The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1877, Page 4

NEW YORK NEW YORK HERALD} BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. = DAILY ey wares, pelted, thal, costy uw tte ies rd ppt ns or at rate at on ne wollar per month for any og a ths, wo} fase fur six mont news letters or ers or telegraphic despatches must we iw TOME Heratp. Dackaxes shonld be properly sealed, sens communications ~y not be PH Sereno. 2 SOUTH SIXTH oe omnes - THE NEW YORK HERALD— OE AVENUE DE L/OPERA. NA TLES. a. 7 Li are Bact advertiser: id be received and for- oo Pret we mycepleeaienyy VOLUME XEI..... AMUSEMENTS _TO- TO-NIGHT. NEW YORK aquaniuw, BOWERY THEATRE.—Tux Two Onpnaxs, GILMORE’S GARDEN.—Gnaxp a uomapad Fasnvan GERMANIA TNEATRE.—J. AELLER'S ot sees cpasasionenee GRAND OPERA HOUS! LYCRUM THEATRE.—Oruxito. Xa. 18 NOTICE 10 COUNTRY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company run a special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its sonnections, leaving Jersey City at a quartor past four A. M. daily and Sunany, carrying tho regular edition ofthe Hzraxp as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P. M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York: to-day will be warmer and partly clowdly or clear, possibly with light rain or snow at intervals, Watt Street YEsTeRDAY.—Money on call loaned at 5 and 6 per cent. Gold opened at 106%, and ended at 10653. The stock specula- tion was featureless, prices being comparatively steady. The largest decline of the day waa inSt. Paul preferred. Government and railway bonds ‘were firm. Snernerp Cow ey, of the Children’s Fold, has been dismissed, to the delight of the poor little lambs. Tat Mrs. McManon is not the only letter writer of her family a “Remarkable Vindica- tion” conclusively proves. Since THE Decision in the Miller case yester- day, dealers in crooked whiskey have been elo- quent in demands for a new administration. Tue Very Natvurat human sentiment which makes it hard for a man to pay for a dead horse is at the bottom of a famous steamship case re- ported in our legal columns. Tue Rumors of a new railrond war over freight charges are without foundation, but it is a melancholy fact that shippers are not as happy about it as lovers of peace should be. Tue Commission on the lateral canals advises the selling of some of them; it is to be regretted that it did not go further and rid the State of this whole list of watery outlets of the taxpayers’ money. AssurinG To TRAVELLERS.—The original de- signer of the Ashtabula Bridge testifies that the construction was begun by an inefficient man and. completed by one whom he thinks never built an iron bridge before. Tue List of the Security Life Insurance Com- pany’s victims has been suddenly enlarged, the stockholders having been called upon to return their dividends on the ground that they were un- earned. This new phase of the instrance busi- peas can hardly help causing suspicion about insurance stocks generally and hastening the downfall of weak compan METEOROLOGY AND SNAKES.—Among the weather reports from the South is one that recounts the occurrence of a new and strange meteorologi- cal phenomenon. Using technical forms of expression, we would state that an area of snakes has passed over the State of Ten- nessee, and that a decided precipitation of twelve-inch and eighteen-inch reptiles has taken place at Memphis. It will be remembered that not long ago a shower of quivering flesh de- scended on a certain section of Kentucky and astonished the natives very much. PROTECTION OF IMMIGRANTS. —The report of the Commissioners of Emigration, a synopsis of which is published to-day, makes a forcible plea for somo action on the part of the general gov- ernment by which a fund can be secured for the protection and relief of immigrants. The fact is stated that ontof eight million immigrant passen- gers arriving in the United States sinve 1847, or during the last thirty years, six millions have landed in New York. This alone is sufficient to show the justice of making the care of the immtigrant a charge on the general government, if it is not to be borne by the steamship lines which bring them to this country and set them down on our shores often sick, helpless and pen- niless, to become « burden on the public. Tne Weatuer.