The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1877, Page 4

ORK HERALD | \Y AND ANN STREET. 3ORDON BENNETT, ROPRIETOR. RALD, published the re sunday oxcladedy,” Ton. dines pe dollar per month for any period lens ‘or five ars tor six months, tree of rly sented, turned. ——+———— LPHTA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH 1. 46 ET STREET. OPFICE-AVENUE DE Loruf PLES OFFICE—NO, 7 STRADA PAC Iptions and advertiseme: on the same terms xs in Sunday postage, letters or telegraphic despatches must HeRaup. SIXTH KEET. DUN OFVICE OF aon YEW YORK HERALD— AMUSEMENTS | TO-NIGHT. MANIA THEATRE.—CenrexmaLsonnvunes, DeR THK GASLIGHT. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. —Thw Amrnicax WaLLACk's THEATRE.—Tie Smavcnraun, { BROADWAY THEATR: ip Van Wixxun, UNION SQUARE THEATRE,—Miss Mczrox. NIBLO'S GARDEN.—Azunute. BOOTHS THEATRE. i Daves, NEW YORK AQUARIU BOWERY THEATRE—Tu Heart. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, HELLER'S THEATER! 'RESTIDIGIEATION, EGYPTIAN HALL.—Amenic @OLUMBLA OPERA HOUSE.—Vi | PIVOLI THEATRE.—Vanirty. EAGLE THEATRE.—Pasto SAN FRANCISCO MINSTER GILMORE'S GARDEN.—Grasp Equestmian Fretivat, Homx ov Mysreny, WITH SUPPL JANUARY, The Adams Express Company run a special NOTICK TO COUNTRY DEALERS, news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Hailrond and its @onssctions, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four ; and Sunday, carrying the regular edition ofthe Huwaxp as far West as Harrisburg and So Siz A. M. and Washington at one P. M From our report this mornin: a possibly by light snow. Vanderbilt produced no effect o1 on call loans was supplied at 7 per cen bonds were in good demand. ‘ No One Can Imacine, after reading our siana despatch, that the democrats of the election of ir State ti Their fa’ proved by their works. They have alread, sd more than a hundred thousand doll: upGiIsG FroM OuR Fioripa des uble, was rejected on hearsay evidence 4 } It is gratifying to learn in the “Piat the Congressioual investi ended. tk DIFFERENCES OF OP’ ‘Mr. Blaine seem to exist entirely o d States Senator, both for the short ning immediately after, the nomination acclamation, Senatorial aspirants in tempercd justice . In imposing a nominal fine, and th ing half of it 1 pay it, the Judge vindi juting the dictates of humanity. break the bonds of matrimony that them together nearly half a centw of P Rives, four years her senior, Domestic fe # ead story. Ix Inpicatixe toe Wit the Sioux to move to the Indian Territor tained news of a great victo f ‘Indians are as susceptible as any onc force of example, and when these ome neighbors to men of their own ra work for their living and do not consider th: will be gone. _ ‘Tae Weatuen. Missouri, with an area of snow and rain. At lower lakes, the Lower Ohio Valley and ‘the St. Lawrence to its mouth. In the Sow and Atlantic States clear or partly c! continues very low inthe lake region, the in New York to-day will be sli mer a: i partly cloudy or cloudy, foll snibly by light snow. Maw Ronnexs will conduct their operatic with a wholesome respect for the vigi sagacity of the detectives. Wo pri system by which the recent os were detected and «some of the p: culprits arrested. The ‘patience and new displayed by the detectives in “sha weals during all their moven them to their seeret hi credit to the officers. It is immens Although Tay y inany days elapse. lose some of her young men ve le that the good town will lore im rept th count. It will be a cat f | citizens that these pests where theif talents will be ‘irect: end than robbing the L sited States | area of precipitation extends over the uppei uth to ‘Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past i} y the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, fol- Wass. Srreer Yestenvay.—The death of Com- m the Prices of stocks und the market closed steady. ‘Gold opened at 107 and closed at 1067. Money t and finally offered at 3 per cent. The last loans were mado at 6 and 5. Government and railway One By One THE Horrs of criminals disap- pear. Even Spain, the whilom refuge of Tweed, is said to have entered with the United States Into an extraditioa treaty more comprehensive than any which we have with other nations. Loui- Peli- tan State are not sincere in their belief in the ith is ly ad- ars of atches it ald appear that part of the vote in Baker | unty, abont which there has been so much | of ir- » samo gation there may utside ox mn State. Yesterday th the ex-Speaker’s own State esterday the legislative caucus nominated Blaine term, ends in March, and for the long term, be- being other » with sterday in the case of a poor woman uvieted of having sold adulterated en re- ise the culprit could not ted the