The New York Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1877, Page 4

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WALLACK’S THEATR: TIVOLI THEATRE.—Va: EAGLE THEATRE.—Pastowine,_ SAN FRANCISCO MINSTI is KELLY & LEON'S MINS' EGYPTIAN WALL. THEATRE COMIQUE. OLYMPIC THEATRE. NOTICK TO COUNTRY Dé ‘The Adams Express Company run a special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, leaving Jersoy City at a quarter past four 4. M. dally and Sunday, carrying the regular edition ofthe Heratp as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M. and Washingto: one P. M, ‘ALERS, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and cloudy, possibly with rain or snow, followed toward night by increasing cold and clear- ing weather. Watt Street Yesterpay.—Stocks were lower, and speculation was largely represented by Lake Shore, Illinois Central and Western Union. Government bonds were steady, rail- way mortgages in fair demand and State bonds in more than usual request. Gold opened and closed at 106, with sales meanwhile at 1057. Money on call was supplied at 6 a 3 per cent. Sronmws or Suirweecks continue to be un- pleasantly frequent. Read ‘(Three Shaughrauns.” ‘Tre Wonperrvt Caseof the “‘One-Hoss Shay” found a parallel in Virginia yesterday. Read “Jumping the Rail.” AyorueR Divorce’ Suit, presenting in ad- vance the moral peculiar to such cases, is occu- pying the Supreme Court. We Pusisn To-Day ‘ydney Scheme,” with the hint that it is just as cheap, and proba- bly a great deal safer, to go West. Our Desrarcues From Soutu Ammrica indi- tate that Ecuador will probably fulfil the mani- fest destiny of the Southern republics by falling into the hands of the revolutionists. Tue Onsections OrrereD in court yesterday to rapjd transit were about as serious. as those made in the last century against the introduction of stoves into churches. But the cold church is a thing of the past. Tue Boarp or Trap dock question. Had some facturers been consulted as experts the proceed- ings might have been more intelligent and con- clusive than they were. terday discussed the OM THE LDS shows that the strikers are intimidating their successors, in spite of the invoked protection of the law. Else- where their action would be considered riotous. Is common law inoperative in Greene county ? Ovr Desratcu Ovr Detamep Report of the meeting of the Brooklyn Bridgo trustees is full of interest, but the most satisfactory features of the proceedings were the postponement, on motion of Mayor Ely, | of the award of the cable contract, and the sug- gestion that the government should be asked to detail an engineer without whose consent no ma- terial could be accepted. Tur DeveLorments in the Jersey ferry con- spiracy case are of interest as proving that checks and balances cannot make two thieves as useful as one honest man. The pay of the two men charged with the fraud would have secured a single man of character who could | have discharged the duties of both. Premiums on honesty are not 2s popular among business men as fancied prec inst frand; but it is none the less a fact that they are cheaper as well as more business like. y's Exrianation of his action nds Ke resonable, The regarding limit ns indling wood in:uin- | | Mr. Colfax on the Electoral Votes. Mr. Schuyler Colfax recently and some- what rashly wrote to a republican journal that the Vice President has the right and duty under the constitution to count the electoral votes, and thatjthe two houses were to be present only as witnesses. We may say of Mr. Colfax what Mr. Lincoln said at Gettysburg—it matters little what he says now compared with what he did. Mr. Col- fax was once Vice President ; in that capa- city, having sworn to do his duty under and according to the constitution, it became his duty to take part in the count of the elec- toral votes. What hethen did and omitted to do we take it for granted he did and omitted in accordance with his oath; for if he then violated the constitution he would have no right to speak now without first making humble confession of his previous error. As the question is now before the public we have taken the trouble to look through the journals of Congress to ascertain what Mr. Colfax then, in 1873, said and did. We fancy that Mr. Colfax will regret presently that he did not himself take this trouble. The two houses met on February 12, 1873, in the Hall of Representatives, and Mr. Colfax having, as is usual, taken the chair, opened the proceedings with a declaration which, if he really belicves what he wrote the other day, must give him a shudder. He said:—‘“The Senate and House of Rep- resentatives having met under the provis- ions of the constitution for the purpose of opening, determining and declaring the votes cast for President and Vice Presi- dent of the United States for the term of four years, commencing on the 4th of March next, and it being my duty, in the presegce of both houses thus convened, to open.the votes, I now proceed to discharge that duty.” The journal adds that ‘the Vice President then proceeded to open and hand to the tellers the votes of the several States, commencing with the State of Maine.” This language and action of Mr. Colfax would seem sufficiently to show that his Inter opinion as to the exclusive powers of the Vice