The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1877, Page 4

4 "NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE XX HERALD, published every, day inthe yenr, DAR ES Ganday excluded) at dollare per an: Gian ais montiia, or five dollurs tor six months, Sunday ‘tree of nostaxe. lott telegraphic despatches must pendivensed Nuw Yorn Weraun y sealed. turned. ————— PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICK—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. NAVLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE, Subscriptions and jsements will be received and for- warded on the «ume as in New York. VOLUME XBL j i AMUSEMENT. FIFTH AVENUE THEAT Two Onraans, iD EQuKstRIaN FRStIVAT. TIVOUL THEATRE.—Y. EAGLE THEATRE.—Pa: BAN FRANCISCO MIN: KELLY & LEON'S MLNS' EGYPTIAN HALL. —Sr: COLUMBIA OPERA II The Adams Express Company run a special news- H paper train over tho Pennsylvania Railroad and its tonnections, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four 4. M, daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition ofthe Hexaxp as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P. M. are that the weather in New York to-day will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, pos- sibly followed by light snow. closed with prices off from the highest of the day. Coal shares were exceptionally stronger. Gold opened at 1061s, declir ft the reception of the Louisiana news reacted to | 10644. Money loaned on call at 7 and 6 per cent. Government bonds were active and rail- way mortgages were steady. Gotp 18 Sri. Gone Down, but has not reached the level of the average pocket. A Brit Was Iyrropucep in the House yes- k stamp nuisance. Bap News rrom New E D.—Governor Lippitt, in his very able message, says that Illiteracy increases in Rhode Island. In His Lecture Last Nicur General Dahl- gren declared the success of Russia in the East to be of the nature of Cl 1 progress, Tue Evipence in the Emma Mine case, pub- lished to-day, will inform parents of a new and pleasing réle in which infunt daughters may ap- | pear. Gy Sis abeMeAM NG ey Warsn, THe Brooxiyy Wirt Be could not legally be sentenced to more than six months’ imprisonment—a fact which is a severe arraign- *ment of the law itself. La which cost a quarter of a million dollars, was sold yesterday | for less than a third of that amount. Moral | (strictly Scriptural)—Before beginning to build count the cost. No Ose Bip Less than par for the new ci bonds yesterday, but the scautiness of the gr eat excess over dollar for dollar in the offers does not justify any hope for a liberal policy regarding expenditures for 1 Tue Report of the chief of the searchers’ de- partment of the New York Post Office proves the wonderful efficiency of the searchers, but it is extremely uncomplimentary to the carefulness of correspondents. A quarter of a million of letters have been sent to the Dead Letter Office, and of misdirected letters more than four thou- sand were from banks. Carrars Eans, engineer of the Mississippi River improvement at South Pass, has accom- plished the first stage of his undertaking by deepening the channel through the bar to twenty feet and for a width of two hundred feet. The success which has attended this important work Teflects great credit on Captain Eads and en- courages the hope he entertains of securing @ channel thirty feet deep for the largest vessels. With such a channel New Orleans will take her place among the chief commercial ports of the United States, and a new era of prosperity opens for the Mississippi Va The other passes will natura volume of the river water is directed through the South Pass, and we may therefore look for important changes in their condition whieh will eventually lead to their obliteratio navigable | thannels. This improvement gives New Orleans | ® magnificent outlet to the sea; but it also | renders the operation of blockading the Mis- tissippi mouth by & hostile fleet much « formerly. Tue Weatner.—Clear and cold weather has succeeded the warmth and cloudiness that pre- vailed during the past few days along the Atlan- tie coast from Portland to Norfolk, Va. When the storm centre of Monday moved into the British provinces it was quickly followed by a rapid increase of pressure. This high area had moved from the northwest toward Tenn ‘ Thence it crossed the mountains and passed in a | northeasterly direction into Vermont and where it was central last evening. The w has deseended from Dakota to tho Jower Missouri Valley, where it now forms the centre of a large area of light snowfall, extend- | ing from Cheyenne to Lake Huron. As it advances today through the Ohio Valley its influence on our local weather will be marked by increasing