The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1877, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. rei tgeis ies JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every ‘Three cents per copy (Sunday excluded). OF wt Fate of one dollar per month ior any period ies Se ees yt forsix months, Sunday Ail busiuess, bews letters or telegraphic despatches must Maat acstest GEREN mony oeure rs ages shou - Hajetied tact iame wt nt be returned. Di cepeesieomrerse HILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH PORERT LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREET. RIS. Cd rma rie DE L'OPERA. ES OFF 7 STRADA PACE. ‘Bamert ated advertisements will be received and forw ‘on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XLII AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tur Danicagrrs, EAGLE THEATRE—Aiux: STEINWAY HALL.—Concxnr. GRAND OPERA HOUSE,—Moxsixcn Atrnoxse, TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE. TIVOLI THEATRE—V antery. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM. HELLER’S THEATRE.—Puxstipiarration. EGYPTIAN HACL.—Sexsationat Vanterr. PARISIAN VARIETIES. ¥ COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE—Vartrry. BROOKLYN RINK.—Patix Sxatinc, THEATRE COMIQUE—Vanrerr. NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS. The Adams Express Company ran a special newspaper train over the fgets Railroad and its omnections, leaving Jersey Cit: ‘@ quarter past four Sunday, carrying the regular edition of th West ae Harrisburg and South to Washingsc Philndelphia at » quarter past six A.M. and one P. M. M., dally and WALD AB far m. reaching ‘ashington at From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day wil be warmer and cloudy, or partly cloudy, possibly with rain. Watt Street YesterDAY.—The market was dull, with irregularity in the prices of leading stocks during the day. There was an advance in the closing prices except in a few stocks, notably New Jersey Central and Morris and Essex. Gov- ernment stocks were strong, while railroad bonds were mostly firm. Money on call was easy at 31g and 21, per cent, the last prices being 21g and 3. Gold was firm at 10553. AT Wasurxcros yesterday they thought Weldon had started a panic of assassination. Our Srecrat Report Inpicates that the dead whale is very much cut up and inclined to blub- Der. Tue Trottixe Court oF AppEAts will prove interesting to horse breeders and managers on the turf. ‘THe CELESTIAL AND THE INFERNAL are hope- Jessly mixed in the Ah Fung murder case, re- ported at length to-day. An Aupermanic Committse is to investigate the frauds in personal taxes. Detectives would do the business better. Burerars CaGep.—The capture of the bur glars who robbed Bauer's store, in Broadway, is one step toward police vigilance. By tne Deatn of General Changarnier France loses one of her best soldiers. His ex- ploits in Algeria alone entitle him to fame. Ir Is Revortep that Deputy Superintendent McCall, of the Insurance Department, will de- mand the.indictment of the Continental Life In- surance Company’s officers for perjury. Rerorm 1n Jersey.—The new Board of Free- holders have ousted Mrs. Jones, for five years the keeper of the County Jail at Jersey City. She was very capable, but she was not a voter. A Rarp Has at Last been made on the Cana dian-American smugglers. Twenty more might be successfully made in a week by a well organ- ized secret patrol of the American shore of the lakes. Tne Fatat Mistake of the Philadelphia druggist should at least have a good effect: upon the bill now before the New York Legislature providing for an improvement in the personnel of prescription clerks. Nearty Two Tuousann Douiars were ap propriated yesterday for the payment of clerks, one for each Alderman, who were employed dur- ing the six days in which the Aldermen sat as a Board of Canvassers. Would itnot be cheaper to elect clerks as Aldermen ? Arter Reaping Mr. Gun 's ResoLuTion of yesterday the directors of the Sixth Avenue Railroad will be in a condition to sympathize with all victims of misplaced gratitude. Warm- ing street cars with straw is no compensation for such a threatened warming of directors. Is THe IsteREstTING Letrer which we pub- lish today frum Colonel Macdonald, of the Scottish team, appears the sensible suggestion that in international matches no team which ex- elndes Irishmen and Scotciimen shall be consid- cred a British team. Inthe same spirit Amer- jeans should resvive that American teains should not be composed exclusively of New Yorkers. Tue Announcement of the Ladies’ Art Ex- hibition should attract more than ordinary atten- tion from people of taste. With the modesty peculiar to their sex most of our lady artists have devoted themselves to what are, with doubtful correctness, called minor departinents of art, but, as is ustial in all modest and conscientious en- deavor, they have effected successes for lack of which even costly mansions are usually bare and anfinished. Place aus dames! eee Tue Wearnger.