The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1877, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD - BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. jostle Heatlia THE DAILY UERALD, published every day in the year. ‘Thiee cents per copy (Sunday excluded), ‘Ten dollars pat OF at tate of one doliar per month jor any period ons $x mauatbe. of five dollars fer six months, Sunday ree of postage. All Business. nas leitens oF telegraphic despatches must © ew York HERA! ‘tters and packages should be properly seated. ‘commun! ions will not be returned. > TEER oe OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LO: IN OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO, 46 FLEET SPREET. ICE—AVENUE '1CE—N: . OLYMPIC THEATRE.—Rovuxn tux Croce. BOWERY THBATRE.—Piave. BROOKLYN RINK.—Patix Sxatixo. PARK THEATRE.—Ovn FIFTH AVENUE THEATER ‘THIRD AVENUE THEATRE—Two Onruans. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tue Dascunrrs, TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaantery. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS. NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM. * HELLER'S THEATRE. ‘STIDIGITATION. EGYPTIAN HALL.—Sexsatioxat, Vantxrr. WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 187 i NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company ran « special newspaper train over tho Hennarlvania Railroad and its connections. leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four A. M., dail Randay, carrying the regular edition of the Hxranp Went ax Harrisburi and South to Washington: i bis a ape at a quarter past six A, M. and Washington at one FM. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy or clear, followed by colder and hazy or cloudy weather. Turkish News which is as interesting as any * which has come by cable appears in our Con- stantinople letter to-day. Tur Rounp or MA Disasters is made complete by the burning of the Bavaria, reported this morning; but the sadness of the story is greatly relieved by the report of the gallant and humane conduct of Captain Frostick, who res- cued all the passengers and crew. Preswext Lerpo pe Trsapa is a notable exception to Mexican ex-rulers generally in hav- ing escaped from his country with a whole skin. As he is probably the ablest of living Mexicans our report of his arrival in New York and of his opinions on Mexican affairs demand moro than ordinary attention. Tne Cancers against the president and eashier of a prominent Hartford bank give em- phasis to the demand for a more business-like method of bank examination. A careful ex- aminer happened upon the irregularities in this tase, but they would have escaped almost any pne in an examination of the usual order. Our CorresponpeNt IN Frontpa who is prosecuting a vigorous search for the mysterious source of the smoke column that is observed to rise from the midst of a vast swampy region sends us further particulars regarding the phenomenon, which we print to-day. The fact that the appearance of this strange object has been noted since the time when the first white men landed on the Florida coast, and that all the efforts to solve the mystery of its cause have failed, attaches considerable interest to our cor- respondent's search, Whether the dition will find 2 voleano, a grand group of ther- mal springs, a petroleum well, a great gas yenerator or the fountains of juvenescence ned of by Ponce de Leon, is still a matter of jecture, ‘There is no doubt whatever but the uuexplored interior of Florida contains many curiosities of nature the discovery of which will amply repay the scientist and the explorer. Suxpay Teacutncs.—The usual variety, yet harmony, of pulpit utterances: may be traced in our reports of yesterday's sermons. Dr. Bellows held up for admiration the principle of the equal- ity of all men spiritually before God. Mr, Froth- ingham defended the old pagans from unfair crit- icism, and called attention to the greater sinners of today. Father Flaherty bemoaned the dan- gerous effects of moral blindness. Rev. Charles Green explained the palm tree as the emblem of Christianity. The shadows of religion were dis- pelled by Mr. Hepworth, who threw upon and through them the light of true goodness. Mr. McAuley opened his new mission in Water street with some pertinent remarks to a crowded audience. The sermons by Dr. McGlynn, Father Maguire and Father White were by way of preparation for Lent. Dr. Robinson, of Troy, predched for Mr. Beecher on the beauty of faith. Dr. J. Hyatt Smith gave Dr. Talmage’s congregation some excellent advice about practical Chris- tianity, and Dr. Tyng, Jr., emphasized the same sentiments by feeding a hungry multitude before he preached to them. At Cooper Institute Widow Van Cott delivered, to » full house, n powerful address on intemperance. Tre Weatnen.—A very decided fall of tem- is observable in the region westward of the Alleghany Mountains. In the Northwest morning the temperature at Pembina was five degrees below zero, and only rose to * vero during the afternoon. This sudden change is due to the advance of an area of very high pressure from the Northwest and following closely on the depression now moving over the Inke region. The differences of pressure within n com small aren of territory have caused strong and high winds at several points. No however, attends the low ba- rometer, except a light rain at Omaha. Cloudy weather prevails through. the Mississippi Valley and over the lake region. In other districts the skies are clear or slightly clouded. A depression is evidently moving eastward from the Rocky Mountains over New Mexico, Arkansas and the Indian Territory which may be attended by last named, at Cairo, where a slight The weather in New York to- partly clear, followed by colder and hazy or cloudy weather. expe-* NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1%, 1877.