The New York Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. TNE DAILY UERALD, published every day @ the yer, Tiree cents per copy (Sunday excluded), Tex dollars per ne dolar per month tor ‘Sve us ace for six mo if Dost ag tide property will not be rew 142 SOUTH SIXTE ene Tetters and pack Lejected commun nh or 1a. OFFICE—NO PARK THEATRE—Ovr Bo. HELLER'S THEATRE— UNION SQUARE THEATRE: NEW YORK AQUARIUM EAGLE THEATRE—Aim TONY PASTOR'S THEA TIVOLI THEATRE-Vanier._ SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, KELLY & LEON’S WL EGYPTIAN [1 NO. 858 BROADWAY. PARISIAN VARIET! THIRD AVENUE THE, ACADEMY pox DESIG: TO tY DEALERS, ‘The Adams Fxpress Company runs special newspaper train over the Pennsylvania Kaitroad and tts connections, Jonviny dersey City at a quarter past four A, M. daily and Snvday, carry jvc edition of the Henatp as tar “ South ta, Washington, reaching six A.M. and Washington at From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be sool and partly cloudy or clear, possibly with morn- ing haze. —The stock market active Garin the day, and there was a decided improvement in prices. Among the stocks in which there was an advance were tho two telegraph companies, the coal stocks und Rock Island. Gold opened at 1047, declined to 10454, but closed firm at the opening pr Government stocks closed steady after a slight decline, and railroad bonds were generally lower. Money on call was easy at 219 4 per cent, closing at 3 Ber cent on call. Tue Sratus 38 of the Canad an Pacific Railway ig officially announced in another column. Tue Unirep Star hint yesterday from the whi of how not to select witnesses. service was the rather high began yester- day to pay for a q Tne Law or Comrenss. Economy in street rey x is causing fright- ful oxtravagance in tru r. drivers’ profi Tur VANDERBILT W111 is to be formally con- tested, and the rubbing together of the hands of lawyers is like unto the sound of the rushing of mighty waters. Between Brrr anp Puitosoruy the Ger- mans were enabled to make up nearly half the list of suicides in New York last year. Moral— Let beer and philosophy alone. Tue Essentians or THE Rurorr ont of the Park Department are given in the Hrnraxp to-day. They will prove interesting to taxpayers and simply delightful to people with plenty of taste but no property to be taxed. Brook yn has at last gained possession of the Wallabout, and will erect a grand market therein, upon the completion of which the in- habitants of the third city of the Union will no longer have to go into the next town to buy their food. For Wars tuat Are Dark and for tricks that are vain the life insurance director seems peculiar, A statement made to Judge Dykman yesterday and printed in the Heratp to-lay shows how easily insurance bonanzas can be made to order. Twesty Per NT Increase in mortality from scarlet fever within a week, yet that Suni- tary Inspector of Schools remains unappointed, Objections of School Commissiontrs to such an appointment are of more consequence than chil- dren’s lives it seems. ow what a@ terrible Do tne ALpEr Precedent they are atte their action against Deputy Commissioner Thompson! If unfitness for office is to drive inen out of city positions who will be left to transact nece anny — ess 1 A Very Ont INAL Decree or. Divorce is printed this morning. The authority cited is of great antiquity and highly respected, but should the siguer of the decree attempt to marry again he will speedily find occasion to renew the howl about ‘a godless nati Aw Itanian Pavroxe, who made the mistake of supposing that only the officers of the law Jooked out for juvenile street musicians, finds himself to-day dependent upon him living. His thanks have not yet been by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, USO) Tar Weatit day no very marked changes occurred in the weather conditions east of the Missouri River. ,The high pressure in the Northwest is being slowly dissipated and the temperature has risen to freezing point and above. The lingering traces of the storm in the Atlantic east of Newfoundland will soon disap- pear, but the winds on the coast will continue for perhaps another day to indicate that a low pressure is moving slow astward. On the middle Atlantic coast yesterday the winds were able, and have begun to respond to the in- fluences of the gathering disturbances in the Southwest and West. Winds on the Gulf coast inue strong to moderate from the northeast, 1d those in the Missouri Valley from the south- east. Generally clear weather prevails, except in the Platte Valley, the lower lake region and on the South Atlantic coast. Light snow fell at Fort Sully, Dakota. No important