The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1877, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1877. | NEW YORK SERA OO BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY Bencaga geblioned, sx every, cont sy Sats: rate Noa for any te on ~ “ae att, Sve, oy i six months, Sunday All business, news tees or vr telegraphic despatches must be ‘New Yorn Herat. skages whould be Droperly sealed, dorkmunteations will not be returned. + DELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH NEW YORK HERALD— PA POE Era Lp BAPLES 0 OFFIGE-NO. 7 BTRADA (Ga bacriptions and advertisements will be received and for- woraskes the same terms as in New Yorke = % FOLUME XLM-.-. +--+. seseeneeseeesseenseregs NO, 1b AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. WIBLO’S GARDEN.—AzuRiNr. BOOTH’S THEATRE.—Day’t Druce. PARK THEATRE.—Tn: FIFTH AVENUE THREATS: SAN FRANCISCO MIN: KELLY & LEON’S MI THEATRE COMIQUE.. NEW YORK, wom NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company run a 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 regular edition of the Heraup 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 ure that the weather in New York to-day will be zold and partly cloudy or clear, followed by increas- ing cloudiness and rising temperature, 1877, Two More Wire Beaters were caged yester- day, arousing anew the feminitie desire to dojury duty. sei iain tp “Tne Association for Improving the Condition ot the Poor” neqds money, and no charitable or- ganization can make better use of it. Tur WasniIncton MARKETMEN have set an ex- ample which can be cheaply followed by the charitable. Sec “For sweet charity’s sake.” Tue Fisnxm. Bank Deraucation is reported to look worse daily, and speculation is assigned as the cause of the cashier's irregularities. In Axoruer Goiumn will be found the de- jails of the singular accident through which two famous Poughkeepsie horses lost their lives on Saturday. Ir Is Estrmatep that in the coffee-colored snow removed yesterday from Broadway and dumped into the river there were three thousand cart- loads of dirt. Now for a howl from G. W. B. Comrertirion Has Workep a reduction of twenty per cent in many telegraph tolls within @ week—a strong argument in favor of a new ocean cable in case the old ones should be com- bined under one management. Brooxiyn Has No Time to devote to South- arn deadlocks; sho has, a matchless one of her own in the Common Council. While Alderman Donovan continues to vote for himself the party “slates” might as well be lent to little boys. Tue Heratp’s Propnecy yesterday morning of a sudden and heavy breaking up of ice in the Trivers was speedily and terribly fulfilled in the Monongahela River, where » heavy freshet de stroyed hundreds of steamboats and barges, with @ loss which must excecd a million dollars. For- tunately the loss of life was very little. Sxow Torme: grateful that their north and west. Betwee en Albany and Buffalo, on the line of the Central Railroad, snow banks are in places as high as the tops of passenger coaches, and four thousand freight carsure vainly endeavoring to reach tidewater. A fortune awaits the inventor who can devise a way of speedily reducing snow heaps. Mr. Hit1’s Lerrer, published to-day, contains assertions too distinct and weighty to be allowed to remain unanswered. Incompetency, ignorance and neglect are qualities entirely out of place in a body of men who have already spent more than seven millions of the people’s money and want to spend a great deal more; but unless Mr. Hill's assertions are disproved the bridge trustees will i Il of these faults, —Onr prediction that the ico stand convicte Tae Weatue: in the great rivers would move under the in- fluence of the changing conditions of the weather, and the warning to owners of floating property on that account, have been fully veritied and jus- tified by our latest despatches from the Ohio Valley and the W: » The sudden rise of tem- perature has been accompanied in those regions by heavy rains and a melting of the snows, caus- ing extraordinary freshets in the rivers. The Ohio ut Pittsburg is 15 feet 6 inches above low water level, showing a rise within twenty-four hours of § feet 11 inches. The river at Cincin- nati is 31 feet 10 inches over low water mark, being arise of 10 feet 2 inches in twenty-four hours, and at Louisville the height is 8 feet 7 finches, a rise of 2 feet 6 inches within the same time. ‘The freshet wave now descending the Ohio to the Mississippi will be felt on the latter river within the coming twenty-four hours. The Cumberland has also risen rapidly and the ice on all the rivers is moving. The storm area which passed over the lake region on Saturday hasmoved | to the Atlantic