The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1877, Page 4

se — NEW YORK HERALD ‘BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. ‘Three cents per copy (Sunday excluded). Ten dollars pet ‘i dollar per month for riod Timp. aie noth, ‘oF Ove dollars tor atx mouths, Sunday despatches must —— bats ELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LOSDON POEEICE, OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— ~ ERROR ea VO RBR Bort Subscriptions and ments will be received and for- warded on the same terms ux in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BOOTHS THEATRE.—Dax’t. Daucn. NEW YORK AQUARIUM BOWERY THEATRE.—Tux Two Onruans. GILMORE’S GARDEN.—Guaxo Equustntax Festival. GERMANIA THEATRE.—Das Grrazxoxiss. HELLER'S THEATRE.—Puxsrip WALLACK'S THEATRI BROADWAY THEAT! UNION SQUARE THEATE NIBLO'S GARDEN,—. KELLY & LEON’S M . EGYPTIAN HALL.—Sunsation, SAN FRANCISCO MINS’ UPPLE} U The Adams Express Company ran a special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, leaving Jorsoy City at a quarter past four A. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular odition of the Heranp as far West as Harrisburg und South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M, and Washington at one P. From our vesor are that the weather in New York: to-day will be earn and cloudy, with rain or snow, followed by igh winds. rapidly falling temperature and hi Jowned at 6 and 5 per cont. Gold advanced from 1061, to 10644. Government bonds were strong and railway mortgages in fair demand and firm. Stocks were irregular, Western Union, as tho leader, being strong and the coal shares lower. Axyorurn thrilling ocean story to-day-—‘‘Perils of the Sea.” Tux New Orrra Ho is at last complete— on paper; and we give this morning the details of Mr. Architect Gilman's plan. Wuorvex has the real estatefever, but wishes to have it frightened away, should read “An Ex- Judge's Trusteeship” in the HERA to-day. Tue Apvicr or THE Herarp to the Bridge trustees was followed almost unanimously by the Board yesterday, the contract having been awarded to the lowest bid: ible steel. Tae ANGLO-AMERICAN in 1866, was broken on Saturday. The precise locality of the fault is not yet known, but it is estimated to be one hundred and thirty miles from Heart's Content, Newfoundland. All the other cables intact. Savery or TRAVELLERS over the New York Elevated Railroad demands that the com- pany should cause wood or rubber strips to be nailed on all crossings between the platforms and on the stairways to prevent passengers from slipping on the smooth boards. The ice and slush at the stations yesterday rendered walking on the platforms and crossings very dangerous. Our Spectra, Desratcu from General Miles’ wamand contains glorious news. The gallant ttle foe under Miles has met Sitting Bull, souted him, captured most of his lodges and ‘jven him back to the Yellowstone and away Qs the agency Indians who have been supply- “ing the hostiles with food and ammunition. In- stead of resting on his laurels and going into winter quarters Miles intends to start for another ciumpaign in the snow as soon as he refits, Coty Weatuer is approaching again, and the pblic interest in the question of heating the street cars will increase as the temperature falls, We print elsewhere an account of the meeting of the Aldermanic Committee on Railroads, which assembled yesterday to learn the views of the railroad officials on heating the cars. It was the unanimous opinion of these gen- tlemen that heating the cars would prove dangerous ,to the public health, and that it was better to shiver like a car horse at the sight of a rapid transit train than to risk death by suffocation. One director, and a doctor at that, expressed astonishment that any one should think » heated car healthy. Such is the result of consulting the feelings of the rhinoceros-hided horse car officials. We would advise tho Rail- road Committee to consult only the interests of the public, and to compel these arrogant gentle- men, the railrond officials, to heat their cars or surrender their franchises. ‘Tur WratHer.