The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1877, Page 8

, . southward NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business, news lotters or be sddremed New Yous Hrna’ tters and packages should bo properly seated. sLcommunien ions will not be returned, fa rabies FERLADELI ITA OFFIC ‘OQ 12 SOUTH SIXTH aTRERYT. LONDON OFFICE OF THE SEW YORK HERALD— a0 Ae’ Reb. AVENUE DE LIOPERA. NO, 7 STRADA PAC! ceived and AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. PARK THEATRE.—Lxo PARISIAN SKATING DAILY, TIVOLL THEATRE.—Vani RAGLE TH“ATRE.--Variery. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS KELLY & LEON'S MINSTR: iad uM. NEW YORK AQua UELLER'S THEATRE. EGYPTIAN WALL. —Sxs: GILMOKE'S GARDEN. — PARISIAN VARIETIF: NEW AMERIOAN MU QUADRUPLE | RESTIDIGITATION, Rann EQuestaian Festivar, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, 5 toca = = aoe NOTICE TO COUNTRY DE The Adams Express paper train over the Vencsyivania Railroad ana its connectionz, teaving Jerscy City ata quarter past four 4. M. daily and Sunday, carryivg the regular edition ofthe Henan as far West as Harrisburg and Sonth to Vhilndetphia at @ quarter past ‘ompany ran a special news- Washington, reaching, six A. M, and Washington at one P. 3. From our reports his morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be cooler and partly cloudy or clear. Watt Street Y. lation indicated The market at the close was firm. The stock specu- contidence in higher prices. Gold ad- vanced from 106} to 1063s. Money on call | was supplied at 5 and 4 per cent. Government Donds were strony and railway mortgages steady. Investment securities are in fair demand. Tue Lec: Laces, detailed claewhere, are full of warning sgninst getting unmarried by incompetent hands. A STRANGE AND APPARENTLY VERITABLE in- stance of premonition of coming danger is related eday under the head of “Saved from Ashta- bula.” More Time is asked for by the Continental Lite Insurance Company's receiver. Was there ever a suspicious business transaction for which the same plea was not made ! How Hanpv it is to have a neighbor to blame for one’s own troubles! The Dominion Board of Trade used the United States for this purpose yesterday, but they are not likely to find any profit in it. Tue Evins or THE 2 Tt House were mever more effectively presented than in the cold figures of the mortality report of the Board of Health. More than bulf the deaths in 1876 were in these houses, though not a tenth portion of the popniace live in them. \ Howse has nded by the Tae Site FoR THE New 0} been selected in the locality recor Hera. vice about the organi and the people will opera being unremun: tion of his lyric company, ry no more about the “at ‘Tne Conviction ¢ Pennsylvania Railroad ferry ticket sellers should he a caution to em- ployés of all corporations. ‘The readiness of th prosecution in joining the jury in asking for a | light sentence shows that the corporation has « son! despite the old proverb. Two oF THe Cuaracters in Sue's immortal novel, “The Wandering Jew,” suddenly reappear in an American romance Rose and Bla Sue's half sisters, the heroines of the stor alluded to, come into a New York court to recover certain property which they bel to be anjustly withheld from them, Rory elaewhere. [fr Seems tuar Mayor cal of the would. reformers of municipal administration. It is enough to make aman rub his eyes and wonder it he is awake to read that i Mayor of New York thinks that instead of séveral heads of departments one man should be sutti- cient, and that the city could get along with hall’ its present force of employes, Hf the Mayor backbone is equal in force to his brain there is joy ehead for the taxpayer. LY the most ra “s Tae Weatner.—Dnring its progress easiward the storm area which wo noticed yesterday de- veloped considerably, and by the time i rhed the mouth of the St. Lawrence River the central pressure fell to 28.93 inches, The track of the centre of disturbance lay northward of lakes, Iut its sonthern margin extende into Tennessee. A conside area of precipitation attended the storm, t heaviest rainfall occurring in the lower lake Ohio Valley regions. Snow fel! at Grand Haven, Mich., Oswego and at two points in Canal High winds prevailed at Montres! and Quebec, the and at points in the Jake region and on the At | Jantic coast. Another depression is now advimcing from the Northwest, with strong winds and rain. Heavy snows and rain have prevailed on the 1 cifte const, the former causing an intermpt ie Failroad tratlic over the Sierra Nevada mountains. Rain has also fallen on the Gull coast. An aren of high pressure is now cen in the Lower