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. What Will Be Done with Louisiana! The supporters of Mr. Tilden, though disappointed and chagrined, are not brought to despair by the adverse decision in the case of Florida. They do not quail under their first defeat— Nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still boar up and steer Right onward. They affirm that the cases of Florida and Louisiana are so different that it is not to be expected that the rules by which the first was decided can be held to apply also to the last, and they maintain, therefore, that the commission, whose duty is to ‘examine the votes” of the State, will at least make an attempt to obtain an intelligent notion of the facts. The order or rule which was adopted in regard to Florida applied to a State which had enjoyed self-government; whose people might be reasonably held responsible for their own acts and for the acts of the officers, including the Governor and Return- ing Board, whom they had chosen by their votes, But how stands the case in Louisi- ana? The people of that State elected neither the Governor whose certificate pre- tends to authenticate the acts of the Hayes electors, nor the Returning Board which counted in those electors. The people of Louisiana have not, since 1872, enjoyed a government of their choice. This is a noto- rious fact. Governor Kellogg, the State officers and the Legislature acting with him, wero imposed upon the State of Louisiana by federal military forces, acting upon the “midnight order” of the federal Judge Durell—an order which was so contrary to law that to eseape impenchment for having issued it he resigned his judgeship. The men maintained there by federal troops ever since. Their right to the places they usurped has never been asserted by any | branch of the federal govérnment. The President said he did not know who was elected. The Senate refused to admit Mr. Pinchback when he came with a certificate of election by the usurping Legislature and from the usurping Governor. The people of Louisiana have never ceased to protest against the usurpation, and it is notorious that the whole so-called State government would disappear of itself if the federal support were removed. It has never had any root among the people of the State. Now, Kellogg, thus forced upon the peo- ple of Louisiana against their will, and whom they have never acknowledged, signs the certificate of the Hayes electors, The Returning Board which counted in those electors was framed and chosen by the usurping Legislature; was made self- perpetuating by that body, which had not even the lawful authority to create it; has been detected and exposed in the commission of gross frauds upon the voters of the State since then by a committee sent by a republican House of Representatives, and in its present action, in counting in the Hayes electors, has openly violated even the law, or pre- tended law, of the usurping Legislature which created it. The president of that Returning Board, Wells, was exposed by the Congressional Committee of 1875 for having sworn to matters, in an affidavit, of which he had to confess he had no knowl- edge. If the commission should accept the certificate of Kellogg and the acts of his Returning Board it would be the very first time that any branch of the federal power has directly ventured to declare that usurping government legiti- mate. It would do an act which neither the President nor the Senate has judged it right to do. The democrats believe that, how- ever partisan spirit may rule the Senators and Representatives in the commission, the Justices of the Supreme Court will hesitate before so grave an act, and will refuse to declare valid, and much less final and con- clusive, the acts of a body of men who de- rive their authority from traud and violence which are infamous in our history, and who have never exercised a substantive power in the State, but have openly confessed that they existed as rulers only under the con- tinual protection of federal soldiers. They believe that when such a proposition comes before these judges they will prefer, at least, to throw out the vote of the State. They will say tothe people of Louisiana:—‘We will not do you the injustice, the wrong, to ignore your protests, or to legitimatize the usurping conspirators whom neither Con- gress nor the Executive have thought it right to thus habilitate.” But suppose that so monstrous a wrong should be attempted as to recognize these persons as having lawful and rightful authority to rule over Louisiana, even then the commission will not, the democrats believe, venture to justify and accept the unlawful and fraudulent acts by which the Returning Board caused to disappear from the poll lists a majority of ten thousand cast for Mr. Tilden, and to substitute in its place a pretended majority of several thousand for Mr. Hayes. They