The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1877, Page 4

— 7 Se. NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day t Qe ‘Three cents per copy (Sunday excladed). Ten dollars per year, of at rate of one dollar per month for sor penne less iuan’ six months, or Sve dollars fersix months, Sunday | edition included, free of postage. ii Dnsiness, news letters or telographie despatedes must be addressed New York “xnatp. Letters und packages should be property seated. Rejected communications will not be returned. plas cen esnaasne PELBADELPBTA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON pOERICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 Fi 8 a PARIS OFFICK—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, NAPLES OFFICE—N STRADA PACE, Subseriptions and advertisements will be recetved and forwarded on the same terms as in Now York. ae = —— = = AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, ' LYCEUM THEATRE. —Wercnas or PARK THEATEE.. BOWERY THEATHE.. GRAND OPERA HO! THEATRE COMIQUE TONY PASTOR'S TH TIVOLI THEATRE. EAGLE THEATRE. —Vanier | EGYPTIAN HALL. —axs GILMORE'S GARDEN.— PARISIAN VARIETIES. NEW AMERICAN MUS: i —- { The Adams Express Company run a spectal news- paper train over the Pennsy!vania Railroad ana its connections, leaving Jerscy City at a quarter past four 4. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition ofthe Herat as far West as Harrisburg and South to | Washington, reaching Philadelphia at & quarter past six A. BM, and Washington at ono P. Hi. From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that in New York to-day it will be cold, fol- towed by slightly warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy weather. Asotuer Rericrovus Scarr.—Bismarck thinks he has discovered in France a monastic con- spiracy to injure Germany. See our special de spatch. ‘Tue Low Lire or tur, Wortv is not confined | to large cities. Under the head of “A Modern Cain” one of onr correspondents telle a story a6 &ickening in its details as any that has ever come | to light in the lowest haunts of the metropolis. | Tur Monpocs are going into agriculture in | the Indian Territory. We hope there will be no delay in making the necessary appropriations for | implements, seeds, &c. Wo could buy each one | of them a model farm, a handsome house and a | grand piano with the usual purchase money of | one dead Modoc. Yrsrenpay’s Servos, reported elsewhere, dealt with many of the greatest topics of reli- ious thought. Among their subjects were the superiority of love to fear; Christ as a witness to the truth; the necessity of new truth to re- ligious progress; the construing of the sacred records by the light of modern spiritual needs ; the earthly greatness of Christian manhood ; the identical natnre of wisdom and love, and the relative exactness of science and revelation. Our Ansrract of Rey. Fred Bell's sermon tn dcfence of the stage should be read by those who are unsparing in their condemnation of all things theatrical. The stage has its faults, and some of them are of a grave nature, but they will remain unchanged by the criticisms of the religious public while those criticisms exhi a deplorable ignorance of the real status of the stage and while the efforts of conscientious man- agers go entirely unnoticed by those who should be the first to recognize and commend them, : IMPARTED | Ay Hoxest, Inreniicent Trreunar is all that | {a desired by men confident in the justice of their cause. If Hayes is legally elected an upright tri- bunal will so declare ; if Tilden is elected such a tribunal will declare that. Which is more likely to decide correetly—— commission composed of fifteen eminent statesmen and jurists eworn to do | justice and acting under a senso of responsibili or the extravagant, oflice-seeking brigade on both sides, who noisily asseverate that their own candidate is surely elected and are ready to fight | for his inauguration 1 Iy Anornen Corumn will be found 6ome in- | formation about one of those semi-nilitary, semi- political organizations whose actual tendencies would not consent to do if they ; | thought it’ unconstitutional, With such an imposing weight of legal ability | | tional. | and counted. It is | directs what officer of the government | yotes after theyare cast. It prescribes every | | House proceeds at once to elect the Presi- | Proposed Constitutionality of the Electoral Tribunal. Partisan opposition to the plan of the joint committee is to be mostly directed against its constitutionality, the fairness of the plan being generally conceded and only petty objections made to the composition of the tribunal. Nobody disputes that the plan, if adopted by Congress, will be ef- ficient, nor that it will lead to a peaceful decision of the controversy. It has so many advantages and meets with so much popular favor that unless