—A gradual filling up of the western depression has taken place ua it ad. vanced castward. Two areas of decidedly high barometer contributed to this re- | sult, so that at present a high pres- sure is the dominating condition throughout the country east of the Rocky Mountains. The depression in the lower Gulf is yet too distant from tho const to affect the weather in that re- gion beyond causing heavy rain at New Orleans. A low pressure at San Francisco morning indicates *the castward movement from the Pacific of a disturbance. From the conditiong prevailing in the Mississippi Valley the formation of another clongated baro- metric trough, which may develop into a storm area, is probable. The temperature has fallen throughout the country, particularly along the Atlantic const. Withinthe past twenty-four hours the Ohio River has risen three fect nine inches at | Pittsburg, seven feet four inches at Cincinnati | and six fect two inches at Louisville. The Mis- sissippi has fallen four inches at St. Louis, but has risen four feet six inches at, Cairo and one fvot one inch at Vicksburg. Tho Cumber- lund has risen two fect three inches. Buow has fallen at New York, Philadelphin and and in the ee ol ‘The weather in New York to-day wil be warmer and partly light snow or rain cloudy or clear, possibly at intervals, . Turkey and the Conference. Few historical bodies have had so short a history distinguished by such sharp vicis- situdes as have characterized the Conference of Constantinople. It was called to enforce upon Turkey certain reforms under penalty of war with Russia, and its present anxiety is to get away from the Turkish capital without a scandalously obvious abandon- ment of its wholes programme. It was a machine framed to do the will of the north- ern autocrat under cover of the require- ment that the Sultan’s administration should conform to European ideas 1n politics ; and England ventured to participate in the pro- ceedings with hesitancy and grave doubts. But asthe case stands now England is the more forward and resoluté foe of the Sultan and is prepared to demand of him far more than will satisfy Russia, Her representa- tive urges the adjournment of the Con- ference if Turkey does not yield, and the representative of Russia soothes and placates and persuades the Conference to accept less and less, as if afraid of the consequences of Turkey's ultimate refusal. This seems a strange reversal of positions, It is remarkable that Russia should ot Inst prove less inimical to Turkey, in appearance, at® lenst, than England is, If this starts from a hope to sep- arate Turkey and England and get be- tween them it can ‘scarcely succeed; but it is good policy on the part of Russia to relin- quish o great deal of her demand against her neighbor rather than lose the moral ad- vantage of the position in which she has behind her own projects the united opin- ions of all the other Christian governments. It is an important fact that the Powers ap- prehend the consequences which may flow from the appearance that they approve col- lectively of the demands made by Russia, To avoid this the ultimatum of the Confer- ence was not communicated to the Sultan as the act of the combined Powers, but by the representative of each Power separately ; and thus if Russia or any other Power takes any action it will be in support of its own proposition, and for no action thus taken can it be claimed that it has even the moral support of the other Powers. But the programme of the Conference, for one that “roared so loud and thundered in the index,” has reached at last very moderate proportions. Ihe catalogue of demands which, though not startling in the changes proposed, was sufficient to assure the world that the nations really intended to exact from Turkey rather more than a mere promise to behave herself in the future, has been cut down one by one, till all the points that the Ottoman government objected to are aban- doned, save two, and these are half aban. doned alao. In the programme of the preliminary Con- ference presented to the Sultan os a state- ment of the views of Europe with regard to what was necessary in Turkey, and the ac- ceptance of which the Porte was invited to consider in the Conference, there were tangible measures of reform. All the com- monplaces of former projects for the reform of Turkey were included in this scheme; but it also contained provisions not in the least degree sentimental for putting these propositions into effect. All subjects of the Sultan were to be equal before the law, as they are in theory ; religious freedom was guaranteed ; the fiscal machinery was to be reorganized and administered by function- aries trained in the Christian countries of Europe ; there were to be new land laws; the frontiers of Servia and of Montenegro were to be rectified at the expense of Tur- key ; the Turkish@pldiery was to be confined to certain designated places ; Bulgaria was to be divided into two provinces for the con- venience of future disintegrations of the Ottoman Empire; and, as