The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1877, Page 6

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THEATRE COMIQUE.—V PARISIAN SKATING DAIL’ TRIPLE NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company run a speciai news- | paper train over the Pennsy!vania Railroad and its connections, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four A. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition ofthe Hrratp as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M, and Washington at one P.M. From our reports thie morning the probabilities | are that the weather in New York to-day will be sold and clear or partly cloudy, with decreasing westerly winds. Watt Street YesteRDAY.—The stock market was feverish and irregular. Coal shares suffered the sharpest dccline.~ Gold receded from 10614 to 106. Money on call loaned at 5 and 6 per cent. Government bonds were active and firm and railway mort, Joy For THE Poor.—No rise in the price of coal this month. In Texas the principal amusements for young men are supplied by liquor dealers. How much better is New York ! Two Tuerts and a broken-hearted and dead mother were the results which trashy literature worked out through a Boston boy. See “A | Wanderer’s Return. ANCE COMPANY critics out of Tar Caarter Oak Lire Ty: seems to have frightened its action—a result unusual enough in such cases to | justify special comment. AsoTuer Maskep Be twenty years. Courts that inflict such sen- tences afford better protection against burglary than all the policemen alive. Tue Finst Resorution of the Twenty-third ward meeting must cause the stockholders in the Sixth Avenue Railr to curse that restless spirit of inquiry which is the leading characteris- tic of the age. , Some Ose Has at Last suggested to the Fire Commissioners one of the many cheap methods of removing snow. A 6 corporation would have examined a dozen such machines long ago and had the fittest at work. Tue Gautaxt Portce Orricer McDowent, who a fortnight ago showed his associates how burglars should be handled, received a thousand: dollar check yesterday from the Riot Relief Fund. A few more such cheeks, distributed with cause, would drive all the bur; into the country and all cowards off the police force. We Prist To-Day the story of the atrocious Mountain Meadow massacre of twent W's ag for the supervision of which Bishop Lee, of the Mormon Chu is to be shot to death to-mor- row, The law's delay will not lessen public satisfaction at the law's final enforcement, but the general conviction that Lee is to be the scapegoat of other prominent “saints” equally guilty of this horrible crime will cause many a regret over the halting nature of judicial retribution. Storms axp Vroons have devastated the | aidiae ait wo juntos eaoiibies | cause the cases are likely to be very rare | tired and given place to Mr. Charles B, | ibe the sree peed 4 . gata i sani ici when a Presidential vote will be so very close, | Lawrence, a prominent lawyer and rou England and Scotland. ‘ eat ag i ; " Pe peihaitk printed “cine where ‘gtre tat vitae | AND Secondly Aatcmeny, Ueenuay there is) very positive, fn hie) hard” money. Wee {dew of tie witleeprend rain that hae been caused, | CVeFY Probability that this part of thecon- | ciples. The most important chatige, The continuous rains that many weeks have inundated vast a tory devoted to agriculture, and th the British farmer for the coming anything but bright. These disasters, which have not been contined to Great Britain, but have been generally experienced throughout a large extent of the Continent of Europe, will have a marked effect on our spring grain trade they will necessitate heavy exportations from this country to supply the deficiency created in Europe. Tue Weratuer.—Yesterday morning the de- pression was moved through the St. La Valley, attended by a limited area of preciy tion which extended along the southern margins of Lakes Erie and Ontario. tighty-seventh meridian not a cloy wle at any of the points of observation, except wt San Diego, Cal. must wa very tuusual occurrence, considering the mmense area of territory extending from the meridian of Lake Michigan to the Pacit Deean. Light rain fell along the South Atlantic toast, and a sprinkling of very light snow, lasting only a few minntes, was observed in New York city and Philadelphia. In the afternoon the barometer began to fall in the Northwest as another depression advanced toward the lakes from that direction. Cloudiness prevailed over a small area of the Platte Vailey and partially at Fort Garry, where the temperature rose decidedly. The