it can be proved repugnant to the constitution partisan opposition will be futile. The question of constitutionality must, indeed, be decided by argument; but there is an antecedent presumption in | its favor, priorto all argument, in the fact | that the eminent constitutional lawyers who by this constitution in the government of | served on the joint committee have no doubt on the subject. Messrs. Edmunds, Thurman, Conkling, Bayard and Hoar are the five ablest lawyers in the two honses, and one of them, Senator Edmunds, has | already presented an argument for the plan | which none of its adversaries will be able | to refute. Moreover, the joint committee have good reason to believe that five judges of the Supreme Court will act with the commission, which they, of course, | indorsing it the confidence of the peo- ij ple will not easily be shaken by a partisan | hneand cry that the plan is unconstitu- Besides, judicious men will say j that heated partisans can have no real contidence in the strength of their case if they are unwilling to intrust its decision to a tribunal so fair, honorable, impartial and | competent as the one proposed. The arguments against its constitution- ality are of the flimsiest texture. The one most dwelt on is the alleged purpose of the constitution to exclude Con- | gress entirely from questions connected , with a Presidential election. The only thing in the constitution which can be pressed into the service of this as- sumption is the disqualification of members of Congress to serve as Presidential elec- tors. But the constitution itgelf refutes the inference sought to be drawn from this fact. The constitution does explicitly, not merely permit, but require Congress to perform important duties in connection with the Presidential elections. It is Congress which prescribes the day when the Presiden- tial electors shall be appointed; the day on which they shall cast their votes; the man- ner in which the certificates shall be pre- pared, authenticated and transmitted; the | day on which they shall be opened | Congress which shall have enstody of the returns if no President of the Senate is in Washington on the arrival of the messengers ; which pro- vides for making out the certificates in trip- licate and directs what shall be done with each of the three ; which brings the judiciary , into the proceedings by making a United States judge in each State the custodian of one; which directs the President of the Senate to procure this third certificate from the Judge by a special messenger if neither of the others reach him by a certain date. It is clear, from these laws, that, instead of having nothing to do, Congress has a great deal to do with the electoral arrangement relating to them up to the time they are opened to be counted. It gives di- rections to the States as to when the electors shall be appointed and the colleges meet. It gives directions to the colleges as to the manner of discharging their trust; gives directions to the federal judges and to the President of the Senate, iaying duties on both which nobody ever doubted that the constitution permits. The paramount su- perintendence of the whole business has al- ways been in the hands of Congress. So un- true is it that Congress has nothing to do with the subject. Does Congress, after superintending every stage of the process by mandatory require- | ments up to the opening of the votes, then lose all control of the subject? On the con- trary, the constitution explicitly requires the presence of both houses when the votes | are counted. ‘Their duties extend contin- gently even beyond the close of the count- ing, for ifit shall appear that no candidates ave received a majority of the votes the | dent and the Senate the Vice President. | are almost sure to be dangerous. None of them a | exert a particle of influence upon sensible men, and all of them excite the unbalanced element of the old army to thoughts and deeds that are | utterly unjustifiable in » Republic. The duty of | good citizens toward such cliques ts to keep out | of them, watch them and mercilessly crush | them, no matter what their polities may be, the moment they become us meddlesome in act as they are in spirit. Tur Weaturer.