the crowning fact, Turkey was not only to promise that all these things should be done, but they were not to be left to depend upon her promise; it was to be formally recognized that she had so often broken faith with Europe that she could no longer be trusted, and she was to consent that the reforms should be exe- cuted independently of her initiative or volition. As the figst material guarantee the nations of Europe were to be constituted part of the appointing power of the Ottoman govern- ment, and the designation of the governors of provinces by the Sultan’s Ministers was not to be valid until the appointments had received the assent of the Powers. No pub- lic man notoriously inimical to the reforms therefore ; no dyed-in-the-wool Moslem; no man inspired with the softa spirit and de- | termined from the first to so administer the | reforms as to defeat their purpose, could be- come the Governor of any one of these prov- | inces, and the future would be safe against one of the most fruitful sources of former | failure. Another guarantee was the creation | of an international commission, which was | to be, toward all the districts in which the reforms were to be applied, and with refer- ence particularly to the application of the | reform, precisely what the Sultan's Minis- | try is as to all the rest of the Ottoman Em- pire. But, as ‘words are of no effect with- | out the sword,” the third guarantee was in- | volved as the security of all, and this was to bea small army of occupation or military police large, enough to suppress tumults and put down irregular Moslem opposition-- the only kind to be anticipated. But all that was really effective in this gtand scheme is gone to thin air, either | abandoned altogether or so modified as to have lost any likelihood of being effective. Not a word has been heard of the military police these many days, and the plenipoten- tiaries are as silent on the subject as if they remembered with horror the spirit of temor- ity in which they made that proposition. The famous project of giving Europe power | over the appointment of governors is limited by a date, and the proposition for an inter- national commission is 80 amended that ench European officer shall be safely nullified by on Ottoman fastened to him like a drag. On | | these two latter points thus safely qualified the Conference insists and calls its demand for their acceptance an utimatum, Even as modified the project of the Con- ference has but little chance of acceptance by the Porte, and thy reason is that to-day the government at Constantinople is more thorongbly Turkish, more inspired with the | this season of the year. HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUAKY 18, 1877—WILT'H SUPPLEMEN™ ~~ been for a hundred years past. There is in power what may be called, in accordance with the political terminology of the times, a Young Turkish party, and as the party of Young Italy or Young Ireland or the analo- gous party of other countries of Western Europe is the extremest exponent always of the agitation in favor of political liberty, so the Young Turkey party is extrome in support of the characteristic agitation of Ottoman laws which takes the form of a revival of the Moslem spirit of fanaticism, intolerance and dominion by force of arms. In the elevation of Midhat Pacha to the first post in the government this party se- cured dominion, for the time, at least; for his appointment was the culmination of the series of revolutionary incidents that began with the dictation of a new policy to Abdul Aziz by the riotous softas last year. It is not certain that Russia does not secretly encourage the Ottoman government to reject the project of the Conference ; and if she does this it is not because her mil- itary preparations are in default. This pol- icy is susceptible of explanation on Sther grounds. Russia may fairly prefer that Turkey should reject rather than accept a programme not satisfactory to Russia ; for if it were accepted it would then be clothed with the sanction of the European powers, would prevent indefinitely further proposi- tions, and would prove merely s delusion with regard to reform in Turkey; while rejec- tion of the advice now given will make Europe indifferent in some degree to the fate of the Ottoman Empire, and will give the moral support of Christendom to the course that Russia will pursue. That Russia is abun- dantly capable of conquering the reforms refused we do not doubt, for all the stories about the bad condition of her army appear to be Polish inventions, while the rose-col- ored views of Turkey's preparations aro drawn with the happy art of the British cor- respondent, who