—The conditions prevailing yesterday evening ‘west of the Alleghany Monn. | tains were chictly cloudiness, high temperature. | and areas of snow and rain. The first named form of precipitation was confined to the lake region, Wnt light rain fell in the Mississippi, Missouri and Platte valleys and heavy rain in | the South Atlantic States. An area of low pressure is now central over Lake ‘Huron, and strong northwesterly winds pre- vail at points in Minnesota and Nebraska. The highest pressure is in the Lower Mississippi Valley, that which was in the Middle States yes- terday morning having moved into the ocean. ‘The weather in New York to-lay promises to be warmer und cloudy, or partly cloudy, possibly with reile tn the year, Ten dollars per NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 18 Mr. Cernuschi’s Monetary Plan for the United States. We lay before our readers in a despatch from Washington ascheme for the restora- tion of specie payments, matured after much study and investigation by a French econo- mist of note and distinction who has been spending several months in this country. Although Mr. Cernuschi’s reputation rests chiefly on his contributions to the litera- ture of political economy he is not a mere theorists He has been . largely engaged in negotiating important Euro- pean loans, and is reputed to be a skilful man of business as well as a master of monetary science. He has devoted his time in this country mainly to the study of our currency, aided by a wide intercourse with our most skilful financiers. With so many claims on attention this plan of his, of which he permits us to pub- lish’ the outlines in advance of a more formal promulgation, will attract wide notice both in this country and in Europe. American financiers will, doubt- loss, find many points for dissent, but there is, nevertheless, an advantage in surveying a great subject on all sides and weighing the conclusions of able minds who are more conversant with other countries than with ours. We have, doubtless, a great deal to learn from the financial experience of Europe, and it is always well to rectify our own ideas by a wide range of comparison. Mr. Cernuschi does not, however, repre- sent the prevailing tendency of European thought on monetary questions. He is an ardent and even an enthusiastic bi-metal- list, whereas the leading commercial coun- tries of Europe have adopted gold as the sole standard of their currency, retaining silver coins merely for small transactions. The devotee of o theory is usually a little blind to the force of opposing arguments ; but the question between adouble anda single standard is byno means settled. The unique and expectant monetary condition of this country makes it important that we de- cide this question for ourselves, and decide it wisely, before we resume specie payments. It seems almost too plain for argument that the restoration of the double standard, by making silver and gold equally a legal tender, would greatly facilitate resumption. It might, perhaps, be attended with evils which would more than counterbalance this advantage; but, laying those possible drawbacks out of view, it can hardly be questioned that we could resume more easily with both metals as a legal tender than with gold alone. the clearness of Mr. Cernuschi’s finan- cial perceptions that he has taken the full measure of this formidable difficulty, and has proposed what must be regarded as at least a plausible plan for obviating it He would have our government put on the market what he calls “United States ster- ling consols"—that is to say, perpetual four per cent bonds, payable in British pounds | sterling. He thinks that such a loan to the amount of our greenbacks would be taken in the European money centres in less than three days. He would have all our new loans for replacing the six percent bonds take the same form. There can be no doubt that such consols would relieve our foreign loans from all doubts respecting possible changes in the value of our cur- rency and render them more acceptable to European capitalists. The Impending War. As between Russia and Turkey the lapse of hegotiations on the part of the several Powers seems to be. interpreted as the fail- ure of the peacemakers, and great and ener- getic preparations for immediate war now fill that place in public attention which was lately filled with the notes of the govern- ments and the projects of the Conference. Russia, judging by the news we have pub- lished direct from the camp at Kisheneff, is prepared to overwhelm her adversary. She is ready to cross the Pruth at