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and Gesaral Ignatief’ leave on Monday, and otner pienipotentiaries in the course of the week. DIPLOMATIC DELATIONS PARTIALLY MAINTAINED, ‘The departure of the Ambassadors does not imply &@ rupture of diplomatic relations, as Charges @’Ataires remain. THE PORTE BEStrATING, The Vienna correspondent of the HsRAxp tele- graphs that he has learned that the Porte has inti- mated that soon after the closing of the Conterence it would spontaneously offer considerable conces- sions to the Powers which it now refuses to yield to compulsion. a VIENNA OPINION OF RUSSIAN POLICY. The correspondent adds that the ministerial press of Vienna say that it is Europe, not Russia, which has been unsuccessful at Constantinople, and therefore that there is no need for Russia to take up the gauntlet thrown down by Turkey. The Prospect of Russia being left to deal alone with Turkey, say the Vienna journals alluded to, is rather favorable to peace. Russia wili probably frop the Slavonic agitation if she can gain tte veedom of the Dardenelles, which would open her ‘outhern territory and develop resources now use- ‘essly locked up. TCHERNAYEFF THINKS WAR CERTAIN. General Tchernayeff has been interviewed toa ridiculous extent by French and English corre- spondents. He prophecies in his usual way about the certainty of war. “Il have good reason,” he “says, “for saying that Russia is quite prepared. Tne Grand Duke has never been seriously ill, and if Turkey does not consent to Russia’s fair demands Tespecting the freedom of the Dardanelles then war will ensue. Russian agents are now awaiting orders in Vienna and Belgrade to proceed to Crete and the Slavonic provinces in case of war.” THE CZAR AWAITING OFFICIAL NEWS. A despatch ‘from St. Petersburg says:—“The Berlin telegram which was published on Thursday last, stating that Prince Gortschakot had tssued 9 circular to the Russian representatives ebroad expressing the belief that Turkey would reject the Conference proposals, and declaring that Russia could not undertake a warlike policy because Europe woula not support her and might form a coalition against her, is a pure invention. No circular of any kind has been issued. The Czar awaits official cognizance of results at Constanti- nople before adopting a decision respecting his next steps.”” ‘ GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS STILL ILL. A telegram from the Russian headquarters at Kischeneff says:—‘The Grand Duke Nichoias passed a restless night, owing to vomiting. He has no feverish symptoms.” A RUSSIAN OPINION ON THE CRISIS, A despatch trom Moscow says:—‘'To-day’s Gazette, fliscussing the result of the Conference, concludes as follows:—Europe has lowered her prestige by her compliant humor. As the Porte bas refused the Proposals Europe must now enforce her original demands instead of the modified scheme of the Con- Terence.”” AN OPERATIC FIZZLE. ‘This week has witnessed, at the Queen’s Theatre, Dne of the most stupidly disastrous failures in English opera ever chronicled. The piece was the “Grand Ronfantic Opera” entitled “Biorn,” the music written by Signor Lauro Rossi, director of the Naples Royal College of Music. The sulyect is Macbeth transported to a Norwegian legendary home. The musical treatment is imbecile, the composer being evidently unable to grasp the Scandinavian mythology or to understand the English words. VOCALIZATION EXTRAORDINARY. The singers, excepting two, were of the broken- winded and sore-throated order. A feverish Lady Elfrida, otherwise Lady Macbeth, with disastrous incompetence sang amid the derision of the audience. Miss Cora Stuart, a charming young English vocalist, alone came out of the disgraceful 6cenes with honor. THE LONDON MUSICAL OSTRICH SICKENED. So dreary, painful and wholly iWiotic a perform- ance of opera, announced with such bombast, had never before been witnessed on the English stage. Tho London musical world which has the stomach of an ostrich and has never hitherto failed to swal- | toW and assimilate the toughest morsel that ever fell from Pan, starts back from this completely hor- rified and with symptoms of vertigo. ITALIAN OPERA. Rumor is busy with the prospects of Italan opera during the coming season at Covent Garden. Mme. Patti returns in May. Mme. Materna, the great Brunnhilda of the Bairenth festival, and Mme. Pauline Lucca, of whom London never tires, Bre also expected. A povelty will be the production of M. Victor Masse’s opera “Paul et Virginie,” with M. Capoul and Adelina Patti in the title role: Mapleson has engaged Signor Tamberilk. WAGNER'S OPERA TEMPLE. I learn from Ba‘reuth that the price of admis- sion to the performances will be 100 marks or about $20 tor cach series. Herr