The New York Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1877, Page 6

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From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York today will be cooler and partly cloudy, or cloudy possibly fol- lowed by partly cloudy or clearing weather. Watt Streer Yesterpay.—The stock specn- ation was dull, the transactions only aggregating ‘The tluctuations were unim- portant. Gold was firmer, advancing trom 10519 to 105%. Money on call Joaned at 3 und 4 per cent. Government and railway bonds were steady. How Natura.!—tThe probability of the ap- pointment of Mr. Pillsbury as State Superinten- dent of Prisuns is making wardens tremble. Tre Braziian Consul General's statement about the discontented colonists will be read by every one who wishes to form un intelligent opinion on this case. Recetver Anpenrson, of the Continental Life Insurance Company, retires amid tumultuous ap- plause by the policy holders. It is to be hoped that the farce may now give place to legitimate drama, and that the réles of “leading gentlemen” and “heavy villain” will not be so inextricably mixed. Moxey 18 ASKED, an ill doubtless be forth- coming, for the reception, location, inauguration, &c., of Bartholdi’s magniticent statue of Lib- erty, presented tous by our friends in France. The gift is not made to New York, but to the Tnion, and it should be received with cordiality like that which prompted its presentation. A New Cnarter in the history of Pennsyl- vania’sreignof terror begins this week at Blooms- burg by the trial of several “Molly Maguires” for # murder committed nine years ago. Penn- sylvanians of the next generation will wonder why their fathers neglected such cases for so Jong atime, when the spending of a little money would have discovered ev hing. A Rererve’s Revort, now in the hands of the Judge in Supreme Court, Chambers, contains ficant hint to debtors who have been led by sherifis’ officers. The enforced sale of a debtor's effects is disastrous at best, and iciuls who improve such opportunities for ex- must be classed with the meanest order of thieves. Ick Gonces IN THE Sus@UEHANNA and its tributaries threaten to inflict heavy losses on the owners of property along the rivers. We gave warning repeatedly regarding the danger likely to arise from the breaking up of the river tce under the influence of the prevailing high tem- perature. Ample time was afforded for the re- moval of property liable to injury, and where this has been neglected the owners deserve but little sympathy. Wo hope that precautions have been generally taken along the Upper Hud- gon and the Delaware, where a movement of the fee may occur at any moment. Ovun Sprrcta Corresronpest with General Miles’ command telegraphs particulars of a ter- gible march and s glorious victory over the In- dians under Crazy Horse. Tho savages:alopted the tactios of civilized soldiers and charged on foot with results which must have immediately raised the price of ponies on the Plains. The de termination of Miles to fight will be apparent to every old soldier who reads that the General's transportation train consisted of a single wagon tiruwn by oxen. Of course the Indians had ex- eellent arms and plenty of ammuuition, thanks to the provailing agency system. ‘Tne Waarner.—The elight depression in the fouth Atlantic States moved off tho coust last .. Thé low barometer in the Inke region descended in # southeasterly dircction into the Middle States, causing light rain on tho coast ‘wod over the lower lake region and Ohio Valley. Another and more decided depression is ad- vancing from the Northwest, with high winds sud high temperatare, and will probably develop into p storm centre during its progress over tho lakes and throngh the St. Lawrence Valley. ‘The con-. ditions at present in the Northeast indicate bad weather for Nova Sootia by next Wednes- day evening. freshet wave in tho Cito is subsiding, but @ rise has taken | place in sections the = Mississippi ‘ad Cunberland rivers. ‘Tho storm approaching Irom the Northwest may cause @ decided rise in the great rivers. Cente wthern and Northensteen districts of fiw United States, Tho weather in New Yor! i cloudy, tealay promises tobe warm and partly on cloudy possibly followed by partly cloudy or @earing weather, NEW YORK HERALD| Clowdiness prevails over tho | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. | The Republican Ground Before the Electoral Commission. The argument of Mr. Evarts is so fall an indorsement of the leading position taken by his associate counsel on Saturday that we must withdraw the suggestion we made in connection with their speeches, implying that they were hasty und ill-considered. Mr. Matthews and Mr. Stoughton were called to reply on a sudden to arguments by the other side, prepared with great study and delib- eration, und we were willing to suppose that they spoke to fill up the time, in order to carry Mr. Evarts’ argument over from Saturday to Monday and afford him an opportunity for preparation. After reading the report of Mr. Evarts’ speech we con- clude that we were mistaken ; for