President over the electoral votes is, like Senator Wright’s the other day, so clearly an afterthought, growing out of a perhaps natural but nevertheless discredit- able anxiety for the success of his own party, that we might leave him in peace at South Bend if there were not good reason to enlighten the public mind on a question which he, as well as some other republican politicians, have lately endeavored to muddle, The plain truth is that Mr. Colfax never imagined that the Vice President had any such rights as he now claims for him until he also imagined that Mr. Hayes’ inaugura- tion depended upon persuading the people that he had such rights. Well, then, Vice President Colfax having declared the duty of the houses and his own, under the con- stitution, there arose at the very beginning of the proceedings a demand by members of the joint meeting that certain things should be done, none of which the two houses, if on his later theory they were only ‘‘wit- nesses” and ‘without controlling power | over the Vice President,” had any right to | demand, and which he should have resisted. For instance, when the first vote—that of Maine—was opened Senator Trumbull said, “I think the Governor's certifi- cate should be read as the evidence of the election of the electors ;” and Mr. Colfax, instead of telling Mr. Trumbull to mind his own business, meekly replied, ‘The tellers will report the certificate.” When this ac- cordingly had been done, and other votes were opened, Mr. Colfax uttered these remarkable words :—“‘If there be no objec- tion the tellers will merely state the fact in regard to the attestation of the Governor, subject to the demand of any Senator or Representative for the reading of the certificate in full” Yet Mr. Colfax now has the audacity to pretend that the two houses are “only witnesses,” and that they have no “controlling power” over the Vice President. All through the proceedings in joint meeting he was equally ready to sub- mit to the slightest wish of nny member of either house. We do not quote further, because it is useless and because in other instances he might say that he was acting under the twenty-second joint rule, which was then in force. We prefer to rest on his own words and acts, declared by himself to be under the constitution. But we do not care to drop Mr.:Colfax without calling the attention of the people to the enormity of his attempt to pettifog on this vitally important question, and to mislead the minds of those with whom he has credit as a man of truth and honor. Sheriff has a business standing as well as an official one in these matters. Should any bond | fail to prove good in the event ance of the person in whose the Sheriff would become for the amount. He hias therefore an undoubted right to satisfy himeeclf that the bondsanen ac cepted by his predecessor are still good, and the prevailing uncertainty about the business stand- ing of almost every one justities the Sheriti's prudence. r it was given rsonally responsible Tur Wratner.--An extraordinary inerease of | pressure and fall of temperature follows the advance of the depression from the westward, The latter has now reached the Alleghanics in the form of an elongated trough, and is attended by heavy snow in the lake region and rain in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. ‘The low barometer will probably pass northeastward between t Catekills and the lakes, causing a temporary ri in temperature and possibly rain on the Atlantic coast, but will be followed by rapidly increasing high winds and intense cold. In tho | Northwest the lowest morning temperature re swinter has been ‘at Fort G where it fell to 84 and $24 w@o. This arca of cold will extend ward and southward very rapidly, and may cause heavy mows inthe Middle and Eastern Statcs, | weather will attend its advance after ion has moved to Nova Scotia and the the mouth of the St. Lawrence. At present @ gen- eral cloudiness prevails, except in the Sotith Atlantio States, with light rain on the Gulf coast. The weather in New York to-day will be warm and cloudy, possibly with rain or snow, followed toward night by increasing cold and clearing On the proper and constitutional settle- ment of this question may depend the peace and prosperity of the country. It is of the utmost importance that the people shall be fully and correctly informed as to the methods which are and have been held to be constitutional, because if they know the truth they will acquiesce in the proper method. If they are misled they will be dissatisfied and may become the prey of demagogues who will incite them to dissatisfaction and resistance. And here comes Mr. Colfax, once Vice President of the United States, and over his own name, in a conspicuous party journal, positively asserts what his own official language and action show to be untrue, He deliberately attempts to misinform and mislead the people in this way for the sake of a partisan advantage; because he thinks that if he can succeed in producing a false impression on the public mind he may array public influ- ence on the side of what his own acts as Vice President clearly show to be the wrong course, There is neither patriotism nor statesmanship in such conduct as this. It is simply disgraceful, and it is his humble and discreditable contribution