The New York Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1877, Page 4

; 2 the: bands of @ receiver, by request aed ibddtstaieodons of the Insurance Depart- _ | ‘shent of the State, shows that the Henatp has un- rather than exaggerated the dangers of BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, RALD, jed every in the year, ‘Gnnday excinded), Bit elt et fh for an; "fee dolikrs for six mouths, ‘Sunday ERALD. should be property sealed. ations will not be returned. ——_-——— PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OYFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— Ch—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. ieee a aes Bubscriptions aud advertisements will be received and ‘on the sume terms as in New York. VOLUME XL. NO, 69 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. OLYMPIC THEATRE—Jovunrun Oruna, A’ Tus Damtcuerry NIBLO'S GARDEN—Anouxn tix Wont, Tus GasLiGnt, BROADWAY THEATRE—Tnoopen Down, GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Two Onrusss, BOOTH’S THEATRE—Firtn Avenux BTEINWAY HALL—Tuom: FIFTH AVENUE THEATR TONY PASTOR'S THEATER TIVOLI THEATRE—Vanier: NEW AMERICAN MUSEU EGYPTIAN HALL—Sensational Vanrery, PARISIAN VARIETIES. HELLER’S THEATRE— DIGITATION, COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE—Vagurrr. THEATRE COMIQUE—Vantery. WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1877, NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, frais prot the Penueplvenis’ ielroud gat ics eounceticns, ing Jersey Cit quarter past four A. M. daily and day, carrying the regular edition of the Mxkatn us tar West as Harrisburg and South to Washington. reaching ¥ phia atu 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 de sold and partly cloudy or clear, possibly with light flurries of snow. Watt Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ‘ ket was firm in tone, but inactive. The ad- vance and decline in the principal active stocks ‘were but slight, with the exception of the coal stocks, which fell off. Gold opened and closed at 105g, and business was done at this price. Government securities were strong: and a frac- tion higher, and railroad bonds generally ad- vanced. Money on call was easy at 219 a3 per cent, the former being the closing figure. Pecciiar Custom House Kvutincs are not confined to American ports, as our Mexican ad- vices conclusively show. Tue Jockey Crus Entries show that there are prizes around which claimants are even more numerous than they are about Southern State houses. A DistrxcuisHed Warrior made quite a long excursion by rail yesterday at the expense of his grateful fellow citizens. Read “Joe Co- burn.” Ir Seems that the great Union League meet- ing was not a love feast, after all. Too much talk about reform generally does chill the fervor of fraternal gatherings. Lovistaxa Does Not Propose to abandon the sensational drama. It now seems probable that the Nicholls Legislature will send a republican to the United States Senate. By tue Boarp or Epucation’s adoption of a certain bill yesterday the Legislature is given an opportunity to condem that sham economy which seeks its ends by impairing the efficiency of our public school system. _ Senator Bane is not to have a monopoly of Louisiana despatches. That one which Sena- tor Bayard received yesterday was signed by men who are trusted at least as much in Louisiana as Mr. Packard himself. < so ARES TREE West Street became yesterday the scene of the railroad war, and the most carcless spectator could not fail to perceive that if that thorough- fare is finally given over to the dummy it will not be because there are any dummies among tho oppofients of the scheme. ‘Tue INDEFATIGABLE Comstock, of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, has discovered a new world to conquer, and the report of his engage- ments yesterday will be found exciting. Public rejoicing should be deferred, however, until it is ascertained whether the captor will be able to retain his prisoners and spoils. Tue TELEruONs still holds its own. We record this morning the fact of the successful trans- mittal of sound from Chicago to Detroit, a dis- tance of nearly three hundred miles. If this enterprise is properly managed the country at large may yet be compelled to listen by wire toall the sorehead speeches made in Congress, and thus learn what heroic enduranco is neces- sury to the loyal Congressman who earns his salary by being always in his seat. Tue Orrstons of the Superintendent of Build- ings upon the cause of the Washington street . breakdown should be carefully considered by - lessees everywhere, There is apparently an im- i pression abroad that any building is strong senough to sustain the weight of whatever ma- “terial can be crowded into it. A little observa- ‘tion of buildings in course of construction, how- ever, will convince the most sceptical t the outside of many a business honse is a safer loung- Aang place than the inside. A Weer or Days like yesterday would leavo eho would-be