The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. en THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the wear. : excluded). Ten dollars per per month for any period !eas ‘months, or five dollars for six months, Sunday included. tree of postage. At! Susiness, news letters or telegraphic despatches must le nddressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly seated. jones will not de returned, Kejected communic ieee tethers THILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 142 SOUTH SIXTH SS LONDUN OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFF VENUE DE L'OPERA. NAPLES OFFI . 7 STRADA PACE, Eubseriptions divertisements will be received and forw arc jt in York. ACADEMY OF MUSIC Y¥ Balle NILSSON HALL—Garpes Panty. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tae Dantcuerrs. BAGLE THEATRE—At BROADWAY THEATER! GRAND OPERA HO GERMANIA THEATRE PARK THEATRE—O VELLER'S THEAT FIFTH AVENUE THEATI WALLACK'S THEATRE TONY PASTOR'S THEATER. NEW YORK AQUARIUM. TIVOLL THEATRE—Vaniety, _ BROOKLY! SAN FRA CHICKERING HALL. GILMORE'S GARDEN. KELLY & LEON’S MIN EGYPTIAN HALLS BROOKLYN RINK—Exuimitios.. NO. 258 BROADWA’ STEINWAY HALL.—Essiror YORK, THURSDAY, NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, press Company run a special uewspaper nnsylvania [ailroad and its connections, A. M.. daily and HeRALD as tar pulp epeeiphs 3 nd Washington at a quarter past fo regular ed Viniadelphia at one I’. M. From our reports this: morning the probabilities are that the weather in’ New York: to-day wiil be warmer and partly cloudy, followed by increasing and cold westerly winds. The market was were gen ly firm. There was a further decline in the coal stocks, Delaware and Hudson being the chief loser. Gold opened at 1053, and fell as low 1047%g, at which price it closed. Government stocks were feverish, while railroad bonds were irregu- far and lower. Money on call was easy at 3 and Big per cent. b Gop Is Sti, Fatinc. The bulls had better put it under blu Apvices rrom Mr Louisiana polit sister Republic. ico seem to prove that 1s have been straying into our Axotnen Crry or RervGr closes its gates, The ratifieations of our Extradition Treaty with Spain have been exchanged. » told the Board of Education y, und parents will do h them. Sexator Gera some plain truths vesterd: well to become familiar w Fact for investors was de- tinina mine case yesterday—Mr. Park owns no other silver mine s Boarp or Heatn hope for nission to regulate house drainage. will fight such a bill to the bitter have any regard for their bank accounts. Tux CANADIAN Frvancian, EXcitEMENT con- tinnes, but without serious results. If the scare will only incite investors to greater prudence and. inquiry it will prove a cheaply more sea bought exper ANOTHER 8 to fulfil the fi man decreed of ling”? was thrown unfeeling Street pon the mercies of an ¢ Bureau. True for the materializer of when Commodore host learns that there is a chance contested it would pay y ack for a day or two, just to have Now Is THr Vanderbilt’: of the will price to cor its own way, counts claim that a date should fixed h, each year, the books of the Finance Department should be balanced. It would seem as if Mr. Connolly's operations should have made this prudential 1 years ago. Tur Commissic measure manifest sev Presipent Woop, of the Board of Education, made a gallant fight for the school teachers yes- terday, und it is to be hoped that he will succeed in retaining for these ladies and gentlemen the salaries which they now receive and which aver- age less than those of capable {stable managers. ReAizine THe Scwenturic Fact that human beings are animals, President Bergh, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, comes to the relief of poor humanity by propos- ing an ordinance forbidding the transportation of bundles, &., on street cars unless the same are | held iv the Japs of their owners. All proprietors of overcoats, dresses, trouser legs and well de veloped corns will pray for the passage of the ordinance. Tuy Weatner.