The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, . PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, grdlished every tn the year, ‘Three cents y_ excluded). Th doltars per Bar. or at Tate of one doliur per month ior fny period leva ix monthe, or five dollurs fersix months, .dunday edition included. tree of postage. ‘AL! business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must Le nddressed 8: Kk HERALD. Kies and hould be properly seated, ed comm ‘will not be returned, oe TEILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH , SON OFFICE, OF, THE NEW YORK HERALD— ARis OFFICE-AVENUE DE TOPEKA, SAPLEN OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACK. Fubseriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the snme terms a w York, VOLUME XLII ~~ AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, OLYMPIC THEATRE—Rovxp tux Ciocs, GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Two Onrnans, BOOTH’S THEATRE—Firtu Avernum FIFTH AVENUE THEATER: WALLACK’S THEATRE—A Moning Catt. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tus Damicurrrs, NEW YORK AQUARIU EAGLE THEATRE—Aimek. STADT THEATRE—azv NIBLO'S GARDEN—A TIVOLI THEATRE BAN FRANCISCO MINS’ KELLY & LEON'S MI EGYPTIAN HALL--Sx: NO. 854 BROADWAY— PARISIAN VARIETIF: COLUMBIA OPERA HOUS THIRD AVENUE THEATER ACADEMY OF DESIG THEATRE COMIQUE: GILMORE'S GARDE BROOKLYN RINK—Pati: TONY PASTOR'S THEATK! sartonaL Vanimrr, Burren Han.” TRIPLE SHEET. NOTICE TO COUNTRY DKALERS, ‘The Adams Express Company run a special newspaper in over the Pennsylvania Raliroad and its connection: ving Jersey City at a quarter past four A. M. daily ‘and Sanday, earrying the rogatar edition of the Hunaun ax Jar West ax Harrisburg ana Sontn to Washington, reaching Fhiiludelpbin ata quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P.M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York: to-day will be Watt Street Yrsterpay.—The stock market was active and there was a general rally in prices. This was chiofly observable in the coal stocks, Western Union and New York Central. Gold opened at 104%, declined to 10434, and closed weak at 10453. Government bonds wero feverish andclosed weaker, while railroad bonds were irregular. Tue Granp Dukes have left us as quietly and unexpectedly as they came. arranged according to an original plan, is described in another column. AyotnerR New Yorker is chasing an enor mous English fortune. May nobody ‘cross his ecent.” Let Everrsopy of a saving disposition emi- grate to Flatbush, where taxpayers have becn receiving charity coal this wintet Tue Prospects or “the music of the future’ gre discussed at length in the Hrranp today, the father of said music taking an active part in tho discussion. Tur Ovation tendered Mr. Hayes by the citi- tens of Columbus last evening was a genuine outburst of feeling. Men of all parties bade him Godspeed, women blessed him, and little chil- dren sang to him. Tur Prosect of a new thoroughfare along the line of the Brooklyn Bridge roadway does not seem to make rapid headway. The owners of real estate in the Fourth ward are still in doubt as to their real interests. Tne Carnivat, which was thought to be dead, is resuscitated, and its friends predict its suc- cess. Anything that will add to the innocent amusements of the city is always welcome, but it should be known who are to be the managers of the proposed festival before the public in- dorses it. If we are to have a carnival in New York wo cannot be too careful about the manner in which it is planned and executed. Tur Testmony given yesterday in the Juve- nile Guardian Society case bore hard upon Mr. Robertson, but harder upon the society's man- agers. The honesty of these gentlemen is probably as great as is claimed by their friends, but the public long ago learned thatincapacity and carelessness in the selection of employés may work more harm than dishonesty ever did. There is hardly a charity, with its dependents, which will not be subjected to suspicion by the manifest blunder of this perfectly respectable Board of Managers. Orgnatioxs on Froop Rock, in the Hell Gate channel, are once more progressing, and General Newton is again busy directing the excavation of that dangerous obstruction to naviga- tion. We print elsewhere some interesting details regarding the work. With regard to the effects of the clearing out of the Hell Gate channel on tho tidal ecur- rents, we would repeat the statement made by the Heratp while the operations for the removal of Hallett’s Point Reef were approaching completion. By increasing the section of the channel the currents wil) be increased some- what in force, but decreased in duration. The absence of obstructions will render navigation safe for the largest ships; therefore, although they may be carried through the channel with increased speed, no apprehensions need be enter- Tux Weatnen.