changes are reported on any of the rivers. The weather in New York to-day will be cool and partly cloudy er clear, possibly with morning haze < letters of “felegrapbic despatches must | Fe oe * ged NEW YORK HERALD— | pting to establish by | A City Government that Does Not Govern—What Is the Remedy? More than five years have passed since the gigantic frauds of the old Tammany Ring were exposed and that den of thieves routed and dispersed by the election of 1871. By the efficient action to which the impulse was then given the notorious Tam- many judges were impeached and deposed; all the prominent members of the Ring ex- cepting Tweed were driven into exile; Tweed himself was indicted, tried, sentenced and immured in prison; and when the thieves and their confederates had thus been scourged out of the city government the | people expected relief from the heavy bur- den of taxation and from the annoyance, disgust and inconvenience of filthy streets, noisome stenches, » police conniving at hells of gambling and prostitution, and, in short, from the intolerable evil of acity ; government which is paid exorbitant sums for a conspicuons failure to satisfy the rea- sonable demands and expectations of the public. But what, in point of fact—what, in the sad light of experience—can any sane man | tell us we have gained by that memorable uprising, that great storm of popular indig- nation by which the corrupt Tammany Ring was swept out of power, and such of its members as were not imprisoned made fugi- | tives and vagabonds in distant lands? Are our taxes less? No. Are our streets better paved or better cleaned? No. Do we suffer less from stenches which taint and poison the atmosphere and imperil the public health? No, Are criminals more promptly detected and arrested, is order better pre- served, are the city ordinances more rigorously enforced, the streets more safe and quiet at uight, and the grog shopsa | less potent force in city politics? ‘The answer must still be in the negative. What, ; then, have we gained beyond the satistac- H tion of our sense of justice in the punish- ment and flight of the Tammany thieves ? Very, very little indeed. We are still pay- ing enormonsly for work shabbily done, for “gugers that won't bore,” for a municipal gov- ernment that annoys and disgusts, but does not govern. ‘There has never been a period in the history of the city when the people had so oppressive a sense of the burdens of taxation, or were so restive and discon- tented under the load as they are at present. How has it come to pass that the signal overthrow of the corrupt Tammany Ring brings no practical relief? It results from the fact that in discarding the personnel of the infamous Ring we have retained many of the worst parts of the rotten and corrupt- | ing system. We are still substantially gov- erned by the Tweed charter, passed in the last year of the Ring’s supremacy, cunningly devised for taking power from the people and lodging it in the hands of trafficking politicians, That scandalous contrivance gives us an Executive who has scarcely any executive power, a municipal Leg- islature stripped of all substantial leg- islative functions, departments that are practically irresponsible by the fact that most of their heads are appointed by the predecessors of the Mayor in office for terms extending beyond his own, and practically independent of him by the origin of their appointments and their irremovability with- out the concurrence of the Governor, Why has so absurd a system survived the fall and disgrace of its authors? For the simple reason that it promotes the interest of politicians and gives them advantages which they would not possess under a good charter. The Tweed charter was intended to multiply offices and patronage and = retain their control in the hands of politicians in spite of the condemnation of the people expressed through the elections. The people are left with only a nominal control—only the merest deceptive shadow of control—over their own affairs. They are permitted to elect a Mayor once in two years, but that Mayor can appoint only a small fraction of his sub- ordinates, and can remove none of them without the consent of a Governor elected by a different constituency, and more fre- quently than otherwise by a different po- litical party. Even the few appointments which a Mayor can make during his term are subject to rejection by the Common Council, so that he has no real liberty of choice, He can only make such selections asaset of trading Aldermen will confirm, and they will not knowingly consent to have any man at the head of a department which has patronage who will not consider their friends