Missouri and Mississippi val and another is moving off the Florida const. changes in the Western rivers have taken place within the past twenty-four hours:—In the OW at Pittabury, # rine of two inches: at Cincinnati a rise of one foot one inch, the river being new three feet eight inches above the danger line; at Louisville a rise of two feet one ineh—present level. five feet fonr inches wbove the danger line. In the Mississippi. at Cairo, a rise of two feet nine inches: at Vicksburg a rise of one foot three inches; at New Orleans a rine of cight inches, In the Curaberiand, at Nashville, @ rine of cleven inches. The tem- perature has risen decidedly throughout the country. ‘The storm now leaving the coast will probably reach the British Islands on. the 25th or ‘2Uth of this month. Now let Mr. Strakosch follow our ad- We publish their | The following | and the Conference of Con- stant! pie. All the politics of Europe for some time to come will date from the situation created by the failure of the Conference of Constan- tinople, and the precise relation of the sev- eral governments to that body and the posi- tion and presumed functions of the Confer- ence itself are, therefore, points of a cer- tnin importance in contemporary history They appear to be misunderstood in places where ignorance on these pgints might seem scarcely possible if we did not know how, in an intense interest in the phase that events preseat to-day, we often forget alto- gether the phase they presented yesterday | and the day before, and how the regular re- currence to little remembered bits of news is necessary to correct an erroneous drift of j opinion. In the London Morning Pos! of the 19th occurs the following reference to Turkey's course toward the Conference: --‘'At a time when treaties have been torn to rags and inter- national equity disregarded, when the might of huge Powers and overwhelming armies are terrorizing smaller States, when each giant is restrained by no consideration of law or justice, but only by calculations’! | brute force and the weighing of alliances pro and con, it has been reserved for Turkey ! to stand forth boldly as the champion of treaty rights and European order.” ‘These are very remarkable words in view of their source. Althongh the Post is not an accred- ited organ of any element in British polities its tory sympathies are recognized as an in- ions derive x certain consequence from the fact that it is commonly believed to “know what is thought’ in the circles that glory in association with all British government, ani to be eager to give value to its columns by making them the vehicle of such thoughts, Tt views like this are held in the circles whose thonghts the Post endeavors to express—if these opinions ave approved and conversation anything like this is current in those circles—then there is dissension in the tory party itself, and a storm is imminent; for important | elements of the party are fiercely opposed | to the course to which the party has com- | mitted England in the recent negotiations. Some appearance of probability is given, | moreover, to the whisper which is spreading itself throughout Europe that England at } Constantinople presented herself with two \ faces—-one for the Conferenee and the | | world, and one for Midhat Pacha in private. Turkey, in the words quoted, is plumed | as the solitary nation in Europe that stands up for freedom and independence; as an ideal figure of national chivalry; as the | only ‘champion of treaty rights and Euro- | pean order.” One of the Powers against | which she defends these excellent things is | England. If by the refusal to accept the advice of Europe as formulated at the Con- ference Turkey has become a defender of order in Europe and the sacred obligation of treaties, then the Conference must have proposed the violation of some treaties and an inroad upon that order: and if the Con- ference did this England did it, for the Con- | ference acted in no particular without the assent of England’s representative; for the | Conference was a peace-making machinery, planned and produced by English states- | men. | An assumption, behind the expressions NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JA | part in it ih order to reconstruct this inpsed separable part of its existence, and its opin- | very highly placed personages in the | | which cannct result from its ignorance, must | we assume that the view thus given is thrown | stances in diplomatic history where states- ! through the relations of those people to the | rites of her Church. By the most flagrant and outrageous violations that the world | ever saw of her own pledges which