—We brmounced on the 14th inst. that “a Gulf depression is decidedly among | the probabilities for the coming This | disturbance reached the Texas and Fonisiana | coast early yesterday morning, afte slow progress northward. An extraordinery rainfall of 2.63 inches ocenrred at Giulveston, where strong northerly winds prevail Heavy rain aleo fell at Indianola, New Orleans, Mobile and Montgomery, where the pressure gradually de- creased during the day. pression in the Northwest continues to tm: slow progress east ward, and is now central : the upper lake re- gion. and will probably move toward the Atlantic through the St. Lawrence Volley, during todny. | The temperature bas fellen in the South and slong the Atlantic const, but has not varied mach in the Western and river valley regions. | Seow and rain have fullen at « fe the Wee and in Canada ‘Tho highest pres | owe & sow over the Middle and Eastern Seutee and the lowest in the North and South, Brrong winds prevail n the Upper Missouri Val- ley and om the North Carolina coast. The river | Counges within the past twenty-four hours aro as | fotiowe:—The Ohio, at Pittsburg, has riven four | foct toe icees, and eight inches at Louisville, | et bee fallen one foot three inches at Cincinnati. The Hinsinepyi, at Cairo, has risen one foot eleven then, x Mernyhia, three feet six inches; at Vivkseurg. ore for five inches, and at New | een taper com. The Cumberland, at Nash: | Hie, tae rues owe foot five imehes, and the | Konugsiels. #t tun Ko changes nave occurred in the levels A toe Uggrer Wiseineipyi or the Missouri rivers. | iy ew York to-day it will probably be cold, fol- wnat ty wighthy warmer and partly cloudy or eh CA | These simple statements show how utterly | trownaville, seven feet two | absurd is the pretence that the constitution | excludes Congress from any participation | in the Presidential election by forbid | ding the choice of its members as | electors. The very tact that they have so much to do in a superintending acity, in a judicial capacity, and finally | ca | in electing both officers when there is no | choice by the people, would of itself be a | sood reason for excluding them from the lectoral colleges on the same principle that | judges are not permitted to practise as law- | yers nor to sit in review on cases tried by themselves in lower courts. If the consti- tution allowed it members of Congress would be as prominent in the Electoral colleges as they are in the party national conventions. | If the Senators and Representatives of Loui- | siana had been members of its Electoral | College it would be untit and indecent for them to vote in Congress on questions con- nected with the legality ot their own ac. | tion, Jf half the members of Congress were fresh from the Electoral colleges Con- , gress would be the most unsuitable body that could be imagined for acting judicially on the regularity ot the votes, ‘Their exelu- | sion from the Electoral colleges is a whim- | | sical argument for proving that they have | nothing to do with the Presidential election, If Congress cannot be trusted to see that | the votes are legally counted the constitu- | tion would stultify itself by providing, as it does, that Congress shall determine what officer shall act as President when both tho highest offices are vacant, ‘Lhe constitution does not say that the President of the Senate shall count the | votes, but only that he shall open the cer. tificates. It directs that ‘the votes shall then be counted,” bat not that they shall be counted by him. Even if the power of counting had been as explicitly given to the Prosident of the Senate as it is clearly with- | the powers of the President himself. The | constitution declares in explicit language | that “the executive power shall be vested in | ! a President,” but Congress creates executive | held it would still be competent for Con- gress to prescribe the method he should fol- low and provide the agents throngh which he should act. This is true of all powers vested in all officers, even departments, prescribes the duties of their heads, and the President can exercise his power only according to law. The Presi- dent is commander-in-chief of the army; but he can exercise this power only accord- ing to law, Wherever the power to count the votes is lodged Congress is competent to ; Pegulate it in virtue of its broad and ex- .plicit authority ‘to make all laws necessary and proper” for executing ‘‘all powers vested the United States or any department or offi- | cer thereof.” “Ontx THE Business Mxn of the country favor the Electoral bill” is the cry of the politicians, ‘and they do so because they think is will benefit the industrial and trading interests.” Well, are not the ‘dn- dustrial and trading interests” a little more important than the question as to which set of partisans shall enjoy the fat offices of the government for the next four years ? Wint Toward the close of last year the indica- tions were so very marked that the winter m Europe. would prove exceptionally severe, both on | ‘this continent and in Europe we took occasion on December 25 to predict such a season in Enropa and to give warning of the probability of grave disasters from gales and floods. The violent storms that have swept the British, French and Spanish coasts since that date have caused an im mense destruction of property and a dis- tressing loss of life, We had previously stated that the storm which left our coast on November 27 would be felt within a week ; on