The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1877, Page 4

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WITH SUPPL _ MONDAY, NOLMCK TO COUNTRY DRALERS, Tho Adams Express Company run a special news- paper train over tho Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four A.M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition of the Hera. 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 reporta this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy or clowdy, possi- bly with light AxotHER Horripte Wire Murper—jealousy did it. Pruvext Derostrors will do well to study the figures in our article on savings banks. Our “Honsr Notes” will interest every one who desires to be informed of the doings of “the first families” of the turf. Tre Lasonrinc Crassus should fraternize with Ah Sin at once, for he has discovered a new ex- suse for a strike. See report. Tux Revortep Apvovocy of Charles O’Conor for his severe letter upon President Grant is the most inspiring occurrence in modern politics. ’ Dr. Borxton in his lecture on the Deluge “scouted at the probability of such an occurrence , but the lecturer would find no such doubt among the sufferers in the recently imindated district in Pennsylvania. s A TreMENDOUS TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT is In progress at Trenton, N. J., and if it is not ar- rested in its course there will cither have to be ‘an adjournment of the Legislature or a disband- ing of the lobby. Legislative jobs cannot be managed without whiske Tue Evrorran News is of more than ordi- nary interest to-day. The new Russian note looks like an attempt to be let down easily, aud even the order for Russian troops to be ready to cross the Pruth may be only an endeavor to keep ‘up appearances. The German government semi_ officially notifies the world that the chance of another Franco-Prussian war is as good as ever. Our Fiona Letter on “The Southern Problem” is an unusually fair and thoughtful presentation of those social features which in the South seem doomed to the curse of partisan feel- ing. As party politics in any section have an in- direct e upon the country at large no mem- ber of cither party can afford to be ignorant of the affairs about which our correspondent writes. Axorurr Destructive ice gorge, this time in Pennsylvania, suggests the advisability of con- structing dikes as protection against the over- flows caused by this unforeseen yet always threatening danger to life and property. The damage by the disaster on the Susquehanna yes- terday mot be repaired by the amount of money which, expended upon embankments, would have protected the “bottom” farms for- ever, Suxpay IN THE r coinci- dences in tho selections of subjects for yester- day's sermons enable the curious reader to-day , tolearn over what widely separated roads men may travel toward the same goal. Divine grace ‘was the topic alike of Dr. Bellows and Father \Dealy. The nature of religious truth was con- sidered by Professor Adler, Mr. Beecher and Mr. 'Frothingham ; but the theological distances at which these gentlemen stand from each other did not prevent them from coming substanti- :ally into accord. Dr. Armitage considered ; heaven from a rational point of view, without «making the place itself seem any the less attrac- , tive. Dr. Talmage dealt out a great deal of good advice to clerks and some deserved blows “to their employers and other torm: * que Weatien—Tho changes in the weather éonditions “during yesterday throughout the country wero unimportant. ‘The depression in , the Southern States being only a relative ono | ‘Mid not wake rapid progress eastward, brisk winds prevailed on tho Texas coast, ‘and may be expected on the Carolina const. An aren of light precipitation extended over the South Atlantic States ,aml the Lower Ohio Valley region. Tho only ‘points where anything like heavy rain fell were i , Ala., and Augusta, Ga, Light rain also fell fora short time at New London and ? New England const, and at Chicago, snow at Parry Sound, Canada, is highest in the lake 4 end Middle States and in the Missouri “Valley. A general cloudi- ness prevails over the lakes and southward through the Mississippi Valley. The tempera. | ture cotitinues comparatively high at all points, Dut is still below freezing in the upper lake region and parts of the St. Lawrence Valley. The Jeo on the rivers is already on the move, that in the Allegheny River having broken up ‘and descended to the Ohio, causing a rise at Pittsburg. The Upper and Lower Mississippi have risen slightly, but « fall is reported in the Lower Ohio. ‘Tho weathor in New York to-day will probably be elightly warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, possibly with light rain. “NEW YORK HERALD NEW YOR™ President Grant’s Specie Message— Duty of Congress. The business men of this great commer- cial centre are practically unanimous in favor of an immediate return to the specie standard. Their views deserve to have weight with Congress for the following among other reasons :—First, because business activity in this city depends on the prosperity of all the States, so that our bankers and merchants have no in- terest in conflict with the general inter- est of the country; and, second, be- cause the owners of capital are, as a class, intelligent and keen