—vV ult., “In the southwest, a disturbance is dev: ing in Mexico,” and each day since then havo called attention to tho steady indications of ite approach to the western coast of the Gulf. Yes- terday morning the storm area manifested fteclf at Indianola and Galveston, and is now moving toward Louisiana and tho Gulf States. Another area of low pressure is advancing eastward from Montana and Wyo- ting. Due notice of the approach of thisdisturb- nce was also published in the Hrratp. The pressure continues low on the const of Nova footia. The highest barometer is now in tho lake and Ohio Valley districts. Clondinesa pre- vaile in tho Northwest, tho Southwest and tho South Atlantic coast, with par clondy weather in the Northeastern At all Northern and Central districts eather prevails. Tho temperature has risen considerably in the Northwest and South- Snow has fallen at Cheyenne, and rain at and. Indianola, Texas. The rivers have fallen slightly at all points. During to-day heavy rains are probable in the Western Gulf States, and light snow or rain in the Missouri Valley. The weather in New York will be cool clear or partly cloudy. - ee : 4 ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1877.-TRIPLE Light for Louisia ‘The State which has suffered most from the rascalities of carpet-bag rule, and on which the iron hand of military interference has pressed most heavily, is Louisiana, the most important commercially of all the Southern States. New Orleans, its great commercial city, is the centre of trade and grand entrepot of commerce for the region which borders on the Lower Mississippi and its tributaries. The prosperity of that vast region has been arrested for many years by the civil disorder, interruption of business, and prostration of confidence which have resulted from the unsettled political condi- tion of the State of Louisiana. Bogus State governments, detested and repudiated by the people, governments which could never have stood for a day unless propped by fed- eral bayonets, have misruled the State, op- pressed it with taxes, destroyed tho value of property and diffused widespread diacon- tent among the better classes of the popula- tion, making Louisiana the most undesir- able place of residence in the United States since the close of the civil war. There is & pYospect now that the iron heel of military power will be lifted and the State restored to the rights and blessings of self-government as soon as the electoral count is completed at Washington. If the miscreant filibusters who are striving to | prevent an election could have their way this hopeful prospect would be eclipsed and destroyed. If the crazy democratic fili- busters should succeed in their mad pro- ject Senator Morton will be elected President of the Senate and will become President of tho United States. Everybody knows what the sentiments of this champion flaunter of the bloody shirt are respecting the people of Louisiana. Nobody can doubt that one of the first acts of his administration would be an emphatic recognition of the Packard government. Morton as President would pour troops enough into Louisiana to subdue all opposition. To borrow a Scrip- ture phrase, Morton’s little finger would be thicker than the loins of President Grant, Instead of relief the people of Louisiana would find their oppression continued by a will as strong os Grant's, impelled by o fanatical, headlong malignity to which President Grant is a stranger. If the lunatic filibusters should succeed in making Mor- ton President the long suffering people of Louisiana would have reason to curse them. President Grant is sensible how unfor- tunate he was in being heir to a Southern policy established by the republican party in its flerce contests with Andrew Johnson. He does not wish to leave such a heritage to his successor. He has signified his inten- tion to relieve Mr. Hayes of all embarrass- ment on this subject by recognizing the Nicholls government and changing his orders to General Augur as soon as the new President is declared elected. Such an act by the outgoing President would leave his successor no choice. President Hayes could only accept the Nicholls government as an accomplished fact. The fanatical, bull-dozing section of his own party would have no opportunity for re- monstrance and no means of thwarting the well known wishes of the new President. SHEET. be due to them for the escape of the Repub- lic from a stupendous peril and the deliv- erance of the South from a more malignant form of federal domination than they have yet experienced. Insidious Hostility to Rapid Transit. A bill was introduced in the Assembly a week or two since, and another in the Sen- ate