The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES CORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, eran aie crate” om Ww ex 5 of one dollar month for any period by ae ave doitnrs Tor ox months, ouoday Netiere of telegraphic despatebes must pac Seanineth te properly senied. Rejected communications will not be retarned. ———- + PRILADRUPRIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFI OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET KET. fabs OFFICE--AVENUE DE L'OPEK. APLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PAC Ss advertisements by bo received and prenries oo fae in New VOLUME XLlleee “ AMUSEMENTS _TO-NIGHT. WALLACK’S THEATER! BROADWAY THEATER ALL ror Hen KEW YORK aQUAR! GERMASIA THEAT PARK THEATRE.--O} FIFTH AVENUE THEA’ ACADEMY OF MUSI TONY PASTOR'S TH TRIPL ~ NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, AY, FEBRUARY 7, 1877, The Adams Express Company run a special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four A. M. daily and Sunday, carrying tho regular edition of the Hexavp as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at @ quarter-past | six A. M, and Washington at one P. 3. From our reports this morning the probabilities | re that the weather in New York today will be scarmer and partly cloudy or cloudy. Wans Srrver Yesterpay.—The feature of the day was a sharp decline in Western Union, which fell from 74%, to 72%, but afterward rallied to 73%. The rest of the market was ragged and irregular. Gold moved up from 105% to 106, closing firm. Government and railway bonds, in sympathy with gold, were firmer. Money on call continues easier at 3 and 4 per cent. Tue ATLANTIC AND Paciric TELEGRAPH Com- PANY still belongs to itself, street reports to the | tontrary notwithstanding. Rartroap Freronrs are going down again, to the delight of shippers; but where are the stock- holders’ dividends to come from ¢ Tae Bankens’ PRAYER MEETING grows stronger daily. The “street” generally is so “short” of prayer that the proffered petitions should not be neglected. Tne Brooxixn Dock Lazonrers on strike are following the habit of strikers everywhere and playing dog in the manger. How often have they known this gaine to succeed ? ‘THe New Inxsrrucrions of the Board of -Health to parents of sick school children will make most lively pupils long to be under the in- fluence of some popular disease. Tuere Is Oxe Man in Brooklyn who tho salary of the President of the United States can- not tempt from his local duties, and that is Sheriff Daggett, whose income is eighty thou- sand dollars per year. Hereafter Brooklyn boys who are good will be told that they may become Sheriff, not President. Tue National Rivie Association resolved yesterday to invite riflemen from other States to participate in the fall interstate matches. The crack shots of the South and West should be represented at Creedmoor; New York is modest and does not care to shoot alone against the world, even if her riflemen are always as suc- cessful as they have been. Ir Is True that policemen should draw a line somewhere between who to assault and who to let alone. While thieves move about without harm, and only sick and repectable citizens ara clubbed, the long suffering public may remain quiet; but when police sergeants strike wronged women with their fists the public will wonder whether the Police Department is a protective pgency or a refuge for cowardly brutes. The trial of Sergeant Granger will be closely ob- served by the press and the people. IxrormaTion WaxTED.—We print in today’s HERacD a communication which places the man- agement of the Department of Docks in a very unfavorable light before the public. The history of the organization, as briefly sketched by our correspondent, certainly shows that a vast amount of money has been expended with very little result. The demand for information on the several points presented is one that should be responded to by the Dock Commission- ers, and that as soon as possible. If there is nothing to conceal we are certain that Mr. Wales and his colleagues will hasten to explain. In any case, the public demand from the responsi- ble officials of the department a full and clear statement—one that will effectually remove every tvace of suspicion that the public money has not been misappropriated. Tue Weatuen.—The depression in the lake region has moved slowly southeastward and isnow | central over lakes Erie and Ontario, with brisk winds along its southerly and easterly margin | and clondiness but no precipitation. ‘The minor depression which passed over the Middle and NEWYORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY. 7, 1877.