Wagner intends petition- ing the government for an annual subsidy of $20,000 to support the annual Baireuth perform. ances in the future. THE LONDON SEASON—THE covuRT. The season has not commenced here yet. The court assumes mourning trom the 2ist to 28th inst, for Princess Charlies of Prussia. The Queen will again open Parliament in person “Ris year. ‘THE UNIVERSITY OARS. Oxford and Cambridge are preparing for the an- Qual boat race, which takes place on March 24, Cainbridge is already sanguine of winning. If her early hope is not blasted by the result she wi!l then acore the same namber of victories as Oxford. A SNATI’S GALLOP. A novel wager has been reported which attracts attention in clubdum. An officer of the Royal Horse Guards Blue has backed himself against a certain sporting baronet to ride ten miies actoss fair hunting country while a snail crawis ten inches On agreased board. At last advices the snati was in splendid condition and taking @ daily afternoon crawl. Odds, five to four on the snail. RINDERPEST, She outhreak of the rinderpestin Germany causes ® probibition on the importation of European cattle. | Fortunately the American beef prevents an in- crease in price,.and the English cooks declare the transatlantic meat better fed than the English, SMALLPOX—1HE Bi. OK FLAG. The smailpox is still raging in parts of London, The East End hospitals are crowded and there are many deaths, Ominous black fags on the toofs of the houses warn strangers against approaching the dangerously infected districts, The anti-vaccina- tion societies are busy, SLADE’S VAGRANCY. Monday, January 29, is fixed for the argument of NEW YORK the appeal of Dr. Slade, the American medium, who was prosecute! under the Vagraut act, and sen- tenced to three months’ confinement at hard tabor in the Honse of Correction, on October 31 last, by Mr. Magistrate Flowers. Slade meantime has been on vail. s RIBBONS AGAINST FEATHERS. Baroness Burdett Coutts appeals to English ladies, calling attention to the stagnant condition of the | ribbon manufacture and orging them to substitute nbbon for feather decorations in tadies’ bonnets, thus preventing the cruel extinction of several species of beautifui-pluinaged birds. THE CABLE AMALGAMATION, Information here from Germany shows that the proposed fasion of the cable companies meets with decided opposition, especially from the merchants of Bremen. GERMAN CONSULATES. The German government has decided to abolish all honorary Consulates in the United States in fa- j vor of paid officials, the Consulate General at New York and the Consulate at San Francisco excepted. The honorary Consuls at the following places have been deprived of ofice:--Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Galveston, Milwau- kee, Mobile, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Richmond, Savannah, St. Louis, St. Paul and Wil- mington. THE STOCK MARKET. ‘The stock market was firm at the beginning of the week, but subsequently weakened for a ma- jority of descriptions. Attention mostly centred on the fortnightly settlement, which was satisfac- torily concluded on Wednesday. The open discount market has been inanimate. Erie descriptions and American governments have been firm, Canadian raiffays are slightly fatter. The feature of the for- eigi market has been the strength of South Ameri- can loans, Argentines . 88 4 and Entre Rios and Santa Fés 2}; better. Russians are depressed and 14g @ 1% lower. Turkish are weaker. News of the failure of the Conference has not had much effect, the result having been discounted, conse- quently the foreign market has been fairly sus- tained by the closing of speculative accounts for a fall. Silver is quoted to-day at 58 3-16d. per ounce. CHINA AND JAPAN. A TGAILWAY IMPEDED BY CHINESE MOBS—AN AMERICAN STEAMER SUNK—DISTRESS IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCES OF CHINA—SUPPOSED ATTEMPT TO REOPEN THE COOLIE TRAFFIC WITH CUBA. Say Francisco, Jan. 20, 1877. ‘The Pacific Mail steamer Alaska, whicl. arrived bere to-day brings advices from Hong Kong to December 16, Shanghai December 17 and Yokohama Decem- ber 27. Travel on the railway between Shanghai and Wossurg had been stopped by native mobs, who ob- structed the track and assaulted the workmen. Tho Chinese dishke to all improvements was the causo of the disturbances, AN AMERICAN SCNOONER SUNK. The Amorican schooner Francts Levy had beon sunk by asteamship in Formosa Channel, having been in collision, and six lives were lost, including two Ameri- ans, the mate and steward. The property lost is valued at $30,000, Groat distress from famine provails in the northern Provinces, A SPANISH SQUADRON EXPECTED, A Spanish squadron of war ships is expected in Chines tors for the ostensible