The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1877, Page 4

we et amet 4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, in the year, dollars or period less athe, Sunday unday dollar per v five ¢ graphic despatches must properly sealed, wilk not be returned. ELPUTA OFFIC ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— 02 DE LOPER. 7 ATRKADA rtisesnent thems wa in Now Yorks Savscriptions warded on the © Vouun AMUSEME PIFTH AVENUK WALLAC BROADWAY THEA UNION SQUARE NIBLO'S GA BOOTHS TH NEW YORK AQUA TO-NIGHT. AMERICAN. GRAND or LYCEUM Th PARK THEA TONY YIVOLI THEATH BAGLE THE . Vanier, COLUMBIA OPERA 110L ARIETY. THEATRE COMIQUE.—V. : WITH SUPPLEMENT’. “NEW YORK, T NOT To | 1 Y, JANUARY 9, 187 COUNTRY DEALERS, | | assent without compromising | passed on that admirable memorial by the NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1877~ WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Highth of January Demonstra- tions, The sixty-second anniversary of General Jackson's brilliant victory at New Orleans was widely celebrated yesterday by the dem- ocratic party in a somewhat unusual manner. Among the features of the day were a demo- cratic State convention in Ohio, a demo- cratic State convention in Indiana, a demo- cratic mass meeting in Washington, and ad- dresses from the Democratic State commit- tees of New York, Missouri, Oregon and Colorado, These demonstrations wero but ineidentally a mark of respect to the memory of the hero of New Orleans. ‘heir paramount object was to assert the election of Mr. Tilden and de- nounce attempts to prevent his inahgura- tion. We accordingly think that their ten- dency is mischievous. Party feeling does not need to be stimulated, but to be calmed, In this grave conjuncture party appeals should be discountenanced as tending to provoke partisanship on the other side, We shall find deliverance from the present dangerous complication only by rising above the murky atmosphere of party politics and contending for nothing but strict justice and conformity to law. There is nothing to be said against hold- ing public meetings, in this crisis, but if | they are held ut all they should be non-par- | tisan, They should resemble the New York | memorial presented to the Senate the other | day by Mr. Conkling in such befitting lan- | guage. That memorial was signed by citi- zens of weight and prominence in both po- litical parties, and contained nothing to which men either party might not their party encomiums of standing. After the warm democyatic press and the praise bestowed on Senator Conkling’s wise and decorous The Adams Express Company rina special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four A. M, daily and Sunday, carrying the regntar edition ofthe Hrraup as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past | six A. M, and Washington at one P.M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be told and clearing, with high westerly winds, Investors appear to be first class railway sceurities. Gold declined | Yom 10633 to 1061s. Money on call was sup- | plied at 6 and 7, and finally offered at 7 per cent. king gov ster at sea is chronicled by us elsewhere to-day. THe Werx or Prayer has begun; we hope | Dongress and the Electoral Colleges will not be Jorgotten. Tue New Coar Comnryation is said to be Frowing; so is the inability of the poor to pay present prices. Aucustvs Sc Mr. Kelly has 0 IGATION of the ions, like thatin New York and Jersey City, is as fruitiess as last year’s tomato | plants. j Tae Mes or Mayor Scnroeper, of Brook- Jyn, sho at New York is not the only city which is trying,to exceed the ante-war debt of | the whole nation. Roperts, thn W Beater, goes to Sing Bing for tive years. He 1d have plenty of tompany of his own kind if women were not more loving than wise. Arter tne Decision of the referee in the Bheron-Sullivan case is noised abroad the office of Public Administrator will not seem so pleasing to the aspiring ye us of old. sor Rarip TRA: nother column, ated rowd is show must be done through in the courts Meanwhile the what can and t the city sooner or later. Ovr Last New Sroor-or War, the Alliance, | went into commission yesterday and is to go up the Mediterrancan. Something of the same name | is being prayed for at the extreme eastern end of | the ea mentioned. | rok th eke et | fotion for the removal of the receiver 1 Life Tsun: at Albany, but, m man holds his pos lof ¢ as he would probably do if insura; managed as business is. Tr of the Contine boon be arg nwhile, the ~ to jail, ion instes McDowenr, who was wounded » Will be suit- ably srecogn nd respectable citizens should not in such a case be above fol- Jowing the example of thieves. Commissioner Wrekier yesterd: | the Board of Apportionment that | in the strects came under the head of filth. i | any member of the Board still donbts let hin | cross Broadway in well polished boots, | Thy Wearnnn.