more recently, of which the effect would be to embarrass, obstruct, postpone and de- feat rapid transit. Bills got up with this intention deserve and must expect no mercy from the people of this metropolis. The Assembly bill was drafted, or at least intro- duced, by o prominent member from this city. No city member who has a proper regard for his reputation can afford to stab rapid transit under the fifth rib, or to lend himself either designedly or un- knowingly to the artful schemes of the horse car companies. No resident of this city who aids these companies in their efforts to defeat rapid transit need ever expect an- other election from our citizens. If he is blind or stupid enough to be bamboozled by the horse car companies he is unfit to be a member of the Legislature, and if he lends himself to be their conscious tool the case against him is still worse. Even if he is the innocent dupe of the horse car companies he cannot escape imputations fatal to his honor. These soulless corporations aro known to be wealthy and unscrupulous ; nobody doubts their willingness to spend money profusely to defeat rapid transit; and when a city member acts against the nearly unanimous sontiment of his con- stituents in serving the ends of these cor- porations they will be apt to put their own construction on his motives, In proportion as he is a man of known intelligence will bo the difficulty of believing that he is a dupe and not an accomplice. The Assembly bill to which we have referred is framed for the purpose of embarrassing the rapid transit companies by raising and prolonging ques- tions respecting compensation to owners of private property. The present rapid transit law gives them sufficient protection, and the stealthy object of the new bill is to enable them to institute vexatious and dilatory suits in the courts and to obstruct rapid transit under the mask of a feigned solici- tude for private rights of property. Every such deceitful mask must be torn offand the abettors of the horse car companies be exposed to the gaze of their betrayed fellow citizens. The Senate bill, introduced a day ortwo since by Senator Wagstaff, also from this city, discloses equal hostility to rapid tran- sit undera different disgnise, Itin effect prohibits any but underground roads through the centres of blocks, and contains provisions respecting compensation which would enable private owners to stave off their construction forever by dilatory pro- ceedings in the courts. We say, and say with emphasis, that no member of either branch of the Legislature from this city who values his reputation, can afford to be the open or the coyert tool of the horse car com- Board can increase but not decrease the rate of toll fixed by the Legislature for the year it might be well if Lieutenant Gov- ernor Dorsheimer’s policy should be carried even further than he proposes, The rates should be put by the Legislature so lows to be merely nominal, leaving the Canal Board management as flexible as that of the railroads and enabling the canals to meet and compete with the railroad trick of reducing freights during the season of navi- gation. Ifwe pursue this policy we shall have tolls low enough to satisfy oll interests and the power to compete at all times with the railroads. We shall also insure the per- manency of our canal system, which is of great importance to New York, and which would be endangered by making the main- tenance of the canals a charge on the State. Progress of the Count Yesterday. A good deal of time was wasted by the filibusters yesterday, but they gained no real advantage. Great credit is due to Speaker Randall for his vigor and firmness in ruling against dilatory motions, and to Mr. Fernando Wood for the parliamentary skill and invincible persistence with which he confronted the obstructionists, There is good reason to believe that tho business will be ended to-day, to the great relief of public anxiety. The filibusters made a despernte fight yes- terday throughout the greater part of the day, and succeeded in consuming seven or eight hours over the case of South Carolina, which ought to have been despatched in two. They were at last brought to terms by Mr. Wood, who compelled them to choose between a more reasonable course and an all night session for the purpose of completing the count. A vote was taken on the South Carolina decision of the commis- sion; notice was sent to the Senate; the joint convention reassembled, and the votes of South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas were counted in regular order. Then the Vermont certificate was opened and objected to, when a disgusting scene was enacted by the irrepressible filibuster, Springer. Springer was not drunk, but had he been he could not have committed more flagrant