were one of the conditions of the treaty Turkey had in October last forfeited every claim to the protection of the treaty, If a protection is assured on condition of the performance of certain acts, and those acts are not per- formed after twenty years’ waiting, how can | it be claimed that the protection is due? Europe's protectorate over the Eastern Christians instituted by the treaty had therefore failed; Turkey was not only out- side the limits of the treaty as to her acts, | manity as to be in that condition when by ! the recognized usages of nations she was amenable to the restraints of force majeure, no matter by whom applied; she had just: | fied by her course the act of any Power | that should invade her territory and put | her down, and such correction at the hands of Russia was imminent. Then ; England, fully cognizant of all this, and | always equally eager to prevent Russian | activity in Turkish affairs, proposed the Con- | ference and appealed to the Powers to take | ! protectorate, in order to place Turkey once | more inside those limits of international law within which the Powers would protect | her against the aggressions of Russia; but | , Turkey's flat refusal to accede to the terms | England had seenred with such labor has | outlawed her completely. ; Fora prominent English journal to con- | template Turkey in such a case as the de- | fender of trenties is a strange perversion of | facts, It would argue great ignorance of | | contemporary history if such an explanation were admissible, which it clearly is not. } But if an organ inspired within the tory | party puts forth a particular view of events out as the basis and indication of a party policy? An inquiry in this connection likely to make a noise in Europe is, Did England deal sincerely with the Confer- ence? We should not like to doubt the straightforward quality of British diplo- macy in a case like this. There are in- men have organized conferences to bring nations to terms and organized the resist- ance of the nation to the terms, and thus played extensively a double game, but this is not in the spirit of English politics. It is repugnant to John Bull to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds at the same time. But English journals well informed de- clare that some Power encouraged -the Grand Vizier to resist the Conference, and it is declared in Constantinople that this Power was England ; that while the Marquis of Salisbury was with the Conference the British Ambassador, Sir Henry Elliot, under instructions, more or less secret, from his government, was with the Porte against the Conference, Such views of the Conference as we have quoted from a leading tory organ can but strengthen this impression. But if | there is any truth in this the Marquis of Salisbury will know it, and he is.the last man in England to accept with impunity an indignity such as this would constitute. If such a scandal exist it will therefore be impossible to smother it. Our London and Paris Cable Letters. of the Morning Post, is that the Conference was held in violation of that clause in the | Treaty of Paris by which it was declared | that a certain communication made to the | Congress of 1856 should not become a prec- | edent for the intervention of the Powers | between the Sultan and his subjects, that | clanse being interpreted as a guarantee of Turkey's independence. But the clause | was not such a guarantee, as was shown on | | the authority of Lord Palmerston, and if it | had been the Conference could not be re- | garded as a violation of it, which may be seen by aslight reference to its history. This Conference was proposed by Lord | Derby in instructions to the British Ambas- sador at Constantinople, dated October 5, | 1876. It was the suggestion of England, | therefore, made in a spirit of good will toward the Ottoman government in order to exhaust the endeavor to find a basis on which Europe could support Turkey under | the Treaty of Paris against the supposed am- | bition of her northern neighbor. All the | endeavors of the Andrassy note and the Berlin memorandum had failed. There was | | war between ‘Turkey on one side and Servia and Montenegro on the other, and it was hourly imminent that Russia would be added tothe number of belligerents ; for Russia, in common with all Enrope, was greatly | excited over Moslem doings in Buly Lord Derby had declared that ‘tno pe nsiderations would justify the toleration of such acts.” Tf this view was held in Eng- land it could not be supposed that the cone | sideration of the Treaty of Paris would re- | strain a nation of Slavic people. Mediation was then made by England between