highest wind recorded at New York yester- day was at the rate of thirty-six miles an hour, at three P.M. The Ohio and Cumberland Fivers fell steadily and the Lower Mississippi rose during the past twenty-fonr hours. The highest pressure is now in the Lower Missouri aiid Mississippi valleys, and the lowest is in the Northwest and over Nova Scotia, The weather at New York to-lay will be cold and clear or partly cloudy, with decreasing westexly winda .. have prevailed for as of terri- prospects of season was observ” This be regarded ' desire the passage of the bill, and that only | the one most relied on, is the assumption | that the constitution clothes the President j Never was a false assumption more com- | Electoral bill rests upon this untenable | | equally flimsy and frivolous. An absurd Westward of the | NEW YORK AERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Electorat Bill in the Sen Senator Conkling prefaced the renewal of his speech on this subject yesterday with an amusing incident. A petition asking Congress to pass the Electoral bill had been sent tohim from Indiana, which he took that occasion to present. As Indiana is Senator Morton's own State 2a petition in ‘favor of the vill from that locality could not be regarded as particularly complimentary to him, and when Mr. Conkling called atten- tion to some of the signatures the Indiana petition raised s iaugh at Mr, Morton's ex- pense. Among the signers were ex-Governor | Baker, a republican cf eminent standing, the | ‘Yate candidate of the Indiana repub- | licans for Attorney General; and, more significant than all, Mr. Harrison, the republican candidate for Governor of In- | diana in October. When Mr. Conkling had | presented the Indiana petition and called attention to these remarkable signatures he handed it to Mr. Morton, causing in- | finite amusement in the Senate Chamber | and the crowded galleries. Senator Morton was stung with keen morti- fication, and he verified the adage j that the wounded bird flutters by excited | efforts to expiain away the petition after the New York Senator had concluded his speech. { But the attempts to parry this blow only showed how admirably it had been aimed. The fact remained that the republican candi- date for Governor in Mr, Morton's own State last fall, the applanded standard bearer of the party in the local contest, had signed a petition which virtually condemns Morton by strongly approving of the Electo- ral bill. It is a still heavier blow to Mor- ton’s influence that nearly all trusted re- publicans, President Grant among them, extreme partisans, like Mr. Morton himself, array themselves in opposition. Every pretence of argument paraded against the plan of the joint committee bas been exploded and shivered in the course of the discussion. One of these pretences, and ofthe Senate with authority to count the electoral votes, decide questions respecting their legality, and determine the result. pletely riddled by argument than this has been in the Senate debate and especially by the demolishing speech of Mr. Conkling. The whole case of the opponents of the ground, and when their pretence that the President of the Senate has the sole power to count the votes is swept from under them the whole structure of their argument tumbles into ruins. If the President of the Senate does not possess this power it clearly belongs to Congress, and Congress may reg- ulate its exercise by appropriate legislation. The passage of the pending bill would be appropriate legislation if Congress has power to prescribe regulations at all. The other objections to the bill are outcry is made against the degradation of | the judiciary by calling in the assistance of some of the Supreme Court Judges. They | are not'to serve as Judges, but as eminent citizens, and it is difficult to see how the Supreme Court is any more degraded than it was in 1871, when the venerable Judge Nelson was made a member of the Alabama Claims Commission. On that occasion the Supreme Court was thought to be honored by the selection of one of its members to give the assistance of his ripe judgment on a question of the first magnitude. John Jay, the Chief Justice, was selected by President Washington to negotiate a treaty in a great national crisis, although the question | was one which stirred party rancor to its profoundest depths. The ad- i i vantage and propriety of composing the | electoral tribunal in part of high judicial officers is so manifest that only heated partisans make any objection. ‘The most difficult questions to be decided by the com- mission are questions of law, and no as- sistance