he plants his feet so exactly in their footsteps as to show that they presented the view on which the supporters of Mr. Hayes intend to stake their case. ‘That view is, in brief, that the action of the State canvassing boards is | final, and that Congress, and consequently the commission, is bound to accept it and turn a deaf ear to the most cogent evidence of illegality and fraud. When we found this surprising position assumed in the speeches of Mr. Matthews and Mr. Stoughton # sen- timent akin to charity led us to suppose that they had spoken in haste, and that an in- terval being thus gained for Mr. Evarts he ! would put the republican case on some ground less repugnant to the public con- science: We are disappointed to find Mr. Evarts* deliberately adopting the views of the associates who preceded him, and advo- cating the claim of Mr. Hayes on grounds which so closely resemble a pleading of the statute of limitations in bar of a just debt. This may be a valid defence in law, but it is repugnant to every principle of morals. We do not wish to misrepresent the re- publican position, and two days ago we should have hesitated to quote from the speeches of Mr. Matthews or Mr. Stoughton as fairly representing it. But the indorse- ment of their points by Mr. Evarts proves that we strained delicacy in their favor. It is too true that the republican party rests its case on a quirk of law not more respectable than the pleading of the stat- ute of limitations against a just debt. Whether the legal point be well taken or not, it is abhorrent to every idea of justice. Our determination to be fair leads us to insert this authentic statement of the republican position from Mr. Stoughton’s speech:—‘‘The statute of Florida created a Returning Board, having capacity to certify the number of votes cast for electors, and to certify who were elected, and if that Board performed its duty, however mistaken, however clouded with error, however if you please) ‘tainted by fraud, and did ascertain and did declare how many votes for particular sets of electors had beon cast, and did certify and declare who were the persons who were elected electors, that ends all inquiry here.” “That ends all inquiry here.” The action of a canvassing board may be ‘mistaken,” it may be ‘clouded with error,” it may even be “tainted with fraud,” this fraud, if suc- cessful, may determine who isto be Presi- dent of the United States, and yet it is too sacred to be touched and ‘ends all inquiry here.” Can anybody wonder that we thought such an avowal an error of haste which the specch of Mr. Evarts would rectify? How shall we express our astonishment at finding such a statement indorsed and defended by the great New York advo- cate two days later, when he had had oppor- tunity for mature reflection? What the country expects from the Electoral Commis- sion is not protection of -fraud by an in- genius straining of legal technicalities, but a declaration of the true result in accordance with honesty and justice. Mr. Evarts has carried the doctrine of the inviolability of State certifications to even a greater extreme than Mr. Stoughton. Mr. Stoughton maintained that even fraud could not invalidate them, but Mr. Evarts, as if willing to push his own argument to a reductio ad absurdum, contends that the constitution itself must stand pack and “hide its diminished head” in the presence of a State certiticate. This aPpishing declaration was brought out by a query of Commissioner Thurman as to what ought to be done if all the persons certified to have been chosen as Presidential electors in a State were federal office-holders. Mr. Evarts intrepidly contends that not even this con- stitutional disqualification is a bar to the counting of the votes of such electors if they have been duly certified by the State authorities. Now, whatever may be thought in Washington, the country will not be satisfied with such a line of argument. It looks too much as if the re- publican counsel were conscious that they have a desperate case and felt forced to resort to desperate means to défend it. Heretofore nobody has ever questioned or doubted the authority of Congress to refuse to count the votes of federal office-holders i Presidential electors. When so ablea lawyer as Mr. Evarts is driven, by the exigencies of a desperate case, to contend, in the face of ; the country, that a State certificate can override plain prohibition of the constitution of the United States, and that an Electoral College, consisting en- tirely of federal office-holders, may cast the electoral votes of a State, shielded by a State certificate against scrutiny, the public will get a bad impression of the cause which requires such desperate advocacy. But it must not be thought that Mr. Evarts is bereft of his senses. This strange argument of his looks forward to the case of Oregon, and is meant to bear on the vote cast by Postmaster Watts as a Presidential elector. The Supreme Court of the United States, in a decision hardly yet a week old, has held that an officer whose term extends to the qualification of his successor remains an officer until his