the British coast. The details of the devastation produced by the gale that swept i over England and Ireland on December 2 ! gave all the evidence necessary to verify our predictions, Again, on December 29 we | announced that the storm then moving over | Nova Scotia would reach the coast of Eu- rope on the 4th of January. Our despatches duly informed us that the storm centre, with a pressure of only 28.88 inches, ar- rived exactly on January 4and caused im- mense destruction of fixed and floating | property throughout and around England and in Northern France. We cite these in- stances in order to show that our announce- | ment of asevere winter in Europe was based upon a careful observation of the con- ditions and indications on this side of the Atlantic, and verified by similar observa- tions on the other. f Besides the losses sustained along the coasts by heavy galesthe crops have suffered from floods caused by extraordinary falls of rain and snow in northern and middle En- | rope, the latter form of precipitation prevail- | ing in the mountainous regions of the Py- renees and Vosges Mountains, the Alps and over the watershed of the Upper Rhine and | Danube. Already the effect of the satura- tion of the soil on the hillsides of Central Europe is being manifested by landslides and other disturbances. n the rail- road line between Trieste and Vienna, near Steinbruck, in Styria, has not only over- whelmed the railroad and some dwelling houses, but also dammed the river Save, into whose bed was precipitated an enormous mass of earth and rock. When the thaw which frequently follows severe weather and heavy snows sets in we may expect to learn of a repetition of the floods in the Danube, the Rhine and the Rhone, with the accom- panying devastation of the valley lands and villages. nounce the Electoral bill? Because they want the republican President of the Sen- ate, by the exercise of a doubtful power, to count Hayes in even if he has not been |<. P ¢ ‘ ‘ ‘ Why do reckless democratic | Vice President in obedience to its direction. | | partisans denounce the Electoral bill? Be- cause they want the dentocratic House of | fairly elected. Representatives, by o revolutionary pro- ceeding, to declare Tilden President oven if he has been fairly defeated. Thinning the Police. To put and keep our policeman in proper physical condition for his duties no day | should pass without at least half an hour's | vigorous exercise of the muscular and respiratory organs, something equivalent practically to the Englishman's “constitu- tional.” Of course it can best come out of his hours off duty. Nothing will better fit him for quick foot work when a criminal is to be caught than frequent running. Let any patrolman, divesting himself of his heavier clothing, run three or four minutes daily on any gymnastic track, at the merest make believe pace, and he wiil be astonished | at the improvement in his wind and staying power, even in a week, while, then grad- nally quickening his pace, in less than a month he will find, if he has ony stuff in him fit to make a policeman of at all, that he can do his mile in really creditable time. A few minutes of sharp work each day with dumb bells or the striking bag, combinéd with this foot work, will go far toward making these naturally vigorous and often powerful men handy and swiit in their movements and awkward cus- tomers for even the most formidable villain to oneounter, while the whole force will | quickly tert the improved tone and self- respect which active, vigorous condition | brings. Nor wonld it hurt the patrolmen at all if good sparring masters were at work | steadily among them, teaching the possi- bilities of the fist and skill in warding off | blows when there is not time to reach a} From the many hundred police in | weapon. this cityonce train off and then keep off fifteen or twenty tons of worse than nseless adipose and introduce and insist on an erect car- riage of the body, even though a trace-strap collar has to be worn a while to force them to hold their heads as they ought. Not only on the next Broadway parade will they make what they have never yet done, an actually imposing spectacle, but in down- right effectiveness the casual observer will at once detect a most marked and very welcome improvement—one which will angur most encouragingly for the interests of life and property in our busy city. | A Mantetp: Couneil. The gentlemen who are to meet Mayor Ely, Comptroller Kelly and the other heads of city departments to-morrow, will, no doubt, be able to offer some good advice onthe subject of the management of the city expenditures, It is agood sign that our’ present municipal managers seek by counsel with prominent citizens to interest the tax- payers in their own affairs and to suffer the people to understand their exact financial condition. We may not find any