—A great storm has been rag- ing in the West since Sunday morning and has already entered tho Middle States. Yesterday the centre moved from the Mississippi into the Ohio Valley, attended by heavy rains on the eastern and southern und snow on the west- _@a and northern margins of the disturb- ance. The extent of the area of precipita tion has been and continues to be very it, From North Platte, Nebraska, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and from the lakes to Tennessce, one anbroken downpour of rain and snow has marked the influence of the storm. High winds prevail in the Northwest and West, and a decided rise in temperature is observable castward of the Mississippi and in the Southern States. In Dukota and the Upper Missouri Valley tie cold has been terrible. At the thermometric record yesterday morning was fifty-three degrees below zero, and during Jast evening it was twenty-one de- grees below at Breckenridge, Minn, The snow juts seriously impeded railroad travel within the aren of the storm and the rain has added its quota to the rushing floods that are tearing the heavy ice from the gorges in the Ohio River. As wo predicted yesterday, the freshet wave on the last named river has al- rewly reached the Mississippi, which is beginning to rise. Floods may be expected in the Delaware and the Hudson rivers. We may Jook for bad weather in New York to-day, to be followed by severe cold. House owners had Wetter see that their plumbing is in good order, Decause it is likely to be put to a severe test within the coming few days. Roofs shonld be oleured of snow and gutters opened, and every safeguard adopted to prevent iniury to exposed Pembina « NEW YUKK HHKALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1877--WITH SUPPLEMENT. The Louisiana Trouble—A Bull-Dosed | proclaims the “illegality” of the Nicholls President. The mot of a clever diplomatist language is a gift bestowed on man to con- ceal his thoughts finds exemplification in an unexpected quarter, President Grant is a man on whom it was long supposed that Providence had grudgingly bestowed the gift of language for any purpose, and he seemed quite competent to conceal his thoughts without help from this instrument. Until recently he passed for a sphinx. Ulysses the Silent bade fair to become as famous for taciturnity as the great Prince of Orange, commonly mentioned as William the Silent. But of late the President has adopted a different method of masking his intentions. He exchanged his stubborn taciturnity for an almost loquacious commu- nicativeness, inviting the enterprise of in- terviewers and unbosoming himself for publication in a manner as frank and de- lightful as it was unexpected. Reporters and readers looked upon it as a proof of lightness of spirits in view of his early and welcome release from public cares ; but we begin to fear that it was adopted as a sub- stitute for his former silence and a more artful device for concealing his intentions. President Grant has been constantly using language since the day appointed for the inauguration of the Governor of Louis- iana which put the public on a false scent. He has declared, again and again, that he would stand neutral between the two claim- ants until after Congress had acted on the reports of the investigating committees, merely preserving the peace, but leaning to neither side in the political controversy. For these judicious expressions he has re- ceived much praise, which prover to have been undeserved. In spite of his professions he has suddenly given official assurance of his intention to support Packard and main- tain him in office. For this extraordinary change of front there can be but two explanations, neither of them creditable. One is that he never meant what he has so repeatedly said, and merely sought undue credit in case Packard should succeed without federal interference. The other possible explanation of the con- trast between the President's language and | his conduct is that he has yielded to partisan pressure against his deliberate judgment. His true friends have reason to lament a great deterioration of characterif he yields to the urgency of the last people who got hold of him. It is stated that his order to Gen- eral Augur was sent without consulting the Cabinet. Why did he act with so much precipitancy in a matter of so much im- portance? Was it because Morton, Chandler and Camerun bull-dozed him in some hour of weakness, and hurried him into sending the despatch before more conservative advisers should get their turn for impressing a mind of wax? In a matter so important the Cabi- net ought to have been consulted, and noth- ing should have been done without its de- liberate advice. But the backstairs bull- dozers seem to have been afraid to let their proposition be calmly discussed in a, full Cabinet meeting, and so hurried the Presi- dent to commit himself by an irrevocable official act before good counsel could change the fleetingimpression. Something similar happened two years ago, when the well known “‘all-of-us” despatch was sent to General Sheridan, and the wisest mem, bers of the Cabinet disclaimed all knowledge of it and publicly washed their hands of all responsibility forit. The Cabinet would have saved him from that mistake and also have saved him from this fresh mistake if he had taken their advice on a matter so important, It is a public humiliation to see the Presi- dent profess his settled intention