purpose of investi- gating alleged outrages upon Spanish merchant ves- sels on the coast of Formosa eleven years ago. Tho real purposo 18 believed to be a reopening of the coolie trade with Cuba, JAPAN, AGRARIAN DISTURBANCES -— IMPORTATION OF AMERICAN SHEEP—FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN GERMANS AND JAPANESE— MOVEMENTS OF THE EMPEROR. Agrarian distarbances continued in several prov- inces, They have no political significance. General Laigo and suite returned from America December 26, The party speak enthusiastically of their reception and treatment 1a all parts of the United States, AMERICAN SHREP IN JAPAS, Mr. Jones, tbe American superiatendent of a sheep farm in Japan, sails per the Alaska to perfect arrange- ments for the introduction of a -stock of American sheep into Japan, The Japancse government regards this enterprige a4 the most important industrial move- | ment yet organized, FAMINE IN CORFA, A great famine prevailed in the Vorea, , The Corean government had appealed to Japan ior assistance. Interior I'nes of railway were to bo commenced early in this year. FATAL APYRAY. A fatal affray had occurred between sailors belong- ing to the German ship Vanta and Japanese laborers, in which one German was killed and another mortally wounded. The fight originated in a place of bad repute. The Japanese Governor of the Bonin Islands has sailed to assume his jurisdiction, IMPERIAL MOVEMENTS, The Empress was at Kioto performing a series of | ceremonious visits to the schools, factories and public offices, and excited great interest, this being the trst occasion of any Japanese Empress taking part in pub- lie proceedings. | Pilot licenses have boen decreed by the government. Hereafter no pilot can practise his calling without an | official certiticate, MEXICO. THE DEPOSED GOVERNOR OF LOWER CALIFORNIA PREPARING TO REASSUME POWER. San Francisco, Jan. 20, 1877. A8San Diego despateh says that the ly deposed Governor Villagrana, of Lower California, has arrived ot La Paz from San Francisco, en route to Mazatlan, to obtain troops and a war veseel from the general gov- ernment to reinstate himsell. THE WASHINGTON GAMBLERS. INVESTIGATING THE DISTRICT POLICE COM- MISSIONERS—-WHAT MURTAGH THREATENED. Wasmyetox, Jan. 29, 1877. ‘The investigation regarding tho acts of the District Police Commissioners was continued by the Lemoyne Committee to-day, R, P. Ball testified that eet Richards requested him, as a brother Mason, to inform | Mr. Murtagh that unless the attacks of bis (Murtagh’s) paper upon the police force were immediately discon. Ubued certain scandals would inevitably be brought out which would ve damaging both to Richards and Murtagh, and he of no benefit to any one. Kichards explained that other persons besides himseit knew of these scand Ball complied with this quest, and, in company with Benjamin F. Lloyd, M tagh’s brother-in-law, called on Murtagh New Year's Day, Murtagh replied, ‘that there was nothing in | these charges, and that he intended to make it warmer than ever for the gamblers aud their friends,” Mersre, Ball and Lioya ro 18 answer to Richards, who thoreupon said, “ 1, those things must be brought out."” SENATOR ANTHONY'S ILLNESS, HE I6 ATTACKED WITH PARALYSIS—suUr Pos: RESULT OF EATING POISONED PARTRIDGES . Wasnino rox, Jan, 20, 1877, Hon. Henry B. Anthony, United States Senator from Rhode Island, was attacked by paralysis in the ratiroad station in this city last night, on his return from Bait: more, Where he had spent the evoning and dined with a party of friends. He was conveyed tome by the police, where be at once bad medical attendanco, This Morning he was reported as much better, and hope was entertained that he would soon be completely ro- covered, This afternoon, after taking a bath, he | effect that Lady Salisbury had helped to make her i Turkey. | France, which by far exceeds her requirements: | | memory of the flery young republican dictator, | cluded engagements with Mme, Adelina Pattl and ; hights. ‘This will probably prove to,be the greatest | HERALD, SUNDAY. JANUARY 21, 1877--QUADRUPLE SHEET. PARBIAN SILHOUETTES. A Flight of Oriental Canards—French- men Hoping for a Fight. A ROW IN THE CONFERENCE. Gambetta’s Future as Foreshad- owed by the Doctors. OFFENBACH’S POOR BOOK. eee, Sostumes—Fushions, | 1 Albani’s Suecess—Masked Balls and wad ! { | [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) HERALD BUREAU, No. 61 AVENUR DE ora Panis, Jan, 20, 1877. Political rumors of ali sorts are on the wing through Paris. Since the Moslems fung out their defiance to Christian Europe a most excited feeling has prevailed. France, to be sure, has no idea of taking up arms in the matter, but a people of such belligerent instincts as the French can no