—The depression which ex- | tended on Sunday over Northern Texas and the | Indian Territory moved eastward yesterday morning, and embraced within its area th tire | Alleghany range. Later in the day it contracted alerky i well detined | in a novthe storm area was ol Valley. ‘Thence it moved land toward Nova S western 1m i sion is somey fin what 0 between thow of hh ane that surrounded it, Strong treasing to forty miles an hour, prevailed | at New York when the storm centre moved to | the northwestward of the city. A “norther” is | reported from the Texas const. The gale at Galveston had a velocity of fifty-two mil } howt,, We predicted this “blow” in yesterd: TeRAD. ‘The snow and rain area extende evening from the St. Liuwrence Valley to Nash- ville, Tenn. A comparatively high temperature prevailed along the Atlantic coast; but westward | unti Lin the Hndeon 2 slowly over New I with Y¥ snow on ita | formati i of this deprow | at phenomenal, as it originated | be stermed a “neutral ‘ low pressure | afler winds, in of the Alleghanics and over the lake region the weather was intensely cold. This low | temperature will ‘ly follow the move- | mont. of the storms into the Atlantic, | and we may look forward to Areti 1 during | the next day or two. Another depression is ad- | vaneing eastward from Dakota, and promises to | be @ severe storm. With the exception of the North Atlantic coast, New England and lower luke regions, including Canada, and in the North- west the weather is generolly clear thfoaghout the country. The weather in New York to-day will be cold aud clearing, with high westerly | winds. in a judicial temper, and, like the j image of Justice with which we adorn our court houses, shall hold | the balance with eyes bandaged to therefore unseasonable and out of place. | ang, commanded by officers who had served | war to end on our side in a blaze of renown. | ably recall on this occasion, | the | best title to the office. | electoral votes as his opponent, the figures | being one hundred and seventy-eight for | Jackson | must insist on justice, and are entitled to speech the democratic party is not consist- ent in holding large partisan meetings con- ceived’ in so different a spirit. The only rational demand which public sentiment can now make is a demand that both parties in Congress shall treat this whole subject every consideration except the real merits ofthe controversy. Great party demonstra- tions ‘do not foster this spirit, and are The celebration of a battle in this juncture conveys a military suggestion, but it has no military significance, It has been a regular democratic custom in the most peaceful times to commemorate the battle of New Orleans as a personal tribute to General Jackson, although that victory was among the smallest of his public services. But the 8th of January has never been cele- brated, except by democrats, and the selec- tion of that day for these public meetings | stamps them with a partisan character. If the democrats had marked the day in their customary manner with only a commemcra- tive purpose their conduct would not have been open to criticism, fer the victory at New Orleans was one of the most remark- able in our history. An inexperienced militia general, leading raw recruits fresh from the plough, encountered British veter- | in the campaigns of Wellington, and achieved a victory unparalleled for disparity of loss. Jackson lost only six privates killed and seven wounded, but on the British side the three generals highest in command fell, with many other officers, and the total British loss was seven hundred killed, fourteen hundred wounded and five hundred prison- ers. It was fought after the treaty of peace had been signed at Ghent, but it caused the | Yet the practice of celebrating it having always been confined to the democratic party a different day would have been more appropriate for a grand appeal to justice | irrespective of partisan distinctions, There is, however, another part of Jack- son’s career which democrats might profit- We refer to | his defeat the first time he ran for the Presi- dency and the great value of that defeat to democratic party. In 1824 he had ninety-nine votes in the Electoral Colleges, and his highest competitor, John Quincy Adams, had only eighty-four. The election was thrown into the House of Repre- | sentatives, whero the main contest was between Jackson and Adams, and Adams was elected, in seeming disregard of the democratic principle that the preference of the