could be so valuable or appro- priate as that of judges selected from our highest tribunal, who, above all other | | citizens, may be presumed to possess the | | independence, impartiality, sense of justice | ' and legal knowledge requisite forthe dis- | | charge of such a duty. The cavilling | | against judicial assistance is a virtual con- | | tession that judicial habits of mind are not | wanted by the partisan objectors. | Another ground of attack on the bill is | | that it may prove a dangerous precedent. | This is as idle as it is captious: first, be- | | stitution will be amended before another | Presidential election, Even before this | crisis arose there was a widespread feeling | that that part of the constitution relating to | the election of the President and Vice Pres- | ident was too faulty to be preserved. Sen- | ator Morton has been advocating for the | | last two years, with great vehemence and | persistency, an amendment to the constitu- tion for changing the whole system of elect- | ing the President, and the present alarming | | crisis indicates the soundness of his idea | | that the present system is fraught with | | grave perils. We have no doubt that within | | the ensuing four years our method of elect- | ing the Chief Magistrate of the country will be radically changed by amending the con- | stitution. A deep sense of the great dan- ger which we are about to escape will secite a ready assent to a@ re- vision of this part of the con- stitution. The country will not permita recurrence of this portentous crisis when so powerful s new reason reinforces the former arguments against the present sys- | tem. fore we have another Presidential | election the constitution will be so | amended as to preclude all future doubts as to how the votes for Presi- | i dent avd Vice President shall be counted. In view of this strong probability nothing could be more childishly preposter- ous than the clamor that the Electoral bill | sets a bad precedent. Precedents will go | | for nothing after an amendment of the con- | stitution. In the next Presidential election | we shall set out from a new point of de- | parture, and precedents founded on any | practice under this part of the constitution | would have to do would be to buil-doze the as it now stands wiil never be thought of. All future precedents will be founded on the methods pursued under the constitution as amended. But even if the expectation of an amendment should be disappointed the Electoral bill is as wise a method as could be devised under the constitution as it now exists, All the indications favor the triumphant passage of the biii, and when the contest is ended none of its opponents wil! fee! proud of their sacrifice of patriotism to party in so important a crisis, A Few Pertinent Suggestions. As the committee appointed to investigate the subject cf heating the cars are expected i to report some time to-day. a few suggestions : to them pertinent to the ense may not be | out of place, Inthe first place, they must not recommend any pian that includes the | placing of a stove inside the car. This would only serve to warm the heads of the passengers and leave their feet more un- | comfortabie than ever. Moreover, it would be a positive inconvenience, a continua! ob- stacle in passing from one end of the car to the other, a discomfort to those near it, and the overheated stove coming in contact with the garments of passengers would be liable | to occasion serious accidents by clothing tak- | ing fire. Inthe second place, they must not recommend any plan that is not based upon the principle of gently heating the floor of the car. It must be a moderate heat, and so distributed under the flooring that it , will always keep an even temperature of | warmth to the feet. This heat should not} be accompanied by gas. To prevent un- pleasant exhalations emanating from the heating of dirt likely to be carried in on the | feet the cars should have foot scrapers on each platform so that passengers may re- movethe dirt from their feet coverings. | Mats also might be placed on both plat- forms in addition to the scrapers, and it should be made the duty of conductors to require all passengers to use these scrapers and mats before.entering the car. ‘Ihe front door should always be kept closed and ven- | tilation from the top of the car should be so | regulated as to prevent those cold and cough-brecding draughts of air that result from the present abominable system of street car ventilation. In all cases it is | essential for the comfort and convenience of | passengers that the cars should never be