The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1877, Page 6

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There was an advance in values of the principal leading active stocks, with the exception of New York and New Jersey Central. Government stocks were steady, while railway bonds advanced a NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. - A Mayor Who Will Mind Trifies. Once upon a time we had a Mayor of New York who believed that he was the chief magistrate of this great city and acted ac- cordingly. He also believed in the exercise of the one-man power and was determined that he would be theoneman. Even before he was installed in office at the City Hall he made it his duty to go around the city ina quiet way hunting up and investigating abuses so as to be in a_ position to apply the remedies when his term of office began. So energetic were his movements, and so direct was the ap- plication of the remedial measures which he had already decided to employ, that the sub- ordinate officials, the heads of departments and bureaus, the. bebuttoned police pachas who ruled the precincts, the easily influ- enced deputy assistant market inspectors, and ‘even the city lamplighters, became terrorstricken and suddenly efficient, and a | period of practical reform in the mu- nicipal government unexpectedly set in. Our modern Haroun-al-Raschid had a secret. It was that which enabled him to inspire a profound respect for his authority anda feeling of uncertainty as to the mo- ment and manner in which he would exer- cise it in the hearts of those he was watch- ing so closely. No one could tell when and where the ubiquitous Mayor of New York might step in and inquire into the manage- ment of the simplest matter of public busi- ness. The secret was that the chief magis- trate had a habit of attending to trifles, or what the public and the officials were accus- tomed to regard as below the dignity of the Mayor to notice. When the vigilance and energy of this lyzx-eyed executive began to turn night into day in the dark places of the city, and to expose the shortcomings of the lazy offi- cials, whose highest. conception of duty never soared above the drawing of their salaries from the city treasury, they and their sup- porters were filled with indignation. Two parties were soon formed, one of which de- nounced the action of the Mayor as a mere dramatic display of mock efficiency, and in- sisted that he was in reality one of the worst Mayors that we ever had. The other side claimed that New York was never under a better government than that represented by his administration; that he paid equal attention to the most comprehensive projects and to the apparently most insignificant tri- fles. But without offering any opinion as to which of these parties were right we think no one will dispute that the experi- ment of Fernando Wood unmistakably es- tablished one fact—to wit, that it is quite easy for a real live man in the Mayor's office to put the whole city government on its good behavior. Why do we recall now this episode of the olden time in New York? Because there little. Money was easy at 31g to 21g per cent on call. Gold opened at 1055, declined to 10514 and closed at the opening price. a A CABLE War is threatened, with a consequent reduetion of rates, and yet nobody weeps. Tue AppLicaTION of a new and exquisite coat of whitewash to the Emma Mine has begun. See court teports. Tne “MarrmostaL Muppie,” alluded to in another column, shows the absolute criminality of some divorce law: New Jersey Centra has a receiver at last, but other corporations which need one just as badly are not a bit jealous. A Case which came into Judge Barrett's hands yesterday affords a scale by which to measure the depreciation of real estate. An EXAmMPLe For THE Potice Commission, rns.—The Fire Department asks for a list of its own officers who should be retired for in- capacity. ts How Toucnine a sense of the fitness of things was manifested by the Fish Culturists’ Associa- tion in having its oxnual dinner-on the first day of Lent! Ar Least Torres Out or Five Criminacs sentenced yesterday were minors—a fact which should cause an immediate raid by the officers who are supposed to arrest truants and juvenile vagrants. ly THe Manacers of the Juvenile Guardian Society want sympathy they should go to the officials of certain life insurance companies which have earned frequent mention of late. “A fellow {feeling makes us wondrous kind.” Jupce Van Brust yesterday scouted ‘the statement of a complainant that a rotten board could have any spring to it. Did His Honor never hear of a certain rotten “Board” in Lou- isiana and note its elasticity ? Mone Evipence is offered to-day