imme- | diate advantage from | for useful reforms and will render ensier the | carrying out of the commendable policy of | reducing the interest on all future city bonds. i We insist that the present harmonious city government can, under the existing | | charter, give us an efficient, economical gov- | ernment and all necessary reforms. There ! is nothing in the law to compel the employ- ment of a single needless city official. Bu- reaus can be swept away, offices consoli- | dated, needless expenditures stopped, desir- | able improvements promoted and the rate of | interest reduced without changing a line of the present law.. Hence there is no neces- sity for any charter tinkering this session, | and all bills purporting to reform this de- ; partment and to change that should be re- garded with disfavor. Some sort of a job | | generally lies hidden in these patehwork | measures, and as we are soon to have before us the propositions of the Municipal Char- ter Commission it is not worth while to brief life at best. Our present city rulers can give usa good government if they de- | ire to do so, and if they do not they will be held responsible for the failure. Let Us Have Peace.—Everything favors | a vigorous revival of business if we can set- | tle our political troubles. Prices are so low that there is little danger ofa further de- cline; the small premium on gold shows that we are within a short step of specie | payments ; labor is waiting to be employed and offers its services for moderate wages ; the only thing needed to set all the wheels of enterprise in motion is that cofifidence in the future which Congress can at once impart by passing the pending bill. The universal aspiration of the business and in- dustrial classes is, let ts have peace! It is | only partisans and camp-followers that try to obstruct an immediate settlement. Of course, all the shoddyites and army con- tractors of the late war would be glad of a new harvest. ‘There will be wars andI shall sutler be” is the thought nenrest the hearts of these soulless citizens. Power of the Vice President, It is a rule to which there has never been an exception that the Vice President, or President pro tempore of the Senate, always acts under the direction of the two houses of Congress when the electoral votes are counted in their presence. There has never been an instance when they did not fix the placo of meeting, never an instance when they did not appoint tellers, nor when the tellers did not count the votes. The President of the Senate has never counted them on any oc- casion, but has always immediately on opening the certificates handed them to the tellers. He has never declined to entertain an objection offered by a mem- ber of either House, and has never assumed to decide any question connected with the correctness of any certificate or the validity of any electoral vote. Congress has always made rules prescribing the proceedings, and those rules have always been followed by | the President of the Senate. So far as any record, certificate or document asserts that the Vice President counted the electoral | votes, it asserts what was not true in fact. | The very form of the certiticate which was fol- lowed for so longa period was drawn up and prescribed by the Senate and signed by the Had Congress prescribed any other form he | would have signed it with equal readiness. | Those who claim on the strength ot that | admit that, in legal intendment, the count- ing by others ander the direction of Con- gress was the act of the Vice President, But if this is all they mean the claim they make for the President of the Sehate is futile. If the acts done by the tellers under the direc- tion of Congress were his acts then the | decisions made by the electoral tribunal | | as Congress prescribes the mode of its exer- cise and selects its own agents to conduct every part of the process save the mere open- ing the certificates, The truth is that this is the only thing that the constitution requires or permits him todo. “I'he votes shall then be counted"—by whom? | constitution does not say; butit does say, | “Congress shall have power to make all ; laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or office thereof.” Tus Press ov tHe Country takes interest in but one topic— the all-absorbing question of the Electoral Commission, This great | measure of peace and justice is warmly approved by all the independent journals, and nearly all whose constituency consists largely of tho business classes—the mer- | chants, bankers and manufacturers—who are anxious fora cessation of strife and a revival of business, The journals which seck to live by pandering to party passions— like the new Washington Union and the Washington Republican—are infuriate in their hostility, as are also one or two jour- | nals in this city which ought to be more considerate. Cortain