law without he. ¢ Not Orren that an old couple seek to 6 bound Tn our 4 * Court reports to-day are given the details of a | divoreo suit in which the wife, over se venty age, asks for a legal separation from her | trou- Dies extending over a period of twenty-two yearn are assigned as the cause of complaint. It | ess of some of | our Laramie letter is more cheering than if it con- ver the hostiles. to the ns be- © kill- ‘ing of white men the sum of all earthly delights | the occupation of the soldier and Indian trader | rother long thern londy weather prevails. The highest pressure is in the | uth Atlantic States and the lowest in Nova | P z aren The temperature has risen in the South | Powers declared that the condition of ‘Tur- and Southwest and slightly in the Northwest, but | key was a danger to the peace of Europe; Middie | that all were under a moral obligation to sand Eastern States and along the Atlantic coast. | exact of Turkey the performance of the ightly | lowed pas in lance nt in ther column to-day a highly interesting ac- mail rinci- per- alow nents nts to be ed that the whole gang will be captured be on | who NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Eastern Question, Divided opinions evidently distract the councils of the Sultan, but the division seems to be such that a slight addition of force on one side would, at any moment for several days past, have made war inevitable, while very earnest endeavors in the other direction do not greatly assist the prospect for peace. If the Sultan does not pos- itively reject the proposals of the Con- ference it is because there are men about him wise enough to warn their Sovereign against the impolitic course of de- fying the united recommendations of Eu- rope, and of thus forcing into one common course of action with regard to him the gov- ernments by whose divisions he has sur- vived for so many years. If, on the other hand, he does not distinctly indorse as proper to be enforced in his dominions the schedule of reforms drawn up by the pre- liminary conference, it is because he is sur- rounded by a reactionary element, which plays upon his apprehensions with the bug- bear of an insurrection of Moslem fanatics and the loss of his throne, and even his head. This element is now more important in shaping the policy of the Porte than it has been before since the time of Mahmoud, and it is, of course, opposed to any terms with the Enropean nations and attributes all the misfortunes of the Ottoman Power to the introduction of the Western ideas, Naturally such an element refuses to see that it was only by the anc- ceptance of European ideas that Turkey secured countenance and any toleration’ for her existence in Europe, and that it is only by making this acceptance more complete that she can now forestall a common action against her; for an influence like this is a sort of Rip Van Winklein history and ean- not enter into the spirit of any ideas that have come upon the stage while it has slept. General Ignatieff, the Russian ambassador, seems to err when he treats this Moslem revival asa mere piece of trickery—ns a thing that has no substantial existence, but is only a fiction—-a property of the theatrical states- manship of Constantinople. Perhaps the extent of its power is exaggerated, but its existence and activity seem to account en- tirely for the total difference between the Turkish disposition now with regard to re- forms and that of last May. This difference touches an important point with regard to the responsibility for the danger to the peace of Europe. Perhaps if the peace is to be disturbed it is of no im- mediate practical importance who is to blame. That isa point of moral respohsi- bility that will be very fully and properly discussed by the future historian. Yet this is evidently not the opinion onall hands; for by those who have no great admiration for the liberals in England it seems to be es- teemed of some consequence that the re- proach of this rupture should be laid at their door. Lord Beaconsfield gave the keynote to this view in the sum- mer. This theory is that if the liberals had not denounced the butcheries in Bulgaria Russia would have believed there—was no other opinion in England than such as was indicated in the sort of bravado paraded at the Lord Mayor's dinner, and would there- fore have believed England ready to sup- port Turkey in another war, and, believing this, would not haye ventured upon any demand likely to induce hostilities. So that the liberals did all the harm by simply | denouncing a series of most revolting cruelties. Conjectural cases may be framed so as to make any party responsible for any act. It is not at all certain that Russia would have been ignorant of the