—TRIPLE. SHEET. How te Make New York = Great City. , Every patriotic citizen desires to see New York attain the proudest position and enjoy the enduring success to which her superb location and natural facilities for commerce entitle her, Even the obstructionists who labor to defeat all efforts at improvement have schemes for the development of the greatness of this city, and would be willing to see her the imperial seat of prosperity if they were only permit- ted to bring about that desirable end after their own plans, Assuming, there- fore, that an anxiety to advance the interests of the metropolis is a permanent factor in all calculations of the means, we believe that it needs only the reconciliation of the rival plans to sesure the accomplishment of their common object. We have already referred to several of what-we have termed the immediate necessities of New York, believing that they have the first claims on the attention of our citizens, We have shown that until the com- pletion of a permanent and comprehensive system of improvements along the water front of the business sections of the city all other efforts for the creation of trade facilities will be necessarily abortive. It! our leading merchants and officials, in whose hands the initiation and completion of pub- lic improvements properly rest, would only divest their minds of false impressions re- specting the values of special undertakings and devote their united efforts to the fur- therance of one grand plan of improvement, this city would rise, as if by magic, above the petty difficulties that embarrass her at present, Now such a plan of improvement should embrace the following main features, the details of which may well be left to those called upon to execute them, ‘The first, as we hava already remarked, should give New York an improved water front such as no other city in the world would possess, From the point where the shore line of the Hudson River Railroad terminates ot Six- tieth street, on the Hudson River, to the foot ot East Seventeenth street, on the East River, a water front avenue of not less than two hundred feet in width at its narrowest point should be constructed. The bulkhead wall forming the outer line of this grand thoroughfare should be built in tho most substantial manner of solid masonry and concrete. The Hudson River Railroad should be continued around this line by a double track road, fully equipped with ‘traversing platforms and every mechanical appliance for the rapid transfer of loaded and unloaded cars from point to point, Over this road should be constructed an elevated track, to which, by means of elevators, all empty cars could be raised and sent northward with- out interfering with the regular road be- neath. Such a structure, light and inex- pensive, as that of the New York Llovated Railroad would answer this purpose ad- mirably. By means of turn tables, switches and other devices loaded freight cars ar- riving on flats from the New Jersey rail- roads could be quickly transferred to the New York water front lines. Each pier should be fitted with railroad tracks and steam hoisting apparatus, so that goods loaded on the cars at St. Louis or Chicago, or on the steamships at Liverpool or Havre would not be disturbed until they were lifted at one operation from the car to the ship or the ship to the car. Each pier should also be completely covered by a well built shed of wood or galvanized corrugated iron, rendered as fireproof as possible. In addition to these sheds stores of sufficient capacity to receive the largest consignments of freight should be constructed at regular intervals along the water front, and railroad tracks laid from the piers and the main road to their entrances. A fixed tonnage rate for storage would give merchants using these depots a guarantee of safety for their goods when once re- ceived, and would save freight from the in- numerable causes of injury to which it is exposed when the loaded cars are left stand- ing on some out of the way siding in Jersey City, Hoboken or other point outside the city. The harbor dues on ships could then be reduced to the minimum or abol- ished altogether, and commerce would be relieved of a vexatious burden under which it labors at present—the idea being that our merchandise should be taxed only once, and that under the provisions of an unalter- able tariff of charges shipowners and im- porters would at once recognize the ad- vantage of sending their vessels to a port where all the intricate machinery of com- mercial taxation was reduced to a single and reasonable impost. While this creation of local trade facili- ties is in vigorous progress there is nothing to prevent the execution of other schemes having relation thereto. For instance, it may be found impracticable after a time to ferry all the freight across the Hudson with- out interrupting the regular navigation of the river. Some other means of transporta- tion must be devised. A sub-river tun- nel or several of them may be found necessary. Now, why should we wait until the river becomes over- crowded with craft to commence construct- ing tunnels? Is not the present the proper time to push on with works that we know will become necessities after a few years? Tunnels take years to complete, and unless we make a beginning with them we certainly cannot enjoy the benefits that will follow their completion. And yet the Hudson River tunnel, which was projected several Eastern States on Monday and early yester- day morning hae moved into the Atlantic, with light rain at Halifax and snow at Sydney, N.