The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1877, Page 4

NEW BROADWAY AND ANN STREET./ 7aiusi seed atl JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, YORK HERALD THE DAILY HERALD, published crery day inthe year. ‘Three cents per copy (Sunday excluded). Ten Sollars pee Year, or at rate of ove dollar per month jor any period less hen oix monte. oF five dollure tor six months, Sunday e it tr ey ws letters or telegraphic despatches must * shoul be property se ins will not be returned, ea? sea PRRADELIHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH S 4 LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET SPREE. PARIS OF FIOE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, NAPLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. ¢ received and ‘advertisements will, 's in New York. AMUSEMENTS 'TO-NIGHT. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Cwanity Baus. OLYMPIC THEATRE. BOWLRY THEATRE- GRAND OPERA HOUS: BOOTH'S THEATRIL. WALLACK’S THEAT! COLUMBIA OPERA 110 THEATRE COMIQUE TONY PASTOR'S THEA NEW YORK AQUARIUM. TIVOLE THEATRE—Vauuery. GILMORE'S GARD! KELLY & LEON'S M EGYPTIAN HALL=Sxxsa BROOKLYN RINK—E: NO. 858 BROADWAY. STEINWAY HALL.—Essirovt PARISIAN VARIETIES. mY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company run a special newspaper er the Pennsylvania. Kailrond and 1ts connection: x Jersey city at a quarter past carrying the reyulir edition Harrisburg and south to W elphun at « quarter past alx A. M. reaching ington at From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New, York to-day will be warm and cloudy, possibly with rain, and followed ut night by increasing southerly to westerly winds, Winskey Kut 4 Youne Man yesterday. No bartenders arrested. Tne Wamsutra Murs Srruie cannot last long. The strikers do not drink. At Least One Fact is settled by tho theft of Miss Kelsey's wardrobe—susceptible young men make bad watchmen, A Cup or THE O_p Brocx.—William H. Van- derbilt aslvises people to. bet on the fulfilment to the.letter of the dead Commodore's will. Casnot THE Canapran Centennial Commis- sion be borrowed by our own? It has its special diplomas and prizes ready for distribution. Tue Drvorce Laws or New York are ven- tilated in our columns to-day, they being so full of holes as to admit of a free passage of air. QOxe Excecrent Resvrr of the Canadian financial flurry is the winding up of the business of a bank. Too much banking is as bad as too little money. A Hest To Pourcemen.—The newspapers will never poke fun at Officer McDermott, who yes- terday morning attacked a group of four high- waymen and succeeded in arresting two of them. Tne New York Mernopists went valiantly Into business yesterday, and none too soon, as by their own showing the cost of running churches has increased fourfold, and even twice as much, within thirty years. Sovrn Carouxa undoubtedly has trouble enough to make her feel gloomy, but not even the national prohibition of a local militia parade was any excuse for insulting the memory of Washington by displaying flags at half-snast and draping them with crapo,as was done at Charles- ton yesterday. The country has a right to suspect any community in which political grief is allowed to overshadow patriotic sentiment. “A Pow AN” comes gallantly to the de- fence of the force and against the proposed re- duction of pay. He is pertectly right. If any legislative attention is to be given to the police Jet it be in the way of raising the standard of the force, not in discouraging sue} eflicient men as are on it. If, instead of lowering salaries, the Legislature were to raise them, so that every patrolman should receive as much pay as an army captain, and would then weed out and fill 4n according to the standard which such a salary would establish, order would be preserved better and more cheaply than it is now. Wapixe wy THe Wacissa Swamp in search of the smoky mystery of its interior is one of those labors that demand much courage and endur ance, Althongh our correspondent has already begun to experience the difficulties that defeated and disheartened former explorers of this won- derfal wilderness we feel convineed that the deliberation which marks his efforts will be crowned with success. We print to-day another letter from the Hrratp camp, detailing the progress of the party, the construction ¢ other observatory on 2 tall pine tree, and the latest ap- pearance of the smoke column. The animated description of adeer hunt in the swampy forest and the capture of the noble game, the return march to camp and the jolly meal of venison by the hungry hunters, will be read with interest by all who love the wild wood sports and the inspir ‘ing masic of hound and horn. Tuy Weatueng—The storm area which was