through the St. Lawrence Valley, accompanied by brisk winds along its southern margin. Rain fell in the lake region and in the Gulf States yesterday morning, and a snow area extends from Pembina to Buffalo.. Another storm centre has ‘entered the Platte Valley and is now moving over the Mississippi toward the lakes and the Ohio Valley, with rising tempera- ture but light precipitation. The snow area already referred to extends along the northeast- ern margin of this disturbance. Our announce- ment yesterday of a Pacitic coast storm is shown to have been justified by the latest reports from that region. We havo in this instance, as in that of the ice movement, anticipated all reports and from whatever source by twenty-four hours. The temperature in the Northwest and in the lake and northeastern regions continues Jow. In the Gulf States it das risen very d . The weather in New York to-day will be cold. and partly cloudy or clear, followed by in- * ' qaeasing cloudiness and rising temperature. The six committees—three appointed by the Senate and three by the House—will have completed their examination of wit- nesses before the middle of this week, and will immediately return to Washington. There can be no reasonable question of the propriety, and even necessity, of these in- vestigations. They were unavoidable ex- cept on the theory that the certificates of the Electoral Colleges are final and that there is no authority to go behind them and inquire into their validity—a theory which would encourage fraud by breaking down all dis- tinction between it and truth. From the mo- | ment it is admitted that false and fraudu- lent votes ought not to be counted the necessity is apparent for ascertaining the facts in every case where there is presump- tive evidence of illegality. An unbroken line of precedents shows that Congress has always claimed and always exercised the right to examine the electoral votes and pass upon their genuine- ness. In cases where the votes are not dis- puted the duty is simple. It is merely to see that the certificates are regular in form and duly authenticated by the proper State officers. . But when it is alleged with a color of evidence thag they are illegal or tainted with fraud the facts must be investigated in advance of the counting in order that Con- gress may act with intelligence and do justice. The investigations having been set on foot by the democrats of the House, the repub- licans of the @enate had to appoint com- mittees of their own, or else leave Congress to act on ex parte evidence. Doubling the expense is a trivial matter compared with the importance of a full development of the facts. There will, doubtless, be divergence and contradiction in the reports, but this is a smaller evil than a one-sided investiga- tion. A comparison and sifting of the evi- dence will give as fair a chance of reach- ing true results as a jury ordinarily pos- sesses’ for a just verdict in trials between a plaintiff and defendant where each side calls its own witnesses and their conflicting testimony enables the jury in most cases to do substantial justice hetween the parties. Conflict of evidence is better than conceal- ment of any part of the facts. The work of the committees has taken South Carolina ont of the list of doubttul States in advance of the formal reports. The House committee, with a democratic majority, will make a unanimous report that the Hayes electors were legally chosen in South Carolina, ~nd the Senate com- mittee will, of course, indorse this conclu- sion. With respect to Florida there will be no such unanimity; but the facts thus far developed seem favorable to the demo- cratic claim. - The surrender of Governor Stearns to his democratic competitor will incline'many people to think that the dem- ocratic party really carried the State. With Governor Stearns’ personal interest in the question, and his opportunities to know the facts, it seems improbable that he would have given up the contest unless convinced that his opponent was fairly elected. Ifthe votes for Presidential electors in Florida had been recanvassed in obedience to the judicial mandate, as well as the votes for State officers, there can be little doubt that the electors would have been given to Til- den. But they are not likely to be conceded to him by the republicans in Congress un- less they should despair of getting Louisi- ana counted for Hayes. If the republicans are compelled to give up one of these two States it is of no practical consequence whether they do or do not hold on to the other. The votes of either will give Tilden a clear majority and elect him. Florida will be held in abeyance until Louisiana is decided, and if the republicans should be forced to relinquish