the bel- ligerents, At Enyland's suggestion Servia invited the mediation. Ingland acted and Turkey consented to treat for peace in that way. Ontof that mediation grew the Con- | ference almost inevitably, for the war was a | consequence of the faiinre of the Powers to | entoree Turkey to respect the rights of her | peopl das England had deteated the | Kerlin memorandum she seemed, in a spirit ot aud even statesinanship, to wise, honorable, generous gatd herself as under moral obligation to find an acceptable sub- stitute for that avreemenut as aba | 8 of p ‘Thus the Conterence did not originate | a spirit inimical to the Treaty of Paris, but | was an endeavor to maintain and continue the validity of tl treaty. Before the ‘Treaty of Paris Russia had exercised a prac. tical and effective protectorate over the | Christian subjects of the Ottoman Empire, | j and had interfered repeatedly m their be- half. But the Western Powers saw that the continuance of that protectorate would end in the substitntion of Russian for Ottoman dominion throughout Turkey, and they made the Crimean war against its further exercise, They could not, however, leave the Christians defenceless, and Europe itself therefore assumed by the treaty that function with regard to the Christians in Turkey which had formerly been an exclusive attribute of Russia | where, like another Uriah, he would fall, | death { jensen That the Conference should engross the attention of the French and, English capitals, particularly the latter, is not surprising. Paris, the breeding ground of the canard, sends us ao few sen- | sational birds, whose plumage it is hard to distinguish {from the bird of } the unconscionable tale of which the Roor- back is an American variety. ‘The story of a grappled Pacha and an unsheathed scimetar has a wild look, and the suppo- sition that Lord Beaconsfield put Salisbury in the forefront of the diplomatic battle, has a very weak foundation, though the growing difference between these chiefs of | the tory party gives the ungenerous a chance to shape their own conclu- sions. The report of the operatic fiasco in London is & sad one. Woe to the foreigner who lays sacrilegious hands ona subject which Shakespeare has brought under the blaze of his genius! The Parisian doctors who have doomed Gambetta to in a couple of years certainly speak the wish of so large a party | of reactionists that we are fan to hope science has only stumbled in the dark against the thought to which the wish was father. To hear that Mile. Albani, who went back to France almost broken hearted at her cold recep. | tion here, has burst forth a great | queen of song at the Italiens, will be good | news to those who saw all the promise as | well as all the merit of the young American | eantatrice. Indeed, wo are certain that a great many wise people will at once discover how much they admired ner—when they didn't, The officer of the Guards who has backed him- self to ride against a snail would be a very fair type of Horse Guards celerity. It may turn ont, after all, to be another illustration of the old hare and tortoise fable or of the more charming Brazilian sun myth. Offenbach’s book has too much Offenbach and London has too much smallpox. So runs the record of tho, | two great cities a5 mirrored in onr letters, Any Practicable Plan, The Aldermen deserve credit for the | promptness with which they took up the subject of heating the street cars during the cold winter months when the popular de- roand made itself heard. But they will lose all they have gained, and, in addition, lay themselves open to the charge of imbecility or worse, if they delay practical action until | the warm breath of spring brings relief to the suffering passengers. There is no good | reason why they should not have adopted an | | | | ordinance last Thursday requiring the sev- eral railroad’ companies to provide some means of warming their cars, ‘They have | decided that they possess the power to make | | and enforce such a law and that the neces- | sity for it exists. This is all they need to | know. That cars can be and are heated in | other cities, by various methods other than | but she was so far outside the limits of hu- | o | plained. | ensue. | rights to the proposed tribunal they can | have but little | and of Mr. Metz’s theme also, that Jesus stoves—the use of which is impracticable in New York—has been shown by evidence be- fore the committee. Neither theAldermen nor any other persons have the right to say - what plan shall be adopted. ‘Tit is a mat- | ter belonging wholly to the railroad compa- nies and is for them to decide, All the peo- ple want is proper warmth