The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1877, Page 8

q NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. . Sg crrerer te JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, od ILY HERALD, published every day inthe year, per cupy (Sunday excluded). Ten dolinrs per Fate ol one dol at per month for any period toss athe, dollars fer six months, Sunday ded, clegraphic despatches must vddreamed New Yous Hxnann, Letters and packages should be properly seated, Rejected communications will not be returned, PHILADELPIUIA OF: 112 SOUTH SIXTH ATRERT, J LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE SEW YORK HERALD- NO. 46 FLEET SPREET. iS PARTS OF FICKE—AVENUE VE L'OPERA, NAPLES OF FICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE, Subscriptions and advertiversnte will he’ received and forwurded on the sume terns as in New York. _ AMUSEMENTS PARISIAN SKATING DAILY, WALLACK’S THEATR BROADWAY THEATRE: " YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY The Electoral Bill—Senator Conk- ling’s Great 5; ch. The thronging multitudes who filled the galleries of the Senate chamber to overflow- ing and hung on the lips of the senior Sena- tor from New York during the delivery of his speech was not so much ao personal tribute to the man as a demonstration of deep interest in the subject. Popular feel- ing has not been so deeply stirred since the first year of the civil war as it is at present. It is felt that the peace of the country is staked on the success of the pending meas- ure, and the people do not believe that there is any principle involved in this Presidential contest important enough to justify a resort to arms. It was very dif- ferent in 1861, when the federal Union was in peril. The people of this country, the mercantile classes of this country, are always ready to sacrifice their immediate interests on an adequate occasion. When the Union was in jeopardy they wero united INION SQUARE THEA’ NIBLO'S GARDEN,.—Au LYCEUM THEATRE. EAGLE THMATRE.—Ac! TONY PASTOR'S THEA TIVOLL TURATRE. PARK THEATRE.—Tu® SAN FRANCISCO MIN KELLY & LEON’S MI NEW YORK AQUART EGYPTIAN HALL —S GILMORE’S GARDEN, PARISIAN VARIETIES. NEW AMERICAN MU: Variety. Np EQuesthiam #estiv aL. THEATRE COMIQUF.. CHICKERING HALL. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. KEW YOR 7, ~ NOTICE The Adams Express Company run a special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, leaving Jerscy City at a quarter past four A. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition ofthe Herap os far West os Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past #ix A. M, and Washington at one P. M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be tearmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, possibly with tight rain or snow, and followed by colder and clear- ing weather. Watt Street Y lation deve ew important changes, and the outside public show little inclination to support the pools. Gold opened at 106% and sold at 10633. Money on call was supplied at 5 and 4 percent. Government and railway bonds gen- erally were firm. Joun Brapy, Senrexcep Yesterpay for drunkenness, made a capital temperance address in court. SHOOTING as a meagys of reformation received a discouraging blow from the sentence of Eugene Christ yesterday. A Reaprse or Ovr Stat berg case will tend to make careful about commending w of the Wein- ness men more uld-be purchasers. Twat Dog who resides at the Eleventh pre- cinct station house, Brooklyn, should be at once set to drilling the police force. See report. Tue Prrscipat, Devetorment, thus far, of the great forgery case, is that business men are too careless and trustful in handling checks and drafts. A Reerent or Repcoats have asked permis- sion to pass through New Y: The British Were not quite so polite in this neighborhood a hundred years ago. Heartn has ordered a general ion of milk, and it is confidently helieved that one cause of the inordinate consumption of Croton water will thereby be done away with. Divorce Svrrs for extreme cause may be indi- ns of a high standard of social morality, but a0 such thing can be said of the large attendance lies at a certain suit in progress at Bridge- Bustxvss MEN are unanimous in favor of the soint committee's plan for connting the vote, and between them and the politicians who find their money in opposing the plan no one can hesi- tate to choose. Our Exuinit of a year's work by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children shows what urgent need there is for the existence of tiveness until even ernel parents iety shall stand in awe of it. Tue Virtvovs Countryman much-needed lesson from wie one ever finds a malarial loc: it is always in the next town that people he chills and fever—but in New York the Board of Health admits more than two hundred deaths from malaria in 1876, and names the boundaries of the malarious districts. Captars Jonxston’s Revort as Indian Agent at Standing Rock, Dakota, contains not a word about the spiritual condition of the Indians, and it therefore differs greatly from the conventional agency report. As an exhibit, how of the proper manner of conducting an agency and of the way in which the government has heretofore been swindled by Indian agents, it is extremely entertaining and instructive. We print the document enti: Tne Weratuer.