& The area of highest pressure is over the Lower Mississippi River and is followed by a de- which is now central in New Mexico. Cloudiness prevails in the Gulf and South Atlantic States, but will be followed by clearing weather in both districte. The temperature continues above freezing at nearly all the northern points and favors a steady break-up of the ice in all the rivers. The Ohio has fallen twenty inches at Pittsburg, but has risen five feet four inches nt Cincinnati and ‘six inches st Louisville. The Upper Mississippi has risen five inches at Keokuk, Deing now five feet seven inches below the dan- ger line, and fallen seven inches at Cairo, re- maining at Monday's levels at all other points. The weather in New York to-day promises to be swarmer and partly cloudy or cloudy. years ogo, has not yet been fairly begun. Opposing interests, like those that blockade onr avenues against rapid transit, havo been erecting legal barriers in the way of this importarit undertaking. What are the obstacles that delay our dock improvements? When examined they will be found to consist of a “dog in the manager” opposition by owners of water front and certain vested rights that are rapidly becoming public wrongs, official jealousies, too much legisla- tion and the utter absence of an intelligent exercise of authority. Could we but obtain the completion of our water front improvements all others would | follow in their regular order; indeed, many could be carried on at the same time. After [the removal of the cartage nuisance from the downtown streets by the transfer of the heavy freight business to the water front these thoroughfares would be free for or- dinary traffic. If this city is to become the equal of Paris we must offer to strangers all the attractions of the beautiful capital of France. We must have our well shaded boulevards in the northern sections of the city, our fountains of pure water flowing freely but not wastefully, our streets regularly paved and cleansed in an effective but economical manner, so that every dollar expended will go to the broom and the dirt cart instead of into the pockets of ornamental officials, Our sewer system must be remodelled and the appearance of our streets must not be marred by un- sightly structures. Give us all these con- ditions and improvements within a reason- able time and we will promise to New York an enduring prosperity and an unrivalled greatness, New Jersey Justice, The New Jersey Legislature, by a very decisive majority in both houses, has passed the bill empowering any Judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer to grant a writ of error carrying with it astay of proceedings in capital cases. At present the Court of Pardons alone can grant a writ of error in such cases, and hence a convict's chance of | obtaining a new trial, or of at least securing the consideration of his application by the Court of Errors and Appeals, is correspond- ingly small. The bill is of course designed to save the lives, or at least to delay the execution of Ryan and Oschwald, who are sentenced to be hanged on Friday next, Publicsympathy is with the dcomed men, and there is a general belief that they onght not to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. This is proved by the large majority cast for the bill ip the Legislature. But it is snid that Governor Bedle docs not approve of the bill, and designs to keep it in his possession without action until after the execution. Wecan scarcely credit this report. The Governor as ® member of the Court of Pardons has put up the bars that prevent the escape of these men from a ter- rible death. If he sets himself obstinately in dogged opposition to the views and will of the State in the matter thero will be more disposition to believe that the application made to the Court of Pardons should have been granted. If Governor Bedle on grounds of State policy thinks fit to veto the bill he should do so at once and give the Legislature a chance to pass it over his veto if it should deem it proper to do so. By pocketing the bill he resorts to a trick, rendered possible by the