—The low pressure announced as advancing from the Northwest has already reached the upper lake region, and will probably enter the St. Lawrence Valley this evening. The high pressure — prevailing = on the Gulf woust extends its influenee as far as the © Tennessee line, northward = of p decreases. Small areas of pressure in the Northwest, in the Lower Mis- and in Nova Scotia alone break the general clearness of the skies throughout the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, ‘The temperature continues high in the Western and Central, but comparatively low in the Southern ant Northeastern districts, Following the low pressure in the North a heavy gale prevails at North Platte, Neb., and high winds in Dakota and through the Upper Mississippi region and southware toward Kansas. The Missouri at Omaba stands at eight feet six inches, or nine fect six inches below the danger line. lt is probable that ' the river opened up yesterday, The other rivers have generally fallen. The weather in New York today will be warmer and partly cloudy, followed by in- erevsing amd cold westerly winds. | ing to sift out the few kernels of wheat from City Legislation at Albany. Our lawgivers at Albany are this week very much ocenpied with the government of this city. A committee of officials and citi- zens has gone up to give the legislative com- mittees the benefit of their wisdom; but it does not yet appear that their suggestions are more useful than they were to the Mayor when he invited them to his tepid conferences. While the Legislature is try- this bushel of chaff we will tell the lawma- kers some things respecting public sentiment here which they are not likely to learn from these self-elected delegates nor from any other branch or division of the Albany lobby. | NEW YORK HERALD, to make their terms of office begin and end with that of the Mayor who appoints them. With the present long terms of from four to six years his predecessors appoint the agents for whose conduct he is responsible, which deprives the Mayor of all efficient control over his own subordinates. This thoroughly bad system is a bequest of the corrupt Tweed régime, and we hope this Legislature will uproot it. It is as absurd as it would be for General Grant to appoint President Hayes’ Cabinet and leave him with- out power to make any changes in it. If the Mayor had the appointment of all the heads of departments who are to serve under him, and could displace them We need not say that we join in the de- mand for economy which is so loudly made | at present; but all the measures of frugality | hitherto advocated by all the professional and amateur reformers, even if all their in- consistent projects could be enacted en bloc, would hardly save our city taxpayers a quarter of a million dollars per annum—a stm not to be despised, indeed, but a mere fleabite in the profuse annusl bleeding to which they are subject. Most assuredly we do not object toany saving, large orsmall, that can be made by cutting down salaries if the compensation is high enongh to command efficient service; but the reform most needed is greater efficiency. The evil which our citizens groan under, the annoyance which so often makes them lose their temper, the disgust which impels them to hiss their officials as they would a set of bad actors in aplay, is their inability to get the work done which they pay so liberally for doing. | Our citizens are not narrowly and meanly penurious; they do not expect skilled work- men to accept the wages of bungiers. What they complain of is that while they pay for skilled work they get nothing but wretched bungling. » Among the apt comparisons of President Lincoln none had more pungency than his description of incompetent army officers as | “augers that won't bore.” It is the stand- ing reproach of our city government that it consists of a whole chest of’ tools as worth- less as Mr. Lincoln’s augéts that would not bore. We have planes that won't take off smooth shaving, chisels that will not cut, screwdrivers that can’t be made to turn a screw, screws that can't be worried through a pine board ; and it seems like a ludicrous insult to public intelligence to be haggling and dickering over the price of such a chest of worthless tools when the grand necessity is to replace ; them with a better set. Our people don’t mind paying handsomely for good work. Their chief ground of complaint is that they are compelled to pay dearly for inefficiency and neglect. We have an expensive street cleaning arrangement that does not clean the streets; a Health Department that leaves all sorts of stench-diffusing and pes- tilence-breeding nuisances to poison the air in the summer months; a Police Depart- ent which leaves life insecuro, murderers and burglars uncaught and dens of gam- bling and pollution undisturbed; s Common Council that permits the street railroad ‘companies to pack people like herrings in filthy cars and to swindle the city out of the taxes due from these roads, and other departments,. which give us the filthiest markets, the shabbiest docks and the worst paved streets in the world. It is a very idle and petty employment to be disputing over a ten per cent reduction in salaries when the whole municipal service is so scurvy, rickety, rotten and scandalous. If our policemen did their whole duty with vig- ilance and energy the city would not grudge them their salaries, If our streets were