people ought to be | respected and that the candidate receiving | the largest number of their votes has the The, democratic party of that day submitted to the consti- | tutional result and bided theirtime. The most fortunate thing that could have hap- pened toJackson was his defeat after re- ceiving the highest number of votes. This | seeming violation of popular principles was | handled with such skill by his supporters | during the ensuing four years that they easily elected him on the next | trial by an immense majority, Jackson re- ceiving in 1828 more than twice as many and only eighty-three for Adams. An injustice like that experienced by Jackson the first’ time he was a candi- date is pretty sure to be redressed if the | party suffering it makes no mistakes, If Hayes should be counted in against fairness and right his friends will put a potent weapon into the hands of the democrats, enabling them to win as great a victory in | 1880 as they did in 1828. ‘The democrats, like all other citizens, | involve him in inconsistency. | property. claim that Mr. Tilden shall be inaugurated if he has been fairly elected. Neither he | | nor his party can shrink from the responsi- | bilities of office under trying circumstances | if the final count should be favorable to his | claims. But the democratic party has no | great reason to covet the responsibility at | this time, During the first haif of Mr. Til- | den's term he would be crippled by a hostile | Senate, and perhaps during the whole four years. Against such obstructions his admin- | istration could not be brilliant or useful, and | the republicans would have every advantage | election. If Hay ould be counted in against the public senso of fairness the democratic party might safely count on an unbroken series of victories, and would gain control of the Senate as well as the House within the four years, when a demo- cratic President would have every facility for making his administration success- ful. Senators Conkling and Blaine, the two ablest republican leaders, no doubt perceive this, While they are bound by honor and duty as well as _ party fidelity to stand by Mr. Hayes if he was really elected, they have every personal and every party motive for not desiring his suc- cess by unfair means. Each of them wishes to be the republican candidate in 1880 ; but this would be a worthless compliment if Hayes should be counted in by fraud, which would insure a great democratic vic- tory in the next election. The personal aspirations of the ablest republican leaders and the real interest of their party would be promoted by having a powerless democratic President in office during the next four years. But while no responsible public man can permit his actions to be controlled by such estimates of prospective advantage, but only by his sense of justice, it is a strong motive for doing justice against political clamor, that the party which succeeds now is probably doomed to defeat in the next great trial of strength. Cause of the War with Turkey. Since the negotiations at Constantinople resolved themselves into an attempt to se- cure the pence of Europe by threatening | the Sultan that he should be given up to Russia no great progress has been made; and it must be conceded that the Padishah does not scare well. He has become pos- sessed of an unfortunate fancy that he can fight the Russians with almost as much satisfaction to his cause as resulted from the war with Servia, but that if there should prove a difference in favor of Russia England, despite all protestations to the contrary, will conie to the rescue before the consequences are destructive tothe Ottoman Empire. For this untoward condition of the Turkish mind the reports of the bad con- dition of the Russian army are in some degree responsible, but the evil really originates with the soldiers of fortune who are in the Sultan’s pay. These are mostly Englishmen. They want war, for though they might rast for some years in the Sul- tan’s service in the possession of good pay, yet a rattling campaign or two and some hard fighting might make them rapid pro- motion and famous names. They are also animated by some enmity toward Russia as a general object of English dislike. These men have really got possession of the Ottoman Empire for the time, and ‘as it is their fancy that the Moslem population can supply ultimately four or five million fighting men of the best conceivable quality they really believe that they have the chance to whip Russia easily or to figure as leading persons in the greatest war of this genera- tion. They have convinced Midhat Pacha of this, and when the question has arisen as to the possible conduct of England they have answered with