more look unmoved at the spectacle of two other nations going to war than a Mexican could eat his breakfast -while a cock fight was progressing in the vicinity. It is agreed here that we shall have war on the Danube in the spring, and there is much quiet chuckling in military circles and much shedding of crocodile tears in diplomatic circles over the pros- | pect of slaughtered Moslems and Muscovites, COMING TO BLOWS. I received a piece of information this afternoon which 1s startling enough in all conscience, and, al- though my authority is usually most reliable, I must offer it under reserve and with a grain of salt. It is to no less effect than that there was @ regniar row at the last sitting of the Con- ference. A ROW IN FULL CONFERENCE. The story runs that M. Bourgoing, the French Envoy, had a stand-up fight with Edheim Pacha. M. Bourgoing, taking deep offence at the language of the Turk, is alleged to have so far forgotten the dig- nity of the situation as to grapple with Edheim, The Pacha thereupon drew his scimitar. This naturally created the greatest consternation among the diplomats, until M. le Comte de Chan- dordy rushed forward and pulled back his colleague by the coattails. The important inquiry was then resumed, but it led to no result, ‘THE FAILURE OF THE CONFERENCE. T was told by an excited statesman this morning that the Mohammedan Turks were not so much to blame for the failure of the Conference as the patriarchs of the Turkish Christians and the rabbis of the Turkish Jews; that they have been the most rabid of Russophobists, and have stultified every effort which the diplomats have made, There is a germ of truth in this, but it is not all the truth in the matter. . SALISBURY AND DISRAELI. Among & snug little circle of friends acouple of evenings since England's position was under dia cussion. It was the opinion of one sardonic old gentleman that Lord Beaconsfield had foreseen the failure of the Vonference, and that in sending the Marquis of Salisbury to Constantinople he laid a trap for the latter and really helped him to destroy his own reputation. Another ungallant old cynic professed to haye news from Constantinople to the husband's failure inevitable by putting on airs and creating some trouble in the Sultan’s harem, where visitors of the fair sex (the only ones admitted) are treated with a strict etiquette. Any infraction ot this etiquetie is resented, and when a Sultan's wife and an Envoy Extraordinary’s lady are added to the other complications we may think the outlook gloomy indeed. MEDIATION. A rumor, given for what it is worth, asserts that Hl after the failure of the Conference Germany will probably offer to mediate between Russia and A GERMAN WARNING TO FRANCE. The North German Gazctte of this evening, repro- ducing the alarmist Paris letter published in the Reichsanzeiger this morning, commenting on the eagerness of the French press to attack Ger- many’s Eastern policy, adds:—“We hope, with the Reichsanzeiger, that the agitations of tne French press against the German government will | If they do we shall gladly regard as mere speculation the import of corn from Hungary into cease. and shall not consider it as preparation by the French Commissariat Department.” GAMBETTA. M. Leon Gambetta, to whom it has been said the | future belongs, is now spoken of as dopmed to extend his horizon of life but littie more. The doc- tors have him in hand, and they say that he is suffering from a complication of heart disease and dropsy, and that he cannot live more than two years longer. They mean in the flesn, for the | who snatched up the reins of government as they fel) from the hands of the weak, the faithless and the cowardly in the days of France's supreme disas- | ter, will live for many a century. DRAMATIC. The dearth of dramatic novelties continues in Paris. M. Dugué 1s working at a new scientific and spectacular drama for the Theatre Historique, to be entitled “Les Merveilies de la Terre et du ciel.’ ALBANI'S SUCCESS, Mile. Albant has saved the season of opera at the Italiens from the failure which was threatened. Since her success in “Lucia the receipts on the occasions of her appearance have reached the maximum. A GREAT SEASON, | pleading for bis air nam I have just learped that M. Esendier has con- Mile. Albani for a season of six months, commenc- tng in October. They are to sing on alternate season on record, THE MASKED BALIS. The masked balis at the Opera House have proved & failure tinancially, although artistically very fine. OFFENBACH'S PALLURE. M, Offendach’s book on America has awakened dressed himscll, und 18 now sitting conversing with a friend. Ho expects to be dut to-morrow, Some of his friends attribat partridge, which bird ground is covered