in support of the charge that the convict Clancy died of in- juries received in prison. Cannot some would-be reformer of prison misrule supply the means necessary to bring about a thorough investigation of this case? Borcwary, like other business callings, fails to pay expenses in these hard times. ‘The Northampton Bank robbers got three-quarters of a million dollars only a year ago; yet when three of the supposed operators were arrested yesterday they were without money, and two of them carried the implements of their honest toil, Tur ExectoraL, Commission was occupied yesterday in listening to Mr. Carpenter and Mr, Trumbull, the latter stating the points the dem- ocrats proposed to prove. After some discussion it was decided to proceed in a manner similar to that pursued in the Florida case. Counsel were given two hours on each side to argue on the question of admitting testimony. Mr. Trumbull opened the argument and was followed by Mr. Shellabarger. The argument will be continued today. : Tue Weatuer.—The area of high pressure has now reached the New Engfind States, and ex- tendé northward from Long Island into Canada, ‘The low area preceding it has already passed into the Atlantic Ocean off Noya Scotia, attended by brisk and very high winds. The rapid decrease of pressure at the centre of the storm during its progress from the Mississippi Valley toward the veean marks it as one of those dangerous dis- turbances which sweep over the ocean to Europe with ever increasing violence. We therefore predict that on or about the 19th of this month heavy gales will prevail on the British and French coasts. Tho depression in the Gulf States advances slowly eastward at- tended by = light’ rain. Cloudiness prevails from the Gulf to the lakes and westward to the Rocky Mountains. An area of low barome- ter is developing in the Northwest, but has not yet extended eastward of the Upper Missouri. ‘As wo predicted, the temperature has risen throughout the country generally and at New York. The weather in this city to-lay will be warmer and partly cloudy, possibly followed by dmereasing cloudiness and light rain. never was a period in the history of the metropolis when just such a policy of vigil- ance, activity and attention to trifles was more needed to rescue us from the evils of misgovernment and extravagance than the present. The parcelling out of the author- ity which properly belongs to the Mayor of New York among a number of irresponsi- ble officials who shelter themselves behind barriers reared by special and partisan legislation at Albany from the just indigna- tion of the people, is fraught with the worst consequences to the metropolis. The cooks of the Dock Department and the chamber- maids of the Police Board consider that they have their special duties to perform, and will do nothing more. The butlers of the Department of Public Works and the pantry boys of the Health Board, the hostlers of the Department of Chari- ties and Correction and the coachman of Finance are supremely indifferent to the necessities of the municipal house- hold outside their own immediate depart- ments therein, so that when the thousand and one trifles, the minor details of duty to the people, the performances which are really more necessary to the welfare of the community than the ornamental perform- ances of the beplushed and gorgeous Jeemses and John Thomases, present them- selves, there is no one to recognize them, and they are therefore neglected. Now, to whom shouid we look for the ex- ercise of those high official qualities and the authority that would compel the under ser- vants of the people to perform all the du- ties reqnired of them »but the Mayor, who isthe chief servant, the majordomo of the household? He alone, by virtue of the pre- dominant ‘powers vested in him by the pub- ile, can effect the needed reforms. We do not want an executive whose time shall he chiefly occupied in dealing with generaliza- tions of unmitipal government or who will act as a mere referee in disputes as to precedence between the cook and the parlor maid. We want no twaddling dis- cussions of abstract questions of economy that are never followed bya reduction of the city expenditures. We do not desire to see poor Jonahs of clerks dragged from their high stools and cast overboard by frightened heads of departments, to be swallowed by the whale of reform. What we really need is a live man who will, metaphorically, take off his coat and begin at once the herculean labor of cleansing our municipal Augean stables, sweeping out by a vigorous applica- tion of his authority the accumulation of abuses that are the result of years of neg- lect. We want a Mayor who will almost forget the dignities of