cloudiness, slightly rising tem- perature, possibly followed by light snow. In | the South and West generally clear or partly cloudy weather prevails, but will change to cloudy, with snow and rain, to-day, to be followed again by cold and clear weather. The morn- ing cold in the West, North and along the Lawrence Valley has been very severe. Yester- day the temperature at Fort Garry was recorded et 28 degrees below zero. At Nashville, Tenn., | Adegrees below, at Cincinnati 4 below, and ui | Montreal, Canada, 14 degrees below zero, The | at New Orleans was only 28 de- sqveee and at Mobile only 20 above zero, r than | | and never sacrificed principles for personal | advantage. | to any | profess to know; but we venture to say that | can party; that he would scorn to be one of ‘NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Lat Phase of the Hayes Intrigue. Wo print elsewhere a singular story from the Graphic, which pretends to give the latest conclusions of the republican politi- cians in Washington concerning Governor Hayes. We take leave to doubt the correct- ness of at least some parts of this tale. ‘That Mr. Hewitt should have made s mess of his interview with the President is prob- able enough. In fact, it is old news. He fell into trouble with General Grant almost as soon as he had talked with him, and for the reason that—not to put too fine a point on it—he ‘‘blabbed.” The President spoke with him in confidence ; he evidently dis- cussed with him, very frankly, the political situation, and Mr. Hewitt is reported to have said here in New York that what the Presi- dent said was very honorrble to him. We judge that General Grant's conversation with Mr. Hewitt was an ingenuous, honora- ble und unreserved discussion of the politi- cal situation, without reference, in the Pres- ident’s mind, to the effect that situation, if it were continued, or if subsequent circum- stances should not changeit, must have upon the decision of the Presidential election. That is to say, we suppose the President spoke as an impartial bystander, and not as ® partisan politician. It is not to Mr. Hewitt’s credit that he was unable to put himself into the same impartial attitude as’ the President. Nosooner had he left the White Honso than he began to make known to his party friends, here and in Washing- ton, that there was a better chance for Mr. Tilden; that the President had committed himself to a view which would elect Mr. Tilden, and soon. Now it is conceivable that the President was considering, not ways and means to elect Mr. Tilden, but the actual situation of the disputed States ; and it is conceivable that he should resent Mr. Hewitt’s interpretation of his remarks ; as in fact he did, and to so unreasonable a degree that but a few days later he com- mitted the blunder of calling himself a “representative of his party.” In plain language, anger at Mr. Hewitt’s misuse of | his confidence led him to the other extreme. That Messrs. Chandler, Cameron and Morton, alarmed at the widely bruited in- trigue of Governor Hayes or his friends with certain Southern democratic politi- cians, have taken measures to secure their own positions by written or other sufficient guarantees from hii, seems to us not un- likely, on ths condition that Mr. Hayes has been weak enough to submit to their coer- cion. About that we are unable to judg 3 Mr. Hayes’ silences are likely to be famous in this campaign, yet less famous than the confidential utterances which are reported of him. If one may believe what one hears Mr. Hayes, like Mr. Orator Puff, has two tones to his voice. We are assured on one hand that he has satisfied certain Southern democrats that his administration will be pleasing to them, and on the other hand that Messrs. Chandler, Cameron and Mor- ton are heppy and contented with his en- gagements to them, There is something bewildering about all this. It has the effect of one of Hermann’s best tricks, where you think ,you see what you evi- dently don not see, and end only with the pleasing certainty that somebody has been cheated. The (/raphic's paragraph indeed professes to clear up even this difficulty, Mr. Hayes, according to that journal, has en- gaged to retain Messrs. Chandler, Cameron, Morton and company in his administration; he has made them promise to cut adrift the carpet-baggers of the South, and let the Southern States enjoy local self-government; and he on his part has assured his allies that Messrs. Schurz, Bristow, Halstead and Curtis shall be sent away to foreign parts, where they can we no influence on publio affairs, This isWvery pretty arrangement. When the ingenuous Hermann ‘‘explains” one of his tricks the more ingenuous youth in the audience rejoice, because