to an attempt | now persistently making by a handful of | republican politicians to mislead the public mind upon a subject but little understood | by the people at large, in order that they may have the public support for a plot to “count in” Mr. Hayes, whether he was fairly elected or not. If Mr. Tlayes was elected President he will be inaugurated. If he was not he ought not to be put in by ao falsification of the records such as Mr. Colfax attempts, On that question honest republicans are more and more agreed all over the country, as Witness such utterances as that of the re- publican Governor of Maine, who says in his Message:—-‘‘A hented Presidential con- test has not been followed, as is customary, by the acknowledged election of the candi- date of one party and the ready submission of the defeated party to the result, But there is no present reason for forebodings. Parti- san clamor will be hushed in the majestic presence of the law of the land when the time comes for it to manifest and assert it- self. We cannot doubt that the tribunal upon which devolves the settlement of the vexed question, composed of men chosen of the nation for wisdom and patriotism, will establish the right by clear proof of law and ancient custom, and that the general voice of a law-abiding people will accept their decision.” Evidently, Governor Connor does not believe that the Vice President is to control the matter. Decisive Steps in Europe. It does not appear what the ‘decisive steps” may be which it is thought the Powers will take with regard to Turkey in the event of the Conference failing alto- gether, but it is unlikely that they will be all that may seem desirable in the way of decisiveness. Strange as it may appear that all Europe should be in agreement as to what should be required of Turkey, and yet not be prepared to exact the adoption of the measures it proposes, there is the least possible probability that the steps to be taken will reach the verge of war. -| Ifall the Powers should imitate the action that it is reported Germany will take and suspend diplomatic relations by the with- drawal of their representatives it may be deemed an extreme measure in the circum- stances. But we do not see any reason to believe that this would seriously disturb the Turks. It would not even interfere with the placing of Turkish loans; for it would be believed in London, just as it is now believed in Constantinople, that the interests of England in Turkey's fate are too deep and positive for them to be really affected by measures which the government may from time to time deem that it is forced to take by the exigencies of the European “concert.” The Reds in Germany. Some apprehension is reported as felt in Berlin because the elections for members of the popular house of the German Parlia- ment have resulted in adding sensibly to the strength in that body of the party of “social democrats.” These apprehensions are irrational, whether they contemplate the fact as an evidence of the growth of a party deemed inimical to the established order of society, or whether they contemplate any presumed immediate danger from the success of this party at the polls. It appears certain that the increased representation ob- tained by this party is not due to an abso- lute increase of its vote, but only toa rela- tive increase consequent upon the fact that the people generally were indifferent to the election and stayed at home. On such oc- casions extremists of any kind obtain ad- vantages. Butthe strength of the German government is underrated by any person who believes these agitators could prove dangerous, though twice as strong as they really are. Senator Kernan’s Good Sense. The wild speeches of Mr. Watterson and others at the 8th of January meeting in Washington were accompanied with an ex- cellent antidote in the wise, patriotic letter of Senator Kernan read to the same meet- ing. It was a violent partisan weeting, whose purpose was tersely expressed in o single sentence of the speech of Mr. Pulitzer, who said, ‘Samuel J. Tilden is the President elect, He must be inaugurated.” (Tremen- dous cheering.) This conclusion was em- pbellished with a great deal of bellicose rhetoric by several speakers, to which Mr. Watterson contributed his share. Mr. Wat- terson said that “if it should become neces- sary that they should have a leader, another Jackson stands ready to take his life in his hand and to make their case his own. (Prolonged applause.) If Mr. Tilden has a majority, then—and this is as Old Hickory would put it and mean it—by the Eternal, he shall be inaugurated!” (Applause.) These brief extracts faithfully reflect the spirit of that intemperate partisan gathering, and we turn with a sense of relief from the inflammatory speeches of the orators to the moderate and decorous letter of Senator Ker- nan, who gave the meeting this wise but disregarded counsel :—‘‘By ignoring partisan considerations, by adhering to the consti- tution and the laws as their rule of action, and by examining and considering these questions in o spirit of moderation, fairness and firmness, they will reach o de- cision which will be founded on truth and justice, and which will command the acqui- escence of all good citizens, The attainment of this most desirable result will be fur- thered by