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

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. JAMES , ished day tn the yom. Yeuk, or at rate of one dellar per month for any peiriod seus Shan six months, or Ovo dollars (or six mout Sunday stage. ews letters or selegraphic despatches-mest ew Yorn Hxra.p. sais ciletiias ~ de returned. & NEW YORK HERAI.D— EEN Sreket FS 4 HCE. AY DE L'OPERA. E—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. ‘Subscri 2 and advertisements will be received end forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. PARK THEATRE—Otn Boanpixe Horse OLYMPIC THEATRE—Je UNION SQUARE THEA’ NEW YORK aQuaRIUM EAGLE THEATRE—Arwxe. GERMANIA THEATRE—Dise MaxwaEn, STADT THEATRE—AzvxINK NIBLO’S GA2DEN—Anoc’ BOWERY THEATRE-Uxoen tu BROADWAY THEATRE—Troppew Dows. GRANv OPERA ROUSE—Two Onrnans TONY PASTOR'S THEA TIVOLI THEATRE—Vannety. NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM—Oumosmas. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, EGYPTIAN HALL—Sxssaric ‘TIONAL VARTETY. GILMORE'S GARDEN—Trorrina, PARISIAN VARIETIEs. ‘The Adams Express Company run a train over the Pennsylvania Railrond an ne Jersey City wt & quartet past four v, carrying the regular edition of the Hx Harrisburg und South to Washington, reaching delphia abw quarter past six A. M. and Washington atone P.M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy, probably with a threat- ening of rain. its connec A. M. datly und LD us tar War Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock market was dull and prices were generally quiet. There wae a slight advance in the telegraph stocks, and n falling off of 15g and 32g in Pacific Mail | and Burlington and Quincy respectively. Gold opened at 1045, rose to 105, declined to 104% and closed at 104%. Government and railroad bonds were active, the latter generally at lower prices. Money on call was easy at from 2 to 3 per cent. Tne Assets of the New Jersey Mutual are still as invisible to the receiver as public respect is to the filibusters. Tae Evevatep Rartroap PLatrorms will no longer be provided with facilities for skating. See Judge Sanford’s decisi Waar Wu He Do Witt It!—Two wit- nesses testified yesterday that Mr. Park tried to repurchase the Emma mino at cost. Patriotism was more than usually active yes terday. It was pension day as well as inaugura- tion day, yet no fraudulent papers were pre- sented. Mr. Secretary Lyncn’s Story of the Dock Department's work differs so much from other recitals upon the same topic that even through | freshness alone it is quite interesting. A TreaTRE MANAGER said yesterday that blood and thunder pays best, but the gentlemen whoacted upon this idea in Congress last week found the legitimate drama too much for them. Ir Is Suprosep that the courts will decide to- day whether or not the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company is competent to manage its own business. Owners of the company’s stock are not on the Bench, or the nature of the decision could be aceurately foreshadowed. Tue Next Bratirication of the madhouse nurse will probably take place in Brooklyn, the Kings ecéunty Supervisors having appointed an early day for the investigation of the charge of brutal treatment of an inmate of the Flatbush Asylum. It Isto Be Hopen that the Methodist preachers will recede from their desire to exclude the press from their Monday conference in New York. If they that are sick need a physician, and the press is as ribald, licentious, unprincipled, &c., asthe pulpit sometimes says it is, it should be admitted to every holy circle. Brivise Cotumpta wants er to he tied tighter to the Dominion by the iron thread of the long promised Pacific Railway, or to be entirely untied. Perhaps when the critical moment comes she will discover that loyalty is stronger than steel, and that the bonds of brotherhocd are a better investment than railway bonds. Tr Arrears that in the earlier portion of the night in which the Margaret and Lucy was wrecked with such dreadful results there was no member of the Life Saving Service on duty on the beach. Why the beach patrols should not go on duty at sunset, for the same reason that lighthouse Jamps are lighted at that hour, docs not appear. But several dead men explain why they should. ‘Tar Weatner.