sighted, and have stronger motives than other men for bestowing sufficient attention on this question to understand it., We, of course, do not maintain that their judgment should be accepted by Congress on trust without examination, but we do assert that their business intelligence and the identity of in- terest between them and thecountry at largo | entitle them to a fair hearing and create a presumption that they are right, which can be rebutted only by valid reasons. The subject is too important and the claims of our merchants to attention are too respect- able to make it anything less than n gross dereliction of duty for Congress to ignore or postpone a question which so vitally concerns the public welfare. We are war- ranted in laying stress on tho solidarity of interest between this metropolis and the whole country. When the country pros- pers this city prospers with it; when the country suffers this city languishes. Nota cow is milked, notacolt is foaled, nota field is planted, nota factory built, nota mine opened, not a railroad constructed in any part of tho United States in -which the city of New York has not on in- terest. The great Father of Waters, tho mighty Mississippi, is not more depend- ent on the droppings from the clouds upon remote mountains and forests, on the moisture which oozes from the soil over vast areas and gathers into rills and stream- lets to feed its tributaries, than this great mart of commerce is upon the farms and workshops, the industry, enterprise and prosperity of every part of our broad Iand. When a drought overspreads the vast basin of the Mississippi the river sinks within its banks and keels graze long reaches of mud; but let the windows be opened in distant regions, filling the soil with moisture, and the river soon swells up to the brink of its channel, floating thousands of vessels over snags and obstructions. This is a type which may serve to represent the influence of business drought or busi- ness abundance threughout the country on the life, activity and prosperity of this me- tropolis, through which the collected streams of American trade. embouche into the ocean of“foreign commerce. The pros- perity of New York is an exact measure of the prosperity of the country, bound to it as effect is bound to-its cause. When, there- fore, our commercial classes demand with one voice, demand with emphasis after long d anxious study of the business situation, that Congress improve this opportunity to hasten specie payments, they speak not merely in their own behalf, not from any narrow view in their own interest, but as representatives of a large corporation, so to speak, whose dividends must be shared by all the other stockholders distributed for and near. If they can be credited with in- telligence enopgh to understand their own interests they. onght to be heeded, because their interests and those of the whole coun- try are identical. It is on this ground that wo solicit tho attention of Congress to the unanimous support given by this great busi- ness community to the timely recommenda- tion of President Grant. But the views of this community on the resumption question must not be misunder- stood. The business men of New York do not ask the immediate payment of gold for greenbacks at the Treasury, or of gold for notes at the counters of the banks. This would be chimerical. What is really de- manded is that the present small premium on gold shall be reduced to four per cent, three per cent, two per cent, one per cent, and finally to zero, by a steady ad- vance admitting of’ no retreat, and that the process begin at once. There is no necessity for any actual use of gold during its continuance, nor for some time after its completion. The paper cur- rency of France has been steadily at par for now more than three years, and yet it is not redeemable in gold on demand, although the Bank of France has long held a stock of gold equal to between four hundred and five hundred million dollars of our money. It may be expedient to maintain our cur- rency in the same condition for a short period after it has been brought to par in order to afford the government and the banks sufficient time to. accumulate suf- ficient gold reserves without putting them to inconvenience or forcing the market, The example of France attests the prac- ticability of keeping a paper currency at par during a period of preparation without actually redeeming it in gold, und we may, perhaps, borrow something useful from her monetary policy. For the present tho leading measure recommended by President Grant is about all that is required—namely, a law authorizing the funding of one hun- dred and fifty million dollars of greenbacks in four per cont gold bonds having forty years torun, If the amount of such bonds were limited to one hundred million dollars we should be quite satisfied ; for our cur- |rency would be at par long be- fore that amount of greenbacks had been retired. During this process no actual gold would be needed except for the payment of interest. The business of the country would then stand on a sound basis and the banks conJd rapidly accumulate whatever specio reserve might be deemed necessary. ‘The present gratifying excess of our exports over our imports affords a golden opportunity for collecting ample re- serves ; but it might not be wise to force