kept clean and wholesome the people would not gramble at the cost. If our health officers promptly abated all nuisances and kept the atmosphere of our dwellings sweet and untainted we should save enough in doctors’ bills, funeral expenses and loss of employment by disease to pay the expenses of their department thrice over. Moreover, the annoyance, dis- content, ill temper and sense of outrage inflicted on us by the set of imbe- ciles and incapables which we dignify with the title of a city government would be cheaply got rid of by adding ten per cent to salaries if we could not secure efficiency at a lesser rate. Whatever else is done or left undone, let us have augers that will bore, a city government that will discharge its proper functions, We prefer to judge the proposed legisla- tion at Albany by the standard of effi- ciency rather than the standard of economy, although economy is likewise important. But do not give us, Messrs. Legislators, a city government that is ‘‘cheap and nasty.” Weare spending now a great deal of money, with nothing to show for it. Do give us, ye debating and pottering Solons, the worth of the money we pay in taxes, whether it be much or little. Set before us the assured prospect of a clean, well paved, wholesome and orderly city, and until the a accustomed sense of comfort we will not grumble very loudly at the necessary ex- pense. Reduce salaries if you can, and we will thank you even for that boon; but you will fail in your chief duty if you do not give us a set of municipal augers that will bore. Let us have for once the Iuxury of clean streets and an un- poisoned atmosphere ; the security of an alert, wide awake, yet courteous and con- siderate police; pavements that will not make it a breakneck hazard to drive a car- riage in our thoroughfares ; seats, tidiness and comfort in our street cars; attentive urbanity on the part of city officers and their clerks toward citizens having business to transact with them, and an enforcement | of the obligation of the street car com- | panies to pay, their legal tax to the city. If we can secure efliciengy in these impor- tant duties of the munjgipal government the city will beso much more comfortable and agreeable a place to live in that the constant exodus to towns in New Jersey and Long Island will receive a greater check than can come of any of the petty economies paraded for mere buncombe without any serious intention to adopt them by the fussy people who have transterred their scene of action from the Mayor's office to the com- mittee rooms at Albany. most of the departments single beads and gloss of novelty has worn off from our un- | | contraction. We heartily indorse the proposal to give | as freely as the President does Cabinet of- ficers, we could have a thoroughly efficient city government whenever the people elected as Mayor a man of energy and capacity. Washington's Birthday. Very few people now living remember when Washington was born, but those who were contemporaneous with the event speak of him as one of the most remarkable dicted his future greatness at the time, and General Dix hailed him as the future father of his country. The precise date of George's birth is dubious. Many persons believe that he was born in the new style, but this is a mistake, for he was born in the old style. The Pope, who is known to have been opposed to the Declaration of Inde- pendence, purposely took advantage of the unfortunate blunders which the earth makes in rolling around the sun--it being always behindhand in time like a Third avenue car—to confuse the calendar and prevent Americans from celebrating the day with certainty. Washington was born on the 11th of February, old style, but the Jesuits have compelled us to observe the 22d. This, however, is not distressing; for St. Patrick, it is well kriown, was miraculously born on two separate days, so that his health is drunk doubly by his countrymen. Yet it matters little when Washington was born. Had we a retrospective choice and been consulted in the matter by the family we should have fixed the Fourth of July as the most appropriate date; but there are many obvious reasons why that is im- possible. ‘The great point in which the world rejoices is that he was born at all. Who can imagine American history without him. The cherry tree which he cut down would in that case not now be bearing eter- nal fruit of truth from Maine to California, nor would his hatchet be preserved in all the museums of the country. His monument at the capital would not only remain un- finished, but it would not even have been begun; for it stands to reason, and we can prove it by the strictist rules of logic, that no one can ever raise a monument to a person, or rather an