insurer of his life in little doubt us what companies to patronize, for there would _befew or none left. Tho placing of five com- investments of this t character, seems also to show that the Department “of Insurance has not heretofore fulfilled the re- ‘quirements justly made upon it. Tho Anti-Cersaris NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1877—WITH. SUPPLEMENT. of President Hayes. The sudden mutiny against the new Presi- dent in his own party, the outcry against his Cabinet, the fierce assaults on his South- ern policy, have so oceupied public atten- tion that we have not found it convenient until now to state, with proper emphasis, our warm approval of his sentiments upon a question in which the Henaxp has for sev- eral years taken a deep interest, It would not be quite accurate to say that we indorse his views; tho truth is that he has indorsed and adopted ours. We are proud of so dis- tinguished a convert; we congratulate our- selves that not President Hayes alone, but other statesmen of eminence, may be counted among the disciples of the Hznaup. Some threo or four years since we raised our shrill- est notes of warning and sent them far and wide, At first we were greeted with a uni- versal chorus of jeers and derision. It was thought that we were out of our wits, or at least that, like poor Don Quixote, we were valiantly fighting a windmill. We never- theless kept up our persistent notes of warning. Before two years had passed the tone of light mockery and flippant ridi- cule had died into silence. A new set of responses took their place. Thousands of echoes came back to us from as many pub- lic journals in every part of the United States, and never did echoes more faithfully reflect back the sounds which they repeated. For several months before the Forty-fourth Congress met in its first session the third term was the staple topic of serious discus- sion inthe American press. Derision had given way to alarm; incredulity had been ex- changed for conviction, ‘There was a universal expectation that President Grant would be again a candidate for re-election, and that apprehension was not quieted until the Babcock trial and the Belknap impeachment put an extinguisher on his chances. When the immediate danger had passed the dis- cussion was dropped. Public attention was then absorbed for many months in the preparations, progress and singular result of the Presidential canvass, But although the discussion was sus- pended the question did rot lose its importance. It slept, but it was not dead, Those who thought it so or who may still think it so never had an intelligent appreciation of tho grounds on which the discussion was commenced, The real danger did not lie so much in the character of General Grant as in the enormously increased power and patronage which are a consequence of the civil war. Any President who stood well with his own political yarty could easily se- cure his own renominatéon fora second, anda strong and popular President for a third term, unless struck with a violent head wind like the Belknap and Babcock exposures, which came just at the point of time when the preparations were mak- ing for the National Convention of the republican party. The great source of danger is the overshadowing patronage of the government, which’ any ambitious, strong-willed President might employ with success to force his re-election. This is the worst legacy of the civil war. Andrew Johnson was unable to uso it because he was at loggerheads with his own political party. General Grant used it with trium- phant success to secure one re-election, and he would have had considerable chances for a third term had it not been for the im- peachment of a.member of his Cabinet and the trial of his private secretary on a crimi- nal charge. - The great source of danger still exists. We have been rescued by a mere accident. Even before the war every President abused his patronage in attempts to secure a re-election; and now, when the patronage is so enormously in- creased, the temptation and the power are augmented in the same ratio. Unless the power and the temptation are destroyed by an amendment of the constitution the first President we may have who is at once ambi- tious, popular and fortunate will perpetu- ally re-elect himself and become a veritablo Cwsar. . The third-term discussions and the wide- spread feeling of alarm they occasioned were so fresh in the public mind when the two Presidential candidates wrote their letters of acceptance that each of them thought it necessary to reassure the public mind re- specting his own intentions. The Republi- can National Convention, from motives of delicacy to General Grant, forebore totouch the question; but Mr. Hayes, in his letter of acceptance, went beyond the platform and proclaimed his ‘‘inflexible purpose, if elected, not to be a candidate for a second election.” Mr. Tilden, wishing to ‘‘go one better” in appealing to the public alarm which the Herarp had aroused on that point, judged it