—The chiet’ feature of yeater- day's weather was the advauce of a great area of high pressure over the whole region cast of the Missouri and Mississippi and southward of the Bt. Lawrence and Nova Scotia. Notwith- standing the density of the atmosphere a considerable area of precipitation was central over the lower lake region, attended by brisk to high winds. Tho weather was clear west of the Alleghanies and partly cloudy and cloudy over the Middlo | and Easterf States. A depression is now moving ostward from Western Dakota, with brisk | winds. Tho highest pressure is in the Lower Mixsissippi Valley, having moved southeastward Truin Nebraska during the day. Heavy rain tell it Vicksburg and Shreveport, and light rain at Cuiro, Nashville and Kuoxville. Snow fell xt the latter place in the. morning. In- lications of another Gulf depression continue. High winds prevail on the Western Gult coast. The temperature is low at all points except in the Sonth Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States. The Ohio hae risen fourteen i at Pittsburg and two inches at Cincinnati, Very élight changes have occurred in the rivers. Tho weather in New York today will be warmer and partly cloudy, probably with » threatening of rain. —_— —__—. EW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Inaugural Address. stance or temper. distrasting the new President's ability to fulfil the engagements which he has volun- teered to make. Indeed, he will find it easier to keep his excellent promises than to break them. They reflect the just sentiment and deliberate wishes of a majority of the American people of both political parties, and a President who pro- claims his purpose to do the things which the enlightened public opinion of his coun- trymen most urgently demands cannot fail if his methods should be as skilful as his ob- jects are well chosen. With such a chart as President Hayes has marked out for his ad- ministration he will sail with the current and not against it, His letter of acceptance j might have beer regarded as a snare to catch {votes and classed with electioneering | promises which are so often made only to pe ' broken. But the repetition of those prom- ises with more explicit emphasis in the in- augural address would merely furnish his | opponents with weapons unless he means | to execute them in good faith, At any rate, | as we cannot yet judge him by his acts, it is | fair to judge him by his pledges ; and until | he does acts by which the pledges are for- feited, common candor requires that we ac- cept his declarations. He has at least made a satisfactory beginning; so far he has evinced a wisdom that would not dis- credit the most illustrious of his predecessors, It is the clear duty of the country to encourage, support and strengthen him by such strong testimonies of approbation and indorsement as will en- able him to see that he has hit the true vein of public sentiment. It will be easy for him to keep his admirable pledges if they are warmly responded to by the applauding voice of the whole people, Even democrats should give him generous, good words, see- ing that he engages to do the very things | which they would have expected of Mr. Til- den. It would puzzle them to tell in what respect Mr, Tilden himself could have pre- pared # more satisfactory inaugural address, The address is devoted to three capital and two subordinate subjects, understand- ing the word subordinate to mean, not unimportant, but not of immediate urgency. The three urgent topics, on which it is necessary for the new administration to shape its policy at once, are the Southern question, civil service reform, and the finances; the two which are not so pressing are our foreign relations—which are lett in so satisfactory a state by the re- tiring administration that they present no difficulties which engage public attention— and universal education, which is rather the business of the States than of the federal government. The most urgent subject of all, the one which requires the promptest action by the President, is the settlement and pacification of the South on the basis of local self-goverument. This question meets President Hayes at the threshold of his ad- ministration. Decide it he must, in some way, before many days shall have gono over his head ; decide it he must, not merely by declarations, but by immediate practical action which will test the value of the declarations, and either establish their sin- cerity or expose their hollowness. Within a few days President Hayes will be compelled, by the force of circumstances, to recognize either Nicholls or Packard, and thereby commit himself beyond retreat to sustain the one he acknowledges until the expira- tion of his term of office. It is incon- ceivable that the President should have taken the strong ground he has done in his address if he felt any doubt as to whether he might not have to retreat from it within the ensuing week or month. We believe that he has inflexibly made up his mind ; that he has planted himself immovably on the right side of this important question. Nothing could be more explicit than this part of the address. ‘‘The people of those States,” snys President Hayes, ‘‘are still impover- ished, and the inestimable blessing of wise, honest and peaceful local self-governmént