—The Gulf de very slow progress enstwa’ (lis attended hy av urea of heavy rain, which extends into the South Atlantic States. Brisk winds prevail at Indienola and Galveston. Another storm centre, with high winds, has moved over the upper lake region, causing a light snow and rain fall at a few points in Canada, During its passage today through the St. Lawrence Valley our local weather will be affected, and udiness, with, possibly, rain or snow, may prevail. The highest pressure is now in the Lower Mississippi Valley, and a Jow temperature is general throughout the country. The areas of cloudiness are contined to the regions where the lowest pressure prevails— namely, over the Inkes and the Eastern Gulf and South Atlantic States. The Ohio and Cumber- land rivers have fallen steadily and the Lower Miss'@ ippi lias risen during the past twenty-four tonsa. The weather in New York to«lay will be warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, possihl, with light rain or snow, and cat Gia aud clearing weathen as one man in an ardent and patriotic readi- ness to surrender their business prospects, their property, all their private interests to a great public object. But they are not willing to make such sac- rifices when nothing is involved of more consequence than the distribution of the federal patronage by one set or another set of spoils-hunting politicians. As ageneral rule peace is the paramount in- terest of the country. . There are, indeed, higher interests, but it is not often that any higher interest requires peace, com- merce and material welfare to be subordi- nated to it. Our national life is exposed to only two emergencies which demand an uncalculating surrender of material in- terests. These are, first, an insult to the national honor by a foreign government, and, second, an attempt to destroy the Union or resist the laws by misguided citi- zens. In all inferior exigencies the chief interest of the country is order and tran- quillity. The sound sense and honest patriotism of the people are now strongly enlisted on the side of pence, because they do not think the present controversy important enough to justify a resort to force, especially when it is so practicable and so easy to bring it to a legal decision by a peaceful method. The great mass of our merchants, bankers and manu- facturers, seeing nothing moreimportant in the present conflict than the question whether Mr. Hayes or Mr. Tilden shall ap- point the subordinate officers of the federal government, and whether one or the other of them has been legally elected, prefer to have the legal question decided by a fair legal method, in the expectation that business will revive from its long stagnation as soon as a final decision is reached. The business classes, the labor- ing classes, all classes except politicians by trade, are, therefore, eager, anxious and unanimous that the pending bill be promptly passed and the country relieved trom a paralyzing uncertainty. This feeling is decided and intense in every centre of commerce, and will be exe pressed with reverberating emphasis if any doubt shall be thrown on the triumphant passage of the bill. Even though its success seems assured many such expressions from the great trade centres have been made, There was a meeting of four thousand busi- ness men of Boston yesterday in Faneuil Hall, that ancient ‘Cradle of Liberty,” strongly indorsing the Electoral bill. The Boston meeting yesterday was significant be- cause Massachusetts is oneof the stanchest of republican States, and because she has just elected a Senator who is strongly com- d to the Electoral bill. ‘he contest was very close between Mr. Hoar and Mr. Boutwell until the news reached Boston that Mr. Hoar had signed the report otf the joint committee, when the Massachusetts Legislature at once expressed their strong approval of his action by electing him to the Senate. The great meeting in Faneuil Hall gives the added emphasis of a ‘‘sober second thought” to the previous vigorous indorsement of the course of Mr. Hoar. If a similar indorsement of Senator Conkling should be thought neces- sary it will be overwhelmingly given by the unanimous business classes of this city. They have as yet taken no formal public action, because all indications point to the triumphant success of the bill. But if any doubt should be felt