it is that the business classes and the isboring classes are | nearly ananimons in favor of the pro- | posed commission, and that they will ' not follow any journal which is 60 reckless | as to oppose it. The surest way for any | newspaper published in a commercial com- | manity to alienate and disgust its readers is | by partisan opposition to their wishes and interests, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1877. city debt and the general economizing of the | the conference, : but it will iay the groundwork, no doubt, ; form that he did presumptively, though not | actually, count the votes, will be forced to’! { }in pursuance of o iaw of . Congress | | will be also his decisions, It renlly | | makes little difference what power 1s | | claimed for him or denied to him so long | The | The Ohio Valley Ficods. It is fortunate that the area of heavy pre- cipitation which caused the floods in the Ohio and Cumberland rivers has been lim- ited to that of the Ohio Valley region. If it | had extended into the watersheds of the Upper Mississippi and the Missouri rivers we might now be recording the de- struction of levees and the inundation of the bottom lends along the lower course of the ‘Father of Waters.” While the Ohio and its tributaries were gorged with the floods descending from their respective watersheds the upper portion of the Mississippi and the entire length of the Missouri were so unaffected by the recent heavy storms of rain and snow as_to add but little beyond the ordinary flow to the volume of water entering the Lower Mississippi at Cairo.. Hence the latter river below that city was low and ready to receive the sur- plus from the Ohio Valley without exhibit- ing any remarkable disturbance of its levels. The damage caused by the floods was, therefore, confined to the region in which they originated. If, as we stated above, the immense watersheds of the Mississippi, and Missouri had been proportionately affected by the storms as was that of the Ohio have been unparalleled, for the united waters would have continued to be precipi- tated into a reservoir, or rather channel, al- ready filled. The ‘‘danger live” would have been overtopped at all points and the adjacent country inundated. The possibil- | ity of this occurringany yearshould awaken ‘try new experiments that can only haven | the State authorities to a sense of their dan- to provide against such a contingency by | raising and strengthening the Mississippi H levees, Ir Is a Mistake to suppose that the Elec- toral Commission will adopt any new rule for deciding the Presidential question. it existed on the day the Presidential elec- tors were chosen—that is to say, as it exists at present, forthe law has not been altered since, Im cases where there are two certifi- cates from a State they aro to decide which of the two is legal on precisely the same principles that Congress itself should pursue in euch questions.’ Their superiority to Congress consists in their higher intelli- gence and greater impartiality. They will have no authority to go beyond tho law or against the facts. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Bismarck is fond of the sea, 4A round robin 1s a equare threat, Ann Eliza Young ts in Tennessee, Boston girls excel im mathematics, New Hampshire has four feet of snow. ‘The saffron crop is short and butter turns pale Curtain lectures are sometimes called sheet musica, Ot the future the Japanese think little and care less, The fair daughter of Secretary Fish is pretty in pale blue, “The Lightning Calcalator” has become a Baptist preacher. General William T, Sherman left the city last even ing for Washington. : Goneral Benjamin F, Butler, of Massachusetts, te at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Dust blows into the oyesof people who are doomed to hive in San Francisco. It you are a brunetto you may appear beautifal in pale lemon trimmed with laco, Many people join benevolent lodges in order to come tn for some of the benovolence. especially the Sacramento, are gradually filling ap. silk,trimmed with & deep shade of wino-colored velvou. The man who yesterday got out of an omnibns and stage joke, Plants and avimals existing in dark habitats gener- ally exbibit a want of color and otherwise appear pale and sickly. When a country Iaertes asked Kean where he should pink him—“Where you can, sir,” was tho slightly arrogant reply. The Nazarenes were brigands tn the time of Christ, and tbatis the reason why it was asked whether any good could come out of Nazareth. A Nyack man wanted to semd his girl a bouquet, but married he did not care to sign his name to the wg, so he wrote on it the word “Casb.” The Boston Advertiser suggests that a man witha slim pocket should carry ® pocket gymoasiam. Few men would be willing to do that even for ten pins. St. Lous Globe-Democrat:—‘All the items in the ‘General and Personal’ column of the Globe- Democrat | are copied from other papers, and mainly from the New York Hurato.” |” Detrom Free Press:—"'Many of the white men in | | california will not sit at a hotel table with a China- | man, but will follow him two miles after dark to bor- | row money of him.” | the Hebrows lived tn villages of their own, apart from strangers, on tho ground that almost everything avout the private life and public worebip of strangers was for them ‘unclean.’ They occasionally have fried ostrich eggs at the Cape ot Good Hope, aud when a family gets around one at the State of Rhode Island, When Dio Lewis reacbed Boston from California and down and wept when ho remembered Zion, wisbes he had gone to Albany, but contents himself with staying home, going to a church fatr and writing Mrs. tended the counter where they sold the stews." whether Eve quarrelled with Adam or whether sho was not really sweetstempered person. The truth seems to be that she was of a quarrelsome dispost- tion—a sort of ribbon man. Cronin etood one evening on tho beantiful golden beach of the Pacific where rolis tho Uregon, and he was sniffing the savory breeze when a junk on the coast of China sbeared off Just in time to have the Captain sing ont, “Melican man big toolee,” Itone reads the letters of Czar Nicholas one will down to the masees with iree and willing heart, but know how to reach upward to the heart of the monarch, A good story 18 told of a New Hampshire physician who vaccinated a famtly of 12, and charged $12, A few | days alter no took @ dozen enbbago plants in part pay, hie eurprise that Mfr, Yarmer charged doctors’ prices— “$10 head.” The system of culture employed by the greatest music teachers includes tho giving of exercises that havo specin! introductions to the technique of the masters, Liszt, Rubensteto, Bilow, Mills, Eastpof Woltsohn, all practice exercises before they go to their day’s work, Your country teacher, who tries to show bimeelf of by public exhibitions every two mouths, usually plays the masters without the exorciees, and | ww likely so be applauded for doing 80. ‘The education of Russia has always been very much confined to the surface, but the attempt to !ntroduce {nto the country the highest European culture hag never been wholly abandoned sinco the days of Cath- erine II, and beyond all doubs there is an educated class in Russia not merely trained to tatk cosmopoli- tan gosstp in German or French, but equal to the dis, euasion of the most dificult problems of Buropean learning and science. ‘ | | Valley, the destruction of property would | ger, and induce them to exert themselves ' They are required to administer the law as | Owing to hydraulic mining the California rivers, and | Mrs. General Sheridan hag a drese of neutral-tinted sat down in the slush of Broadway said it was only a | breakfast the bead of that family asks a blessing for | ed a waiter for the hair of the dog that bit him, | and she handed out a bow! of mush and milk, ho sat ‘This weather 1s hard on the country editor who | Some Scotch theologians are discussing the question | comprehend that tho monarch frequently reaches | that the masses, even of Astatics and Poles, do not | as he supposed, but, upon final settlement, learned to | TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parte of the World. FRANCE AND GERMANY. H Two Countries, | ALLEGED MONASTIC CONSPIRACY. The Plenipotentiaries Taking Leave of the H Suitan—The Final Protocol. IGNATIEFF’S = LAST WARNING. » | i [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. 1 Lonpox, Jan. 22, 1877. While waiting for new developments in the Fas! the principal subject of interest here is the growing bad feeling between Germany and France. It is evident to those who take the trouble to think on the subject that Germany wishes either to provoke &@ quarrel with France or to test how far she can go without meeting with resistance. But* whatever the motive, the unsatisfactory tone of the rélations between the two countries is a source of no litte anxiety here just now. ALLEGED MONASTIC CONSPIRACY. The correspondent of the HERALD in Vienna tele graphs that semi-official letters have been received in that clty from Berlin which state that the Ger- man government possesses ample proofs of the existence of a large monastic conspiracy in France to endeavor to gain power in that country for pur- poses hostile to Germany. This causes a feeling of Great irritation in Berlin just now. IRRITATION AGAINST PRAYCE, A Berlin despatch states that the feeling of resent mont against France because of her supposed hostility atthe Constantinople Conlerence continues anabated both tn offic:al circles and among the general publia, HOW THR FRENCH PERL A despatch from Paris says the recont hostile utter ances of the German press have caused a very serious impression there, The