real condition of British opinion though neither Mr. Gladstone nor Mr. Bright had spoken; nor is it safe to place too great reliance upon the notion that there would be no war even though it were fully believed that England would support Turkey. But it needs only a slight reference to the facts of the case to show that if any party in England is responsiblo for the present danger it is the party in possession of the government, Even tory opinion in Eng- land seems now to count upon the blunders of the Premier as one of the elements that have to be considered in the solution of the problems of British politics, and that opinion | will eventually concede that the monumen- tal blunder of his administration was the re- jection of the Berlin memorandum, and that that act was what really compromised the peace of Europe. In May, when the Berlin memorandum was drawn, Turkey was ready to assent to precisely such a programme of reforms as she now refuses to accept. There is no differ- ence between what is demanded now and | what was demanded then, except that in the Berlin memorandum less was said of guar- antees than has been heard in the recent ne- gotiations; but it is to be remembered that the Porte repudiates the proposed reforms without really coming to the consideration —The northwestern depression | of the guarantees. It rejects the labors of haa now advanced into the region of the Upper | the preliminary conser and that body | lett entirely open the subject of the guaran- | tees, It is not, therefore, because of the proposed guarantees that it rejects now what it was ready to accept in May; for they are not included in that upon which it acts. In the Berlin note the three Northern promises she had made when the Andrassy note was communicated, and that an amel- joration of the Christian population of ‘Tur- | key must be secured by reforms to be carried out under the direction of a mixed commis- sion, ‘Chis is what they demand now, and England now joins with them in the de- mand} put all this could have obtained the | assent of Lurkey in May if Zngland had not | then refused the co-operation she now cords. It is to that mistaken refusal, there- fore, that the present situation is due. Through Western encouragement of Otto- man resistance at that time the occasion to ‘| enforee reforms upon Turkey by moral pres- , merely went by, and: through the re- ved vitality of the fanatical clement in Vurkish politics the application of reforms . defeated now. But this revival, which | ms visibly to force | the issue [pow made to the battle field, and | \ \ | | the class of men appointed to enforce it is |-not | in this bill to try men as if in eivi | of Tur) 7 which is counted upon as the great | present element of Ottoman strength, the one Power that is to supply inexhaustible battalions and every other element of mili- tary operations toa bankrupt government, will prove the early ruin of the Turkish cause ; for, in proportion as this nation recurs to the original elements of its force and to the free use of a semi-savage Asiatic soldiery, in that proportion will it be dem- onstrated to every capital in Europe that the continued tolerance of this Power in Christian countries is impossible. Russia therefore proceeds discreetly in the demand made that the action forced upon her in this case shall be regarded as the action of the Powers collectively which | it ipfor her to execute. If the other Powers assent to this it will give an entirely differ- ent character to the war morally from what it would have if it were only the pursuit of the ancient quarrel between these hostile races, with all the presumed purpose of ter- ritorial aggrandizement that has been asso- ciated with Russian politics through the persistent habit cherished by our British cougins of giving their enemies bad names, Senator Conkling’s Speech. The remarks made by Mr. Conkling in presenting the New York petition yester- day are as admirable in tone as they are cor= rect in substance, and reflect new lustre on one of the most statesmanlike characters in the public life of the country at the present time. ‘Vo present petitions on a deeply exciting subject in words few and fitly chosen, words calculated to enforce the petitions and to stir public feeling in their favor, is an art in which few parliamentary speakers excel. Mr. Webster was pre-eminent in this gift; but in all the remarkable speeches he made on such occa- sions when, forty years ago, petitions were almost daily pouring into the Senate in connection with an exciting question of that period, there was no effort in that remarkable series with which the remarks of Mr. Conkling yesterday may not be compared without suffering by the comparison, Mr, Conkling rises