on Wednesday over Lake Superior suddenly alteged the direction of ite course from eastward to southward, and moved into the Mississippi Valley, with strong and high winds on its south- ern and western sides. A rain area, which ex- tends from Fort Sully to Cairo, attends the storm, and cloudy or partly cloudy weather gen- erally prevails throughout the country. Rain has also fallen on “and near the Gulf coast, par- ticularly st Vieksburg and New Orleans. The highest pressure is now in Manitoba, where clear weather prevails. The temperature has risen decidedly in the Central and rp rene 4 paratively low on the Gulf coast and is full- igen the North and Northwest. All the West- em rivers have fallen, The weather at New York today will be warm and cloudy, possibly with rain, and followed at ay operand southerly to westerly winds. prepara tions sbould be made along the Atlantic coast The Cabinet of President Hayes. It is with a sense of relief that the country sees the main point of curiosity and specu- lation transferred from the question, Who is to be the next President? to the less exciting question of the composition of the next Cab- inet. Since the Louisiana decision it has been universally conceded that Mr. Hayesis to be at the head of the government for the next four years, and the political quidnuncs are busy with conjectures as to whom he will select for leading places in the admin- istration. The Washington correspondents of the leading public journals are the chief purveyors to public curiosity in this line of speculation. In spite of their occasionally wild guesses they renderarealservice both to Mr. Hayesand the country. The Washington correspondents are in the very focus of the inevitable Cabinet speculations. ‘The opin- ions they listen to are those of men who un- derstand the personal and political relations of Mr. Hayes. However worthless the gossip they hear may be as a clew to what the in- coming President will actually do, they as- | sist the public in surveying the possibilities of the situation, and are of still greater service to the new President in enabling him to judge how this, that or the other ap- pointment would strike the public sense of the country. ‘lhe success of his administra- tion requires that he should select a Cabinet not only strong in itself, but strong in the estimation of the public. The conjectures of the Washington correspondents, the com- ments made on them by the press and the | reception they meet in the country are | a valuable aid to Mr. Hayes in gnabling him to judge what appointments would be acceptable to the country. The exer- tions made by the friends of leading aspir- ants to diffuse the impression that their fa- vorites will be appointed serves at least to gauge the popularity of those favorites by the indorsements or protests of tho publio press, The current spec#lations may be of little value as predictions, but what is said of them may serve as a guide to Mr. Hayes in performing the duty on which the success of his administration will mainly depend. We accept the idea of our special Washington correspondent, expressed in one of his despatches yesterday, that it would be an egregious blunder for Mr. Hayes to give a place in the Cabinet to any member of the Electoral Commission, The new President cannot discharge personal obligations in that way. If he should offer the most important placesin his administra- tion to men who have been influential in the recent proceedings it would look too much like paying a personal debt at the expense of the country. If Mr. Hayesis a fit man to be President he will not think of offer ing a Cabinet position to any member of the Electoral Commission ; and if the members of the commission have a decent self- respect no one of them would accept a Cab- “inet position if tendered, They haveacted, or were at least expected to act, in a judicial capacity ; they were bound to decide in accordance with law ; they cannot afford to have it supposed, or even suspected, that they were courting the favor or cxpecting the rewards of the man whom their votes made President. The members of the Electoral Commission were bound to do their duty according to their oaths, and if their conscientious action makes Mr. Hayes President they have no more claim on him for personal recognition than a judge would have upon the successful party in a case tried before him. It is preposterous to think that Senator Morton or Mr. Hoar or any other republican member of the com- mission has laid Mr. Hayes undera personal obligation by voting according to their sense of justice. They would be dis- graced forever if, by accepting office from President Hayes, they should expose themselves to the suspicion that their votes in the tribunal were