unperson, who never existed. The history of the govern- ment would also have been changed; for Adams would then have been the first in- stead of the second President, and Wash- ington Irving would have lost the subject of one of his most charming works. Many other things occur to us in this relation, which, as they cover more tian a century, need not now be catalogued. It is enough to say what may have already occurred to the reader, that as Washington was born it is useless to speculate on what might have happened if he had not been. His birthplace, however, is more im- portant than the time; for, supposing that he had been born in Egypt or China, no one can see what possible benefit it would have been to America. Fate, however, made him a Virginian. Liberty made him tho saviour of America, and America made him the fore- most man of the world. The oppressed of all nations look upon Washington as the ideal champion of freedom, and he stands exalted on Pisgah heights of splen- dor, the herald of future ages. The Amer- ican people will to-day celebrate the anni- versary of his birth by carefully abstaining from labor and elaborate indulgence in rest, and the joy of the occasion is only damp- ened by the sad recollection that Washing- ton himself cannot take part in the festivi- ties. Resumption of Specie Payments. The bill to aid in the resumption of specie payments, reported by Mr. Sherman from the Committee on Finance in the Senate yesterday, isa carefully considered and de- sirable financial measure. With gold below five per cent premium we are so near prac- tical resumption that the absurd but attrac- tive heresy of inflation lies dead and buried. | Every person now concedes that specie pay- | ments and a steady, permanent return to | gold value$ isin the near future, and that | it is wise to strive to reach that healthful financial condition as speedily as possible, provided we do not, by overtaxing our re- turning strength, incur the risk of a tempo- rary relapse. Mr. Sherman's bill offers us | just the prescription we need at the present ; stage of our convalescence. It proposes to issue bonds to the amount of one hundred million dollars, redeemable in coin at the end of thirty years at the option of the United States government, and_ bearing four per cent interest, to replace and cancel a similar amount of legal tender notes. But no more than twenty- five millions of these bonds can be issued in place of greenbacks in any one year, and no more than four millions during any one month, These precautionary pro- visions insure the business interests of the country against contraction sufficiently sud- den or violent to disturb existing values or interfere with contracts. The process of conversion under the proposed law would beso even and gradual that its effect would scarcely be perceptible, even if we should have on the eve of its enactment an imme- diate and unprecedented revival of bus- iness sufficient to call into service a large volume of currency which now lies in the bank vaults unemployed. Mr. Sherman's bill further provides for an additional issue of eighty millions of silver coin, to be exchanged for that amount of legal tender notes, which latter are to be cancelled and destroyed as they are re- deemed, This provision simply changes the character of the money used and is not We believe that the bill will receive the approval of the whole business community. It is to be regretted that the infants they ever saw. Peter Cooper pre- | | needed for the passage of the appropriation | bills, ; A more horrible recital than that of the briefness of the time left to the present | Congress and the pressing character of the | necessary legislation yet to be perfected renders the success of the measure this session very doubtful. It might, however, be carried through by the withdrawal of all opposition and the prompt action of both houses, and the country would be grateful to Congress for such a result. Progress of the Electoral Count. Mr. Springer, who has more zeal than dis- cretion, made himself ridiculous by his frivolous and cavilling objections to the in- eligibility of a Michigan and then of a Ne- | vada elector. He had the mortification of | being voted down almost unanimously by the democratic House in the Michigan case, and tried to escape scorn in the Nevada case by making an apology on a plea of igno- rance or misinformation when the House re- assembled yesterday morning. We trust these humiliations of Springer will serve os o warning to other superserviceable political zealots who may be inclined to resort to obstructive tactics, We suspect that such tactics, will be at a discount dur- ing the residue of the electoral proceed- ings. Springer discharged a