allowed to become overcrowded. But what- ever plan may be recommended by the Alder- manic committee, it is absolutely necessary, in order to meet the laudab‘e end in view, that it be not one which will permit the com- panies to adopt some bungling contrivance or apparatus which, by overheating or some other annoyance, will purposely disgust the passengers and make them desire the aban- donment of the whole car-heating undertak- ing. The railroad companies are quite equal to this as well as many other tricks tending to their profit and benefit, no matter whether or not it beat the expense of the comfort, convenience or even lawful rights of the street car riding public. We would also suggest that the plan selected or rec- ommended be tested on a few cars forthwith before its general adoption is ordered. The experiment of heating the cars should be fairly tried without obstructions or objec- tions from the companies, and the judgment of the public rendered from actual experi- ence as to the utility and feasibility of this | desirable improvement in the mode of city car travelling. The Senatorial Elections, Mr. John R. McPherson, who had pre- viously received the caucus nomination of the democrats of the New Jersey Legislature, was yesterday elected United States Senator from that State for six years from the 4th of March next. It is seldom that so desirable an office comes to a candidate by so small a muajority—-the vote in joint session being 41 for the fortunate Senator elect and 40 against him—the latter being divided be- tween Mr. Frelinghuysen, Courtlandt Parker, George M. Robeson and Ww. | Walter Phelps. Mr. McPherson is a} successful and capable business man, largely interested in the live stock trade, and projector as well as president of the great stock yard and abattoir company at Communipaw. He has taken an active in- terest in politics, however, notwithstanding his large business adventures, and has held | the offices of Alderman, State Senator and Presidential elector. In Illinois the change of fronton the part of the democracy has been followed by a similar movement on the republican side, Mr. Logan having re- | however, is the substitution of Judge David | Davis, of the United States Supreme Court, fur Mr, Anderson, who had taken the place of Governor Palmer on the democratic side. On the last ballot yesterday Judge Davis led and Mr. Lawrence's vote had decreased. In Georgia only one vote was taken yester- day, which stood— Norwood 96, Ben Hill 78, and 42 scattering. The supporters of Mr. Hill succeeded in securing an adjournment, | which is regarded as favorable to his | chances, as he is gaining recruits from the opposition. Another sign in his favor is the alleged intention of his opponents to change front to-morrow and present the name of | Herschel V. Johnson in place of Mr. Nor- wood, Surrnace sy Macatnray.—An ingenious Belgian has contrived an apparatus for the application to general elections of the system of. the Set punch and the telegraphic tape combined, There is to be in his scheme at each polling place. one machine for every ‘candidate, The yoter is to touch the machine inseribed with the name of the man for whom he wishes to vote, and the machine records one yote on the tape or “blue trip ticket,” and rings a bell, Each tape punched with the votes is rolled up on @ graduated scale in such & way as to indicate without counting | how many votes have been cast for each candidate. In the operation of this machinery all that the returning boards reel on which that tape has to be wound, | Taxation | departments, by reducing the interest on | presence of some of our best citizens, and | Mr. Christopher Flecke. | cate the depth of his discontent at his pres- | ing tribunol presents what is somewhat rare | through many years to a certain opinion How to Save Money. The remarks of Comptrolier Kelly at the recent municipal conference ought to dis- pose of the numerous bills slready intro- duced at Albany with the object of patching up our present city charter. As we are likely soon te have a stable plan of munici- pal government resulting from the labors of Mr. Evarts’ commission it is not desirable to make new experiments, especially as our present city rulers are in harmony and can thus give us many desirable reforms withou any alteration of the existing law. There are certain points on which there can be no disagreement. Property in New York should be relieved as much as pos- sible from the existing burden of taxa- tion and the unnecessary incrense of the city debt should be prevented. can be reduced by cur- ing the cost of running the