breaches of parliamentary decorum. His headlong zeal and strength of lungs did not permit him to be easily put down, and he received more than was due of the indulgence usually bestowed on a maniac. After the objections to Vermont had been presented the Senate retired, when the House took a recess until ten o'clock this morning, The counting of the votes will undoubtedly be successfully concluded to-day in spite of the ranting, ob- structive filibusters, After Vermont, Vir- ginia and West Virginia will be counted without loss of time, and ifthe filibusters make, fight on Wisconsin the House will be kept in continuous session until that last State is disposed of. The Senate behaved admirably on the Vermont caso after retir- ing to their chamber. With prompt unan- imity they voted down the objections as frivolous and are ready to go again into panies in their deadly hostility to rapid tran- sit, Our Canal System and Low Tolls. The Canal Board mef yesterday ond If this wise purpose of General Grant should be frustrated by the idiotic demo- cratic filibusters the Southern people will know what value they onght to set on the professions-of their false democratic friends in the North. The President who comes into office on the 4th of March will be either the truculent Morton, with the will and the power to sustain Pack- ard, or the kindly disposed Hayes, with his course already marked out for him by President Grant and thereby exempted from all republican opposition to his own right impulses. Dothe demented filibus- ters really want Morton for President? Aro they willing to be responsible to the country for a result which the Southern people have so much reason to deprecate? Will the South ever again trust the democratic party if it betrays them in this emergency and surrenders them to the tender mercies of federal bayonets controlled by such a man as Morton? If the electoral count is completed to-day the liberties of Louisiana will be established on a secure foundation before the close of the week. President Grant declared his sentiments explicitly enough in tho inter- view last Sunday, although it then seemed to be his purpose to keep hands off, main- tain the status quo and leave the decision of the Louisiana question to the untrammelled action of his successor. But since Sunday, knowing perfectly well that the views of his successor coincide with his own, and will- ing to give a strong support to the moder- ate democrats, he has decided to recognize Nicholls as soon as Mr. Hayes is declared elected. He expressed himself so strongly to that effect in a conversation with Colonel Burke, day before yesterday, that the latter sent this reassuring despatch to Governor Nicholls :— Wasrxatox, Feb. 27, 1877. @ovornor F, T, Nicnon.s, New Oricans:— I have ios} had a satisiactory interview with the President. lo eays be 3s satisfied that tho Nicholls yornment is the government which sbould stand, because it 18 suse je State; that tho tained by the best clements o| Packard government cannot exist without tho support of troops; that the sentiment of the country is clearly opposed to tho further use of troops in nphulding a State government; that in his opinion there would no interference with the Nicholis government unies curried away by tho possession of power, excesses were committed. . A BURKE, On the strength of this assurance an agreement has been made by the Louisiana democrats to postpone the election of a United States Senator until the extra ses- sion of the Louisiana Legislature. The call for the extra session was issued by Governor Nicholls yesterday. But order, quiet and the blessings of tree government in Louis- inna hang suspended on the action of the House of Representatives at Washington to- day. If the mad revolutionary schemes of the filibusters are not squelchei by vigorous action on the part of moderate democrats the Nicholls government and the people of Louisiana will be left to take what they can get from a federal ndministration of which Morton, the relentless Moloch of the bloody-shirt fanatics, will be the pre- | siding genius and the directing head. We are contident that the conservative demo- erats of the House will pull the count throngh to-day; but the obstruction lu- natics nevertheless deserve the indignant execration of the country for the revolution- ary efforts they are making. No thanks will adopted the toll sheet which is to be sub- mitted to the Legislature fixing the rates for the coming season of navigation. The Comptroller desired that the rates should be made the same as last year, but Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer favored reduced rates, and the sheet submitted by him prevailed. The Lieutenant Governor, although a citizen of Buffalo, admits that enough revenue should