blunderbuss ; which simply kicked its owner over, and in the present temper of both houses no purely dilatory movement is likely to have any better success. Tho Oregon certificates were reached yesterday and referred to the commission, and it is expected that they will reach a decision and render their judgment to-day. Nobody doubts what that judgment will be. We trust the remainder of the count will proceed without interruption. All further opposition would be not only bootless, but an inexcusable waste of precious time - The Ocean Horror. sole survivor of the Maria's crew has seldom been given to the public. A wrecked, water-logged bark drifted away from any of the regular ocean pathways, and her crew, without water or provisions, subsisted for more than a month upon the bodies and blood of their starved comrades, until out of a@ company of fourteen there remained but two men to be rescued by a passing vessel, and one of these was unable to re- cover, even when relieved from the long agony of hope deferred. Language is un- able to depict the horrors of this dreadful battle against fate, and the boldest imagina- tion will shrink from the terrible task. None of the horrors of the battle field can com- pare with those which were endured by the poor fellows who were bereft of every in- | centive to hope and every means of exertion, who were steadily subjected to the most horrible temptation that ever comes to man, and who were urged by an instinct stronger than any moral senti- ment to violate humanity's dearest right, while humanity itself most demanded pro- tection and aid. In the face of such a dis- aster the world can but be dumb and pitiful, and take more tenderly into its sym- pathies a class of men who complain less and suffer more than uny other in existence, Filling Little Hell Gate. We are fully satisfied that the closing up of this useless channel will not be followed by any injury to the navigability of those ad- joining it. Indced, there 1s a good prospect that a considerable improvement will be effected in the condition of the Harlem River by such a work. The modification of the system of currents that now operate in regulating the river sections would be advantageous to navigation, because by concentrating the ebb and flood cur- rents and directing them through the Harlem River and the Bronx Kilis the width and depth of these channels will be increased. As it is the Little Hell Gate current, particularly the ebb, creates eddies in the Harlem River and a narrowing and shoaling of parts of its channel by deposits. But the question arises, How is Little Hell Gate to be filled? Assuming that the rep- resentatives of the federal authority do not interpose any objections to the filling up on the ground that navigable waters are being obstructed, we desire to know how this work is to be performed and by whom. If the Police Department or any other branch of the city government that may have it in charge intends or attempts to make the space to be enclosed a dumping ground for the city filth and garbage the people must | resist such an outrage by every means \ in their power. The work can be permitted to proceed only on one condition, and that is the absence of every trace of gar- bage, offal and filth from the filling de- posited, Under no circumstances should a single load otf objectionable matter be | used for filling. It should not be accepted as an excuse for using such that the Board | of Health has disinfected the stuff or that a covering of earth will remove the dangers | arising from its use. We know what disin- | | | fection by the Board of Health amounts to, and we are certain that the earth covering ij which is generally proposed in such cases merely serves to retain in the mass of the filling all the germs of disease and the poisonous gases generated by de- composition. In a word, to cover all the elements of danger to be dreaded from it, until, at some future time, when the filled land is to be used for building, the oxcavator breaks the surface and liberates the pent-up | poison with all its concentrated venom. | Little Hell Gate, therefore, must be filled with clean ashes, ordinary street sweepings, building rubbish or pure earth. If these cannot be employed then we must not in- terfere with the tidal ebb and flow through the channel and must seek other places dis- tant trom the city for depositing its garbage and refuse. Footpads on the Streets. A young lady left her home in Brooklyn at ten o'clock yesterday morning, and While walking down one of the public avenues was confronted by a man who in a threaten- ing tone demanded her money. The young lady was so startled and affrighted that she lost the power either to run away or give an alarm, but stood