to do one thing when he is himself, and then sud- denly succumb to political bull-dozers and do the very opposite when they get access to him in an hour of infirmity. It. is a grave indecorum for him to abandon his pro- claimed purpose on an important subject without a regular consuitation with his re- sponsible advisers, The President is sensible of his flagrant inconsistency, and begins his order to Gen- eral Augur by saying:—‘‘It has been the policy of the administration to take no part in the settlement of the question of the rightful government in the State of Louisi- ana, at least not till the Congressional com- mittees now there have made their report.” But what excuse does he offer for his sudden abandonment of ‘‘the pol- icy of the administration” on a mere personal impulse without tak- ing the advice of the Cabinet? He says he cannot sit quietly by and see the State government gradually taken possession of “by illegal means.” Now, the legality or illegality of the Louisiana election is the very thing which the committees of Congress were sent to investigate ; and what right had he, by a mere freak of personal caprice, to take the decision out of their hands, or rather out of the hands of Congress, whose judgment is to be formed on the testimony taken by its committees? If the question of legality can be decided without evidence why were the committees appointed? In advance of their reports, in advance of any action by Con- gress the President assumes to decide the whole question on his own individual um- pressions, without even consulting his Cab- inet, This is an insult alike to Congress and the Cabinet. By what title does a set of backstiirs bull-dozers control the action of the government in a matter which im- perils the peace of the country? What right has the President to yield himself to be the tool of these irresponsible partisans and ac- cept their wishes for law ? President Grant has assumed to decide the very question on which Congress is re- serving its judgment until it is in possession of authentic evidence. Whether Packard or Nicholls is the legal Governer of Louisiana is but another form of the question whether the Hayes electors or the Tilden electors were legally chosen in that State. The parishes thrown out by the Returning Board would have equally elected Nicholls and the Tilden Presidential electors, Pre- cisely the same point of legality is involved in both. The final decision of this ques- tion, so far as it relates to the electors, belongs to Congress; and when the Presi- dent decided to await its action before taking any side in the controversy he showed a proper respect for the legislative branch of the government, But when he {If its management is not to be inquired State government he virtually deciaes that that | the electoral votes of the State ‘belong to Hayes. It is possible that Congress may decide that this is so; but it isan insolent breach of official propriety for the President to take the decision out of their hands, at the demand of an unscrupulous squad of political bull-dozers, who have precipitated him into rash act before he could listen to responsible advice in a Cabinet meeting, An Irresponsible Fold. There appears to be some diversity of opinion as to whether the management of the Children’s Fold is to be changed or is to be suffered to remain in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Cowley. The Board of State Charities favors a change, but Mr. Cowley is evidently unable to recognize its neces- sity, and is not disposed to admit that any authority save that of the trustees of the Fold has the right to interfere with its affairs. As Mr. Cowley concentrates in himself about all there is of the trusteeship this view of the case insures him the control of the institution in perpetuity, and makes any investigation into the management a simple waste of time. The reverend gen- tloman expresses himself as willing that an inquiry into the current stories should be made through his church anthorities, and enters into a long counter statement in which his own conduct is vindicated and the motives of his assnilants are impugned, But he plainly indicates that he is satisfied with things as they exist and does not con- template disturbing them. We find in the tax levies for some yenrs past an appropriation of sums ranging be- tween five and six thousand dollars for the benefit of the Children’s Fold, together | with occasional additional donations out of the Excise fund. In the provisional esti- mate for the present year appears a commu- nication from Mr. Cowley and his cotrus- tee, the secret and lenient Mr. Pott, asking for nearly six thousand dollars for the sup- port of fifty-one children for whom ‘‘noth- ing can be expected from private parties.’’ Mr. Cowley states there are now fifty-four children in the Fold; hence it is evident that the city pays for the support of all but three of the inmates. Under these circum- stances we suggest that the concern ought not to be so close a corporation as Mr. Cow- ley would make it. The people have aright to know something about its financial man- agement as well as something about the treatment of their unfortunate little wards. If Mr. Cowley does not see the justice of this then we insist that he should not ask the taxpayers to contribute to his Fold. If no more than three of the inmates are supported by private friends or private char- ity the Fold is clearly a public institution, into the children should be transferred to some more responsible public charity and the Fold should be abandoned. Not an- other dollar of the public money should be paid into the hands of its present managers, The Joint Committee’s Plan for Counting the Votes. This plan has one ill-considered feature which will cover it with derision and cause its utter defeat unless this feature is changed. We refer to the introduction of the six senior justices of the Supreme Court, consisting of three republicans and three democrats, and then withdrawing one of them by lot. This is a cumbrous method of securing a result which might be attained by simpler means. Its purpose is to make the board of referees consist of an odd number, so that it could never be brought to a tie in any question on which it may be called to vote. This pur- pose could easily be secured by a method not exposed to fatal ridicule and certain to be rejected, The party associations of the members of the Supreme Court ought never to be considered in any question sub- mitted for their deliberation. ‘The members of that high tribunal should never be thought of as partisans in connection with any official duty. ‘To be sure three democratic judges and three republi- can judges might be expected to balance each other, were it not for the provision for withdrawing one of them by lot, which would leave a partisan majority in the pro- posed board. The country does not want the Presidential question decided by chance, but by law and in accordance with truth and right. Instead of taking the six senior judges it would be wiser to take the one Chief Jus- tice, who would impart more dignity to the board, and would be an equal safeguard against a tie. A well selected committee of ten able, fair-minded members of Congress ought to be. able to reach just decisions without judicial aid ; but as a precaution it might be well to add the Chief Justice, tor the sake of his advice on points of law, and to give him a casting vote when the other members were equally divided on any question, ‘This would conform to some well-known analogies, as, for example, the casting vote of the Vice President ina tie of the Senate, and the casting vote of | the Chief Justice when the President is tried on an impeachment. If a committee of ten members of both houses, selected tor their wisdom, candor and knowledge should divide on a strict party line and produce a tie there would be little hope of a satisfactory settlement of the Presidential difficulty. If there are not ten men in Congress of whom at least one is capable of rising above partisan considerations, so as to prevent a tie, it is idle to expect a mntual adjustment which both sides could be brought to accept. We hope the plan of the joint committee may be amended by substituting the Chief Justice for the senior | judges; that he will bo present more in the | character of an adviser than a par- ticipant; that he will have no vote except in a tie, and that no actual occasion will arise for his voting at all, Ten moderate and judicious membersof the two houses should be capable of reaching just conclusions on most of the questions submitted to them, but to make sure of a decision it might be wise to add the Chief Jus- tice with merely acasting vote. This method would possess every advantage that can be claimed for the one proposed, and would escape the fatal objections certain to be urged against making the Presidency a game of chance to be determined by lot, Destructive Ice Gorges and Mloods im the Ohio Valley. The breaking up of the ice in the Ohie River and its tributaries, the formation of gorges and the descent of extraordinary floods, all of which have combined to pro; duce disastrous effects throughout the Ohio Valley region, can be attributed to a com- bination of two causes, ‘These are tempera- ture and precipitation, respecting which we have had occasion to make many comments this winter. During the past two months the American continent has been swept over by rapidly alternating areas of high and low pressure. ach area of high barometer has been attended by an exceptional