State constitution, to cheat the Legislature out of its legitimate voice in the matter and the two doomed men out of the last chance for their lives. Gov- ernor Bedle cannot afford to descend to such sharp, pettifogging practice when the lives of two human beings are at stake. Risen from the Grave. A year ago Mr. Charles O’Conor was pros- trated by illness, and it was supposed, even by his medical advisers, that the attack would end in death. The last scene was hourly looked for by the busy gatherers of news for the press, and the usual obituary notices were no doubt in type in the offices of all the leading daily journals of the country. It was universally believed that the grave was about to close upon the great lawyer whose name stood at the head of the New York Bar, and the man whose strong integrity had been so often useful to his féllow citizens, both asan example to the well disposed and os a terror to evil doers. When, to the surprise of the doctors and the gratification of all, Mr. O’Conor “threw physic to the dogs,” and recovered, as it seemed, by the strength of his own will, everybody looked upon him as one risen from the grave. So severe had been his sickness and so com- plete his prostration that no person believed he would do more than drag along a few additional years of life and then pass quietly away. The Charles O’Conor of the past really seemed to be buried, with his vigorous intellect, his acute and accurate perception, his inexhaustible store of legal lore and his comprehensive judicial mind, although the convalescent was again seen moving about among his fellow men. We now see how great an error it was to suppose that the active mind which had car- ried the frail body through so severe a strug- tle between life and death would not re- assert its power as soon as health was restored, The world looks on at this re- markable man once more playing the prom- inent part in a great drama of life ; concen- trating his wonderful faculties on the study of the most momentous and difficuit prob- lem that has ever been presented to the statesmen of the Republic; fight- ing the great constitutional and legal battle with a vigor unsurpassed by any of the associate or opposing counsel; arguing his case with a subtlety, a keenness, and at the same time a broad grasp of constitu- tional law and of public right which almost cast the greatest efforts of what we may well call his first life into the shade. It seems now almost as if a decree of Providence had forbidden the grave to close on Charles O'’Conor until the passing away of this threatening crisis in the life of the Ameri- can Republic. After the Life Insurance Frauds. Recorder Hackett, in his charge to the Grand Jury yesterday, called attention to the frauds which bave been already brought to light in the management of life insurance companies, and justly branded such offences as the ‘‘meanest of crimes.” The Recorder expressed the opinion that some af the dis- honest and illegal acts of the trustees and guardians of such institutions might be brought to the attention of the Grend Jury for the purpose of investigation, and he ex- horted the jury to ‘‘probe them, no matter in what portion of the body politic they may fester.” | thousand Ulemas. The people are not likely to receive much protection from the present Legislature against the dishonesty of life insurance man- agement. There is an evident intention at Albany to so muddle and confuse the issues involved in life insurance reform as to defeat any legislation that seeks to sweep away the unsafe and fraudulent companies, to place greater restrictions on those that remain in existence, to provide fora more strict and responsible supervision over the affairs of such institutions and to purge the Insurance Department of incapacity, carelessness and corruption. Recorder Hackett’s charge is, therefore, most timely. Three or four dis- honest life insurance and. savings bank offcials with cropped heads and striped clothes would effectually put a stop to the frauds that are now boldly and impudently practised. Changes in Constantinople. Some particulars are given to-day of the deposition of the Turkish Grand Vizier Mid- hat Pacha. By these it may be seen that our surmise of yesterday as to the cause of his fall was correct, He did not perish be- cause he had become too mild for the fierce Moslem spirit, and, therefore, was not thrust aside to make room for o more aggressive supporter of Ottoman ideas in the person of Edhem Pacha ; for it is very doubt- fu- if the present Vizier is more extravagant in his Moslemism than his predecessor was. It is true he is very demonstrative, and made at the Conference an excessively grosé exhibition of bad manners, and so may be thought a thoroughly pugnacious Turk. But he has been