expedient to say :— “It might encourage delusive expectations if I withheld here the expression of my con- viction that no reform of the civil service will be complete and permanent until the Chief Magistrate is constitutionally dis- qualified for re-election.” President Hayes in his inaugural strongly indorsed this idea of his defeated competitor, and recom- mended ‘‘an amendment to the constitution prescribing a term of six years for the Presi- dential office, and forbidding a re-election.” A constitutional change thus warmly in- dorsed by the leading representatives of both political parties ought to be adopted with the least possible delay. We quite agree with Mr, Tilden that civil ser- vice reform will never be more than skin deep until a constitutional barrier is erected against the abuse of the federal patronage by a President in office with a view to re- elect himself. We must not depend on the frail virtue of a political party to resist this potent temptation. The one-term amend- ment is the only safe barrier against Cesar- ism, since the federal patronage has become so overgrown and colossal. Such an amend- ment is equally necessary as a security saris and as a guarantee of honest civil service. Congress is not in session and the ball cannot be set in motion now. But within two months there will be an extra session, and we trust that President Hayes will attest his zeai for this grent reform by strongly against urging immediate action in his Message. The session will be called merely to pass the Army Appropriation bill, and it will be emoollent time to submit this amendment for the ratification of the ‘States when Con- gress is so disengaged from the multifarious business of general legislation. This will be acapital opportunity for Senator Conkling to acquire new distinction and lay the country under an additional obligation. Let him give an energetic and eloquent support to this important recommendation of the President. The only thing needed for its immediate success is to arouse and interest the public mind in its favor, and no man in either branch of Congress has so enviable a capacity to set forth the merits of a great measure with convincing force and cogency as the great New York Senator. The im- portant requisite is to overcome public apathy, and ao statesman whose eloquence gives him a secure hold on public attention will fail in his duty if he does not contrib- ute his unequalled gifts of persuasion to promote a reform whose necessity is so gene erally acknowledged. Progress of the Storm. The great disturbance which passed along the Atlantic const and central States Thursday and yesterday has now reached the British Northeastern Provinces and is approaching the coast. ‘The storm centre followed the line of the western side of the Alleghany Mountains until it reached the city uf Albany, when it commenced to move more to the eastward and approached St, John, N. B., in the afternoon of yestér- day. The pressure at the centre continues to fall, and it is probable that when the storm enters fairly on its ocean course it will prove one of the most severe ex- perienced in the Atlantic for several years, At a quarter past seven o’clock yes- terday morning the wind at New York attained its highest velocity, sixty miles per hour, and during the night and fore- noon the rainfall was 0.71 of aninch. This was a considerable precipitation for the time it lasted. The description of the destructive effects of the gale, published elsewhere in to-day's Hrraxp, will convey some idea of its fury along the coast and over this city. An immense area of precipitation attended the storm and embraced the whole territory east- ward of the Mississippi. Snow fell generally west of the Alleghanies and as far south as Nashville, while rain prevailed along the coast. Remarkable differences of tempera- ture occurred between near points as the storm advanced. At Baltimore it was 55 and at Pittsburg only 25 degrees; at Sa- vannah 60, Augusta 47, and Knoxville, Tenn., only 26 degrees. In the West during the morning the temperature fell to zero and 5 degrees below, but rose somewhat in the atternoon. Very cool weather prevailed all day in tho Southern States. The Ohio River has risen with dangerous rapidity. Within twenty-four hours the rise at Pitts- burg was five feet nine inches; at Cincin- nati eleven feet six inches, and at Louis- ville three fect four inches, The Missis- sippi and Cumberland have also risen. Incoming ships will experience heavy weathor. Ships leaving Europe to-day will meet dangerous storms off the Irish const between Sunday and Thursday next. The weather in New York to-day will be cold and partly cloudy or clear, possibly with light flurries of snow. The Church Disaster—Unsafe Buildings. The mind receives its impressions with inconceivable rapidity when the individual is fully sensible of his surroundings or the conditions that evolve ideas. Tho expression ‘‘as quick as thought” repre- sents the ultimate conception which can be formed of