fall of tem- perature and the formation of unusually heavy icé on all the Northern rivers, Suc- ceeding areas of low pressure, but of high temperature, with their heavy snows and rain, have caused the ice fields to partially break up and descend with the river currents in large fragments, causing gorges at points where the channels favored the formation of such obstructions, Several Gulf storms, with their atmos- pheric volumes charged with moisture almost to the point of saturation, have passed rapidly over the Upper Ohio Valley region within a short time. Being swept by the western margins of these storms the precipitation over the valley was necessarily snow, and in immense quantities. When heavy rains follow a great snowfall in a region drained by rivers whose waters are deeply frozen the results can be easily con- ceived, The ice and the snow were present in the Ohio Valloy, and the warm, melting rain and high atmospheric temperature that were wanted to produce the disastrous effects reported were sup- plied by the western has just passed over the region. With the donble volume of water from rain and melted snow the ice fields were quickly ruptured and sent crashing down the swol- len rivers on their mission of destruction. We had carefully noted all these varying weather conditions as the season advanced, and warned our readers many weeks ago, a8 wellas recently, of the great danger that threatened property along the rivers. Much of the destruction of property described in our columas to-day would have been avoided if timely precautions had been taken to pre- vent it. « Theatrical Revival and Hard Times. Although ‘Hard Times” is now tho popular song, and although the theatres have been suffering from a combination of adverse influences, beginning with the Brooklyn fire and including the weather and the snow-blocked streets, still the New York managers have set an example of pluck and enterprise which other business men would do well to study and imitate. ‘Lhe Olympic has closed its doors, in conse- quence of a difference of opinion as to the proper person to foot the bills for the alter- ations required by the Department of Build- ings; but at most of the other theatres the necessary alterations have been made with- out interfering with the entertainments, and at the Fifth Avenue and Niblo’s the super- intendent of the department has given a certificate of perfect safety in his report that ‘no recommendations are necessary.” The natural alarm of the pub- lic being thus set at rest there is no reason why our people should not again crowd the very comfortable and even elegant theatres and witness the bright and enlivening en- tertainments which our plucky managers have provided. New York has more of such theatres and entertainments than any other capital in the world, and we need not fear tocompare the New York programme of amusements, as advertised in our columns, with those of London or Paris, except in regard to opera, and we are still in hopes that M. Strakosch will help us out of that odious comparison. At Daly's Fith Avenue Theatre a new play adapted from the German and called “Lemons, or Wedlock for Seven,” opened the week last night. The perennial Bouci- cault winds up his long season at Wallack’s with ‘Forbidden Fruit,” and the veteran Wallack himself is announced in ‘All for Her,” the most successful play produced in England last year. ‘Dan’l Druce” at Booth’s attracts the same large audiences that filled the London Haymarket Theatre during its run there. Mr. Edwin Booth, at our Ly- ceum, is a fair offset for Mr. Henry Irving at the London Lyceum. The Union Square con- tines to reproduce the French “Miss Mul- ton” in spite of being compelled to keep numerous Miss Multons and several doctors constantly on hand to defy the attacks of illness upon the original cast. The Park has revived ‘The Marble Heart.” Mr. Daly, keeping his immense compuny together by the shrewd generalship of sending out brigades to reinforce other theatres, supplies the Grand Opera House with a successful presentation of “Divorce.” Tho favorite melu- Tho the | drama, “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” is on the bills ; at the New Broadway. ‘‘Azurine” flourishes at Niblo’s, the famous home of ‘fhe Black Crook.” Add to these the standard attrac- tions of the San Francisco and Kelly & Leon’s minstrels and the excellent enter- tainments at such variety shows as Tony Pastor’s and the Theatre Comique, and, as soon as M. Strakosch gives us his opera house, we may challenge all Europe to equal the lergthy list. . In spite of politics, the depression of business, snow, fire and weather the people of New York have been and will always be good patrons of the good theatres. The war times are remembered as having beon the