French journals advocate « atrict attitude of non-interference in regard to foroiga affaira, They deny that any extraordinary measures of army organization aro on foot. A GERMAN SAILOR KILLBO. another Paris despatch says the killing of a German eallor by some French seamen at Smyrna ts anduly magnified by the German press into an internationa’ difficulty, The French government bas orderea at inquiry and will give every satisfaction, The affan was the result of a dranken brawl. IGNATIEFY’S WARNING TO THE PORTE. A despatch from Constantinopio says that General Ignatieff, at the meeting of the Conference on Satar- day, after alluding to the efforts he had made to avert war, declared that if the Porte should disregard th< | armistice or take any action hostile to Montenogro and Servia, or if the Christian inhabitants of Turkey should be subjected to any hardships, Earope would | troat such proceedings as provocation, and would con sider what course ought to be adopted. PETITIONS FROM THE GREEKS. fle also remarked that the European pienipotentia | ries had received petitions from the Christians o Macedon, Thessaly, Epirus and Crete, It had been tm possible to consider these papers, as the scope of the Conference was limited, but be was anxious to state ‘that they had been received ‘THK VIXAL PROTOCOL, all the plenipotentiaries have assembled at the Aus trian Embassy aud signed the final protocol of the Com. ference TAKING LEAVE OF THB SULTAN, The ambassadors of the European Powers have re- quested audiences with the Sultan for the purpose of taking their leavo, The Sultan wilt probably re- | cetve them to-day. THROWING THE ONUS OY EUROPA A Berlin correspondent telegraphs that Russia 19 beginning to represent to the Powers that the demands of the Conference having been rejected, it devolves upon Europe t¢ take more forcible proceedings. Should Europe, as 1¢ certain, find it impossible to agree on joint action, Russia will be able to declare that the failure of tne Conference 1s the defeat of Enrope, uot of Russia WORKING FOR A JOINT UCCUPATION, Moanwhile it appears that Russia wishes to mak some arrangement with Austria rospecting a Joint occupation of Bulgaria ana Bosnia Count Andrassy will hardly agree to this whatever he may be driven te do if the Russians act on their own responsibility. PREPARING TO CROSS THB PRUTR. The steady retnforcement of tho Russian army prob- ably means no more than that tho Russians wil) | i cross the Pruth, but without eny immediate | {Intention of erossing the Danube It is prob | able that Turkey would tolerate the presenoe of the Russians in Roumania for a short time, after which the financial strain caused by tho large arma ments which she bas been compelled to keep up would compel her to chooso hor course, THe PORTR TO ADDRESS ROROPR, A despatch trom Pesth says it ts reporied io Vienna that the Porte intends after the departure of the ambassadors to publish a manifesto to Europe, giving an account of the proceedings of the Conterence REVERTING TO THR BERLIN MEMORANDUM, A Berlin despatch represents that Russia seoms im | ened to revert to tbe Berlin memorandum as @ scheme for the settlement of the BOATHOUSE DI Hasover, N. H., Jan, 21, 187% The boathouse of the Dartmouth College Navy was destroyed by a heavy gale last night, together with ite contained boats, shelis and scuils, The loss ts esth mated trom E THE RAILROAD. Baxoon, Mo., Jan, 21, 181% Alerbers H. Young, an employé ot the e Com KILLED ON tral RaiJroad, was run over aud killed by a shiiting em gine on Saturday afternoon. PorTLAaND, Me., Jan. 21, 1877, brakeman on the Gran Woodbury B. Jackm»: Trnok Railway, fell betw and killed, near Oxford DEATH OF A VETERAN, Rye Braca, AL, Jaw. 91, 1877, Captain Richard K. Locke, a veteran of 1812 and om of the Dartmoor prisoners, died here yosterday. RESCUED TO DIE Unica, N. Y., Jan. 91, 187%, Charles Wooliver, who was buricd in a quicksand aforty-foot well, at Mohawk, ®t noon on Saturday, was rescued at midnight, He was alive and apparenuy | well, but died within an hou @ halt and was con+ | scious to the last, He loaves @ widow and four chile drep. CHARLESTON RACES. Cmageston, 8. C., Jan, 21, 1877. | The meeting at Washington course closed yesterday, The first race, for all ages, one mile dash, purse $120, was won by Asteroid, with Ascott second, Abdallah third and Rutledge fourth, Time, 1:51 The #econd race was tor all ages, one mile and @ bali, for a purse of $120, and was won by © with Livbie Le cond, Time, 2:49 erate The third ace, for threc-\ear-olds, one mile, y \ ds, One past stukes, purse $100, the second horse to suve nis nthke was taken by Lybehburg, Mainbrace second, Time, ho fourth was a hurdie race for all agos, two mil over elgbt hurdieg, for a purse of $120 han tenon came in first, Prang second * ‘e+ fie, asi Spot third, Increasing Ill-Feeling Between the . ai —