in the cars, and any plan that will give them that will be acceptable, whether it be side heaters, with registers, hot water pans, steam pipes or anything else. The companies can suit themselves as to the method they adopt, but they certainly ought to be compelled to give relief to the passengers before the winter is ver. 1 Opening of the Great Debate. | The calm, clear and forcible speech in which Mr. Edmunds opened the. debate in the Senate yesterday on the bill to provide a method of counting the electoral vote will afford encouragement and gratification to those who have been fearful that party zeal | and prejudice would prevent a fair and con- | stitutional settlement of the critical ques- | | | i | i} | tion that has already too long disturbed the country. The excellent work of the com- mittee is sufficient proof of the truthfulness of Mr. Edmunds’ assertion, that its members | laid aside all partisan feeling and united in | reporting the bill with a solemn sense of the ! important duty with which they were charged. The best proof of the honest equity of their plan is to be found in the | political , tri- | \ fact that it is bitterly denounced j by those to whom a umph is of more consideration than the preservation of constitutional govern- | ment; and who would consent to win a | party victory by such an unworthy trick as that practised in Oregon or through the un- disguised rascality of such an infamous body as the Louisiana Returning Board? But the value of Mr. Edmunds’ speech is to be! found in the convincing argument by which the constitutionality of the committee's plan | is maintained and in the clearness with which the provisions of the bill are ex- | The opponent's of the bill have assailed its constitutionality and questioned the right of Congress to delegate its powers to any tribu- nal whatever. We have already exposed the weakness of this position, and the debate in the Senate will satisfy that body that it can- not be maintained. The committee em- braced in its composition some of the sound- est constitutional lawyers as well as the most | experienced legislators in Congress. Mr. Edmunds himself won high reputation at the Bar, and has been Speaker of the House | and President of the Senate in his State, in | addition to his eleven years of service in the United States Senate. Mr. Freling- huysen was Attorney General of New Jersey betore he became United States Senator. Roscoe Conkling’s ability as a lawyer is conceded. Mr. Thurman has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. Mr. Bayard was United States District Attorney for Delaware. Mr. Ransom has been At- torney Gencral of North Carolina. Out of the seven Representatives on the committee six are lawyers of reputation in their re- spective States. It is not probable, there- fore, that the committee's plan would be assailable on constitutional grounds, and the debate will dispose of any such objec- tions. Asa wise settlement it receives the approbation of the whole nation outside the few extreme and selfish politicians, Democratic Lunacy. Mr. Willis, of this city, and Mr. Tarbox, | of Massachusetts, have won for themselves the unenviable distinction of being the first members of the House of Representatives to raise a voice against the joint committee's | plan for counting the electoral vote, Mr. | Chittenden spoke in its favor. We can con- ceive of no policy more suicidal or more un- | reasonable than that of democratic opposi- | tion to the proposed settlement. ‘The dem- ocrats have insisted that no honest tribunal could consent to allow the vote of the republican electors in Louisiana to be given to Governor Hayes, and have denounced with proper severity the claim set up by Mr. Morton, Secretary Chandler and others that the Vice President of the Senate has the sole and: irresponsible power of opening and counting what electoral votes he may decide to be regular and declaring the result, Yet when a proposition is made to submit the question of disputed votes to an honest tribunal, under a bill which dis- poses of the assumed powers of the Vice President, democratic Congressmen are | found in opposition to its adoption. Suppose the committee’s bill should fail through the aid given to the extreme repub- licans by democratic representatives. The republican majority in the Senate, released from the responsibility of opposing and de- feating a fair and constitutional method of counting the vote, would have no other plan before them than such as may be gathered from the letter of the constitution. ‘The re- publicans possess all the machinery for inaugurating « President, and the bill of the committee is a voluntary yield- ing up of this advantage of position. It is true they would not be justified in dis- honestly counting in a President, but they nevertheless prove that they hold the in- terests of the country and of republican institutions nboye the interests of party when they assent to the committee's plan. Should that plan be defeated by democrats the democracy would be directly responsi- ble for any evil consequences that might If they fear to trust Mr. Tilden’s th in bis title to the Presi- dency. Indeed, it seems impossible that any democrat of sane mind can offer the slightest opposition toa settlement for which the party has been clamoring for the past two months. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Among the topics to be considered to-day by our city pastors missions will receive the | attention of The bishop of this diocese and of two bishops elect, and also of Dr. Hall and Mr. Marling. And with this theme agrees that which Mr. Giles will expand-— namely, “fhat Truth isthe Essential Means of all Progress, both Spiritaal and Natural,” Christ is the great fact of history and the mighty Saviour, Popular scepti | our financial reverses will furnish lessons of | the proud persecutor of Christians, will be | from the ordinary reports of ! Prison Association are the neediest of the | ostracised they return homeless and penni- | almost incapacitated for work by that de- | ing of their own purse strings ; they endeavor | to provide employment, and generally suc- | association’s treasury, and it is a disgrace to ARY 21, 1877.—-QUADRUPLE SHEET. aay | combat aa to push the claims of trath until | | LONDON SHADOWS, men accept Christ's offer of salvation, as Mr. Farnham will do to-day. The influence of Christianity in the future in promoting temperance, purity and the brotherhood of | nations will be demonstrated by Dr. Smith, and the relative worth or worthlessness of decision and indecision by Mr. Moment. Wayside laborers of Jesus will have a word dropped in their ears by Mr. Searles, while wisdom and of faith to Dr. Armitage and his people. The glory of God as revealed in His sons and in the conversion of Paul, illustrated by Mr. Lloyd to-day, while self-denial will be enforced by Mr. Lightbourn. A Noble Charity. ‘The forthcoming report of the Prison Asso- ciation is a book by nature entirely different societies. Without disparagement to the claims of other objects of charity it may be said that men and women who are sted by the needy. From lives of weakness, sin and shame they disappear behind prison walls, and to the world from which they are socially less, often worse than when they were con- victed, to find all ordinary ways of self-sup- port closed against them, and themselves struction of individual force and spirit which the discipline of most prisons works 80 effectively. If they look only to ordi- nary humanity for aid and encouragement the result is almost always disgraceful to humanity and ruinous to themselves. But just here the officials of the Prison Associa- tion come to their relief; they display to the poor wretches that sympathy which to most of them is anew revelation ; they tes- tify to the sincerity of their sentiments by that most convincing of all acts, the loosen- ceed gn doing so, and they stimulate the self-respect of all discharged convicts who have any desire to lead better lives. For manifest reasons the work of the association | is conducted with the greatest privacy, and it is but once a year that the public is made acquainted with the vast amount of good ac- complished. Many a highly wrought re- mance is less thrilling than the pages of these reports, as all who have read them will admit. The work is one whose extent and effective- ness is limited only by the condition of the either hard-hended social philosopher or warm-hearted Christian that any such limi- tation should be allowed to prevent the reformation of men and women who are in themselves almost powerless for good but terribly effective for evil. We commend this charity to the attention of all who wish to put their money where it will do tho most | good. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, | ‘Wheeler looks like Wade. Gough has recovered, and is in Chicago, Jacksonville, Fla., bas 13,000 inhabitants. Blind Tom Is playing 10 Pennsylvania towns, Many Vermonters are raising sheep in Colorado, 1 Charles W. Jay 18 to be editor of the Newark (N. J.) Register. General Babcock owns an orange grove tn Orange county, Florida. s The Wilmington (N. C.) Star says that good will reigns in that State, ‘The average Russian lives on black bread and garlic, and is very strong. } College journals are remarkable for fine press work | and commonplace writing. Mr, Willamov, Secretary of the Ru: Washington, is at the Everett House, | Jokes about the weather ur old thaws, but who ever | thaw a thaw thaw as this thaw thaws? Wendell Phillips will mako a flying lecturing trip to | tho West during the last of this month. General William 1. Sherman arrived at the Fifth ‘Avenue Hotel yesterday trom Washington. New Yorkers are surprised when they see the sign ona Western store, “Oyster meats for sale here.’ The astronomers think that tho moon was cremated long ago, but that it ts in a sort of in-cinderary condl- tion. ‘Aman who is himselfa fraud ia likely to take the | other fellow for an honest nan whom heis fooling, ana | n Legation at vier versa. The mad. in Kentucky fs very deep, and when a | Loutaville girt goes aboard of one of her arctic rubbers she has to be towod ‘The Chicago Inter-Ocean says that Biilow is a philon- opher, while Essipoff is a poet, and that the latter 1s not well enough patronized. | sun and moon together could not stir the atmosphere at aquicker rate than five miles a day. M. Fancher bas invented a machine for driving horses by electricity. A child, by this means, can drive and curb the most fractious animal. Miss Sirrie 8S, Townsend, daughter of Mr. John D. Townsend, sails for Europe in the Brittanic this morning. She will spend the winter in Paris, trade is that the merchants of the former city are practical, waite those of the latter city are dreamers, Judge Levisee, the Louisiana elector who refused a bribe of $100,000 to vote for Tilden, is an Ohio man, and was a follower of Bell and Evorett, He has lived in Loutsiana sinco 1847. Evening Telegram:—"A Long Island lawyer, winning acase for his client, pocketed tho damages of $95, ‘and retused to give them up. The victorious plain- tf goos sadly about the town, wondering whether a justification by legal process 1s such a dazzling thing after all,’? Festivals in honor of the orb of heaven were held among the Teutonic iribes, especially in the height of summer, more turning toward spring The symbol of the deity to whom worship wus addressed naturally be- came the sacred dish of the occasion, Ab Southern California, the people are eating strawberries and ice cream, linen dusters are worn, and, soys the Press, “Over a dozen divers were having a good time this morning from the spring boards and ladders at the new bathing house, The water is as warm as it was jast August.” ‘The well known legend 1s that a seholar of Queen's Coltege, about 400 years ago, was walking 10 deep ined- itation in a neighboring forest, when he was attacked by a boar, He quickly despatched the animal by throwing down its throat the Aristotle he was just reading, with the romark, ‘G@racum est'—‘It's Greek |’ in honor of this miraculous escapo the Boar's Head Dinner was introduced at Christmas, and a bust of Aristotle adorns to this day the large froplace m the college ball. The toilette of a Japanese damse! 1s a mattor of no she must be up and dressing long before the sun rives trom bebind the great sacred mountain, Fuj, The long, coarso tresses of raven black hair most be washed, combed and greased til the head shines hike a rouged to the proper tint; the throat, neck and boom powdered, carciully leaving, however, on the nape of the neck three lines of the original brown skin of the owner, In accordance with the rules of Japanose cos- metic aft; the eyebrows must bo carefully rounded and Laplace calculated that the joint attraction of the | ‘The rengon why Chicago leads St, Lours in the grain | | The and in winter when the season was once | nta Barbara, the wivter watering place o; | hight consideration, and to be in good time for the fair | knob of polished black marble; the cheeks must be | War Cloud in the Orient'Again Looming Up. eeereeeental i BREAK UP OF THE CONFERENCE. The Moslem Obstinate; the Powers Unyielding. EUROPE DISCOMFITED—WAR INEVITABLE, The English Papers Blaming the Turks and Bismarck, . Society and Court Jottings—A Strange Wager— Slade—smallpox—Ribbons. meek cite AN OPERATIC FIASCO. ues What Horrified Even the London ‘5 Musical World, AMERICAN BEEF TO THE RESCUE! [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. LONDON, Jan. 20, 187%. The rejection of the proposals of the Conference by the Turkish Grand Council {8 accepted by every one here as an evidence of the complete failure of that means of settling the Eastern question, and the London papers still devote their columns to the discussion of the subject. It was looked upon ascer- tain that the Porte would not dare to dissent from the decision of the Grand Council, and that its