their claim to Louisiana they will make no fight on Florida, But if they can convince all the members of their party that Louisiana ought to be counted for Hayes it may be regarded as certain that they will not give up the other State. Louisiana is, therefore, the grand oe point—the key of the situation. We shall have no basis for predicting the final judgment of the Senate respecting the result in Louisiana until the committees shall have made their reports. There is n it remains to be seen how successful they will be in parrying it. The stréng points on the democratic side are the undisputed fact that the Tilden electors had o majority of eight thousand on the face of the returns, and the undisputed fact that the Returning Board which ‘threw out votes enough to re- duce him to a minority of three thousand five hundred consisted wholly of republi- cans and made their final decisions in secret. These circumstances, taken in connection with the scandalous conduct of the same Board in former elections, create a strong pre- sumption against its honesty. Onthe other hand, the points chiefly relied on by the re- publicans are that the laws of Lonisiana make the result declared by the Returning Board final ; that the Supreme Court of the State has decided that its decisions cannot be reviewed ; that itis made its duty to reject votes in certain cases of intimidation, and that wholesale intimidation in several parishes is proved by a mass of sworn testi- mony sufficient, if true, to justify the Re- turning Board in throwing out the entire vote of those parishes. The whole republi- can case seems to turn on the credibility of this testimony. ‘Tho democrats maintain that a large portion of this evidence is steeped in perjury, and that in such portion of it as may be true the cruelties and terror- ism were not prompted by political motives. The decision will depend on the question whether the alleged political bull-dozing in Louisiana be fact or fiction, and whether, so far as it was real, it was extensive enough to account for the whole of Mr. Tilden’s majority of eight thonsand in Louisiana. We suppose the republicans will only think it incumbent on them to prove that bull- dozing was practised ona large scale with- out attempting to show precisely how many votes it influenced, on the ground that if the general fact is true it belonged to the Returning Board to judge df details, The republicans will stand their ground and in- sist on the inauguration of Hayes if the proofs of bull-dozing satisfy all of their own | Senators and Representatives, who will be A prima facie case against the republicans, and | a great deal less exacting in the matter of evidence than the democratic party. We shall go all astray in estimating the final re- sult if we merely consider what impression the evidence will make on’democrats, Un- less it is strong enough to convince ten or twelve republican Senators Mr. Tilden will not be the next President, United States Life Saving Service. Among the most pleasing features of this important branch of the public service are the broad humanitarian spirit that pervades its management and the general effective- ness of its execution in the face’of im- mense difficulties and appalling dangers. The duty of guardjng coast with lighthouses and beacons that serve the double purpose of guiding the mariner and marking the dangers that beset him is one that does credit to our age and lifts even our advanced civilization far above the ideal of earlier times. But when we combine with this another and higher task of warn- ing the sailor of approaching tempests and organizing a system by which he meets with assisgance when driven on the wild coasts, among the rocks and breakers, we leave little to be desired on _ his part that human foresight and courage can supply. The lighthouse keeper protects the ship, but the life saving service crew perform a nobler duty in rescuing the ship- wrecked sailor—dragging him from the jaws of death at the moment when he abandons ail hope of life. The men who perform this perilous service furnish us with the most brilliant examples of unselfish daring. Their deeds in the cause of humanity ex- hibit a courage which excels that shown on the battle field; and when we consider the smallness of the compensation they recdive as compared with the risks they run we are filled with admiration for their heroism. The ocean and lake coasts of the United States are divided into districts, each under the charge of s superintendent. There are seven districts from Maine to Florida, with a total number of 118 life saving stations. Along the lake shores there are three dis- tricts and thirty lifeboat and life saving stations, and on the Pacific coast, which