restraining party heat and partisan pfissions and by appeals to the good sense and patriotism of our people of all political parties and of every section of tho country.” The New Territory. The Park Commissioners’ plans for laying out the annexed district are now completed, and synopsis of the landscape architect and engineer is published in the Hxnaxp to- day. The maps of the first section, between Riverdale avenue and the Hudson River, from Kingsbridge to Yonkers, are now open to the examination of property owners at the engineer's office, Arsenal, Central Park. The other sections will follow in rapid succession, tho second being from Riverdale avenue castward to Central avenne; the third from Fordham Heights at Harlem River to Jerome: avenue, and the fourth ineluding the region west of the Bronx, below West Farms. The present plan follows ont the ideas of the report made by the President of the Park Commission in March, 1875, upon which the former plans were rejected. The underlying principle of the project is to make the district a sort of suburban addition to the city, over which handsome residences will spring up, and through which will run picturesque and winding roads, easy and pleasurable for drives shaded by trees, and free from the dull, insipid uniformity of city streets. By such a plan it is expected that the property can be best enhanced in value, thus ro t lieving the burdens of the individual tax- payer ; improvements can be more economi- cally made, and the enjoyment and comfort of the citizens can be promoted. The Nicholls party hold their previous advantages, and if two days more should pass without a breach of the peace, calling for the intervention of General Augur’s troops, the democrats will probably have gained complete possession of the State government. This success is likely to come by the weakening and disintegration of the Packard Legislature, which has no quorum in the Senate anda bare quorum in the House. Two members of the Packard House deserted yesterday, and more desertions are likely to follow to-day or to-morrow. As soon as the Nicholls party shall have ac- quired by these desertions from the other side a quorum of both branches of the Legis- lature and a good working majority there will be no further trouble, unless the federal authority should interfere, which is not ex- pected. Governor Nicholls only needs an unquestionable Legislature, which recog- nizes his authority, to give his party full control of the State government. The Metropolitan police are in even @ more shaky condition than the Packard Legis- lature. They look with longing eyes across the political chasm, debating with them- selves whether the time has not come to overleap it and make peace with the victors before it is too late. The only chance of the Packard party consists in getting up a con- flict and bringing in the federal troops. Yesterday they planned an assault on the Court House with a view to recapture it from the democrats, but their courage failed them. They have erected new barricades in the State House, piling up the law library to make a wall, so that in one sense the law stands between them and harm. The democrats, on their side, have strength- ened their defences at the Court House, and are prepared to repel the assault of Pack- ard’s men if it should be made. The local public opinion of the best classes in New Orleans preponderates so strongly in fa- vor of the Nicholls side that the Packard position will weaken every day unless Pres- ident Grant should change his mind and in- terfere. If he continues to stand aloof until the middle of next week the Nicholls gov- ernment will be fully established and be ac- cepted by the people of the State. Macaulay as a Cassandra. ‘We reprint the greater part of a letter written by Macaulay to an American author twenty years since, which then had a wide circulation in the American press. This letter, with others, from Lord Macan- lay to the same American correspondent, is soon to be printed in a popular periodical. In the present condition of our affairs its gloomy view of our institutions may seem prophetic ; but most Americans will con- tinue to think that Macaulay was dressing up achimera. At any rate, our present trouble does not arise out of a conflict between the rich and the poor, which is the rock on which Macaulay thought our Republic is des- tined to go to pieces, The present contro- versy merely discloses a grave defect in that part of our constitution which relates to the election of the President—a defect that will, no doubt, be remedied within the ensuing four years. With this change, of which the want has never been seriously felt until now, and a further change making the civil service, hke the military service, per- manent, and limiting the President's patronage to the filling of vacancies, we see no reason why our institutions may not be as successful for the next three cen- turics as they have been for the last. Ina country where there is neither primogeni- ture nor entails the division of estates on the death of owners insures a wide diffusion of property, which is our chief safeguard against the evils predicted by Macaulay. He was misled by reasoning from an English standpoint, as was natural to a man living in a country where the laws are cal- culated to