best for the theatres, and there is no reason why these times should be the worst. Dur- ing a period of depression there is no cheerier resort than a theatre and no better friend to the community than the manager who labors to lift the public out of care and trouble and furnish ‘a laugh for every- body.” Without waiting for the formalities of the Surrogate’s Court, like Vanderbilt and Stewart, they scatter their splendid gifts broadcast, and everybody may enjoy them at once. We hope to see this public spirit fully appreciated by the public, and trust that the story of the poor players and the silent singers, which we recently pub- lished, may never have to be told again so far os it has any roference to New |, York, storm which | Fiery Worlds. This might be termed the age of theories, Everybody has his pet theory about every- thing on the earth, and why not some bave them abont everything in the heavens, Astronomers are now puzzling themselves and the public with theories to account for the suddenly acquired and abnormal. brill- iancy of a small star situated in the con- stellation Cygnus. This little twinkler, ac- cording to the savans, remained unnoticed among the myriads of luminaries that are barely visible to the naked eye until he took to asserting himself after the fashion of mortals. He tried to outshine his neigh- bors, and, being consumed with vanity, out- did the thing. Some of our wise men assert that the consequences are not pleasant to contemplate, for they appear to involve the destruction of a world. Others state that while the far off sphere was actually glowing with the fires that destroyed it this earth of ours was probably several hundred thousand, if nota million, years younger. Distance arrests even the flight of thought, and even the velocity of light has been measured, so that when we can con- sider that the fiery but fading star in Cygnus is untold millions of miles dis- tant, we may feel satisfied that we are really observing only the light of other days, the brilliancy of a star that was. The opinions of Professors Parkhurst and Boss, which we print to-day, throw light on this interesting subject, Based on the information imparted thereby every one of our readers can form a theory for himself or herself regarding it. We have no hesitation in stating that the prospects of a terrestrial conflagration grow- ing out of a disturbance of the equilibrium of the universe by the destruction of a star or two are still very remote. The Old Story. The official investigation of the Security Life Insurance Company has disclosed the usual amount of fraud and perjury in the officiel statements made to the department at Albany. These exposures are now be- coming so common that one scarcely pauses t6 examine them. In this particular case we find real estate worth a little over one hundred thousand dollars above encum- brances sworn to as worth nearly half a mill- | ion; the amount of stocks and bonds owned by the company sworn to as five hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars when it was under two hun- dred thousand; cash on hand and in bank sworn to as over two hundred thou- sand dollars when it was in reality not ten thousand; and so on to the end of the in- famous fraud. The questions that will sug- gest themselves are how such an institution can have escaped detection so long? How many other companies whose statements are tiled away in an incapable department at Albany are in a similar condition? What steps will be taken to bring to justice the utterers of these perjured statements? Finally, how long will the people allow these savings bank and insurance swindlers to go unpunished ? The Lenox Gallery. There are not many ways in which the munificence of wealthy citizens could make itself more acceptably felt than by the gift to the public, or to trustees for the public, of a fine gallery of pictures; and Mr. Lenox will be gratefully remembered by future generations of New Yorkers as the first in- dividual to take a great step in this direc- tion. His present gift is to the art taste of the metropolitan public os important as was the gift of the Astor Library in its time to literary taste and industry, with this differ- ence in favor of the gallery, that public pic- ture galleries are scarcer than public libraries, As the Astors must have chronicled in their family history that they gave the first free and excellent iibrary, it must equally stand tothe honor of the name of Lenox that it has the same association with the first gift of a beautiful gallery of pictures. He has a hard heart and no eyes of any account who does not remember with delight the hours or days spent in picture galleries, whether in the times when the mind was impressionable with the freshness of youth, or in the ampler