his office for the du- ties pertaining to it, and who will not be above attending to trifles, Let us consider that the greatest degree of happiness and the largest measure of suc- cess follow in domestic and business matters an attention to trifles. There is nothing that is worth any attention that is not worthy of every attention if we desire to make every part of the great whole of life’s business combine to produce a perfect sym- metry. If Mayor Ely, instead of wasting his time in , profitless consultations or conferences with officials whose whole time is devoted to keeping themselves in office would bend his energies to hunt- ing up the shortcoming of his subordinates, he would accomplish in three months morg reforms and solid improvements in and for New York than the administrations of his predecessors and alithe Albany legislation have brought about in half a century, All that is necessary for him to do in order to succeed is to carefully ascertain the exact duties of his subordinates and then to see for himself that they perform these to the letter. Unless he sces ‘in person how the affairs of the city government are administered he cannot in- troduce any reformatory system. We have lost all faith in official reports, They have become documents carefully prepared for the purpose of concealing facts under over- whelming arrays of figures. They give us no details; for they ignore the trifies that go to make up the most interesting exhibits of our city expenditures. What resource have we, then, in the face of these difficulties? None, but in the vigilance, activity and attention to trifles of the Mayor of New York. If Mayor Ely will only do his duty in this respect he will discover abundant opportunities for investigation and im- provement, Let us suggest to hirn a series of inquiries such as he can prosecute at once and with immense advantage to the city. He can find out, for instance, how contracts under the Department of Public Works are let and fulfilled; how the streets are graded and improved; how reservoirs are built and the Croton water is sold to large consumers; how the Police Department is managed; how it cleans the streets, disposes of the ashes and garbage and deals with the moral nui- sances of the city; how the Health Department protects the crowded tenement districts from disease and abates nui- sances ; how the Dock Department builds bulkhead walls and piers and leases the latter to steamship companies and others ; how the markets are managed and the stalls are rented; how the ferry companies accommodate the public, and the fastest time made during steamboat races on our rivers; how the horse car com- panies comply with the city ordinances, and whether the travelling public have any rights at all in our streets; how our thoroughfares and sidewalks come to be encumbered by piles of building material and by whose authority; as to the best means of relieving the principal streets from the overcrowded traffic that obstructs them at present. These are all the more worthy of attention because they are made up of trifles, as mountains are composed of conglomerated atoms. If he will duly in- form us as to the nature and condition of the atoms the people will give him all the power he requires to remove the mountains. Reconstruction — Mayor Ely’s Plan. We print an interesting interview with Mayor Ely, in which he communicated to a Henarp reporter the outlines of his plan of municipal reform. We are glad to find that his views are such as we can indorse, in substance at least, if not in all details. Our worthy Mayor, having learned by re- peated trials how vain it was to expect any- thing valuable from the conferences he called, has consented to let the public know what his own opinions are respecting needed changes in our municipal govern- ment. His attempt to get any wisdom from the respectable gentlemen he invited into consultation reminds us of the philoso- pher who undertook to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. It was as vain an expecta- tion as that ridiculed by the poet of procur- ing milk from the breasts of a lass ‘“‘who ne’era bairn had none.” The modesty of the Mayor in withholding his‘own excellent ideas during those vapid, twaddling confer- ences did him injustice, and he ought to feel obliged to us for lifting the veil which concealed his opinions. Instead of being all at sea on this great subject Mayor Ely has reached precise and definite conclusions. He thinks the execu- tive part of our municipal government should be modelled on the plan of the fed- eral Executive, which he thinks the best form in the world. ‘I am of the opinion,” he says, ‘‘that it is the best human wisdom has devised, whether the