with an ous. and thus becomes peison- great disappointment here. There ts too much about the little Mephistophelean opéra bousist him- self and too little about the great country he hopped about in for a couple of months. One wou.d think when they read Offenbach on America that | when he lay down at night lus head rested on Cape Cod, while his toes dabbled in the Pacific Ocean; | and yet maiicious people say that his book w: written by Albert Wolff, of the Figaro, who has never been in America. «Vive la bagatetle! AKT SALES. The great picture sales commence this week at the Hotel Dronot with the collections of the late artist, M. Diaz de la Pena, and of the artist and writer, M. Eugene Fromentin. A PARISIAN CRIME, A lady tiving on the Champs Elysées is said to have been poisoned in a restaurant by a member of her family. The afair isin the hands of the detec- tives, and 15 producing a great sensation. FANCY COSTUMES. ‘The most popular costumes at the masked balls vhis year are “Husband in clover,” “Cherry ripe” and “La Cressoniere.” composed entirely of foliage and fraits. At the last opera ball there were very few husbands in clover. NRW COLORS. The new colors for silks and ribbons are “dragon and blue,” “Khedive and China tea rose” and “lin- | seed and bronze.” The only color not visible among | the Paris beiles ts the color of their money--so | tradespeople say, at least. “Les BRIGANDS. The latest bonnet is le chapeau brigand, It 1s so taking that the wearers have not even to cry “Sur- render !”? THE MOCTEZUMA, THE VESSEL BURNED BY HER CAPTORS OFF THE COAST OF HONDURAS IN SIGAT OF 4 | SPANISH GUNBOAT. Havana, Jan, 20, 1877, The steamer Moctezuma was burned of! Bragman, on the coast of Honduras, by her Cuban captors, on the SdofJanuary. The Spanish gunboat Jorje Juan was 1m sight at the time. When the boats from the gunboat reached the Moctezuma sho was wrapped in a sheet of flame, TheCuban'captors and the captured men of the original crew of the Moctezuma went ashore in sheir boats, the captors retreating to the woods and the crew remaining on the beach, whence they were taken off by the boats of the guuboat and carried to Cienfuegos, The crew are now in Havana. MRS. HOUSE'S INSANITY. DECISION OF A COMMISSION OF LUNACY IN REFERENCE TO HER CASE. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] TreNrox, N. J., Jan. 20, 1877. | Irene A. V. House, who shot her husband, Orson House, some time ago, and who is now an inmate of tho State Lunatic Asylum, near this city, bas been de- clared incurably insane by acommission of junacy, consisting of Messra. Jamos 8. Aitken, Henry Weston and A. 1. Worthington, with a jury of twenty-four men. Drs. W. H. Coleman and John Kirby testified as to her unsound mental condition. ‘The jury found also that her property is worth an inzome of $1,000 annu- ally. 1n consequence of her inability to'mauage ber own affairs a guardian will bo appointed, who will probably bo hor father, William U, Van Sant Added to bor disordered mind, she is alsoa victim to pul- monary disease, and she labors uoder the balluciaation that sho shot her son as well as hor husband. FALSIFYING A BANK’S BOOKS. ACQUITTAL OF A VIRGINIA MERCHANT CHARGED WITH CRIME, (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.14 Parersnona, Jan, 20, 1877. ‘The trial of Richard Bagby, charged with counselling and abetting Samuel H. Thorburn to make a alse entry in the individual lodger of the Uitizens’ Bank of this city, by which the firmot S.J. Gates & Company were onavled to overdraw their account about $10,000, took placo in the Corporation Court to-day. No trial that has occurred in this city for years has excited such gencral interest; and so groat was tho crowd in attendance that the services of tho polloo wore neces. | of | ' sary to prevent the court room from being crowded | Jail and the third time for Boughton. beyond its capacity. The principal witness for the Commonwealth was Thorburn, whose voluntary return and confession of the false entry and the robbery of the deposit box of the Bank of Peters- burg has boon published in full in the Herauy. In bis testimony he made a full statement of the whole affair, withholding nothing nor showing the slighiest malice or projudice towards Bagby. The eftvet of bis evidence upon the crowd in court was simply indescribable, Never before, it is believed, did any man so situated make such an unreserved con- fession, knowing that it would inevitably fix upon himself the penalties of two of the gravest crimes, Ifthe was animated by any other moti an that of telling the whole truth it was the desire to snield as far as possible, all who were or might be indirectly to biame, from tho fearful consequences of bis act. He was particularly careiul to