in its distribution. The consequence is that our rickety city government is run in the interest of twenty or more nests of pestilent ward politicians, It is » cardinal maxim of these political traders to establish a reputation for taking care of their friends in order that they may utilize those friends in packing the primary meetings by which nominations are con- trolled. We have accordingly a city gov- ernment created for the benefit of traders in politics and not for the benetit of the peo- ple. The municipal service is a vast hos- pital for incapables. Men are not employed for their skill or efficiency in the kind of work required, but because they are friends and tools of working politicians who insist that they shall be provided for at the public expense in the expectation of personal and party services in the next city olection. The proverbial impossibility of “making ao silk purse of a sow's ear,” the utter folly ef ex- pecting that a municipal service whose per- sonnel is chiefly made up of imbeciles who are incapable of getting their living in the ordinary walks of competitive industry ac- counts for the inefficiency and disgraceful incompetence of our city government, Un- der the name of a city government we are maintaining a costly hospital for the de- pendents and hangers-on of scurvy ward politicians, We shall continue to squander a great part of the money we pay in taxes until this bad system is uprooted. Men do not gather grapes off thorns or figs off thistles. So long as the greater part of our city employés shall con- tinue to be selected from among the needy and shiftless dependents of city politicians, so long will our municipal government con- sist of a vast assortment of “augers that won't bore.” It is trifling with the subject and an insult to common sense to amuse us with » mess of plausible drivel about re- ducing salaries when the whole system is so | preposterous, tt is like expecting to make efficient soldiers of Falstaff’s rotten, ragged and cowardly brigade by merely reducing the allowance of sack and cutting down the pay of its doughty commander, Longfellow’s Birthday. Henry ‘WV. Longfellow reached yesterday the natural term of years which the Scrip- tures allot to man, yet his eye is undimmed, his form erect, his intellect as strong as | | forty years ago. Goethe was the first who advanced the theory that the son and orange’ of autumnal foliage were not the colors of decay, but the ripen- ng of the leaf. In the beautiful poem ad- half a century ago Mr. Longfellow spoke ian of life, but that decline is not decay his {own works have proved. It is maturity, not weakness, that his later poetry has shown, In youth, when he wrote the ‘‘Oc- | cultation of Orion,” ‘‘Maidenhood,” '*Evan- geline,” ‘The Building of the Ship” and ; much other verse ever dear to the public, he could not have produced the musterpiece of his age, the noble translation of Dante's “Inferno,” The series of sonnets he recently published in the Atlantic Monthly are as per- fect as any that he ever wrote. ‘‘The years | that bring the philosophic mind” have | been to him benefactors, bringing | not only to himself wisdom and new power, but bearing from the world he has charmed by his genius the tribute of reverence, gratitude and love. Mr. Long- fellow declined the public congratulations which his friends and admirers desired to offer him in Cambridge yesterday, but he could not if he would refuse the honors which his countrymen wili render to one of the first of American poets, Patti's Troubles. Our Paris special despatch lifts the curtain somewhat freely and discloses more than has.been hitherto known of the Patti-Caux | difficulty. It appears that the Marquis is charged, as the basis of a demand for di- yorce, with all the grosser offences against propriety that husbands commonly commit. He has, it is alleged, treated the little Diva with cruelty. Here is o fine field for the speculation of several thousand masculine admirers of the prima donna in this coun- try and other countries who may consider what they will do with Caux if they ever catch him. ‘Blows’ and “course epithets” are the substantial facts of this cruelty. In | regard to the lady's fortune the Marquis— { if the story is true—has exhibited that peculiar sense of honor which 60 often characterizes gentlemen of old and noble families. He has shown an old and noble indifference to the distine- tion between what was hers and what was | his which may be praiseworthy in so far as it assumes their inseparable matrimonia) unity, but is not in accordance with the re- | quirements of the marringe contract, by which the scion of a nobje race promised | not to