cannot touch the proceedings of the Board anywhere without coming upon wrong or upon violation of the State law, under which it is bound to act. If testimony is admitted they will be shown that the Board had no authority under the law to count the electoral vote; that its four ro- publican members refused, in violation of the law, to admit even asingle democratic member; that they offered the vote of the State for sale; that they threw out votes in violation of law; that they procured fraudulent certificates of intimida- tion to be made at New Orleans, whereas the law expressly provides that certificates must be made at the place of voting and within twenty-four hours after the election. They will be shown that without such unlawful and fraudulent pro- tests the vote of the State must have been given to the Tilden electors, and if they should venture still deeper into these mat- ters they would discover in the very prep- arations for the election by the Kellogg usurpers the clearest violations of right and law—properly registered voters erased from the registry and their protests refused a hear- ing; fraudulent registrations protected where they favored the usurpers ; the officers charged with the registration of voters and the election officers throughout the State ” = themselves candidates for re-election thus put in power over Louisiana have been, or holding places under Kellogg, and in numerons instances not residents of the parishes where they were sent to super- vise the registration and election. Thus they would find Hahn, State Regis- trar, a candidate for the Legislature; eight supervisors of elections in New Or- leans Custom House officers ; the supervisor for Ouachita a collector of internal reve- nue; the supervisor for Claiborne parish a clerk in the New Orleans Post Office and not resident in the parish ; the supervisor for St. Tammany a resident of New Orleans ; the supervisor for Madison a resident of Alabama, under indictment in New Orleans for burglary ; the supervisor for East Baton Rouge lately a member of the Mississippi Legislature, and before that a resident of New Orleans, and so on to the end of the chapter. Having been shown all these things can the Electoral Commission honestly decide to give the vote of Louisiana to the repub- lican candidate? We await with deep solicitude the answer of the commission to this‘very important question. ‘Work from Both Ends. Fifty or more subjects for sermons were announced in the public prints of Saturday and yesterday, and they were doubtless discussed in the pulpit to the edification of thousands of Christians. Looking over these lists of medicines for souls, however, it is impossible not to see that they were appropriate to those who were wholo rather than to the sick. The successful physician often sighs to think of what « glorious effect certain remedies would have if only the patient could and would take them; but his own preferences make him none the less careful to give only what the sick man’s nature can assimilate. The physician of souls would‘do well to act upon the same principle. ‘Che Christian faith has worked marvels in turning bad men from the errors of their ways; but there are hosts of people as well worth reforming as any one else who have no taste for formulated Christian- ity and yet are willing to be urged to lead better lives. What does the pulpit do for this class? The churches claim with cons siderable reason that they are the custodi- ans of most, moral reforms, Why aré the literal discussions of them generally con- fined to vestry rooms and _ special week day meetings? Temperance, char- ity, honesty, truthfulness, chastity. and anoble array of other virtues need to be talked of simply, frequently and urgently in every pulpit in the land, instead of being left, as they generally are, to the chance lec- turer and novelist. The needs of the wicked and not the tastes of the righteous should determine the utterances of the preacher with more frequency than they do, To spring to the top round of a ladderand work downward is a noble feat of vaulting, but the masses are not equal to it; it is hard enough for them to climb round by round from the bottom. Work from both ends of the spiritual ladder and there will bo a chance for everybody. Concentrating ‘rade at New York. If it be true that ‘eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” it is equally so that con- stant effort is that of commercial prosperity. Those who suppose that New York offers the greatest attractions for trade, and that ‘by a law of gravitation peculiar to itself it naturally flows toward our port, must not forget that extraordinary efforts are being made elsewhere to draw commerce to other lines. Tho active operations in progress for the construction of a new Welland Canal may yvell cause our merchants some anxiety as to the effect on the trade of New York. It is proposed to build such a navigable passage between lakes Erie and Ontario and through Canadian territory that grain vessels can load at Chicago and unload at Liverpool without any transship- ment or disturbance of their cargoes. When ' this is made possible, as it is very likely to | be within two or three years, the probability is that a large amount of grain and lumber from the West will find its way to Europe through the St. Lawrence River instead of through American ports. It is