exculpate his fellow officers of the bank, and said that the failure to dis cover the doficit was attributable alone to the implicit confidence they bad in him. ORIGIN OF THE CRIMINAL ACT. Thorburn was fi Involved in the difficulties which have culminated so sadly for him in July, 1875, when he discovered that the firm of Gates & Co. was over checked about $4,000. Bagby, upon being notided, made it up.and tho trae state of uflairs was never re. | ported to the bank officers by Thorburn, About the wame thing occurred in September, when Bagby again made his account good; but withoat Thorburn’s knowledge he had checks marked ‘zood’’ for the amount of the deposits ne then mada, About ten days afterward Thorburn found what Bagby had done and au accurate examina- tion of the account showed he was then overchecked nearly $6,000. ‘Ihorburn, fearing the | consequences, ani baving faith in Bagby did not re- port it; Waiting for returas from shipments of flour to io Javeiro, with which Bagby promised to make the account good. THY DOWNHILL ROAD. From this po‘nt matters went trom bad to worso. The Rio flour shipment entaiied turther losses on | Gates & Co., and there seemed to be no hope that Bagby would be able to redcem bis promise, although he begged Thorburn not to report it and promising that he would make it good on the first of December. As the end of the year and the annual examination of the affairs of tho bank drew neor, Thorburn repeatedly visited Bagby and implored him to dispose of any property be had and square up with the bank, His description of some of these interviews nud bis piteous | family deeply adacted ‘bis auditors and evoked great sympathy lor him, A DESPERATE STP, i Bagby, however, did out respond, and after a most | pressing and urgent conversation on December 22, ‘Thorburn, im bis desperation, changed an entry on nis book froin §440 to $10,440. A lew days altorward Thorburn reported to tho cashier that Gates & Co. bad money heir credit, At a subsequent interview Bagby suggested that the bank officers ve informed of the condition of his account, but at Thorburn’s request the matter was at kept secret, and so it continued until January 2, when the robbery of the Bank Petersburg and Thorburn’s flight was discovere a t day Bagby aiso communicated to the cas! of iuzens’ Bank that be was overchecked and to ¥ ocamount, BAGRY ACQUITTED, Thorburn, the cashier, aud the tellerof the bank | Were the only witnestes ar to the facts, bul a number OL prominent citizens testitied ty Bagby's general good ‘he argument of the case was able and ve, occupying about five hours. The jury, alter deliberating twonty minutes, returned « verdict of not guilty. No feeling was manifested by the large crowd in attendance, but Bagby was warmly congratu- latea by many personal friends who have stood firmly by bim during hia arrest and tri SUICIDE OF AN ENGINEER. A SEQUEL OF THE ASHTABULA HOLOCAUST, CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan, 20, 1877, This morning the dead body of Charles Collins, chief engineer of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern | Railway, Was found at his residence. 1t was apparent that he had been dead twenty-four hours. In one | hand was grasped a revolver, while another pistol aud | a razor were lying beside him on the bed. He undoubi- edly committed suicide by shootmg, and itis believed | that anxiety on account of the terrible disaster at | Ashtabula affected his reason, The tamily of Mr. Cole | Jing was absent at the time of his suicide, | ATTEMPTED MURDER. Paovionscr, Rt 1, dan, 20, 1877, Edmund st, Piorre, a French Canadian, fired upon an aged colored wau named Frank Duncan on the sirest to-day, wounding im severely, Tho i ed before he could fire again. DEFAULTER SENTENCED, San Franctaco, Jan, 20, 1877, H. © Bennet, the defaulting pension agent, was tos day sentenced In the Untted States District Court fine of $5,000 of two years in jail, Gh | that court, and they shail be ontitied to recover for ai! | ments aball be | prison, has caused great es THE ALABAMA MONEY. SENATOR KERNAN'’S BILL FOR THE DISPOSI- | TION OF THE MONEY UNDER THE GENEVA | awanp, Wasmixetos, Jan, 20, 1877. The bill to provide for the further disposition of the moneys received under the Geneva award, introduced by Mr. Kernan to-day, provides that all persons and | Corporations claiming to be entitled to any portion of the monogs received by the United States govern- ment (rom Great Britain in payment of the Geneva award are authorized to sue for the same in the United States Court of Claims within one year from the Passage of this act’ as all other claims are sued for in losses which were the basis for the Geneva award, or were considered by the Geneva Tribunal ef Arbitra- lion