forms one district, there are eight lifeboat stations. The number of wrecks along the first six districts of the Atlan- tic coast during 1876 was 108, the number of lives imperilled was 751, the number saved 729, lost 22. The efficiency of the life saving service is here illustrated by the remarkably small proportion the number of the lost bears to the number im- perilled. As skill in operating the life say- ing apparatus increases the number of the lost by shipwreck on our coasts will be reduced to and kept at the lowest minimum. Such a service, therefore, deserves the fostering care of the govern- ment, and we hope to see the system fur- ther elaborated. The Electoral Vote is G.sgon. It is so common a thing for cunning to overreach itself and get ‘‘hoist by its own petard,” that most men of sound judgment and all men of robust honesty prefer to at- tain their ends without descending to arti- fice. ‘(Ways that are dark” do not suit the genius of republican institutions, and they are apt to lead to ‘‘tricks that are vain.” The methods of the heathen Chinee will not quite do in American pulitics, whether practised on the Pacific coast or elsewhere. The Cronin farce seems likely to have a dash of tragedy, if there can be anything tragic in the defeat of political expectations, At best it was not a manceuvre fora political party to be proud of. It was an attempt to take advantage of a trivial technicality to defeat the dlearly expressed will of the peo- ple of aState. The Presidential electors are only automatons, a medium for expross- ing the choice of the people for Presidential candidates. In the late election citizens neither thought nor cared what names were on the electoral tickets ; they 1 meant to vote for Tilden or for Hayes. It ii is repugnant to justice and fair play to strain doubtful legal points with a view to defeat the manifest intention of the voters of a State. A magnanimous party should scorn such a tricky advantage. A candidate of high personal honor should be incapable of encouragifg or abetting such a trick, much more of instigating it and giving direct aid to its perpetrators. If this has been done—if the conclusion to which recent evidence points is correct—it is an irretrievable blurfier. This evidence may, perhaps, be explained away, but it has an ugly look until it is refuted. In no event could the Oregon trick have succeeded ; for the moral sense of the coun- try would not have permitted Cronin’s vote for Tilden to be counted. A piece of sharp practice, designed to subvert the. clear will of the people and the substantial equities of politics, “could never stand against the public indignation when so great a prize as the Presidency was staked upon it. The title of two of the Hayes electors was undisputed. Those two, being a majority, had a right to organ- ize the Electoral College and fill a vacancy. They did organize and did fill the vacancy caused by the ineligibility of Watts. The three votes of that completed college ought to be, and will be, counted for Hayes, The new light thrown on the Cronin farce by the testimony of Mr. Jordan before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elec- tions is too humiliating for belief. Mr, Jordan is cashier of the Third National Bank in this city, of which Mr. Tilden isa director anda stockholder to the amount of sixty-eight thousand dollars. Mr. Jordan testified that W. T. Pelton, Governor Tilden’s nephew and con- fidential agent,’ procured the noted eight thousand dollar.check, drawn in favor of parties in Oregon, on the day preceding the Cronin antics. Pelton has no money, and his relations with Mr. Tilden were too inti- mate for the latter to have been ignorant of that mysterious transaction. Thus the mat- ter stands, exposed to inferences which are too easily drawn. It is to be hoped that, in spite of appearances, the innocence and ignorance of Mr. Tilden may be satisfac- torily ostablished. The mysterious check was never sent, and we trust it may be shoyn that Pelton acted without instruc- oll ana that as soon as Mr. ‘Tilden dis- covered what had been done he interposed a prompt and absolute veto, Plan of the Joint Committee. It is reported from Washington that the joint committee are likely to agree, and the method they will recommend for counting the electoral vote has been foreshadowed in the despatches of several public journals. The similarity of these accounts gives an impression of authenticity, and we have little doubt that the plan of the joint com- mittee is in its main outlines nearly as it has been described. Its chief feature is a board of referees to decide disputed questions, the board to consist of fifteen members, an odd num- ber being preferred as securing a majority