spend more than one-half of what his wife should earn. All this is denied by the Marquis, who resiststhe demand for divorce, and the trial will be protracted and pi- j quant. Worshipping the Rising Sun. In the news from Columbus the judicious reader will perceive with a sensation of re- lief a pleasing symptom of the passing away of the stage of severe excitement in national politics and the cropping out once more of the comic element of the canvass. One character that we have which is distinctly and supremely national is the office hunter. In other countries undoubtedly there are men who endeavor to get themselves into office. But the difference between this country and other countries is like that be- tween Egypt and other lands. There are lizards everywhere; but in Egypt the lizard is a crocodile, This hungry, insatiable, arrogant, impudent, humble, sublime, mag- nificent and pitiful creature, who is always to be found at the door of the man just coming into power; who sketches out for him ascheme for the distribution of the offices in his neighborhood, and puts it in the loity form of disinterested advice; or who begs some small place of profit for himself or his father or mother, grandfather or grandson; or who sends by telegraph his eight hun- dred words of a programme for the reor- ganization of society in the Southern States, with himself on top—his character in all his guises belongs to our country. He is scored and scathed a great deal in the severe indignation of people who regard him as the source of the evil of which he is only an indication, while in fact he should be en- joyed and laughed at as the great national Micawber. Trouble in Nova Scotia. When the Irish driver in pursuit of an extra shilling suddenly informed his pas- senger, ‘I druv you that last four miles without a linchpin,” the instant remem- brance of the bad places in the road, the edge of the precipice and facts of that sort startled the victim out of his propriety and his money at once, and filled him with a grateful sense that he had escaped cheaply. in Nova Scotia they are somewhat in the position of that passenger, and the part of the driver is played by a Judge of the Su- preme Court of the Dominion, This digni- tary has just informed the people of the foggy province that they have been going on this great while as to all legal processes whatever without a linchpin. They are gasping yet over the information and hardly know whether they are dead or alive. Every act ‘done “under the great seal” is void, because they have been using an unauthorized seal. Instead of surrendering the great seal of Her Majesty gone on with the first. Thus they have put Her Majesty’s trade mark on goods for which she is not responsible. But the im- position of the great seal is a pretext for the | extortion ofatax. Now, ifthe tax was paid, government should, and doubtless will, find a way out of the trouble; for, afterall, it does not matter so much whether you put on a document the impression of s unicorn or that of a beaver, provided always you pay the fee. In fact the authorities at Nova Scotia declare that they can show there is no occasion for alarm, when he arose, a bright star in poetry, | erim- ; dressed last year to his fellow graduates of | of himself as one who had passed the merid- | i and gotting that of the Dominion they have | | The Blectoral Commission—A Prompt Decision. ‘The commission made comparatively short work of the South Carolina case, deciding it yeaterday, as everybody foresaw it would be decided, in favor of Hayes, This is the last ense that can be submitted to the com- ‘ mission, there being no other State from ! which there are double sets of returns. ‘But Ww | although this is a fact well known person- | ally to all its members it isa fact of which they have no official knowledge, so they are not at liberty to dissolve the commissisn until the joint convention shall have completed its work and declared the | final result. They accordingly adjourned until Friday morning, which may be taken as an indication of their opinion that they i may then lay down their office. They doubtless expect that the joint convention mission, having no further business to transact, need to meet again only for the purpose of a formal dissolution. Their opinion that this step may be taken on Fri- day morning would seem to rest on good grounds, We would fain hope that the joint con- vention will wind up its business to-day, which would be practicable enough if the filibusters would accept the inevitable and raise no further frivolous objections. Egch house is entitled to two hours’ debate on the South Carolina decision, and two hours also on each