The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1877, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, YROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn Oe year, theese conte per copy ender exclededhe Tea: dollars pet year, Or at rate of one dollar per month for auy period less tuan’ six months, or Sve dollars fer six months, Sunday edition included, free of postage. news letvers or telegraphic despatebes must HERALD. ald be property seated. Hi not be returned. PRIRADELP Ble orr ‘O. 112 SOUTH 6IXTH BS 4 LONDON OPFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— FLEET § E_DE LOPRRA, STRADA PACE. vertisements will be recetved and on the same terms as in New York. forwarde: YTS TO-NIGHT, LYCEUM THEATRE.—Mercuaxt or Vaxiox, PARK THEATRE,—Lep Astnay, FIFTH AVENUE THE WALLACK'S TURAT! BROADWAY THEAT. NIBLO'S GARDEN. BOWERY THEATRE. GRAND OPERA Hous! GERMANIA THEATRE. THEATRE COMIQUE TONY PASTOR'S TH TIVOLI THEATRE, EAGLE THEATRE. BAN FRANCISCO MI KELLY & LEON’S SEW YORK AQuar HELLUR'S THEATR EGYPTIAN HALL. GILMORE’S GARD! PARISIAN VARIETI NEW AMERIOAN MU a a = a § 2 : YOR NOTICK The Adams Express Company run a spectat news- paper train over the Pennsyivania Ratlroad ana its connections, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four 4. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition ofthe Hrrap as far West ss Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M, and Washington at ono P. ii. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that in New York to-day it will be cold, fol- iowed by slightly warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy weather. Arotuer Rericrovs Scare.—Bismarck thinks he has discovered in France a monastic con- spiracy to injure Germany. See our special de spatch. Tue Low Lire or tur Wortp is not confined to large cities. Under the head of ‘A Modern Cain” one of onr correspondents tells a story as sickening in its details as any that has ever come to light in the lowest haunts of the metropolis. Tue Mopocs are going into agriculture in the Indian Territory. We hope there will be no delay in making the necessary appropriations for | implements, seeds, &c. We could buy each one | of them s model farm, @ handsome house and a | grand piano with the usual purchase money of | one dead Modoc. Yrstgrpay’s Sermons, reported elsewhere, fealt with many of the greatest topics of reli- gious 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 nature of wisdom and love, and the relative exactness of science and revelation Our Anstract of Rev. Fred Bell's sermon in | defence 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 exhibit a | deplorable ignorance of the real status of the stage and while the efforts of conscientious man- agers go entircly unnoticed by those who should be the first to recognize and commend them. ! As Hosest, Inre.iicent Trrvnat is all that | fs 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 th: his more likely to decide correctly—a commission composed of fifteen eminent statesmen and jurists eworn to do | justice and acting under a sense of responsibility, or the extravagant, oflice-seeking brigade on both sides, who noisily asseverate that their own candidate is enrely elected and are ready to fight | for his inauguration 1 ly Anorner Corumy will be found 6ome in- formation about one of those semi-nilitary, semi- political organizations whose actual tendencies are almost sure to be dangerous. None of them | exert a particle of influence upon sensible men, end all of them excite the unbalanced element | of the old army to thoughts and deeds that are utterly unjustifiable in a Republic. The duty of | good citizens toward such cliques {6 to keep out | of them, watch them and mercilessly crush them, no matter what their polities may be, the | moment they become as meddlesome in act as | they are in spirit. Tue Weaturn.—We bunounced on the 14th inst. that ‘‘a Gulf depression is decidediy among the probabilities for the coming week.” This disturbance reached the Texas and !ouisiana coast early yesterday morning, after a very slow | progress northward. An extraordinsry rainfall | of 2.63 inches ocenrred at Galveston, whet strong northerly winds prevai Heavy rain | also fell at Indianola, New Orleans, Mobile and Montgomery, where the pressure graduilly de- creased during the day. ‘The depression in the | Northwest continues to make slow progress east- ward, and is now central over the upper lake r gion, and will probably move toward the Atlantic, through the St. Lawrence Volley, during to-day. | The temperaturo bas fillen in the South and along the Atlantic coast, but has not varied | much in the Western and river valley regions. Snow and rain have fullen at few pointe in the West and in Canada ‘The highest pres- | gure is now over the Middle and Eastern | Btates and the lowest in the North and South, Strong winds prevail in the Upper Missouri Val- ley and on the North Carolina const. ‘The river changes within the past twenty-four hours are as follows:—Tho Ohio, at Pittsburg, has