is not fully enjoyed. Whatever’ difference of opinion may eyist as to .the causo of this condition of things, the fact is clear that, in the progress of events, the time has come when such government is the imperative necessity required by all the varied inter- ests, public and private, of those States.” He maintains, very justly, that efficient and tranquil self-government is possible only ere aie satieesnm wie 2 aber IS BR Ist KSEE ce <S when resting on the foundation of equal justice to all citizens, and in his attempts to establish local rule on that secure foundation he asks “the cordial co-operation of all who cherish an interest in the welfare of the country, trusting that party ties and the prejudice of raco will be freely surrendered in behalf of the great purpose to be accom- plished.” He expresses a solicitude for the material welfare as weil as the political tranquillity of the South, and thinks it ‘needs and deserves the considerate care of the national government within the just limits prescribed by the constitution and wise public economy.” This passage will be interpreted as favoring internal improve- ments in the South by aid from the federal government. On the great question of civil service re- form the trumpet of the new President gives no uncertain sound. ‘If the tram. pet give an uncertain sound,” said an in- for the battle?” Civil service reform will be a battle; its friends will have to make a strenuous fight, even when supported by a President who is so thoroughly in earnest. But the single blast of the inaugural will bring them all into the field and fill them with spirit and resolution, The reform to which the President pledges himself is not a mere lopping off of some of the branches of the spoils system. He lays the axe to the root of the tree. What he advocates is ‘‘a reform that shall be thorough, radical and complete ; « return to the principles and practices of the founders ofthe government. They neither expected nor desired from public officers any partison service. They meant that public officers President Hayes’ formal declaration of intentions is so wise and satisfactory that it | is difficult to point out any particular in which it could be improved, either in sub- It may be said that promises are cheap and performance diffi- cult; but, however true this may be as a general rule, we can see no good reason for spired writer, ‘who will prepare himself | should owe their whole service to the gov- ernment and to the people. They meant that the officer should be secure in his tenure as long as his personal character re- mained untarnished and the performance of his duties satisfactory. They held that ap- pointments to office were not to be made nor expected merely as rewards for partisan ser- vices, nor merely on the nomination of members of Congress, as being entitled in any respect to the control of such appoint- ments.” The refreshing earnestness of these declarations and the resolute, tn- flinching purpose they disclose wil! strengthen the advocates of civil service re- form and strengthen the new President in public confidence, On the currency President Hayes stands by principles with which he became so con- spicuously identified in his Ohio canvass in 1875. The country is now so well agreed as to the necessity of early resumption that the financia} policy of the President will encounter no serious opposition, The President favors an amendment of the constitution limiting the Executive to a single term extended to six years. Ifthe country shcu!d get into any difficult dispute with o foreign nation he would try to have it settled by arbitration. He thinks universal education an indispen- sable accompaniment of universal suffrage. This address is so unexceptionable in its positions and so conciliatory in its tone that it entitles the new President to candid judg- ment by his fellow citizens until he shall do something that contradicts his excellent pro- fessions. : Our Bonds tn Europe. “United States funds,” says the London Times, as quoted by the cable, ‘are now almost the only legitimate objects of invest- ment inthe foreign market"—news that is pleasant enough to hear on this side the water. It was for years o fine example of the tatuity of the British investor to observe the grace and energy with which he ad- dressed himself to the accumulation of | Turkish promises to pay, and Egyptian promises to pay, and Spanish promises to pay, and other forms of expensive waste paper, and turned an indifferent and frigid | shoulder to American securities at seven per cent as certain ns the revolution of the earth. His prejudices against our political system blurred his vision as to government bonds, while he had an abundant faith in other parts of our national organization that carried -him over head and