eloquent winks. They are, no doubt, burning the Ottoman house to roast their chestnuts; but they are now the most potential speakers at Constantino- ple, and the Conference consequently rea- sons in vain. President Grant nd Louisiana, We are always glad of an opportunity to speak well of any act of the President, and takea particular pleasure in commending his determination not to interfere with the politics of Louisiana at this time. He made a great mistake by his military intervention two years ago, and we are glad that he avoids a repetition of it, although he docs not acknowledge that it was a mistake. He is careful to place his present refusal on grounds which, although sufficient, do not In 1875 Kel- logg had been discharging the duties of Governor for two years and had been re- peatedly recognized by President Grant. When this acknowledged Governor made an application for aid against domestic violence the President gave it ; but the case is very different if a similar application should be made by Packard, whom he has never recog- nized. Under other circumstances it might be his duty to decide whether he would recognize Packard or Nicholls as Governor of Louisiana, but respect for Con- gress forbids him to make such a decision when committees of both houses have been | sent to investigate the Louisiana election, He awaits the result of these investigations, and decides to refuse recognition toeither contestant, but intending to keep the peace between them. We do not see that | the democrats can derive any. en- couragement from this neutrality. It is re- spect for Congress, not inability to decide if the question were forced upon him, that restrains the President from action. If Congress had not taken the subject in hand the President would probably recognize Packard, on the ground that he was de- clared elected by the Returning Board. But it would be a breach of official decorum for him to assume to decide the question while Congress is investigating it. Port Jervis and Its Ico Gorges. Once more the little town up on the Dela- ware that was so nearly swept away two years ago has been in imminent peril from the likelihood that the thaw would start the ice for several miles up the river, and that the ice, forming a monster dam opposite the town, woyld cause again a great injury to If this danger is tq recur every time that a January thaw, or any other thaw, comes, with heavy ice in the river, it will pay the people of Port Jervis to adopt some radical measures. Twoarre possible. There is a very large portion of that town actually | built in eall the bed of the river. what we may wide ditch whose banks are, maybe, ten feet high ; but for a time of spring floods the bed of the river is the whole level bottom to the | hills on either side. Port Jervis can take itself out of the bed of the river as the sim- | But if this is found | plest radical measure. to be too expensive then the alternative is for regaining control of all departments of | to cut @ new channel for the river diagonally the government in the next Presidential | across the elbow formed by the present In summer and in ordinary | quiet times the river runs at this point in a | | channel. The new cut should extend from near the bridge on the side opposite the town to a point on the river as far below the bend as the bridge is above it. With such a cut made there would be no more trouble, for the sudden bend in the river is the cause of the gorges. ’ Rival In w Orleans | The citizens of Lonisiana are to be con- | gratulated that the day and evening passed | without any disturbance, although two per- | sons claiming to have been elected Gover- | nor took the oath of office yesterday in the | same city. This fact is perhaps more ; creditable to the democrats than to the re- | publicans, because the democratic crowd was so large thet it had an of- | portunity to practise “a great deal, of forbearance toward ita party oppo | nents engaged in the same business of inaugurating a Governor. It is estimated that a “crowd of fifteen thousand persans | gathered around St, Patrick's Holl, whore | Nicholls was sworn in, while only a few hun. | dred negroes were seen near the State House, the scene of Packard's inauguration. The whole drift of popular feeling, especially among the mercantile and intelligent classes, is in favor of Nicholls, and if the contest were to be settled by the people, with no outside interference, all Pack- ard’s supporters would desert him | before the end of the month. There was | much feeling in New Orleans yesterday, but it was deep and quict and was kept under complete control. A collision was feared, and it is creditable to all concerned that | none took place, There is so