what constitutes the minutest subdivision of time with relation to mental or physical movement. We can, therefore, comprehend how quickly the idea of dan- ger, be it real or imaginary, is associated with the dangerous. When the minds of a large and impressionable assemblage are wrought up to the highest tension by re- ligious excitement, and that feeling evoked by the most sombre of subjects, death and eternal perdition, the principle of rapid associations of the ideal with the actual becomes developed in the highest degree. In reflecting on the terrible disas- ter at St. Francis Xavier's Church two sep- arate and distinct conditions present them- selves for consideration. The first is a purely psychological one, and relates to the mental constitution and condition of the congrega- tion; the second a purely physical one, and relating to the building in which it was assembled. While we recognize the fact that in a Catholic church Catholic doctrine must and will be preached, and that it is contrary to the spirit of the religion to clothe the enunciation of its truths in any lan- guage calculated to conceal their full value and meaning, we question very much whether the element of common sense should not enter into the selection of the audience and the occasion when these truths are taught. In doing this we desire to cast no reflection whatever on the worthy fathers whose zeal for the salvation of souls leads them into a very common mistake of their profession. It is too painfully evident that the congregation of women and young girls at St. Francis Xavier's Church was mentally unprepared to exercise its calmer judgment when the sudden alarm of fire was given. It is unnecessary to discuss here how this camo to be. ‘Lhe catastrophe itself furnishes all the argument necessary for the purpose of proving the fact. We will, therefore, leave it as it rests, for the consideration of ministers who may be in the habit of subordinating the probabilities of danger to dogma, Turning togshe other conditions attend- ing the disaster, we find that the church was crowded to excess; that a large number of persons were assembled in the galleries; that the gallery stairways lead into the com- mon vestibule of the church, and that they were constructed with a right angle bend at that part whore the greatest crush was likely to take place; that the weather sheds pro- tecting the entrances were built over steps descending to the street, and that the foot- ing was therefore most insecure where it should have been most safe. Now, a fright- ened, struggling throng of women and girls, while making desperate efforts to leave the church, had to pass obstacles to its egress sufficiently difficult, without count- ing those created by itself. All controver- sies as to the immediate cause of the panic should be set aside in the inves- tigation until it is fully understood what in the construction and arrangement of tho chureh contributed to aggravate its effects. The Cabinet. Against the confirmation of the Cabinet as nominated by the President it is urged that the names are in great part those of men who have no political following, who do not represent any. important portion of the party elements or any dis- tinct party force. It might be ad- mitted that this objection would have weight if it. were altogether true or altogether pertinent; and in so far as it is either true or pertinent it is worthy consid- eration. As to the pertinence of this objec- tion it has more or less force with regurd to different Cabinet offices, It has no force at all with regard to the office of Sec- retary of State. No one can have any distinct political body or power be- hind him except as he has a conspicuous relation with some ong of our internal divis- ions and party complications; but the Sec- retary who is to deal especially with foreign governments should be absolutely free from relations with these sources of dissension. In so far as Mr. Evarts is without any espe- cial division of party force behind him, he is precisely in the position Mr, Fish was when called to the Cabinet of President Grant ; yet Mr. Fish has proved one of the most acceptable and successful Secretaries of late years. It cannot be doubted that an important element of. his strength was that he was not related to any school, sect or clique of politicians in the country; was, therefore, without temptation to pervert issues with foreign govern- ments into occasions for giving prom- inence or glorification to the ideas of a clique, and was free to deal with all issues ina national spirit. But while Mr. Evarts is without a following in this narrow sense—and is, we believe, the better without it—it cannot be said that his name is without the most practical and effec- tive support in the best public opin- jon the whole country over. He whose nomination extorts the ap- proval of the whole superior intelligence of the country, and whose name excites the enthusiasm of this element, cannot be regarded as having less strength in