ears into various American securities, especially the obligations of railroad and mining com- panies, But, as if the whole world were organized on a spirit of antipathy to this British investor, an infinite number of these railroad and mining securities have gone to “the demnition bow-wowe,” and the bonds that stand on the faith of the nation have turned up the great financial trumps. It appears likely that the bad fortune of our railroad interests and the uncertainty of many bonds of European governments will keep up the movement toward our govern- ment securities sufficiently to carry us handsomely through the year and to enable us to fund the whole debt on good terms, Wurkey Spared. It now appears probable: that the. sattle- ment of the Eastern question will once more be pacific, and that Turkey will get off with a reprimand on condition that she gives her “solemn promise” to be good. She is, in short, to be tried once more, like a bad servant taken for another term. Although the Powers still believe they can reform her a great deal better than she can reform herself they will give her a year in which to try the experi- ment of constitutional government and hu- mane treatment of her Christian subjects. This, of course, is farcical, for every one knows that at the end of the year Turkey will be, as to the lawfulness and humanity of her administration, just where she is now. But the statesmen of Europe have their own reasons for playing these little farces, which cannot be fully seen at this distance. If, however, Russia yields her intention for any other reason than an absolute incapacity to move her armies and feed them this change is a great blunder on her part. It was her lucky tnoment. It was, in her relation to the Otto- man Empire, that turn in the tide “which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.” Her chance may not come again for many ayear. All the facts favored her, Turkey is abandoned by Western Europe in an access of disgust at her selfish and narrow policy. She has no allies; she has no money. She has no policy but what is formed on the one idea of Moslem fanaticism, and no force to sustain this; while Russia, morally, has the world on her side and aon army that could trample Ottoman resistance in the dust. Will all these points coincide in her favor again in the life of this generation? The Inaugural. Ceremonies, Washington was brilliant yesterday when General Hayes was inaugurated President of the United States, Such events always deserve to be celebrated with all solemnity and honor, and this was not an exception, The ex-President escorted his successor to the Capitol; the army was represented ; Congress formally welcomed the new Executive; the ambassa- dors from other countries were present, and many thousands of citizens made the air resound with their enthusiastic cheors. The day was bright ond beautiful, and nothing marred the splendor of the procession or the ceremony. Whatever may be thought of the election and the methods by which it was decided, one thing is certain—that the American people rejoice that General Hayes was installed in his high office by a pageant at once so simple and impressive. Party feeling is lost in pride that after a contest almost unparalleled in its intensity of feel- ing peace and order attended the inauguration of the new President. When Sir Edward Thornton and M. Bartholdi and the other Ministers from Euro- pean nations beheld Mr. Hayes stand with uncovered head eunder the blue sky, and take the solemn oath adminis- tered to him by the Chief Justice, they had the visible proof that the republican exper- iment has not failed in the United States, and that the American people intend that this Republic shall remain a republic still, The Cabinet. Report—and, apparently, authentic re- port—gives’ Président Hayes » Cabinet which, all things considered, is s head and shoulders above any Cabinet that has shared the labors of a President of the United States for many a day. Some of the names now assigned to the great departments of the government may be changed when the statement receives an official form; but the names that. are certain are sufficient to assure the country that the President means to be advised by men of great talent and integrity; not by bosom friends, nor leaders of cliques, nor carpet- baggers, nor jobbers, nor lobbymen. This will be a great victory for sound principles in government, and a guarantee for the sincerity and earnestness of the declara- tions made in the President's inaugural address, Every person named tor the Cabinet thus far with any likelihood that the naming is by anthority is a man of mark. Mr. Evarts is the greatest lawyer in the country; not merely the acutest reasoner on legal pvints and the most cogent orator, but the man who takes the