controlled by their political expectations. Mr. Hayes must not think of appointing any member of the com- mission to any office in his gift. Neither Senator Morton nor any other member could accept a personal favor from the President wthout sinking himself in public estimation. So strict a rule cannot, perhaps, apply to the eminent counsel who have argued Mr. Hayes’ claims before the commission. We will not undertake to say what attitude o delicate sense of honor would require them to assume in reference to appointments, which the public would naturally construe as rowards. Whethes it would be come Mr. Evarts, Mr. Stanley Matthews and Mr. Stoughton to accept high offices under President Hayes is a question which must be left to him and to them. The gencral expectation is that he will reward them with high appoint- ments for the services they have rendered. Whatever claims they may have on his gratitude the country would esteem them more highly if they should refuse office. There is a general expectation, however, that Mr. Evarts will have an opportunity to accept or decline the office of Secretary of State. Had Mr. Hayes been elected in No- vember by a clear and undisputed majority we suppose nobody would have expected him to give the first place in his Cabinet to Mr. Evarts, although the appointment would have been one eminently fit to be made. If Mr. Evarts is appointed it will be on the ground of his efficient service as counsel before the commission; but it would be difficult for the new President to find a man so well qualified for that impor- tant office. The claims of Mr. Stanley Mat- thews are not of the same high order, but he is one of the oldest and most intimate of Governor Hayes’ personal friends, and n man whom he would have favored quite apart from his eervices before the commission, No public scandal would be caused by his ap- pointment or that of Mr. Evarts to any position whigh the new President might think it suitable to give them. It is not im- probable that Mr. Evarts will be the next Secretary of State, but the position of Mr, Matthews cannot be so easily assigned. He | ms been mentioned in connection with the Attorney Generalship, a place for which he is fully competent; but President Hayes will find a vacancy on the bench of the Su- _preme Court which he will be required to fill, and it is quite possible that he may give the place to Judge Matthews. Asan appointment to the Supreme Conrt is not political President Hayes would feel to tako another Ohio } citizen as @ member of his Cabinet. If Mr. Evarts is made Secretary of State the Secretary of the Treasury cannot be taken from New York. Senator Sherman is, per- haps, the best qualified manin the republi- can party for that great’ position. His long service as chairman of the Finance Com- mittee of the Senate has made him more familiar than any other man in the country with the range of questions which come within the province of a Secretary of the Treasury, and, as a pronounced hard money man, he represents the views of Mr. Hayes, But Mr. Hayes cannot select two Cabinet officers from his own State. If he gives the Attorney Generalship to Judge Matthews he cannot appoint Senator Sher- ian Secretary of the Treasury. But if Mr. 4 Matthews should profer Judge Davis’ vacated seat in the Supreme Court there would be no obstacle to making Mr. Sherman Secre- tary of the Treasury if the President should judge that appointment wise. ‘The two great places in the Cabinet are the Foreign Affairs andthe Treasury, and in the next ad- ministration the last of these will be moro important than the first, inasmuch as there are not likely to be any critical foreign questions, while the princi- pal task of the new administration will be to refund the national debt and restore specie payments. President Hayes might do a great desl worse than to make Mr. Sherman Secretary of the Treas- ury, and we do not see how he could very well do better. When he shall have selected able heads for the State Department and the Treasury Department the other Cabinet places will be distributed with reference to geographical and party considerations, as usually happens in all administrations, Germany and the Eastern Question, By oyr report of the opening of the Ger- man Reichstag it will be seen that the Em- peror William is one of the few menina position to be pre-eminently well informed who straightforwardly expresses the opinion that peace will be preserved in Europe despite the varied dangers and complica- tions of the Eastern question, From Ber- lin, if from any point in Europe, an abso- lutely impartial and unprejudiced view of the likelihood of the case is possible. In any other country opinion may be per- verted by hopes or fears of war; but