experiences of travel, where public pictures are more plen- tifal than with us ; but all others will assent that galleries are educational agencies of the finer and purer sort, and will hold, we trust, that the giver of one is entitled to the largest measure of public gratitude, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Garflold is sensitive. Milton Sayler 18 indvlent. The concert flourishes in Boston. Zach Chandler belioves in ghosta, Senator Sharon has taken his seat. Speaker Randall bolds levees tor gontlemen. Congressman Hoar 18 wise and disagreeable, Candies made in shapes and colors of flowers are eaten by Paris ladies, Norway hawks are being imported into England tor the sport of falconry. Heine predicted that the future of Germany belongs to the sooia! democrats, A New Bedford (Mass.) woman, of sixty-two, never used a hairpin in her life. The Torre Haute Lrpress complains that Wostern Journalism is too personal, M, de Crssey is lecturing in France in favor of the observance of the Sabbath, Herbert Spencer thinks that George Eliot is tno greatest woman who ever lived, Among the callers on tho President in Washington yesterday was William A. Wheolor, General Colston, of North Caroline, bas returned tO the service of the Khedive of Egypt. James Lamont, an old Arctic voyager, votieves that there 16 no open Polar Sea, and that all expeditions will bo fruitiess. The Grand Duke Alexis and suite have engaged boxes at the Acadomy of Music on the night of the “Old Guard” ball, Mr. Mahafly Insists that the intelligence of the people in the wildost parts of Greeco is greater than that of people in tho wild parts of the great kingdoms, Punch;—“farmer (proposing landlord's health)-~ ‘An’ if a? Squicars ‘ad dow as our squiear dew, there wudna be #0 many on ’om as dew as they dew dew!’ '? Delmonico usea one and a half pounds of coffee to a gallon of water, pouring the hot water upon the coffee, which is placed im @ strainer, Tho coffer is novel voiied. Governor Wade Hampton was admitted to an equal share with hia sisters and stepmother in his father’s estate through their kindness, for tho law gave them a “tbree-tourthy interest, Detroit Free Press:—'Tho New York Herauy would mix eharcoal dust with the soil und thas pro- duce a black lustre on red rosea, Greeley was a mero novice in agriculture,” Canned tomatoes mixed with bread cramos, butter, egg, onion, salt and pepper, and vbakod in 1 dishes or oyster shells, are almost as good as tho tresh baked vegotable, Parsicy may be addod, From All Parte of the World. THE EASTERN CONFERENCE The Demands of the Powers Mate- rially Modified, THE PORTE STILL DELIBERATES The Roman Pontiff and the Italian Cabinet. BELLIGERENT KING CETTYWAYO, [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Loypow, Jan. 16, 187%. At to-day’s sitting of the Conference the Marquis of Salisbury, in the name of bis European colloagues, communicated to the reprosentatives of the Porte tho last proposals of the Powers, whose domands wero re- duced and softened, as it was antic!pated thoy would be, ‘THK CONCESBIONS MADR. The gendarmerie, tho division of Bulgaria into two provinces, the restriction of Tarkish troops to certain places are not montioned in the propositions submit- ted yesterday. The previous propositions for an in- ternational commission and making the appointment of governors of provinces subject to the consent of the Powers aro considerably modificd. In addition to the concessions the cossion of Zwarnik to Servis is left in suspense, The proposais forthe aggrandize- ment of Montenegro aro reduced to limits which the Porte has signified its willingness to accept, Thus all contested points are relinquished by the Powers excopt the Commuissicn of Supervision and the ap- pointment of Governors, and even these points are much altered, The Powers now propose that the ap- pointment of Governors of Provinces be subjected to their approval only during the next five years, and that instead of an international commission a mixed body composed of Europeans and Turks be established, THE POWwYRs’ ULTIMATUM. Afier making bis communication, Lord Salisbury announced that if the Porte did not agree to the pro- posals now made, ho had instructions to quit Constan- tinople, Sir Henry Elliott said he also had been in- structed in that event to witharaw and leave the British embassy in care of a Chargé d’Affaires. All the other European Plenipotentiaries in succession made similar declarations, somo of them laying stress on the fact that it was the Porto’s interest to accept the proposals, BAFURT PACHA’S REPLY. Safaet Pacha replied, He expressed regret that the decision of the Powers should require him to refer the matier to the Porte before giving a final answor, but he would say he did not think it