actual redemption until the gold markets of the world attain a state of equilibrium, | France has no doubt exhibited financial sa- | gacity in holding on to her large stock of gold while the gigantic experiment of substituting a gold currency for silver is going on in Germany. She stands ready to resume as goon as the gold market is in equilibrium; and when we shall have put ourselves in a HERALD, similar state of preparation we may also be governed by prudential reasons founded on financial ‘movements in other countries in fixing the actual date. The present is an ex- cellent time for putting ourselves in the same safe position which France has so long held. Sentimental Benevolence. Not the least depressing feature of the prevailing distress among the poor is the work that remains undone by many people who have both money and the charitable impulse, These individuals are touched by the miseries of the destitute; they long to be useful, but their usefulness is impeded, if not entirely arrested, by a lot of fanciful notions which they fondly cherish for their own sake, If they haunt the courts of magistrates before whom poor men are beg- ging to be committed as paupers their pocketbooks remain closed because they do not sce interesting looking objects of charity ; if they eye the sad line of applicants at St. John’s Guild they search for some attractive face, while they neglect the wretched motibr whose every lineament and every rag of covering is eloquent of woe; if they visit asylums with the view of adopting an orphan child they demand some one with graces and virtues not to be found collectively outside of the kingdom of heaven. Charity was not administered in this style in Judea nineteen centuries ago; the hungry were fed because their stomachs were empty, not because they were pleasant to look upon; the sick were healed because they needed to be made well, even if their maladies were self-inflicted; the prisoner was visited because he was in jail, even if | there were no extenuating circumstances in his villany. To let women and children suffer because the head of the family isa drunken brute, to neglect shivering chil- dren because they carry dirty facos and out- rage every grammatical rule, or to allowa starving man to suffer on because his face is unshaved and his gait is shambling is to mistake the true nature of charity and to convict tho would-be philanthropist of something worse than blundering. The Canals and Railroads. The cry for low canal tolls is naturally popular among forwarders and boatmen. But if we are to preserve the State canals wo must make them pay their own expenses. While they are not designed to yield revenue. neither are they designed to be a burden on the State. Low tolls may, however, be secured—lower than have ever yet been imposed—if we follow out the simple policy of getting rid of the lateral canals, which not only fail to pay their own way, but are a burden on the system, and of practising such strict economy in collection, superintendence and re- pairs as will reduce the expenditures to the ‘minimum amount consistent with prudent and_ efficient manage- ment. We have already done much to cut off unnecessary expenses and improper jefore the Commis- ston. The debate by opposing counsel on Satur- day, to be continued this morning by the closing speech of Mr. Evarta, discloses the real battle ground on which the fate of the rival candidates is to be determined. The democratic chances are staked on Florida. It is fortunate for Mr. Tilden that in the alphabetical order Florida stands first in the list of disputed States; for he has greater advantages there than he will have in any other. The possibility of inducting him into office depends on the consent of the commission to go behind the regular certificate and decide the case on other evidence. The preponderance of argument on Saturday was in favor of going back of the certificate to ascertain the facts, but Mr. Evarts is yet to speak, and his argument may turn the scale. The republican side managed dexterously in filling up their time on Saturday with the speeches of Mr. Matthews and Mr. Stoughton, thus afford- ing Mr. Evarts time for preparation and en&bling him to inspect the democratic position before selecting his points of at- tack. The democratic counsel had made a thorough survey of the ground and planted their batteries on the strongest points, and the speakers who immediately followed them wore at a disadvantage in being compelled to reply on the instant to the results of care- ful study aided by all the legal acumen in the democratic party. It was very desirable to gain time for Mr. Evarts, and the inter- vention of two nights and one day gives a man of his resources and quick faculties all the time he needed for reconnoitring the works of the enemy. He will, no doubt, make a powerful, and perhaps a successful, assault. The argument which it is most incumbent on him to demolish is that astute one of Mr. Merrick, which distinguislied so neatly be- tween a general power to go behind the Governor's certificate and a power to do so by the State itself. By means of this dis- tinction Mr. Merrick sought to escape the objection founded on State rights. There must be somewhere authority to correct frauds and set aside a false certificate; and in the case of Florida the courts