Ger- many has nothing to apprehend in any event, and nothing to gain notwithstanding the fancy that she would be pleased to see some of her great neighbors exhaust them- selves in a bloody struggle. The opinion therefore in the King’s speech, and which is of course the opinion of Prince Bismarck, is of great weight. Itis recognized that Ger- magy has no necessary relation to the diffi- culties between Russia and Turkey, except as her sympathies are with the Christian population of the Ottoman Empire ; and the moral support of the friends of those wretched people is declared as plainly as is the hope for peace and the faith that it will be preserved. Spitz Venom. Two cases of hydrophobia are reported from Staten Island, and in both the victims were bitten by Spitz dogs. In one case it is reported that the dog was not rabid, and he appears to have been only irritable in the other. Before the great increase now noted in the frequency of these accidents it was thought that society paid sufficiently for the advantage it derived from dogs by the deaths they caused in communicating rabies ; yet that was when there were no dogs about but the old acclimated breeds, that did not go mad often, and so far as close observation could discover did not cause hydrophobia save when they had it themselves. It was bad enough that way, and certainly it is infinitely worse to have in all our streets and in many houses an animal which seems to possess a virus capable of causing hydrophobia while the animal himself is to all appearance in a normal condition. Persons who care for the lives of their little children should take notice that the number of cases reported is now large in which this dog, while himself apparently not mad, has caused hydro- phobia by his bite. They have not, there- fore, in regard to this species, even that slight assurance of safety which, in regard to other dogs, is derived from the warning of evident sickness in the animal himself. Salaries of School Teachers. True to the instincts of the timeserver certain officials who should know better are trying to reduce the salaries of the teachers in our public schools. Teachers are seldom capable of driving sharp bar- gains. The duties of their profession en- gross all their time and attention. In caring for the greater affairs of life they are re luctant to look out properly for them- selves; so their unselfishness is made an excuse for mistreating them. Instead of paying teachers according to their talents and the measure of their responsibility wo give them smaller salaries than those obtained by fourth class clerks and sales- men, andagreat deal less than capable stable boys and herdsmen command. These teachers have almost entire charge of the intellectual development of the rising gen- eration. To become competent to take part in this work they already have spent years in study which was for tho time costly and financially unproductive, and which must be followed up for years to come at a con- siderable outlay of time and money, and yet wo begrudge them salaries, which many smart boys not yet of age would scorn, To pay them only at existing rates is disgraceful enough; to ask them to take less is equivalent to every parent robbing himself of that which no shrewd detective can ever recover, and the Joss of which no subsequent labor can ever make good. The plegthat able teachers can be had for less money is a senseless one. There is not a business establishment in New York but could to-day cheaply replace its experienced employés with new and able men who would rather work fora pittance than remain unoccupied; but every mer- chant knows that such a course would be sui- cidal, Something more thanability is neces- sary to efficient service, Teachers, likeclerks, need the assurance of steady positions, re- speetful treatment and the means of mil port before they can fulfil to the uttermost ‘the demands made upon them. It is to be, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. eda cn tens i a a len cn Sec i i al hoped that the views of President Wood, who brings business experience to the as- sistance of a knowledge of the duties and personal deserts of teachers, may have due influence with the Board of Education, and prevent the gigantic and brutal blunder which is contemplated under the deceptive guise of economy. Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph. We wish we could be assured that the re- organization of the Atlantic and Pacific Tel- egruph Company and its project of sprend- | ing a network of rival wires all over the country are meant in good faith. It looks too much like a desperate scheme for prac- tising on the fears of the Western Union and extorting a good round sum to buy off the threatened competition. It bears too many marks of 8 spurious movement. Whether it be intended to ‘‘bear” the Western Union stock with a view to enable the schemers to buy it low and then sell it at ® great profit when they withdraw their opposition, or whether the object be to get an exorbitant price fora consolidation, or whether, as is more probable, it is sought to reap a harvest in both ways, it is too obvious that the senders of messages would be the ultimate victims. If the Western Union pays a heavy sum to buy off the schemers it will be obliged to reimburse itself in the prices of messages, If it should not raise its tariff of charges it would at least be prevented from reducing it with the growth of its business. The reason why the proposed extension of lines to minor points looks suspicious is that the business is obviously insufficient to support double lines, and that neither line could pay expenses at any reasonable rate for transmitting messages. The consequence would be that one company would be obliged, after a ruinous struggle, to make the best terms it could with its adversary, and the victor would then make up its losses out of the commu- nity. The Atlanticand Pacific Company has already lines between the cities which far- nish business enough to justify competi- tion, and if it extends a destructive compe- tition to all the smaller stations it can be on no other sane calculation than that of either buying out or selling out and saddling the community with the losses incurred in the struggle. The Effect of the Jersey Execution, A bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature which makes it the duty of the Court on atrial for murder in the first degree to pass a sentence of imprison- ment for life whenever a verdict of guilty shall be accompanied by a recommendation to mercy on the part of the jury. The effect of the passage of the bill would probably be the virtual abolition of capital punishment in the State. Very few juries would convict without a recommendation: to mercy. In the first place it would be difficult to get together twelve men all of whom uphold legal strangulations, and” in the next there would be in almost every murder trial enough sympathy for the prisoner to render it certain that some of the jury would insist on securing for him the more lenient sentence. The bill, no doubt, owes its origin to the feeling of dissatisfaction engen- dered by the refusal of a new trial to Ryan and Oschwald, and to the fear that these men may have suffered death for a crime of which they were innocent. New Jersey does not generally lean to the side of mercy, and the proposed change in the law shows how firm a hold the doubt of the guilt ot Ryan and Oschwald has taken on the public mind, The new movement in the Legislature, viewed in this light, must serve to open the eyes of the Jersey authorities to the duty of exerting themselves to discover whether the murderer of Officer Brock is still alive and unpunished. When a whole community is so earnestly impressed with the feeling that justice may have gone astray it is due to public sentiment that all doubt should be cleared away. It will not do to settle quietly down with the idea that as two men have paid the forfeit of their lives for the crime there is an end of the mat- ter. Justice tothe murdered man, justice to the memory of those who suffered for the murder, if they suffered unjustly, justice to the State requires that if a mistake has been made it shall be rectified and that the real offender shall be called to account. We have not yet heard that any steps have been taken on the part of the Jersey authorities to ferret out the truth. It isto be hoped, how- ever, that they will promptly follow up every clew that can lead to the final settle- ment of the question as to the guilt or inno- cence of the two men who have been sent to their graves as Brock’s murderers. A Hint to tho University Oarsmen. Before finally determining to row this year's University race at Greenwood Lake it would be well for the College Rowing Asso- ciation to consider one course which has heretofore been overlooked, one which may yet be found to easily eclipse any track yet tried, Take a three mile stretch on the Hudson, from Fiftieth street, up stream, or from One Hundred and Tenth street, down, just far enough off tho bank to givoa good view to the spectator. At five in the after- noon the thousands of turnouts which now grace the Park would gladly take a look at the river one day in the year from the broad Riverside Boulevard, and many who do not like to goa distance to see arace would heartily enjoy one sonear home. Hardly anything in the year gathers nearly so large an assem- blage in Boston as the City Regatta on the Charles on the Fourth of July, and the