keep property in the same fami- lies from generation to generation by making the oldest son the principal heir. No other government than a republic is per- manently possible in o country where estates are broken upand distributed among all the children, and where wills are more or less colored by the equal division which the law makes of the property of intestates. The French Revolution estab- lished a similar divjsion of estates, and the consequence is that France in all her muta- tions has steadily gravitated toward a republic, until it has become a pretty gen- eral conviction that no other government is possible in that country. All Europe, Eng- land included, is tending more and more toward popular institutions. Macaulay, who lived in the past and had no foresight, never showed so much political narrowness as in his noteworthy letter to the author of the “Life of Jefforson.” How Shall Immigrants Be Cared For? ‘There is much diversity of opinion 0 the merits of the bill requiring the emis steamship lines to pay a head money tax on immigrants Janded in the United States, It is argued by some that such a tax is wrong in principle, and that a country which in- vites and profits by immigration cannot-in justice meet the immigrant with a tax for the privilege of landing on American soil, But this is n sentimental objection, since the head money is not paid by the immigrant, but by the steamship companies. The abo- lition of the head money tax in New York, through the decision of the Supreme Court pronouncing the State law unconstitutional, was not followed by any reduction in the rates of emigrant passage, and its reimposi- tion through a United States law would not increase those rates, which are regulated, like all other traflic, by competition. The State laws requiring the payment of head money by the steamship lines were re- garded as objectionable here mainly be- cause a heavier tax was necessarily imposed in New York than in other States, and this was believed to be calculated to drive steam- ship lines to other seaports. A uniform tax, imposed under the authority of the United States, would not be open to this local ob- jection, The immigrants who land in a large city like New York, thousands of them unable to understand a word of English, are necessarily subjected to great dangers. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1877.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Tney muy be robbed and swindled ; young’ girls, who frequently come unprotected, may be led astray, and all manner of ras- ealities may be practised on them by the sharks who are constantly on the alert for such victims, Some means must be de- vised for protecting these defenceless peo- ple, and this cannot be done without ex- pense. The immigrant who has money in his possession generally passes through New York and makes his way West. The paupers remain in the city, a burden on the commu- nity. It is scarcely just to require New York to bear the expense of protecting the well-to-do immigrants who carry their money and their labor elsewhere, and of maintaining the sick, the helpless and the penniless, who cannot be left to perish in the streets. Again, the emigrant lines are by no means particular how many paupers they bring to the United States. Is it un- juet to hold them responsible for the care and maintenance of such people, or to require them to protect the citizens against the risk of the burden by the payment of a head money tax? These are the questions to be decided. Something must be done to pro- tect the immigrant landing in New York. Something ought to be done to protect se] taxpayers of New York from an unequal burden in caring for and maintaining pauper immigrants. Exactly what is the most just and expedient method of reaching these re- sults is the question to which the attention of Congress is now directed. Crushing Out Bank Capital. The action of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday on the subject of excessive bank taxation claims the respectful consideration of Congress and of our State Legislature. The large amount of active capital and the varied interests represented at the meeting show how generally the mercantile and com- mercial classes of the metropolis condemn a policy calculated to cripple our banking facilities. Two petitions were presented for signatures, one addressed to Congress ask- ing the repeal of the taxes now levied by the general government on the deposits and capital of all banks, and the other to the State Legislature praying that the laws of the State may be so amended that the shareholders of banks shall not be assessed above the actual value of their property so invested after such deduc- tions as other corporations and private citi- zens are by law allowed to make, An influ- ential committee was appointed to present and press these petitions, and the various chambers of commerce and boards of trade throughout the country were invited, by resolution, to co-operate in the movement. The commerce and industries of the metropolis would be seriously injured if its banking capital should be so far reduced as to be inadequate to their wants, A liberal banking capital means aid and encourage- ment to all business interests. Laws that impose unequal burdens on such capital and thus induce its