necessary, therefore, to offset the enterprise of the Canadians by the vigorous exhibition of the same qualities on the part of our own mer- chants and legislators. The canals which connect the great lakes with the Hudson River and New York should be quickly adapted to the growing necessities of our trade. They should be widened and deepened along their entire length so as to afford ample room for the passage of vessels carrying large cargoes. Although this will entail a considerable outlay, still the returns. will come one hundred fold in the increased tollage paid by a constantly growing trade and in the impetus given to a highly important industry. New York city pays a large proportion of the State taxes, and would bear her own share of the cost of | animprovement which would render her still more prosperous. Considerations of economy should not be permitted in this ease to delay for a moment a work that is vitally necessary to the greatness and pros- perity of the metropolis, Unless we concen- trate trade in New York by increasing the facilities for transportation and exportation we cannot hope to maintain our supremacy over our enterprising rivals. A Good Bill, A bill is before the State Legislature, in- troduced by Mr. Fish, of Putnam, which proposes to put a stop to an evil from which many property owners in New York have suffered at some time or another. It has not been unusual for an owner to learn for the first time of some improvement in which his property is supposed to be interested through the mediufn of a notice to pay, heavy assessment, which has been in exist- ence for some time and to the original amount of which twelve per cent interest has been added as a penalty for his involun- tary default. Mr. Fish proposes to render this impossible in the future by a» provision of law making it the duty of the Clerk of the Common Council, whenever an ordinance may be passed directing any improvement, to im- mediately notify all property owners affected thereby. ‘The parties im interest are also further protected by being entitled to a heating before the Board of Assessors, should they so desire, before the improve- ment can be made. This is so}just and necessary a measure that it should be sep- arated from the other provisions in Mr. Fish’s bill, some of which are of question- able expediency, and be suffered to stand on its own merits. As a distinct bill there could be no opposition to its passage, and in the interests of the real estate owners of the city it ought at once to become a law. Morrissey Hits the Mark. The proceedings of the so-called confer- ence at the Mayor's office on Saturday were an exhibition of a‘mless garrulity relieved only by the vigorous remarks of Senator Morrissey. It does not promote either edi- fication or business for men to get together and prate in public when they do not them- selves quite know what they are driving at. Some of the heads of departments did, however, have ao glimmer of meaning in their weak’ maundering which Mr. Morrissey put into plain English for them by saying:—“I have been sitting here for some time, and I have been listen- ing. I have heard the head of every depart- ment tell his story, and they all think wo can’t get along without them.” Not o ra- tional word had any of them to speak as to the practicability and the methods of reduc- ing the expenses of their own departments. They were, indeed, pretty unanimous in the opinion that their administration has been so admirable and economical as to ad- mit of no improvement nor any curtailment of expenses, © These self-complacent models of administrative perfection will hardly per- suade the people to, take them at their own valuation, Mr. Morrissey talked more sense in five minutes than all of them together did in two hours. We are even less satisfied with Mayor Ely than with the twaddling heads of depart- ments, although he did say something defi- nite in favor of reducing expenses. His ideas, at least those he expressed, are petty and piddling. We were entitled to expect from him a comprehensive scheme of econ- omy. It is his business to lead. He ought by this time to have a full grasp of the mu- nicipal situation. Instead of groping with the others he should have presented a pre- cise plan, or the outlines and seminal ideas of a plan, and have submitted it to the discussion and judgment of the conference. Instead of this he merely touched the fringe and tags of the subject. He offered to submit without complaint to aten percent reduction of his own salary and that of his clerks. What broad scheme of municipal economy! According to our reporters the meeting greeted this compre- hensive proposal with ‘‘applause.” We must reserve our applause for the sagacious and wide-reaching plan which it is the duty of the responsible chief magistrate of the city to devise and which we do not yet despair of his submitting to his fel- low citizens. We do not want his salary reduced; the city could afford to double it fora Mayor sagacious enough, bold enough, energetic enough to take hold of the helm with a strong, skilful hand and reduce the city expenses three or four mill- ions a year. We want a Mayor with idens ; the city is willing to pay liberally for effi- cient work. It. is nota petty cheese-paring economy that we want, but ability in our Mayor to grapple successfully with the fun- damental conditions of