a vast meet- ing of our business classes could be assem- bled on a day's notice whose united voico would leave no doubt as to the sentiment of the commercial metropolis. After the pas- sage of the bill, of which there is no reason- able doubt, the New York merchants will make a suitable recognition of the services of Mr. Conkling. They will not permit him to pass through the city on his way home without offering him the compliment ofa great public dinner, exceeding in magnifi- cence that given to Mr. Webster on a memorable occasion. If Congress can be certain of anything not proved before one of its committees by sworn testimony it may be certain that the business men of New York indorse the pending bill and warmly indorse Senator Conkling for his able advocacy of it. The attempt of a few eccentric and crotchety members of the Union League Club to excite partisan hos- tility makes no impression on republican merchants, because they know that Presi- dent Grant, Secretary Fish and all the wisest members of their party are giving the bill a strong moral support. The screechy opposition of a few extreme partisans is without influence here, and this great com- mercial community anticipates with serene confidence the prompt success of this great healing measure conceived in the interest of justice and peace, Mr. Conkling’s great speech yesterday was altogether admirable. For clearness of statement, cogency of argument and grave persuasiveness of tone it has never been excelled in the parliamentary discussions of our time. This convincing speech is chiefly directed to the constitutional aspects of the qvrestion, and very fitly, because when the constitutional objections sre demolished there remains no tenable ground of opposition. The desirability of having this dangerous controversy decided by some legal and peaceful method is so man- ifest and so indisputable that its partisan adversaries have not an inch of ground to stand upon when the constitutional argu- ment is cut away from under them, That the bill is in perfect conformity with the constitution cannot be doubted by any can- did man capable of seeing the force of arguments after perusing the conclusive and masterly speech of Senator Conkling. We will make no attempt to abridge or sum- marize it, as we so often do in the case of ordinary speakers, because the interést of the subject and the great ability of the orator are o sufficient guarantee that nobody will fail to read it. It some- times happens that logical speeches are not very readable ; but the soft and at- tractive language of Senator Conkling and the lucid order in which he unfolds his ideas will prevent that sense of weariness and dry- ness which makes the reading of an ordinary long speech so oppressive. We are confi- dent that every citizen who bestows upon this clear and convincing speech a deliber- ate perusal will dismiss all doubts that the Electoral bill is as constitutional as it is fair, wise, just, efficient and satisfactory to the ‘general sense of equity. Our Home Supply of Heathen. The many good people who imagine that Christian ‘civilization is all-embracing in our own land must be somewhat taken aback by the particulars of the vile outrage lately perpetrated near Neshanic, N. J., and within fifty miles of America’s metropolis. An invalid woman, whose principal fault seoms to have been that she worked hard to support an invalid husband, was waylaid by a gang of drunken ruffians, outraged, beaten, kicked, stripped, covered with tar and feathers, and then left insensible and freezing at her own doorstep. Except that the tortures to which she was subjected were rude instead of ingenious in their nature, there was nothing in the deed to make it different from the fiendish outrages for which the Indians of the Plains have here- tofore been distinguished beyond all other snyages and heathen. If it is proper to convert the heathen by means of cither bullets or Bibles the Neshanic Mountains should be occupied by a small army and a car load of missionaries at once. The locality is not the only one of its kind in the neighborhood of New York; there are a dozen or more of just such tribes of heathen almost within sight of the church steeples of New York; but the righteous are so busy in looking after the denizens of Asia, Africa and the isles of the ocean that they have no time to search out and reform these beings who speak their own language, are almost within hearing of their own church bells, and who send recruits to that great army of dangerous characters which makes life and property unsafe in our largest cities. The revelations, both of the social status of these communities and the manner in which they are neglected by those who are trying to reform the world, are deeply humiliating, but humiliation is of no use unless it leads to a change for the better. The