any mo- ment with an army of two hundred thou- sand men, and perhaps only awaits the season of settled weather. Behind this first army will, of course, follow another of equal proportions at such a delay only as the pos- sible resistance to be encountered by the firsty line may make necessary. In addition to the movement of this force in Europe she will undoubtedly move an army from the Caucasus into Armenia, oc- cupying Erzeroum and Trebizond, and thus extending her limits on the Black Sea coast and securing a sort of back door way to Constantinople. Against all this there is no probability that the Porte can oppose an effective resistance. Turkey is ablaze with an, enthusiastic war spirit, which will strengthen the government in the degree to which it can be kept within limits, This is an awkward condition to be imposed upon heroic frenzy. How can wild warriors from Asia, whose very cohesion as a force and whose impulse in battle depends upon a kind of passionate faith in the justice of their cause, be requested to moderate their frenzy without destroying their value as troops? All the advantage the Sultan’s government derived from the One of the great preparatory requisites is the accumulation of a sufficient stock of bullion, and it stands to reason that there would be less difficulty in accumulating such a stock with two great sources of supply to draw on instead of one. If we attempt to resume on a gold standard alone all the money markets of the world will be dis- turbed by our preparations, and all the great financial centres of Europe will have strong motives for obstructing our policy. But if we readopt the double standard all the silver markets of the world, as well as our own rich mines, will be open to us without competition, and we can acquire the necessary specie reserves in less than half the time and at a greatly diminished expense. An adoption of the double standard should, of course, be accompanied with a readjustment of the relative values of gold and silver in our coinage. The amount of metal in the coins should be in exact relation to the value of gold and silver bullion. Mr. Cernuschi would so increase the amount of silver in our coins that a hundred gold dol- lars and a hundred silver dollars would ‘be of equal value in the melting pot. If this equality, when once fixed, could.be pre- served, there would be no substan- tial objection to s double standard. But it is alleged, and alleged truly, that the value of both metals is subject to constant fluctuation, and that as soon as they differ in value coins in the cheaper metal will alone be used and the other ex- ported. But these fluctuations would be comparatively slight. The remonetization of silver in a great country like the United States would impart a greater steadiness to its value than it has had dur- ing the last two or three years, while Germany ‘has been disturbing the market by her great experiment of discarding silver and substituting gold. Silver would probably be as steady as it was in former times, when we had the double standard. At any rate, our currency would not fluctu- ate beyond the fluctuations in the value of silver, which would be a bagatelle in com- parison with those to which an irredeem- able paper currency is exposed. The sub- stitution of silver for paper would be a great and indisputable gain in monetary stability. The really formidable objection toa restor- ation of the double standard is one which has quite escaped most American reasoners, but which Mr. Cernuschi has seized with the sure sagacity of a clear-sighted man conversant with great naticnal loans. While the double standard would work well enough in our merely commercial transac- tions it would be fatal to the vast fiscal operations of the national Treasury if adopted pure and simple. We are | dependent on European loans for the success of our most important financial measurcs, and foreign capitalists would not touch our loans if they were lia- ble to have their interest and principal paid in silver, which is demonetized in their own countries. We are under a necessity of bor- rowing something more than one billion three hundred million dollars within the coming two or three years to put our na- tional finances on a satisfactory basis. We | have still about a thousand millions of out- standing six percent bonds which it is in- dispensable to refund at a lower rate of in- terest, and the refunding can proceed only by new European loans. On the resumption of payments, or rather preparatory to resumption, we must borrow three or four hundred additional millions for redeeming the greenbacks, With this necessity of negotiating immense loans in Europe, where silver is demone- | tized, the wheels of our finance would be blocked if we should make silver a legal tender equally with gold