broadest and most liberal view of the relation of facts to principles. He is also conspicuous by his freedom from relation to any of the factions into which the party in this State is divided. Mr. Sherman is a man whose ideas on the subject of the currency and specie payment are good and valid. He seems to us not to take @ national view of free trade and protec- tion ; but inasmuch as those topics are not conspicuously before the country now this is of the less consequence; forin the subject that is really of moment in administration at the present time he is the strongest man in his party. In point of actual knowledge of the fiscal operations of the government he has no equal, Mr. Schurz stands high as an orator and has an admirable record for his relation to civil service reform; but it re- mains to be seen whether he possesses ad- ministrative talent as required in a Cabinet officer. His military history is not enconr- j aging in that respect, though the compari- son that may be made of a commander with the head of a civil department is not in all respects just. The other names recognize sectional claims without in any case de- scending from the standpoint of national demands or yielding the imperative require- ment of superior capacity. Commercial Relations with Canada. It is gratifying to observe that Mr. Elijah Ward, whose familiarity with the commer- cial interests of the country made him a valuable representative in the late Congress, found time in the heat of the political con- test which occupied the entire session to press on the attention of the House the policy of free trade with Conada. A week before the final adjournment Mr. Ward ad- vocated in a convincing speech the adoption of his resolution for the appointment of in- ternational commissioners to inquire and ascertain by mutual investigation and con- ference how far it is practicable to extend our commerce with the Dominion. It secms singular that any arguments should be re- quired to convince intelligent men in this advanced age of the folly of raising up arti- ficial commercial barriets-between ourselves and our Canadian neighbors. We wantall the trade we can obtain for our railroads, our canais and our ships. We want all the em- ployment we can secure for our laboring population. We want to open all the mar- kets possible for the sale of our produce and our manufactures, and to be allowed to purchase all commodities we need at the cheapest possible rates. Our Canadian neighbors, on their part, have use for our manufactures of cotton, wool, iron, copper, &c., and for many of our productions. Un- der our present relations the trade between the two countries averages upward of ninety million dollars a year, and this might be doubled if we,would open our markets on both sides free of duties. The people of the United States would benefit by the unre- stricted commercial intercourse in a greater degree than the Canadians, but both nations would reap a material advantage. The folly of obstructing the free exchange of the products of industry between the United States and Canada is heightened by the geographical position of the two coun- tries. We havea line of frontier which it is practically impossible to watch, and thousands of custom houses on both sides could not prevent smuggling. We are on opposite banks of an extended river, which can be crossed at almost any point. Un- broken lines of railroad link us together, and we pass from one country to the other without knowing it, The people of the two nations assimilate, and Canada, the smaller and weaker, is induced by every conceiva- ble interest to cultivate friendly relations with a country which nature makes her closest ally. If we desire the independence of the Dominion or annexation we cannot promote the object more effectively than by showing the Canadians how closely their material interests depend on her free com- mercial intercourse with the States. Mr. Ward is entitled to credit for not suffering so important a subject to be lost sight of in the excitement that attended the last mem- orable session of the late Congress. Garbage Filling for Little Hell Gate. Between the Street Oleaning Bureau and the Health Board there is a unanimity of opinion that the use of garbnge filling for Little Heli Gate will not be productive of any dangerous consequences to tho health of New York. Hut the arguments on which the officials base this opinion are so out- Tageons, so contrary to common sense, and betray such an utter ignorance of the condi- tions that should govern the work, that the Our monstrous piece oF stuptaity were per | petrated the filling would be swept i alternately into the Harlem and East rivers by the ebb and flood tides, and nontil both were cboked UP with garbage and city filth Little Hell Gate channe} would