rulers are honest or dishonest.” We entirely agree with him. In the federal plan there is one responsible executive head, who appoints the chief offi- cers in all the departments and has an =a Municipal cient supervision over them. He would also. follow the federal model in the organization of the departments, each of which has asingle head responsible to the President. There is one Secretary of the Treasury, one Secre- tary of War, one of the Navy, one of the In- terior, one Postmaster General, although the business of these departments is alto- gether more vast and multifarious than that of any city department. It would strike everybody as preposterous to substitute four or five commissioners for each of the federal secretaries. It is equally preposterous to continue such a clumsy and wasteful sys- tem in this city. The Mayor illustrates the sufficiency of a single head by referring to the Department of Public Works, the largest in its scope of any in the city government, which is never- theless successfully administered by ono commissioner. ‘The advantage of consoli- dation is illustrated by reference to the Croton Aqueduct, formerly a separate department, but now a bureau in the Department of Public Works. The Mayor thinks that “the Dock, Excise, Health, Tax and Charities and Cor- rection departments should have but one commissioner each.” With Mayor Ely hold- ing such views in this city, With Mayor Schroeder advorating them in Brooklyn, and Mr. Morrissey pushing them with ro- bust sense and vigor at Albany, we begin to hope that reform on this type may succeed in spite of the opposition of sordid politi- cians and placemen. A Case for Prompt Punishment. Brutality, long common enough among the lower orders of policemen, is becoming fashionable. Its latest exemplar is a ser- geant, and if he is let alone as kindly as his subordinates usually «are for the same offence we may expect even captains to buckle on clubs and sally forth in search of persons who will allow themselves to be maltreated without striking back; The brutal abuse of an inoffensive inebriate yes- terday might have passed as a matter of course had not a single public spirited citizen recalled the usual fate of whatever is everybody's business; but Mr. Andrews followed the case up so promptly that the guilt of Sergeant Thompson and Officer Con- ovan must be apparent to all. The results great interest by every one who owns a head and has conscientious scruples against shooting the law's representatives. Even a prompt conviction and a severe sentence, however, will not satisfy the just demands of the public. It is time that police- men should be made to understand that if they want to inflict punishment before trial they should emigrate to Turkey or Lonis- iana, They should also be impressed with the fact that other human lives are as valuable as their own, and that, even when handling dangerous characters, it is their duty to run considerable risk of personal harm to themselves before resorting to vio-. lence. If mere slaughterers are good enough for officers they can be obtained at less than half the salaries of policemen, Too much credit cannot be given to Mr. Andrews for his action in the matter. If all spectators of similar outrages would but follow the example of -this true and fearless citizen, and do what is but the manifest duty of every one, ruffians and cowards would soon find the police force an unsatis- factory means for the gratification of their brutal propensities and would drop into burglary or some other profession which has no uniform to shield its members from justice. Senator Morrissey and Municipal Re- form. Mayor Ely’s conference the other day had one excellent effect; it stimulated Senator Morrissey’s zeal for reform. But its strong effect on him was not in inspiring admira- tion or supplying ideas, but in exciting his impatience and disgust. The conference filled him with the repugnance which a man of strong ‘horse sense” feels for imbecility and a downright, earnest man for a set of city officials who pro- fess a desire for economy, while every mother's son of them protests against any re- duction of the expenses of his own depart- ment. The honest indignation of Mr. Mor- rissey against such pretenders and imbeciles carried him back to Albany inspired with a vigorous purpose to put his shoulder to the wheel and lift the reform wagon out of the mud. On Tuesday Mr. Morrissey made astraight- forward reform speech, declaring his ap- proval of the main features of what are called ‘The Woodin bills,” but complain- ing that they do not go far enough. He stated that the same city officials whom he had met at the Mayor's confer- ence are to visit Albany this week, and