Ashtabula Bridge. If a year ago the chief engineer of the Lake Shore Railrond had informed his em- ployers that he could not conscientiously certify that the bridge at Ashtabula was safe, what would have been the result? Would he not probably have been informed that if he could not certify to the safety of that bridge the company would be pleased to have his resignation in order that it might fill his place with an engineer who could and would certify as aforesaid? In other words, would a corporation animated by the average spirit of corporations have changed the bridge or the engineer, when it cost nothing to change the latter and a great deal of money to change the former? Had the engineer been able to prove to the com- pany that the continued use of this bridge would cost nearly a million dollars in one way or another, while a now one could be put up for a hundred thousand dollars, it is doubtful if, even then, his words would have received respectful at- tention; for the expenditure of the hundred thousand dollars would be to the officers and directors the only certainty in the case, while the possible’ million would be always contemplated as a chance and the visionary fear of an overscrupulous en- gineer. It is only necessary to consider what would probably have been the fate of the proper advice in regard to that bridge to comprehend the tragically painful position of the engineer who has just slipped away from all his earthly responsibilities in the case by suicide. He could not but be aware of the defects of that bridge. He knew that it was not fairly constructed even on the original plan ;' that its parts were deficient from the outset ; that it was put up by in- competent persons ; that essential parts had fallen out and were not replaced ; he knew that the proper advice in regard to it would not be palatable at headquarters, and that a great calamity must necessarily result from its constant use. Ho seems to have elected not to exhibit any zeal in the dis- charge of his duty that could be unpleasant to his superiors, and so ‘‘chanced it” with regard to the accident, with the result already known. Disappointed Enterprise, If two of the most distinguished person- ages in that resolute fraternity which visits by night, equipped with jimmies and false keys, the treasure vaults of banks and simi- lar places, had prepared ao little game for the seizure of the richest treasure in the world; if they had tunnelled a passage that could at the last moment be opened with the greatest facility, and had secured im- pressions of the lock on the last door and were in possession of the whole secret of its structure and the material with which to make practical use of that secret; and if at the given hour they reached that door and proceeded to operate fon it, and then discovered that during the preceding day it had been supplied with a terrible new lock, against which all their study of the other lock was of no use, how bitter would be their disappointment and how fierce their indignation against the theory and practice of the aypplica- tion of new locks. It is conceivable that in such o case they might feel | 08 savage as Senators Morton and Cam- | eron feel, suddenly confronted by the de- | vice of a new electoral law, which comes be- tween them and the little game of making a President without much regard to the will | of the people The Municipal Conference. The friendly meeting and interchange of views between Mayor Ely and distinguished citizens which took place yesterday turns out to have been of little significance, as we an- ticipated. This kind of intercourse between leading citizens and the municipal officers is to be approved, even though nothing more important may result from it than the maintenance of friendly re- lations; but we did not expect the conference yesterday to be quite so empty and pointless as the opinions expressed prove it to have been. The Mayor presented no points on which he asked the judgment ot his visitors, and the visitors offered no definite practical propositions for the con- sideration of the Mayor. We are sorry that the important question of refunding the city debt at a lower rate of in- terest was utterly ignored, for the suggestions of leading financial men might have been of some value, and would cer- tainly have been of great interest on this important subject. The resolution of Sena- tor Morrissey, offered in the Senate on Monday, calling for an exact statement of the municipal debt and a_ precise description of all the city bonds, had given a freshness to the subject which invited the attention of a conference on city affairs. Nor had anybody a specific pln to offer for the reduction of municipal taxes, although the meeting, if not utterly purposeless, should have dealt with this question on some intelligible basis. The lesson to be drawn