municipal tail the city debt and by inereasing the general fund revenues. There can be no question | that the expenses of the departments | could be materially reduced without im pai: ing their efficiency. Bureans can be abol- ished and consolidated under the charter as it is, and to put every public office on a pure business footing would cut down the city budget by a good round sum. The interest on the debt can be reduced steadily under the Comptroller's plan of paying no more than five per cent interest on new city bonds, The general fund revenues can be largely imerensed by vigorous measures against delinquents and by taking steps to overthrow al] corrupt leases and to compel the ferries, railroads, &c., to yield a fair amount of income to the city. As to re- stricting the increase of the debt, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment possesses enough power to hold it pretty firmly at its present amount. On January 1 our funded and so-called temporary debt reached one hundred and forty-two million dollars. Of this about eight millions bears five per cent interest, seventy-three ‘millions six per cent and sixty-one millions seven per cent. This is an average of 6.38 per ‘cent. If the whole debt could be funded at five per cent we should save in in- terest close upon two million dollars a year. The greater portion of the six and seven per cent bonds fall due in or before the year 1900, Twenty-one millions of such bonds become payable during the present Comptroller's term, and taking the same average the refunding of this amount only at five percent would save nearly three hun- dred thousand dollars a year in interest. This shows the advantage of reducing the rate of interest as rapidly as bonds fall due; but the probability is that long bonds, of say fifty or eighty years, at five per cent, would be voluntarily taken in exchange by a large number of the holders of our present short six and seven per cent bonds if such a scheme of refunding the debt should be proposed. An Assemblyman Astray. Mr. Christopher Flecke has introduced a bill in the Assembly to abolish the Park De- partment. It might be said that Mr. Chris- topher Flecke represents the Tenth Assem- bly district but that such a statement would seem like a slander on the Seventeenth ward. Mr. C. Flecke, however, is in Albany recorded as member of Assembly from that district, and we therefore suggest that some of its respectable inhabitants should communicate with Mr. Flecke and inform him that the Park Department is a branch of the city government to which the city owes much that is beautiful and attrac- tive in its public places ; that the Park Com- missioners are gentlemen who perform very important and responsible duties and per- form them well; that with the exception of the President they serve without pay ; that the Park Board has been distinguished by the that its services will be in the future, as they have been in the past, of much value to the city, as every citizen except such an Assemblyman as Mr. Christopher Flecke knows. If this does not convince Mr. Christopher Flecke that his bili to abolish the Park Department is « foolish and mis- chievous bill then the voters of the Tenth Assembly district should promptly abolish Facing Both Ways. Mr. Dombey thonght that Mrs. Skewton was “shaken,” but the Major assured him | that she was “smashed,” and that may be | the way Mr. Morton feels as to his argument | on the Electoral bill. It is to be hoped it is | not so bad with him that he feels worse than even that; but it seems certain that if he were possessed of the sensibilities of com- mon mortals this word might scarcely indi- ent relation to the measure for ascertaining the Presidential vote. His course with re- gard to the function of the Vice President and the necessity for a constitutional count- in our practical politics—a veritable psychological curiosity. It is not un- common for men to change their opinions in this country—to turn their coats, as the old scornful phrase puts it; and it is even tothe honor of public men that they do it freely, for a man may always be better in- formed to-day than he was yesterday; and if newer information gives the case a differ- entaspect he has to weigh consistency and truth against one another; and if he prefer truth he must change, But what is rare and is for a man to adhere monstrous and never to change so long as he contem- plates only the principle involved, but to change suddenly, absolutely and com- pletely the moment he discovers that this principle applied to the facts may possibly damage ascheme that has his sympathy. ‘This is for a man to apply in great concerns that small sense of the expedient which in- duced the boy of whom Lincoln spoke to want to stop the steamer in the rapids and set all hands to fishing his lost apple out of the Mississippi River. Contrinuttons To THE NatroxaL Muszom.