the representative of his government at Berlin, and it is certainly a tendency of residence at foreign courts to give men a conception of ampler political horizons than entirely home-bred statesmen are acquainted with. Midhat Pacha really fell in collision with the Sultan. In days when the sword of Othman has been girded on so many mere voluptuaries it is refreshing to come upon a Sultan who has in him enough personal spirit and energy to be uncomfortable to any one, more especially to aman of so much vigor as the exiled leader of the Mos- Jem revolt against European influence and against any number of sultans who may put themselves ‘in the way. Midhat Pacha was a statesman of the cynical type. He had observed that this isan age of constitutions and popular re- volts, and saw very clearly that under the cover of a constitution an adroit politician can do what he pleases with a country while the name of popular revolt is so sacred that there is no villany but may be made palatable if gilded with this device. He made a constitution, therefore, and kept a softa revolt always ready. . With his hand on the wires of this re- volt, ready to spring it into action at any moment, he deemed himself supreme. He had but to give asign and sultans left the scene and other sultans came in their places, and he had prepared a change of this sort for the present occupant of thethrone. But the untimely adoption of an arrogant and offensive demeanor and the activity of enemies put the Padishah on his guard and led to inquiry, and the Vizier found himself a prisoner without capacity to spring his rattle for his three It is thought at Vienna that the present Ministry will make sacrifices to secure peace. This is probably true. With the unpleasant experience of escape from ruin at the hands of an extreme party the Sultan has a new opportunity to appreciate the spirit and pur- poses of that party, and can scarcely sympa- thize with them at heart. He gives the ap- pointment of the chief place in the Ministry to one of their most conspicuous men, and thus aims openly to satisfy and placate them; but secretly he will be glad to strengthen in the State a party that takes different views of the sacredness of the persons of padi- shahs. As the plain and truthful note of Prince Gortschakoff is now before all the cabinets and Russia requests to be informed if they propose to take any action regarding the fnilure of the Conference some com- munications will doubtless pass between these cabinets and that of Constantinople on this head, and if any new policy is contem- plated it will soon become apparent. Ungallant Jersey. New Jersey must be a very ungallant State. A short time ago an outcry was raised in Jersey City against a female jailer who held the keys of the County Jail and kept watch and ward over the inmates. Anenvious male—a politician, of course-- coveted the salary and perquisites pocketed by the fair jaileress, and his fellow politi- cians united with him in denouncing the outrage of keeping » woman in a fat public office, The feelings of the unfortu- nate prisoners, who were, of course, pleased to see a kindly, handsome face at the gratings of their cells instead of they hard features and black beard of the con- ventional turnkey, were not taken into account, but a ‘dead set” was made to get the female out, simply because she was a female. Soon afterward a rumpus was raised, not in a jail, but ina Newark church, because acourteous Presbyterian minister allowed a lady to preach from his pulpit. There was no allegation that the fair preacher had not advanced orthodox doc- trines or had not delivered a good discourse. But the gown she wore was one belonging to her own sex, and so the charch emptied the vials of its wrath over the head of the gallant gentleman who had yielded her his pulpit, and he was removed from the ministry. Now comes the turn of the Rev. Phabe 8, Hanaford, a Universalist preacher, who has for two years and a half filled the pulpit of a church on Jersey City Heights, and who is now sacrificed to the prejudices of the anti- petticoat party. Fortwo months past mut- terings have been heard among the congre- gation, in which the two words ‘‘pants” and “‘petticoats” have been the most frequently audible, It became evident that a man- preacher party was growing up in the church, and, as the event proved, this party increased in strength un- til it became a majority of the congre- gation. It was resolved that the reverend Phoebe should be got rid of. But how? They could not strip her of her gown—that was not to be thought of. But they could drive her out of her pulpit by avote. Soa meeting was called in the church, and ter- rible was the struggle and fierce the wordy war between the Phabyites and the anti- Phabyites. The Intter