serious reduction or drive it away into other States and cities where it will be more liberally treated are therefore a direct injury to the State and especially to the business classes | and property owners of New York, the in- terests of the latter being dependent on the We all hope for a revival of business, which has been for some time unusually depressed, and if it should happily come it is essen- tial that it should meet encouragement from adequate banking capital. One of the speakers at yesterday's meeting stated that if the propositions recently made by a few of the leading banks in this city to their stockholders are carried out our bank capital will be reduced this year over twelve million dollars, or fifteen per cent of the whole capital employed. These facts should receive the serious consideration of the State Legislature. We cannot too soon change a policy that is condemned by the whole business community. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mrs, President Grant receives on Fridays. ‘The Irish element in the British army 1s decreasing. Messionier, the artist, is a norvous little mau with a big beard, | Mr. Andrew G, Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is at the Filth Avenue, Boston puts fringe on the bottoms of its window shades, 4 /a Philadelphia, Senator Christiancy wonders why a girl nover makes a necktio that wil tie ina bow knot, The guillamot, while diving and swimming under water, uppears like a bird made of molten silver. | Ib is suggested that the Indian subjects of England would make goud officers and soldiers to ald the Turks. Mr. R. J. Gatling ts dissatisfied withthe trial of his gun at Gibraltar, where, he says, 1t was not given a fair chance, The Springfleld Republican says that hogs arc the sheet anchor of Western prosperity. But we thought that corn was the main sale, Lord Deerhurst is only cleven years old, bat he ro- contly rode his first fox to death, managing the hounds himeeolf, aud bringing away the brush, ‘An attempt 18 being made by the School Board, at Greenock, Scotiand, to promote the singing of “tem: perance songs” by the children at their schools. of dark blue velvet, handsomely trimmed with fur; Gainsborough hat, of veivet, and feathers to corre- spond, According to the old story, when Cronans showed his trensures to Solon, the iatter remarked, “It any other come who has better iron than you, be will be master of all this gold’? AS politicians, the southern Italians, though supe- rior in natural intelligence and intellectual versatility to the northerners, aro ‘‘unripe and turbulent,” and there 18 no one to restrain thom, The English earidoms pow in existence and dating back from the fiftcenth century appear to be but three in number, while those dating from the sixteenth cen- tury may be counted on one’s fingers, Boston Transcript:—‘Logic 1s well enough in its proper place. For the development of the mind and in the development of abstract questions it ts woll party politics.” At the Woolwich (England) Royal Military Academy egic accounts of the battle of Waterloo in writing, and the best casayist will recetyoa regulation sword from General Lord Napier of Magdala, Gun cotton 1s about to be utilized for signalling pur- poses, On @ point at the northwest of Helsgoland, beon established. When the weather 18 foggy an ex- plosion of gun cotton will take place every filtcen min- utes, making a report similar to that of a gun, Pall Mall Gasette:—“Boglish meetings Heten ap- provingly to eulogtes of Russia in which there is no mention of despotism or Hungary, and eulogies on the present Czar in which thero is no mention of the in- dependence of Poland or of the municipal institutions | of the Baltic provinces, think that tho cause they advocate ts theirs, but its natural spokesmen are Cavon Liddon, Mr. Froude and general progress and prosperity of the city. arr An English bride's travelling costume was composed | adapted, but it fails to grasp the concrete—eepecially | thirty cadets bave entered into contest at short strat | 166 feet above the level of high water, a fog signal has | The English radicals seem to | TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE GERMAN ELECTIONS Unexpected Success of the Social Democrats at the Polls ANXIETY OF THE GOVERNMENT War Considered Imminent in Turkey—Urging Midhat Pacha to Accept. THE FRENCH BUDGET * Cabinet Changes in Spain—The Pope and American Students, {BY CABLE TO THE HERALD, ] Lonpon, Jan. 12, 1877. The chief subject of interest this morning is not, as might be supposed, that wearisome Eastern question, but the elections in Germany on Wednes- day. Those for the Prussian Reichstag, espectally are significant of a change in the sentiment of the people. SUCCESS OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. The HERALD correspondent at Berlin telegraphs that the social democrats have secured a victory at the polls that 1s a source of astonishment to all and of considerable apprehension to the government and the public generally, Their organization was wonderful and they appeared at the polls perfectly quiet and carrying red fags. A QUIET VICTORY. They inno way disturbed the peace, but were, nevertheless, able to carry fully twenty seats. Their activity during the canvass was remarkable, and they expressed great