successor is. sworn in. Although Watts tendered his resignation after he had been voted for on the 7th of November his successor had not qualified on the day when the electoral votes were cast, and according to the decision of the Supreme Court just alluded to he was still a postmaster. This being so Hayes has not the slightest chance, unless that provision of the constitution can be nullified which | forbids a federal office-holder to be a Presi- dential elector. Florida may be counted for Hayes, Louisiana may be counted for Hayes, H but if Watts’ vote as 2 Presidential elector was invalid Hayes would receive but one hundred and eighty-four votes at the ut- most and fall one short of an election. It makes no practical difference whether the Cronin vote is counted or whether Oregon is credited with only two votes, because in the latter case the election will be thrown into the House, where Tilden has a sure thing. Hence the desperate effort of Mr. Evarts to show that State board of can- vassers can override and nullify the con- stitution. The whole drift of Mr. Evarts’ reasoning is to prove that the commission cannot go behind the certificates sent up from the States. But the commission is expressly clothed, by the act under which it is organ- ized, with all the authority which Congress itself or cither house of it possesses in such a@ matter. But both houses have made an unequivocal assertion of their right to go behind the certificates by appoint- ing committees of investigation to take whom the people of a State had chosen as ! testimony in all the disputed States. It would be moro than idle, it would be preposterous, for Congress to order such investigations if the mere certificates are binding and it has no au- thority to question their validity. Con- gress interpreted its own: powers and de- cided against Mr. Evarts in advance by ap- pointing those committees of investigation, and it has explicitly transferred to the com- mission whatever powers on this subject it possessed itself, Fall of Midhat Pacha. Midhat Pacha played for a high stake, and seems to have lost. Although Vienna is of all cities in the world the one most fruitful in inventions framed to affect the money market, and though for this reason a start- ling piece of news reported thence, ‘without particulars,” is always to be scrutinized closely, yet the reported sudden deposition of Midhat Pacha is so much in the tone and passion of the play on foot at Constanti- nople; it is so fally in accordance with at that is known of Ottoman public life that it should be accepted as the equiva- lent of any commonplace event in a Christian capital. Fora statesman to fall from high place in a Moslem country is not strange. It is strange if he does not fall. Midhat Pacha reached his high cffice under the im- pulse of the recent reaction against Euro- pean ideas and policy in Turkish govern- ment. He represented, therefore, the re- vived Moslemism of the extreme Otto- man element, and at the same time he was a great supporter of the scheme for a constitution. He lived up to the mandate of the Moslem party, isolated Turkey from friendly relations with every Power in Europe—including England—aud made it possible for Russia to combine with Austria on almost any terms. Under his govern- ment, for the first time in a great many years, allthe great States of Europe have been hand in hand in a common accord against the Turkish policy. That was, therefore, not success, but failure, and this seems to have been felt in Constan~ tinople ; for, with such a policy, the Ottoman Empire could only stand by means of its armies, and to stand by these calls for a well supplied purse. And where was that purse? London was no longer a perennial supply, for the issue with England was made as distinctly as with Russia. The Vizier’s fall is perhaps associated with that fact. It coincides with the return home of the’baffied ambassadors upon whom he had inflicted the humiliations of the Conference, and is doubtless the immediate consequence of an English note of very outspoken tenor received at Constantinople. The Cromwell There seems no longer any hope that the Cromwell steamer George Washington can be safe. Eighteen days have elapsed since sho left Halifax for a three-day trip, and now there come despatches saying that bed- ding, barrels, &c., marked with the vessel’s name have been found near Cape Race, and that unrecognizable bodies have been found and buried. It is barely possible that the bodies were from some other wreck, and that the articles mentioned were swept overboard by a gale, or even that in the event of shipwreck the crew found safety by taking to the boats or through rescue by some passing vessel. It seems im- possible, however, that on an ocean path so largely travelled as that between Halifax and St. John’s any boat load of men could long remain undiscovered, or that while so near land the crew can have been taken off by any vessel which would not put them ashore. Fortunately, the Washington carried few passengers, and the probable loss of her entire crew is a calamity of no slight magnitude. Now that some clew