be collected from tolls to meet all the expenditures of the canals, but he desires to place the fixed rates low, siace, if they should prove insufficient for the purpose of necessary expenses, the Canal Board has the authority under the law to increase them, while it is prohibited from decreasing them from the amounts adopted by the Legislature. The friends of the Erie Canal make a mis- take, we think, in advocating the entire abolition of tolls and pressing their favorite theory of ‘Canals as free as the river, the lake or the ocean.” It requires money to maintain and repair these State works, and the surest way to destroy them is to attempt to support them by taxation. Many canal men insist that tolls are a tax directly on the boatmen and indirectly on. com- merce—a tax, as Governor Seymour says, on ‘food and fuel and lumber and other crude materials which lie at tho basis of all industry.” The fallaciousness of this reason- ing is almost transparent. The State built these water ways at a heavy cost, for the advantage both of New York and the great West, to bring the commerce of the latter to the seaboard and to aid in establishing the commercial supremacy of the metropolis, The boatman uses this water way and pays for the privilege in the shape of tolls on the cargo he carries. His charges for transportation are rated and his profits calculated accordingly. If the canals did not exist the business of the boat- man would not exist. Tho produce of the West would come to us wholly by rail, and wo should be at the mercy of the railroad corporations as to the cost of transportation. It may be said that, as we have both canals and railroads, if we abolish tolls and make the canals free freight will be carried on them at a very low rate, the railroads will be compelled to make their charges for trans- portation on a corresponding scale and com- merce will reap the benefit. But the canals must be maintained and kept in repnir, and if the cost is not paid through tolls it must fall on the people of the State in the shape of taxation. Thus we should not only lose in one direction what wo might possibly gain in another, but the people of New York would be burdened with the whole ex- pense of maintaining canals which benefit the Western States as much as they benefit our ; own—an expense which when met by tolls is distributed fairly among all those who reap the benefit of our canal system. Our trne canal policy is very simple. We should abandon all except the Erie, Oswego and Champlain canals and the necessary feeders, which should be retained only as feeders. The new constitutional system will simplify the canal munagement and enable us to reduce the cost of maintenance to the lowest ‘possible point. We should collect only just sufficient toll to meet the year's necessary expenses. As the Canal, joint convention as soon as the House shall give them notice. We are at ‘‘the begin- ning of the end.” The Old, Old Story. The old, old story was told again in the Assembly yesterday. A member of that august body rose to a question of privilege, and, after making the startling announce- ment that a member of the House had been approached with offers of money to influ- ence his decision on legislation, moved that an investigation of the case be made by the Committee on Privi- leges and Elections. This brought Mr. Husted to his feet, and the ex-Speaker sug- gested that the name of the approached member should be given, in order to facili- tate the inquiry. But the mover, with an air of mystery, refused to disclose the name of the incorruptible representative at pres- ent, and left the House to guess perplexedly at the legislative rara avis and the lobbymen to speculate anxiously as to which of them had been stupid enough to make a bid for a “‘squealer.”” It is not likely that the investigation will bring forth any fruits. Ever’ since the gen- eral-in-chief of the grand army of the lobby testified under oath that he had received o hundred thousand dollars or thereabouts from a railroad corporation on consideration that he should walk up and down State street hill smoking cigars, and escaped the State Prison, both bribers and bribo takers have snapped their fin- gers at committeen of inquiry. Besides, who supposes that seven Assemblymen could be got together who would make any discovery in relation to bribery? Why should they interfere with tho gentle- men who tried to buy the Inst indignant Assemblyman who demands an investiga- tion? Don't they know how it is them- selves? And is not this incorruptible story an old ono in legislative annals? To be sure it is. Tho Committee on Privileges and Elections can employ their time more profitably than in any such business. Should There satel isin Investigation? Governor Bedlo no doubt acted