of the State, its Legislature and its Governor have concurred in declaring that the certificate of Governor Stearns did not state the true result of the election. It is maintained that the rights of the State would not be in- fringed by the commission if it should respect the State’s own rectification of the false result declared by Governor Stearns. A writ of quo warranio was served on the Hayes electors before they had voted ; their proceedings took place under a questioned title; as soon as judicial ac- tion could be hadon their title it was de- cided to be void ; a recanvass of the votes by direction of the Legislature showed that they had never been legally clected, and that the Tilden electors were. If the commission goes behind the certificate of Governor ts The Argu leakages, but more remains to be’ done, and under the new policy inaugurated by the recently adopted constitutional amendment there is little doubt that the tolls can be put low enough to satisfy all those interested in canal transportation. A-report just made by Lieutenant Gov- ernor Dorsheimer and Canal Commissioners Adin, Thayer and Ogden, as a committee of the Canal Board, calls attention to one im- portant point in our canal policy which re- quires review. At present the Legislature, on the recommendation of the Canal Board, fixes the rutes of toll for tho year. These rates cannot afterward be reduced by the Board, although they may be increased. It is obvious that this is an unwise zestriction on the power of the Board, because it leaves them wholly at the mercy of tho railroads, and prevents them from giving the transporters the bene- fit of a reduction if an unexpectedly large business should increase the revenues above the required amount. The railroads make an illegitimate war on the State canals, and the Canal Board should have the power of decrensing the tolls when- ever the unfair competition of the rail- roads may render it necessary. As the con- stitution stands in the way the difficulty might be dvercome by fixing the tolls by legislation so low as to be really nominal ; then the Canal Board, having the authority to increase the rates, would find margin enough to meet and thwart the railroad policy. To accomplish this the Canal Board Committee recominend the Board to request the Legislature to abolish tolls upon boats and to reduce the rates of 1876 on grain and lumber fifty per cent. This seems to bea desirable policy, since the Canal Board will be certain not to make the rates so low as toinjuroe the interests of the canals, while the power will exist to meet undue compe- tition, Political Libels, A candidate for office at the last election in Kings county is prosecuting a person for the alleged publication of a circular during the campaign, in which the complainant claims to have been grossly and criminally libeiled. Without reference to the merits of this particular case it would afford an example that might be productive of good if some adequate punishment should be meted out to the convicted libeller of a can- didate for public office. It has become so general a habit among political partisans to heap abuse on the heads of opposition nominees, and to make all sorts of unfounded charges against them, that men of sensitive minds, however irre- proachable in their lives, dread the idea of running for office. This baneful practice has the effect of keeping good men out of public life and of injuring the character of the country abroad, Strangers who happen to be in the United States during the politi- cal canvass, or who see the party organs at such a time, may well be pardoned for form- ing a very low estimate of our national character, According to these authorities searcely a living publio man is fit for re- spectable society, This ‘indiscriminate abuse and slander is an offence against the public character and an injury to the public interests, and it would be well if jury, on being fully satisied with the evidence against political libeller, would impose 4 punishment that would be likely to’put o stop to the offence in the future, Stearns it will bein accordance with the voice of Florida itself, expressed through every department of its State government, and therefore no infringement of State rights. This point of Mr. Merrick is tho strongest made on the democratic side, and it remains to be seen how Mr. Evarts will meet, it. This bulwark of the democratic case shows how fortunate it is for Mr. Tilden that Florida comes earliest into tho discussion. In no other disputed State has he anything like the same advantages. In no other can it be claimed that tho Hayes certificate has been declared false by the State itself, acting through its regularly constituted authorities. Moreover, there is no colorable pretence of intimidation in that State, as there is in Louisiana. If Florida be counted for Tilden he is elected; if counted against him he has no possible chance of securing Louisiana, and his pros- pects will be gloomy enough. The Famine in India. The two chief causes that combine to pro- duce the present terrible famine in British India are the insufficiency of water during the dry seasons for irrigating the agricul- tural Jands and the exclusive use of cereals as food by the great bulk of the population. The vast plateau of the Indian peninsula, between the Eastern