without provis- specie fanatical courage of its soldiery in the war with Servia was far more than countervailed by the harm that came to it through the ex- cesses they committed ; excesses which were as much a part of their enthusiasm as was their courage in battle. Turkey cannot meet Russia without a repetition of the crimes that have already excited Europe against her. But this time they will be wasted butcheries. They will not arrest the march of the Russians, they will only make it more impossible for Turkey to obtain allies. Thus the armies of the Czar will be left to solve those problems which the Con- ference failed to solve through the insane obstinacy of the Moslems. The New Jersey Central Scandal. ‘The history of railroad enterprises in any country does not contain a more disgraceful instance of prolonged and deliberate decep- tion pursued by the management toward confiding stockholders than that presented by the investigation of the affairs of the New Jersey Central Railroad. We print to- day, with other matter relating to this case, the report of a committee appointed by the deceived and outraged storkholders which pictures a condition of things un- paralleled in confusion and almost irreme- diably disastrous. During the past seven years it has been the custom of the managers of the road to issue rose-colored reports of its prosperity, and to so arrange the ac- counts as to exhibit most satisfactory profits and grounds for ‘public confidence, No allowance was made in these reports of assets for any losses by wear and tear in the company’s rolling stock or other property. The values at first quoted were main- tained throughout for the purpose of swell- ing the total to the highest figures. The actual losses sustained in the operation of the road were concealed by charging them to collateral interests and by placing them in accounts specially prepared for purposes of deception. In aword, the highest arts of swindlitig were put in practice in order to flout’‘the concern and plunder innocent parties—widows, orphans, guardians and others—of their investments in its stock by giving ita fictitions value on the market and thus entrapping victims. We fear that the New Jersey Central is not the only rail- road and coal company that needs investi- gation. If Jersey justice, of which we have heard sognuch, has anything but its name to win it respect and can reach the rich and power- ful railroad swindler as it does the poor and helpless criminal of a meaner type, then we desire to see its powers exercised in this case, We care not who the plunder- ers may be. Whether railroad manager or burglar he must be meted out the punish- ment his crimes deserve. If it becomes an established rule that criminals such as the falsifiers of the accounts of the New Jersey Central Railroad can pursue their rascality with impunity and escape with their spoils unwhipped of justico then a blow will be struck at every enterpriso and credit in the country. A Uniformed Rufian. Sergeant Theron Thompson, of the ‘‘best police in the world,” underwent an examina- the charge of assaulting Michael Cannon. 'The evidence was quite direct and strong enough to satisfy the Court that a case of | unnecessary and reprehensible violence and brutality had been made out against the sergeant, and Judge Kilbreth held him to bail in five hundred dollars to answer in the Court of General Sessions. A number of reputable gentlemen who had witnessed the assault testified to its wanton and ruffianly character, while the sergeant’s witnesses were the driver and conductor of the car from which Cannon was ejected, and some persons who swore that thoy ‘did not see” | be hoped that the Police Board will at once ' take up the matter, and thatthe punish- ment of the offender will be swift and decisive. Such a man is unfit to be a guar- dian of the peace. Too much praise cannot be accorded to Mr. W. 8S. Andrews, who witnessed the as- sault, and through whose perseverance and energy the matter has been prosecuted. But for his creditable and humane action the brutal officer would have escaped and the victim would have had no redress or satisfaction, If every gentleman who wit- nesses the commission of an assault or any outrage in the public streets would take the pains that Mr. Andrews has taken to see justice done we should have less such exhibitions as that made by Sergeant Thompson. Half such ruffianism escapes punishment only because the victims are too poor or obseure to prosecute success- fully, or have not time to appeal! to the law. We hope that Mr. Andrews will hereafter have plenty of imitators. The Attempted Assassination of Gov- erner Packard. The startling intelligence from New Or- leans which we publish this morning may not, perhaps, have much political signifi- cance, and yet it is