to her whereabouts has been found the coast will doubtless be diligently searched and the fate of the ship determined with promptness and certainty. Steamer. Companies. It appears that the endeavor to absorb the Direct Cable Company by the great London cable monopoly is not definitively .over- come, Upon a declaration made yesterday of the vote, taken on Friday last, on the proposition to appoint a committee of share- holders to confer with the directors on the subject of amalgamation, it appeared by the face of the returns that the advocates of amalgamation were victorious. But the tables were turned against them by an application of the rules of election laid down in the articles of incorporation. ‘there were cast by the amalgamationists 2,494 votes on account of 32,182 shares, while the opposing party had but 2,454, representing 26,338 shares. But it is contrary to the articles of incorporation for any shareholder to cast more than one hundred votes, and an objection based on this rule having been made it was sustained by the chairman, and the exclusion of votes that were excessive under that rule reduced | the amalgamationists toa minority. It was but natural that the beaten party should violently protest that an application of law | unfavorable to them was arbitrary and un- | just. An appeal will be made to the courts to test the legality of the course pursued by | the chairman-—that is to say, the legality of this restraint upon owners of property ; and if the courts do not sustain the rule amalga- mation will try it aguin with more success. Amalgamation of Cable The New Religion. It has been discovered at Inst. ft is not a fine spun theory that shudders at the approach of daylight, but a practical fact in successful operation. ‘No foreign philoso- pher, doctrinally doubtfal, evolved it from the muddy depths of his own consciousness ; bnt it was developed from the practice of a body of orthodox Christians in a Long Island town. It was subjected to a severe test and sustained it successfully. A poor fellow at the bottom of a well found himself suddenly covered by a mass of earth forty fect thick, and his wife naturally begged that he might be exhumed. Had the passers by been pagans they would probably have set to digging at once; but the Long Island Christians, who were on their way to prayer meeting, were saved from any such result of mawkish sentimentalism. “Every fellow for himself” thought these rare souls to themselves ; and they went re- ligiously on to prayers, like the priest and the Levite, who trudged so devoutly along the Jericho road some twenty centuries ago. It is not wonderful that such a simple, prac- tical, inexpensive faith should exert a pow- erful influence on the surrounding com- munity, and that experienced diggers should refuse to try to resene the buried man without pay. Such a ro- ligion is impregnable, even to the founder of Christianity himself. Doubtless if he had been on earth, and added his appeals to those of the distracted wife, he would have received the same reply—money or security; and had he invaded the prayer meeting for the same purpose he would have been promptly ejected for disturbing religious services, and for trying to mix religion and business. Sucha faith appeals powerfully to the sensibilities of those who most need religion, to-wit—thieves, extor- tioners, murderers and all other men who object to being their brothers’ keepers. One more step, however, should be taken for consistency’s sake by these Long Island saints. They should tear the ‘Sermon on the Mount” into lamplighters, throw away the rest of the New Testament, indorse the sentence passed in Pilate’s court and an- nounce that religion consists not in purity, unselfishness and brotherly love, but in preaching, praying, singing and in insuring one’s self at the lowest possible outlay against fire risks in another world. What New York Wants. If it were possible by the wave of a magi- cian’s wand to change the features of this city so that every condition necessary to her as a commercial centre would be at once created, what wants should such a change supply? In partly answering this question wo present to the reader a few suggestions which relate to some of the real wants of New York. Owing to our insular position we are cut off from direct communication with the mainland except by the Harlem, New Haven and Hudson River railways, through the northern end of the island. Therefore it should, be made possible to bring the cars of these lines directly along- side the ships at the piers of the North and East rivers, so that the shipment of goods might be rendered as inexpensive as possi- ble: The only way to accomplish this is to widen the river streets as soon as possible and construct a double track water front railroad, connecting with the main roads at Thirty-second street, around the business portion of the city. As weare separated from the termini of the great trunk railroads that penetrate the whole area of the United States from the starting points at Jersey City by the broad and deep Hudson River we must devise n means for the rapid transportation