possible for Turkey to yield upon the questions relative to the Commission of Supervision and the appointmont of governors, those proposals which affect the independence of the Pot having already been rejected. The Porte, however, ‘would examine the communication an@reply definitely thereto at the next sitting. THE NEXT MERTING OF THE CONFERENCE. The Conferenco will reassemble on Thursday if the Turkish answor is then ready; but it is more tha probable that the meeting will not take place untid Saturday, In the meanwhile the Grand Council of 180, composed of all the great dignitaries of state, will meet to decide upon the answer, BULGARIA'S NEW GOVERNOR, It understands that Nubar Pacha, for many years at the head of the Egyptian Ministry, and whose retire: ment a year ago was so much regretted in Europe, hag accepted the Porte + offer of the Governorship of Bul- garia, GERMAN ELECTIONS. A telegram from Berlin says:—‘'Tho resulis ot 858 elections forthe German Parliament aro known, of which sixty-tive require second elections, twenty-sevew, are conservatives, twenty-seven imperialists, ninetye five national liberals, eighteen progressists, eizhty- nine clericals, ten social democrats, eleven Poles, six Alsatian autonomisis, three belong tothe Alsatian protest party and seven adhere to no particular party.* THE POPE AND THE ITALIAN CABINET. From Rome it is announced that the PopeonSunaay received a deputation of ex-Pontifical functionaries, one of whom read an extremely violent eddress against tho Italian government, The Pope, in reply, censured the measure contemplated by the Italian Cabinet re- garding the Church, THE POSTAL UNION, A despatch from Berne announces that Brazil, the Dutch and the Spanish colonies, Ceylon ana some other British colomes have joined the postal union, The Portuguese colonies, Hong Kong, Japan and the Argentine Republic bave signified their desire to enter also, SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLE, A despatch, dated Capo Town, Africa, Docember 27, via Madeira, says:—‘‘Alarming news has boen received from Zulu-land, The Zulu King, Cettywayo, refuses to permit the occupation by British troops of the terri- tory which is in dispute betwoen himself and the Transvaal Republic. He has returned unopened a letter sent him by the British Envoy and bas assem- blod 8,000 warriors in the disputed territory.” ENGLAND'S GRAIN TRADE. The Mark Lane Express, in its weckly review of the British corn trade, says the submersion of lowland dig. tricts bas eptirely stopped all agricultural labor, while the continual rain fall has seriously affected the condition of all home-grown grain. Heavy snow storms in Scotland have proved very disas- trous to the stock farmers, many sheep having perished, The wheat plant, where it is not submerged, is looking fair. English wheat in good condition is rare both in the country and’ Mark lane, but ready salo has been found at late rates. The impossibility of working many mulls in the country has causea trade to assume narrower dimensions and supplies to London have been meagre of grain. There appears lit- tle probability of much improvement, as farmers are | unwilling to thrash in the present weather, Arrivals from New York havo been a Itttle over 2,000 quarters. Barley advanced a shilling per quarter for fine qualities. There has been less activity in maize, which is somowhat depreciated in value, Oats have been dull and unaltered despite limited arrivals, bat the scarcity of hard old corn bas supported fall prices, Cargoos which arrived at the beginning of the week arc held with great tenacity. Dusiness was limited, but a slight advance has boon realized for wheat and maize, SILVER, Silver is quoted to-day at 57344. per ounce, MEXICO, GENERAL JULIAN QUIROGA BHOT BY ORVER OF GENERAL TREVINO—TUR THREE PER CENT TAX, Matamoros, Jan, 15, 1877, Advices just received state that General Julian Quie roa, a prominent military officer of tho late Lerdo government, who had retired to his ranche in Nuovo Leon after the flight of Lerdo from the capital, was shot at Monterey on the llth inat., by order of Gen. eral Trovifio, a partisan of Diaz. SpKVARTURKS, General Labarret, Collector of this port; Colonel Seal, formerly second in command under Revueltas, and several other officers who would not declare in favor of Diaz, will leave hore to-day by a schooner for Vera Croz THR THRER PRR CEST TAX. The officers of Revucltas continue to enforce the three per cent tax by breaking into and plandering stores, To-day they carried off the furniture of @ prominont ertizen, loaving bis family in an ompty house, | KILLED BY AN OFFICER. Bury Mawr, Pa., Jan, 15, 1877, David Mundoll, a shoemaker, was shot dond this morning by an oMicer who was ondoat hit on a chargo of drunkennons. ide ded