calculated to arouse the country and produce a bad state of tion yesterday at the Tombs Police Court on | feeling. Packard is one of the rival claim- ants to the Governorship of Louisiana. He is hated and detested by a large proportion of the citizens of that excited State. Of course his embittered and pas- sionate political enemies did not wish to have him murdered; but the’ attempt to murder him yesterday, in which they had no direct complicity, is a very unfortunate occurrence in this political exigency, tend- ing, as it does, to awaken old prejudices and inflame political passions, Toward noon yesterday a well dressed and respectable looking young man gained en- trance to the private room of Governor Packard, in the State Capitol, where he was seated in consultation with a number of friends, and when the assassin had ap- proached close to him he pulled out a pistol and aimed it ot Mr. Packard’s breast. The latter, with prompt presence of mind, seized the arm of his assail- ant and changed the direction of the pistol, which was discharged into his leg just above the knee, inflicting only a flesh wound, which is not dangerous. Half a,| score of pistols were immediately drawn on the assassin, who received two wounds. But Mr. Packard, with a magnanimity which his worst enemies must applaud, threw himself between the uplifted weapons and his fallen assailant and saved the young man’s life. The would-be assassin was not very well identified, but it is at least certain that he is not an inhabitant either of New Orleans or the State. What motive had this young stranger in attempting to commit a foul and disgraceful murder? Governor Nicholls thinks that he was either drunk or a lunatic ; but Nicholls and the democrats have an obvious interest in wishing to extenuate his crime. It is against their interest to have it supposed that the motive was politi- cal or that the crime was instigated by the local enemies of Packard. We do not believe at all that the democrats of New Orleans in- stigated this crime, but have quite as little doubt that it was prompted by political passion. This unfortunate affair in New Orleans conveys an impressive lesson which the whole country should heed. It exhibits the danger of carrying feelings of political hostility to a high and heated pitch. Had it not been for the saving influence of the Electoral Commission the whole country would have been brought into a state re- sembling that which has so long prevailed in New Orleans, where, in spite of earnest attempts to keep the peace, the chief of one of the political parties has barely escaped as- sassination. This sort of murderers expect indulgence if notsympathy. The young man who attempted to take Governor Packard’s life probably imagined that if he succeeded and was brought to trial a Louisiana jury would not convict him. The foundation has already been laid for letting him off on a plea of insanity, the plea on which so many murderers escape in other commu- nities, and which he may have thought would be readily accepted when he had rid the community of a hated man, denounced as a political usurper. We trust that a prompt trial and severe sentence will prove that this was a mistaken calculation. Two Steps Toward Economy. Mr. Woodin has introduced a series of bills in the State Senate this session de- signed to economize the expenditures of our city government. Two of these measures passed the Senate yesterday without a dis- senting vote. One relates to the New York Coroners’ office, and proposes a reform in that department which will be generally in- dorsed. The number of coroners is to be reduced from four to three after Decem- ber 31, 1880, and each is to re- ceive a salary of five thousand dol- lars a year in lieu of fees. Three phy- sicians, to be appointed by the Mayor at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars each, are to assist the coroners, and unless one of them certifies that he deems it necessary no jury is to be summoned. The present coroners are to continue to receive fees dur- ing the remainder of the terms for which they were elected, but on one-fourth only of all the cases that occur in the city. Under the bill, when the new system is in force, the entire expense of the office will not ex- ceed thirty thousand dollars, while it is be- lieved that each of the four Coroners, under the present system, receives more than that amount annually. The second bill refers to the Commis- sioner of Jurors. It legislates the present incumbent out of office ten days after the passage of the act and gives the Mayor the appointment, ‘The successor of the present Commissioner is to hold office until Jan- uary, 1879, after which the term is to be four years. The salary is fixed at four thousand dollars, and the expense of cler- ical assistance is limited to six thousand | dollars yearly. Both these bills effect de- 77.