triumphed. The reverend lady was deposed by a close vote. She avows her intention to keep on preach- ing, however, and she will keep her word. Her friends will continue to hear her voice, and 40, no doubt, will her enemies, for the Rev. Phasbe & Hanaford is President of the Sorosis! The Loss of the George Washington. None of the circumstances of the wreck- ing of the missing steamer are definitely known, although the Hznaxp’s special de- spatches indicate that our correspondents have made all investigations that would be possible even to a government commission. Such facts as may be inferred, however, are enough to make the case one of peculiar horror. To be wrecked upon treacherous sands or in mid ocean is terrible, but in either event there is some reason for hope. The Washington, however, according to the mute yet eloquent witnesses to her fate, was lost under a merciless precipice of rock, where aid could not have been given even had a thousand sympathetic hearts wit- nessed the disaster. The coast upon which the fated steamer was lost is one which is almost always shrouded in fog, and near which the sounding line’ can seldom give timely warning, Our correspond- ent reports that even fog signals were lacking. So from the deck of their ship, or perhaps from the frail boats to which precious lives must so often be in- trusted, the doomed crew were dashed with- out warning by an angry sea against an awful wall of stone, which cruelly cast them back again, until hope and endeavor yielded to fate and death afforded a welcome relief from despair. “Why sucha coast has been left destitute of warnings to mariners may per- haps be explained, but as nothing but the special interposition of Providence can pre- vent many similar disasters on the same coust every year it seems only decent that the Provincial authorities should be compelled by the pressure of public opinion to estab- lish such ordinary safeguards for mariners as are erected as a matter of course by the governments of all other civilized countries. Tue Orroman Constrrution.—Aristarchi Bey, the representative of the Sultan at Washington, communicates a translation of the Turkish constitution and of the edict transmitted with it to the Grand Vizier. But as this constitation was promulgated on the day on which the Conference opened its sessions at Constantinople, and was pub- lished in English and French in the early days of January in a large number of news- papers, it hardly comes into the classifica- tion of news at the present time. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Conkling has pink finger nails, Morton has not a pleasant smile, Cronin is in Oregon trying the biue glass treatment. History, says an essayist, is largely determined by locality. Eighty-five per cent of the Russian population are the peasantry. Ne, Whitelaw Reid has called upon Congressman Chittenden at Washington. An exchange thinks that the word ‘‘codger” came from corn dodger. It came from darn codger. The first gold discovered in California was at the root of a wild onion which a man was pulling for greens. A detoctive arrested a pack of cards on Fulton street the other day. For alongtime most of these caras baa been spotted. From our weathor reports to-day the bare possibili- ties are that 1t will be cloudier, if not more cloudy, with occasional clouds, Mr. Carponter, the great) philanthropist of Evans- ville, is such a crooked old man that he has to have his bookmarks worked by steam. The Emperor of Germany looks at the calendar every morning to see what year in the month it is, and then he makes love to a plain soda, The Chicago Times sa: ly two for Russia; one for Rubinstein and one for Essipoff, Rubinstein, the gigantic, the colossal; Esipoff, the refined and elegant. Martin Farqubar Tupper, the author of ‘*Proverbial Philosophy,” arrived in Charleston on Thursday night, and is now staying with his kinsman, Captain 8. Y. Tupper. is Warrenton, Ga., has a gander that will Jamp over a stick, answer qu ns and drink whiskey. When he 1s not domg so he writes paragraphs for the Atlanta Constitution, When a man tells you he will get you a notice in this cotumn he fs likely to be the very lust man in the world who can do 60. We daily receive notes cheekily saying, ‘*I promised Mr. So-and-so that you would in- sert this to-morrow ;” and it doesn’t get inserted. A Rochester man has earned distinction by stopping sixty-seven runaway horses in seventeen years. Tho Democrat man, however, stopped 1,101 in less than an hour the last time he had ’em, But most of them got away from him Horvert Spencer says of primitive man:—'‘Governod, as he is, by despotic emotions thut successively depose one another, tnstead-of.by-a council of the emotions in which they all take par the primitive man has av