from this conference, so far as it can be thought to furnish any, is that we must depend mainly on the responsible city officers for initiating and digesting plans of reform. It is their duty to study and master this class of ques- tions, and they have a strong incentive to promote the interests of the city in the credit and reputation which the possession of office gives them an opportunity to ac- quire, There isa homely proverb that ‘‘what is everybody’s business is nobody's busi- ness,” and the feebleness and futility of yes- terday's conference does not discredit the maxim, Mayor Ely and Comptroller Kelly must not go a ‘wool gathering” in search of ideas, but. must evince suf- ficient energy of mind to project wise schemes of improvement and carry them into execution. Our citizens stand ready to indorse and applaud when their officers are sagacious and efficient, but they have no time to give a detailed study to munici- pal questions. Let Mayor Ely now inform us what his own plans are and submit them for the discussion of the city press, Mistaken Economy. It is proposed that in the effort to reduce the burden on taxpayers the reduction of expenditure should be made in part at the expense of the salaries paid to teachers in the public schools, to men in the Fire De- partment and on the police. In so far as the proposed economy in the schools aims a blow at what might be called the fancy ele- ments of our common school system it seems to us a very goodone. Music and French and, similar branches of education could never have obtained a foothold in the public schools except under that false and fraudulent municipal system in which the heads of every department simply employed their ingenuity to increase expenditures, If men steal thirty per cent they pre- fer an expenditure of a hundred thou- sand dollars to one of ten thousand dollars. It is no part of a system of practical education supported by general taxation to touch other subjects than those included in a plain English education. But an economy practised at the expense of teachers’ salaries would not be very great in its financial results and would be disadvanta- geous to the school system, for the teachers are now not overpaid. On the contrary they are poorly paid for services so onerous, ex- haustive and important as they render. It should never be forgotten in the considera- tion of municipal economy that our bad financial position is not due to even ex- travagant legitimate expenditure, but to the filching of the public treasury by dishonest officials. Continued from Former Numbers. Another army, which in the miscellaneous condition of Mexico sustained the cause of Iglesias, hassurrendered to.Diaz, and, doubt- less discouraged by the monotony with which incidents of this nature succeed one another, the Chief Justice of the Republic has determined to leavo his ungrateful and otherwise unsatisfactory country. It is even reported that he is on his way to the United States, and that we shall presently possess, therefore, one carpet-bagger more, Popular enthusiasm, meantime, is rampantly for Diaz. It has been observed on several occasions in the history of our planet that there is nothing so successful as success, but we believe no people were ever known that could hold a candle to the Mexicans tor the exhibition of diversities in division so long as they are free to divide, or for unanimity when they cannot help themselves. As Diaz is now the most popular man in Mexico he bids fair tomake Mexico popu- lar elsewhere, and is actually reported to have initiated his administration by sending three hundred thousand dollars in specie to this country in discharge of claims. An Account Settled. Fortunately it is not always true that crimes likethe famous midnight raid ona gentleman’s house at Astoria can be prac- tised with impunity in the neighborhood of this city. Sometimes there is such a dé- nouement to the story as this one closed with in the courts the other day, when three burglars, for that and another crime, were sentenced toa collective period of seventy- threo years. Our prisons are not the most secure places, and pardons are granted without so much discrimination as should be given to tho cases, and it is not therefore certain that the public may count upon security from these threo ruffians for the periods respectively of thirty-five, twenty and eighteen years. Indeed, it is tolerably certain that all three men will be at large again within five years. But even to keep them out of mischief for that period ‘is n great deal, and the effect of sentences like this on the minds of other men of the 24, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Senatorial Elections. In New Jersey the election for s new United States Senator is still in doubt, though there is every probability that the successful candidate will