of freight from these railroads to the ships on the New York side. We must also estab- lish depots or stores for the goods awaiting shipment, and these must be built along the water front and easily accessible by the railroad carand the ship. To accomplish the first requirement—a rapid transportation of freight from the New Jersey shore—it is necessary to have steam ferries by which the londed cars can be quickly transferred from the railroad tracks in Jersey City to those laid along the wide river streets in New York. By an easily arranged plan each railroad can have a distinct section of water front al- lotted for the delivery of its freight in this city, with separate stores if necessary, but the whole forming one complete system. The freight of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, for instance, should be easily deliv- ered after its arrival in New York at its regular city depot, any store- house along the water front or on any steamship or other vessel at our piers, by rail, without the necessity of disturbing it until the final transshipment. If this sys- tem of cross river transportation cannot be carried out then we must have bridges over or tunnels under the Hudson. But even if we now possessed all the facilities for transportation across the river that could be desired we cannot hope to turn them to any account until wo have ample space on this side to receive freight. It seems, therefore, that the first want of New York that should be supplied is water front space for freight rail- roads and stores. This can be given only by o rapidly and _ substantially built length of bulkhead wall that will extend at least from Thirty-second street on the Hudson to Grand street on the East River. With such a commercial avenue completed one of the greatest difficulties in supplying the commercial wants of New York would be overcome. Information for a Noble Charity. The managers of the St. John’s Guild and the great army of sufferers dependent on the Guild for support will be deeply in- debted to the Henan correspondent who has pointed out to them an easy method by which a large saving in the expenditures of the institution may be made and the area of relief correspondingly widened. The Guild has been in the habit of paying six dollars and a quarter per ton for coal to dis- tribute among the poor, when the same arti- cle can be purchased for four dollars and eighty-five cents per ton, delivered for the best quality, and down to three dollars and fifty cents per ton for » good article, This Useful and calls upon her to come ont. information will enable the St. John’s Guild in one hundred tons of coal distributed to save the important amount of from two hun- dred and seventy-five down to one hundred and forty dollars, which will purchase a good many groceries and other necessaries of life. As the Guild does its noble work on a large scale it must purchase many hundreds of tons of coal during the winter season. Our correspond- ent gives the Guild the names of the dealers from whom the lower priced conl may be obtained, and the information will be very welcome to the Master of the Guild, who has not been conversant with the market rates. The low prices have, however, been advertised in the Third avenue ond other cars for the last two months, The manager of the Guild is, no doubt, too fay occupied with the details of his noble work of charity to be able to give much time to the study of prices. But it might be well to appoint some competent person to look after these matters, as the cost of groceries, flour, &c., may also have been higher than necessary. Perhaps it might be well for the Guild to state what is paid there for flour, tea, coffee and all other articles, and of whom and in what quanti- ties they are. purchased, as the institution may then obtain information that will be as valuable and as welcome as that which has afforded them the opportunity to effect so great a saving on the single article of coal. The Latest Murder. For four or five hours a prowling wretch waits in the street near to a house in which he believes a certain woman is passing the night. At daylight he thunders at the door Trembling with fear at the sound of his voice she steals out another way to avoid him. He sees her, however, and pursues her, and thus they pass through the streets in the ghastly quiet of that early hour, she flying for her life, he pursuing with savage im- pulse. She is nearly run down. She reaches a point at which she can go no further. There she turns and appeals for mercy. “For the love of God, James, don’t strike me !”—and ere the words are fairly spoken he drives an iron weapon into her heart with one blow. She falls and dies in the street. Now ie there any doubt as to the name of this crime? What will the counsel for the defence call it? Is this insanity? Is this the vindication of o husband's honor? Or is it that substitution of the hate of a vicious scoundrel for justice which makes law, authority, life and property all worthless if it cannot be punished. If this flagrant murder, this violent and inten- tional killing after six hours of premedita- tion, does not end in hanging, our criminal laws are a farce. — Tar Sicnau Servicg Bureav.