-TRIPLE SHEET. Were They Guilty? The two men who were sentenced to die on the scaffold in Jersey yesterday are now out of the world. One expired in his cell on the morning fixed for his execution, and a few hours later the other met his death by strangulation. There was the usual accompaniment of horrors at Oschwald’s hanging. Nevertheless the death scene in the cell, with the poisoned man first made s drunken maniac by liquor and then stupefied by drugs, was probably the more revolting of the two ex- hibitions, Now that the men are dead the doubt of their guilt which induced the Legislature of the State to attempt to stay their execution will be revived, both by the persistent dec- laration of innocence made by each with his dying breath and by a singular letter—a fac- simile of which we publish to-day. This letter reaches us without a signature, yet bearing about it, we think, some evidence of genuineness. The writer purports to be a woman, and to possess the secret which would have cleared Ryan and Oschwald and fixed the murder of Officer Brock on another person. The let- ter may be a hoax ; for there, unfortunately, are persons unfeeling enough to jest even on so sad and serious a subject. The woman protests the innocence of the con- demned men and states her reasons for not making known the truth. There are enough instances on record of the convic- tion of the wrong person for murder through the force of circumstantial evi- dence to show that the present case, if the letter should bea genuine one and speak the truth, would not be without precedent. Not long since a dying felon in an English jail confessed that he was.one of two men who had committed a murder for which an innocent person had been executed. A married man had become enamored ofa girl and paid court to her, professing to be single. When leaving her father's houge after visit he induced the girl to accompany him some distance on the road. Subsequently her body was found in a canal in the neighborhood, and an exami- tion proved that she had been feloniously assaulted and then killed. Her lover was traced and arrested. At first he denied having been with her at all, but several witnesses had seen the two together in the immediate vicinity of the outrage and mur- der, Then he shifted his. defence, admitted that he had taken her into the woods, but asserted that he had been interrupted by two men who came, attracted by her cries, that he had thereupon escaped, and had never seen her since. The jury found him guilty, and he suffered death on the gallows protesting his innocence to the last. The dying confession of the real murderer years after confirmed the story. There are other instances to show how jus- tice may sometimes go astray and strangle the wrong man to death fora murder. The question ‘‘were Ryan and Oschwald guilty?” will be frequently heard and their dying asseverations of innocence will give point to the inquiry. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Biue silk may be trimmed with silver braid. Iberia, La., has a white negro with white hair, It was a lady at alow necked ball who objected to calling blades blades. Rear Admiral George H. Preble, United States Navy, is at the Evorett, Newark is the champion city of New Jersey. I, feeds its poor instead of its vanity. It is believed that the Jura Mountains of Switzerland are undermined by subterranean streams, “Nemo.”—They are called ‘Genoral Washington Despatches” because they cannot tell a lie, Tie rice and peeled orangos in a cloth and boil tor one hour. Serve with sugar or cream, or both. In the chicken world the man bird wears all tho very long feathers. It is different in our wortd. Senator Thurman may do the greatest act of his life with his Pacific Railroad bill by compelling simple justice. England is getting salmon eggs for her rivers trom the Rhine and expects to make even the Thames a fine fishing place, Mr. Creel, of Virginia, whose wife has been insane for nine years, asks tora divorce so that he may marry again. A good many Southern papers are sobbing over the brutality of the North. Most of these papers are on the Southern tier, It 18 not proper to pick your teeth with a jackknifo unless you are the agricultural editor of a city papor and want to assert your rights, Good authority says that whoever eats oranges is healthy. Louisiana alone raised 32,000,000 last year, and yet her returns are not wholesome, Whitehall Times:—‘‘Many men who claim to be self made seem to have exercised very poor judgment in selecting the material for their own construction.” A Cincinnati writer says that while ho was in New York he did not see much of the boasted Indies, If he had gone to a charity ball be would have seen some of them. Millais, the