before the gentleman of the road like one transfixed. ‘The ruffian possessed the audacity without the gallantry of Claude Duval, and so instead of proceed | it does not speak well for the police that two | ing with his lawless work in @ manner to THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. reconcile his fair victim to the loss of her | property and crowd her dreams with visions | of handsome highwaymen for six months to | come, he dealt her a cruel blow and laid her senseless at his feet. Then he snatched her pocket, getting only a pocket handkerchief for his pains, toro a scarf from her neck, and fled. A few days ago, a citizen of New York was passing along Thirty-fourth street at an early hour in the evening, and when near Fifth avenue, opposite the residence of the Inte Mr. A. T. Stewart, he was struck from behind with what he supposes to have been a slungshot. The blow not taking full effect he turned upon his assail- ants with a stout stick which he carried, and the ruffians, seeing that their intended victim was able to defend himself, fled. The character of these crimes indicates the desperation to which men may be driven by want, and probably it is im- possible to always guard against the bold acts of reckless criminals. Atthe same time such cases should have occurred within so short a space of time in the two cities. An Impracticable Chimera. The Marquis of Salisbury, whose office in the British Ministry implies special sources of information on Oriental subjects, and who is fresh from the Constantinople Conference, has declared in the House of Lords that the whole British policy with regard to the Otto- man Empire is an attempt to realize ‘an impracticable chimera.” He made this declaration in the course of a defence of the government, and it is scarcely possible that | the opponents of the government, though they anticipated some advantage from the failure of his mission, could have fancied that they would obtain from him so positive an assistance to their assault as this phrase will likely prove; for the whole relation of England and the other States of Europe to the ‘irrepressible conflict” between Turkey and Russia rests upon the theory of the feasibility of that tutelage of the subject population of Turkey which is thus declared to be chimerical. Russia’s position in her quarrel with Turkey is practically the championship of European against Asiatic ideas ; the pretence that the politi- cal system of Europe and of the present time | shall prevail wherever they come in contact with the political system of Asia and of the past ; that administrative government must | be sustained and strengthened to prevent the lapse of States into mere savagery ; that civilization is better than barbarism ; that fifty years of Europe is better than a cycle of Cathay. Russia is the advance of Europe in contact with the rear guard of Asia. But England, having views and necessities of her own with regard to the relations of these Powers, has denied the obvious fact that they presented really the case of the present age in collision with the past age. She has maintained that it was too broad a generalization to say that Ottoman rule was incompatible. with civilization. She became the champion of Turkey from that point of view. She maintained that, with proper tutelage—proper ‘‘coaching”.in European ideas and methods—the Turks would be as civilized, as satisfactory a nation as any other, judged even by civilized standards. She herself undertook the tute- lage and has led the way in it. But now it is declared by a British Minister that this kind of tutelage of one nation by another is ‘‘an impracticable chimera.” It is true this declaration is made with regard to the pre- tended tutelage by all the Powers of the Christian States of the Ottoman Empire ; but if it is true of them it must, @ fortiori, be true of the tutelage by one Christian na- tion of the Grand Turk himself. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Plush is superseding braid. Paris has tifty-one daily papers, Lady Thornton has a small, pate face, Senator Spencer likes a vory good story. Croffut promises to replaco Walt Whitman. General Tchernayeff is a man of few words, Congressman Gurfleid used to be a preacher. Black and white silk may be worn over rose, Tupper loves Boston for its brains and beans. Delaware fried oysters taste like horse blankets, St. Petersburg 1s to have an Engtish newspaper, Palmetto bats are being worn at Jacksonville, Fla, Cernuschi 18 a biemetallist; but does he buy metals? Angot collars for ladies are worn with plush cravats, Sardou rigorously superintends the rehearsals of his pieces, Cream colored dresses are made with ruby velvet sleeves, Rod herrings broiled and buttered and served with Jemon make a good supper dish. An English announcement is that “ladies, without distinction of sex, are ivited to atiend.”’ | The importation of American beef into England ts gladdening the hourts ot poor Cockneys. Ip London ladies’ dresses are kept close to the figure by means of clastics sewed to the creases, The President walks out alone of au evening ina short cape and a poor looking plug bat. Neapolitan coral fishers will early in the spring sai! to the new reef discovered in the Atlantic, Florida is sending baby alligators only a few inches long to all parts of the country as curiosities, | Cooked minced salt codfish may be stirred with oggs ima frying pan, like scrambled ham and eggs, ‘vho only ornaments of St. Petersburg thoroughtares in summer or in winter are richly caparisoned troops, 1 Grant will leave the capital iy April and sail rope in May. Ho will, meantime, visit the for West. It was Jere Black who, hearing tho decision this time, quiety remarked :—"'O, jam the jam, jam, jam to joil.”? The London World thinks the whig chieis are tho proudest mon in existence, while the liberals are of the lowest social strata, ‘An English writer asks that sbutters of pictare shops be loft down on Sundays so thatthe people may have picture galleries on the streets, Ip the Servian military bands the base dram is placed upon a two-wheeled cart and is drawn by a trained dog while the drummer pounds it. Doubt is not always black and grim, Writbing in grief as Faith goos by; Sometimes it is merely the taintest thought, Like a glimmer of gold on a summer sky. Hon, William A, Wheeler, accompaniod by Secretary Chandler and other gentiemon, was at the War Depart. mont at Washington yesterday, and inade a social call upon General Sherman, Bread for pudding should be soaked in milk and when pat into the baking dish should be sprinkled with cinnamon ana raisins aud have ayer after layer of this construction. Kggs, beaven with sugar, and, if you can afford it, wine, should be poured on top before baking. Dr. Erasmus Wilson, an eminent J.ondon physician, has taken on bimsoll the charges of conveying the obelisk Known as Cleopatra’s Needle from Aloxandria to London. Ho has made the necessary arrangements with Mr, Dickson, a well known civil engineer, at an estimated cost of $50,000, The obelisk will be sur- rounded with water tight and air tight casing of boiler plates, will have a wooden keel and an tron deck and will bo towed through the Mediterranean by a powor- fal steamor. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE EASTERN ALARM. The Sultan Well, Happy and Confident. RUSSIA AND THE SHAH, The Bank Question at Last Settled in Austria. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. ] Lospos, Feb. 22, 1877. The rumors current to the effect that Midhat Pacha was to be recalled and that the present Sultan was in a failing state of health are dispolled by a despatch from Constantinople, The Porte has notified its representatives abroad that the health of the Sultan is perfectly satisfactory, and that the rumors of an impending change io the Grand Viztorate are unfounded, The Montenegrin envovs, on their way to Constantinople, have em: barked at Cattaro in a steamer bound for the Turkish capital. Le Nord, of Brussels, draws attention to the fact that the Porte has not yet answored Roumania’s noto of January 20, demanding a written declaration that Roumania is not to be included among the Otto- Man provinces mentioned in the Turkish constitution, RUSSIA'S ASIATIC ARMY. A despatch from Vienna this morning says that ad- vices {rom Tiflis to February 8th have been received. Twotve Russian officers wero about to leave for Teberan. A Russian general has been appointed to represent Russia at the Persian hoadquartors. Tur- key is concentrating troops on the Asiatic frontier in consequence of the belief that Persia’1s concentrating men in accordance with an understanding with Russia, Two hundred movable axletrees for railway car ringes have arrived at Kisheneff, to be used on the Russian wagons to adapt them to the gauge of the Roumanian railways, It will bo remembered that it was pointed out long since in theso letters that Tur- key’s most vulnerable point of attack was in and through Asia Minor, These later developments and the evident purpose of the Czar to enlist the Shah of Persia in bis cause makes the establishinent of that Russian army of 200,000 men at Tiflis readily under- stood, THAT AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN BANK. Tho differences vetween Austria and Hungary on the bank question have beon finally settiod. Tho Min- isters will make this announcement in the Chamber before the end of the week. Tho general bank