be Mr. McPher- son, the democratic nominee. In this event the democrats will obtain an ad- ditional vote in the Senate, but they are not greatly to be congratulated upon it, and neither the Senate nor the country will gain by the substitution of an al- together commonplace person for Mr. Freling- huysen. In Illinois the conflict is still un- decided. On the last ballot taken yesterday Mr. Logan had ninety-two votes, and at the caucus held last evening he formally withdrew his name. One of the possibilities of the case is that the choice may fall upon Mr. Wash- burne, our Minister to France. Illi- nois could do nothing more agreeable to the country at large than to send this gen- tleman to the Senate, His termin Paris will expire shortly, and his services in Congress were always of such value, and so conspicuously on the side of good legislation, honesty and economy, that his reappearance in the councils of the nation would be a subject for public congratulation. Should the vote hitherto given to Logan go to him his election would be easy, and we trust the conflict may have this issue. In Georgia it is probable from present appearances that the choice will fall upon Mr. Norwood; now one of the representa- tives of that State in the Senate. But the friends of Mr. Hill are waging a resolute battle in his behalf, Evidently his course in the House has commended itself to the judgment of the better disposed division of the Georgia democracy, and it will be a subject for regret equally that a wise and patriotic course in a great crisis should be the means of defeating a man’s honorable ambition and that the im- portant State of Georgia should be deprived of the services in the Senate of one of her most capable sons, But should Mr. Hill be defeated he will not be lost to public life, as he has been re-elected to the House. His competitor, Mr. Norwood, has served in the Senate respectably, but without attract- ing attention for any conspicuous relation to the great topics of the time. Part of the campaign of opposition to Mr. Hill was a personal difficulty, the manceuvrer of which seems to have yielded to that common im- pediment, an ‘‘if.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENGE. General Dent is in Florida, Great musicians do not have small cars. Joaquin Miller has gray cyes and brown hair, Thin poople may drink buttermilk: with advantage, Mr. 8. B. A. Harper bas resigned the editorship ot the Tablet. Mrs, Senator Randolph will not go to Washington until February. The Toledo Commercial has been consolidated with the Toledo Blade, Mr. William Beach Lawrence, of Rhode Island, ts at the Albemarle Hotel. A Mr. Forbes, of Boston, is said to bo the hand- somest man in the world. Mackey, the Pennsylvania politician, is of opinion that Johnny Davenport is a fraud. Whitehall Times :—‘‘Any business man may run in debt, but he can’t run long after ho gets in,’”? Ole Bull’s mother-in-law has brown hair and lighy eyes ; and She puts her foot down in a No, 7 shoe, An Italian at Now Haven recontly drank twonty schooners, or about two gullons, of lagor, in threo minutes and a half, for $5, Putney !s concerned for a ten-year old girl who has occasional trances, during which the chair in which she may be sitting waltzes about tho room. The catcher of the Harvard ball nine will be a queor looking fellow on the ball ground, as he has invented a brass wire mask to prevent blows in the face. ‘A large charity ball at Hartford last evening was attended by Governor Hubbard and many of the élite of the Connecticut capital. A handsome sum was realized. The Charleston News and Courier is informed that Pinchback, of New Orleans, is a nativo of Charleston, and that his real name is not Pinchvack nor even Pinchheck, Vicksburg Herald:—“The great bulk of tho tramps that are now feeding from the charity of the South are Northern men, which !s a rather sad commentary on that section.’? “It is remarkable,” says Projevalsky, ‘how seldom European dogs fraternize with their Chineso or Mun- golian brethren, howevor long they may live in com- pany with them,’? General Ignattef passed by the post of military at- taché from the army into the diplomatic service as Count Schouvalof, who began life as a soldier, entered diplomacy by another door. Some $50,000 has been subscribed at Boston toward buying tho Moody and Sankey tabernacle after the meetings and turning 1 into a model German beer gar- don, with Carl Vossler as manager. What makes a Pennsylvania minister feel nice is for him to gointo the pantry the next day after a dona- tion party and find toat he has swapped two barrols of plum cake for one barrel of beans, The Boston Globe, reading a despatch from New York, wishes to know how, on account of fog, ferry navigation could be by whistle? Why, you see, the people were blown over—in a horn. Norristown Herald:—“When