much excite- ment and so much preparation on each side for taking all power out of the hands of the | other that the danger cannot be considered over, and to-day’s proceedings will be looked for with much interest. From one point of view the Amérique may be regarded as a very lucky ship. She | has suffered three first class calamities and | has not in any one of them, we believe, lost a single passenger. All her passengers got away sefely in the accident on the Brit- tany coast in 1874, in the mishap in mid- ocean in 1875, and all have been landed safely now, though three sailors are un- happily excluded from the fortunate report, It would trouble the managers of other com- panies to produce a record equal to thiss tor it may be said with reasonable safety that no large steamer carrying passengers has been wrecked so often and fatal to so | few. But the difficulty in producing a parallel would be due to the fact that other lines, for some reason or another, have a smaller proportion of these incidents in their history. It seems, indeed, a remark- able fact that disabling calamities should so constantly occur to one vessel, that she should be so ‘‘unlucky;” for this quality in a ship is not by the sailors certainly counted from the passengers’ point of view, as we have looked at it above, If it is because she always has incapable officers why does this one ship always have them, when the chance is so wide for a change in this respect? And if the last acci- dent is due to the pilot why did ono pilot with a poor head—and there are not many such—fall to the lot of a ship that is so com- monly in trouble from other causes? If a ship's reputation as thoroughly unlucky may ever be regarded as fairly made the Amérique is certainly in that condition now; and if she is ever pulled out of the Jersey sands in such a shape as to be sent to sea again it will not be very easy to find her a crew. Indeed, it would be necessary to take such a hard set of fellows that a final calamity would doubtless occur in some difficulty with them. Sensible Action. The new Board of Apportionment yester- day very properly refused to make a transfer of nearly one hundred and fifty thousand dollars from unexpended balances to the account of the Police Department for 1877 to be used in removing the ice and snow from the streets. The Board took the common sense view that as there is an appropriation of over seven hundred thousand dollars in the city estimates for the present year, for cleaning the streets, it is neither necessary nor proper to make any additional appropriation in the shape of transfers for the same purpose, at least until this liberal sum has been exhausted. As to the quibble that no special appropriation has been made for re- moving snow and ice, the Board decided that, as the Street Cleaning Bureau is re- quired to keep the streets ‘thoroughly clean,” it is its duty to remove whatever makes them thoroughly filthy. The Presi- dent of the Police Commission having stated tothe Board that the appropriation for the patrol force is not large enough to pay all the men employed, was reminded that it is the duty of the Police Commissioners to limit the force to the number provided for | in the estimates. This is s good beginning for the new Board. The departments should be held to | strict economy and accountability. We are at the commencement of the year, and must “eut our coats according to the cloth,” as the phrase goes, If the business of the departments is faithfully and efficiently done and the public interests demand additional appropriations toward the end of the year for proper and desirable purposes there will be no niggardly opposition or obstructivencss on the part of the present Board of Apportionment. Goop News Avovt Russts.—Our despatch announcing the arrival of the advance guard of the Russian fleet will be read with lively delight. The corvette Bogatir has arrived at Charleston, 8. C., where she expects to meet to-morrow the Svetlana, commanded by the Grand Duke Alexis, and the remain- | der of the fleet. It is announced that | the fleet will take in coal and pro- | | visions and then proceed to Port | Royal Harbor until warmer weather, when it will sail for New York. It seems | very odd, at first sight, that our friends from | the neighborhood of the Arctic Circle should | be sensitive to the cold of our coast, but | | mature reflection leads to a natural solution ofthe puzzle; they rightly suspect that a | warm welcome awaits them in New York, | and they are waiting to become more fa- miliar with warmth before risking so great | a change. | | the | much a duty to leave them alone. Commodore Vanderbiitss Wil. Commodore Vanderbilt's wili, which was placed 1f