is sometimes able to regard the strict truth as a mere detail not neces- sary to the effect of his picture. Don’t Hurt the People’s Health. So say the public spirited and conscien- tious railway officials who oppose car heat- ing. We add our feeble voice to theirs. It is with this idea in mind that the Heraxp pro- tests so earnestly against the cruel draughts and death-dealing chilliness peculiar to the horse car, which make a ten-minute journey by rail the beginning of many a visit to the doctor and the undertaker. For the same reason we object to the filthy wet straw which is so productive of discomfort and disease, and to the absence—while better protections against cold are denied us—of that dry straw which some directors laud so highly only to exclude it entirely from the | ice-cold floors of their cars. The same sen- timent prompts us to object to the foul at- mosphere of the closed car, for which might be substituted pure air and good ventilation by either one of several proposed methods of warming. Protect the peuple’s health, by all means, and begin where the danger is greatest—in the cold, foul boxes in which hundreds of thousands of people are com- pelled to travel every day. While the street car directors pre so lucidly explaining how all proposed methods of car-warming are either inef- fective or denth-dealing Newark people are travelling in a street car whose atmosphere is warm and pure. The system, devised by a prominent inventor, is practically that of the hot air furnace ; the heat is evenly distributed, and the apparatus is cheap, safe and out of sight. This experiment having proved ab- solutely successful there is no longer any shadow of excuse for the objections in which nobody but directors believe, and over which tho directors themselves doubtless laugh heartily in private. Even talking against time should be promptly frowned down by the Aldermanic committee, for every day's delay is detrimental to that health of the people about which the car owners are so tenderly solicitous. i. — + Our Pleasant Vices. From whiskey, tobacco and beer the goy- ernment has collected in the past year a | revenue of one hundred million dollars, which seems to indicate that the people have not stinted themselves os to their “pleasant vices” on account of hard times or because of anxiety over the difficult con- stitutional problems. The sixty-two mill- ion five hundred thousand gallons of spirit distitled from grain and molasses and the nine million barrels of beer on which the greater part of this tax was collected isa very extensive tipple even for forty millions of people. This little Niagara of exhilarat- ing fluids would supply about eight gallons for each voter. From a people who have smoked, chewed and snuffed thirty-nine million dollars into the national Treasury what miracles of patriotic devotion may we | not expect ? Statistics for the Police Bonrd, We present to the Police Commissioners this morning some new and interesting sta- tistics which will probably surprise those worthy gentlemen quite as much as they will umaze the public. Wet feet have long been the source not only of much discomfort but of most of the colds and diseases affect- ing the throat and lungs which prevail at Under the most favorable circumstances it is not easy to avoid them, but one day such as the day be- | fore yesterday is more destructive to lifeand health than would be a whole season with the streets properly kept. The tigures we print to-day, though they may -not be found among the archives of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, are not so fanciful as they may seem, Six thousand six hundred and seventy-five deaths from colds occasioned by wet feet aro not many in a period of more than six weeks in a city whose streets have been so utterly peglected as have been those of the city of New York. A loss of $2,754,225 in time, medical outlay and prop- erty destroyed may seem large; but it was not less in the condition which the storm of ‘Tuesday found the city. We trust these curious statistics will have the effect of stirring up the Police Commissioners to the | full performance of their duty, but whatever their effect in that direction, they cannot fnil to open the eyes of the people to the essential spirit of Moslemism, than it has | nefficiency of the denartment. | both political parties. Whe Joint Committee Have Agreed. ‘The fact that the Joint Committee, whose task was so difficult and yet important, and whose sessions have excited such uni- versal interest, have been able to agree on a plan, will be hailed in every part of the country as a favorable omen. The jubilant despatch sent by our Washington