they think it is now all plain; and yet they are no nearer knowing how Hermann did it than before. It isso with this triple arrangement. It looks clear and satisfactory at first blush, but the more you look at it the more puz- zling it gets. Messrs. Schurz and company are to besentabroad, forsooth. Was it, then, only fora part of the spoils these patriots fought the South so ardently? Mr. Halstead is to go to Peru, we suppose; Mr. Curtis to Brazil, perhaps; Mr. Schurz is to go to Paris; Mr. Bristow to St. Petersburg or Vienna, as he may prefer. Of course it is all nonsense. Public men of character di not seek place, but influence. The gentle- men named could not without disgrace accept office abroad from Mr. Hayes and leave the home administration in charge of men whose principles and policy are hate- fulto them. Mr. Hayes would insult them if he made such a proposition, Of course that part of the story which | relates to Mr. Conkling is ridiculous, Senator Conkling is not and never was a place hunter. In this respect he belongs to the older and worthier class of our states- men.; men who acted strictly within party lines ; who were ambitious of influence in the country, but who were never spoilsmen That Mr. Conkling should be left out of an intrigue which is unworthy and has the spoils of office for its object does not surprise us—that is a matter of course; but that he was ever a party bargain to “count in” Tilden or to “count in” Hayes is preposterous, His whole character, all his conduct during a long and conspicuous public life, make it impossible. What Senator Conk- ling’s present attitude may be we do not he is loyal to the best spirit of the republi- aconspiracy to ‘count in” any candidate, either Hayes or Tilden, and that he will be found to be on the side of honor and honesty, of constitutional action and oppos- ing every intrigue or bargain by whatever side it may be made. If he did otherwise he would be false to all his career, One curious circumstance we remark in this latest phase of the Hayes intrigue, as in all which have preceded it. The men en- gaged in it donot appear to consider the question, who was really clocted. Yet that | is the most important, the only important | question in this inatter. Whoever was | | ment. The Insurance Department is with- tairly elected, be it Hayes or Tilden, ought to be, and we still think will be, inaugurated, To accomplish that end no intrigue is neces- sary. A dozen honest men can settle that by an examination of the votes in the disputed States. We believe the honest men in ghe two houses of Con- gress will settlé it before the 14th of February. When it is decided we shall know who ought to be and will be Presi- dent, and it will need no bargains with Messrs. Chandler, Cameron and Morton, or with Southern democrats 7 no promises as to a policy here or in the South. It is curi- ous that whatever phase this Hayes intrigue has assumed the carpet-bag governments always go to the wall, and we rejoice at that. It shows, at any rate, that Mr. Hayes does not contemplate a continuance of bayonet rule in the South. So far, good. But we repeat that bargains cannot and will not make the next President. Whoever was elected must be put in ; and if in any State, as in Louisiana, there has been such mal- practice and corruption by both sides that no legitimate result was reached, then the constitution points out the next proper course, which is that each house shall im- mediately proceed to choose one of the two officers—one the President, the other the Vice President. Dissolving Views of Reform in Turkey. That Turkey should be able to hold out against the acceptance of a programme of re- form agreed upon by England, France, Italy, Austria, Germany and Russia cer- tainly puts the amiable disposition if not the helplessness of Europe in presence of the so-called ‘Sick Man” in a quaint light. He who was classed as the invalid of the Con- tinent in 1853, and who has been thought to be going down ever since, now maintains his opinion of his own rights with suth tenacity and success that all the Powers | combined yield before him a programme upon which they had agreed as the one that he must necessarily adopt; and he even respectfully invites their representa- tives to adjourn and go home, while he makes fresh preparations to reform himself on the basis of a docu- ment, a year old, that he formerly treated with the same sovereign contempt with which he now treats the Conference. It is now proposed to bow the Conference out with the suggestion that the Porte is ready to reform itself on the basis of tho Andrassy note, In this respect the Porte confesses itself to be like the gentleman who wasin favor of the Maine law but opposed