Dr. Mary Walker was in Salt Lake Brigham Young wanted to make her the morning star of his harem, He said ho wanted ono wife whose old clothes could be cut down and made over for his boys.” Chinese soldiersdo not always forage on the coun- try through which they march, They plough tho land, sow the seed, harvest the crop and then go on. Js this the way, Senator Sargent, that they are con- quering the world ? The average boy of the period considers neitber of Edmunds nor of Morton—indoed, neither of Tilden nor of Hayos; tho problem that racks his puzzled brain ts whether to bounce out with that sled or bull-doze four more pairs of buckwheat cakos, Judge Ediunds, of whom it nas been said that ono of his words has more power in the United States Senate than a half day’s speech of any other man, is not yet filty years old; 1s tall, slim, staid-looking and Puritanical, has a full dark beard, and though ho is a great lawyer was not bred in college, Brooklyn Argus:—‘Some papers are trying to create the impression that Mr. Watterson thinks he bestrides the Republic like a colossus. He is really one of the mo-t modest of men. An intimate friend states that he bas been known to sit with wet fect half a day rather than take off his shoes and dry them,” The Graphic thinks that business ‘mon are moro serviceable in logisiation than lawyers are, But Sen- ator Sherman is a lawyer who has had as good effoct on financial legisiation as Senator Jones; and Chase was able to mako a di which was not an easy thing to do, where a business man, in the emergency, might have failed, Mr. McPherson is a man of great busi- ness genius and 4 whole souled fellow; but certainly the Graphic will not put bim ahead ot Edmunds, Conkling or Bayard? Evening Telegram :—"'It is interesting to view the faces ot old fashioned abolitionists as they read Prosi- dent Grant’s Message to-day, which attempts to justily his recent use of the army in the Southern States by reference to President Pierce’s employment of marines and artillery in Boston, in May, 1844, when Anthony Burne, a fugitive slave, was surrendered, and to Presi- dent Buchanan’s employment of regulars to suppress John Brown at Harper's forry in October, 1859, in same stamp may be to make country houses - somewhat safer for a time. both of which instances tho troops wore ordered to duty without any requisition from tho Governors of _Massachusotts or Virainia,” TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. A LULL IN THE EAST. The Porte Asking for Aus- trian Mediation. - RUSSIA STILL PREPARING. Germany and France—Cause of the Racent Rumors. CHURCH AND STATE IN ITALY.‘ * (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD,] . Loxpon, Jan. 24, 1877. There is no news of any importance this morning In the East thero 1s a momentary lull and there is not éven as much information as would justify even the most moderate gspoculation as to results, The little flutter of excitement caused by the hostile tono of the German press toward Franco has subsided and the fears of complications in that quarter havo given place to a feeling of confidence. THE PORTS ASKING AUSTRIA’S MEDIATION. A despatch from Vienna gays the journals thero ro port that the Turkish Ambassador, ata long consulta tion in Posth to-day on Turkey's future cuurse, ine formed Count Andrassy that tho Porte intended ta make peace with Servia and Montenegro, and requested Andrassy’s mediation. TURKEY WILL NOT PROVOKE MOSTILITIES, Itis reported in Vienna that the Turkish Ambassae dor, at his interview with Andrassy, in Pesth, yoster- day, assured him that Turkey would take no step which was likely to provoke war, and would vigor+ ously push internal reforms. ‘ RUSSIA NEGOTIATING SEPARATELY. ‘A despatch from Constantinople says It s absolutely certain that Russia, since the failure of the Conference, has again endeavored to negotiate a special treaty with Turkey, Midbat Pacha as yet opposes such a course, WAITING FOR THE SPRING, A tolegram from Bucharest reports that the Rouma nian reserves are boing sont home until March. Thit is in harmony with the belief that Russia dues not in: tend to begin hostilities before spring. RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS FOR MOVING TROOPS, ‘A Berlin despatch says fifty-two different railway administrations have been notified that after the 27th inst, their lines will in all probability be re- quired for military purposes. A Vienna despatch says reports from military agents state that the roads in Moldavia aro impracticable, and the rallway between Kishenoff and Jassy 18 interrupted by floods, RELATIONS BETWEEN GERMANY AND FRANCE, A Berlin correspondent notices various sousational reports which are interesting because they appeared in some German papers, ‘These reports are to “the effect that Count Chandordy inspired tho telegrams trom