as the proper subject of indemnity, In calculating the amount of awerd all such claimants may appeal wader this act to the Supreme Court of the United | States from the awards of the Court of Claims a all other appeals are made to said court All judg ments not uppealdd trom or affirmed on appeal shail be paid out of the moneys aforesaid aiter three years from the passage of this act, with five per cent interest from tie date of judgment {f the sum of the judg- meuts is greater than the moneys aforesaid, such judg: aid rateably, No claim’ which wis prevable under the acts organizing and continuing the Court of Alavema Claims, ans was then presented and adjudged, shall be provable within this act. Claimants may testify in their own behalf, and appeals take pro- cedence of ail other cases in the Supreme Court, | A GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY. ESCAPE OF SIX PRISONERS AT ST. JOSEPH, MO.— DARING PLOT OF DESPERATE ChIMINALS, — | (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE WeEALD.] Sr. Lovis, Jan, 20, 1877. The city of St. Joseph, Mo., is wild with excitement to-day over the escape of six prisoners from the Buchanan County,JuiL The job was planned some time ago, and an effort was mado to escape through the root of the jail, The plan being frus- | tated by discovery and the adoption of proper precau- tion in Chat direction, smmediately afterward another scheme was devisod, which culminated last night in the escape of all who desired to go, Those who took advantage of the opportunity were John Lawrence, under sentence of death for the murder of his father, Hiram Lawrence, in Hoit | county; Charles C, Thompson, an old penitentiary con- | viet, indicted for tho murder of constable Green Sulli. | vau, in July last; Alexander Broughton, held for com- | plicity with Thompson, both being daring desperadoes: and leaders of a gang of horse thieves; William John- son, Indicted for tighway robbery; John Sullis, | charged with horso stealing, and James Martin, who 18 charged with grand larceny. AN ENGINKEWING FRAT. ‘The escapo was mado through a brick wall separating the cell oceupted by Thompson and Sullis from an un- occupied coll used for storing mattresses and furniture | notin use. The.work was accomplished by means of achise land a butcher koife, each of the prisoners having previously — prepared = bimselt with a wooden key, with which at night they anlocked their own cells and = entered the cell of Thompson and Sallis, The men worked altornately and evaded discovery by placing a vox over the aperture between tho two ceils, concealing the rubbish beneath the mattrasses in one corner of the unoccupied cell. + They penetrated the concrete flooring and proceeded to make a subterranean exeava- tion downward and to the outside of the walls, then upward to the brick wall on the south side of the build- ing. PARTING SCENKS. The remaining prisoners state that night before last tho tunnel was completedgwith tho oxcoption of ro- moving tho bricks on th® pavement outside, and alt things wore in readiness for the flight. Last ‘evening the Sherif’s deputy locked the prisoners mm their —colls, for =the night’ = and _—_re- tired irom that part ofthe butlding. Soon after the wooden keys wore applied to the locks the doors wore noiseless!y opened and the crim- inals shpped quidtly out and made preparations to depart. One by one they shook hands with their fellow prisoners, and told them that they had ‘‘made up their minds to get out of the jail or die in the at- tempt.” A DASH FOR FREEDOM, These proliminaries over, one by one the men cau- tlously made their exit through the narrow opening, found themselves untraminelied outside of the prisou bars, and took a harried tlhght, A horse was stolen from a stable opposite the jail, and tt is presumed ove of the fugitives took it The men aro all said to be armed with revolvers, and will dio rather than submit. to’ recapture; bat it is not probable that they will be found very sovn, for they had been gone nearly twelve hours be- foro their absence was discovered. ‘Vho jail 18 not in as good condition as it should be, and the Sheriff is not considered blameablo for the escape, This is the second time Johnson has broken THE SHOWER OF SNAKES. Mempuis, Tenn., Jan. 20, 1877. | The shower of snak&s which fell here on the 16th inet, was net a matter of fiction on the part of the pressagent. Somo of the best citizens of tho city ex- hibited the reptiles to the editor of the Ledger, and that journal gave the phenomenon publicity, In con- firmation of shis strange occurrence the Ledger of to- day says:—“Specimens of the small which fell in South Memphis during the recent storm havo been ithsonian In- San Francisco, Jan. 2 The storm still