—General Sherman's views on the status of the Signal Service Bureau of the United States Army are perfectly sound, and we hope that Con- gress will adopt them. The Signal Service is really a non-military organization, al- though sustained out of the army appropri- ations. Being instituted for the benefit of commerce and agriculture its operation should come under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department. As it is, the miser- able pay of the non-commissioned officers and men comes to them from the army funds, while the large annual appropriation for the Signal Service Bureau goes in ex- penses that are often as mysterious as they are unnecessary. . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ole Bull and wife aro at Madison, Wis. Judge Jere says tho devil Is not Black, Mosquitoes are in bloom at Sacramento, Mies. Livermore and Howe are in Chicago, Bradley and Frelinghuysen aro bosom friends. Presiding Justice Clifford 1s alittle fat old man, and he dislikes the negro. ‘The question with everyboay now is whether or not to keep off the Mardi Gras, Boston Post:—‘*How would it do to put the Spitz dog under blue glass—air tight ?”” Supreme Justice Fiold has curly hair; and David Dudley Field lives with him. ‘Tho Utica ladies sent Roscoe Conkling a greeting, There is nothing like being also handsome. Supreme Justice Strong {s a jolly litte man, with a little pink face, and his disposition is as sweet asa nut, Mrs. Flori, of St. Louis, received $4,000 for an in- Jury to one-third of her leg. At this rate Flori-culture pays. ‘The Chicago Winter Ocean says that Jubal invented the'science of music. Yg@ and there have been jubilee singers ever since. A bit of cotton put int attract the insects, Thi the morning and cremated, Watch charms containing roulette and dice are more fashionable in New York than ever. They help to while away the service between the bymns, Among the tadies present at the bull of the Buroness d’ Horghworst, at Florence, in honor of the Prince Inperial, wore Mrs. Van Scbaick and dirs Hyde, of New York. Philadelphia Bulletin:—““Now we know why the biue- bottle ny always comes with warm weather. Tho thanks of the entire community aro, indeed, due to General Pleasonton’s researches." Senator Hamlin fairly abowinates a newspaper man, Tho sight of ope gives him ao opportunity to make faces at him, and when be can’t make faces mean enough he puts on a mustard plaster and cats alum, Brooklyn Argus:—"It is now about three o'clock in the afternoon of the nineteenth century, and yot tho average mun will panse and gaze into the show window of a ladies’ furnishing store with acurioaity that is pos- itively mediaeval," Evening Telegram:—“The Oregon Gobbler 1s named Patrick. In reply to private inquiries Mr, Tilden de- pies that he ever received the Gobbie despatch. This 1s prudent, as usual, But how about Peiton's recoiv- ing It, although it was addressed to Mr. Tilden ?”” “Ola Si’? says in the Atlanta Constitution:—"De fack {s dat dis ting ob a stan’In’ collar, white man blackin’ his face an’ puttin’ on do nigger style is mighty on- satisfacktry cirkus tera ginuwino darky, for he kip see de holes in de performince same as you kin sec dem in a bosspital ‘skecter bar In the coal and iron trades, in the Nottingham lace trade, and in various other branches of industry ar- bira’s cago over night will tton may bo rotoved in bitration, wo aro told, bas prevented many conflicts and collisions that could not have failed to prove dis- asirous, But arbitration, though essential to, is not identical with, conciliation. A pretty lady was walking along Thirty-seventh strect on the arm of her husband, whose poctic soul had been inspired by club whfskey, and he was bellow- ing in melancholy accents:—“Nevermore! And his eyes have all tho seeming of a demo hat 1s dream- ing. Lost Leonore—nic—never—hiv—say die, never- more,’? When a policeman asked what was the mat- ter the lady replied, “0, he’s only a litule raven.” A Broadway exquis! im a soniskin coat caughta flying veil and hastened blandly and smilingly up to two protty blondes with a flourish of exalted heroism in his manner; but a little boy behind him said ‘That be, lengs to my ma” (who was coming along); and the “gontleman” angrily thrust the gauzo Into his hand with ‘there, ako 1’ style that was appalling. Moral :—Married or aging ladies should pin their veils on tightly, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE EUROPEAN PEACE PROBLEM Servia Refuses the Guarantees De- manded by Turkey. THE PORTE GROWS MORE EXACTING, The Bussian Baltic Squadron Ordered to the Mediterrancan. MIDHAT PACHA DEPOSED. .Y “Liberty of the Press in France"—De- bate in the Chamber. THE DIRECT CABLE, The Proposal for Amalga- mation Rejected. {Dx CABLE TO THE HERALD.] LONDON, Feb. 6, 1877. ‘The Berlin correspondent of the HERALD tele- graphs that he has received information from relia- ble sonrces in that city to the effect that Servia re- fuses the guarantees which Turkey demands as 9 condition of peace. These