to its enforcement. The Andrassy note involves the same scheme of re- forms proposed by the Conference; but the Conference suggests a method of giving them practical effect, which the An- drassy note did not do. Hence the prefer- ence for the note. Of course if the Con- ference adjourns on this invitation and the Powers take no steps to enforce their ad- vice that will be the end of the whole story for the present, and the next time Russia moves it will probably be without concert with other Powers. and Bank Depart- ments. The case of the Continental Life Insur- ance Company was before the courts at Albany yesterday, and an investigation into the affairs of the company was ordered. The proceedings serve to further illustrate the worthlessness of the Insurance Department under its late and present management as a means of protecting the interests of the public and enforcing compliance with the laws. The Continental's official statement ought atgany @me within the past few years to have satisfied an efficient superintendent that the company needed investigation, and an investigation capably and faithfully made must have led to the winding up of the institution under the authority of the department. Instéad of this the company continued its business until its managers were prepared to close its doors, announce its bankruptcy and select its receiver. In this we have only a repetition in the Insur- ance Department of the suspicious action of the Bank Department in the case of the Third Avenue and other bankrupt savings banks, which for some reason were allowed to close their’ doors at their own time and then to make choice of their receivers and shnt out investigation into their rascalities, It is Governor Robinson's duty to insist upon an immediate reform in these two im- portant departments. He should send in to the Senate, without any delay, the names of two unexceptionable persons for superin- tendents of banks and insurance. Both places are vacant. Mr. Ellis, whose incom- petency and neglect of duty, to use the mild- est terms, are notorious, holds over until his successor is appointed in the Bank Depart- The Insurance out ahead, Mr. Chapman having resigned ayearago. If the republican Senate refuses to confirm the nominees the Governor should at once suspend Mr. Ellis and the acting head of the Insurance Departmentand have them tried on charges of neglect of duty. It isa crime against the people to suffer these departments to remain under their present management, and the Goy- ernor should do his duty in the matter and leave the responsibility at the door of the Senate. The Contempt Cases, Subpmnaes were issued yesterday for bringing Mr. Orton before the House and Mr. Runyon before the Senate to answer charges of contempt. The propricty of this action in the case of Mr. Runyon will not be questiongd. Either house of Congress has power to summon witnesses and compel them to testify or punish them if they refuse, We know of no reason why this rule should not be rigorously enforced in the case of Mr. Runyon. The case of Mr. Orton stands on somewhat different ground. He is required not merely to give testimony, but to deliver up the original copies of telegrams. ‘These tele- grams are not in the custedy of Mr. Orton, but of the Associated Press Company. Mr. Orton is only the servant, having no au- thority beyond what they choose to give him. If Congress thought it necessary to arrest anybody tor the non-production of telegrams it should have been the ofticers who are really responsible, and not a servant The New Political Trouble in Louis- iana. Fortunately there was no bloodshed in New Orleans yesterday, although a few ran- dom shots were fired and returned. Nicholls issued a proclamation in the afternoon ex- horting the crowd in the streets to disperse and to avoid any breaches of the peace. Unless General Augur should receive new instructions there will be no interference by the federal troops except to suppress actual violence. The success of the Nicholls party is staked on their ability to control their followers and prevent breaches of the peace. From the moment that General Augur should inter- vene to defend Packard the prospects of Nicholls would go into a fatal eclipse. Nicholls did a wise act in issuing his proclamation, and a still wiser one when he ordered the militia under command of Generals Ogden and Penn to with- draw and retire to their homes. It was a perilous experiment to permit them to be called out, for had they been resisted the streets of New Orleans would have run with blood. luckily there was no resistance. They marched to the Court House, gained easy possession and enabled the democratic judges to take quiet possession of the bench, They