facilities for seeing most of the contest are quite as good here as there, On any day, late enough in the afternoon to insure good water, the race would prove a guecess; but if the captains wish to add to it an éclat hitherto unknown in our aquatic | annals let them fix on the Fourth of July as the day of battle. It would be no sur- prise if a quarter of a million viewed the sport, rowing in New York would doubtless recetve marked impetus, and, if the City Fathers would, Boston fashion, open in ad- dition one or two other good races, say one for amateur fours, with a handsome prize, the very fast Neptune four of Staten Island— Messrs. Kennedy, Riley, Eustis and Rodgers— might find alongside of them at the start Curtis’ fast Northwesterns and the Showaw- enecemettes, the Watkins team and the champions, the Beaverwycks, all ready to make hard work for them all down the long three miles and inaugurate a contest likely to be annual and always welcomed. | i Washingt Birthday. An unusual respect was paid yesterday in this city tothe memory of the first of our heroes. Not only was the day very exten- sively observed by the suspension of all ordinary business, but the people turned out in holiday attire and the great thorough- fares were thronged with merry-making crowds. Our holidays generally tall in the winter when the weather compels people to enjoy themselves by the fireside, or in the summer when the fierce heat inspires the disposition to seize the opportunity for taking a day out of town, and therefore our streets as @ rule never wear so solemn and deserted an aspect ason aholiday. Yesterday presented a remark- able exception to this rule; for the people stayed in town, yet, tempted by the pleasant skies and genial temperature, did not stay in the house. Our despatches show thet the day was celebrated with great spirit in many places, and particularly in the South- ern States. It seems to us that there is no day in our annals tliat either the patriot or the philosopher should be more pleased to see honored or growing in credit with the people than this. Hero worship has, at least, this plain effect in national history, that it fills the mind of a people with grand examples and grand ideals, and thereby lifts them in some degree above the mean and the little that are such common parts of life. To make enthusiastic admiration of a man’s achievements und virtues the deep- est sentiment of a nation is the surest way to cultivate a desire to imitate his career, and Washington is the one man whose name is preserved in human history whom the American people may most safely accept as a type of civic virtue and military devotion. Therefore we rejoice to see the growing re- spect for the only man whom we honor by the remembrance of his birthday. Protection Against Railroad Strikes. The recent strike of locomotive engineers and firemen on the Boston and Maine Rail- road has been the subject of a searching in- vestigation by the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Massachusetts. In a report to the Legislature the Commissioners set forth, with marked impartiality, the causes that led to the strike, and reach the conclu- sion that inasmuch as the engineers were getting fair wages and steady employment it was unwise and without justification. The conclusions reached are that the public safety and convenience, as well as the busi- ness interests of the State, demand the pas- sage of laws declaring such conspiracies as these railroad strikes penal offences. On the Boston and Maine road, as on others, the engines were abandoned at a fixed hour at whatever spot they then hap- pened to be. This of course entailed great inconvenience and suffering on the passen- gers, besides risking o serious loss of life and property. Such an act is a crime under the English law and should be severely pun- ished under any system of government. In conformity with the recommendation of the Railroad Commissioners a bill has been in- troduced in the Massachusetts State Legis- lature making it a penal offence for engineers in furtherance of a strike to abandon their locomotives upon railroads except at the regular schedule destination; or to refuse to aid in the movement of the cars of other corporations over the tracks of the company by which they are employed; or for any per- gon to obstruct a railroad, injure its prop- erty or interfere with its employés in order to assist a strike. Such a law ought to be on the statute books of every State. The public interests should be protected and the public safety secured under all cir- cumstances ; and while railroad engineers or any other employés are at liberty to please themselves about working for a com- pany they are not to be permitted to ob- struct public business