municipal reform. Mr. Morrissey has not surveyed the sub- ject in its whole extent, but what he did say was marked by vigorous, manly sense. Pouring scorn on the twaddle of the heads of departments, whose wisdom he summed up in the idea that ‘‘we can’t get along with- out them,” the sturdy Senator added, “I think one-half of them ought to be abolished or merged into each other.” A fussy re- former protested against this idea, but Mr. Morrissey stood his ground and the objector made a poor figure. We do not think that Mr. Morrissey’s statement that ‘‘one-half” of the heads of departments could be abolished without detriment is even an exaggera- tion. He did not mean that one-half of the departments should be abolished. but one-half of the officers. He would not only merge some of the departments in others, but he would dispense with all the plural heads, with a single exception, for reasons which he stated, in favor of the Police De- partment. Instead of four or five commis- sioners he would give each department a single responsible head. We have no doubt at all that this would be attended with greater efficiency as well as a saving of ex- pense. Mr. Ely must take care lest our citizens regret that he is not stillin Con- gress and that the bold, straightforward Mr. Morrissey is not serving as Mayor. Shakespeare and the Centennial. The Centennial Exhibition is conceded to have been a brilliant affair; yet with all its success it failed as a true exponent of the wonderful intellectual growth of America. We saw in that great display the American intellect expressed in machinery, in manu- factures and in invention, but we did not see it in literature or abstract science. The Exhibition should have included a series of scientific, medical, juridical, philosophical, theological and educational conventions, to have reported those discoveries witich ma- terial work cannot possibly represent. President Grant pointed out the importance of such a system; but the unfortunate fact must be admitted that while we did a very great deal in the Exhibition for the display of the material progress of America we did very little to show the national advance in literature orscience. “Who reads an Ameri- can book?” Sydney Smith said, a half a century ago, and the American people have always suffered in English estimation be- cause they were too modest to assert their own individuality. What the Centennial Exhibition failed to reveal of American progress it is in the power of journalism to disclose. This neg- lect must be redeemed by the press. After all, the newspapers tell the story of nation. Did a government send Livingstone or Stanley to find the sources of the Nile and to redeem Africa from her barbarism? No: it was journalism that inspired the search, and the whole world will profit by the result. So it is in literature, which depends on the press as its interpreter, Some time ago tho sensational theory that Bacon was the true author of the Skake- spearian plays was examined by the Hznaxp, and the ablest scholars in the United States, from Professor Corson, of Cornell University, to Professor Hart, of Princeton, took an earnest part in the debate. The re- sult was the destruetion of the Baconian theory. No finer-analysis of such a ques- tion was ever known in American litera- ture than that which our accomplished cor- respondents gave. ‘The Baconian theory was indeed the greatest literary curiosity of modern times, and it was killed by American scholars, who thus rendered England a service which she never could have per- formed for herself. To-day we print an arti¢le which does what the Centennial Ex- hibition failed to do. The fine argument of Mr. Joseph Watson shows not only what Shakespeare has done for America, but what America has done for Shakespeare, It re- veals that here is his real home more than in England, and cites English predictions and French authoritios in proof of the fact. What the Centennial neglected to show in these respects this article proves. It traces the influence of Shakespeare from 1776 to 1876, and as an illustration of the develop- ment of the American stage we give it to our readers, A Legislative Cheat, A bill “to regulate the reinsurance of life insurance companies,” introduced by Mr. Tobey, has been reported favorably from the Insurance Committee of the Sen- ate. It is proper the people should under- stand that this bill is a» deception and a cheat. The most convenient method by which a life insurance company can-defraud its policy holders and cover up rascalities in its management is by taking up its policies in a bunch, transferring them to or reinsuring them in some other com- pany, and then going ont of business. But the decisions of the courts have been against this mede of closing the busi- ness of such institutions. ‘he Continental would have been reinsured in the New Jersey Company but for this fact, and would never have undergone the examina- tion of a receiver. Even the Security would have found a haven of rest im some other company. Now Mr. Tobey’s bill, under pretence of “regulating” such re- insurance, in fact legalizes it for the first time. That is its object, and its passage would be a boon to rotten and fraudulent companies, as it wonld open to them a way of escape from receiverships, investigations and, perhaps, the State Prison. In order to cover up the cheat in the bill it is provided that reinsurance shall not take plage without the assent of the Insur- ance Department and without a compliance with other apparent safeguards against abuse. But its bald purpose is to legalize what is now illegal—namely, the wholesale reinsurance of companies as a convenient method of covering up frauds and avoiding responsibility after policy holders have been robbed. That isthe bill’s true object, and that would be its real effect should it be- come a law. Now that the Legislature knows what sort of a measure Mr. Tobey proposes it will at least act upon it with open eyes. Lavixa Up to His Reruration.