great English artist, hae lost his fatner- in-law, who left him a fortune. When the fortune was Jett to him Millais was not painting the picture, ‘Yes, or No.” General Spinner is luxuriating in Florida. A letter {n his famtliar “band write” from Jacksonville says:— “Plums and peaches are in blossom. Mrs. Moore has ripe strawberries in the open grounds of her garden,” A Troy chemist and mathematician has discovered that pearls may be made just as the oyster makes tnem, He puts @ bead in a bucket containing salt water, with the calcareous matter of the sea, The deposit on tho be becomes little pearl balls, of which he makes 100 a day, according to Daboll. The all Mall Gazette says that India is a collection of countries, some rich, somo poor, which are barely recovering from centurics of the worst government of the st Oriental type; and that as tho peopic’s savings have as yet been invested in no such shape as is omploged by civilized nations taxation is uncer- tain. Evening Telegram:—'Mr. Lyman Trumbull’s mail RoW consists in great part every day of invitations to attend colored balis in every quarter of the United States, trom Tallabassce to Galveston, Ono of them, from Illinois, came addressed to the care of Juage Ciif- ford, President of the Electoral Commission. Some are accompanied with photographs,” Patience ts figured as sitting on a monument, benofl- cently smiling at some kind ot griet; but notoing in this world of shadows and politics can excoed the | grim, despairing grin of the man who stands in his stocking feet on the cold matting while his wife tries to button a new collar on the back button of a new neck band, The wife of a literary man should be intelligent enough to share m her husband's highest joys, She should not only be able to get up early in the morning to make the fires and pick up the stray pages of manu- soript with which be has paved the floor, bat she should also be glad to got down on her knees with a rag and a basin of hot milk to scrab the ink out of the carpet. The terms in music are sometimes puzzling to even amateurs, For instance, the barcarole is a musical sirable and proper economies, and as they are not entangled with other questions, but stand on their own merits, they will un- doubtedly pass the Assembly and receive ion for this great exigency. It attests the officer strike the complainant, It is to the Executive approval. composition whose time is in the measure with which the Venotian gondoliers sweep their oars, as singing to that measure they go down tho affable canal, What America really wants is a musical composition in tho time with which the politician goes up toe tree lunch and sings smail TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of: the World. THE EASTERN EMERGENCY. The English Ministry Notified of the Attack of the Opposition. ROUMANIA AIDS RUSSIA, The Unhappy Montenegrins Trying to Outwit the Porte. THE EXTRADITION WRANGLB {BY CABLE TO THE HERALD] Lonppx, Feb, 16, 1877. Thore is every indication that the entire scheme of the liberal purty’s attack upon the government, as given in the Hwraup’s cable letter of Tuese day and Wednesday, will be carried out, In the House of Lords, yesterday atter- noon, the Duke of Argyll gave notice that he would, on Tuesday next, direct attention to the gov- ernment’s instructions to Lord Salisbury, regarding jonference, and ask the government what meas- ures are contemplated for attaining the ends medi. * tated in those instractions. This will probably lead to the expected attuck of the opposition regarding the Eastern question, SERVIA ABANDONED, It is believed in Belgrade that the Porte will not claim the arrears of tribute from Servia if peace is concluded. Tho im+ pression is gaining ground that official Russia will take no further interest in Servian affairs. Peace would be virtually assured but for tho influence of the Pan-slavic societies and the conviction of the Cabinet that peace would result in its overthrow. AN ENGLISH INTERVI“WER, The Standard’s correspondent at Brindisi reports an interview with Midbat Pacha, in the course of which the latter expressed the opinion that there would be no war.. ROUMANIA JOINS INTERESTS WITH RUSSIA. A Vionna correspondent says that letters trom ‘Jassy state that the Roumanian represepta- tives abroad informed the various governments on February 38 that Roumania, not having been able to secure the protection of th¢ Powers for her neutrality, could not help concluding « convention pormitting the passage of Russian troopa through her territory under certain emergencies, Roumania would not grant the Turks the same prive lege. ‘THR PORTE AND MONTENEGRO, Me A despatch from Constantinople says the Grand Vizier renewed the request to the Prince of Monte- negro that peace negotiations be carried on ,else- where