above the passions of the hour to the highest level of justice and patriotism. He gives earnest, decorous expression to the most elevated moral sentiment of the community. After describing the high standing and great weight of character of the petitioners, and saying that they include prominent members of both political parties, Mr. Conkling expressed his strong sympathy with their ‘appeal for orderly, lawful and patriotic action,” in a matter in which ‘‘par- tisan feeling asa guide and rule of action can properly have no place.” He thinks it is a duty which rests on the two houses of Congress, on the nation, on every citizen of the Republic, to find the honest and true result, to declare it, bow to it and stand by it. ‘‘That,” he says, ‘is the duty of the hour.” ‘Whoever stands on right and truth will not fall. Whoever attempts to stand on wrong and falsehood will be overthrown.” ‘This is so much sounder in tone than any other utterance which has yet been made in either house that it seems like a light shining in a dark place. Its power depends on the appeal it makes to the public conscience, which only needs to be fully awakened to insure fairness and justice. Every states- man in high position who, in a crisis like the present, says with force and eloquence what the public conscience will be con- strained to indorse, establishes a solid title to his country’s gratitude and esteem, The New Excise System. In another column will be found a bill by which, if it passes this winter, it is proposed to organize on an entirely new system and with new powers and duties the Board for the regulation of tho sale of liquor in this city. There is certainly great room for improvement in the present administration of this important function of authority; but whether the shortcomings are more due to the law or to at least open to doubt. It is scarcely to be expected that our city politics should pro- duce men disposed to be just as against such potent political agents as an excise board has to deal with. The occasional raids on refreshment establishments and the per- | secution for which Sunday is made the oc- casion are, however, evils due to the law, and these could scarcely be repeated if the | bill referred to is enacted. ‘here are several points as to which the pro- posed law seems to treat its victims with undue severity, and we are sure that we undersiand the precise purpose of this. It is possible that a law might be made which would have the aspect of great severity and yet not be severe in the least, If, for ingtance, its severity was in conflict with the constitu- tion it would become a dead letter, and this would be the same as if there were no law, and the traffic in liquor would be practically unrestrained. The proposition | its and without a jury, and yet to punish them criminally by imprisonment, appears to dis- regard the constitutional guarantee of trial by jury “in all cases in which it has been heretofore used.” toumanian Protests. No time has been lost by the Roumanians in making their protest against the implica- tions of the new Turkish constitution. By that instrument it is declared that the Otto- man Empire forms nn indivisible unity, from which no portion can ever on any ground be detached; and in answer to inquiry made. by the Roumanian government the Sultan's Ministers declare that Roumania is included iu these terms as part | of the Ottoman Empire; while on their part the Roumanians as resolutely de- clare that their country does not form part , and that they ‘will not rest” till acknowledged. — I those countries the ties of political relationship are certainly very slight. ‘‘hey pay to the | Sultan a tribute of about two hundred | thousand dollars, But this, like a bariey- corn rent, is esteemed in Constantinople a | sufficient evidence that they are not) independent, They never fail, however, to assert their independence on any oc | casion that presents itself; and to make ang issue with them now on this point would be | this is Jerween | cages. maladroit in the authorities at Constantino- ple ; for though Roumania is not a greatState its little ‘army of eighteen thousand men, which it could double for an emergency, might make an effective addition to a Rus- sian column, Cornelius Vanderbilt. The death of Cornelius Vanderbilt re- moves one of the great figures of this genera- tion. It is singular that the three richest men in the country—the three men, at least, who have been so held in popular estimation— should have died within so short a period. William B. Astor, two months the senior of Mr. Vanderbilt, died in November, 1875, while A. T. Stewart, nine years his junior, died in April, 1876. These men were all of mark, but Vanderbilt was the greatest