— It is pleasant to hear that the nation has been so enriched by the gift of goods which were on exhibition at the Centennial that it does not know what to do with its property, and that the erection of an edifice for the and thus they would swell the majority of a favorite candidate, . safe keeping of the treasures has to be con- | you could make your fortuve vy walking along the | Union Pacttie Railroad ana picking up the empty cans, | | sidered. One of the evident advantages of | old countries over new ones is their possession of numbers of these storehouses of the beautiful and instructive in art, in- dustry and antiquity. Really valuable mu- seums are very scarce with us, and the coun- try, even with the broadest recoghition of the present need for economy, will not be- j grudge money for an edifice when the con- tents are already in our possession. Composition of the banal. We employ the word ‘“tribunsl,” be- cause it seems a fit designation and was re- peatedly used by Senator Edmunds in his speech, although ‘‘commission” is the term constantly used in the pending bill. As there is no doubt that the bill will pass speculation is already active respecting the composition of the tribunal. Only four of its fifteen members are yet known; the others are to be selected on Tuesday next. | The four known members are Justices of the Supreme Court, designated in the bill by their circuits. The names of the Justices in those four circuits are Clifford, of Maine; Miller, of Iowa; Field, of California, and Strong, of Pennsylvania—Clifford and Field being classed as democrats, Miller and Strong as republicans. We do not believe that any of the four will act asa partisan in so important a trust, when every member of the tribunal is to be sworn to ‘give a true judgment agreeably to the constitution and the laws,” We should as soon expect parti- sanship on the Bench of the Supreme Court itself. These four Justices are to select a fifth, and it is absurd for anybody to pre- dict on whom their choice will fall. Judge Davis has been mentioned as a probable selection, but this is utterly without war- rant, for it rests entirely in the discretion of the other four, who have too exact a sense of ; propriety to give any previous intimation of their preference. ‘Lhe country will be sat- isfied with whatever selection they may make, for it is not to be supposed that any Judge of the Supreme Court would act aso partisan on so grave an occasion. The four will sct on a deep sense of responsibility in selecting the fifth, and it is hardly in their power to make a bad choice from a Bench all of whose members stand high in public confidence. The ten members of the tribunal to be chosen by the two Houses may, perhaps, comprise some strong partisans, but ifso they will be equally balanced. But it would be a mistake to put any violent par- tisan on a commission that will be sworn to do impartial justice. The only grounds of selection should be eminent character, high intelligence, a judicial turn of mind and established confidence in the integrity of the men. If ten of the fourteen members of the joint committee should be taken the tribunal would be wisely composed, and, as its judgment is likely to be final, public acquiescence will be ready and hearty in proportion to the personal respect felt for its members. Five are to be chosen in each house. by a vivd voce vote, and we trust that all aggressive partisanship may be dropped in the discharge of so important a duty. Let the personal composition of the tribunal be what it may we are confident that none of its decisions will depend upon ao single vote. There is more likely to be a strong majority of the tribunal in favor of every de- | cision, because all the members will be sworn to abjure partisanship and give a judgment according to law. Electoral Tri- PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sidney Lanler has gray eyes. Mme. Wagner looks like her father, Liszt. Genoral Horace Porter bas sailed tor Europe. Mrs, Senator Cameron wears a plum-color bonnet. Ripe strafberries have been picked this month in Olympia. Students in tho University of California wear brass buttons. Mr. Benjamin Harris Brewster, of Philadelphia, ts at the Brevoort. Ole Bull’s infant is called baby Bull. it bully baby? Ex-Governor Morgan is said to have given only $1,000 