con- scientiously and in his own judgment simply performed his duty when he deter- mined on enforcing the sentence of the law in the case of Oschwald and Ryan, the re- puted murderers of Officer Brock. Tho Governor believed the men to be guilty. In his own words, used to a Henarp re- porter, ‘‘there was not a shadow of doubt in his mind” as to their guilt, and hence his refusal to interfere with their execution. But other persons, just as con- scientious as Governor Bedle and quite as anxious as he can be to bring offenders against the law to punishment, are not 80 well satisfied that Ryan and Oschwald were the real murderers of Officer Brock, and they desire, in justice to the dead as well as to the living, that all doubt on the question shall be cleared away. Why should not tho case be thoroughly investigated, and why should not the anony- mous letters and all other clews that are likely to lead to the discovery of the truth be vigilantly followed up? Governor Bedle and Judge Depue are sound lawyers and honest men, but as such they will not insist on the infnllibility of their judgment. It is just possi- ble that tho strong and unyielding belief in the guilt of the two dead men en- tertained by Governor Bedle influences the opinion he expresses to our reporter in an interview published elsewhere, that the anonymous letters are “of no importance whatever,” and are only ‘an artful dodge to clear Oschwald and Ryan.” There are two of these letters—one which was sent to Oschwald’s counsel during the trial and another which has been pub- lished in the Hznawp. The latter of these was written too late to be used in saving the two men’s lives, and hence that at least could not have been an “artful dodge.” Governor Bedle states that he has compared the letter first received, and which is in his possession, with the fac-simile of that subsequently received by the Hrnarp, and that they bear no_ similarity to each other. But why not allow the letter held by him to be seen and pub- lished side by side with the Henaxp letter? Why, in short, should any obstructions be thrown in the way of the discovery of the real murderer of Officer Brock if he is still unpunished? Why should not the Jersey authorities lead in the effort to unearth the whole truth? Will not their indifference, their bad temper when the subject is broached, and their failuro to aid in bringing every clew to light, be construed as a proof that the guilt of Ryan and Oschwald is not so certain, and an evidence of their fear that Jersey justice may, in this instance, have sent two inno- cent men to dishonored graves? Suicide or Murder? There is a mystery about the fate of Kate Riedl which in the cause of justice should be unrayelled. The young girl found dead on Staten Island cannot speak. Her voice was silenced before her body was discov- ered. The one thing certain is that she died by poison, and the supposition is that the poison was one which kills instantaneously and surely. Either she committed suicide knowingly, then, or the drug was adminis- tered to her by another person, or she was induced by some one to swallow it, in igno- rance of its deadly effect. Everything that has come to light about the girl thus far is adverse to the theory of intentional self- destruction. She was young, good looking, without moral scruples regarding her course of life, willing to enjoy herself as well as she could, and not in immediate suffering or poverty or fear of dis- grace. Ske had been o mother be- fore, and it is only reasonable to believe that the prospect of becoming a mother again could only have been annoying to her inasmuch as it was likely to entail on her the care ofachild. There is no reason to suspect that her condition would have driven her to suicide, while there is good ground for supposing that the chance of relieving herself of the trouble and expense ofan infant might have induced her to adopt any supposed remedy that might have been suggested or offered by some person in whom she placed confidence, But, if she had determined to take her own life, no reasonable cause can be assigned why she should have wandered away from home to Staten Island, and died by her own hand in a retired spot on the public highway. Let us suppose that some person, on whom she was a burden, and whose anxiety to be rid of her was increased by the knowledge of her condition, had resolved to take her life. It would have been easy and natural for him to have persuaded the confiding girl to consent to escape the coming burden ; to have given her a drug and made her believe it was a swift and certain relief from her condition when in fact it was a deadly poison ; to have induced her to go to Staten Island or some other place where she was unknown instead of taking the medicine in her own room