—The Spitz dog has done it again. The victim this time was a new born infant, too small to de- fend itself and too weak to cry, 50 the dog pit it and then sat down, with the calm con- sciousness of having falfilled, his family destiny, to contemplate the result of his labors. Of course the dog will be de- fended; the poor innocent. wears such a heavy white overccat‘and the weather is so much warmer than usual that he had to re- lieve his feelings in some way. But if the overcoat of the Spitz fits so tightly why not ventilate the dog himself? A very small bullet will do it. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Edwin Booth ts at tho Everett, Jero Black isn’t bulf so sad as Jeremiah, Conkling carries his dressing case into his politics, Evarts’ style 18 as involved as a Virgiuia rail fence, Sir Charles L. Young, of England, is at the St. James. Pomp handles are thawing out, but milk has not come down. , Garfield talks like afreight train going over a weak tresslo work. Watterson writes ike Charles Lamb and talks like Chesbire cheese, If the seven democrats would only vote for Hayes they would not bo partisans. Senator Frelinghuysen, of New Jersoy, is sixty years old, aud he is a Sunday school teacher, When Justice Bradley goes fishing he gets up at four o’clock in the morning, so as to catch the early bait. Charles Reade, the English novelist, is studying: phases of spiritual character as related to mon of practice, Asks an exchange:—"Where 1s Lydia Thompson?” Lyd—I—ah Thompson! Storey, of the Chicago Times, you knew her, didn’t you? While tho violets aro struggling into the sunshine do not forget to keep your coal bin supplgd. This violet business 1s always making blue noses. A mean Penney:vania fellow, who is evidently a partisan republican, says fat tho democratic mem- vers of the commission are playing seven up, William Cullen Bryant:— ‘Thos often in ut Hforr tow A single plowsne The woul a tho ars. Tho Milwaukee Sentinel duys that J, M. Batley bas a trifling kink in bis beautiful black eye. It is really not atrifling kink, and is observable dnly on those oc- casions of his leowwring tour when he gocs upon the stage just after having held a skein of worsted on kis hands for a girl to wind off, Evening Telegram:—Mrs. Mary Oliver, the Philadel. phia widow who alleges that she has been damaged $50,000 worth by Simon Cameron, is said to boa granddaughter of the late Commodore Stewart, Hor grandiather never commanded the Constitution In a more memorable engagement, A committee ot laymen should immediately be ap- potnted, for public satisfaction, to Investigate tho Louisiana returns, Men well acquaimted with fraud should be named, Take for instance a man who puts up apint of Baltimore oysters ina quart can, a Ho- boken milkman and tho newspaper man who wants to borrow $2 more, “#0 as to make it five.”” 3 There is no time in life when a woman is 80 subject to the meeting tides of perplexity as on that occasion when as a widow, engaged to be married to o second, she goes round the house trying to obliterate all signs of hor previous marital existence, It hurts her pride, however, when sho is compelled to barn a gross of visiting cards on which she is recorded as the wife of the first follow, Visiting cai small quantities in families where the man is not healthy. Att is becoming dally more imaginative and less practical, The Berghauses, the Homers, the Beckers and other artists of sentiment are becoming 60 wrapped up in the mere glories of thoir profession that they fail to appreciate that even art must mes be akin to fact, We notice that. on tho Val@itines this year the heart, whether red or pink, is pler@ed by an course ing years, 6 arrow. Now, Sittiwg Bull would say at that a four-ioch arrow with a ten-inch head and a foot foather on the end could never have bit a’ inoh heart right 1m tho bull’s-eyo, ould bo bought in | TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE E) GLISH DILEMMA. Will Salisbury and Disraeli be Reconciled ? WARM WORK AHEAD The Opening of an Eventful Week in English Parliamentary History. THE INDIAN FAMINE Over One Thousand Persons Killed and Wounded in an Explosion. ——_—_—— (sy CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Losvoy, Fob 12, 1877. Tho journalist who could forecast the programme of to-night’s proceedings in tho two houses of Parlia- ment would command half tho reading population of the kingdom to-day, The clubs in Pall Malt wero last evening filled’ with rumors of a complete settlement of the apparent misundorstanding between the Promier and Lord Salisbury; but, it is only fair to say that all who know the lato Commissioner to the Con- ference declare that he has been gricvoysly treated by Sir Henry Elliott, at the oxpress di- rection of