coun- cil is to consist of three Hungarians and three Austrians, the eight romaining directors to be freely elected by the shareholders. The Emperor nominates the Governor, the Austrian and Hungarian govern- ments nominate each a Deputy Governor, The Standard’s Vienna despatch states that tho Vienna Ministry yesterday informed a confer- ence of the constitutional party that the definitive conclusion of the compromise negotiations depended on the party’s agreement to the foregoing arrange- ment, Tho Powers continue their efforts at St. Poters- burg to induce Russia to discontinue her armaments, These offorts do not progress rapidly in consequence of the delay in answering the Russian circular, NOT SO WELL, PERHAPS, A lator despatch from Berlin represents that in con- sequence of reports of the Sultan’s illness anarchy is prevailing in government circles at Constantinop'e, Tho war party is in the ascendant at St. Petersburg. Tho dato of Russia’s attack will mainly depend on the progress of events in Turkey. It is believed that England and Austria, wale delaying a formal reply tothe Russian circul: il again urge the Porte to carry out the recommendations of the Conference. ANSWERING THE RUSSIAN NOTE, The British government seems to have pointed out to Russia, tbrough Lord Loftus, that the precarious- ness and uncertainty now prevailing make the present moment unfavorable for answermg the Russian circular, It has at the same time promised a formal answer when the situation 18 clearer, and especially when the issue of the negotiations with Servia and Montenegro is ascer- tained, The other Powers, recognizing that that answer, in whatever form it may be given, will be of decisive influence on Eastern, and not, un- likely, on general European affairs, seem disposed to leave the initiative to England. Russia also ap- pears to recognize the difficulty in which she would bo placed if, by receiving the answers of the Powers im- mediately, she were compelled to decide for peace or ‘war at the present stage of uncertainty and transition, HOW RUSSIA WILL RAISE MONEY. A letter in the Cologne Gatetle, from South Russia, says a forced loan will probably soon be decreed, A further extension of mobilization has been determined on, but will scarcely be carried out until milder weather. The commanders of the Southern army lave been ordered to victual their corps up until the middle of March at least. . NOPE FOR SERVIA, The elections for tho Great Skuptschina of Servia have been held throughout the country. The majority ofthe delegates elected favor peace, THR O'MAUONLY FUNERAL AND THE HOME RULERS. The Standard says several leading home rulers have refused to assist at the funeral of John O'Mahoney on the ground that.their co-operation would be incon. sistent with the home rule programme, If the demon- stration is to ‘be regarded as in favor of the prin- ciples represented by tho deceased none of the home rule leaders will take part in it, although prominent men of the party from the prin- cipal English towns will attend, but simply os dele. gates from the Irish population of their districts. Two Irish members of Paritament at least have promised to be present, AMNESTY TO THR CARLISTS, A royal docreo is published in Madrid permitting the return of Curlist refugees. Nono will be prosecuted unless they offend against the common law, WASTED SWSETNESS. Finzol’s sugar refinery at Bristol will close on Satar- day, in consequence of tho scarcity of raw material and the influence of the Freuch bounty system, About 2,000 persons will be thrown out of employment, THR RINDERPEST, Karl Fortescue gave notice, in the House of Lords yesterday, that to-day ho will call attention to the out. break of rinderpest in Essex and Yorkshire, a ask the Lord President of the Council what steps have been taken to prevent the spread of tho disease, The Privy Council issced a notice yostorday stating that the cattle plague has been de. tocted at Bow aud Stepney, both within the motropoe lis, and also at Hull, A fresh outbreak 1s reported at Hull during the night before last. It ts among stock in the vicinity of the first outbreak, though the entire herd when the latter occurred wero immediately slaughtered, REORGANIZATION IN. FRANCE, President MacMahon bas sanctioned the dismissal of torty-two aub-prefects, THE CONFERENCE FIASCO. SOMETHING WHIGH MAY EXPLAIN THE FEELING TOWARD THE ENGLISH COMMISSIONER, (From the Constantinople correspondent of the London World] There never was a moro complete fiasco, and I fear it is cutirely duo to the want of tact of our Special Envoy and his better halt. They openly threw themselves into the arms of ignatiof, and proclaimed their hatred ofthe Turks. Ut course Ignatiefl mado use of them,