in every vote and preventing a tie. Five of the fifteen are to be Senators, five to be mem- bers of the House, and the remaining five to be taken from the Justices of the Supreme Court. Three of the five Senators will be republicans and two democrats. In like manner the House wi§’ be represented by three democrats and two republicans. The six senior Justices are to be taken from the Supreme Court, a rule which, it is said, will give three to each party, and then one of the six is to be excused by lot. We suspect this elaborate plan will be coldly received, perhaps vehemently op- posed, by both political parties. The Supreme Court Judge who is to be dropped will be either a republian ora democrat, leaving a party majority of one in the board. It will be a mere charice which party gains this advantage, and the plan is certain to be held up to derision by its opponents as a proposal to choose the President and Vice President by lot. This derision may not be reasonable, but it is likely to be effective. ‘The selection of juries is always made by lot, and yet we trust our lives, property and reputation to the decision of juries. Butthis plan differs widely from the process of selecting jurors. It would hardly be deemed an improvement in the composition of juries if six were taken favorable to the plaintiff and six in the interest of the defendant, then dropping one by lot and making the ver- dict depend on the vote of a majority. Trial by jury would not long survive such an ex- periment, since a majority of every jury would be under a bias in favor of one of the parties. Juries are drawn by lot for the purpose of securing impartiality, and the right of challenge is given in order to purge the jury of all bias In the} which might come in by chance. plan of the joint committee the lot is to be used to create inequality between the two parties instead of to exclude it, this singu- lar method being adopted meroly toinsure an odd vote which will possess the deciding power, Many will think that this one ref- eree who holds the decision of all ques- tions in his single hand might as well act alone if he is to be a partisan, The sole effect of the lot would be to create a party majority ; but the chances of each party for getting that majority would be even, so the plan has a flavor of impartiality. Objectionable as the lot isthe plan has excellent features. It would be improved by leaving out.the senior Justices and sub- stituting the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The whole country respects his character and confides in his justice. The plan thus amended would escape the fatal ridicule to which a resort to lot would ex- pose it. Either party would prefer a magis- trate of high impartiality, like Chief Justice Waite, to the chance of gaining a partisan advantage in the board by lot. The Washington Police Scandal. It is evidently a good thing for the people of Washington that they have secured some sort of a change and clearing out in their Metropolitan Police Board. While there is reason to believe that the immediate charge of @ corrupt arrangement between the chief, Major Richards, and the Washington gambling houses was made by one set of rascals to obtain an advantage over another set, there is sufficient evidence of demoral- ization and dishonesty in the whole system to make almost any change desirable. The old saying in regard to the effect of the fall- ing out of rogues seems likely to hold good in this police quarrel. The investigation now going on before a committee of the House into the alleged attempt of Mr. Murtagh, one of the Police Commissioners, to induce Major Richards and some of the detectives to blacken the character of Con- gressman Whitthorne for the purpose of damaging the investigation into the Navy Department, promises to draw out some of the secrets of the department. The evi- dence of one of the detectives who was examined on Saturday last affords a fair specimen of the sort of people engaged on the force. Whether the change will im- prove matters remains to be seen ; but the fact that some of the material of the old Board of Commissioners remains does not look very promising. If the charges against Mr. Murtagh should be estab- lished that gentleman will stand in a very bad position, The alleged conspiracy is of asimilar character to the notorious safe burglary conspiracy, but is even more fin- grant, if the charge be true, since it aimed to entrap a Representative in Congress and to destroy a very important investigation into one of the principal departments of the national government. It is due to Secretary Robeson, as well as to Congress, that the scandal should be thoroughly sifted. Pulpit Utteranc The sermons reported on another page