explosive, chaotic, incaleaiafilo behavior, which makes combined action very difficgit,”” Brown courted Mrs, BroWo'because sho was ctherenl and retined and abstract, aud loved to speak of the subtle delicacies of Spenser and Tennyson: but he was as mad as thunder the ‘other day because when the biggest boy was crying sbo was £0 absent minded as to spread a knifeful of butter all over the pulm of her Jott band. Mr. Kinglake believes that Nicholas was ‘some. times a Russiagy statesman, sometimes a Russian fanatic, sometimes a Russian encroacher with a wild, ‘shatlow, gypsy4ike cunning, but always Russian, and always, therefore, impersonating some more or less weighty component of Russian opimion, Thus tho conflict then distracting one man was an epitome of what we now see extended over Russia at large.” Smith come home on Thursday night, when the night was as near morning as it could slop over intu, and said to the faintly of his bosom that he had been meeting with the committee appointed to erect a statue to the Moxican patriot Juarez. Then he settled down in a camp stool by the hat rack and remarked that she might hike it upto him and Juorez much as she pleased, he was open to conviction. Thero are at the present momont thirty-six reigning sovereigns 10 Christendom, trom the Queen of Eng, land, to whom 237,000,000 of buman beings owe alle. ginnce, to the Princo of Monaco, whom 5,741 subjects acknowledge ns their liege lord. Of these princes ten are nominaily Roman Catholics —namoly, the Emper- ors of Austria and Brazil, the Kings of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Bavaria, Saxony, the Princes of Lichtenstein aod Monac Mr. John Morley s: There is all the differenco in the world between the selfishness of a capitalist and the so-called relfishness of a great trade society, The one means an increase of self-indulgent luxury for one man or a single family; the other means increase of decency, Increase of comfort, increase of self-respect, more ease for the aged, more schooling for the young, not of one, but ofa thousand of ten thousand farmilies, Others may call that celfishnoss if they please; I call It humanity and civilization and the furtherance of the common weal," Evening Telegram:—Mr. David Dudley Field turns out to be, as we expected, such a fascinating feature of Washington Iife, that a great di js manitested that h all be returned to Congress for the full term to succeed the one on which he now is serving. The momber clect irom the Seventh distriet is Anthony Kickhoff, who had much rather be a Coroner than a Representative, Mr. Kickbofl being possessed of this accommodating disposition, the substitution ought to be arranged somehow. It is a matter ot national im- portance in the way of daily news to retain Mr. Ficid in Washington permanently. 1t enlivers things there and keops them quiet here. Wo nominate Mr. Fiold for the Forty-tifth Congress, in place of Anthony Eickhoft, to resin. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parte of the World. THE GORTSCHAKOFF LETTER A Note That May Mean War, But Sounds Very Tame, THE DEPOSED GRAND VIZIER. Considerable Surmise and Some Facts Regarding His Case. WHAT THE PORTE PROPOSES Russia to Move Her Troops Across the Pruth at Once. LORD SALISBURY'S RETURN. PEEL RGA AUS {Bx CABLE TO THE HERALD.7 Loxpoy, Feb, 7, 1877, Tho new deal In the Turkinh Cabinet occasions son- siderablo comment, but no surprise, Indeed, it would seom impossible to offer a sensation in Turkish Minis. toriat changes. A romantic picture might be drawn, however, of two men satling away from Constantinople and Calais respectively—‘‘out into the West, as the gun went down.” One figure would be that of the deposed Grand Vizier leaving the Bosphorus for Brindise; the other the Margais of Salisbury braving the sea-sickness of the English Channel. These two men may be said to have creatod the crims in Turkish affairs; from which the latter hastens to escape, and the former is sent away with the prospect of being bowstrung before he lands, The Marquis of Salisbury, however, reached London safely last evoning. OPINIONS IN THR _BUROPEAN CAPITALS. The Heraup’s correspondent in Vicona telegraphs that the opinion prevails there that the new Turkish Miuistry is ready to make great sacrifices for the sake of peace. This was also the feeling in London last night, and is the tone in which several of the morning papers of to-day deal with the subject. The Henaun’s correspondent in Berlin, however, states that the sentiment in the German capital is decidedly the reverse, and that there seems to be no hope or expectation of any guarantees or reforms boing made orexecuted. Telegrams continue to be very conflict. ing as to the probable effect of the crisis on Turkey's foreign relations. A Berlin despatch says the change is considerod to be preliminary to reopening relations with Russia and the Signatory Powers. A despatch from Constantinople reports that the British man-of-war Bittern, which was about to quit Constantinople, bas been detained, by order of the English Chargé d’Aftaircs, for protection of the foreign residents. 