whore inquiry might be made as to the cause of her illness, and under this pretence and by means of this trap to have caused her death. It would be well for the police to direct their investigation to the discovery whether any person went with the poor girl to Staten island shortly before her death, as such a visit might have been made for the purpose of selecting a spot suitable for taking the medicine with which, under this theory, she would have supposed she was supplied; whether any person be- trayed a knowledge that she had gone to Staten Island, and whether any person an- swering the description of those associated with the deceased can be found to have pur- chased prussic acid or to have been in a position to obtain possession of such a deadly poison. Certainly tho case requires much more searching inquiry than it has yet received. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Justice Clifford also has a temper, Will Hayes keep Fish im the Cabinet? It is now 229 nights betore Christmas. ‘Tilden resembles Lerdo; but O Lerdo! Sunset Cox 1s no longer a Tilden man. Matt Carpenter is taking blue ginss pills. David Dudley Field’s anger rises iro ard ire, The free lunches are kept going during Lent. Sir Alexander T. Gait, of Montreal, is at the Gilsoy. Secretary Robeson will become a sub-marine diver, When Shellabarger gapes he looks like Emily Sol- dene. it is now thought that Cameron will squeeze through. Did it ever occur to the theologians that cheoso ts an animal food? Hegel calls music “architecture transferred from space to time.’” Do not teach your boy to chew tobacco, or he will become a miniature, Secretary of the Senate Gorham aspiros to be a Son- ator trom California, Tho JMustrated London News bas sent an artist to Ine terview Schliemann, The radical Newark Advertiser now calls them “tho gentlemen of the South.” Mr. W. de Meissner, Secret of the Russian Loga- tion at Wasbington, Is at the Union Square, Remember, young man, that Washington did not sign his name to a false check at Va'ley Forge. “prutus:”—You are right about Shakespeare. But did you ever hear of his speaking of a Spitz dog? The democrats think they havo as much right to Donn Piatt as tho republicans have to Bob Ingersoll, Rochester Democrat:—'1ondon weather is now man. aged principally by the New York Hrnavp’s observer.” Keppler, the cartoonist, is making a comic Gerinan paper out of Puck. The drawings aro epecially good. From our reports this morning tho probabilities are that March will come in like Hayes and go out like Grant. Evening Telegram:—“A Boston street car conductor is a divinity student, and he pulls the strap simply for the purpose of studying human nature. What a chance he would have on a night car on the Third ave- nue line!” Tho Kansas City Times will insist that politicians are prono to go on a “bust:’’ but it forgets that Vinnio Ream is a “buster,” TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. ened ING SN ate THE UNCERTAIN EAST, The Servian Skuptchina Adopts the Conditions of Peace. SHALL TURKEY HAVE MORE TIME? Russia Awaiting Replies to Prince Gortschakoff’s Circular. . RELATIONS BETWEEN GERMANY AND FRANCE, <~ Patti's Repudiation of the Figaro Slander. {BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. ] Loxpox, March 1, 1877. The principal nows from the East is tho ratifie cation by tho Great Skuptchina of Servia of the conditions of pence agreed to by the Servian representatives at Constantinople recently. Servia has eecured very favorable terms undes the circumstances, and if Russia should make up hes mind to go to war to-morrow the conditions of peace between Turkey and Servia will not stand mach in her way. Tho Turkish troops wilt be removed from Ser- vian soil and a breathing spaco allowed the little principality to recruit her shattered strength before the final struggle for existence comes, which Turkey must make soouer or later, MEKTING OF THE GRRAT SKUPTSCHINA. A despatch from Belgrade says: —'The Great Skupts: china assembied on Monday, and has since been occu pied in verifying tho election of members and forming comiittecs, Peace conditions will be submitted to the Skuptscbina to-day. It is believed thoy will be ace cepted.” ‘TUE PEACE CONDITIONS ADOPTED. —“*The Skupts- A later despatch from Belgra: china has adopted the peace cor THR SKUPTSOHINA CLOSED. A despatch from Belgrade states that after the Skuptechina had adopted the basis of peaco the sesston was closed, 1ts mission having been accomplished, WIY THE SESSION WAS CLOSED. Apectal despatch from Belgrade to the Political Correspondence ot Viena says the hasty closing of the Skuptschina was both legal and imperatively neces- sary to avert bale(ul cxtravagauces affecting both the government aod the country. Several socialists have been