Beaconsfield. They declare that be was placed in a false position throughout the whole of the discussion, and that Sir Henry Elliott played into the hands of General Ignatieff on more than one occasion. Tho fecling 1s equally bitter on the other sido, The warm personal friends of Mr. Disraeli are accredited with asserting that Lord Salisbury has only himself to blame for his lamentable failure. They stoutly allege that the unsatisfactory ond ot tho Conferenge bas greatly annoyed Lord Beaconsfield, and that be will repel any attack which his irate subordinate may make upon him in a manner that he of Salisbury never will forget. Of course, nothing except rumor could be gathered last night; and attor waiting for the morning papers nothing tangible can be found. The day may be most eventful, or it may pass without a single incident. Of one fact, howover, there can be little doubt, namely, if Salisbury has tho hardihood to asgail tbe Premier he will bo warmly received and amply dealt with, THE PORTE AXD MONTENEGRO. In the East tho situation remains unchanged. A correspondent at Vienna says it ts probable that the Porte will not press its condition regarding the treatment of the Jows in Servia, An derstanding is being brought about upon one point after another, The Prince of Mon- tenegro seems to demand an adjustment of the frontier according to the ‘ine of do- marcation iaid down by the military commission during the armistice. He also insists upon four points, which include the free navigation of Lake Scutari, ac- cess to the sea, and various’ facilities for mare direct d:plomatic intercourse with the superior suthoritics ot Turkey. None of these points will prevent a settioment provided the main question of a cession of territory is solved. THN REASON VOR MIDIIAT’R FALL. A despatch from Brindisi announces that Midhat Pacha bas arrived thero and informed an English dep- ntation that his banishment was due to Russian in- trigues. ane OXE Goop ACTION, Chevket Pacha, tho leader ot tho Bulgarian atroc!, ties, has been arrested at Constantinople, RUSSIA STILL THREATENS, ‘A telegram from Kisheneff givo facts disprov. ing the current reports of discontent and sick ness in the Russian army. On the other band the de- spatch confirms the report that the passage of the army through Roumania would occupy probably o month, as alterations of guage in the Rou- manian railways are necessary. Tho cor- respondent adds:—I cannot lcarn that this measure has commenced, It naturally will not be until war is finally resolved upon. Notwithstanding an offictal aenial the recent crisis in the Roumauian Ministry was caused by the question whethor Rou- mania should form an alliance with Russia or meroly permit the Russian army to pass under protest It is understood that the new government are favorabte to Russia. Advices trom Kieff represent that Russia has ordered all the railway companies to procure ambulance carriagos and prepare to convey 60,000 men to Kisheneff, iy THR MUNGARTAN MINISTERIAL CRISIS. Von Szekhely has failod to forma new Hungarian Ministry. Tho Pesther Lloyd, semi-official organ of tho Hungarians, makes the announcement, GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION IN INDIA, A despatch to the Times trom Calcutta reports that a gunpowder explosion occurrea at Adhemabod, by which Ailty persons wore killed and 1,000 wounded, THK BELLICOSE BASQUES. It is reported from Madrid on good authority that tho Basque depututions have proposed and the government have accepted a convenio for a settloment which will romove tho present difMficulty with the Basquo provinces by a compromise, Instead of furnishing soldiers by conscription, each province is to maintuin a battalion of volun. teers, which is to be placed under tho orders of tho government in case of war, and economical and administrative autonomy is ree served tothe Basque provinces, The Basquo juntas aro willing to accept this convenio, and the goverument will submit it to the Cortes, ‘THE INDIAN FAMINE, Tho Times’ despatch from Calcutta says:—“In the week ending February 2 the numbers of persons en- gaged on the relief works decreased 34,000 in Bombay and 39,300 in Madras, as compared with the num- bors employed the previous week, This de. crease was attributable to tho reduction of wages and the exclusion of persons not really desti- vute. But thore has been no rain, and no improve. ment in the condition of the crops, The health of tho populations in both prosidencics is bad. Thero are many cases of cholera in the distressed districts of Madras.” THE VATICAN COUNCIL, from Rome says the Popo is full of the project for continuing tho Vatican Council, The congregation of tho Cardinals to whoso consideration he submitted tho matter, however, have replied that as the causes which interrupted the Council still continuo its resumption would be inoppor, tune. A despatch WHIPPED AGAIN. A speoial despatch from Alexandria announces that the Egyptian troops havo again been defeated neat Massowab, FOUND MURDERED. Font Laramie, Fob. 11, 1877. Yesterday Givin’s train found the body of an une known man in Cottonwood Canyon, nine miles from here, He is described as thirty-live years of age, dark @, five feet six Inches in height. He hada handkerchief in his pocket which was marked KE. D.” iis head R mashed in, The body was found tla aM indications aro f . Raaihiigc bo was killeas