nevér be filled. Again, supposing even that the ashes and heavier matter used for filling remain where dumped, do the officials intend that our water front, the slips and indentations along the East River, are to be filled with the floating carcasses of dead dogs and cats dur- ing the summer? Is the river surface to become offensive to eye and nose with the putrid offscourings of the Little Hell Gate dumping grounds? We see it demonstrated every day that the Street Cleaning Bureau is unwilling to secure s separation of the ashes and garbage collected in this city. An order has been issued, and is gen- . erally obeyed by all decent citizens, to pro- vide two receptacles for the ashes and refuse of houses. The cartmen of the Bureau find this separation effected, but they dump the contents of both vessels intoa common cart and thus mix themagain; instead of having two carts for the, purpose they use only one. What can weexpect, therefore, from a system that operates in violation of the very rules its organizers have estab- lished? We denounce | emphatically the mischievous statements made by the officials of the Street Cleaning Bureau and the Health Board, and will insist upon & guarantee that no garbage whatever shall be used for filling Little Hell Gate —_ Efficient Reform. Mr. Post, of Cayuga, introduced a bill in the Assembly yesterday giving the Superin- tendent of State Prisons exclusive power to make all appointments and rémovals of prison officials and to fix their respective salaries, provided the amount does not exceed that allowed by law. This is a practical method of securing efficient reform. Perfect discipline and full control over subordinates aro essential tp good prison management. If the new system inau- gurated by the recent constitutional amend- ment is to benefit the State, and to effectu- ally remove the evils that hive crept into our prison management, the Superintendent should be in fact, as well af in name, its supremo head. The prison dfficials should know that they owe their) positions to him; that he can remove them at will, just as he would if he werg a private em- ployer, if their duties are not faithfully and capably performed; that he has the power to reward them by an increase of compen- sation for fidelity and efficiency. Mr. Post’s pill should become a law, jand under its operation we might hope soon to have self- supporting State Prisons, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Hayes likes Rbine wine. Horatio Seymour is qvite feeble, Only nine months more till Winter. Dom Pedro bas boen at Mount Vesuvius, The beauty of French women 3s departing. ‘Young Scotch artists are growing in genius, The Sultan rides a white horse with a gold saddle. Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, it the Gilsey, The new potatoes are elegant, They are cut pompa- dour. With skeletons at $35 each Talmage ought to bo cheap r Dr. Kenealy now oarrie@.= Cano instead of an um- brella. 5 ‘The crocus {s blooming, and the domocratic crocus is eating. On dit, that the London Standard is to be sold for $750,000, D. D. Field—"Uh say can you see by the dawn’s early light.” Georgia has a robin with a white body, a black head and a red breast, A German speaks of Washington show-ciety, and he isn’t very wrong. In the spring the thoughts of maidens tightly tarn to how to pin ’em. Brigham Young is very sick, and he threatens to die in the arms of his wife. “Analogous parliamentary spheres” isa big phraso tor a simple Vico President. Massachusetts has found the most democratic of flow- ers, the dandelion, in bloom. A Frencbman has invented a talking machine. Will he call it Mary or Sarah or Susan? Why will small statesmen ase the word “irrevo- cably?’’, President Hayes used it, Election bots to be puld in kisses should be paid now; tho rest should be paid next Sunday evening. German tacticians are surprised at tne rapidity with which France has recovered her military streogth, bing England with beef, fish, oysters ravo lesson in political economy. James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce and Rutherford B. Hayes havo been elected Vrosidents of the United States. Tho King of Sweden recently met witn a serious acci- dent by catching his skato in a crack in the ice and falling heavily. Colonel Hurdee’s theory of destroying insects by discharging firearms among thom and killing them by concuss.on 1s reviving. Mr. Elihu B, Washburne, United States Minster to France, arrived trom Liverpool in the steamship Celtic and Is at the Fifth Avenue, . Whitehall Zimes:—"Some peoplo like oysters ona half shell, others quail on toast, but as for us we prefer engles on $10 gold picces."” Josiah Henson, the original of Mrs, Stowe’s “Uncle Tom,” was received by the Queen and the royal family at Windsor