virtue of a following than the man who is the mere organ of one clique of Pennsylvania office- holders, It hassomewhat surprised and has not pleased the country to find that a Cab- inet to which it 1s not possible. to make any objection on the score of probity or capacity, which can be opposed for no reason not related to intrigues for office, is opposed in the Senate, where the people would like to believe there exists an unselfish regard to public duty. But, itshould be observed, that the name, which for some reasons is the best of the seven, is the one that mects with most opposition in committee. Gen- eral Devens, Mr. Thompson, Mr. McCrary, and Mr. Schurz are not opposed; Mr. Sherman is confirmed, and Mr. Key's name is apparently held under considera- tion from divergent views as to the good policy of a Southern appointment. Mr. Evarts’ name is the only one, therefore, that seems on its own account unacceptable; but the difference is due to the quality of the committees. In all there appears to be more courtesy, more consideration of good manners toward the President than in the Committee on Foreign Affairs. But the name must be acted on by the Senate, and- there tho narrow spirit of intrigue will not prevail as it may in a committeo. Philanthropic Imbecility. Mr. Bergh appears as counsel for the Spitz dog, and it must be admitted that the case of this ill-tempered little beast is in very bad hands, so far as relates to the skill of the advocate or to any other qualities than sympathy for his cause and a general intention to be impertinent to persons who hold different opinions. It has been argued in these colurans that the Spitz dog is a peculiarly dangerous member of the canine family. This view, not, we believe, pecu- liar to the Heraxp, was first derived from the fact that in many recent cases of death attributed to hydrophobia the victims have been bitten by dogs of this variety ; from the further fact thata great increase in the recorded number of cases of death by hydrophobia in England and in this country appears to date from the introduc- tion of thisanimal, and from the fact, worthy of special consideration, that this dog seems, like the rattlesnake and the copperhead, to secrete in some conditions of his system a virus in his saliva that will cause rabies, though the dog himself be not atthe time the subject of that disease. All this Mr. Bergh meets, as he seems to fancy, with statistics; that is, he mects it with the allegation that he has known of fifteen Spitz dogs which were not mad or not reported to be mad. It has commonly been thought a good joke that an Irishman objected to the hardship of sending him to prison on the testimony of two witnesses who saw him commit the theft when he was ready to produce fifty witnesses who did not see him ; but with Mr. Bergh this is not a joke, but a valid and satisfactory argument. We are not of the same opinion with thoso who believe that Mr. Bergh’s society might better make even an imbecile answer than to hold its tongue. The Ashtabu Verdict, It is some satisfaction to know that Ohio can produce a coroner and a jury who re- tain a conscientious regard for their oaths and perform their duties fearlessly, even when the responsibility of a great railroad corporation for the safety of its patrons comes up for investigation. The recent horror at Ashtabula startled the whole country with its appalling details and sent desolation to many houscholds. But when the question of an investigation was dis- cussed people generally believed that such gould not be conducted un- der the shadow of the railroad power. The public regarded with impatience and doubt even’ the preliminary efforts of the Cétoner to discover the cause of the disaster, But now we find that the work of the jury was not a vain one, and that the “accident” has been stripped of its surrounding of mystery and placed before the world as a horrible railroad butchery. After reading the several clauses of the ver- dict no one can deny that it is fully justified by tho facts put in evidence. Exports in bridge construction have proved that thig Ashtabula death trap extended for y over the chasm awaiting its victims; that any competent engineer would have recognized its dangerous condition if employed by the company to inspect it. We know that the railroad company took no precautions whatever to preserve their passengers from danger, not even by supplying self-extinguishing stoves for the cars; therefore no just ypason can be ad- vanced why this reckless corporation should not be made to pay through every pore for the blood of the slaughtered passengers of the 29th of December, But we have not yet learned why it was that the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department did not endeavor to extinguish the flames in the wreck. We do not believe that his’disregard for the lives of the sufferers in that hell of ice and fire should go unpunished. The Indian War. An energetic prosecution of the military operations provoked by Indian