and Western Ghauts, is peculiarly liable to severo droughts. During these prolonged suspensions of rainfall the earth becomes parched and vegetation withers completely away, leaving the sur- face of the country a bare waste of burning sand and rock, Crops planted in anticipa- tion of a favorable season perish, and the inhabitants, having no other food resources than those produced by the soil, are stricken with all the horrors of famine. Under the pucient native rulers of the country prepara- tion was made in every district liable to suffer during the dry seasons by the con- struction of vast water tanks or “bunds” in which the rainfall was caretully stored for use in times of necessity. Some of these “bunds,” such as that in South Arcot, have a storage capacity for seventecn thousand millions of gallons of water, enough to sup- ply a'large and important system of irrigat- ing canals for the greater part of a year. The Hindoos brought the art of canal en- gineering to great perfection, some of their works being now the only resources of tho famine stricken millions of Central and Western India by which supplies can be transported from place to place. But another cause for the famine exists in the grasping policy of their European mas- ters, which has tended to disturb, and fre- quently to destroy, the time tried systems of the natives. The railroads constructed by the Anglo-Indian government have been de- signed mainly as stratogic lines of commu- nication between important military sta- tions. They are of little use when wanted to transport food to the centres of distress. The public works carried on during the famine years aro mainly public roads and railways which form a part of the system re- ferred to, The enormous revenues of the British government derived from India are the results of a grinding taxation from which the population derive little or no benefit. If a comprehensive and liberal policy were adopted toward the natives by which every rupee over and aboye the gov- ernment expenses should be devoted to the construction of irrigating canals and other works of equal utility, the teeming soil of MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. I India ‘would never fail to supply her dense population with abundant food. The world would then be spared the awful spectacle of millions of human beings dying of hunger in the most fertile land on the globe. The present famine in India, like those of recent years, must be regarded as the direct result of a system of administration that recognises only the interests of the government. New York’s Great Natural Advane tages and Their Utilization. The unsurpassed natural advantages pos- sessed by New York in her geographical position and the character of her surround- ings should make her the greatest centre of commerce in the world. Compared with Liverpool, London, Bristol, Havre, Mar- seilles and other great European seaports New York stands without ao rival in the completeness with which nature has adapted her for the purposes of trade, She needs no such system of floating docks as has been found absolutely necessary at Liver- pool and London. She requires no break- waters to protect her magnificent harbor from the violence of the waves. Deep water ex- tends along the line of her water front, which after the removal of the obtructions to navigation at Hell Gate will encircle her completely with a line of dock frontage every foot of which will be avuilable for commerce. The same conditions prevail along the frontage of her sister cities of Brooklyn and Jersey City, so that as a whole the metropolis lacks nothing that nature can give to make her the most favored centre of trade in the world. With foreign countries ns with every settled section of the American Union New York possesses direct and favorable lines of com- munication. Once a ship leaves the shel- tered lower bay her bowsprit can be pointed to any const without risking the dan- gers that beset the entrances to other American ports, The Hudson is but a portion of the grand canal system which unites New York with tho North and West. The Sound is like a broad river, leading to the manufacturing centres of New England. In a word, Nature has done her part for us, but have we availed ourselves properly of her gifts? The answer must be in the negative; for if we had the results would be very different, from what they are. Why is it that the trade of New York is falling off? Simply because we have bedevilled it with restrictions and port charges. We have failed to provide for it the accommodation it demands. We have no docks, no facilities for rapidly trans- ferring freight from the ship to the railroad car; no storehouses for merchandise prop- erly located along the water front; no local system of rapid transit by which the population can _ separate the ‘dwelling house from the store and the factory ; for the one crowds on the other and creates a confusion disastrous to trade. All these things react on our prosperity and cramp enterprise, paralyze trade and create uncertainties which neutralize every advan- tage possessed by New York by virtue of her position. Let it be remembered by those in whose hands the destinies of New York now lie that emigration to for- eign countries has actually com- menced, Let us hope that the tiny stream which has begun 6" flow from our country may not’ swell to the proportions of a great river. We mnust burst by mighty efforts the bonds that now limit the development of New York’s great- ness, It can be done only by honesty, energy and foresight on the part of New Yorkers ; for we cannot expect any assistance from outside. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Russians marry early. Turkey can faco Europe with 140,000 men. ‘Tho Tomple of Solomon stood for 424 years, ‘Tne acuracy of science depends mainly on its tech- nology. George Henry Lowes, the philosopher, has been ox- tremely married. Talmage or Billy Birch will attract a largor audi. ence than Emerson will. Mr. Sanford will return to Ingland this year to con- test in the English races, In France the president of a court {s said to have as much power as all his colleagues put together. Friesland is a province chicily famed for its cows, its peat bogs and the orthodoxy of its peasantry. In some of tho rural ports of California whore grass is becoming scarce mutton 18 being fed to hogs, ‘The Huguenot settlers tn England contributed an important clement to English society and thought, Judge Campbell, of New Orleans, arrived in Wash- ington last night on political business affecting Lou- igiana. It ig not till winter comes that the Canadian finds his highways of travel frozen for him along tho streams, ‘The Russtan peasant woman puts a milk poultice ovor her intant’s mouth while sho goes out to work in the ficlis. Saturday Review:—“Tho conflict of races In the South is perhaps more important than the contest for the Presidency. English papers poke fun at the democrats in Con, gress who voted to receive the address of “tho Irish nation” from Mr. O'Connor Power, ‘he Catacombs are different and isolated cemeterics, and are found in different parts of Rome, Marchi csti- mates the aggregate Interments at 7,000,000, It isa Dutchman's ambition to pussess a villa either in the neighborhood of Arnhem or of Utrecht, and of the two tho first is probably to be preferred. Little boys in Nuvia still wear the sidelock which graced the head of kameses mn his yout), and a Nubian voile plaits her trossos in scores of little tails, «Te describe any scene well,’ said a German critic, “the poet must make the bosom of a man his camera obscura, and look at it through this; then will he seo 1t pootically.”? At Hamburg tobacco sweepings are mixed with alcohol, and when the nicotine Is extracted the fluid is sent to England, where i+ turns Yorkshire cabbage yeaves Into nice tobacco. Complaint Is to usthat on cold days some atrect car conductors leave the door open when they enter to collect fares and refuse to shut it tight when they stand on the platform, There is one ugly minded fellow of this kind on the University place line. Norristown Jierald:—“Our poor young men can con- tinue right on marrying hoiresses, with the conscious- ness of having committed no wrong. A country debating society, aiter a protracted discussion, has decided that ‘it 18 justifiable to marry for money.’ Unfortunately, the decision comes too late to be of any benefit to us.”? ‘A Michigan stock company at Dundee advertises for a first class editor, one who can do fine job work; who will take cash instead of potatoes and wood on sub- scription; who can’t be bought off with a glass of five. cent beer from spoak:ng the truth when a rensational local item appears, and who will work for $8 per week. A middlo aged man from a suburban town entered a car yesterday morning ond complained to the con- ductor that ail the gentlemen were sinoking. ‘This,’ anid the conductor, “is the regular smoking car.” “Ah,” replied the man, adjusting bis gold spectacies, “perhaps if you remarked to them that I am a minis- ter of the gospel they would retrain for one day,’? TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. RUSSIA AND THE EAST. Prince Gortschakof’s Circular—Rus- sia’s Position Defined. EUROPE’S RESPONSIBILITY IMPLIED, ACanard About Chambord—Relics of the Coup d’Etat. FEELING BETWEEN GERMANY AND FRANCH [Dx CADLE TO THE HERALD.) Loxpox, Feb. 5, 1877.” The public havo been awaiting with somo anxiety tho publication of the ciroular which it was announced some days ago Russia intended addressing to tho Powers in the belief that it would give somo indication of the policy which Russia intends to adopt-ih the im- modiate future, A synopsis of the circular ts tele- graphed this morning from St, Petersburg. THY RUSSIAN CIRCULAR, The despatch says:—Prince Gortschakof’s clrculay note, which is addressed to the Russian representa: tives at the courts of the other guaranteeing Powers, is published In the Official Gazette to-day. The note first calls to mind tho fact that, through Russia’s initiae tive, an understanding botweon the great Powers was brought about at the beginning of the Eastern crisis. MAKING EUROPE RESTONSIDLE. This agreement was disturbed by the rejection of the Berlin Memorandum, but was shortly afterward restored on the basis proposed by England. ‘ The Powers at the Conforenco unanimously submitted their demands to tho Porte, which declined them, Prince Gortschakoff considers that Europe, by ite united diplomatic action, has proved that it is deeply interested in the maintenance of poace in tho East, and that it rocognizes it to be its duty, as well as ita