guarantees, it is under. stood, are gf such a mature that Servia would be entirely at the mercy of Turkey if they were agreed to; but though Prince Milan’s representative has rejected them the negotiations are not entirely broken off. A RUSSIAN PLERT FOR THE MEDITERAANRAN. ‘The same correspondent says that the RusstaD Baltic squadron, consisting chiefly of tron-clads, which 1s now at Cronstadt, will proceed to the Mediterranean in the spring, under command of the High Admiral, Grand Duke Constantine. Ad- miral Popoff will be the Grand Duke's chief of staf PREPARING OR THE CZAR IN. VIENNA, ‘The HERALD correspondent at Vienna reporte that preparations are being made there for the reception of the Czar by the hereditary Grand Duke THE PORTE BECOMING MORE EXACTING. The Porte demands as a condition of a perma nent peace the hoisting of the Sultan’s standard over the walls of Belgrade. The Turkish note de- nies the Powers all right of interference in the affairs of Turkey. Fi MIDHAT PACHA DEPOSED. Alater despatch from the HERALD correspond ent at Vienna says that a cypher de- spatch has been received by the Austrian Foreign Office from Constantinople, stating that Midhat Pacha, the Grand Vizier, has been sud- denly deposed and Edheim Pacha appointed in his place. This is regarded as an indication that Tur key is growing more and more stubborn inherdetern mination to reject all attempts at foreign interven tion. Edheim Pacha was one of the Turkish repre- sentatives at the Conference, and was noted for his determined opposition to the demands of the Powers. A despatch from Constantinople received here late last night confirms this report. Miahat Pacha was ordered to quit Constantinople, and started for Syra yesterday. ‘THE TURKISH MINISTRY REORGANIZED. The Turkish Ministry has been completely reor- ganized. Sadyk Pacha, the present Ambassador of the Porte at Paris, has been appointed Governor of the Viluyet of the Danube. THE CRISIS PREDICTRD. A despatch from Vienna, sent before the dismissal ot Midhat Pacha was known, says:—*In Russian circles here it is confidently stated that General Ignatieff's departure from Constantinople will soon bo tollowed by a very important Ministerial crisis there,’? MONTENEGRO WILLING TO TREAT DIRECTLY, A despatch from Ragua says-—‘The Prince of Mon- tenegro sent a despatch to the Porte yesterday, stating that he accepts the proposals of the Graud Vizier to open peace negotiations, and is willing to troat dircctly ‘with tho Porte.” COMPROMISING RUSSIAN DOCUMENTS, A correspondent at Constantinople gives a long sum- mary ofa pamphlet which bas appeared there, con- taining private correspondence which passed between General Ignatioff and the Russian Ambassador atv Vi- enna, and between the Russian Consuls in Servia, Ra gusa and various parts ot Turkey and the Sia vonic Committees. Recent telegrams bave stated that the Porte held documents ot this descriptio: a was about to publish them, Tho correspondent says ho has no doubt that the documents are genuine, | MATURE OF THE DOCUMENTS, ‘The correspondence ranges frem 1871 to 1873, The most Important are:—One from the Consul General at Belgrade, stuting that he has supplied certain omis- sarics who are going to the Vilayet of the Danube to establish branches of the Omladina with funds and introductions to the Consul Genoral at Rustchuk, ee ge DEBATE ON THE FRENCH PRESS LAWS, Thor was an animated debate in the French Cham- ber of Deputies yesterday on the liberty of the press, The House passed a motion in favor of abrogating the repressive decree of 1852; but afterward, in conse quence of the representations of Premier Simon that tho government would be unable to deal with the anti- republican press, tho vote was reconsidered, and a mo. tion was adopted permitting the decree to remain ip force provisionally. AMENDING THE LAW. The Press Committce of the Deputies subsequently resolved to submit 8 report in favor of an amendment of the law under which Les Droits de UHomme and other republican journals have recently been con- demned. LE PAYS TO BE PROSECUTED. It is announced that the government has ordered logai proceedings against Le Pays, tho violent Bona. partist organ, in which Paul de Cassagnac publishes his scurrilous attacks on the Republic and the leaders of tho Lei, A SPANISH PREFECT DISMISSED, A telogram from Madrid says that Senor Eldnayer, Profect of Madrid, bas been dismissed by royal decree on account of differences with his superiors, TIE JAPANESE PORKIGN OFFICR BURNED, Intelligence has been received hore that the Japan- ese Foroign Office at Tokio nas been burned. All the trousures and archives wore saved. THM CAVLE COMPANIES, The meeting of the sharenolders of the Direct United States Cable Company, which voted on Friday last on aresolution of the amalgamation party tor the ap. pointinent of a committee of the shareholders to con- fer with tho directors on the sutyocto! amaigamation, reassembled yesterday. REPORT OF THR VOTE, The scrutineors of the vote roported that [20 share. holders, representing 32,182 sbares and 2,494 votes, supported the amalgamation party, while 316 shase