hostility is at least one of the necessary steps for the pacification of the frontier, and this part of the case the government exhibits a laudable intention not to neglect, as will be seen by the news elsewhere given of the steps taken to open the spring with a vigorous assumption of the offensive. It has been the common reproach of our dealings with the savages that an intermit- tent war not only gave an ample season for recuperation, so that all the harm done them in three months of repression was | abundantly recovered from in nine months of rest, but also that we cultivated the inex- haustible character of the war by the fact that one department of the gov- ernment refitted and supplied the very tribes that another branch of the public service sought to ruin. There seems some likelihood that we have got over some of those old difficulties. The prayer moeting system, which was founded on an opinion of the Indians drawn from the history of William Penn, is less relied upon than it was, Public attention has been turned so ‘closely to the corrup- tions of Indian rings that swindling has less immunity than formerly and is not so common a source of Indian irritation, while the great excitement of the calamities of the Big Horn expedition has actually forced on the government the course of not supplying the savages without taking a guarantee that the supplies 1urnished shall- not be used against the army. All this isin the right direction, and the purpose now disclosed of following up immediately the hard blows given in the winter clearly indicates that the government has adopted systematically as an Indian policy what has long been recognized as a primary condition of success—the constant, persistent applica- tioh of the force we possess. Pursued for some years this policy will make the fron- tier tranquil. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Essipoff is in Boston. Judge Devens is a bachelor. Shakespeare speaks of tho turnspits, England gets many horses from Prussia, Farly and Beauregard aro helping to run a luttery. Boston Globe; —*Joo Johnston, my Joe John—."” Ben Butler wants to be Speakor of the next Hcuse, Juage Stantey Matthews has returned to Cincinnati, Hayes may yet want to be counted out of that froo fight. It is now claimed that Blaine has petroleum of the brain. ‘A bit of newspaper pasted on as postal card will cost the recipient five cents, Rubenstein will make a tour of England, the large provincial cities. - Judge Jeremiah Black and family havo returned to their home In Pennsylvania, Senator Cameron, of Wisconsin, 1s quite ill of typhoid fever at his residenco in Washington. Tho Great Eastora steamship will bo employed in carrying cattle from America to England, A Westorn paper says that there was too much of «the odor of money” about Tilden. Do you mean that he came down to the tune of ‘Money Musk ?”” Danbury News :—-'Put a peck of Jersey mosquitoes under blue glass and in two days you will havo spring chickens large enough for the New York boarding houses.’” Briageport Standard :—“The Herat P, L says the Boston girls excel in mathematics, which, wo suppose, ig {ts roundabout way of intimating that thoir figures are good.”” a Danbury News :—‘‘A line of canal boats six miles long passed Schenectady last wock, They were loaded with blue glass for the use of men who expected to become Tilden’s private sccretaries,”” ‘A protty Iady was walking along Thirty-seventh streot on the arm of her husband.—New York Herat. ‘A very small lady she must have beon, or her husband must havo had an enormous arm.— Yonkers Gazette. Sefor Jose Rivera y Rio has been designated by General Porfirio Diaz as his representative in Washing- ton. Rivera y Rio was exiled to this country during the intervention in Mexico, and is well kuown for his Iterary and editorial labors. He is at present Minister of Justice and Public Instruction. Sometimes we catch faint glimpses, in our stillest mid- night dreams. Ot ungels sw blue streams.—HHERALD, Then the vapory vostals vanish, and the censers pale and pass, And wo catch a glimpse of fairies bringing lager in bluo glass. —New York Graphic, The work is done, and the mist clouds Which havo fallen so many days Have rolled off like the fog on the ineadow, ‘And out of the mist comes Hayes. —Oil City Derrick, And tho land shall be filled with sorrow; And the thieves that infest the day Shall return to their wonted plunder And continue to steal away. —Worcester Press, Evening Telegram (speaking of heaven):—'An en- durable state of existenco can be Imagined in which there ig neither marriage nor giving in. marringo, as we understand tho institution on this sublunary sphere; butin such a world thoro would, atleast, be that attrition of tdeas and emotion that is duc to a difference of sex. This would give piquancy to such a life, and the prohibition to many would, perhaps, lend additional piquancy.”” playing at Ing consers, wafting mist wreaths o’er LITERARY CHAT, R, Worthington announces the Princess