Castle, yesterday. Mr. Hayes 1s constantly talking iu bis speeches about Lincoln. Does he mean that he resembles Lincoln, or does he only mean to omulate btm? William A, Waeeler, Vice Prosident, struck out his career with big, four-syilable words. That is where ho destroyed confidence in his common sense. The Danbury News says that Western cities like St. Paul have papers of mach greater circulation than cities and towns of equal size tn tho East, Miss Braddon, the novelist, writes in a cramped position on a bit of card board held in her lap, She wears a tailor’s thimble to keep her finger from being Inked, and her handwriting is as heavy as a grenadier’s. It is said that when Lord Beaconsfield was asked in what style he would bave nis official residence tn Downing street dacorated be pointed to tho of! painting of Sir Kobert Walpole and said, “Furnish it for that portrait.”? A certain well known M. P. lost his bulldog and ad- vertised for it, when he was informed by lotter thata £5 note directed to a post office would bring back the animal, He sont the note, and it did not bring back the dog. The medical men of Ghent have prepared a ‘black book’? containing the names of patients who have re, public may well feel alarmed at their utter- ance. It is suggested by both departments that the dumping of refuse which gets mixed up with ashes and street dirt would not be productive of odors arising from decom- | matter would float and be carried away by the currents. What currents? Surely the | Street Cleaning Bureau and the Health Board do not expect that the filling in of Little Hell Gato will be carried on while the ends of the channel are left open, and the channel itself oxposed to the currents that sweep through it at present. If such a position, that no effluvia would rise above | the surface of the water, and that organic | fused to pay their bills, aud a pledge has been given by | the protesgion not to attend the defaulters except in cases of immediate urgency. Campanelli’s idea was:—-'It there were an instra- ment for tho enr, by which we could enlarge the fac. | ulty of hearing, as the faculty of sight 18 iucroased by the microscope and telescope, we should become ac- quainted with an catire polyphonic tone world, in much as all motion produces waves of sound.”? The tasnion crite of the London Court Journal says:—"A fow years ago riding habits were so long that accidents were of frequent vccurrence; they are how 80 short that (ney aro not habits. [ was standing the other day nt thé railings in the Park, when a young Indy on horseback passed me, { presume sho wore a TELEGRAPHIC NEWS: RUSSIA WANTS AN ANSWER. Turkey Will Consent’ to Peace Only After a General Disarmament. AMERICAN PRODUCE ABROAD The French Press Law and Paul de Cassagnac. (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. Loxpox, March 6, 1877, The primary object of Genera! Ignaticf’s mission seems to be to induce the Powers to cause the Sultan to sign @ promise to carry out the reforms within @ stated time or adupt the reform programme of the conference, Should he fail to fulfl his prom- ise the question who is to decide whother the Sultan has really carried out his programme will probably be left undetermined. It is com sidered probable that an agreement will be effected. The Powers are favorably disposed, end the Porte w likely to consent if Russia will demobilize and if the oventual adoption of the Conference programme be not rendered absolutely cortain by the wording of the ongagement, Should the latter condition be too much accentuated, the Porte, after the Shireef of Mecca’s demand for a religious war, may deem a settlement impossible. Genera) Ignatieff had a conference in Berlin yester day with M. d’Oubril, the Russian Ambassador, He also bad a conference with Prince Bismarck, with whom he dined later. It is arranged that General Ignatieff will leave for Puris on Wednesday. TORKEY VS. THE EUROPEAN ARMAMENTS. The progress made toward carrying out the proposal to give a respite to Turkey consists in Russia’s having dropped the idea of getting the Powers to agree to co- ercive measures, Russia will now be satisflod with a solemn promise on the part of the Sultan, embodied in a form which would give it the character of an interna- tional obligation, so that the Powers would have such a collective right of control oF would guarantee the carrying outof reforms within tho stipulated time. The idea seems to be that the demand for direct control to bo exercised by the In- ternational Commission should be abandoned in favor of this general right of control which should be ac- corded tothe Powers once forall, and which thoy might use at their discretion at the end of the delay which is accorded to the Turks. To grant this permanent _ right to the Powors would ofcourse be directly