ofthem all, Mr. Astor showed the prudence necessary to keep intact his vast inheritance—a rare power in such a time of inflation and shuf- fling of values as we have had since 1861. Mr. Stewart kept in one narrow path. He was a great merchant, and as a merchant he lived and died. Toward the end of his career he made a few whimsical investments like Garden City, a hotel in Saratoga and so on ; but they were fancies, not deliberate business purposes, and he never seriously turned aside from his calling. The impres- sion made upon the community by both Stewart and Astor was a faint one compared to the deep mark of Vanderbilt. The Astor estate will go on and on in the hands of the estimable gentlemen who inherit it, and there is no reason why it should not con- tinue for generations, until it becomes as vast as that of the Westminster family in London, which it’ in some respects resembles, The destiny of the Stewart estate is a problem, as the only heir is a venerable lady, and the business, the great source of its revenue, has been transferred. The estate of Vanderbilt will, it is presumed, remain in the possession of his eldest son, who for s long time has been the coadjutor of his father. Mr. Vanderbilt’s character was that of a most remarkable man. Astor was born to wealth and began life under the tutor- ship of the celebrated Bunsen. Stewart had some capital and a fine education. Vander- bilt had nothing but the unconquer- able will which in time made him the foremost man of his class. He was born to poverty and effort. His youth was boisterous and full of trial. He loved the sea and horsemanship. Whensixteen years ot age, and he became his own master, he could sail anything under canvas through the roughest seas, and could handle an un- broken colt; but he could scarcely write his name. Sixty-six years ago he sailed his first ferryboat from Staten Island to the Bat- tery. New York was then a city of sixty thousand people, and steam was still a prob- lem. Then he became the captain of a small steamer and kept a hotel at New Brunswick, It is said of him that he had no vices ; that he was always at his post; that he was a lucky man ‘and saved his money. In time he came to have many vessels, and when the war broke out he was the largest owner of steamboats and steamships in the country, and perhaps in the world. His fame asa “commodore” had spread dver the world. He was very rich, and, as he was nearly seventy years of age, it was supposed he would re- tire to the enjoyment of his fortune. Sud- denly he changed the tenor of his whole business life. He withdrew from shipping, to which he had been devoted for a half century, and purchased a control of the Harlem, Hudson River and Central railroads. It was said that this movement was but the morbid, irrepressible activity of old age; that it would end in ruin; that he should have stuck tp his last and avoided new enter- prises. But he knew himself better than his critics knew him. He became at once the great railway king of the country. Roads which had been the playthings of gamblers and the preserves of politicians prospered under his hard, cold, daring management, and, although we have passed through a period of unexampled prostration and de- pression in business, his genius has sus- tained his railways. He leaves them at his death in a better condition than when he became their master, and he leaves them in the control of his son, who has shown him- self to be no unworthy successor. The lesson to-be learned from the life of Vanderbilt is simple and impressive. Courage in the performance of duty enabled this man to become one of the kings of the earth, The hardy, strong-limbed boy who guided his vessel from ferry to ferry nearly seventy years ago lived to be a ruler of men. He had no advantages in his battle—no political, social, educational aid, It was one honest, sturdy, fearless man against the world, and in the end the man won. There was no poetry, no romance, no illusion in this long, stern, busy life. He was simple and direct in his ways, knowing his mind all the time, and éver going to his purpose like a ball from a cannon. In time tie world came to his feet, and his old age was one of vast power and ever increasing re- | sponsibilities, There are few kings whose will was as potent as that of the simple citi- zen who goes to rest in the tomb of his ancestors, on beautiful Staten Island, and by the waters of the bay on which he began his extraordinary career so many years ago, and which he loved so well. The Necessity of Raptd Transit, The miseries suffered by travellers in the city horse cars during the recent storm have aroused the just indignation of our citizens against the selfish obstructionists to rapid | transit