toward electing the next President. Be still, sad man, and cease reciinin Under the snow is the ice still shining. The question ‘now agitating the popular mind ts whether the base ball season shall oper with Tilden or Hayes. Many of the great debaters have become such not through the teaching they bad in classes, but through school debating societies, In the Welsh language W is pronounced like oo, ‘That ts the reason why the editor of the Chicago Times called his paragraph writer a tw. New York Commercial:—‘'Sidney Lanter’s high- flutin style of poetry is now explained. He has tor three years been first in a Baltimore orchestra Simon Cameron asks, ** What next’ Well, Simon, Why not call ‘Yhe Cuinaman, we are afraid, will never assimilate with Americans, He sends his money to China for tea, instead of patronizing the gin mills of San Fran- | creo. | Louisville G.-J.:—"Anna Dickinson doesn’t draw well on the stage and will provably be compeiled to resume the rostrum. She might lecture on light- houses.” Rockland Courier:—*‘ ‘What do young men want?’ sole:tously inquires an exchange. Most of thom round here wanta recipe for living a twelve-doilar lite on nine-dollar wages." Mackey, the miner, Is the largest individual stock- holder in the Big Bonanza mine. Still it has not been proved that the owners of that mine have treated the outside siockLoiders with courtesy, “Fourteenth Sireet.""—Boil the parsnips im salt water. When tender, mash; add to four parsnips a teaspoonful of flour and two beaten eggs with seagon- | ing, make into very small cakes, and {ry in a very Httlebutter, Or the parsmips may be fried in smail strips (always cut lengthwise), with or without batter, Burkngton Hawkeye:—"'A North Hilt man, who only measures five fect three inches when he stretches so that bis joints crack, bas a son who weighs five tect seven when he 1s teeling slouchy, And it would make any woman’s heart ache with sympathy to see that boy’s mother sit by the hour, with the scisgors in one hand and a pair of her husband's trousers in the other, trying to make them over for her son.” } Evening Telegram bill of tare tor the Grand Duke Alexis :— QOL PO POLE IOLOLE DE POLEIEDEDEDOLEDODE PEDO D DEDEOEHE scree. From the “Grand Duke” Theatre, Fish. “Paice” (for the Russian fleet in American waters). ENTREES. Tenderloin steak Irom Moscow, Roast. Turkey, basted with Greece and Sorviacd with Muscovy sauce. VEGETABLES. “Lettuce” alone (irom Constantinople). GAME, “pole ry, Siberiun style, tried tn ox-ile. DESSERT. xcept Charlotte-Russe. “Knouv’”’ in particular, FRUITS. “Salis'berries, English style. DRINKS “Cos'’sack—Sublime ‘‘Porte,”* Qeeverervereees ec sbeeccceaeqcecesscsseceececec cece stat: acaccreroe rene rcercccccccene ties es tssete@ 3 3 z g ? 3 3 = = 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 e ‘The evening might wind ap with the Khan-Kban, as danced in Khiva, It bas many poculiar steppes, TPLEGRAPHIC. NEWS terres eeinecersiianclietiiieietiall From All Parts of tha World. THE OTTOMAN PUZZLE, Turkey Asking for French Officers and English Financiers. .———_+—__—_ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE’S VIEWS, | The Italian Clerical Abuses Bill— Pio Nono IIL THE RINDERPEST IN GERMANY: aaa tices {BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.1 Loxpox, Jan, 25, 1877. The luil in the East still continues and there is no news of the slightest importance. Having no fact ta communicate and being tired of uscless speculation, the papers have to turn to other subjects for the pres ent. TURKEY S£EKING FRENCH AND ENGLISH INSTRUCTORS, A despatch from Constantinople says 1% 18 stated that the Porte intends to request France to send mili- tary officers to Constantinople to instruct the gondar- merie, and also toa:k England for the assistance of competent Onaccial administrators with a view to ree organizing Turkish finances, SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE ON THK BAST. Sir Stafford Northcote, Chanceilor of the Exchequer, made a speech at Liverpool last might. He said peace was essenual to tho interests of Kngland. The gove ernment deeply sympathized with the oppressed, but intervention in the interpal affairs of a loreign coun- try was a step requiring grave consideration, The government has proceeded on the principie of limit. ing their intervention within proper bounds and avoid- ing what they felt to ve false policy—namely, coercion, ENGLAND WILL NOT FIGHT FOR TURKKY. He strenuously denied that the government ever bad any intention of going to war on behalt of Turkey or were ever influenced by an unworthy jealousy of Russia, He considered that the Turks bad acted on ill advice and undertaken a grave responsibility tp re- jecting the triendly proposais of the Conference; but Turkey in this rejection had done what she in her Iree right thought to be for the best, and he was unablo to understand the languago of those who apparently de- sired to turn the conduct of Turkey into a cause of offence tor Europe. SICKNESS IY ASIATIC TURKEY, A despatch from Pora reports that disorders havo broken out in Aleppo, Mersin and Tarsus. DIREOT NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA, Another correspondent, writing under date of Janu ary 19, states that Midbat Pasha intimated to Gencra; Ignatieff that, upon the breaking up of the Conference, he would enter into direct negotiations with Russta, CHURCH AND STATE IN ITALY. The Chamber of Deputies yesteraay passed. the Clerical Abuses bill by a vote of 150 yeas to 100 nays. ITALY AND THR PARIS &XHIBITION. The Chamber also voted a grant for the expenses to be incurred by tho participation of Italy in the Pai Exhibition of 1878, HEALTH OF THE POPE. Adespatch from Romo says the Pope had a fainting fit on Sunday and was confined to his private apart mentson Monday. He gave audiente again yesterday, tne fatigue of which occasioned ao frosh tainting Ot. Nevertheless, other persons were subsequently re. cetved, and the Pope w: 0 hold {urther receptions yesterday. THE RINDERPEST. A despatch from The Hague says a royal decree was published theré yesterday prohibiting the importation and transport of foreign cattle, the government of Great Britain having informed that of the Netherlands that the importation of cattle from that country into Great Britain would be prohibited uniess the importa- tion and transit of German beasts was prohibited in Holland, MEXICO. HOW THE TRIUMPH OF DIAZ 18 REGARDED IN MEXICO—CAUSE OF DIAZ’S YRIUMPH—A RE ACTION IN FAVOR OF LERDO SETTING IN. Wasuixctos, Jan, 24, 1877. The reports from Moxico of tbe triampn of the rovo- lutionary faction represented by General Diaz over the opposing faction led by Igiesias are not looked upon by well informed persons here as affording any ground for the belief that tne authority attempted to be set up by General Diaz will have more than a very temporary existence. CAUSE OF THB SUCCESS OP DIAZ ‘The overthrow of the constitutional order has been due, not to the popular approval of any principle which General Diaz represents nor to the strongth of the forces at bis command, but to the demoralization introduced into the army and temporarily caused te public sentiment by the Iglesias conspiracy, which sought to cover revolutionary proceedings with the pretext of legality. A REACTION SEFTING IN. The mask baving now fallen and the fatal conse quences of that misguided movement having become apparent, a reaction against General Diaz and the mili- tary dictatorship he has been seeking to establish has already commenced. It 13 believed to be not at all improbable that the constitutional order represented | by Prosident Lerdo may be ro-establishod at an early poriod, RAILROAD ACCIDENT. | A TRAIN THROWN FROM THE TRACK BY A BROKEN RAI. Bewninatox, Vt., Jan, 24, 1877, The Montreal express train, which lett New York last evening, was thrown from the track by a broken rail, near Dorset, this morning. A portion of the train went down an embankment. One passenger was slightly injured. REMARKABLE ESCAPE, Warentowns, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1877. Charles Williams, while attempting to board @ moving trainin this city to-day, fell under the cars apd was shoved and rolled twenty rods along the track vy the trucks, He escaped with slight myurics. SUDDEN . DEATH. Savansan, Ga., Jan. 24, 1877. W. G. Budd, of Halifax, N.3., fell dead in MeCone pell’s Hote this afternoon. He had just arrived from Charleston. KILLED BY AN ELEVATOR, Nasa, N. H., Jon. 24, 1877, Elmer Michand was killed in the Nashua Manutac, turing Company’s mills (his afternoon, being caught by the elevator. CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATION, — Dover, N. H., San. 24, 1877, The democrats of tho First Congressional district to-day renominated Hon, Frank Jones by acclamation, ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. Bostox, Jan. 24, 1877. ‘William Ready was killed at Ashland by the crank of a derrick at Cole's quarry hitting him on the head, OHOKED WITH BEEFSTEAK Proviyesce, R. b, Jan, 24, 1877 Albert Potter, foreman of the Uniou Ice Company, of this city, died While cating im a restaurant at Woons socket tiie evening, He was probably cuvked by a piece of ke Hel Wile and three childroa.