or to endanger life and property in the endeavor to right their supposed grievances. It is singular that, while this very proper and desirable legisla- tion is being perfected in Massachusetts, the State of New Jersey, which is constantly doing unaccountable things, should be on- gaged in passing a law secking to exempt “strikers” from the punishment meted out to other conspirators. Tuat Was a Senstnie as well as o graceful compliment which Philadelphia paid yester- day to President Welsh, of the Centennial Board of Finance. The great Exhibition was held in the interest of human intelli- gence, its success was largely duc to the in- telligence of the financial manager, and it is fitting that his namo and his services shall forever bo kept alive by that promoter of in- telligence, ‘The John Welsh Professorship of History and English Literature,” established yesterday in the University of Pennsylvania and fully endowed by Mr. Welsh’s admirers, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Gladstone hates clabs. The Earl of Dunraven ts at the Brunswick. Buckwheat cakes are now baked on blue glass grid- dies, The Senator from Missouri is a sort of Bogy tothe republicans. The Chillan landowner 1s a feudalist; the peasant works the soil, Some one says that the policeman aud not the school- master ie abroad. Fernando Wood walks like a man having bis picture taken for a panorama, Doring the hard times working men may have op- portumities for roading. Bagehot, tho bright English writer on politics, ts tho editor of the Boonomist, Justice Strong has the clearest manner of expression of all the men on the tribunal. When Matt Carpenter heard of the result, he sald, “Patsey, lot's git some schooners.” Mr, Freuae, the English nistorian, thinks that Amer- jean common senso is euffcrent for dangerous emer- gencies. AScotch boy ato university appeared one day im a policeman’s hat. He had served at night duty in order to be at college during the day. Americans are Jearning to like oatmeal and milk for breakfast, ‘The mush 18 not good untess cooked on the satne morning when It is eaten. M. Offenbach complains because a Yankee (as he stylog an American) will don a white cravat at six o’clock in the morning and wear it all day. Be true as tho star of the North; — seen eeterreeeeeeeric etl TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE ‘TROUBLED EAST. German Policy is That of Armed Neutrality. DISQUIET IN :SERVIA O'Nahony’s Body Will Not Be Allowed to Lie in State in Dublin Cathedral. [#x CABLE TO THE RERALD.] LonpoN, Feb, 23, 1877. The steamer Franconia, of the Hamburg Steam ship Company, has atlast met her fate. She has Jong been in the service of the company and has been plying between Hamburg and Aspinwall. She went ashore yesterday off Point San Bias, near Colon, and will probably preve a total wreck. All her passengers and the mails were saved. The Franconia will be remembered as the steamer which ran down the Glasgow steamer Strathelyde in the English Channel, off Dover, o8 February 17, 1876. In that disaster, out ofseventy paw sengers and crew on the Strathclyde, only eleveg were saved, filty-nine being lost. Captain Kahn, of the Franconia, was arrested and tried in England on a charge of manslaughter April 5, 1876, but the English judge finally dismissed the case, on appeal, for want of jurisdiction. WILL NOT CROWD TRE MINISTRY. In the House of Commons last evening there was @ short discussion in the course of which the Marquis of Hartington sald, ifthe continuation of the discursive debate on the treaty obligations would in any way eme barrass the government, the opposition had not the slightest desire to add tothe difficulties of the situation, and they did not propose to bring forwurd a definite motion to-night, The resumption of the debate upon the suggestion of Sir Stafford Northcote was accord- ingly indefinitely postponed. IN THY NOUSE OF LORDS, The Earl of Beaconsfield intimated that it was the intention of the government to propose measures for Increasing the efliciency of the consular staff in Tur- key, as localities where the staf bad been formerly reduced were likely soon to.become the seat of impor- tant peacofal or warlike evente—ho trusted peaceful events—as he did not yet despair of the common sense of the Porte, and had great confidence in the wise maguantaiity of the great Powers, THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT * The German Reichstag was opened yesterday. Eam- peror William's speech opening the session adverts to the depressed stato of commerce and industry and also to the deficiency in the budget. It proposos that the deficiency, amounting to 25,500,000 marks, bo met by raising the matriculatory contributions payabie by the States, The speech