formal reply to the plenipotentiaries, no matter how it might be smoothed over by polite or equivoval ex- pressions, would be substantially the same. Hence the break down of the negotiations tn the break up of the Conference to-day was fairly expected. What will follow next is the great sutject of speculation here just now, and the question 1s discussed with @ keenness and an anxiety that show how weil the dangers ahead are appreciated. WHAT THE REVIEWS SAY. The Spectator characterizes the result as a humiliation for Europe, inasmuch as all the Great Powers united in making the demands, The Satur- \ day Review, though usually taking opposite views on the Eastern question from the Spectator, thinks that the Turks in setting the Russian demands at defiance have offended all the governments of En- Tope. The Fconomést goes further end says that war alone can now settle the Eastern question, BISMARCK SADDLED WITI TIE BLAME. There ts a general unanimity in the tone of tho papers on this subject, which 18 hardly to be won- dered at under the circumstances ; but on one point the agreement is carried to a somewhat ridiculous extent. When things go wrong it is very conven- jent to have a scapegoat which can bear the odium of the pubiic fills, and in this instance the usual rule is followed. Bismarck for some years past has been the béte notr of the English press, no less than of the French, and when anything goes wrong ta European politics, or some cherished project of Eng: land falls to the ground, the blame is immediately aid to the door of the astute and crafty German Chancellor, BISMARCK’S DESIGNS ON AUSTRIA, In this case Bismarck is charged with trustrating in some unexpected manner and by some unknown agency the programme of the Conference. The” motive alleged is that be wishes to see Russia en- gaged in a war in order that he may be able to pro- mote his own aimisin Kurope, Ove of the principal of those aims is the acquisition of the German provinces of Austria, and it 18 supposed that he be lieves that the latter country cannot remain neutral while Russia is taking possession of the Slavonic provinces of Turkey. No sooner, it 1s said, would Austria be engaged In hostilities with Russia than | @ German army would march into her German provinces and compete the unification of the Fatherland by their anuexation, WHO HOLDS THE KEY? ‘The fact 18, the English are glad to catch at any excuse asa reason for the failure of the Confer ence, and Bismarck comes ready tohband. There is no doubt, however, that he holds tn his hands the key ol the Eastern postition, and that upon his action depends in a great measure whether Russia will gO to war or not. If the Czar could be sure of the friendly neutratity of Germany, or that she would hold Austria in check, his hands would be free, and he would know exactly what enemy he had to meet. The knowledge of this fact, no doubt, Is at the bottom of England's fear of Bismarck. EQUIVOCAL ANSWER OF TIE PORTR. This evening adespatch from Constantinople in- forms us that Satvet Pacha opened the proceedings at to«lay's sitting of the Conference by readinga note stating that the Porte might come to an under standing with the Powers on certain points of de- tail, but passing over in silence the proposal rela- tive to the appointment of governors, and instead of an international commission proposing @ local eciective commission, presided over by an Ottoman functionary. Finally, Safvet suggested that the set tiement of questions relating to Servia and Monte- negro be reserved for an ulterior decision, DIGNIFIED REPLIES. ‘Thereupon Lord Salisbury dectared that the Porte having refused the two chief guarantees de- ; Manded by the Powers there no longer | was any common basis. for — discussion, and the Conference, therefore, must be regarded at an end, General Ignatieff, the Russian Plenipotentiary, spoke simi- larly. He declared the Porte’s proposals unaccept able; laid stress upon the responsibility resting on the Porte, and expressed the hope that Turpey would not undertake hosttlities against Servia and Montenegro, but cause tie position of her Christian | subjects to be respected. ALL THE WORK OF THE GRAND couNcit. Salvet Pacha justified the note by the decision of H the Grand Council. Ketore the dissolution of the eral Ignatiei! spoke on behalf of the Lord Salisbury said Europe would gladly see the Porte extend reforms to its entire terre tory. ; Conference G | Cretans, ' { THR CONVERENCE BREAKS UP. toncbed with bisek; the hips reddened with cherry popular subject, but Lardly as protitable to paate, With a patch of gilding ip the e The Conference then broke up. Lord Salisbury