exhibit a wide range of religious thought, as it is desirable they should do. The most unconventional effort of the day was that of Mr. Alger, who asserted the moral useful- ness of the theatre and the necessity of dramatic representations as auxiliary to pulpit teachings. Mr. Beecher urged the noble example of Paul upon such religious workers as look with distrust upon all pulpit efforts which are not after the fashion of their own, and he characterized the faults of jealous preachers in a manner which was none the less incisive, because it was per- fectly good tempered. Father Damen opened the two weeks’ mission at St. Te- resa’s church with a sermon of rare elo- quence and force. Ms. Frothingham evinced his hearty sympathy with true Christian ‘work by alluding to the Week of Prayer and the iniluence of this great service upon those who sympathetically take part in it, Dr. Giles called attention to the common mistake among men of suppos- ing the measure of knowledge to be the measure of truth. ‘The Mission of Christ” was the topic treated by Professor Harwood at the Church of the Incarnation, and Mr. Hamilton preached upon the constant pres- ence of angels. Father Macauley held up the mother of Christ as a model for the women of to;day, in whom the virtues dis- played by Mary on earth are those most needed in perfecting womanly character. Mr. Swain, of Allentown, preached in the Madison avenue Reformed church on the Chnistian’s aim. Dr. Taylor, preaching for Mr. Hepworth, corrected a too common error of pulpit expression by frankly admitting that sin has its pleasures, much as they are tobe avoided. Mr. Tyng, Jr., interpreted Christ's great prayer for the Church in the broadest catholic spirit, and designated the only true ground of Christian unity. Dr, John Cotton Smith substituted for an after- noon sermon a lecture on pauperism, which evil, he declared, would be cured only by a more practical spirit of Christianity and an improved system of co-operation in labor. Interesting ordination services were held in St. John’s church, Brooklyn, the candidate having come from the Presbyterian fold, Mr. Pott and the Children’s Fold. We disagree with Mr. Pott. We regret the necessity of doing so, because Mr. Pott is no doubt a highly respectable gentleman, but we do most decidedly and emphati- cally disagree with Mr. Pott, Let us ex- plain the matter of difference. Mr. Pott is a trustee of the Children’s Fold. Some singular developments have recently been made which reflect seriously on the manage- ment of thischarity. Ithas been alleged that the children intrusted to the Christian care of the shepherd of the Fold have been cruelly treated, and that the manager is not the right sort of @ person to hold such atrust. An investi- gation has been made by the State Board of Charities into these charges, and a member of that Board states that the management of the Fold has been bad, the food poor and inadequate, and that the children have been badly treated. Now, Mr. Pott, a trustee of the Fold, thinks that this matter should be “kept as quiet as possible by the newspa- pers;” that there is ‘‘necessity for the ut- most secrecy," and that the reverend gen- tleman at the head of the Fold, who has, unfortunately, a quarrelsome disposition, should be ‘‘treated with the greatest le- niency.” This is just where we are bound to disagree with Mr. Pott. The Children’s Fold receives aid from the city treasury. It draws two dollars a week out of the public purse for each child in the Fold whose board is not paid for otherwise. It is, therefore, a semi-public institution, and the people have a right to know exactly how it is managed and whether their money is well spent. The Rev. Mr. Cowley, it appears, is not only the manager of ‘the Fold, but the manager also of @ nominal Board of Trustees that is supposed to look after the manager of the Fold. Mr. Cowley, the President of the Board of Trustees, passes on the con- duct and, we presume, on the accounts of Mr. Cowley, the manager of the Fold. This forbids the idea of any reform in the management of Mr. Cowley at the Fold through the action of Mr. Cowley at the head of the trustees’ table. It is, therefore, desirable that the utmost publicity should be given to the charges against the man- agement, and that Mr. Cowley, if unfit for the position he holds, instead of being treated with the ‘greatest leniency,” should be exposed and immediately re- moved before another dollar of public money is paid to the Fold. Abuses of charities are altogether too frequent. The shepherd of the Fold should be taught that poor children are not to be treated with un- necessary cruelty, eyen if they are inmates of acharitable institution, and that pretty widows cannot be allowed to flatten out little orphans when disposed to indulge in the recreation of a Virginia breakdown. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Tilton is in Chicago, Dr. Allibone is in Florence. Flora Temple wears 4 No. 1 shoe, Senator Norwood is in Atlanta, Ga. General Rosecrans ts in San Francisco. ‘Tno severe winter is killing Illinois quail, Louis Napoleon is a chip of the old blockhead. General Todlebon is busy with Crimean detences, Hon. Dan. Voorhees, of Indiana, is in Washington. Alox. Stephens bas been called ‘an animated wrinkle.” Colonel! Bob Ingersoll will defend Sullivan in the Chicago murder trial, The Harvard facalty bay up coal and sell it to the students at cost price, Essipoff in Chicago woro cardinal red silk while sho played the moonlight sonata, Calitornia pears are selling in London, and aro con.’ sidered better then many varieties of those received from France. Tho Karl of Dunraven and Mr. Albort Bierstadt, the artist, arrived in the city yesterday trom Colorado and are at the Brevoort House. ~ General Alired 3. Hartwell, who has been appointed Attorney General of the Sandwich Islands, was tor- merly connected with the Washington University, at St, Louis. According to the Vicksburg» JZerald the nogro is learning that a rolling stone gathers no moss, some- thing that many Southern white people have nevor un- derstood. Mr, MePherson, of Jersey City, who is at least a good hearted man, seems to be winning the Now Jer- sey Senatorship, with Governor Bedle behind him on a dark borse. Punch :—'‘Retired Citizen (to Metropolitan Friend)— ‘What l onjoy so much in the country is the quiet! Now here, in my garden, my boy, you don’t hear a round, ’eepting the trains |’ "7 The Richmond Whig says that Governor Hampton’s letter was unwise, and that while the South might havo rematmed inactive in the Crisis it has been forced jntoa position where courage demands activity, Evening Telegram :—“B., Delafield Smith, late Cor- poration Counsel of this city, has become a farmer in New Jersey The Sun says that he supplies Dol. mopico with butter ate dollar a pound, and runs a prize bali.’”” Worcester Press :—‘‘1t 8 said to be very affecting to hear Schuyler Colfax wind up a Sunday school lecture by telling the little ones how the Lord made the re- publican party on t ighth day—after a day’s rest— and pronounced It good.” Furness Falls Reporter:—“The time approachcs when a fellow buys for his chu sister abighly orna- mental valentine, the great centre of attraction ot which Is a picture of the fabled boy who has decidedly more wings than overcoat,’ Norristown Herald :—'‘Love makes 128 pounds of girl feel no heavier than a feather on a fellow’s kuee,”” Fulton Times :—‘‘And tho same fellow would have bia Jog cramped all out of shape by niy-five pounds of wife.” Danbury News :—"'Thi ould depend some- what upom whose wile it was TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE SCLAVONIC AGITATION. The Czeck Demonstration at Prague Sup pressed by the Austrian Authorities. TCHERNAYEFF SENT TO THE FRONTIER, Final Proposals To Be Submitted by the Conference, THE FRENCH MINISTER AND THE PREFECTS | [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonpon, Jan. 15, 1877. A new feature is added to the Eastern question by the agitation which has sprung up in Bohemia, The Czecks are demonstrating in favor of their Slavic brethren, and the attention of Europe is thus called to the fact that Austria could present a united front to an enemy where Slav interes are concerned. TCHERNAYEFF SENT TO THE FRONTIER. The HERALD special correspondent in Vienna telegraphs that the authorities of the Austrian foreign office here compelled General Tchernayeft to quit Prague. They took alarm at the Ozeck demonstration, on account of its extreme pro- Russian tendency, and decided to prevent it. The General was escorted to the frontier by the police. DRAGOONING IN PRAGUE. A meeting was called to protest against the ar- bitrary act, but it was dispersed and the streets were cleared by a charge of dragoons. The mob shouted enthusiastically for “Tchernayeff and Russia.” The general is now in Dresden and is being seted by the Czecks residing in that city. THY FINAL PROPOSITION. . A despatch trom Constantinople says it ts stated that the final communication to be made to the Porte at Monday’s sitting of the Conference, will make no mention of a gendarmerie, the division of Bulgaria into two provinces, or the confinemont of ‘turkish troops to certain garrisons, and will considerably mod- ify the suggestions relative to the international com- mission and the appointment of Governors of Prov- {ncea, At the last meeting of tho European Plenipo- tentiaries the Marquis of Salisbury spoke in favor of bringing the Conterence to a close, while General Ig- natieff recommonded further concessions. GENERAL IGNATIEFP CONCILIATORY. Genera! Ignatieff, at an interview with Midbat Pacha on Saturday, mentioned the concessions proposed by the Powers, He suggested that the gendarmerie would be composed of Mussulmans instructed by foreigners in the Turkish service, and that the International Com- mission should be a mixed body of Ottomans and foreigners, Midhat, however, did not agree to these concessions, considering they were an attack on the independence of the Empire. THY TURKS STILL BTUBNORN, The European Plenipotentiaries were to meet and the Turks were to hold a Cabinet Counoil yesterday. Lord Salisbury visited the Sultan yesterday, Intelll« gence !rom Constantinople up to a late hour to-night represents tho Turks as apparently still stubborn. BALISBURY INTERVIEWS THE SULTAN, A special despatch from Constantinople reports that Salisbury’s interview with the Sultan ‘erased aa very satisiactory. WHERE HOSTILITIES MAY COMMENCE. A Vienna despatch says war stores have been sent by eight steamers from Odessa to Pott. In the event of war hostilities will probably commenco in the Caucasus. Ma THE ATTITUDE OF GERMANY. A denial is given to the rumor that Baron von Wortber hac mado a threatening declaration indicating a change of attitude on the part of Germany. An ofi- cial tetegram from Berlin likewise denies that Ger- many has assumed an attitude less’ favorable than before to a peaceful arrangement. HOPES OF A COMPROMISE. A Vienna correspondent says advices received there confirm the impression that the Porte will at the very fast moment accept the compromise now offered by the Powers. The compromise will probably prove to be that the Porte be asked to accept the programme not as some- thing analterable, but only asa sort of basis for dis- cussion. M. SIMON AND THW SUB-PREFECTS. The public anuouncement of the changes of the sub-prefects in France has been postponed for a fort night, Minister Simon has been obliged by the do mands of many senators and deputies to remodel his scheme in such & manner as to give it greater im- portance. PARDON FOR COMMUNISTS, M. Simon in recetving the Deputies of the Depart- ment of the Scine yesterday said the government in- tended to make a largo use of the privilege ot pardon in favor of the Communists and would appoint a new amnesty commission. AFFAIRS IN SPAIN, Sefior Silvela has taken the oath of office and en. tered upon his duties as Minister of Foreign Affaira, The Coutici! of Ministers has approved the extradition treaty concluded with the United States, Negotiations have been opened for a similar treaty with Great Britain. The existence of armed bands in Upper Aragon and Catalonia is officially dented, THE FAMINE IN INDIA. Tho India Office publishes a despatch, dated January 12, from Lord Carnarvon, acting as Indian Secretary in the absence of Lord Salisbury, to Lord Lytton, Governor General of India. It re quests that a weekly summary be hence- forth sent by telegraph giving the main fagts in regard tothe famine. Lord Carnarvon, summing up the information be has hitherto received, considers it alarming that 840,000 persons are already employed on the relief works in Madras, and 250,000 in Bombay. Tho government estimates show the famine in Bombay will gradualiy increase, reaching the maximum in April, when 1,000,000 persons will require relief atter which it will gradually decrease, In Madras the prospect is proportionately worse, The districts affected in Madras cover 80,000 square miles and contain a population of 18,000,000. In Bombay the famine-stricken territory covers 64,000 square miles and has a population of 8,000,000, 6,000,000 of which are in districts more immediately affected, LATER SUMMARY OF THE SITUATION, ‘A special trom Calcutta give: r summary of the situation. In one of Bombay districts (Sholapore) the crops have totally failed, Things are nearly as bad im two other districts, The crops have partially failod im six districta, Already 287,000 persons are on the relief works, In Madras the famino prevails in twelve districts, and now 1,000,000 persons are on the relief works. Tho cost to the State is estimated at over £2,000,000 ster. ling in Bombay and £4,090,000 In Madras THE STEAMER" NEWPORT. FRUITLESS ENDEAVOR TO GET HER AFLOAT, New Haven, Conn., Jan. 14, 1877, A determined effort was made on Satarday, at high water, to float the steamer Newport, which is grounded in this harbor. Empty barges were placed around ner under the guards to raise her, while « steamer and two barges pulled until the hawsors parted, without eftect, She will probably remain in her present position untid the next porigean tide.