proceeded to the State Arsenal, which they ‘captured with- out resistance, but found less than a thousand stand of arms, the Kellogg govern- ment having removed the greater part of the contents of the arsenal, Their next move- ment was against the Central police sta- tion, where they found allies instead of opponents, The friends of Nicholls had thus gained posgession of every important point excepting the State House, which they surrounded, but made no attempt to capture, The Packard party in the State House had made preparations to resist, and the Nicholls party were too prudent to bring on a collision. But in the course of the afternoon Warmoth and his friends withdrew, leaving the Leg- islature without a quorum, and it then ceased to be of much importance whether the Packard party occupied the State House ornot. Packard could do nothing as Gov- ernor with the police and the courts in the hands of his opponents, and he had but an empty shadow of authority when shut up in the State House with a Legislature which could transact no business for want of a quorum. Matters may assume a different aspect to- day ; but if there should be no disturbance of the peace and the federal troops should not interfere we do not see how Packard can better his condition. He is understood to have applied to President Grant yesterday for recognition and support, but it seems unlikely that the President will ac- cede to his request. In the first place, the Legislature is in session, and the federal constitution authorizes the President to act in such acase on the application of a Governor only when the Legislature is not in session. In the next place, President Grant has publicly ex- pressed his determination not to interfere until after the committees now engaged in investigating, the Louisiana election shall have compfeted their task. If there should be no breach of the peace the federal troops will remain passive spectators, and before the end of the week Nicholls may be in full possession of the executive authority of the State. A cordon of his militia surrounds the State House, permitting people to come out but nobody to go in, and in a few days the Packard Legislature will either desert or be starved out. There isno reason to doubt how this dispute will end if the federal government keeps hands off. . Pauper Corporations, From the reports of the city horse car companies received at Albany it appears that they are nearly all paupers and on the verge of bankruptcy. Only two or three muke any money, and the terrible rule with the more flourishing and greatly patronized lines is that their expenditures are in excess of their receipts or balance them witha nicety that has the appearance of an interposition of Divine Providence. It does not appear, however, that any of these corporations are thoroughly tired of this ruinous business, There is no whisper anywhere of an inten- tion to wind up and sell out, and the devo- tion to the public welfare that is implied in the readiness of these companies to go on indefinitely losing money in order to carry the people of this city to their domestic hearths is ono of the must touching circum- stances in human history. We just want to whisper in the ears of these people the secret of their bad condition. It is that their lines cost them too much. It appears that there are altogether one hun- dred and twenty-six miles of railroad in use for passenger traffic within the city limits, and the aggregate cost, excepting five miles of the Fourth avenue line, the cost of which is not given, is $24,144,558. ‘This includes the Elevated Railroad. It may startle the public to find what admirable roads they are—that is, judging their quality by thei price, The Elevated Railroad, for instance, cost to build and equip it a trifle over $300,000 a mile. This, however, is but a “bagatelle to the cost of the Third avenue line, which is $538,000 per mile—more than half a million dollars for each one of eight miles, It will astonish the people less to know that these lines do not carn any money when it is seen on what ao feartul original outlay thoy have to pay earnings. The reason this road cost so much is that the spikes with which the rails are fastened down are set with diamonds, There is a diamond the size of a hickory nut in the head of every spike— or somewhere else. ‘lhe average cost of the construction and equipment of all the city railroad lines is $200,000 per mile. With all the stealing that has been done on the steam railroads of this country their average cost is $60,000 a mile, or $140,000 a mile less than is put down as the cost of construction and equipment for the city lines. It is estimated that the cost of the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad in cash would be $35,000 a mile; yet it costs | to put down rails in our streets and supply | them With broken down horses and the sec- ond hand cars of the univetse $200,000 a who has no power to act against their direc- tions, mile! Sharp financiers in this town. Duings at Albany. Although very little business was done at Albany yesterday, indications were not lack- ing of a disposition to pour into the Legis- lature the customary flood of crude and un- desirable bills. Ferry bills, gas bills, bank bills and the like, inconsiderately drawn and rushed forward at the commencement of a session may fairly be regarded as finger posts on the lobby highway, pointing in the direction of legislative blackmail. It might be useful to mark where such measures originate, especially when they are aimed at rich corporations, Very little legislation is needed this year, and such laws as are demanded in the public interest are such as require to be framed with care and judg- ment. The banking and insurance laws need a thorough revision; the propositions of the Municipal Charter Commission will require action; canal legislation is ur- gent; the taxation and assessment laws should be revised and amended, and there are other subjects which’ will prop- erly claim the attention of our legislators. But the less legislative tinkering that is at- tempted the better will the people be satis- fied. A brief anda business session this year would be a novelty and would encour- age people to hope that the recent constitu- tional amendments have secured a substan- tial reform, Public Trusteeship. It is an event so painfully common for private citizens intrusted with the admin- istration of estates to prove delinquent and betray the confidence reposed in them that a charge, though only of negligence, made in a similar connection against a pub- lic officer attracts an attention of which it might otherwise not be deemed worthy. In the report of a referee made to a court in regard to the estate of a deceased person, which was in the hands of Mr. Algernon 8. Sullivan as Public Administra- e it is held that Mr. Sullivan, as the law- ful custodian of the estate, is responsible for its safe keeping, and that he must make good a loss which occurred through the fail- ure of a bank, even though it was the bank in which the deceased person had himself placed his money. If this involves simply the point of the safe keeping of the money there is no doubt that it was left in a very unsafe place; but if the question should arise as to how a public officer is to know that an institution like the Third Avenue Savings Bank is unsafe the responsibility will fall upon the shoulders of Governor Tilden rather than upon those of Mr. Sullivan. If Mr, Sulli- van inquired to ascertain whether that in- stitution was safe he found sworn reports which must have given him the highest opinion of its condition. How could he know that they were perjuries? If he went further he found that these reports were ac- cepted by Governor Tilden’s Bank Superin- tendent, and, though that officer knew the bank to be in a bad way, how could Mr. Sul- livan know of what the officer knew except by the documentary evidence which made it appear all right? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ben Hill, Jr., is twenty-six. Sumner’s friends favor Congressman Hoar, «Princess Louise is said to have designed the Arctic medal Bayard Taylor once, ina lecture, defended the Rus- siaus against the Poles. Collector Simmons, of Boston, believes that S:nator Boutwell will be re-elected, Senator Wilham Sharon, of Novada, left this city last evening for Washington. ‘Six thousand men who do businessin San Francisco live over the bay !n Oakland, The electoral vote will be counted on Ash Wednes- day, which is St. Valentine's Day, James Fisk, Sr., is delivering temperance lectures and making patent hornes in Vermont, A despatch from New Orleans announces that Jadgo Arthur Saucier, of the Sixth district, died yesterday, Protessor Seelyo reiterates suggestions that he would not like to be United States Senator from Massachu- setts, Gail Hamilton, with Mrs. J. G. Blaine, will arrive in ‘Washington this week. They will receive on Wednos- days. Sir Edward Thornton, the English Minister at Wash- ington, Lady Thornton and the Misses Thornton dress very plainly. Miss Carpenter, daughter of the ex-Senator, woars TELEGRAPHIC NEWS EUROPE'S KNOTTY PROBLEM. Ths Diplomatists Sill Vainly Trying to Stave Off the Inevitable War, OTTOMAN INTRACTABILITY. The Sublime Porte will Tolerate No Privileged Provinces. ROUMANIA THROWS OFF HER VASSALAGE, Russian View of the Situation—A Plea for the Greek Provinces, ANEW BONAPARTIST CRUSADE Paul De Cassagnac on the War Path—Bold Onslaught on the Republic. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD,] Lonpon, Jan, 10, 1877. The Conference has adjourned to Thursday, to meet again with as little chance of a definite agreement as ever. The plenipotentiaries will continue thoir nego- tiations privately or informally, and lovers of peace willthus be led to hope that, after all, the dreadful calamity of war may be averted. But in the mean- time the preparations for.war goon as vigorously as ever on both sides, Russia decides to raise a new Joan, Turkey continues to purchase war material, and Roumania, doubtless advised by Russia, announces her intention to throw off her dependence on the Porte, And yet there aro atili some sanguine people who have hopes of ‘‘a peaceful solution.” APPEALS TO TURKISH REASON. A despatch from Constantinople says:—‘At Mon- day's sitting of the Conference the European plonipo- tentiaries pointed out that several points of the pro- posals of the Powers formed part of the Andrassy note, and the Turkish representatives indicated their willingness to enter into discussion on the basis of that note. It is believed that at to-day’s sitting the plent- Ppotentiaries will mako-a last appeal to the Turkish representatives to discuss the proposals of the Powers” PROBABLE DEMAND FOR ADJOURNMENT. Another despatch received on Monday says:—‘“‘It is considered possible that at to-day’s sitting of the Conferenco it will be adjourned at the instanco of the Turkish delegates, who are desirous to take steps toward an understanding on the basis of the Andramy note’? ADJOURNED TO THURSDAY. It is announced that the next meeting of the Confer. } ‘ence has been postponed to Thursday, at the request of the Turkish Minister, who will hold a Cabinet council to-morrow to draw up a now project on the basis of the Andrassy note. WHAT 18 THOUGHT IN RUSSIA. official quarters the fact that no decision was reached in Monday’s sitting of the Conforence ts regarded as affording further proof that the Porte seeks to use the new Turkish constitution as a means of avoiding com- pliance with the demands of the Powers. Russia bas reached the limit of concession, and tho other Powere have declared their determination to uphold the pro- gramme of the Conference. Hitherto no pressure hag been exerted upon the Porte, nor does the present ac- tion of the plenipotentiaries bear such a character. Nevertheless, the Powers, while couching their repre- sentations in the most moderate terms, will firmly up- hold their demands.’” A WORD VOR THE GREEK PROVINCES, General Ignatieff, the Russian Plenipotentiary, is stated to have recently suggested that the reforms pro- posed by the Powers be extended to Macedonia, Epirus and Thessaly. It is understood Lord Salisbury, the English Pientpotentiary, replied that such a pro- posal did not come within tho scope of his instruc- tions. THE PORTE WILL HAVE NO PRIVILEGED PROVINCE, A despatch from Constantinople says:—‘'The Phare du Bosphore (newspaper) declares that inasmucd ag all the articles of the Conference programme are framed with the view to the delimitation or establish. ment of a privileged province, theretore, even if the Powers withdraw four-fifths of their demands, the Porte would still persist in its objections,” USELESS NEGOTIATION, A despatch from Constantinople says that at Mon. a turquoise blue mantalasse over a black veivot skirt. and a white velvet hat. Major Wright, formerly of General Bucll’s staff, is managing the Louisville Courier-Journal during Mr, ‘Watterson’s attendance upon Congress. Protessor Barff, of the London University, claims to have hit upen a process of oxidizing iron so as to pre- vent corrosion under any circumstances, The only foreign coins current in Paris and which are at prosont accepted at the public banks aro those of Belgium, Italy, Switzorland and Greece, Mr. Bowles thinks that Mr. Hayes will not havea chanco to make a Cabinet, but that if he does he will select such men as Evarts, Bristow and Schurz. A cable despatch from Rome, under date of yes- terday, »snnounces the death of Signor Luigi Mastat, The deceased was a nephew of the present Pope. Evening ‘Yelegram:—*“Tho salary bill propysed to is Feduce#the income of some of the Treasury 0 that point whore the keeping of a private cue in a billiard room will bo impossible."’ ‘The inscription on Lord Chatham’s monument in the Guildha'l records the curious fact that under his ad- ministration commerce was supposed to have been “united with and made to flourish by war.’ Evening Telegram:—“Blue Jeans Williams’ was in- augurated yesterday as Governor of Indiana, display- ing to the entire world an example of a man who is honest despito the bad cut of his pantaloons.”