he desired a little delay before the Woodin bills were put on their passage, in order that he might bring these gentle- men to book by demanding an expression of their views on the measures. He means to force them to show their colors and to put them on record. If they evade or palter he will expose them, and Tammany, which stands behind them, as insidious enemies of economy and reform. Yesterday Mr. Morrissey made a further advance. He introduced and procured the adoption by the Senate of s resolution pro- viding for a joint session of the Committees on Cities, to report within ten days a bill for the reduction of municipal expenses. He will doubtless press upon the joint commit- tees his plan for the consolidation of- city departments and substituting a single head'for the plural commissioners. We think he will be supported in this endeavor by all honest men who are competent judges of the requisites for efficient munici- pal administration. He is supported in advance by Mr. Schroeder, the reform Mayor of Brooklyn, who was examined on Tuesday by the Assembly Committee on Cities. The following brief extract from Mayor Schroe- der’s testimony will be read with interest:— Mr. Fist—Now, Mr. Schroeder, we have a Dill hero providing for one-headed departments im your city instead of three-headod commissions. Whatdo you think about such a proposition ? Mayor—My views are similar to those of the Mayor of New York city. He is in favor of one responsible head tor the goverpmont of the city of New York, und 1 favor a like rulo for Brooklyn. Mr. TigHx—Do you include the Police Department? Mayor—I do. Mr, Tiux—That department has both executive and judicial duties to pertorm, and how would you place a donble responsivility under one heod? Mayor—I would not encumber the Police Depart- ment with excise trials, 1 would give that duty whero it more properly belongs—to the judges. Mr. Tignx—Then you would allow ono man to try the police for violating the rules of the department? Mayor—Why not? As far as those trials goa single Judge would be as capable as three. Mr. Tigus—Would you extend tho one-head system to the Fire Department? Mayor—Yes. ‘Mr. Tiamx—And to the Board of Elections, which now has three heads? Mayor—No; | would assuro all parties fair play by giving them represcutatives there. Then it is not a city department; you will flod that there is no refer- enco to the Board of Elections in the charter, All this had reference to the city of Brooklyn, but it is equally applicable to New York. We hope that Senator Morrissey may succeed in forcing this reform; but he will have a strenuous battle to fight against the spoilsmen and pluralists, who will hold on to their needless offices with a desperate grip. A Momentous Question, We publish to-day a singular story of social life in Michigan, which, although some years old, is well worth the telling, and which throws the adventures of Miss Mary Knox into the shade. In the latter ease the lady thinks she knows whom she married, while the gentleman she claims as her husband is in entire ignorance of hav- ing married Miss Knox. In the Michigan matter the lady being, in accordance with the terms of her eccentric first husband's will, compelled to marry her second in the dark, could not be so positive as to the identity of her number two as Miss Knox professes to be of her number one, But while Miss Knox is too little married the Michigan Widow Dodsworth seems to have been too much married on her second ven- ture, four lovers having contended for her well filled hand—Mr. Dodsworth having be- queathed het thirty thousand dollars—and each insisting that he was the happy man who placed the ring on the widow's plump fourth finger in the dark. It was all owing to Mr. Dodsworth’s crotchets. Ho was considerably Mrs. Dods- worth’s senior, and when he died and left her a stout, fresh, available widow, to whose personal charms he added the attraction of thirty thousand dollars, he did not tollow the example of some old curmudgeons who forbid their relicts to wed again, but bound her to finda second husband within eighteen months of the time he was laid in the grave, under penalty of forfeiture of the fortune. This was exceedingly generous conduct on of the investigation will be awaited with | the part of Mr. Dodsworth, as all young wives of elderly gentlemen will admit. But he coupled the condition with others not 60 agreeable. The widow was to marry her second in a barn and in thedark. This pro- vision of the will invited the subsequent trouble. The ceremony being performed in the dark neither the widow nor the clergy- man nor the witnesses could swear whom she had married, and all four of her lovers claimed her hand. One of them