4 SENSATIONAL IN THE EXTREME. - A Paris correspondent telegraphs that he s informed that the Russian army has received orders to advance, and will cross the Fruth within a few days, PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF’S NOTE, The text of Prince Gortechakofl’s circular note, ad- dressed to the Russian representatives at the courts of the other guaranteeing powers under date of January 81, is received here, After recapitulating, as hereto- fore telographed to tho United States, the diplomatic efforts at pacification extending from tho outbreak of the insurrection in 1875 to the convening of the Con- stantinople Conference, the note continues :— This Conference, {n its preliminary deliberations, arrived at a complete understanding, both respecting the condition of peaco and the reforms to be intro- duced. It communicated the result to the Porte as the firm and unanimous wish of Europe, but met with an obstinate refusal. Thus, after more than a year of diplomatic efforts, demonstrating the value the great Powers attach to the pacification of the East and the right thoy possess of insuring it, because of the general interests in- volved and their firm desire to obtain it by means of a European understanding, the Cabinets again Gnd themselves in the same position as at the commence. ment of the crisis, which is further aggravated oy the blood that has been shed, the passions that have been raised and the indefinite prolongation of the deplor- able state of things which weighs upon Europe and justly preoccupies public opinion and the governmonts. ‘The Porte pays no regard to its former engagements, to its duties as a member of the European concert, or to the unanimous wishes of the great Powers, Far from having made a step toward a satisfactory solu- tion of the Eastern question, the Ottoman Empire has been and remains a permanent menace to the peace of Europe an weil as to the sentiments of humanity and the conscience of Christian peoples. mM Under these cir- cumstances, before deciding on a coarse he may think right to follow, His Majesty the Emperor wishes te know what course will bo determined upon by the Cabinets with whom we have acted up to the present apd with whom we desire as far as possible to continue proceeding in common accord, The object which the great Powers have in view has been clearly defined by the acts of the Conference. The rofusal of the Turkish government touches the dignity and peace of Europe. 1t is important for us to know what the Cabinets, with which we have acted in concert until now, intend todo in reply to this r il and for in- suring tbe execution of their wishes. You are re. requested to ask for information on this pointand to read and givo a copy of this despatch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, GURTSCHAKOFF, ‘THE RUSSIAN LOAN, The prospectus is published im Berlin of the twelfth series of Russian mortgage credit bonds for 10,009,000 silver roubles. The bonds are to be placed in Ameter- dam, Berlin, Frankfort, Brussels, antwerp and Russie. WHAT THY PORTR HAS PROPOSED. The Politische Correspondenz, of Vienna, states that the Porte has proposed tho following conditions to Bervia, waiving ite former claim for substantial guar- antocs:— First—The right of being diplomatically represented at Belgrade, Secomd—That Catholics and Jows shall enjoy the same rights as native Servians, , Third—That Servia shall pot allow the formation of armed bands fon of Turkish territory, Fourth—-Toat the existence of secret societies shall not be permitted. Fifth- Thos the Servian fortresses shail be kept in good repair, and finally that the Turkish flag shall be hoisted upon those fortresses jointly with the Servian flag. The Politische Correspondens says:—‘Servia will doubtless accept these conditions and send a special commissioner to Constantinople.’” SEBKING A THKORY FOR A FACT. The Pall Mall Gazette does not beheve Midhat Pacha’s downfall betokens a more conciliatory pulicy, but rather believes that’ Edhem Pacha’s accession means more uncompromising resistance, What seems to the Pall Mall Gazette the most likely explanation of the change is that the Sultan had become jealous of Midhat Pacha’s influence, and chafed under the jinpotence of the position to which the energetic Grand Vizier haa reduced ~ him, and lent himself to intrigues trom the saeco of which he might hope to recove: the lost imperial authority, So that Edhem Pacha’s accesspa s