possession of the Surrogate yester- day on the application for probate, is a docu- ment whieh will Be read with much interest. Like the creator of the colossal fortune it distributes, the will is remarkable for its business-like directness and simplicity. The totel capital distributed in the be- quests is sbout seventeen million dollars, All but a very small portion of this liberal sum goes to relatives, six daughters getting helf a million each, one four hundred thousand dollars and one three hundred thonsand. All of the daughters are married ladies or witows, One grandson receives five million four handred thousand dollars, besides other bequests, and three others two millions ech. These are Mr. William H. Vonderbilt’s children. The widow of the deceased receives seven hundred thousand dollars, with the house in Washington place and the valuable statuary, of which the Commodore was « great admirer, during her life time, and all the rest of the household goods and plate absolutely. Dr. Jared Linsly, one of family physicians, ‘Yeceives forty thousand dollars, and the Rev. Dr. Deems has a remembrance of twenty thousand dol- lars, With the exception of the seventeen millions consumed in these bequests, the whole of the Commodore's vast fortune de- seends to his favorite son, William H. Van- derbdilt, Its amount i not known, Rumor places it a high as fifty or sixty millions, but, whatever it may be, it is inthe hands of a | gentleman who will, no doubt, ably carry on his father's business enterprises. It is note- | worthy that all but two thousand of tho abares of the railroads known as the ‘‘Van- derbilt roads” bequeathed in the will are given to Mr, William H, Vanderbilt's sons, | Eighty-two thousand shares of the Central and Hudson River and twenty-two thousand shares of the Harlem are thus distributed; but they of course remain ander Mr. Will- iam H. Vanderbilt's control. The Com- modore is supposed to have owned a large majority of the stock of both those roads, so that his son will still hold the controlling power in the corporations, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Colfax is Jecturing 1m Canada, London receives beet from Scotland. Jt is said that the Turks are becoming democratic. Ole Bull bates the music of Wagner and of the future, Liszt has a poor old equare piano, loves biack coffee and smokes bad cigars, The Rov, Mr. Ewer was @ California editor in the days of the Argonauts. Shelley, the poet, used to go around with bis pockets full of bread, trom which he gained erambs of comfort Wade Hampton beheves mainiy im the State ; but he is known sometimes to write for people outside of South Carolina, John Bright's son is praised as « brilliant young man; but bis atyle appears to be one of vituperation | and commonplace. Mr. Crouin may bave the physical disadvantage of a large nose; but he ought, therefore, to be treated with consideration, and not with levity, George Eliot was & pupil ot Herbert Speacer, who, thirty years ago, asked her ig marriage. She is now fifty-seven, and has mado $500,000 by her writings Rochester Democrat: —“A mountain in Switzerland gives back an echo forty-nine times, With such a re" turning board as that Mr. Tilden would be all right. "* Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist:—A woman only etabs her toe once to a man's six, but when sne dors she goes down like a tipped-over churm and cuts a postage stamp out of both elbows, A recent scientific book has the songs of birds set to music and gives a very nico composition on the tom, tit. Now let the author give the roman candle aote of the tom cat in Wagnerian octaves, Detroit Free Press: —“That meteor last week ts re. garded by the Second Adventists as a suro sign that the beginning of the end bas begun, but they bold | their corner lots at tho same old prices.” Sir George Campbell says:—"*As regards toleration, the best of the Mobammedans, tar trom being intoler- ant, are models of toleration, and set an example which we could wish that all Christians would follow.” Burlington Hawk-Eye:—“They tell of a Burlington older, a very explicit and conscientious man, always given to explain himeelf very clearly, who began prayer Jast Thursday night, ‘Paradoxical as it may ap- pear to Thee, 0 Lora!’ ? Eraminer:—Oneo confess to your fashionable doe. tor that you have got a head, a chest, a stomach, a spine or an auricle, and it is all up with you, You get } and, once possessed of a fashionable doctor, there is no power on earth to bring deliverance,” Says an Englishman in the Boston Merald:—“The average Englishman is an extremely unintelligent per- son, according to the American standard ; a1 Enghshman much above the average frequentiy sur- prises a ‘Yankee’ by his plentiful lack of information,” “If the earth’s orbit were much more eccentric than it is‘ all living creatures would die, for the extremes of heat and cold at different periods of the year would be fatal to life.”