also refers to Eastern affairs, and expresses the opinion that the peace of Europe will not be broken, The dangers which might result from the Eastern question still unsolved, , threaten ,Germany in a less degree then any other? country. The Empire has remained true to the prin-s ciples which it laid down for itself at the beginning of the Eastern complications. The Confercuce has not succeeded in obtaming from the Porte the concessions which the Powers judged expedient to demand in the tterests of humanity and as a means of, securing peaco for the future, Nevertheless, the proceed- ings of the Conference have led to’ thie Tesult—that the Christian Powers have arrived at a common understanding among themselves respect- ing the guarantees to be demanded trom the Porte, Bofore the Conference such an understanding lacked universally recognized expression. By this means a solid basis has beon secured for confidence that peace will bo preserved among tho Powers, oven should the hope be disappointed that the Porto will, of tis own accord, carry out the reforms regarding the treatment of its Christian subjects, which the Conference com ‘ gidered requisite in the interests of Eutope, WHAT GERMANY WILL DO, Should the expectations now entertained—basct upon the promises of the Porte on the one hand and tho open!ng offnegotiations for peaco on the other wit Servia and Montencgro—fail to be realized, the im- porin! government, while recoguizing the fact that the present question docs not prescribe any preciso line of conduct for itself, will continuo to exert its in- fluonce, as hitherto, on behalf of the protection of the Christians In Turkey and of the preservation ot the peace of Europe; above all things, howover, strength. ening ite own good relations with governments ullicd or otherwise friendly to It, TROUBLE BREWING, Affairs do not look peaceful in Servia if the latest reports from Belgrade prove true, Disturviances havo broken out in Jagodina, Kragujevatz, Ushitza and other places in the interior during tho elections. Troops left tor Jagodina on Wednesday. It 1s variously stated that the disturbances wero caused by the gov- ernmont exerting pressure on the electors and by tha intrigues of Karageorgevitch against Prince Milan, The Times correspondent is inclined to bee lieve tho letter statement, as it is well known that the partisans of Karageorgevitch are very active, and thero ts good ground for believing that they find willing listeners in tho mass of the military adventurors gathered in Belgrade from all parts of Europe, Karageorge- yitoh 1s also strongly favored by Austria and Hungary, AsServia has been apparently abandoned by Russia an arrangement {s not improbable by means of which an atiompt may be made to placo aruler in Servia whe would make a close alliance with Austria, and thos pacify the Hungarian excitement on the Sclavonic question. With Bosnia and Herzegovina annexed, and Servia practically an Austrian do pendency, we should probably hear of no more Huo garian opposition to Russia, TURKRY'S' STANDING IN THR EUROPEAN COURTS, It is very generally believed that diplomatic rela tions between Turkey and Europe will be resumed im mediately after the conclusion of peaco with Servis aod Montenegro, aud that then the l'orto may be expected, in consequence of advice from almost all quarters, to consent to some direct step that may still avert a conflict. A special from Vera asecrts that Turkey has desided to relinquish her demand for the miintenanco of a Turkish agent at Belgrade, It is thought that the negotiations will be completed on Saturday, A ae. patch irom Paris announces the arrival there of Vahan Effendi, who is iotrusted with a special = mission to the European courts, Rumors have been fn circulantion that the mission of Vahan Effendi is’ to urgo the resumption of full diplomatic relations with the Porte, A Vienna special says the Porte has ordered 30,00 revolvers from the United States. THE SERVIAN DELEGATES, Tho Servian delegates hold a second conferenco at Constantinople with Satvet Pacha on yesterday. Ao understanding has been almost completely estab. | lished. The next conference will be held on Saturday, | lt is thought tha: a formal prolongation | of the armistico will not be necessary to allow = time —for_—speaca negotiations with Montenogro, and that the military commanders | on both sides will be ordored by tmutual arrangeinent’ | to remain on the defensive, The correspondent of the Stanaard telegraphs trom Paris:—"1 am intormed that preliminaries of peace botween Servia ane Be sweet as the dove, and so forth; Be tireless as No, 2 Fabers, Be jabers, Turkey havo beon signed.’’ | A COUP THREATENED BY THE TURKS. . Roumanian troops are going to Barbosbi, as it is be ’