* Fun (snow-sbovellers):-—Tom—“Ilullea, Bill, how's your mate Jack?" Bill—Oh, ‘o's dead, poor old Jack ie, through catchin’ a cold a-sweepin’ up the snow,” Tom— “Poor chap, hi am sorry. Ah well! ’e won't ‘ave to sweep up no snow where ’o’s gone to,’? In tho Russian communes the Jot of each family is In proportion to the number of males or of married couples; and there is a greater average number of marriages 10 Russia than in any other European coun. try, while tho births are double those of France. A despatch from Honesdale, Pa, says that the Hon. F. M. Crane, one of the oldest members of thé Bar of that county, and who served several terms in the State Senate and Honso of Ropresontatives, died sud- denly on Monday evening of neuralgia of tho heagt, It is stated that the English government contemplatog offering to Sit Arthur Guinness a peerage, and the title selected—Laron Cong—is even mentioned, The Guin- ness brewing firm having dissolved, Sir Arthur receives $5,000,000 tor his share. His income has heretotore ‘been $250,000 a year, “It seoms quite probable,” says an Knglish writer, “that had the Albigenses been as warlike as they wero cultivated and enlightened, wo inight now be dating the era of the Reformation from the twelfth instead of the sixteenth century, and so far modern civilization might now be four hundred years older and better or ganized than it is.” ‘Ybe University of Edinburgh permits country people to study at home in the books used by the students in | the preparatory classes, and to send auswers by mul, which are corrected and returned, Many intelligent ladies, some of them beiog married, and some of them ‘day’s sitting of tho Conference the Porte suggested that commission composed of Ottoman subjects bo substi. ‘ted for the proposed international commission, ‘The European plenipotentiaries refused to listen to this suggestion, Lord Salisbury and General Ignatieff “have postponed their departure until Monday, This will give the Turks another week. x A HAUGHTY TURK. Midhat Pacha at his interview with Lord Salisbury declared that Europe was foolish to continue to annoy Turkey, as a got | war might thereby resuit, ROUMANIA THROWS OFF IRR VASSALAGR, Roumania, it is said, has declared to the Porte that particlo seven of the new constitution violates her rights. She consequently declares herself released from her vassalage, throwing the responsibility of the step upon the lorte, ’ SERVIA NEGOTIATING SKPARATRLY. A Berlin despatch says the National Zeitung states that Servia 18 nogotiating for peace directly with the Porte on the vasis of the starus quo and the mainte. nange of the Treaty of l’aris. The Porte is favorable to this scheme. Tho National Zeitung says the Ger- ma} Ambassador at Constantinople is about to be re- and no successor will be appointed, TURKISH PREPARATION. Aj telegram from Antwerp says that a large firm thefe has concluded @ contract with the Porte tor de- spajehing to Turkey within three days 2,500tons of gun bartels, of the kind known as Eadeau’s patent, THY GOVERNORSIIP OF BULGARIA. 1f is announced officially here that the Porte has agahn pressed Nubar Pacha to accept the Governorship of bulgaria, and Nubar 1s disposed to accept. A NEW RUSSIAN LOAN. despatch from Berlin says it is announced that, wihether there be war or not, the Russian government prbposes raising a new Jonn in the spring. ANEW BONAPARTIST CRUSADE, ‘ho Bonapartists ia France, or a portion of them, em to have determined upon a new plan of opera- Feeling that inaction means death to their ciluse and that every day of rest for the Republic ena- ips it to girike deeper root into the soil of Franco, dof Wre-tsiarvatty determined to keep it ina state of continual strife and turmoil, Their only hope, if they have any, 18 m ceaseless activity and agitation, and if they can find no other way to kcep themselves and their cause before the people they can at all times provoke a prosecution in the Jaw courts, The reck. Jous and mendacious bravo of tho Parisian press, Paul do Cassagnac, is the pioncer of the new crusade against republicanism, and he opens the attack in cb: tic fashion, DE CASSAGNAC ON TH WARPATH. A despatch from arts informs us that Le Pays yes. terday evening published an articio signed “Cas: nac,’’ insolently attacking the government and prophesying the return of the Prince Imperial wo France in three years. PROBABLE PROBECUTION, As a matter of course this will result in a prosecu- being governesses, take advantage of this system, and | they will go up to tho yearly oxamination, tion, and this will bo used by the Bonapartists as @ 4 means of propagating their principles, Their cause ie {# Atolegram from St. Petersburg says:—“From sem!- ;