of the States of Vermont and Wis- consin, which are to be assailed with democratic objections, Ag the republicans have a sure thing in all these States they can afford to expedite the proceedings by leaving all the talk to their opponents, If they should thus refrain from debate the count may possibly be completed to-day, but it is more probable that it will run into to-morrow. It is safe to assume that to-morrow will bring an end to this great controversy, and that when the commission meets on Friday it will at once adjourn sine | die, Immunity for Murder. Doubtless in the number of things that “no fellow can find out” are to be counted the conceptions of the average coroner and the theories of the average juryman, An evidence that coroners have views entirely their own as to the administration of their offices—views not to be confounded in any degree whatever with the views of other people—is to be found in the fact that one of these functionaries appears to believe that the paramour of Katie Ried] is as much en- titled to his liberty as any other man, To the mind of the ordinary observer, who has not the special theories of the detectives to confound his common sense, it is plain ; that if Welspiel cannot be hanged the fault | is not in the facts, but only in the inca- pacity of the police to make the facts ap- pear. No man could be hanged, of course, on what is now known to the public of this man’s connection with the girl. His rela- tionship with the last desperate fact in her | history must be ‘traced and made clear, and the discovery of the several facts, each apparently trivial, that might establish this conhection would not bea labor of insuperable difficulty if our admin- istration of criminal justice were organized on a system that tended to develop rather than to smother those nice faculties of per- ception and reasoning that make a good detective. It isthe want of such a system that has made the famous Kolsey case at Huntington, L. L, a standing reproach to justice. In that case some twenty persons are apparently acquainted with all the facts of amurder. If we consider the nature of the human mind—how thuch man is a crea- ture of his conscience and of his well or ill grounded fears, how he depends upon other men, show at last the burden of a terrible secret becomes unbearable—it is not to be doubted that there is always one or more of that twenty ready at all times to pour out all the details of that crime if an adroit detective would slightly tip him in the right direction. In the organization of modern society the many means of killing with secrecy that science puts in a murderer's way, and the facilities of escape that are always accessible near great cities, a first rate detective system becomes’ an insepara- bie condition of the safety of life; and such a system we do not possess ; wherefore mur- der is likely to cease to bea punishable offence in this community save when the murderers are exceptionally clumsy fellows, Teachers’ Salaries. The Committee on Salaries of the Board of Education has reported in favor of a scale of reduction in the salaries of the public school teachers, except the principals and vice principals. The Board of Apportion- ment cut down the appropriation for school salaries eighty thousand dollars in the pres- ent year's cstimates, thus compelling either a reduction in the number of assistant teachers or in. the remuneration paid for their services. The Board of Education chooses the latter alternative, and, we think; wisely. It is to be regretted, however, that economy in the public expenditures has commenced with the educational depart- ment. The people of New York are very deeply interested in the prosperity of the schools and the excellence of the teachers, and they would rather that the process of economizing salaries should have com- menced elsewhere. Teachers are generally underpaid, and they should have been the last to feel the edge of the pruning knife. But then they have no alliance with politi- cians and control no votes. It does not seem right that some of the assistant teach- ers in the public schools, who are intrusted with the earliest training and education of our children, should receive only half as much salary as is paid to a fireman or a po- liceman, and not quite as much as the wages of a city laborer who gets steady employ ment. Recoasition or Governor Nicio1L1s.