in New York. In no other city in the United States claiming even a tithe of the importance of this great metropolis would the community submit to the dis- comforts and indignities that are heaped upon travellers in the filthy, freezing and ov-rcrowded boxes on wheels that are dignified with the name of public conveyances, On Monday night the utter incapacity of the horse car companies was demonstrated in the fullest manner. For hours at a stretch the roads were blockaded, and unfortunate passengers sat shivering, and, in many instances, covered with the snow that driited on them through tho ill- fitting doors and windows of the horse car ‘There was no attempt at relieving them on the part of the arrogant officials who pretend to own the city streets, and the result has been that in a great many cases sickness and perhaps death has followed thiscruelexposure, This outrageous state of things can only be remedied by the prompt completion of a number of ropid transit lines through the city. We have already got one in successful operation—namely, the Ele- vated Railroad, This line is now unable to carry all the passengers that rush to its cars to avoid the discomforts and delays of horse car.transit. Nearly three hundred trains a day are insufficient to accommodate the throngs that desire to avail themselves of this safe and satisfactory rapid transit line, and, with a daily increase of over o thousand passengers, it is sometimes necessary to even secure a seat well |. down town in order to travel north- ward on the line at all. This is a strong ar- gument in favor of the extension of the rapid transit system throughout the city. There is enough engineering skill avail- able to make such a system as safe as the horse car lines, and infinitely preferable in every way in the matter of comfort. .A strong effort on the part of the authorities, and one which will receive the fullest indorsement from the public, must be made to abate and, if possible, abolish the horse ear nuisance, Already a petition has been presented tothe Board of Aldermen with that object. We sincerely hope that the Board will have sufficient intelligence and honesty to act onit promptly. We must have rapid transit, although its attainment may involve the abolishment of every hide- bound horse oar company in New York. Managing New York. It is evident that we are to have a number of propositions before the Legislature this session for the amendment of our city char- ter. Senator Gerard has already proposed to prohibit the employment of any but actual residents of the city in the municipal offices, Genezal Spinola, in the Assembly, has given notice of a charter amendment limiting the city debt to one hundred and fifty million dollars. A resolution has also been offered and laid over in the House directing the Committee on Cities to report a series of measures of “reform” for the metropolis. There will no doubt be a flood of similar charter tin- kering propositions when the Legislature fairly settles down to work, and they will probably be no better considered than those already introduced. If, by wise legislation, New York should be given rapid transit and made asinexpensive to residents as a homo in the suburbs the public employés would live in the city without Senator Bixby’s pro- posed measure of compulsion. As to the city debt, it is to be hoped that it will not reach General Spinola's limit, but that hon- est and capable government will reduce it below its present amount. As the Charter Commission's plan of muni- cipal government will soon be submitted it is not desirable that we should have any further charter tinkering for the next year. The new city administration can give usa good government under the charter as it now exists, The Board of Aldermen have already moved in the matter of reductions in the municipal expenditures, and yesterday 4 special committee was appointed to con- sider the best means of increasing our water supply. The Common Conncil, in harmonious action with the Mayor, Comp- troller and Board of Apportionment, can aid the cause of rapid transit, give us well paved streets, secure the improvement of the docks, decrease taxation and prevent the increase of the public debt. All the people of New York ask of the Legislature is to leave them alone and allow the present city gov- ernment, which is harmonious in all its parts, to try its hand at the democratic doc- trine of “‘home rule.