correspondent is, no doubt, a faithful reflec- tion of the enthusiasm and rense of relief which prevail at the national capital. So far os union in the committee may be ac- cepted as foretokening the success of its plan in the two houses the exuberant joy will be approved by sober minds. As we do not yet know what the plan of the committee is we must reserve our judgment until we see it. If it is so con- structed as to justify an expectation that it will be adopted by Congress we shall heartily join -in the loudest chorus of gratitude and applause which the country may bestow upon the committee and their labors. The plan is to be reported to Congress to-day, and we shall presently be in a position to judge of its value. We are confident that patriotic men in all parts of the country will be disposed to seek for merits and to pass over defects in the plan, if defects it should prove tp have. All lovers of peace will Be to its virtues very kind, Bo to Its faults a little bind, ; We have so much confidence in the com- mittee that we do not expect any very serious faults, We hope to be able to give it a warm, earnest support, not merely on the ground that any settlement is better than none, but on the higher ground that the committee have succeeded in devis- ing a method which is fair, wise, judicious and conciliatory, and against which no ob- | because they were repaid by the war a at which the insurance was made. loss as there was, then, really se the interest that paid those war rates, and that interest was the commerce of the coun- try. Equitably, therefore, the money be- longs to this interest, and the proposition to make such a use of it as may tend to re- vive and foster our commerce is the most thoroughly just that_has been put forth. General Augur'’s Letter to Packard. The commander of the Department.of the Gulf sent to Mr. Packard yesterday o com- munication which is quite as pungent as official decorum would permit. He em- ploys no epithets, but he makes it evident enough that Packard has been guilty of im- pertinence and misrepresentation. He tells Packard that he would not have replied to his letter at all but for the efrors in its statements respecting General Augur’s own conduct, for, although nominally addressed to him, it was sent to the newspapers and telegraphed North before he received it, and was not meant particularly for him. General Augur makes it clear that Packard has given a falso view of the status of the two parties, and that he is responsible for the existence of armed hpodies around the Court House, which put the peace of the city in constant jeopardy. It is owing to Packard's repented threats-to recapture the Court Honse that Nicholls has increased his force to guard and defend it. General Augur denies that he has made any request of either claimant, but he did send members of his staff to “inquire” of both if it were not possible for them to make some arrangement which would result in the dis- persion to their homes of the armed men on both sides, ‘This could not be construed as intermeddling with the politics of the State, “It was simply a suggestion,” says General Augur, “in the interest, as I thought, of peace, and to give a moment’s quiet to the citizens of this excited city.” He made no “qequest” in the matter, and says he had no right to make any request. General Augur is discharging his delicate duties in an ad- mirable spirit. jections can be made which are not captious or frivolous, Chief Justice Waite. We learn from an authentic source that the Chief Justice peremptorily. declines to be a member of the proposed board of referees for deciding disputed questions that may arise in counting the electoral votes. The reasons for his refusal are not stated. It is possible that they may grow out of his personal relations with Governor Hayes, a citizen of his own State, belonging to the same political party, and connected with him by pleasant associations and old ties of friendship. If it should happen that the most important decisions of the board turned upon his vote the Chief Justice may feel that he would be placed in a delicate situation. It is possible, however, that his decision rests upon other grounds having relation to the ordinary public duties of his great station.. As Congress has no power to compel him or any Judge of the Su- preme Court to perform duties which do not belong to their judicial offices, the refu- sai of the Chief Justice puts an end to all hopes that the proposed board will have the advantage of his presence and assistance, The joint committee must do the best they can with such materials as are at their disposal. They should not be discouraged even