risen four foet ten inches, and eight inches at Lanisville, but has fallen one foot three inches at Cincinnati. ‘The Mississippi, at Cairo, has risen one foot eleven inches; at Memphis, three feet six inches; at Vicksburg, one foot five inches, and at New Orleans three inches. The Cumberland, at Nash- | ville, hae risen one foot five inches, and the Monongahela, at Brownsville, seven feet two | inches. No changes have occurred in the levels | of the Upper Mississippi or the Missouri rivers. | In New York to-lay it will probably be cold, fol- lowed by slightly warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy weather, j joint committee is to be mostly directed | thought | tional. | Presidential elections. | directs what officer of the government | ) votes after they are cast. It prescribes every | absurd is the pretence that the constitution | they are in the party national conventions. | tion, | sion from the Electoral colleges is a whim- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1877. Constitutionality of the Proposed Electoral Tribunal. Partisan opposition to the plan of the 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, wili 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, prior to all argument, in the fact | that the eminent constitutional lawyers who 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, would not consent to do if they it’ unconstitutional. With such | an imposing weight of legal ability | indorsing it the confidence of the peo- j 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 confidence 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 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 and counted. It is Congress which shall have custody 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- j 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 if it shall appear that no candidates | have received a majority of the votes the | House proceeds at once to elect the Presi- | dent and the Senate the Vice President. | These simple statements show how utterly | excludes Congress from any participation | | in the Presidential election by forbid- | ding the choice of its members as | electors. The very fact that they | have so much to do in a superintending | capacity, in a judicial capacity, and finally | in electing both officers when there is no | choice by the people, would of itself bea good 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 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 of their own ac- | If 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 exclu- 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 the | highest offices are vacant, | ‘The 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 ' President of the Senate as it is clearly with- | of life and property in our busy city. ' sharp work each day with dumb bells or the | | weapon. | and introduce and insist on an erect car- | only on the next Broadway parade will they held it would still be competent for Con- | gress to prescribe the method he should fol- low and provide the agents through which he should act. This is true of all powers vested in all officers, even | 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 | 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 | regulate it in virtue of its broad and ex- | ‘plicit authority ‘to make all laws necessary | reducing the interest on all future city and proper” for executing ‘‘all powers vested by this constitution in the government of | the United States or any department or offi- | cer thereof.” “Ontx THE Business Men 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 ‘‘in- 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 ? Ww Europe. Toward the close of last year the indica- tions were so very marked that the winter would prove exceptionally severe, both on | this continent and in Europe, we took occasion on December 25 to predict such a season in Enrope 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 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 informéd us that the storm centre, with a pressure of only 28.88 inches, ar- rived exactly on January 4nd 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. i Besides the losses sustained along the coasts by heavy gales the crops have suffered from floods caused by extraordinary falls of rain and snow in northern and middle Eu- 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. That on 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 ot a repetition of the floods in the Danube, the Rhine and the Rhone, with the accom- panying devastation of the valley lands and villages. Way Do Foorisa republican partisans de- 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 fairly elected. Why do reckless democratic partisans denounce the Electoral bill? Be- cause they want the dentocratic House of Representatives, by a revolutionary pro- ceeding, to declare Tilden President oven if he has been fairly defeated Thi 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 ont 