? This ia what makes Mr, Storey hesitate to lean his head one side for fear the world would tip over. London Quarterly :—‘Who has not realized the character which a triplet of poplars adds to a rural landscape, as they tower above the hedgerows and the lesser timber trees; or tho semblance to a pinnacied ) cathedral pat on by agroup of these in the far dis- tance, as it evertops the oaks and elms and beeches that intervene ?”” Colonel Levi P. Luckey, who was yesterday nominated Secretary of the Territory of Utah, was for some me private secretary to !resident Grant and has lately occupied a responsible position in the Interior Depart. ment. The President was desirous of further compli- menting Mr. Luckey before tho close of his adminis tration, and as a consequence invited him to accept the position to which he was to-day appointed, Modern English geology hotds that all geological changes have been effected by agents now in opera- tion, and that those agents have een working silently at the same rate in all past time; that the great changes of the earth’s crust were produced, not by great convulsions and cataclysme of nature, but by the ordinary agencies of rain, snow, frost, ice and chemical action. “We talk,’ says Mr. Wyse, in his history, ‘about the duty of reclaiming waste lands and making corn spring up where none betore grow. Land bas bigher and nobler offices to perform than to support houses or grow corn; to nourish not so much the body as the mind of man; to gladden the eye with its loveliness and to brace his soul with that strength whieh ts alone to be gained in the solitude of the moors andthe woods.’” Appleton's Journal, speaking of tho fact that fashion sanctions revolations of figure, says of the old- fashioned short dress:—‘That would be a singularly immodest woman who should appear to-day at an | evening party ina dress of this character; but if the fashion were revived and ina boyy of adozen young women there wasone who refused to adopt the style | 6n account of modest scruples would not this fact seem to advertise which of the group had thought most of the subject, which had associated with the garment que-tionable ideas?” Evening Telegram:—“When Judge Miller, of the Su- premo Court of the United States, was accused a iew weeks ago of committing himself to the opinion that Mr. Hayes must bd inaugurated President bo made haste to contradict the report that he bad been guilty of such an Impropricty in view of his judicial office. We shall be pleased to hear a stmilar dental trom Judge Samuel J. Field, of the same court, who pow is accused of committing an impropriety of the same kind in Mr, Tiden's interest, Judge Fieid is an own brother of Mr, David Dudley Field and entertains him asa guest at Washington, Hasho been overcome by David Dudiey’s soft persuasions?’ oven the | But it 1s often as | —_——— TELEGRAPHIC NEWS Krom All Parts of the World. THE EASTERN SITUATION. emma “aoe The Conference Still Endeavoring to Solve the Turkish Problem. THE SULTAN TO TAKE THE FIELD. General Klapka’s Report on the Turkish Army and Resources, GAMBETTA AND THB FRENCH MINISTRY, ——_+__—_ Storm and Confiagration in Spain—Relice of the Polaris. pA ee [DY CABLE To THE HERALD.] Loxvos, Jan, 9, 1877. Still nothing decided from the Conference, and stil) the same state of suspense and anxiety prevails here | People have grown tired of speculating on the result of a meeting which 18 already confessed to be a failure, and bave made up their minds to await some n development in this all-absorbing and perplexing Eastern question with as much pationce as the circum. The spirit of the Turks isin n¢ amped by the apparent odds against them, ai the Sultan bas spoken out like an Ottoman of the olden time, THE SULTAN TO TAKS THE FIELD IX PERSON. The tn! ants of Adrianopie, both Greeks and Turks, have asked authority of the government to tako op arms against their commonenemy. The Sui- ‘an has ordered the Grand Vizier to thank them, say- ing he hoped to be able to preserve the peace, but ia case of war ho expected the co-operation of all bis subjects, without distinction of race or religion, He would lead the army bimself A WORD FOR THE TURKS, A despatch from Constantinople says:—At a meet- ing of the plonipotentiarios on Sunday Count Chau- dordy, the French representative, ts said to have stated } that many of the motives alleged by the Porte for re- fusing the propositions of the Conference appeared to hum very legitimate, and the plenipotentiaries