if all the judges should follow the ex- ample of the Chief Justice and decline to serve, The great point is to establish » tri- bunal composed of a small number of men of the highest character and consideration, to whom disputed questions may be referred for decision, and whose judgment is to be final unless overruled by a concurrent vote of both houses. We do not think that all the Supreme Court judges would refuse to serve, and as no one of them can represent the whole court, os the Chief Jus- tice would by the superior dignity of his position, it may bo expedient to secure the presence of several. The chief difficulty lies in securing an odd number by a method that would satisfy to take the six senior jndges, of whom three are said to be democrats and three republi- cans, and then drop one of them by lot to | make the odd number, each party having | We think | its chance to get the odd vote, this method ought to be avoided if possible. If five be deemed the proper number of | judges to be associated with the board, why might not the five democratic Congressmen to be put on the board select select two, and then let the four | judges select a fifth? It isa common prac- tice in private arbitrations for ench party to choose one arbitrator and those two a third, We sec no reason why the same principle j might not be applied inthe plan of the committee of conference. It would not only avoid the lot, which is a stumbling block to so many minds, but it would secure impartiality in the odd member who would have the casting vote. The plan must not be permitted to break down on a point that may be so easily accommodated as the selection of the odd member of the | board, Any plan will be better than none, It is certain thai the two houses themselves can never agree on the disputed questions, | and the only hope of pence is in transfer- ring the decision to a small body of honor- able referees. tional calamity if no acceptable plan is agreed on by the committee. The Alabama Money. It seems not unlikely that in the growth | of opinion the disposition of this money originally suggested in these columns will be extensively favored—n fact of which we are the more hopetul as it has already found an advocate in the President. Opinion has alrendy assumed a form that cannot be pleasant to the distinguished lawyers who represent the varions claimants in so far as it regards the money as justly held by the government to be eqnitabiy de- voted to the indemnification of persons who really lost by the depredations of the rebel cruisers. Owners whose ships were destroyed did not lose if they were paid for those ships by the insurance companies, ond tha inanranna anmnaniea did nat lowe. It has been proposed | two | | judges, the five republican Congressmen ; It will be a deplorable na- | The Charity Balls, Benevolence, even in n generous com- munity, needs to be quickened and led. Thousands of people are willing and anxious to assist the poor, but are ignorant of the best methods, Experience has proved that organization is as essential in charity as it is to business, and that it is wiser in individuals to employ competent agents than to depend upon their own observation. One of the most successful methods of raising funds for special charite- ble purposes is to make the pleasure of the public the instrument of its good will, Iu no other way than that adopted by the man- agers of the New York theatres could so large a sum have been raised for the benefit of the Brooklyn sufferers. By no other means than the performance given yester- day at the Fifth Avenue Theatre could the poor of St. Stephen’s parish have received such immediate assistance. The ballroom is an equally fascinating mode of combining generosity with amusc- ment. When our belles and beaux chase the glowing hours with flying feet, and the music of Strauss or Offenbach arises with voluptuous swell, every delicious waltz, every delicate strain is an offering at a double shrine. The charity ball is benevo- lence made easy. The rich do not miss their pleasure and the poor find their profit. It is beautiful to think that all this youthful gayety and ardor, these splendid lights and fragrant flowers, do not vanish and fade with the night, but that their perfume and brilliancy penetrate to the homes of the destitute. The grand Charity BaJl to be given at the Academy of Music the 1st of February, the Orphans’ Ball, the ball in aid of the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer and others of the winter | show how readily society can make even its | joys a blessing to the poor. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Murat Halstoad has hazel eyes. Sankey’s son is a converted chinner, Wovdlord was a Yale tellow, well met. Mrs, Surtoris wears turquoise ornaments, Great numbers of Hebrews are buying land In Pales" tine, Washington {a called tho political soup house of the nation, Josh Billings will give up lecturing and return to spelling. ‘Tramps intest Long Isinnd; but the watermelon crop | ts wate, | \atk is very pure In those parts of Hoboken where | the pumps are frozon, In 1701, at New Orleans, water would freezo while | being poured into glasses. | s Indy of Lyons, France, edits the Volcano, and she | isa sweet, active crater, The Duke of Argyle played billiards, He used to | make some awtul seratehes, senator Sargent thinks that the Ball-dozors ought to be armed with a bell penen, “Chinese babies never cfy.’’ But, you know the Chines y is only a little tea-thing, The Lowi«ville Courier-Journal likes not Soldene in | tights nor ‘The Two Orphans” tn rags. | De, Schteman 1s digging among more pottery, and he is never so happy as when he 1s 1 his caps, | sire. Colonel Andeorenl wears black velvet, with | black lace net, embroidered with steel and jet. | What Wade Hampton really dishkes 1s that the | negro loginiator should aet wi th so much Pomposity, Clara Louise Keitogg ts said to cat onton soup for nor No wonder her auditors have tears in their | voice, eyes. In South Carolina when young couples elope a min, ister keeps alongside of them and marries them ag | hey ru. A Ladiow cow ato twenty-nine abingle nails, evi- | dently thinking that she was dining on boarding | house turkey. | Nell Gwynne mittens” are mado of, black and | white Chantilly, reach above the elbow and are very fastionabte in London, “M, C.”? senda as the following stem-winder:—“lt a bark loses her Horseshoe, would 1 be possible! to sh it up with a Sandy Hook?” Jersey City has a goat that chews tobacco for a liv- ing; and not one ot the Odd Fellows’ lodges offers to tuke the poor old thing In, Fitty million pros are made every day in England, | and yot im all that country there ts not a tan who can | pin a stiff collar on a sti! neckband without spelling heaven in four letters. It it were not for cxperiments in science nothing would ever be Jenrned; at least this was the opinion of the Newark man who asked his wifo to put ber tongue to a cold lamppost, Miss Storrs, who is travelling with Sothern, rescued achild from a hay im ‘St. Lows, and while endeavor ing to get it into a hack she was considerably injured by the horse running away. It was un old but a good thing said by a French “=| TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE SITUATION IN THE EAST. The Turkish Grand Council to Consider a Reply to the Powers. RUSSIANIZING THE SERVIAN ARMY. Probability of Russia Commencing Hos- tilities in/ the Spring. PREPARING TO CROSS THE PRUTH, Reports of Demoralization in the Russian Army Exaggerated, TCHERNAYEFF IN PARIS. German Social Democrats—The aris Exhibition, {Y CABLE TO THE HERATD.] Loxpor, Jan. 18, 1877. We nrestill anxiously awaiting the reply of the Porte to the modified proposals of tho Conierence, and tho newspapers are speculating editorially on the probable result, The Times has evidently little taith in the preservation of ponce. ‘THM TIMES ON THK PROSPECTS OF PEACE. The Times, in its leading editorial, discusses the opinion, whieh is held by a large portion of the press and by the public generally, that Russia will quietly accept the abortive couciusion of the Conference, and says:—'Wo trust it will prove correct, But if we hold this opinicn it must bo as a matter of faith and not of evidence, What are the facts upon which a judgment should be founded? The Czar’s Moscow speech re- mains unmodified by any later utterance,” SIGNIFICANT RUSSIAN PREPARATION, Tho Russian army is now indisputably in s high state of preparation. The Iatest news from Odessa, in a letter dated January 2 and published = in the Cologne Gatetle, is that the.railway company bas again been ordored to suspend goods traffic from January 15, as large num: bers of troops, especially from the vicinity of Moscow, are to be sent southward. ADDRESSES TO THR CZAR. It ts admitted that addresses continue te pour in upon tho Czar almost daily from all parts of tho Empire. The correspondent wht states this fact adds, however, what is o} course his personal impression, that the popular en- thusiasm {s fast dying out. Allowing full weight for his judgment, the inference from tho above facts must bo that the Uzar has not abandoned his purpose, MEANING OF IGNATIRFF’S CONCILIATION, On the other hand, General Ignatie® has been the foremost advocate of conciliation at Constantinople. Are wo to interpret Ignatief’s attitude