was a widower, and he got the bride, as a matter of course, being better posted in such matters than his rivals, but he had to buy off their claims at two thousand dollars a head. It is fair, therefore, to conclude that the widow secured the right man; fora lover who would give up her charms for a couple of thousand dollars could not have been worth much as a husband. The Transmission of Sound by Tel- egraph. Another possible use of the electric wire promises to startle the world and revo- lutionize all accepted ideas in regard to communication with persons at a dis- tance. People are not yet done won- dering over the changes in the world made by the telegraph; but it seems likely that the difference between the old methods of communication and the methods in use in the present condition of the tele- graph may prove really less wonderful than the difference between communication by the existing tedious system of signals and communication as we shall doybtless have it in the perfection of the telephone or sound telegraph. In the first stage of a great in- vention we have always, of course, the most striking fact in its history; but if we had nowall our great inventions in their first stage we should find many of them of comparatively little value. There is no great modern invention actually in use in the condition in which it was first put forth. Incessant improvement and adaptation to difficulties to be overcome constitute as im- portant features in the history of the great implements and processes of civilization as the first discoveries themselves. It has been said that Franklin caught the lightning, Morse put it in harness, and House taught it the English language—-a picturesque and humorous way of stating the truth to which we refer: that the successive improve- ments give a great invention all its practical value. If the discovery of the method of transmitting the sounds of the human voice through great distances by the electric wire shell prove, upon ampler examinatfon, as successful os now appears, it will revolutionize the now enormous use of the telegraph. If a banker or grain dealer, instead of receiving, as now, & few fragmentary words from his agent in Chicago, can go to the telegraph office and there hold an easy conversation with that agent in the Chicago office, distance will be annihilated in a way more practical than has been dreamed of hitherto. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Adam was the first ticket of leave man, Senator Macdonald says “‘hunderd’? for humired, When Senator Anthony speaks he seems to sink into bimselt. Senator Conkling mendsa quill pen with graceful delicacy. Senator Bayard will, in tribunal, work constantly with his pen. Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, looks like tho prover- bial Sam Slick. Hon, Scott Lord is thought to resemble Tweed !n per- sonal appearance. Congressman Garfield is as complacent as a country schoolmaster and does not oil his hair. Senator Patterson, of South Carolina, wears poetical hair and has the watk of a jaunty swell. Congressman Jere Haralson, of Alabama, ts so bright a follow that be makes black looks white, Senator Thurman asks frequont questions of tho ar- guing counsel in a tone of stern significance, Hon, Martin L Townhend always speaks with his hands in his pockets and is as good as two circuses, Captain William Gore-Jones, naval attaché of the British Legation at Washington, is at the Clarendon, Colonel Gordon, the Afrtean explorer, was yesterday appointed Governor of the entire province of Soudan, “It is expected that Queen Victoria will visit Ger many about Easter,” says the Pall Mall Gazette of yes- terday. William M. Evarts docs not fil up his chair, and he forces his lips together until they disappear ia the re- cosses of a wrinkle, Judge Bradley makes his notes with dilligence, fol- Jows the lawyers with close attention and scratcnes slow notes with a quill, Mr. Matt. Carpenter likes to rest his head on his hand and to go about to counsel whispering words that he supplements with a jojly smile, A Welshman just getting into the mysteries of the language this side the Atlantic spells lunatic “llwwn- aatiic.?? This is what made Josh Biliings give up lec- turing. If some one were to ask us to give an unprejudiced opinion concerning the considerable town tn the United States from which the very worst newspaper emanates we should say Mobile, Ala, In the country opera house the particular swells walk around to the end of the gallery, and, leaning like demigoas against the upper box, bow with ravishing grace to the people in the orchestra below. Wostern papers are boasting that a Nevada man read a newspaper while a tumor was taken out of