right, to co-operate for that ond on bohalfof the gen- eral interest, * AWAITING EUROPE’S DECISION, Tho Russian government, being guided by the desire to maintain European accord in the now pbaso of the Eastern question, has, before coming to any decision in the matter, instructed its representatives to ascer- tain for cortain what course the governments to which they are accredited mean to pursue in view of the re- fusgl of the Porte to acceue to their unanimous wishes, PREPARING TO CROSS THE PRUTH. A despatch from Frankfort says tho treaty between Roumania and Russia 1s on the point of coming {ate operation, The Russian army reccived orders on Sat- urday to be prepared to cross the Pruth if the Porte concentrated troops on the Dalmatian frontier. ANOTHER VIOLATION OF ROUMANIAN TERRITORY. Atolegram from Bucharest says another Turkish band has invaded Roumanian territory and been re- pulsed by tho frontier guard. One of the Turks killed two prisbners. NEGOTIATIONS WITH BERVIA BROKEN OFF, Adespatch from Belgrade, dated Sunday, reports that the peace negotiations between the Servian agent and the Turkish Ambassador at Vienna have been broken of in consequence of the Porte’s persistence in demanding guarantees, tho nature of which it refused to specify. » WHY THE PORTE MADE THE PROPOSALS. ‘The correspondent Bays it ts quite probable that the Turkish proposals to Servia and Montenegro were more the result of a desire to appear magnanimous is the cyes of Europe than of anxiety for peaco as the Porto undoubtedly belicvos that in the event of a Russo-Turkisn war Russia will make use of Sorvia in spite of any treaty which may havo been concluded between Servia and Turkey. THE NEXT TURKISH STEP. . If peace is not made with Servia before March 1, the Turks intend to march in converging columns on Kragujevatz, the former capital, and call together a Servian assembly thero which shall overturn the pres- ent government and make a satisfactory treaty with the Porte. FAVORING A BERVIAN PRETENDER, Should this be accomplished and Princo Karageorgo- vich be placed on the Servian throne Austria would undoubtedly favor the movement strongly. A good many Servians also would not opposo such a change very strenuously, CHAMBORD AS A PARIS SENSATION, As thore is nothing exciting from the East and home politics are in arather quiet condition the Paris pa- pors are at a loss for a sensation. Tho poor Comte de Chambord is, therefore, brought to the front once more to supply tho required sensation. A despatch from Paris says the Gaulois asserts that the Comte de Chambord js staying at Versailles incognilo, RELICS OF TK COUP D’ETAT. Another Paris despatch reports that the republican press is greatly excited because the Court of Cassation has given a decision affirming the judgment of a Bésan- gon court In a libel suit which has an important politi- cal bearing. The suit was brought by a former mem- ber of ono of tho mixed commissions which were es- tablished after the coup d'état, and the decision involves a declaration that those tribunals wore legal, | GERMANY AND FRANCE. Tho reports of the organization of the tandsturm are denied in official circies here. The North German — Gazette Toverts to the antie German articles in the ierue des Deus Mondes, and says:—‘'Theso expressions aro significant in France, because the renewal of war against Ger many is considered by every one only a question of tume, and constitutes a permanent factor ta all politt+ cal calculations”? RESIGNATION OF A PAPAL PUNCTIONARY. A despatch trom Roms says General Kansler, the nominal Minister of War and Commander of the Pavat Army, bas resigned in consequence of differences with Mgr. Simeon!, the now Cardinal Secretary of Stato, DEATH OF A PROMINENT TURPITR, Mr. Merry, the owner of Doncaster, Thormanby and other famous horses, is doad, ASHTABULA INQUEST. THE A MECHANIC ON THE SYSTEM OF LATERAL BRACING EMPLOYED IN THE BRIDGE, CLEVELAND, Obio, Feb. 4, 1877, The Coroncr’s jury at Ashtabula George H. Carpenter, who testified the bridge was built he was employed in the Lake Shore Railroad Shops at Cleveland, but afterward had charge of the raising of the bridge with Mr, kogers under his direction; when the braces were sent trom the shops to the bridge they had no marks oa thom to show where they belonged; atter the briuge was ercoted Mr, Stone expressed himsell well satisfled with the work and said it bad been well done. Ho said:— “1 do pot considor the system of lateral bracing in this bridge good Jor anything.” BROOKLYN GRAIN SHOVELLERS, Tho polico reserves of Brooklyn wero kopt on duty at the station houses during the wholo of yesterday im anticipation of a disturbance among tho striking grain. shovollers. The strikers stood on the corners of Columbia and Furman streets and discussed th ae tion quietly, There was no breach of the peace, [n- spector Waddy was informed that threats had bees made against him by the sirikers, who look upon him a8 an chemy to their interests, Superiatendent Camp. bell sent for the captains of several precim lua Dight and mstructed them as to the disposition heir men at the th ned points of duty this morning, when itis probable that a large body of new workinen will be employed. here wilt be 200 policemen on duty along the river front to-day, when the reduction of wagos will be made goneral,