contrary to the treaty of Paris; but the anxiety to escape from war is sach that it ts not to be expected that any proposa) offering a solution will bo objected to on that account morely. The recent attitude of tho Turks, and hints thrown out by them, all tend to show their readiness te negotiate. The whole influence of the Palace, especially of Mahmoud Damad, is working to strengthen the Sultan’s pacific disposition and prepare him to accept any solution which may terminate tho present state of things, The Turks, however, will certainly reject any atrangement which don’t include the obligation on both sides to disarm immediately, Turkey recognizes that a year’s respite, uncoupled with this decision, would be utter ruin, Therefore, delicate and dangerous as the ques- Uon of disarmament js it must be grappled with, and, unless there isa chence of this being done success fully, every day passed in fruitless negotiations is » loss to Turkey, RUSSIA OF THE SAME OPINION, lt. is semi-officially announced im Vienna that a Council of Ministers has been held in St. Peters- burg to consider the reports of Count Schoa- yaloff, tho Russian Ambassador to England. It bas been decided that the idea of granting the Porto a long time of probation cannot be seriously discussed. Reports {rom the provinces were laid be- fore the Czar showing that the peopla have fo warlike feeling, but would prefer war to a mero temporary set tlement of the Eastern difficulty. AN. AFFIRMATION AND A DEXIAL. The official newspaper of Lerajevo, the capital of Bosnia, announces that Austria is conceotrating troops on the frontiers of Dalmatia and Croatia, The Bos- nians expect an invasion shortly, whieh they are determined to resist. All males between sixtcen and seventy years of ago have been called out to serve under the holy banner. Fifteen thousand breech-loading rifles have beon distributed, It is intended to arm the whole Moham- medan population, The commander of the Turkish forces in Bosnia has started to concontrato fitteen bat- talions on the Dalmatian frontier, near Vergovatz Other detachments havo been sent to Turkish Croatia, A Vienna correspondent referring to the rumors at Constantinople, and in the provinces of Austrian con- centration on the frontiers of Dalmatia and Croatia says:—“l koow that not one man has been sent to Dalmatia beyond the regular reliefp of garrisons. If any movement has been noticed itis doubtiess owing to local transfers. Tho exigencies of the service may have required the sending of more troops to one placo or another, but hitherto, despite the distarbances for well nigh two years along the whole southern frontier of Austria, not one penny hag been spent in military preparations and concentra: tions.” MONTENEGRO’S DOWRY, A tolegram from Constantinople gives dotails of the reported contents of a written statement of tne do- mands which the Montenegrins laid before safvot Pacha at the first formal conierence on Monday, The claims are substantially the same as havo been previously roported, vi Cession of territory, the port of Spitza, free navigation of Lake Soutari and the Bojana River, and diroct diplomatic relations with the Porte; but the two islands in Lake Scutari are not mentioned. Satvet Pacha promised to examine the demands and appoint a day for 9 second conference te discuss them. THY PORTH'S ENVOY TO SERVIA, Portefl Effendi will leave Constantinople to-day (op Beigrade, bearing an iwperial firman re-establishing relations between Servia and the Porte, TWO RESIGNATIONS, The Greek who was elected « member of the Otto~ man Chamber of Deputies for Constantinople has ree signed. M. Sturaza, who accepted the post of Minis ter of Finance of Roumania, on the basis of di |e ment and financial retorm, has tendered his resigna- tom THE FRENCH PRESS LAW. A aespateh from Paris says that in a Cabinet counct held to consider the amendment of the Press law, President MacMahon said be must insist on the rotens tion of the clause relative to defamation of foreiga sovereigns, The Cominittee of the Chainber of Di utles appointed to consider ond report on the request | Of the government for authorization to prosecute My | de Cassaguac, have decided in favor of granting the request. They previously examined M, de Cassngnac, who declared he never bad any intention i the Chainbers as a body. tee sab ataita AMEKICAN PRODUCK FOR GREAT BRITAIN. An association has been formed in Edinburgh for the purpose of purchawmg and slaughtering cattle and ‘seiding habit,” but werd I asked to make an aMuavit that she was notartired in trousars my strict love of veracity would prevent me from doing 60," other stook in the United 31 and Canada, and alse purctifising farm and dairy pt bargh and otber parts of Great Britain, S ba dispense) with middiom nd to open promises in