arrested in Servia, FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THR MEETING. A deepatch from Pesth reports that tho sitting of the Skuptschina lasted three hours, There was great oxcitement in the chamber. Prince Milan made a speech which cccupted an hour in the delivery. He recapitulated the causes of the war, and announced that his alliance with Montenogro stillexisted, Russia bad given Servia permission to conclude peace, Turkey had refused to prolong the armistico if peace was not concluded immediately. THY DISMISSAL OF THE DEPUTIES 4 BUCCESS, A despatch from Belgrade says the reading of the Prince’s decree dlssolving the Skuptschina produced a decided sensation among tho Deputies, but the command was obeyed, The dismis- sal of the members without giving them an opportunity to ask embarrassing questions is a decided success for the Ministry. Soveral agitators have been shot in the interior of the counjry, This decided step on the partof the government may pre vent further agitation. INSURING SBRVHA’S NEUTRALITY. The samo despatch says Austria will concentrate an army corps on the Servian frontier, which will effecta- ally guarantee the neutrality of Servia. TUE PACK CONDSTIONS TO BE SIGNED. A despatch trom Constantinople says it 1s announced that the conditions of peace with Servia will be signed at noon on Thursday. ‘THY ARNISTICE WITH MONTENEGRO. A despatch from Constantinople says the armistice with Montenegro bas been prolonged twonty days to allow timo for peace negotiations, The Montenegrin delegates will arrive in Constantinopic on the 2d of March, A CANARD PROM BERIAN. A despatch to the Pall Malt Gazette from Berlin says:—''It is belteved hero that the Russian army will shortly be demobilized.’? SHALL TURKEY HAVE MORE TIMB? Lord Derby's suggestion that a year’s time be granted the Porte to prove tho gincerity of its promises of reform meets with increasing favor. A PEACEFUL LULL. ‘Tho general aspect of affairs is decidedly peaceable. Tho statement that Russia 1s pressing for an answer to Prince Gortechakoft’s circular is withouy foundation. The Powers appear, on tho contrary, to have post- poned thoir replies wath her approval. RUSSIA AWAITING THB REPLIES, Tne Czar’s government is believed to bs of the opinion that after the issue of the circalar an unfavore able reply from any of the Powers would seem tv com- pei it to a course of action which might not be prudent, aud it is gard to be desirous of coming toa resolution unfettered by such considerations. THE “TIMES”? ON THE SITUATION. The Times, ina leading article, says:—‘*Wo do not think there is mach prospect of an agreement of the Powers to give Turkey timo to effect the reforms pro- posed by the Conferenco.”” The article concludes as foliows:—*'Wo need not inquire what probability there ja that Ragsia will disband her armies because the Porte is willing, three years hence, to resumo the Conference and to review its decision on the subject of guarantocs,’? GENERAL IGNATIRFP’S MOVEMENTS. A despatch from Vienna says the Political Corn spondence publishes the following telegrams from St, Petersbarg:—“General Ignatieff will soon leave for Vienna, Berlin and Paris, Military operations during the present season are inprobable.’* Wil RUSSIA ACCEPT HALF MEASURES? “The opinion that Rassia will content herself with a united demonstration of European fleets in the Bos- phorus is by no means in harmony with the pro grammo of tho Russtan government.” RUSSIAN PRESS CENSORSIIP. A Vionna special says tho St. Petersburg Vidomistt has been threatencd with suspension if it continues to agitate in favor of war, ROUMANIAN PINANCES, The Vienna despatch says it seems that the financial quostion has at last turned the ecale in Roomania, M. Sturdza, the new Minister of Finance, refused to ac- copt office unless three radical measures wero adopted, viz., reduction of armaments, sale of State domains, and increase of taxation, Consequently not only have no reserves been called out, but 4,000 of tho standing army have been disbanded. The Mintater o! tendered his resignation, bat tho other Minister em, convinced that tho foregoing policy is the only way of avoiding 4 financial collapse which is imminent, Aspocial commission is to be appointed to receive all funds destined for the payment of interest on and the reduction of the State debt. DISTRESS IN ASIATIO TURKRY. The # to-day publishes a letter from Pera, dated February 23, which says;—**The condition of most of the Asiatic provinces of Turkey in consequence of the drain of men from agricultural labors to the army te described as deplorable, and almost suro, if continued, to loud to a moro disastrous famino than that of 1874, GHRMANY AND PRANOE ON PRIEKDLY THIS. 1. 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