— | Some fucts to be found in our Washington and New Orleans despatches sustain the statements hitherto made that Nicholls will be recognized as the rightful Governor. of Louisiana, With the domination of the in Louisiana, as it has in Arkansas and other States, from the simple fact that the govern- | ments will exist for the legitimate purposes will get through on Thursday, for the com- | NEW YORK HERALD, _WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1877.:-TRIPLE SHEET. Nicholls government all trouble will cease | of government. and wili derive their authority from the people and not from the politicians at Washington. An Aldermante Investigation. by their attempt to assail the management of the Department of Public Works. The investigation yesterday simply disclosed the tact that the expenditures of the department had been reduced one million and a half dollars in less than two years. One million of this saving has been effected in salaries and by the substitution of the contract sys- tem for day’s work. Tifis latter economy is the one which excites the Aldermanic ire. Under the day labor system they were ac- customed to send their needy constituents tothe department for labor tickets, which meant a dollar and eighty cents a day out of the city treasury and nothing todo. An army of worthless idlers, who are really the worst enemies of: honest, industrious work- ingmen, was thus fastened on the city, and the expenses of the department were swelled for its support. Under the contract system, although a contractor has to employ labor- ers, he hires only those who are willing to do a fair day’s work fora fuir day’s wages, and pays no attention to Aldermanic recom- mendations. This is the case in a nutshell. The Aldermen think that the Public Works Department ought to be run in their politi- cal interests. ‘The head of the department believes that it ought to be managed in the interests of the city, and the people are likely to approve of this view of the subject, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Eugénie is fifty-one. Captain Eads is tn St. Louis, 01! of cinnamon will remove warts, Lemons are said to cure consumpticn. American silk 18 hurting French tuctortes, ‘Tilden says ‘*I won it;” Hayes says “1 8 it." Beecher 18 receiving great crowds in the West, Eppa Hunton bas a nose like the Groek alphabot, Delicate babies suffer trom the effects of boiled milk, Kilpatrick tas gono West to blow up with the coun- try, The new Secretary of the Navy will be a Hale follow well met. Charles Francis Adams will in April go to Europe with Dr. Quincy. Rear Admirai George H. Preble, United States Navy, Js at the Filth Avenue. Joo Bradley used to sell charcoal, but oow he can’t tell charcoal trom chalk. Mary Clemmer says that Congressman Abbott, of Boston, looks like Hawthorne, Commissioner Payne, of Ohio, looks ike a well-to- do merchant who reads evenings. How would Matt Carpenterdo for Postmaster Gen- eral? He 13 one of the lastest males, Judge Campbell, of New Orleans, wears a cape over- coat and carries n1s spectacies on his forebead. grocorymen are considered to have more sense. Senator Sargent bas been urged for Secretary of the Navy, but he says he would rather remain where he is, Some of the democratic papers fear that Hayes when in Washington may fall among republicans aud sin- ners, Watterson says In regard to Hayes that there should be no faith in gilded promises, Always blow the froth off your beer. i! Garfield 1s likely to defeat Stanley Matthews for Sen- ator Sherman’s unexpired term if the latter gentleman goes into the Cabinet. Judge Hoar, who looks like Horace Greeley, thinks that Professor Scelye ought to take lessons in iogic. Is Seelye a snapping turtle? Among the Hebrew scholars the figure seven was thought to havea providential significance. But this 1s not a lucky democratic number, A man cannot be mach of a sinner who keeps work- ing all the while.—Chicago Journal, But Dick Con- nolly was a bard worker, and eo was Tweed. On the railroads tnat cross Now Jersey men and boys, and sometimes brakomon, throw coal from passing cars, and it 1s gathered by boys and women. A Russian artist bas painted Abrabam pointing a Pistol at Isaac’s hend, while an angel in the clouds squirts water down tho muzzle from asixteen inch syringe. Chicago Journal :—“The little girls have commenced their annual season of rope jumping and the prevail- ing style of cofilns for children are those coverca with white satin.” Acorrespondent asks about sauer kraut, Slice a head of cabbage, sts for an hour and a half with water, onion, buttér, salt and popper, and with a little flour and vinegar, Strawberries bave appeared; but the best way to cook beans is to bake them in a porous earthen pot placing a piece of fat pork in the top so that it may trickle down and hug the beans, Evening Telegram:—“European diplomatists are try- ing to play the Queen im the game of the Eastern troubles. Russia's hesitancy