confidence in the result. They contested 123 out of 207 districts, while the moderates manifested little interest in the election. DANGEROUS DOCTRINES. ‘The atheistical doctrines of these socialists are considered exceedingly dangerous, and it is felt by the governing classes that they threaten the sta- bility of the Empire. They demand a partition of property and perfect equality among all men, INPECTING THE ARMY. ‘The agitation extends even to the arimy, despite the utmost vigilance of the government and the most stringent precautions. This latter fact is looked upon with positive alarm, and it is expected that severe measures will be adopted with a view to remedy the evil. THE RESULT IN BERI In the city of Berlin the elections resulted in the return of four progressists and four socialists, leav ing one seat undecided, At first it was supposed that Herr Von Forckenbeck, national liberal and esident of the last Reichstag, had been elected | But, although he had a majority, the number of votes polled for him was not enough to secure an election. SECOND BALLOTS NECESSARY. Second ballots will bo necessary in twenty-two olectoral districts, in thirteen of which the Soctal demo- crats although in the minority throw a heavy vote, STRASBOURG AND FRANKFORT. Strasbourg returns an autonomist candidate, being & defeat for the protest party, At Franktort the demo- cratic candidate leads the poll. The five successful Alsatians belong to the “autonomist” party. Ther defeated opponents of the “protest’’ party profess more extreme French and ultramontane views, SPECULATING ON THE RESULT OF THE CONVERENOR. A despatch dated Constantinople, 12:45 P. M. yes terday, says:—“It 1s asserted that although the Porte maintaing its opposition to the proposed inter- national commission, end the manner of nominating provisional governors, it is still possible that a basia for an understanding will be found on the ground of the Andrassy note, inasmuch asthe attitude of Russia is thought to be really con- | eittatory. The sitting of the Conference to-day is re- garded as very important, Hopos aro stil entertained of an agrocment being reached, but the attitude ot Germany is #aid to excite some misgiving. If tho | sitting be without result, or there appears to be no possibility of an understanding, the Powers, it ts thought, will take decisive steps. ROUMANTA SATISFIED, Roumanta has expressed eatisiaction with the declaration of the Porte that article 7 of the new con- stitution was purely internal, not affecting the rights of a Principality guaranteed by international treaties. WAR CONCEDED IMMINENT. Adespatch from Constantinople says the Phare du Bosphore says war must be considered imminent so long | asthe Powers confine themselves to endeavoring to force the Vorte to discuss their conditions without taking the Turkish proposals 1nto consideration. URGING MIDIAT PACHA TO ACCEPT. Herr Busch, the newly appomted Secretary of Lega- tion, who will take charge of the German Embassy on the departure of Baron Von Werder, had an interview with Midhat Pacha to-day and urged him to yield to the demands of the Powers. NO FURTHER CONCKSSIONS TO TORKRY. A telegram from Constantinople, dated Thursday | evening, says it is stated that at to-day’s sitting of the Conterenco Baron You Werder declared, in the name of Germany, that no jurther concessions could be made, The Turkish delegates did not present to-day a new project for an understanding, The next sitting was fixed for Monday. | A PURTHER RPVORT TO NE MADE. It Is generally belleved hero that the European pleni- potentiaries will not then present an ultimatum, but wili make afresh communication to the Porte, finally | summing up the intentions ot the Powers, declaring this communication to be the last, and demanding that Acategorical reply be given at the sitting following ita presentation, If an understanding Js then fonnd to be | impossible the plenipotentiaries would qait Constan. | tnople. PROPOSING TO REMOVE TO VIENNA, ‘ A Vienna corrospondent reports that the Italian dele. | gate to the Conference has oeen instructed to propose | the removal of the seat of the Conference to Vienna ir no resuit is reached at Constantinople, TURKISH OBSTINACY, Atolegram trom Constantinople says explanations were excbanged in tho Conterence, which turther | domonstrated the existence of differences between the European Powers and the Porte. The Turks persisted in rejecting the proposals of | the Powers, expecially those for subjecting the ap- | pointment of governors of provinces to the approval of the Powers, and for an international commission. The Europeans remaimed united throughout the discussion. The Conference rose yesterday before it camo to any conclusion, TURKISH OUTRAGE IN ROUMANIA, A telegram from Paris says:—“A despatch from Bucharest, paotished in the journals there, report that a band of Baeht Bazouks crossed the Danube on Monday night, plundered a Ko killed two Roumanian soldiers, ment in Roomania at the outrage.” RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS IN SRRVIA, manian outpost and pre is great excite, Mr, Carlyle. For it fe authority in religion and force 1 politics which are now having their triumph,” A despatch from Belgrade, dated Thursday, says ‘that General Nikitine goes to Gladeva and Negotin’to }