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Macaulay said that as civilization grew poctry de- clined. Half the European population of Turkey at least is ,| Bulgarian. Major General John M. Schofield, of West Point, 1s at tho Hotei Brunswick. The daughter of George Francis Train isa bello in Washington society. Mr. G, L, Catlin has been elected President of the Paragtaphers’ Association, Secretary Robeson arrived at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washington. Most of the country merchants have begun with the motto, “Time shall be no more.” Sergeant Bates, having used up all the flags he could buy, 1s too poor to get any more, Drs, Anatole de Gaine and W. A. Koukol-Yasno- polsky, of Russia, are at the Windsor Hotel, Wade Hampton writes as woll and as much as he fought, and we sometimes wish he had not fought so much. Recorder Rackets arrived in Jacksonville, Fia., yes: terday, and immediately proceeded up the river to En- terprise. A book bas just been announced in England by a Mr. Duck, Probably it will be bound in muslin—a sort of canvas back. A critic says that Bismarck is a diplomat, but not an administrator; while in argument he ts incautious and likely to got angry. Cuptain Eads, of the New Oricans jetties, has made the Missiasipp! current flow over twenty-two fect at the delta, but Eads thinks it is damsaing with faint | praise, | “It was a favorite Idea with Plato that in order to | discover the trae doctrine of personal morality wo should begin by studying the Commonwealth rather than the indiyidaal’”’ Worcester /’ress;—'The more the action of Governor Grover is examined by the hight of the Oregon laws the more 1t looks as though Cronin would receivo the | $900 for travelling expenses.’ The handsomest girl in Rockford (I.) Seminary en- deayored to elope with two young men at onc by try- | ing to Jump from a second story window upon a buifalo | robe held by them, The attempt was frustrated by the police. Dr. Hammond says that no one can pronounce with definiteness upon the aberrations of the normal func. | tions of the nervous system, This idea occurrod to | the Doctor when he took a mouthlul of red-hot minco | pic a minute too soon. Evening Telegram:—Tho man who lives in Brooklyn and has business in New York occupies a position these mornings similar to thatot Moses. He soes the | promised land afar off, Getting on a forrybont doesn’t | seom to bring It any‘nearer.’? Tbe wind was blowing sixty miles an hour as he ploughed round tho corner of the street trying to get | home, and his dear wife stood im the darkness and knew bis voice four blocks away, She said she never iwiled to detect the accent of Third avenue cloves, A correspondent says that “tho oldest Mason and | Knight Templar in the United States is Mr. Jolin Me- Keghan, of Logansport, Ind, late of Beaver Falls, Pa,, now ninety five years old, Ho jomed in Irejand in the year 1808, and the Knight Templars about the year 1820," lu many respects there were as nice conveniences 200 | | years ago as now, and in a fow rospocts things have | improved, Johu Milton was a stranger to the luxury | with which James Russell Lowell on a stormy night takes down the clothes and fills his mouth with tho burt ends of tho new patent clothospina, | constitution, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. EUROPE’S DIFFICULTY. Influences which Decided the Porte te Reject the Proposals. FEAR OF MOSLEM FANATICISM Russia to Ask Europe’s Authority to Enforce the Conference Demands. ROUMANIA ON HER DIGNITY, The Porte to Issue a Protest to Europe— Turkish Finances. AN EXTRADITION TREATY WITH SPAIN, | (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.} Lonpon, Jan. 5, 1877. The ITeRaLp correspondent at Berlin telegrapha that no official news has yet reached’ that city from the German representative at the Conference in Constantinople and nothing definite is known as to the result of the last session. Among those who are best acquainted with the condition of affairs in the East it is believed that the action of the Porte was caused by fear of the fanatical portion of the Turkish population. CHOOSING THE LEAST OF TWO EVILS, There were two dangers to be faced, the one at home and the other abroad, and the Porte decided that the home danger, being the more immediate, should be met first. Therefore it was decided to peremptorily Feject the proposals of the Conference and to resist any violation of the sovereign rights of the Sultan. A RUSSIAN PROPOSAL. Russia, it is said,intends, after the final rapture of the negotiations, to ask the Powers for an an- thorization to enforce the proposals of the Confer- ence in their name.: Turkey's final refusal is antici- pated, and the Conference will then have no further business at Constantinople. RUSSIAN EXASPERATION. The Russian papers are greatly exasperated at what they term the pusillanimity of Germany and Austria. THE RUSSLANS IN SERVIA. A Bolgrado despatch reports that 900 Russtan vol- unteers are about to return to Russia, unwilling any Jonger to fight