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- ually quickening his pace, in less than a month he will find, if he has any 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 striking bag, combinéd with this foot work, will go far toward making these naturally vigorous and often powerful men handy and | their movements and awkward cus- reven the most formidable villain to encounter, while the whole force will quiekty teel the improved tone and self- respect which active, vigorous condition brings. Nor would 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 aj From the many hundred police in | this city once train off and then keep off fifteen or twenty tons of worse than useless adipose | 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 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 augur most encouragingly for the interests j dated, needless expenditures stopped, desir- j sity for any charter tinkering this session, | be held responsible for the failure. | actually, count the votes, will be forced to’! ‘is the only thing that the constitution | nals in this city which ought to be more A Maniecipal Council. 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 on the subject of the management of the city debt and the general economizing 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 the conference, but it will iay the groundwork, no doubt, ; for useful reforms and will render ensier the carrying out of the commendable policy of bonds. 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- ‘ able improvements promoted and the rate of interest reduced without changing a line of the present law.. Hence there is po neces- 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 patchwork measures, and as we are soon to have before us the propositions of the Municipal Char- | ter Commission it is not worth while to try new experiments that can only haven brief life at best. Our present city rulers can give usa good government if they de- sire to do ao, and if they do not they will | Let Us Have Pzace.—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 coffidence 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 and I shall sutler be” is the thought nearest 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 place 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 certificate which was fol- lowed for so longa period was drawn up and prescribed by the Senate and signed by the Vice President in obedience to its direction. | Had Congress prescribed any ‘other form he | would have signed it with equal readiness, Those who claim on the strength of that form that he did presumptively, though not | admit that, in legal intendment, the count- ing by others under 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 in pursuance of a iaw of . Congress will be also his decisions, I[t really makes little difference what power 1s claimed for him or denied to him so long 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 requires or permits him todo. ‘The votes shall then be counted"—by whom? The | 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.” Tue Press oy THz 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 the 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- considerate, Cortain it is that the business classes and the iasboring classes are | nearly ananimous in favor of the pro- | ™ posed commission, and that they will not follow any journal which is 80 reckless as to oppose it. The surest way for any | newspaper published in a commercial com- munity to alienate and disgust its readers is by partisan opposition to their wishes and ‘| daterests, | Upper Mississippi and the Missouri rivers | their | tated into a reservoir, or rather channel, al- | man, but will follow him two miles after dark to bor- The Ohic Valley Fioods. 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 we might now be recording the de- struction of levees and the inundation of ; the bottom lands along the lower course of the ‘Father of Waters.” While the Ohio and its tributaries were gorged with the floods descending from 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 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} Valley, the destruction of property would | have been unparalleled, for the united waters would have continued to be precipi- ; of ; ready filled. The ‘danger live” would have been overtopped at all points and the adjacent country inundated. The possibil- ity of this occurring any yearshould awaken the State authorities to a sense of their dan- | ger, and induce them to exert themselves : to provide against such a contingency by | raising and strengthening the Mississippi ; levees. Ir Is a Mrstaxe to suppose that the Elec- toral Commission will adopt.any new rule | for deciding the Presidential question. They are required to administer the law as | 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, In 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 itselfshould pursue in such questions.’ Their superiority to Congress consists in their higher intelli- gence and greater impartiality. They will have no euthority to go beyond the law or against the facts. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Bismarck is fond of the sea, ‘A round robin 1s a square threat, Ann Eliza Young is in Tennessee. Boston girls excel in mathematics. New Hampshire has four feet of snow. The saffron crop ts short and butter turns pale. Curtaim lectures are sometimes called sheet music, Ot the future the Japanese think little and care lesa, The fair daughter of Secretary Fish is pretty in pale blue “The Lightning Calculator” has becomea Baptist preacher. i General William T. Sherman left the city last even ing for Washington. . Goneral Benjamin F, Butler, of Massachusetts, is 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 tn pale lemon trimmed with lace, Many people join benevolent lodges in order to come tn for some of the benovolence. : Owing to hydraulic mining the California rivers, and | especially the Sacramento, are gradually filling ap. Mrs. General Sheridan has a dress of neutral-tinted silk, trimmed with @ deep shade of wine-colored velvet. The man who yesterday got out of an omnibns and ; sat down in the slush of Broadway said it was only a | stage joke. Plants and avimals existing in dark Aadttats gener- ally exbibit a want of color and otherwise appear pale and sickly. When «@ country Laertes asked Kean where he should pink him—“Where yoo can, sir’? was the slightly arrogant reply. The Nazarepes were brigands tn the time of Christ, and tbat is the reason why it was asked whether any good could come out of Nazareth. | A Nyack man wanted to send his girl s bouquet, but being married he did not care to sign his name to the tag, $0 he wrote on it the word Casb."” The Boston Advertiser suggests that a man witha slim pocket shouid carry a pocket gymaasiam. 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 fare copied from other papers, and mainly from the New York Hurato.” Detroit Free Presi Caltfornia will not "Many of the white men in + & hotel table with a China. row money of him."” “The Hebrows lived in villages of their own, apart from strangers, on the ground that almost everything about the private Iie and public worship of strangers was for them ‘unclean.’ They occasionally have fried ostrich eggs atthe Cape ot Good Hope, and when a family gets around one at Dreakfast the head of that family asks a blessing for the State of Rhode Island, 4 When Dio Lewis reached Boston from California and asked a waiter for the hair of the dog that bit bim, | and she handed out a bow! of mush and milk, he sat down and wept when he remembered Zion, ‘This weather ts hard on the country editor who wishes he had gone to Albany, but contents himself with staying home, going to a charch fatr and writing “Mrs B. atténded the counter where they sold the —— stews," Some Scotch theologians are discussing the question r Eve quarrelied with Adam or whether she 3 not really cetstempered person. The truth seems to be that she was of a quarrelsome disposi. tion—a sort of ribbon man. Cronin stood one evening on the beautiful golden beach of the Pacific where rolls tho Uregon, and he was sniffing the savory breeze when a junk on the coast of China sheared off just in time to have the at, “Melican man big toolee,” comprehend that tho monarch frequently reaches | down to the masses with Iree and willing heart, but that the masses, even of Asiatics and Poles, do not know how to reach upward to the heart of the monarch, A good story 18 told of a New Hampshire physician who vaccinated a family of 12, and charged $12. A few days alter no took @ dozen cabbage plants io part pay, as he supposed, but, upon final settloment, learned to his surprise that Mr, Farmer charged doctors’ prices— “$10 head,” The system of cultare employed by the greatest | music teachers includes th ing of exercises that havo special introductions to the technique of the masters. Liszt, Rubenstein, Bilow, Mills, Eestpof Woltrohn, all practice exercises before they go to their day's work, Your country teacher, who tries to show himeelf off by public exhibitions every two montne, usually plays the masters without the exorcises, and ‘ely 10 be applauded for doing 80, The education of Russia has always been very much contined to the surface, but the attempt to Introduce into the country the highest European culture has never been wholly abandoned since the days of Cath- erine IT., and beyond all doubt there Is an educated ciasa in Rosste not merely trained to talk cosmopoli- but equal to the dis, evasion of the most learning And science. . ‘TELEGRAPHIC. NEWS | From All Parts of the World. FRANCE AND GERMANY. Increasing Ill-Feeling Between the Two Countries, ALLEGED MONASTIC CONSPIRACY. | mm Plenipotentiaries Taking Leave of the Sultan—The Final Protocol. caeamteceiaet IGNATIEFF’S LAST WARNING. ’ [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. | LONDON, Jan. 22, 1877, While waiting for new developments in the Eas! 