each other's heels, and another scene in the “Shaughraun” piracy case is flashed to view, with Manager Chatterton trying to drivea Pike through the body of Boucicault, But the latter is hard to kill, although always Dion. What else is told we ask our readers to discover for them- selves, f Our Paris Cable Letter. The conversion of the humanitarians to the belief in Turkish righteousness by the promise of s little hard Roumanian cash is among the best instances of the irony of events which we have had from the French capital in many a day, where that branch of the cynical is a specialty. Just one little original piece in a week is a poor showing for Paris in the way of dra- matic novelty ; but then one seopnd hand piece ina month is so much to us in New York that we cannot reach the proper pitch of pity without a ladder of false pretences, The operatic débutante of the week is from the land of Catherine Hayes and Tom. Moore, in- stead of from Baltimore or Chicago, but en revanche a Chicago gizl gets an engagement at Mulan’s colossal opera house, Ugly stories of crime in high life form the Parisian shadow, but we are glad to pass them by and turn to the gossip that has some sparkle init. The mys- teries of Fashion are nowadays laid bare with such an unsparing hand that tho most unsophisticated of us will, if these de- spatches about corset linings and petticoats continue, be able to know as much as our grandfathers before we cut our wisdom teeth, and mystic words be spelled out in public as boldly as in the unexplored recesses of a dressmaker’s bill. The roport that Offenbach was especially crammed for his book by some reckless jokers in New York makes us HERMLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1877. Can Mr. Stanley Be Arrested? Mr. Stanley is a citizen of the United States, and whoever assumes or concedes | this statement of ours to bea true state- men‘ will see that on general principles of pr’o law neither ‘the British government nor its officers can have any rightful power ee him for any possible act done by him outside of British jurisdiction. As to what » done on a British vessel on the high seas oron any water outside of the authority of any particular State, the maritime jurisdic- tion of British courts is indeed independent of space. It is just as perfect in the Arctic regions ner the Pole, or in the far-off seas of Africa, as in sight of the harbor of Liver- pool. It can reach an act of piracy on any bottom, as that offence is defined by inter- national law. Certain Moslem or pagan States have voluntarily, or involuntarily, yielded to British consuls exclusive criminal jurisdiction over offences by Britons com- mitted in those States, but the jurisdiction is strictly limited to Britons. Similar powers have, in many non-Christian States, been freely conceded to American consuls over our own citizens, These treaties are, however, exceptional, and have their basis and reason in the barbarism, or bigotry, or narrow-minded policy of the people of those Moslem or pagan States. It would be possible, we suppose, for England to stipulate by treaty with an African State to arrest and punish, as that State demanded, every person of whatever nationality committing any asserted offence in that State; but she has no such treaty known to the rest of the world. Asa gen- eral rule, under American and British civ- ilization crime is local. Hence contrivances of extradition. Andina word we think we can assert, beyond fear of successful con- tradiction, that England has no jurisdiction over any offence committed by an American citizen unless committed within her territo- rial or maritime jurisdiction os jnst defined. The exceptional jurisdiction of her consuls anywhere on the continent of Africa is lim- ited to her own subjects. It is true that Mr. Stanley did use in Lake Victoria Niyanza a small sailing yacht called the Lady Alice, on which it is possi- ble he may have hoisted the British as well as the American flag; but it cannot be that the British authorities will seriously claim in Washington that she was ever a regularly documented British vessel, for offences on which England has jurisdiction over an American citizen, even if she was cruising outside the waters and local authority of any known and recognized power. And as to carrying the British flag in the interior of Africa, that is no more an offence for which England can punish Mr. Stanley than it could if he bore and waved it in the interior of New York. Old 776. The old fellow has gone; the best alma- nacs in the land were powerless to save him. He went out as quietly as if he was nobody in particular ; but when he reaches the shades where old years congregate his predecessors will glower enviously at him if anything of earthly nature adheres to them. To have given the world-the Centennial Exhibition, the Servian war, the Belknap trial, the Wag- ner marvel at Baireuth, the Brooklyn fire and the mysterious returning boards aro achievements any one of which would justify humdrum years in shaking shadowy fists at their own prosaic natal stars. But the late lamented '76 did all this and yet found time to bring us back silver change and Boss Tweed. He ran the unvatying course of true greatness, for during his lifetime he was soundly cursed for his own faults and those of every one else beside, while now that he is gone his virtues enlarge as rapidly as the bank balance of a New York gas com- pany. He did not seem exactly in a millen- nial humor, nor did he leave things in shape for his successor to inaug- urate the era of easy money, pure politics, personal honesty, the legitimate drama and the endurable opera ; but he dug the graves of hosts of humbugs and saw to it that the corpses were ready. Reviewing his own career, he may be pardoned if he draws tremble for the American Republic. If any man has been found base enough to mislead the innocent opéra bouffist we would have that man take the iron-clad oath at once, New Year’s Resolutions, The first day of the year by common con- sent is set apart for purposes of individual reform. There is no reason why a man should not begin the reformation he needs on the 2d of June or the Sth of October or any other day in the calendar; but every year seems to begin a now era, and there- fore to be most suitable to the beginning of anew life. The Ist of January thus natu- rally becomes the day on which all the world makes good resolutions, and if they could be kept it would enter upon the millennium at once. The month, like the god from whom it derives its name, looks forward and | of the past, and forward to atonement and a change. ‘Be it resolved” begins the uni- versal programme. Woe resolve to keep a diary and to enter in it the important events of the unknown year. We resolve to exactly set down what we receive and'what we spend, and to economize. We resolve not to smoke (too much); not to drink (too much); to go to bed before midnight ;*to study some use- ful science or language; to be systematic and industrious ; to save money ; in shorts to do everything we should do and todo nothing we should not. Thus the sunrise of the year glows with beauty and | faith, but its sunset is too often | derkened with useless regrets, Unhappy day! Mankind's irresolute resolutions have from times immemorial made it the most hypocritical of all days of the year. It is the day when the world deludes itself into belief in its own strength of will only to find afterward that habit is generally stronger than human resolution, Yet it isa day of innocent perjuries, it is better to be forsworn in a good cause than to be hon- est in a wrong career. All good resolutions are not broken, and though there is some- thing profeundly sardonic in the contrast between the pledges made on New Year's | Day and the way in which they are disro- garded, still no true impulse to mako the future better than the past can fail to be for backward, back to the mistakes and faults | his misty robe proudly about him and stands aloof from the common herd of years. Like agreat man in retirement, he can afford to look patronizingly and pityingly down at the callow fellows who succeed him and try to fill his tremendous shoes. He is gone, put not forgotten. His earthly grave is in the hearts of the people, and while over it may sound sad sighs and drop bitter tears, it will be kept green by many a tender remem- brance and merry heart throb. Mr. Hayes and the South. Governor Hayes himself, as well as his sup- porters in Washington, must feel encouraged by the turn events are taking within the last few days. The honorable candor of the democratic members of the South Carolina Committeo is » good omen for Mr. Hayes, as is also the letter addressed to him by Wade Hampton, enclosing a copy of his inaugural address. Thinking citizens of the Southern States are comparatively | indifferent who is President if they can be relieved from the infamous local mis- rule under which they have so long suffered. Wade Hampton carefully withheld any ex- | pression of opinion as to Mr. Tilden’s elcc- tion, which, unlike Mr. Tilden himself, he regards as an open and still unsettled ques- tion; and by sending the same appeal tor justice to both he indicates clearly enough his willingness to recognize Mr. Hayes as President if he should be declared/elected. The South stands on 4 stem, van= tage ground in this crisis;’ If Mr. Hayes should be inaugurated he will be de- pendent on them for a smooth and tranquil administration. If they vote for the supply bills and support his reasonable measures the democratic majority in the House can- not seriously embarrass him, and the South- ern members seem disposed to give him fair and honorabie treatment, in the hope that ho will deal with them in alike spirit. We trust that there will be no mutual bar- gain or pledges, which would be discredita- ble to both parties; but Governor Hayes may, with pertect decofum, cause it to be nuderstood that’ he will strictly ad- here to the just’ and generous senti- ments expressed in his letter of acceptance at atime when ho could not have expected to be in any way dependent on democratic \ fairness, The reasonable presumption at that time was that whoever was elected Pres- ident would have a majority of his own party in the House. Mr. Hayes’ adherence to his letter of acceptance could not, there- fore, be construed as a yielding of his prin- ciples to conciliate personal support. It would be quite consistent with his honor to declare publicly that he stands by all he said in the beginning of the canvass. The Dilemma of Turkey. The new year opens inauspiciously for Turkey. That unfortunate country may de- lay but cannot prevent its ultimate fall. The Sultan is now walking, as all Mohammedans are supposed to do after death, upon the edge of a sharp sword, with the abyss on either side. Europe is against his warlike policy on the one hand, and his own subjects will not agree to the pro- gramme of peace which the great Powers insist upon. The demands of ‘Lord Salis- bury have brought Turkish affairs to a crisis. England; which has always given Turkey her moral and material aid, now declares that unless the plans upon which Europe has agreed are accepted by the Sultan she must withdraw ,her support. Undoubtedly the Sultan would be glad to yield to the ad- vice of his ancient ally, who helped him in 1856 to repel the Russian, but it is im- possible. Turkey has had three sul- tang, within o year. Abdul Aziz was murdered; Murad was declared to be insane and was deposed, and Abdul Hamet desires to profit by these examples. He frankly declares that he prefers to risk the hostility of Europe and to lose the good will of England rather than to challenge the resentment of his own race and religion. The result is that a great step has been taken. The British fleet has been withdrawn from Turkish waters to prove that England will not sustain Turkey in her opposition to the whole of Europe, and the Sultan is left to depend upon his own army and upon that fate which in the Mohammedan’s reli- gion is equal to the Providence-of Christian nations. It is not impossible that a path to peace may be found in all these difficulties, but the reconstruction of the Eastern situa- tion is a question of the close future, and if it cannot be effected by diplomacy it must come through war. A Voice from Mexico. If a voice could now be heard from Mexico it would warn us not to do as they do in regard toPresidential elections. Presi- dent Lerdo was declared legally re-elected last summer; thereupon the revolutionists combined against him. Iglesias, Chief Jus- tice of the Supreme Court, protested and pronounced against Lerdo. Diaz, having an army, promised to support Iglesias; he de- feated the constitutional army of President Lerdo, and thereupon marched into the capi- tal, and, forgetting all about Iglesias, pro- nounced himself ruler. Mejia, Lerdo’s former Minister of War, had intrigued with Iglesias, and both ho and his chief have thought it pradent to decamp; the Constitutional Congress and Supreme Court have also fled; and as the number of available henroosts is not so great in Mexico ns here Diaz has informed the merchants that his soldiers must live, and that he feels compelled to overhaul their bank accounts. At the latest advices the merchants, mechanics, farmers, labor- ers—in fact, everybody but Diaz and his panditti—was regretting the revolution, but it was then too late. Business was at a standstill. Those who have anything feel pretty certain they will lose it; those who have nothing are looking around to see what they shall lay their hands on, Th mass of the people groan in inereasi: poverty ; but the politicians, who in Mexi are only a shade or two worse than many ours, are happy, and hope to become perous. Altogether these recent Mex/can events ought to encourage us to getAp a revolution of our own. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Tilton is lecturing in Vermont. / Punch:—Best four in band.—Honors at Whist. Schuyler Colfax knows enough to eat frm tho blunt edgo of his knife. ‘A Parisian has invented a mothod of fending photo- graphs by telegraph. Professor Sumnor of Yale is in JI{nois, delivering lectures on free trade. / Major General Winflold 8, Hancock and family aro at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, “Trimty Chureh,""—As Justico Shallow said, “Wo have heard the chimes at midnight.” Some people force fashtons, bat It was in vi Canuto tried to drive the tied-buck, bs Southern farmers are waking up to the idea that! Southern States are well adapted to the rawsit grain. ’ Congressman Pipor, of California, has many j in his pockets, but, unlike Shakespeare’s game, nono in his head. + A story is told of a Indy of fashion who said she should like to go to Rome to have her portrait painted by one of the old masters. Iv is a good thing to leave a little ice on the front doorsteps. It serves agan excuse for going up ten- dorly and faultily on @lodge night. Quoted:—*'To toll no man that another has no gonse of humor is to establish analmest friendly rola- tion between yoursell and your companion,”? Tho man who unwarily turns hie coat lapel over his breast of a darker hue than the original cloth, j “Stanley Waterloo:—If you bave never eaten f: onions witb’your fried liver &gd bacon you have |; in vain, Oar recipe was Baconian, The Hudsun’s Bay Company, 80 long in con the groat American fur trade, 18 now paying nd d dend, Martens and minx are now the chief turd dealt in, : Whitehall Times:—‘'The season of the year’ rivea when a man can tako a ten-cent skoin 6 his minister’s donation and exchange it dollar supper. The Coiumbus (Ga) Enquirer-Sun, re Southern troubles, proposes that tho mm the land shall rule it; and 1t seems that t) ns of Know-Nothingism or No-Niggerism, Detroit Free ress :—"'Scoop the cor apple, fill the hole with milk and sugiiamd@emend doors to treeze.—Hxratv, Then go out aftel Loanal on tho apple, and take aside down th three old knots and two ashpans.’” ‘vhree-cornered kerchiets aro to bi mantles, and made of white Jawn ed Maltese, Valencionnes or Mechiin. shaped tbat thoy titinto the should port at the back, whilo the long down the front, i We trequently receive letters fr which there are compiaines that thy treat the South well nor leave it tq nossa, Yot we vuggest that some inight begin a new style and a logical ¢ ~ * § bee | administration with fraud of the biac! aud stands to-day condemned by the wo: LONDON CHIAROSCUR Dying of the Old and Dawning of ‘the New in “Merrie England.” “OLD YEAR ROARING AND BLOWING AND SBW YEAR BLOWING AND ROARING.” Hopes of Peace to Troubled Europe—Salisbu and the Sultan—The Conference. CONCILIATORY DIPLOMACY ON BOTH SIDES. Victoria To Be Proclaimed Empress at Delhi To-Day, THE DISCOVERIES IN GREECE, Smallpox—Diphtheria—Religion—Cremae tion—American Beef, CHATTERTON TO BOUCICAULT [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.1 Lonpvon, Dec. 31, 1876. ‘The old year closes here in @ manner that would delight the heart of the most inveterate mourner over the good oid times, “when the seasons kept their seasons, sir; when you didn’t go skating in June, sir, nor go picnicking at Christmas, sir,” aa these grumblers would lead you to believe the English people have ,been doing for a quarter of a century. The raw and gusty weather qut of doors makes the traditionai glories of the English fireside | shine with an added lustre, and the old grumblers *| are busy these holiday tumes, looking pitrisrchal as | they take their places for Sir i ah with the tiniest little golden hair who 1s able to tdidle through that old time dance, anf whom they coasts to the damage of shipping, a1 to the detriment of chimney po! pour unintermittingly ont of gloo: Heavy rains jes upon the = 3 4 g : a 3s Ey 8 eo s 4 F z a 4 3 with ‘Wavos on the shingle pouring, Old Year roaring and blowing And New Year biowing and roaring. A RAY IN THE EAST. The hopesOf the British public are raised by the prospect thet war may be avoided in the East, They see afleam of peace in the expectation that * the Ottompns, in spite of all make-believe mulish- ness, wiyaccept the propositions of the Powers repres#ited in the Constantinople Conference, SALISBURY AND THE BULTAN, arquis of Salisbury at lils audience with t on the 26th announced that a comp)te ung@rstanding between the Powers was achived ig the preliminary conference, and this gree ent resulted iq the programme which had aFeady en semi-official& communicated to the Porte. Lord Salisbury advised the Sultan to awept the proposals. The Sultau replied that he deeply re- gretted that he was compelled to decjMe giving his adhesion thereto, as ls powers weve limited by the constitution. d THE PORTE CAYOT COUNT OPON ENGLAND. Lord Salisbury thfeupon remarked in that case Turkey must not cfut upoa money or men from England, who wo leave Turkey to her fate. The Sultan answered {It is useless to press me; forif I accepted the pts it would be at tho risk of my crown and lif LoTOsalisbury then asked on what His Majesfrelied for “ence in case of war. ‘The Sultan repf! that the atinyand people would defend him. f could not depend on them if te opposed the nimous wishes of his supjects, WHY THBRITISH FLEET WaS WITHDRAW, At the confision of the interview Lord Saishuty informed thfuitan that he would be compelled to throat in this weather will leave an escutcheon on hig Mtb. Aristotlolan, and | wi i ON eee ceasions as ure compatible with the integ- | mf pio ba cot | probable, The only dimou! ing | such stulf as this, which appears in the P) surg (W. Va.) Sentinel :—"'Grant is @ treacherou nave, | inglish people, and particularly among the ai deceitful, canning scoundrel, and hi irked his ve tor the Turks. ‘At a meeting held ab joharacter withdraw ject in order to dissipate the fleet supported Turkey e. On leaving the Sultdn #% Admiral Drummond ‘jo ghee fedintely from Tarkia ked for authority to win! bre: ‘of Sulonica; but Lord Salisbury rca » give it. Consequently a portion of feet giled tor the Pirmus and the remainder bY dey tO Malta. yO de WORK OF THE CONFERENCE, * . j meeting of the Conference atives accepted the prolong , without opposition. Tha, all discussed the Porte’s yd forms applicable to all the pr iN ction, The plenipotentiarted, proposals. This is believed t 4, on the part of the Powers to bg fal proposals, MUTUAL CONCILIATION. ally conciliatory spirit prevaiied, delegates appearing disposed to make « nor : jp | sscuons aie as i evap psi the ignd independence of Turkey. Consequently e are entertained that an understanding will rests will be reconciled, ached, by which all inte’ THE TURKS IN COUNCU~ ¢ full council of Ministers held on Thursd: le ening began at seven and ended at ten o’cloc! } _ apods presided in person. This council wi 4 pllowed by a council of generals, under the pre: dency of the Commander-in-Chief, which opened half-past ten and concluded at midnight. Midhi Pacha attended the latter count. A REASONABLE PROPOSAT. A Paris telegram says theyPorte proposes the force to be establisned in the Cnristiany ’ inces be composed of Christians under Bast officers, ‘The acceptance of this oifer ity is a conditf the officers shall be commissioned by Turkey. SYMPATHY WITH THE TURKS, ‘There is a strong fecling of sympathy among Duke of Sutherland's town house $26.00