as showing that the Czar wants an excuse to retrain from war, or is it simply a demonstration of his zeal for peace, which, having failed, leaves him free to talfl the Moscow declaration? One alternative is as plaust+ ble as the other. THE STATE OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY. A correspondent at Bolgrade says that infor. mation derived from Russian officers who have arrived at Belgrade from Kichineff shows that previous accounts of the had condition of the army were ex- aggerated. I am inclined to believe, continues the correspondent, that tho Russians aro not averse to allowing their enemies to un te tho strength of the blow they are prepared to PREPARING TO CROSS THE PRUTH, A Berlin despatch says that the preparations tocross the Prath actively continue. ‘THE TURKISH GRAND COUNCIL. A despatch from Constantinople says it is belioved that the Grand Council to-morrow will reject the final proposals of the Powers. ‘THE I88UK OF PAPER MONRY. ‘The Turkish governmont is stated to have geeided for the prosent not to issue the seven million Turkish pounds paper money which was recently decreed, THR VORTE UNLIKELY TO YIELD, All the Constantinople correspondents of the London journals, and nearly all those at other European cen- tres, express the decided opinion that the Turks wil} not yield, GERMANY AND THE CONFERENCE, A despatch trom Berlin says:—**lt is stated that Baron Von Werther, the German Ambassador at Con. stantinople, is instructed not to sign the final protoco. about to be submitted to the Conference without hay ing'previdusly reported its text to Prince Bismarck and received a reply.’ THK ULTIMATUM OF THE POWERS. A despatch from Constantinople says the ultimatam is a more efficient document than at first supposed, It does not sacrifice the executive powers of the Inter national Comm.ssion. ‘THY BASHI-BAZOUK OUTRAGE, Safvet Pacha, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Af. fairs, has ordered the Turkish commandant at Silis- trin to punish the basht-bazouks who crossed the Dan- ube on ths night of the 8th inst. and plundercd a Rou- manian outpost aod killed two Roumaniun soldiers, A Pera despatch reports that Turkey and Servia have agreed to an exchange of prisonors, RUSSIAS SUPPLIES FROM GERMANY. Adespateh from Paris says it is stated thero thas Russia has couotermanded all the supphes which she had ordered in Germany. RUSSIANIZING A SERVIAN BRIGADE. A despatch from Bolgrade reports that the Russian Colonel Milaradovi, commanding a brigade 6,400 strong, composed of Sorvians, Bulgarians, Russians and others, jn Servia, has promulgated an order of the day nouncing that the brigade will heneeforth be paid by the Russian government. The first paymont was to be made on Tuesday, TONERNAYRYF IN PARIS. It 1s announced from Paris that General Tchernayef has arrived in that city from Dresden. WAR VROBABLE IN THK SPRING. General Tchernayoff, interviewod in Paris, sald he doubted not that war would be renowed in tho spring. WHAT WILL THE POLES DO? ‘ABerlin correspondent declares, notwithstanding the reports to the cor ry, that the Poles seem doter- mined to take adva of Russia’s dificulties, The North German Gazette states that the Powers whose in- terests ate involved are paying greater attention to Polish agitation than heretolore. Russia has rescinded the ukase by which emigrants were enabled to return to Poland undor certain conditions, GERMANY AND THE PARIS EXHINITION, A special despatch from Berlin states that negotia- tions havo been reopened between Germany and France, and thero is now a probability that Germany will reconsider her original decision and agree to pare ticrpate in the Paris Exhibition in 1878, THK GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, A Berlin despatch says that tho socialists are not | likely to succeed in any of the second ballots for Pars Nament, as the conservative partios are now thore oughly united against them, excopt ts ultramone tanes, who will support the socialists in some dis. triets, The government proposes to rointroduce the Dill already once before Parliament making more se- vero several provisions agai alist ogitations, CORT OF THK INDIAN Bs Tho governmont of India has forwarded a despatch to the India Oflice at London, estimating tho total cont to the State on account of the relief works and other moasures for mitigating the famine in Madras and Bombay at £6,590,000, paragtapher lately to the oflect that ho hates a girl when she Is trying to be a woman and » woman when Vaho sa trving to be a girl, THR VACANT CARDINALATES. A Rome correspondent says that tt is beligved Pope _ Pius intends to fill vn all the vacant cardinalaves: