The New York Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1877, Page 4

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Money on call was supplied at 83 and 4 per cent. The stock market was irregu- lar, and closed without special significance as regards future prices. Government and railway bonds may be quoted as generally steady. Gerome’s Macniricent Picture of “The Sword Dance” has arrived at the Custom House, Tue Unton Leacur Cxvn is not happy. It wants a new nest. Better wait till Hayes is President. Morr DEFALcATIONS are reported from Wall street.’ Birds of prey, finding no ready victims, pluck one another. Litrit Hern Gate is to be closed. The Al- dermen propose to do it. Will no enterprising Aldermen try to shut up the big gate? It would make matters comfortable. “ANOTHER Operator in bogus bonds has been trapped. He appears to belong to the gang of which Chadwick and Van Eton are supposed to be distinguished members. Avstna.ta is to benetit to the extent of ninety- nine emigrants by the hard times at present ex- isting. It is a little early in our history for an exodus; but the world will keep moving. Rarm Traysit by an underground route was rendered impossible by some underhand work. A study of the Byrne contract will make those who purposed investing in the underground. rail- way scheme feel happy that they did not. ‘Tnx Mexican Consut thinks that so long as Mexico discharges her debts toward the United States we have no right to interfere in the inter- nal affairs of his country. Just so; pay up, gen- tlemen, and play your own little games in your own way. Jvupce Mucier’s Lerrer.—In another column will be found a letter from an author, journelist and extensive veller rolled into one, on the important question as to whether or not Judge Miller did write the now famous letter, ex- pressing certain very decided views on the, political situation. Mr. Curley, whose letter we publish, asserts that he heard read this very document, or one expressing similar views to those Judge Miller is said to have committed to paper. This is very important evidence, if true. Of course it is quite possible for a gentleman who happens to be an author, journalist and ex- tensive traveller to makea mistake, or even to be imposed upon. Tue Wraturr.— southward from the lake region yesterday and. slowly traversed the Middle States, attend a rain area wh Tenn., northeastward into southerly winds which prevailed brought dense volumes of humid atmosphet northward, and these, after manifesting th selves in the form of fogs, were influenced by the cold winds that came from the northward as the depression advanced, causing a condensation of the vapor into light rain. A similar effe produced yesterday on the Western Gulf coast, where fog and light rain prevailed. Westward of the Mississippi the weather is clear, with a somewhat Jower temperature, but the fall is noticeable only during the early morn. ing. A synopsis of the weather pservan tions at New York during Janu gives. the following:—Highest baron r 30. ches; lowest, 29,151 inches. Highest temperature, HO degrees; lowest, 6 degrecs. Greatest wind velocity, 42 miles per how Clear days, 8; cloudy, 15; days on which rain or snow fell, 16; fair days, 8. The comparative mean tempera tures for the month ar 1871, 31.2 degrees ; 1872, 29.9 degrees; 1873, 28.5 degrees ; 1874, 34.7 degrees; 1875, 25.2 degrees; 1876, 85.1 degrees, and 187’ The comparative precipitation in inches for the sa years gives 1871, 0.25; 1872, 2.34; 18 5.06; L874, 4.69; 1875, 1876, 1.21, and 1877, 3.55. As the tinues high in the Upper Missi: pi and the issouri valleys we repeat our warnings with regard to the probable movements of the ice. Extraordinary precautions may be necessary to prevent disasters, The Mississippi has already risen twenty-seven inches at St. Louis, The weather in New York to-day will be warm and cloudy, with rain, followed toward evening by partly cloudy or clearing weather aud a slight fall in temperatures NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Our Public Men of This Generation and the Last-Their Comparative Intel- lectual Stature. The great occasions which permit and call for a display of high capacity enable us to see our distinguished public men at their best and to estimate their intellectual ability and equipment, Such an occasion is af- forded in the measures which have been taken and are in progress for determining the Presidential election. ‘This is a crisis unexampled in our history, a crisis not merely without precedent, but hemmed in with constitutional and practical difficulties of no ordinary kind and rising to great dig- nity by the importance of its consequences. In the whole course of our history since the adoption of the constitution no problem has been presented better fitted to test the re- sources of American statesmanship, and none of our really great political problems has ever been more successfully solved. It has been constantly predicted by eminent jurists and statesmen that the supreme trial of our constitution would come whenever a Presidential election should depend on disputed votes. ‘That crisis has at lest come, and our public men have proved adequate to meet it, aided as they have been by the sobriety and patriotism oftho people, Some of our public men are acquiring so much distinction and lustre in the peaceful settlement of this controversy that it seems a simple act of justice to them to recognize their merit, and of justice to this generation to assert its title to rank in intellectual ability with the last. Great talents are so much indebted to fit opportunities that a country may be un- aware of its affluence in important men. Hod it not been for our civil war nobody would have suspected the military capacity that lay concealed under the unpretending exterior of General Grant. Mr. Chase would never have acquired the reputation of a great financier in ordinary times. The ro- markable combination of mental and moral qualities which stamp Charles Francis Adams as our first statesman would have been unknown to his countrymen if he had not held the trying position of our Minister to England during the civil war. We need not recur to Gray’s fanciful lines about “village Hampdens” and ‘mute in- glorious Miltons” to illustrate o trath of which our own history is so full, Even Washington would have passed among his contemporaries merely as a re- spectable planter had it not been for the troubles of the Revolution. It is partial compensation for the great national trials which we have gone through in this generation that they have furnished pedestals for men of high endowments and enabled the country to estimate one of its possessions—the intellectual capacity of its public men. Among our orators it may not be possible to name three who are equal to the illustri- ous trio of the last age whose names will be recalled without mention; but we have several who have won great triumphs by the sheer force of argument and eloquence. Among our contemporary orators Mr. Evarts, who is to address the Electoral Com- mission, has been the most fortunate in the number of his splendid opportu- nities and his adequacy to every great occasion. There is no orator of our time whose eloquence has been so favored by connection with events which will live in history. His brilliant success on the first of those occasions, the impeachment of President Johnson, established his pre-em- inence, and he has since been tho first man to be thought of in connection with every occasion of national importance. He was the leading counsel of our government be- fore the Geneva tribunal, and on that great occasion, not merely of national but inter- national interest, his resplendent success assured him a European reputation as one of the first advocates of our time He had another splendid opportunity on an occasion which merely required ornate treatment of a historical subject in his se- lection to. be the Centennial orator at Phifa- delphia. That patriotic and extra-profes- sional effort more than satisfied expectation, high as expectation was. He has another great opportunity to display his abilities as the leading counsel before the Electoral Commission. If he fails to establish the claim of his client it will be his first failure on animportant occasion. Another of our *! orators who has won great distinction is Senator Conkling, whose first really great op- portunity came to him in the recent Senate debate on the Electoral bill, He acquitted himself in such a manner as might alarm Mr. Evarts for his laurels if Mr. Evarts were of a jealous temper. Senator Conkling is ten years the junior of Mr. Evarts, and about the same age that Mr. Evarts was when he made his great speech in the im- peachment trial, and that Mr. Webster had attained when he made his celebrated reply to Hayne. With ten more years on his head, if opportunities should favor him, he has chances of eclipsing every American orator among his contemporaries. We have alluded to these two because they just now stand pre-eminent; but we have several other speakers of great ability and foree, among whem Mr. Blaine holds no mean rank, although, like Mr, Conkling, he is still young, and although he has never yet had the advantage of a really great opportunity, But he has not yet given evidence of any such breadth of cul- ture as is possessed by Mr. Evarts and Mr. Conkling. In comparing these orators with the most gifted of the last gencration there is a dif- ference of circumstances which must be taken into account. But apart from cir- cumstances the comparison is not entirely to the disadvantage of the best speakers of ourown time. In mere literary finish Mr, Evarts and Mr. Conkling are superior to | both Clay and Calhoun, whose language was careless and occasionally clumsy; but neither of them is such a great master of precise and forcible diction as Webster, who | never had a peer in this respect among our statesmen. Calhoun was superior to them in logical acuteness; Clay in impressive and magnetic delivery; and both Clay and Web- ster in a quality for which none of our present orators are remarkable—masenline force of imagination. Clay's imagination j check by strong and massive sense that its flights were never tawdry. We have no speaker at present who approaches them in this respect; certainly none who can rival the greater passages of Webster. But in mere intellectnal force the disparity is not great, if we make due allowance for cir- cumstances. The Jawyers and statesmen of the last generation had simple problems to deal with in comparison with those which have to be solved at present. Our business life and our political life have become alto- gether more complex and various than they were thirty or forty years ago. We have an infinity of new questions grow- ing out of our railway system, our great corporations, the new aspects of commerce, the novel state of the currency and the political and legal contro- versies which have grown out of the civil war. Aside from the novelty of the questions the increased mass of business which de- mands the attention of eminent lawyers and statesmen exceeds any pressure of which their predecessors had experience, The consequence is that the time of our leading men is so occupied with multiplied engage- ments that they cannot make the elaborate preparation for great efforts which was pos- sible in the last generation, and they have little time for the literary or classical studies which gavo an air of culture to the speeches of the most gifted of their predecessors. Proper allowance being made for this disad- vantage, they may challenge a comparison ‘| with mon of the last generation, who never came in contact with such large interests and varied questions as engross the time and overburden the attention of the leading men of our own period. The City Debt, Mr. Kelly’s communication on the bonded debt of the city is made in response to the following specific demand of the Senate:— “The bonded indebtedness of the city of New York, specifying in detail each issue separately, and with reference to each class, giving the date of issue, the law or laws under which issued, the amount ontstand- ing, the due date, the rate of interest, and for which of the classes of bonds specified the revenues or sinking fund of the city are pledged.” Although it appears that the pre- cise liability of the city to creditors is not known the Comptroller's report gives a substantial and satisfactory fund of informa- tion on subjects hitherto kept too much in the shade. By the figures thus produced the total bonded debt of the city is given at $149,357,557. Thisis distributed in three classes—first, the funded or permanent debt, $119,631,313; second, the temporary debt, $22,371,400; third, yevenue bonds, $6,104,844. This gives a total of $148, 107,557, to which, in order to obtain the grand total given above, must be added the sum of $1,250,000 for the bonded debt of the an- nexed portion‘of Westchester county. In the first description of securities $98,000,000 is classed as payable from taxation and $21,500,000 from the sinking fund. In the second class are only bonds payable in whole or in part from assessments for im- provements or street openings, and in the third only revenue bonds issued in anticipa- tion of taxes. If all this were honest, therefore, as it unfortunately isnot, the real debt of the city, would be under $120,000,000, But an addition would have to be made to that of an uncertain sum of outstand- ing claims, more or less valid, against the city. These are estimated in the pres- ent document at $10,000,000. Against all is to be counted the sum in the sinking fund of $28,179,702. It will be found by compu- tation of all the interest paid and all the debt that the average rate is six and three- quarters per cent, which is at least one and three-quarters per cent too high; and at least one very obvious requirement is the reduction of this rate. Our credit is too high to need that we should pay such in- terest. The Formerly the British government paid to ench steamer that stopped at Queenstown, coming this way, to get the late London mail, the sum of three thousand seven hun- dred and fifty dollars for that service. Re- cently it has adopted a system of payment which reduces the remuneration for each stoppage to from five hundred dollars to seven hundred dollars, or less than one-fifth the sum paid upon an estimate of the real cost and value of the service. It appears, upon full examination, that under the pres- ent system of payment the steamship com- panies not only perform this service gratuitously, but often at an expense to themselves and at the cost of great annoy- ance to the passengers ; for the stoppage at Queenstown, on account of delays there and the loss of a tide, commonly makes the passage one day longer, and the expense of an ocean steamer loaded with passengers ard with all things in operation is greater fora single day than the sum received for the service. In addition to this the detri- ment of a day’s loss on 2 trip is a great disadvantage to the reputation of acompany, which is, of course, an impor- tant part of its capital. For these reasons the ships of the Inman line no longer stop at Queenstown ; and though this proves a great inconvenience to our merchants there is clearly no just ground of complaint against the company, as it can scarcely be supposed that for an important mail service the public should be indebted to the charity ofa private enterprisi Queenstown Mail Service. Spurious Su.ver—How much of the sil. yer in circulation is counterfeit? Scarcely one piece in half a dozen has a thor- oughly good appearance, and judged by that merely superficial examination which the shopkeepers commonly make all might be condemned together with as good reason as the few that are, and retail traffic would come toa standstill for want of small money. It is undesirable that a panic should be created on this subject, and for that reason, doubtless, much less has been said about it by the newspapers everywhere than might have been; but the subject gradually forces itself upon public attention in such a way that it must presently receive its full share of scrutiny. There have been a great many arrests, but the police do not with all seem to reach the real source of tho evil. was ready and brilliant; Webster's grand | Some systematically conducted organization this systematic robbery of the poor. Can- not some one in authority stimulate the Secret Service on this important point? Before the Electoral Commission. Mr. Field’s opening argument yesterday was wholly directed to one point, a point of vital consequehce to the democratic case, not only in Florida, which is now under discussion, but in Louisiana as well. The drift and aim of his reasoning was to show that the certificate of Governor Stearns cannot bind the judgment of the commission, but.that-it is their duty to lis- ten to the evidence by which the objectors offer to prove that the certificate is false. Proceedings The introduction of this argument at this stago of the proceedings will bring one of the most important inquiries connected with the duties of the commission to an immedi- ate focus. It must be observed that the hinge of the argument is the right of the objectors to introduce evidence which goes behind the certificate with a view to prove it false. Now, the permission to introduce such évi- dence would imply a decision by the tri- bunal that it has authority to go behind the certificate, for such proofs would be irrele- vant if the certificate is conclusive. It would be absurb to admit evidence which is pertinent to no issue which the com- mission has authority to decide. If the cer- tificate of the Governor is conclusive there isan end of tho controversy, and the com- mission has nothing to do beyond deciding this point. But if it consents to hear evi- dence which goes behind the certificate it thereby decides that tho certificate cannot stand against proofs that it is fraudulent, and that the judgment must finally rest on the sufficiency of those proots, and not on the certificate. Such a de- cision would be a great point gained by the democrats, as it would open the door to all competent and perti- nent evidence, and would necessitate o judgment on the real merits of tho case. The point would then be not what the Gov- ernor certified or what the canvassing board declared, but which electors received a majority of legal votes on the 7th of November. Mr. Field maintains that the commission has the same | powers which the Supreme Court would possess under a writ of quo warranto, if that method of proceding had been provided for by law. If this be a tenable position the commission has full authority to ascertain the truth, and to admit any evidence which will assist it in determining which set of electors received a majority of votes on the day fixed by law fortheirappointment. Ifthe commission accepts this theory of its duties the chances will be very favorable to the democratic claims. If the vote of Florida should be given to Tilden that would bring a substantial end to the controversy, for his election would then be secure, whatever decision might be reached respecting the other doubtful States. But if, on the other hand, the com- mission should decide that it has no authority to receive evidence against the validity of a Governor's certificate, the elec. tion will be equally decided in favor of Til- den, though in a different way. The certifi- cate of the Governor of Oregon must then be held to be valid, which would give Mr. Tilden the one additional vote which he needs to secure his election. Little Katie and Polly. The police of New York often permit crime to go unpunished, and notorious offenders pass them unchallenged every day. Gambling houses and dens of thieves and other places of infamy which they know to exist are unmolested, but they can find time to arrest in the name of the law little children whose only offence is the effort to earn an honest living. The arrest of little Katie Nagle and Polly Walsh, reported in our columns yesterday, is an outrage which cannot be too severely condemned. These children were employed in sweeping the muddy crossings and committed the awful crime of accepting pennies from kind- hearted pedestrians. They were not beggars, but were really doing a service to the pub- lic. The police force cannot clean the streets and appear resolved that nobody else shall clean them. When the children were taken before Justice Kilbreth he ordered them to be sent to the House of Refuge—another insult to the common sense of the com- munity. The indignation of persons in the court room probably informed him that he was making a grave mistake, and, fortunately for himself, he rescinded the order. In a city where there is so much professional mendicancy and so many im- postors, both young and old, and so much untold suffering to the poor, every child who tries to carn a pittanco deserves to be honored, not to be treated asa felon. The teachings of the Master, ‘Suffer little chil- dren to come unto me, and forbid them not,” should soften the hearts of all who profess to follow His example. Specilo Paymonts. The country awaits with lively interest the forthcoming Message of President Grant, in which he will urge the im- portance and suggest the methods of an immediate return to specie payments. We are so very near to that by tho present low price of gold, the final step is so safe and easy, the expected revival of business renders it so necessary, that it would be deplorable to let this oppor- tunity pass without improving it. We believe that such measure as will be recom- mended by the President might easily pass the Senate, and there is no good reason why it should not also pass the House. The Senate has a large and stable hard money mojority, and its members are intelligent enough to appreciate the present great and unexpected opportunity for the immediate realization of their wishes, Tho composi- | tion of the House is not so favorable, but the hard money democrats and hard money republicans make a majority. Quite a number of the democrats who voted at the last session for a repeal of the Resumption act voted against their convictions with « view to strengthen their party among the Western intlationists in the Presidential canvass, That motive for shuffling no longer exists. Even the West- ern inflationists cannot expect to postpone and powerful; and in both it was so held in | is clearly at work on @ large scale practising | a return to specie for any Jength of time; result | forif any question was decided by the Presidential election it was the currency question. Both candidates are rigorous and pronounced hard money men, and which- ever is declared elected the whole influence of the next administration will be exerted to hasten specie payments, The next House of Representatives will have a strong hard money majority, and it is useless for the in- flationists to make any further fight against the inevitable. As the currency can be put on asound basis with less disturbance of values now than at any future time we see, no reason why the hard money men of the present House should not be true to their convictions and cordially assist in taking advantage of the rising tide. The Direct Cable Company. By the despatches from London it may be seen that the great amalgamation pro- ject does not. sweep all before it, From present appearances there is in the direc- tion of the cable company some security against the ereation of a great cable monoply through the absorption of the last company formed by the great combination of capital that has hitherto consolidated into one all other companies. Probably the projectors of the amalgamation did not hope to carry their scheme immediately, and they seem to have secured some success in the suppression of the results of the mect- ing held yesterday. ‘There seoms, from the tenor of the despatch, no doubt that the result was against them; yet the exact vote will not be made public till next week. In case they had discovered in the vote that they were opposed froma quarter where they did not expect opposition, and where they believed they could overcome it in a day or two, secrecy would be in their inter- est; for men published as on one side would be with more difficulty moved to the other side, There are probably, therefore, some feeble elements in the vote against amalga- mation. ‘ Little Hell Gate Channel. The project for uniting Ward’s and Ran- dall’s islands by filling up the dividing channel known as Little Hell Gate is one to which no reasonable objection can be made. The relation of this narrow and rock-obstructed passage to the commercial future of tho upper East River is without importance, because it cannot bo used with any degree of safety except by small fishing sloops, and by these only at high tide. As a factor in the generation of local currents the influence of the channel is detrimental to the navigation of the Harlem River and the East River north of Hell Gate, bit more particularly to that of the for- mer. The ebb current of the main channel is divided at the ‘Sunken Meadow” and a part of the flow is diverted into Little Hell Gate, finding its way into the Harlem, where ‘it meets with the regular current of that channel and produces an eddy that favors the formation of deposits along the shore. The flood current in the Harlem is also divided at the upper end of Little Hell Gate and a part flows into the East River, causing eddies and deposits in tho vicinity of “Sunken Meadow.” Indeed, to the cur- rents through Little Hell Gate the formation of the last named marshy. island is largely due. The effect of closing this useless pas- sage will be to increase somewhut the scour in the Harlem River as far as the north end of Randall's Island and in the channel dividing that island from the mainland. Much will depend, however, on the manner in which the filling in iscarried on. A wall should be first built across each end of the passage, so that the filling would not be swept by the tidal currents into the chan- nels of the Harlem and East rivers. Once such a work was completed no further trouble would present itself. It is certain that General Newton will see that the opera- tions are carried out without detriment to the interests of navigation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Senator Wright 1s lame, Robeson always twinkles. Conkling’s cheeks are rod again. Sunset Cox is not always a clown. Stanley Matthews has a full beard, Zach Chandler used to sell-dry goods. General Sherman ts a jolly thin old soul, Sympathetic men are usually not logical. “Pp, O, P.’—Tilaen will be elected sure, Pop. Home, the Spiritualist, is an invalid at Nice. Arabella Goddard is playing fantasias of Thalberg. M Offenbach says that he and bis family love elbow room. Logan’sjet black mustache creeps down to his shirt collar. Vice President Ferry is as indoscribable as 8 box stew. The Chicago Times says that Jack Frost killed King Carnival. Senator Sargent, whois radical, hasa sweet smile Ike a woman's. Dr. Mary Walker wears hor suspender buttons on her neckband. Stoughton’s hair appears like a snow storm in the Sierra Nevadas. Historian Goorge Bancroft looks like a drifted snow- bank struck by an idea, If aman has a big enough coat collar he may go fishing like a grand duke. Senator Thurman likes to lean his back against something when be argues, In the Kansas Legislature the pages are all girls, but tho Senatorsare not all Christiancys, Chiet Judge Sanford E, Church, of the New York Court of Appeals, is at the Metropolitan, Ingalls, the Souator, is scholarly, likes pootry of a thin kind, and burns midnight oil by the pint. Senator Powell Clayton looks like a Hungarian hussar, and he as tho vigor of a ten-horse cider press, According to the latest Paris verdict ladies will carry little mirrors attached to a chain from the waist. Stew celery until it isa thick sauce; strain out the shreds; pour the sauce into the batter of thin rice cakes and sauté, Jim Blaine shakes hands as if he had a mouthful of clothes pins and were hanging up towels, shirts, nap- king, stockings and compasses, Justice Bradley is a hearty little cosey body who but tons his blue coat round about him and smiles hike a grandfather who has ripened too soon. “J, N.?—If you do not like the heading of this col- umn be so good as to get up a column (or your private reading, and give it heading to suit yourself. The Dotroit Pree Press is getting blind, 1tis com pelled to wait until a personal from the Hrrann gots intd the New Orleans Picayune beforo it sees it. BH Mrs. Brooks, the lady who seulps faces im butter, has 80 far confined her art to the female foatares, Lot her get some boarding house butter and carve a Samson. Worcestor J’ress:—“Young people who bet kisses on the result of the election needn’t necessarily watt till March, They can bave them now and the one who loses can pay when the matter 18 decided,’ Fvening Telegram:—It tsa guod thing that Superin- tendent Walling intends to enforce the law providing for keeping the aisles and passage ways of theatres [ree from campstools, The young men who go out between acts to borrow a bit of clove from the bartender will be particularly gratelul. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE OTTOMAN PROBLEM. Christian Governors Appointed by the Porte. A THREAT FROM GREECE The Press Laws in France—Excitement Over the Recent Prosecution. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE RINDERPEST, The Direct Cable—Financial Embarrass- ments in England. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. Loxpon, Feb. 3, 1877, During tho lull which has taken place in the Eastern question the Turks have got ample opportunity to show Europe whether they aro really in earnest in re- gard to the promised reforms. The Porte having broken so many promises of amondmont in its deal- ings with tho subject races, it 1s oply natural thas Europe should be somewhat sceptical as to the genu. inencss of its present professions of good will, Still theroare somo pedple to be found who say that all Turkey wants is ‘‘a farr trial,” and that she will make vigorous efforts to redeem past errors, TURKEY’S LAST CILANCR, Between this and the opening of spring, when the Balkan passes will be in a condition to admit of the movements of troops, she has a fair chance of proving the sincerity of her desire for real reform, but, after that time, those who know the East best, are of the opinion that she will have her hands full with work of adifferent kind, In the meantime a great effort is being maae to conclude a peace with Servia and Mon- tenegro, and we are assured that Christian Governors are to be entrusted with the carrying outot tho re- forms in some of the provinces. THR PORTH APPOINTS CHRISTIAN GOVERNORS. A despatch from Constantinople announces that the Porte bas sent a despatch to its representatives abroad, giving notice of the appointment of three Christians te tho Governorships of provinces, and declaring that the application of the reforms is proceeding unremittingly, PROBABLE PEACK WITH THE PRINCIPALITIES, Adespatch from Constantinople says:—‘*ithe gen- eral impression here is that an understanding will be reached with Servia on the basis of the status quo ante bellum, and with Montenegro upon slight territorial concessions,’? A GREEK THREAT. A despatch from Berlin says:—‘ ‘Greece, itis reported, has notified her representatives abroad that M. Co- mendouros, President of the Counsil, intimated to the Marquis of Salisbury that i view of the failure of the Conference and the prospect of continued misrule and unredressed grievances, the government cannot longer undertake to restrain the Greck population in Turkey from secking to obtain their rights by their own efforis.”” IGNATIEFY AND SALISBURY, Gencral Ignatieff has arrived at’ Brindisi, and the Marquis of Salisbury has left Rome for London, Russiun Journals say Genoral Ignatieff will go to Kisheneff by way of Vicnna, and thence to St, Peters burg. THE PRESS LAWS IN FRANCK, A despatch trom Paris says the severe sentence passed on the Droits de U'Homme is croating excite. ment in parliamentary circles. A moeting of the Left was held yesterday at which the Gambottists were os- pecially prominent, It is expected that the Left will interpellate the government on the subject. Tho Left considers that a Jaw which admits of such severitica should be moaiiied, PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THB! RINDERPEST, Tho Gazette, in aspecial edition, announces that all markets or salos of cattle, sheep or goats are prohib- ited in London, except when specially licensed by the Privy Council or when animals for sale have been on the premises ef the vendor and havo been free from discase for a month previous to thesale, Animals sold must be killed within ten days after the sale. FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENTS, The rumor published in tho Financier on Thursday | that a Jarge mercantile concern in the North fs in dif- | ficulties which cannot much longer be composed 1s Delieved to refer wo Mr. John Crossley, member of Parliament for Halltax, who, it is, stated, is about to resign his seat in Parliament, also the chairmanship of the largo manufacturing company of John Crossley & Sons (limited), and also the chairmanship ot the Halwtax Commercial Banking Company (limited), The Daily Telegraph says these concerns are not involved in Mr, Crossley’s embarrassments, The Financier says he lost between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 in financial operations connected with the formation of new companies. THE DIRECT CABLE. Ata meeting of the Direct United States Cable Come pany, this afternoon, the amalgamation party's first resolution for a committeo to consider the subject wag defeated on a divigion. A poll was demanded, which, it 18 believed, will result against the amalgamatonists, A scrutiny of the vote is now proceeding, LATER, The meeting has adjourned. The result of the poll will be announced on Monday, SILVER, Silver was quoted yesterdoy at 574d. per ounce, THE WEATHER, The weather to-day was dull. MEXICO, THE REVOLUTION IN SONORA—THE COUNTRY A PREY TO THE CONTENDING FACTIONS, San Francisco, Feb. 2, 1877. A San Diego despatch says:—‘'The advices from Sonora are very gloomy. Both the Pasquieras are united in revolt against the Mariscal government, Tney are said to have 1,500 men under arms, and ex. pect reinforcements from Sinaloa and Chihuahua, It is reported that a fight of two hours’ duration occurred ‘at Ures a week ogo. Mariscal has sent to other places for additional ‘troops, the Pasquieras forces outnum- bering his, The people are said to bo discouraged, and aro disposed to veliove that peace and order can only be secured by the intervention of a foreign power, THE INDIANS, BENEFICIAT, EFFECTS OF DISARMING THE ROAMs ING REDS—A TRAPPER KILLED, Cuxvexne, Wy. T., Feb, 2, 1877, The following, from a reliable source at Red Cloud Agency, dated juary 31, gives the condition of affairs at that agency ‘The Sioux and Arapaho scouts who took part in the Mackenzie Aight were mustered out and paid off yesterday, and are immensely pleased with thoir treatment and are convinced that loyalty pays, Tho policy pursued hore since last October has been a success, The change that has tude of the Lnvtians sineo the ciarlnnrean igen. ful One enn oly believe tat the Indians one now sees hore suvmissively obeying the shightese behest ot the agent cau be the same as those who last May showed such supreme contempt for the e and its desires, f ch Ne pal Thece 18 no news as yet from the party who went out some time ago to communicate with the hostile In- dians. The Cheyennes succeeded in stealing oleven | Leclegs trom this party alters its departure from this point. PRSPpRR I pos as jst Saturday a trappor, Kuapt, s Ing his avocation on Cotionwood. creek, forty. miles tnceeres of vor Laramie, was surprised and killed heyennes, “= brother, who wa Hae, sooapens , as With bim at the KILLED.