Constantinople concerning the attitude of Baron Von Werther at tho Conference with the view of provoking complications and thereby turther- ingaplotfor an Orlcanist restoration, It is an- nounced in Paris that there is no probability that any complication will arise from the homicide at Smyrna, THE DUKE DECAZES PROBABLY RETIRING. A Paris correspondent says the retirement of tho Duke Decazes, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1s probable, in consequence of disagrecmont with Minister Simoo, MARRIAGE OF AN OPRRA SINGER, Mile. Albont, the opera singor, has married Captain Ziegler, of the Republican Guard, : CHURCH AND STATE IN ITALY, In the Chamver of Deputies yesterday, during debate on a bill against the abuses of power by the clergy, the Minister of Worship and Justice made an important statement. He declared that tne law concerning the Papal guaranteos was a solemn and unassailable pledge given tothe Catholic world of the Pope’s completo independence in the exercise of bis spiritual power, Italy ought to regard the maintenance of this law as a question of honor and of loyalty toward Europe, fle was determined to respect the law and would not allow the political friends of the Ministry to entertain any illusions in this respect. The Chamber then de- cided to pass to the consieration of the clauses of the Clerical bill. LOOKING TO THE NEXT PAPAL ELECTION, Adespatch from Rome reports that the Pope will submit the question to the cardinals whether, consid- ering the relations of the papacy to the Italian govern. ment and the revointionary party, it Is necessary to take mensures to secure the liberty of the conclave which elects the next pope, XLECTIONS IN GERMANY. A despatch from Berlin says that several supplemen- tary clections for the Reichstag have been held. The clerical candidate has been returned from Aix-Ia- Chapelle and the progressist candidate from Alten- Aiserlohn. INDIRECT TAXATION IN FRANCE, A tologram from Paris says official returns show that the revenue from indirect taxation for the year 1876, which was estimated at 1,952,483,000f., amounted to 2,105,759,000f., or £7,386,000f, more than in 1875. THE SPASISH TROUBLES. A despatch from Madrid says that the Governor of Bilbno was unable to organize the municipality on Monday. RELATIONS BRTWREN RUSSIA AND CHINA. A special despaten from Berlin says that commercial intercourse between Russia and China has come to @ complete stadastill owing toa prohibitory decree is- sued by the Chinese government, The decree is prompted by suspicions aroused by Colonel Prhoval- sky’a exploring expedition and other Russian move- ments along the Chineso frontior, which aro taken by China to indicate hostile designs, SMALL POX DECREASING IN LONDON, ‘Tho Registrar General's returas show that tho small pox inthis city is decreasing. Thero wero sevonty- nino deaths from the diseaso last week against 100 the week previous. DESTRUCTIVE FIRK IN A COLLIERY. A fire broke out in tho Stonehill colliery, near Bol. ton, yesterday whilo tho men were at work, and is still burping, Fifteen miners are known to havo perished, 1 18 impossible to recover tho Lodics, ‘ * INK PRICE OF SILVER, Silver was quoted yesterday at 58‘¢d. por ounce, FAIR WEATHER ‘The weather yesterday was fair. WORKINGMEN’S CONVENTION, POLITICAL ‘‘REFORM” DENOUNCED AS A SHAM AND A CURSE TO THE INDUSTRIOUS Poon, Aunasy, N. Y., Jan, 23, 1877, Tho thirteenth aunual session of the Workingmen’ Assembly is in session at the Iron Moaldors’ Hall, In hia address the President, George Blair, of New York, stated that measures of great importance to the work. ing classes would bo betore the Logislature, viz, :— First—The management of prisons and how best yo rent thon trom degrading honest. ludustry in tho market t the world. “\xeoomd—Tho management of the canals and how best to secure cheap transportation to the seaboard. hind vernment of municipalities in the State, in whieh it is proposed to deprive workingmen and oth rs not holding realestate trom the right of tranchise upon all mate tors converning finance. Tho report concluded that retrenchment and reform, ot whieh we hear so much, has thas far resulted in stopping almost all public work, reducing tho wages of Jabor and bringing consequent misery among thousands of the workingmen’s familios of the Stute, while use. lors officers and oxtravagant salaries contionue as of old without interruption, and which mast continue 80 long a8 most of our public servants securo thorr places, not through morit or patriotism, but tho amount of money they can spend pon election, which afvorward ts repaid from the peopie’s treasury tu the shape of large salaries, fem, Xe. ‘he officers are:—President, George Binir, New York city; Vico President, dames & Graham, of Rochester; Secretary, M. F, McKieraan, of Troy, aad ‘Treasurer. M, G. Morton. af Tram