than at Vienna, The Princo replied that he preferred Vienna, but to prove his desire tor conciliation he proposed Cattaro. The Porte de-' clined this and asked -the Prince to choose Scutari or some place in Herzegovina, A corres spondent at Vienna says the communication of the Prince of Montenegro to the Porte accepting the conditions on which the Porte proposed to negotiate is couched in the most obliging terms, although the Prince and the Porte still differ as to tha place where the negotiations are to commence. The former would have no objection to transferring them to Constantinople if there was a fair chance of coming to an understanding. RUSSIA TALKS PLAINLY. The same correspondent calls attention toa signifile cant letter from St, Petersburg, published by the Po-. litical Correspondence, and probably intended aw a fecler and reminder by the Russian gov- ernment This letter, discussing the reports that the answers to Prince Gortschakofl’ circular will probably be evasive, or will recommend furtner dolay, says delay may suit the‘English policy, or that of somo other Power, but it is in< compatible with the interesta of the Cabinetd immediately interested in the Eastern question, Russia has to maintain a large army, on the frontier, and is forced to increase it in conse-, quence of the gradual disappearance of chances of peace. Railway traffic is interrupted; commerce hag ceased, and credit is shaken. There is no export trade, Socialism is encouraged by this state of affairs. Cau Earope ask the Russian government to follow a suicidal policy, to continue to injure the coun try and sow the seeds of a socialist rove olution with their own hands? The letter; more especially rofers to Avstria, and asks whether she is not as much interested as Russia in preventing the recurrenco of events which kept her for months in constant foar of war and internal commotion. It conclades:—The waiting policy of Europe brings the alliance of the three Emperors into the foreground. Within the iast few days there are symptoms indicating that the policy of Germany is closely joined to that of Russia, In these circnmstances it may soon be expected that a way will be found to get tho desired guarantecs in @ form correspondisg with. the interests of both Russia and Austria The Times’ corre: spondent remarks that the above letter may be taken with tolerable certainty as a semi-official hint that Russia’s position is bocoming more and more ute tenable, and that she cannot wait much longer, but must go forward or backward. ‘THE CZAR WANTS WAR. According to accounts from St. Petersburg the states ment of tho Russian circular that the Czar had suspended bis final resolution awaiting the decision of tho Powers, was more than a phrase of diplomatic courtesy. He is as averse to wor as ever. Ho has by no means relinquished hope that withdrawal by honor is possible, and he reckons that the Powers will assist him in their own interest as well as that of Earope, Those who agree with the Czar consider that the fall of Midhat Pacha shows that war is unnecessary now. THE BXTRADITION ARGUMENT. Additional correspondence in rogard to tho recente extradition difficulty between Great Britain and the United States is published. Among the most import. ant despatches is one from Secretary Fish to Minister Pierrepont, dated August 5, 1876, in which the former explains that Sir Edward Thornton was mistaken in informing tho British government that he (Mr, Fish) had stated that Lawrence was arraigned or held to bad after extradition for any crime except that for which he was surrendered, Lord Derby, on October 14, instructed Sir Kdward to inform Mr. Fish that England, as a temporary | Measure, was prepared to surrender accused persons | without asking an engagement as to the offen | lor which such persons would be tried. Lord Derby at the same time declared that ‘ho English governs ment can only continue to carry out this arrangement as Jong as no attempt is made to try a person thus sure rendered for any other offence than that for which be is extradited, Mr. Fish replied that on indication of the readiness of Great Britain to surrender Winslow, Brent and | Gray he would be glad to concur in this arrangement, Meanwhile both governments reserve the right se« cured them by article 11 to abrogate article 10 at any time, and both give notice of their continued adha- sion to their respective views as to the interpretation of tho troaty, Mr. Fish informed Sir Edward Naornton that, while he regretted his inability to persuade the English gove ernment to adopt the American view, he was glad to Know that, carnestly as each side had presented it@ own viows, the manner of presentation had croated no irritation and left no cause of complaint. 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