shows that sho mat possess both of the bowers, dt least,’ A Turk holding a considerable position in the State willtake a handful of boiled rice from the common dish and, after having squeezed all the water out by working it well in his band, will put the lump Into the mouth of a guest as a mark of peculiar favor, Peter Bayne, the writer of the Hugh Miller school, is to be consulting editor under the new réyime of the Contemporary Keview, Mr. Bayne says that it is no more necessary for A magazine to be written alto- gether by stars than it ts fora play to be reprosevted altogether by stars, He says of the editor:—‘+His me- hagerie should not be a'l lions.”” In Ruthenia, says a traveller, # shooting star is looked upon as the track of au angel flying to receive a departing spirit, or of a righteous soul going up to heaven, In the latter case it 1s believed that if a wish ts uttered at the moment when tho star shoots by tt will go straight up with the rejvicing spirit to the throne of God, So when a star falls the Servians “Some one’s light has gone out,"’ meaning some ove is dead. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Mr. W. C. Prime has written a history of the wood known as the True Cross, which A. 0, F. Randolph will publish, If Mr, Prime’s book has a circulation equal to the wood of which he writes his fortane is made. J. W. Bouton has ready a now edition of Viscount Amberly's ‘Analysis of Religious Beliet” at half the price of the first edition, Mr. L, Y. Hopkins, wno ts doing some of tho best humorous sketching for periodical literature, has {lus- trated a poem called ‘The Seven Ages’’ for the March St. Nicholas, Clarence Cook’s papers on houschold art in Scrib. ner’s are the best that bave appeared on that subject. J. B. Lippincott & Co, announce Alger's “Lite of Forrest’ as nearly ready. It bas been in this state for some years back. The latest book on China ls by J. Thomson, a Fellow of the Geographical Society, aud ix published im one volume by the Christian Knowledge Society of London, ‘The Burns statue at Glasgow was unvetlod or inau- gurated January 25, and among the literature to which it gave rise tho “Burns Birthday Book,” by Arthur Guthrie, is, perbaps, the best. Six rival English editions of *Helen’s Babies” havo been issued or announced by different publishers since December. ‘ibis, says the Afhenaum, is another proof of the need of an international copyright law. “English Drunkenness aad Swedish Licensing” Is tho title of a pamphiet by Mr. Arthur Arnold, We are to have a new transidtion of Lo Sago’s “Gil Blug,’’ to be published by Mr, Paterson, of Edinburgh, groatly improved upov Smollett. ‘There are now published in Great Britain and Ireland 140 daily newspapers, thas distribated:—London, 19; England (Urovincial), 80; Scotland, 18; Ireland, 20; Wales, 2; Jersey, 1. Out of the 140 74 are published at ove penny and Of at halfpence (one cent). ‘Ths Russian government has prohibited the publica. tion of “Thiers’ History of the Empire Under Napo- jeon,’? although the samo writer's “History of the French Revolution’ and ‘History ot the Consaiate’’ Were not stopped by the censor, /TELBGRAPHIC NEWS The Aldermen do not seem likely to proit | F’rom Ali Parts of the World. PATTI VS. CAUX. The Hearing of the Case Before the Tribunal of the Seine. THE ORIENTAL OBSCURITY. Denial of the Pacific Intern. tions of Russia. TURKEY'S TERMS OF PEACE (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Loxpon, Feb, 28, 1877. Prom the HERALD’s Paris correspondent {t ts learned that the application of Mme, Adelina Patti for a separation from her husband, the Marquis of Caux, was argued yesterday before the President o! the Tribunal of the Seine, The court sat with closed doors, but it is currently reported that the Marquis appeared thoroughly chagrined to find himself ar- raigned as the defendant when he had expected ta occupy the position of plaintii, with all the sympa- thies, innocence and dignity thereto appertaining. A SECRET SESSION, Nothing is absolutely known about the grounds upon which Mme. Patti wiil base her plea for sepa- ration ; but itis generally believed among friends of both the Marquis and the prima donna that she will allege cruelty, extending to blows, gross epithets, and the maladministration of her fortune in violation of the explicit conditions of the mar- riage contract. The terms of the latter were that half of the gross receipts were to be paid over to her. Patti’s earnings were to be invested tn ner name without any deduction. The other half wag to belong to the Marquis, he defraying the joint ex. penses. ANEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Mme. Patti