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 a@ quarrel with France or to test how far she can go without meeting with resistance, But whatever the motive, the unsatisfactory tone of the rélationa between the two countries is a source of no litde 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 city from Bertin 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 par- | Poses hostile to Germany, This causes a feeling of great irritation in Berlin just now. IRRITATION AGAINST PRAYCR, A Berlin despatch states that the feeling of resent mont against France because of her supposed hostility at the Constantinople Conlerence sontinues unabated both tn offic:al circles and among the general pubiia. HOW THR FRENCH PERL A despatch from Paris says the recent hostile utter ances of the German press have caused a very serious impression there, The French journals advocate « strict attitude of non-interference in regard to foreign affairs, They deny nat any extraordinary measures ofarmy organization aro on foot. A GERMAN SAILOR KILLED. - another Paris despatch says the killing of a German sailor by some French seamen at Smyrni and magnified by the German press into an internationa’ difficulty. The French government has orderea a1 inquiry and will give covery satisfaction, The affah was the result of a dranken brawl, IGNATIEFY’S WARNING TO THE PORTE. A despatch from Constantinoplo says that General Ignatieff, at the meeting of the Conference on Satur day, after alluding to the efforts he had made to avert war, declared that if the Porte should disrogerd tht armistice or take any actton hostile to Montenegro and Servia, or if the Christian inhabitants of Turkey should be subjected to any hardships, Earope would treat such procoedings as provocation, and would com 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 a 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 ‘THE PIXAL PROTOCOL, all the plenipotentiaries have assembled at the Aae trian Embassy aud signed the final protocol of the Com. ference TAKING LEAVE OF THE SULTAN ‘The ambassadors of the European Powers have re- * quested audiences with the Sultan for the purpose of taking their leave. The Sultan wil probably re- ceive them to-day. THROWING THE ONUS O¥ EUROPE 4 Berlin correspondent telegraphs that Ruesia 19 «beginning to represent to the Powers | that the demands of the Conference having been rejected, {+ devolves upon Europe te 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 {s the defeat of Enrope, uot of Russia WORKING POR 4 JOINT UCCUPATION, Meanwhile it appears that Russin 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 t¢ doit the Russiang act on their own responsibility. PREPARING TO CROs THE PRUTR. The steady reinforcement of the Russian army prob: ably means po more than that tho Russians will cross the Pratb, but without eny immediate intention of crossing tne Danuve, It is prob able that key would tolerate the presenoe of the Russians in Roumania for a short time, after which the financial strain caused by the large arma ments which she has been compelled to keep up would compel ber to choose her course, THE PORTR TO ADDRESS ROROPR A despatch trom Pesth says it ts reported in Vienna that the Porte intends after the departure of the ambassadors to publish a manifesto to Rurope, giving an account of the proceedings of the Conierence REVERTING TO THR BERLIN MEMORANDUM, A Berlin despatch represents that Russia seems in- clined to rovert to tbe Borlin memorandum as @ scheme for the sett! BOATHOUSE DESTROYED. Hasover, N. H., Jan, 21, 187% The boathouse of the Dartmouth College Navy wag destroyed by a heavy gale inst night, together with tte contained boats, shelis and sculls. The loss is esth mated from §2,000 to $3,000. KILLED ON THE RAILROAD. Baxoon, Mo., Jan, 21, 1872, Alerbert H. Young, an employé of th Ine Com tral Railroad, was run ovor and killed by a shi(ting em gine on Saturday afernoon. PorrLanp, Me., Jan. 21, 187%. Woodbury B. Jackmen, a brakeman on the Grand Truok Railway, fell between two car: as run ove and killed, near Oxford, on Saturday ine DEATH OF A VETERAN, Rye Beacn, N. H., Jae. 31, 1877, Captain Richard K. Lock veteran of 1812 and om of the Dartmoor prisoners, died nere youtorday, RESCUED TO DIE Unica, N. Y., Jan, 21, 187%, Charles Wooltv 0 was buried in a quicksand a forty-foot well lobawk, ®t noon on Saturday, was rescued at midnight, He was all well, but died within an hour and scious to the last. He. louves rep. CHARLESTON RACES. Unartestox, 8. O., Jan, 21, 187%, The meeting at Washington course closed yesterday, ‘The firat race, /or all ages, one mile dash, purse $120, was won by Asteroid, with Ascott second, Abdaliah third and Rutledge fourth, Time, 1:51. The second faco was tor all ages, one mileande halt, for a purse of $120, and was won by Coarier, with Labbe te pi Py 49. Seren post % purse $100, the second horse to save Nie ktuke, taken by Lynchburg, Mainbrace second, T:me, two miles, im Hinton 1 Naot Shou bhird, 1:65, The fourth was a hurdie race for all ag over eight hurdies, for a purse of $120, came in Prang second Time, <a"