under the Servian banner. Prince Nikotine bas just received orders from St. Petersburg to remain in Belgrade to advise the Servian govern- mont io military affairs, Princo Milan wishes to withdraw from Russian influences, but cannot, RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS, A Berlin correspondent tolegrapbs that the Bussiay government has ordered the proparation of 150 rail- way carriages for the transportion of the sick and wounded, ‘THK FINANCIAL CRISIS IN RUSSIA. The severity of tho financial crisis in Russia is shown by the fact that the municipality of Odessa, ono of the richest in Russia, is unable to pay the salaries ot officials, ENDEAVORING TO MAKE TURKS REASONABLE, A despatch from Constantinople reports that at yestorday’s sitting of the Conference Savfet Pacha read a statoment of motives in support of the Turkish counter proposals and explaining in detail tho grounds for opposing certain portions of the proposals of the Powers. The European plenipotentiaries neverthe- less endoavored to induce the Turks to agree to debate upon the points which have been rejected by the Porte. Tho European Pienipotentiaries themselves opened discussion upon come ot these points, When the Conference aa. journed, 1% was to meet again next Monday. Inthe meanwhile the plenipotentiaries will continue to use their Influence to make the Porte unacrstand that a modification of the proposals can only be brought about by public discussion. CONFIRMED ORSTINACY OF TURKEY. A telegram, dated Constantinople, Thursday noon, and despatched before the meeting of the Conference says:—The Porto at to-day’s sitting will baso itd Teasons for the rejection of the proposals of the Powers upon the intogrity and inae- pendenceof the Empire. Among the proposals objectod to as a violation of these principles is the nomination ot governors of provinces by the foreign Ambassadors, If the plenipotentiaries present an ultimatum the Porte intends to summon & meeting of the Grand Coun- cil and lay before it a statement of the position of af. fairs. The’Porte categorically retuscs to cede terri- tory to Montenegro or Servia, * MODIFYING THK CONDITIONS, A special from Vienna says on Tuesday the European Plenipotentaries held a confidential meeting, when modifications im their demands were adopted in the hope thatthe Turkish Plenipotentiaries would accept the amended proposals as a basis for discussion. The propositions for an sntornational and foreign gen- darmerie were somewhat modified; those for fixing the boundaries of two separite governorships in Bulgaria and allowing the Turks only to occupy certain garri- sons were dropped. The question of surrendering Little Zwornik to Servia is to be referred to arbitra. tion. Other minor alterations wero agreed to. It goems that these modifications are the result of the ine | terview between Lord Salisbury aud Midhat Pacha, ATTITUDE OF AUSTRIA. A despatch from Vienna says it is positively stated that Austria’s representatives at the Conference are instructed to leave Consiantinople if the Porte does not accept the proposals of the Powers, AUSTRIA PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES, A correspondent at Vienna states that the military authorities of Galicia and Transylvania havo received orders to bring their armaments and accoutrements | up to the full complement as soon gy possible, THE PORTE TO ADDRASS KUROIE. A special despatch dated Constantinople, January 3, Says itis alleged that the Porte intends to address a manifesto to Europe. One report says the paper will take the form of a protest The Plenipotentiaries, however, are endeavoring to dissuade the Porte trom giving it that shape, The Roussivn imperial yacht Herichk has arrived at Constantinopie, VAIN HOPES, Adespatch from Constantinople dated Wednesday evening says:—Apprehensions of a rupture continue to diminish. It seems provable from the more concil- fatory feeling now prevalent that the Porte will not ro- ject the proposals of the Powers, Tho Plonipoten- tiaries also seem disposed to make furthor shght cons cossions, If these anticipations are realized negotia- tions will be resumed to-morrow. It 18 believed that a | pacific solution of the Kastern question may yet ve looked for. ROUMANIA ON HER DIGNITY, A telegram trom Bucharest says that in the Cham- ber of Deputies last night the Foreign Minister, in | reply to an interpellation, said he had asked tor expla. nations from the Porte respecting its interper Jation of articles 1, 7 and 8 of the new Turkisn Tho Porte replied that the first two ree ferred to Rowmania and all other triouiary States, The Chamber of Deputics unanimously passed ® motion approving the conduct of the Cabi- net and demanding that the governmont ,