asserts to her friends—and has prob- ably introduced the fact into her testimony—that the Marquis used 400,000 francs ($80,000) of her money to psy of mortgages upon his paternal estates. The Marquis, who was questioned upon this point, declares that he did so with Adelina’s consent, and that the mortgages taken up are in their joint names, He further says that the re- mainder of her money is invested In jewelry and stocks tn her name, al! of which he is ready to de- ‘ver when required. ONLY AS FRIENDS, It is believed from what information he gives of his future policy that the Marquis will resist any Judiciai settlement of the domestic broil, bat that he will agree to an amicable separation. The pro- ceedings are likely to prove very protracted. WE TOLD YOU 80. As the readers of the HERALD learned on Sunday morning, there never was the slightest foundation for the Figaro’s slanderous assertion that Mme. Patti nad eloped from St. Petersburg with the tenor Nicolini. Mme. Patti printed a card in the Figaro yesterday protesting against that journal’ statement and pronouncing it utterly false.- Thug the HeraLp had the true story of the Patti-Caux trouble from Berlin before it was known In Paris or London. . AWAY SIIE GOES. Adelina Patti will not remain until the conclusion of the case. She put in her evidence yesterday and filed all the necessary legal papers. She left Paris last evening at eight o’clock for Vienna, accom- panted by her matd and agent, to fill an engagement there. SERVIA AND TURKEY COME TO TERMS. Tho most important nows in rogard to tho Eastern question comes from Constantinople, A telegram from there states that an understanding was finally established yesterday between the Porte and Servin, Tho protocol will certainly bo signed to-day, The Turka will evacuate Servian territory within twelve days after the signing of tho protocol. The Servian delegates will subsequently hand the Porte a note giving guarantces for the future, Tho note will treat of four points, viz, :— First-—The erection of new fortifications in Servia. Second—The hoisting of tho Ottoman flag side by side with that of Servia on existing forts, Third—The recognition of equal rights of Jows and Christians. Fourth—Tho prevention of armed bands from cross- ing the frontier, The questions of the appointment of an Ottoman agent in Belgrade and the future ownership of Little Zworntk are set aside for the present. A DOUBTFUL, STATEMENT, ‘The Times in its second edition published a despatch from its St. Petersburg correspondent saying:—“An extraordinary council of tho Ministers was hela here on Monday, at which the Czar presided, General Igna- ticff was present. I Jearn on the best authority that 19 was decided to demobilize the Russian army whea peace ts signed between the Porte and Servia and Mon- tenegro.” NO OPFICIAL COGNIZANCE, , In the House of Commons, yesterday afternoon, Ton. Robert Bourke, Under Secretary for the Foreign Department, in reply to a question by Sir Henry Wolff (conservative), member jor Christ Church, said the government had received oo coniirmation of tho statement published in the second edition of the Times, that it was decided at tho extraordinary council of Ministers at St. Petersburg yesterday to demobilize the Russian army when poace js signed between the Porte and Servia and Montenegro, Lurd Dervy visited Count Schouvalof, the Russian Ambassador at London, wha likewise had no tuformation on the subject, DON'T KNOW IT AT St. PETERSECRG, A Bt. Petersburg despatch soys that pothing is known there of the news reported in the second edition of the London Times yesterday that an ex- traordinary council of Ministers bad been held and that it was decided that the Russian army should be demobilized when pence was sigued between Turkey and Servia and Montenegro, The conclusion of peace between Servia and Turkey would bring the Eastern question back to the same position as at the tume of the Berlin memorandum. When poaco is con- cluded the moment will, therefore, have arrived when the questiog of the amelioration of the condition of the Christians must again be raised, WILE THERE BE PEACE? Tho Political Correspondence, of Vienna, yesterday pablished the following special despatch from St, Pee | tersbyrg:—“Announcoments of immediately impenis jing military action are premature, Tuere is, however, in any case, a prospect that energetic steps will be taken, ‘The decision depends on tho replies of the Powers to the Russian circular, Tho answer of Eng land 18 expected at the end of the present week.” WHAT TURKEY WILL CONCEDE, A Vienna correspondent says the general declara- j,vons mado by Turkey of her willingness to give