continues. Itis snowing heavily in the Sierra Nevada. Snow ploughs aro breaking the track. A Central Pacific overland traiv, with double mail and dolayed passengers from the Union Pacific, wore detained east of Verdi yesterday by the plough leayiog the track, Tho snow in the State extends well down into the foot hills It 1s snowing in the extreme northern portion of the State aod raining 1n the Sacra- mento and the lower portion of the San Joaquin val leys, and in Napa aud Sonoma, tn the southern por- tion of the State it is cloudy, with indications of rain, In Oregom it is clear and cold, It has been ruining 10 this city all day. Cheering reports of the crop pros- pects aro coming in from nearly all parts of tue State, ICE IN THE POTOMAC. Wannineton, Jan. 20, 1877. The waters of the Potomac continue to fall gradually. The tides havo not been strong enough to lift the ice, but the current is fast cutting it away from under. | neath, and itis much thinner than yesterday. Above the Long Bridge it presentg an unbroken field, with occasional small openings, aod on the south shoro ind Anacosta Isivnd and im the direction of wharf there appear immense gorges. Below all is ice as faras can be seen. Hundreds of spectators have been upon the bridge all day, ex- pecting to see the ico move. A MAIL ROBBER PARDONED. 1877. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THF HERALD. | Haxtronp, Conn., Jan. 20, 1877, Orders were received from Washington to-day for the release from State Prison of Daniel L. Hayden, formerly a clerk in the Hartford Post Oco, who wag sentenced in 1875 to three years’ imprisonment for purloining money letters. He bad been a trusted | clerk for twenty years, and his detection created a Krext sensation at the time. Phe sentence tinposed was regarded as light, and strong influence not only | r accountant in tho | nameroi A POLITICAL DUEL. BOTH COMBATANTS WOUNDED. ie Witixotox, N. C., Jan. 20, 1 Two colored citizens of South Carolina fought at Pine Bluffs, in this State, yesterda: One wi democrat and the other a republican, ond they fought over politics, Four shots wero exchanged, One of the men was wounded three times and i» dangerously | CABLE NEWS FROM ALL SHIPPING GIANT POWDER. Pirrerinip, Mass.. Jan, 20, 187%, Isaac J. Woodin was convicted in the superior Court to-day of shippi int powder over the Boston and Albany Ratiroad, contravention of the Statelaw, The case goes to the Supreme Court on exceptions, FATAL ACCIDENT. Spaiveriniy, Masz., Jan, 20, 1877. One of the inmates of the Monsou Almshouse wag killed to-day by the falliag of an eubankment under which be wus digging, DEATH ON THE RAIL, Gonna, N, HL, Jan. 20, 187% John J. Willis, a prominent citizen of this piace, was run overand killed near West Milan, to-day, bye train on the Grand Trunk Railway. BERTHA VON HILLERN'S WALK, Bostox, Jan. 20, 1877. Bertha Von Hillern concluded her walk of eighty. eight miles at a quarter to eleven this evening, fifteen minutes within the allotted twenty-six hours. Aboes 3,000 persons were present, ESCAPE FROM JAIL, Lenaxoy, Pa, Jan. 20, 1877. Last night Adam Longhouser, Joseph Wiihams and George Fanber broke jai here by cutting through the ceiling of their cell. No trace of them has been dis. covered. KILLED BY A POLICEMAN. Puivapecemia, Jan, 20, 1877, This morning a police officer to the northern part of the city arrested a colored man who bad in h's pose session a leg of pork, which he had evidently stolen, The colored man endeavored to excape from the of. cer, who fired his revolver at bim three times, the last shot killing him instantly, The name of the negro bag not been ascertained, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Wasnixeton, Jan. 20, 1877, Assistant Surgeon FE. H. Marsteller ts detached fron the Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mase., and ordered to the Tallapooga, at Washington, D. ©. 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Louls Howitz, formerly a New York merchant, who | is in jail at this place on @ criminal charge, attempted | to bang himself this afternoon, in his cell, with a towel. | The noose slipped, and he, failing to the floor, was | picked up insensible, but bus since recovered, A MURDER SUSPECTED. ~Orrawa, Jan. 20, 183% Discoveries this morning lead to the belief that Hutchinson, who disappeared from this place « fow days ago, was murdered and thrown into a hole in the \ the Ottawa River, Threo men have beea rested, eM DER EER BURIED IN A WELL ~Untoa, S. Yu, Jane 20, 1377, Anold man named Wooliver was buried alive ing well, forty feet deep, while cleaning it, near Mobawk, Herkimor county, this morning, He had not been rescued ap to « late hour. or F. 8. 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