lus side, ‘Thats nothing. A man in Rhode Island whistled the other day while a Massachusetts dog was taken off his legs. Congressman Jobo Hancock, of Texas, 1s a democrat against whom no opponent cares to run, but in 1861 he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Con- federate States, and was expelled {rom the Texas Legis. lature. Dr. Holland says in Scribner, ‘‘you must take your baby just where he is now and educate bis physical nature.” That is itexactly, Take him with the vot- tom of a slipper where he lives and he will soon gradu- ato with a good education, Protessor Richard A, Proctor writes toa London paper that he believes not only in ‘the’? sea serpent, but im lots of sea serpents, 111s unnecessary for us to say to our intelligent reader that the Protessor is a temperance man, and that this is the first real argu- ment we have ever heard in favor of the serpent, Professor Fawcett says that he finds it very diMcult to persuade himself that he has not seen persons and things that havo crossed his path long after he bo- came blind, but of which he bas heard vivid deserip- tions; but it 18 a novelty to find a parallel phe- nomenon in the case ofa man of such accurate memory as Mr. Martineau, Sometimes when you attend tho theatro you observe in the gorgeous drop curtain a small slit at ono end, where active shadows pass to and fro. Suddenly a dark round object sppoars at the silt, That 18 the eye of the Star, who is looking to see what kind of a house he has got, and who in another moment will bound upon tho stage with tho exclamation, “Her blood be on his head!'? Louisville Cowrier-Journal:—''Fashions that would speak for themselves: For grass-widows, lawn; for elderly women, moire antique; for democratic belles, anything bat rep; for women inclined to baidness, mohair; for women with poodles, muslin; for shippers’ paca; for the Misses Neverready, delaine; for gailors’ wives, serge; for dairy-women, calico; for soldiers’ wives, bombazine; for debtors’ wives, ticking ; for women with profane husbands, kersey; for care- less servants, crash; for Mrs, Sitting Bull, wnoop- wkirts."” TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the ' World. THE EASTERN UNEASINESS. All Europe Listening for the Tocsin of War, Yet Hoping for Peace. DOM PEDRO AND THE POPE. (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.1 Lonpox, Feb, 15, 1877. It would appear that Russia bas already decided upon her lige of action. The Servian Diplomatic Agent in Vienna bas intimated that the Czar on the 24th inst. will order the mobilization of six more army corps. A later telegram {rom Vienna says ad- vices from St. Petersburg, Kisheneff and Borlin indi- cate a decided tendency in the direction of war. [tw asserted that the Czarewitch has declared that the commencement of war is imminent. ‘ TERRIBLE STATE OF THINGY IX TORERY, An English physician with Mukhtar Pacha’s army in. Trebinje writes tothe Stefford House Charitable Com- mittee reportiug that the army is in a deeadtul state on account of the insufficiency of hospital accommo- dations, lack of medicines, &c. ; that betwoen twenty and thirty soldiers are dying daily, and dysentery and typhoid fever havo appeared and are spreading rapidly. GERMANY MAY NEED HORSES, TOO, The German government ts again considering the ex- pediency of prohibiting the exportation of horses from Prussia. BERVIA PREPARING FOR LEGISLATION, A decree has been issued in Belgrade convoking the Great Skuptschina for February 26. HAS RUSSIA ABANDONED BERVIL, ? Servia’s appeal for advice from Ri 18 still upan- swered, The Russian Consul General declares that he is great'y embarrassed at the silence of bis govern~ ment, It is surmised that the Servians have been abondoned by Russia as the price of Austrian acquies- cence or co-operation in Russia’s policy, because if Servin is quieted the great causo of restlessness among tho Slavs in Hungary would be re- moved. It is probable that Russia will not adopt a similar course toward Montenegro, but will put her forward as the champion of the Turk- ish Christiane, It 1s reported that Karagéorgewitch’s partizans are intriguipg. Some demonstration Is pos siblo in the Skuptschina, RUSSIA'S FINAL PREPARAYIONS, A correspondent at Kisheneff gives a full acy count of the mobilization of the Russian army in a telegram dated Fobruary 9, which has been delayed in transmissioa. He states that the army at Kisheneff, which would frst. move against tho Turks, numbers 120,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry and 428 guns. lt would be immediately followed by two corps which are now at Odessa, making tho total of the army of advance 180,000 infantry, 12,000 cavairy. and 720 guns, The