would } Gnd diMeulty in combating them. Ho add would never give countenance to an unjust cal FURKISH ARGUMENTS CONTROVERTKD. Al yesterday's meoting ofthe Conference Signor Corti, the ftaiian Ambassador, in the name of the other Buro- pean plenipotentiaries, controvorted the arguments ad- The Mar. quis of Salisbury supported Signor Corti’s views. The Turaish representatives aevertheless did not, with: draw their refusal to accept the conditions proposed by the Powora They, bowever, took part in the con- versation on the guarantees, cepocially on that rela- tive to an international commission. The’ discussion was animated, and at the close of the sitting was,ad- journed until Wednesday. Itis generally belioved in fow more sitivgs. Lord Salisbury will probably pro- Jong his stay beyond the date for which he bad en- gaged a steamer. LANATION OF THK TURKISH ATTITODR, A Vienna correspondent explains that the Turkish sebbornness i partiy due to the fact thas, while the Turks are aware that modifications have been concedea by tho European Powers, still the proposals as originally presented by the pipotentiaries have not as yet been oflicially withar therefore to save the dignity of the Powers by fluding aform in which to clothe the compromise they are ready to agree to. Lord Salisbury is making the most strenuous efforts In (nis direction, states that Lord Salisbury bas demanded that Chetiet Pasha, the principal actor | in the Bulgarian atroeities, be tried again, Mr. Baring, Seetetary of the British Legation, having reported that the trial was a tarce, THE SERVIAN PARLIAMENT PROROGUED, . A Belgrade telegram announces that the Skuptsching has been prorogued until June, because the Privce and bis Ministers were aot willing to meet itin the present critical circumstances, CONDITION OF THE TCRRISH ARMY. A special despatch frem Vie Generat Klapka bas mepected the arsen stores of Turkey, and im bis report certifies that the Turkish government has a million breech-loaders and accoutrements sufficient for 400,000 army in Balgaria is rapidly in. from all parts of the Empire have arrived im that province within the last eight days. THE TURKISH LEGATION TO BERLIN, A Berlin dospaten says the German government has received no mttmation that Khalil Cherif has been ap- pointed Turkish Ambassador, Tho reports in circula- tion that he had boon objected to were, therefore, pre- re. TCRKISH FINANCIAL EXPERIMENTS. A despatch from Pera states that the Porte bas do creed the abolition of the Ministry of Finance, and iutrast this branch of administration te French- GAMBETTA AND THE FRENCH MINISTRY, The attitude of that section of the Lelt whiten fol. lows the le. Gambetta cause of seme solicitude to the new chictof the inet A despaten from Paris says a denial is given tothe reports thatthe Gambettists im the Chamber of Deputies intend to at- tack the Cobimet, They deelare that they will await the acts ot the government before determining what course to take. STORM AND CONFLAGRATION IN BRAIN, A corres pondcn! Maarid writes, under date of Jan- wary ss follows — sulpazcoa and the neighboriog provinces today a hurricane has raged with terrific violence, The station store at Irun is on Gre, Miles of woods on the mountains are burning ang whole hamlets and herds of eattie have been destroyed, The military of the provinces have beon actively en- gaged arresting gration. RELICS OF THR POLARER It i# announced that the Mrvtush Foreige Office bee forwaried to the government of the Unned States relics of the Pore exped:tion brought to Bugiand by Captan Nerea PHILADELPYIA AND BEADING RAIL. ROAD. Panavwerma, Jan. 8, 1877, At the annual meeting of the stockbolders of the Philadelphia and Readipg Rasiroad to-day resolutions were adopted to the effect that the issue of the $10,000,000 income mortgage bonds, reterred to im the report of the managers, be approved, and that the pro ceeds of such loan, if inthe epmian of the managers the same or any part thereof should be sold, shall ® exclusively applied to the liquidation of the floating debi; (hat the means already taken and suggested ic the report for the fundung of the floating devt of une company be and the same are herety that for thes, a8 well as for all other power: authorives prevics Board of Managers vy (he resolutions pasted at a price annual meeting be and the same are beteby coutimucd, CONSPIRING TO D PRAUD, [BY TELEGKAPH To THE HERALD. | Pereggoene, Va, Jan, §, 1877, Richard Bagby, who arrested on Saturday, ebarged with conspiring to defraud the Citizens’ baad of $10,000, was, thit morning, carried before Judge Mann on a writ of habeas cor, He w bari in the sum oF $15,000, i oer Constantinople thatthe Conference will only hold a .