correspondent continucs:—‘*As far as I can ascertain ything 1s army to take tho field at a moment’s notice, A thous sand horses have been bought for the train. The bridge lying here is capable of passing the whole army over the Danube in a day. There are also thirteen enormous steam Jaunches, large enough to cross the Atlantic; two large barges, ral smaller boats and masses of other thin; showing that everything ts looked after to the smallest detail, No diMficulty hag been experienced in obtaining horses, I am = assured that, despite rumors to the contrary mobilization has proceeded so satisfactorily that within a month four army corps could have crossed the Pruth,’” ENGLAND TO GIVE THE CU. Tho Vionna correspondent of the Daily News says:— “It is stated hero on trustworthy authority thas tho Powers aro disposed to leave England to give the , key-note for a reply to Gortschakofi’s circular.’? THK PRESS IN FRANCE AND GERMANY, The Court of Appeal has confirmed the sentence passed on the Parisian journal Les Droits de V Homme, The Lott Centre of the French Chamber has passed a resolution in favor of the restoration of trial by jury for press offences, and has instructed its bureau to unite with those of the other sections of the Loft in urging the government to change the officials in the” Press Department. Rudolf Meyer, editor of a socialist newspaper in Berlin, has been sentenced to nine months’ imprison- meat for publishing a libel on Princo Bismarck charg- ing bim with stockjobbing. THE POPE AND BRAZIL, ‘The Emperor ot Brazil, now in Rome, yesterday visited the Pope. He. expressed the hope that the Popo would, in accord with the Brazilian government, assist in removing all ecclesiastical difficulties ig Brazil The Pope replied that the Church was rat! accustomed to smooth than to create obstacles. hoped to be ablo to restore religious harmony, which had always been the glory of Brazil The interview appears to have been marked by extreme cordiality. The Emperor showed much emotion and threw bim- selt at the feet of the Pope The Empress was also prosent and was received with great kinaness by the Holy Father. Prelates at Vo- rona, Lyons, Rheims, Vienna, Salzburg, Saragossa and Santiago, and the Itaiian ecclesiastics, Monsignort Nina, Barretti and Luigi, have been ofMcially notified of the Pope’s intention to appoint them Cardinals at the approaching consistory. AN INSURRKCTION IN JAPAN, The correspondent of the Times at Paris says a tele- gram has been receivod there announcing another insurrection in Japap. The Satsama clan have rison; but it is thought that tho movement will be easily suppressed, as leading mon of tho clan disapprove of it, AUSTRIA AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION, The Lower Houso of the Reichsrath by a vote of 155 yeas to 37 nays bas passed a grant of 600,000 florins to promote the display of Austrian products in tho Paris Exhibition of 1878, notwithstanding the recent adverse decision of the Budget Committee. GERMANY CAN'T BE PR iT. The Berlin Reichsanzeiger states Germany’s de- termination not to participate in tho Paris Exhibition fs irrevocable, Tho state of aflairs which has led the government to decline to take part theroin is such as to preclude all possibility of reconsideration, ANOTHER COAL MINE HORROR, A terrible explosion bas taken place in one of the coal mines at Graissessac, in the Department of Hé- rault, France. Fifty-five miners are known to have perished. THE FRENCH WINE CROP. Statistical returns of tho product of the vines in France for the year 1876 show that the vintage has fallen off exactly one-half from that of 1875, ‘The reduction was Caused by tho ravagog of the photloxera (insect). M. Pommelec, member of the Chamber of Deputics, is dead. THE THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF THE ANGLO-AMER- ICAN COMPANY TO LAND CABLES ON THE NEWFOUNDLAND COAST CONFIRMED. Loxpox, Fob, 14, 1877, Tho Judicial Committee of the Privy Council this morning gave judgment in the appeal of tho Direct United States Cablo Company respecting the laying of their cable in Conception Bay. Tho appeal was dis- missed with ocsts, ' The real point ofthe decision is this:—The Anglo American Company has an exclusive right to laud cables in Newloundland, with nearly twenty-fve years to rap, The Dominion government undcriook to set this exclusive concession aside, The decision referred to sustains the original concession to the old New. foundiand Company by the court of Inst resort in Great Britaia. As the Direct Company, in anticipation of this judg- ment, some time since removed their cablo from Cone ception Bay, tho decision above retcrred to docs 006 affect them in any way. OCEAN CABLE CONTROVERSY.