Salm-Salm’s ‘Ten Years of My Life,”’ a book that is romance and adventure from boginning to end, Macmillan & Co. announce a small work by Mr. Ed- ward A. Freeman on the “Ottoman Power in Europe; Its Nature, Growth and Decline,” unttorm with his “History of the Saracens;” also a new theological treatise, written by the Rev. Dr, Abbott, entitled “Through Nature to Christ,” founded on his Hulsean lectures lately delivered at Cambridge, J. B. Lippincott have added Dandet to their list of authors, This firm will soon publish a new novel by Mrs, Forrester, called “Mignon,” Miss Hitchcock's ‘Wedding Dress’’ has been drama- tized under the title of **A Town Idyl,” and published and played in Milwaukeo, The publication of Wallace’s “Russia” by Honry Holt & Co. has been delayed owing to the late arrival of directions for coloring the maps. ‘The book will be very complete when published. Messrs. Tribner & Co. announce an English and Foreign Philosophical Library. Rain Das Son, who has written somo interesting essays’ on the poots of India, has just published a socond volume called. “Historical Easays,’? which treat of tho Vodas, Buddhism, Tainism, &o, The volume is tn Sansksit, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. TURKEY'S TERMS FOR PEACE. Ignatieff Engaged .in Drawing Up a Protocol. EGYPT'S PROGRESSION, [BY CABLE To THE HERALD.) Loxpoy, March 10, i877, RUSSIA REALLY DESIRES PEACK, One object of General Ignatief’s mission veeme to be to endeavor to impross every one that Russia Is sin- cercly desirous of avoiding war or Isolated action, All late news from St. Petersburg shows that thero 13 little doubt, whether because of the personal disposition of the Czar on military or financial reasons, pacific tendencies are decidedly uppermost for the moment, As for the other object of General Ignatief’s mission—viz., the obtaining of an agreement upon some guaranteo to bt given by the Porte for the fulfiimont of the reforms— the idea of a binding engagement to be taken by tho. Sultan ia such a manner as gives the Powors the right of collective control has encountered considerable opposition. The English government, ta whom the communications on tbis subject were sub- mitted, seems above all to have given so little encoun agement to this idea at least in the form in which if was first presented, that the hope of coming to an un+ derstanding with England on the firstline, bas been more or Jess dropped and now, through Ignatioff, addresses. herself moro especially to tho Continental Powers Tho doubt whother Ignatiof will go to London docs not, indicate coolness betwoen London and St, Petersburg, it moro probably inut. cates Russia's impressions that Paris i for the moment a moro favorable place for nogotia- tions than London. Tho latest idea of a guarantes seems to be that the Porte should again be summoned to accept the programme as elaborated by the Preliminary Conference. Tnis would have the ad. vantage of avoiding tno diMfculties involved in the other proposal for granting a rospite to Turkey. A second refusal of the programme by Turkey would, howevor, so compromise the dignity of the Powers that it would be dificult to avoid taking further moasures, It is not likely, therefory, that all tho Powers will consent to thi ; 80 the idea will probably vanish liko s0 many others. General Ignatiofl is still in Paris, He held an ox tended interview with Prosident MacMahon-yesterday, and the Duke Decazes will entertain General Igna- tie at a banquet to-day. Le Temps days Gencral Ignatiei’s mission is simply to obtain the signing of a protocol embodying those reforms demanded by the Conference which contain no threat against Turkey and involvo no abro- gation of the Treaty of 1856. The Univers announces an important conference of five ambassadors with Ignatieff and Schouvaloff at the French Foreign Office to-day to deliberate on the tenor of a colicctive note demanding of Turkey guarantoes calculated to satisfy Russia. TURKEY'S PLAN FOR PEACE. Tho Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs has sent the following despatch to the Ottoman Ambassador ‘at™ London :— “Tho reforms proposed by the Conference and ac- cepted by the imperial government aro already being applied. They embrace two classes- viz, reforms resulting from organic laws, which will be submitted tothe Parhament, and reforms immediately applica- ble, which are as follows :— First—Roorganization of the gendarmérie, a acheme for which bas becn elaborated and handea to Colonel Baker for his consideration. Second—Division of the communes into cantons, which will be done as soon as the proviucial author! ties can assemble and send to Constantinople the in- formation for which thoy have beon asked relative to communal districts. Third—Institution of a corps of mixed gendarmerie, composed of Mussulmans and Christians, a system. which already exists in several parts of the Empire, Fourth—Admission of non-Mussulman subjects to the military schools, which wore recently authorizod and decreed by our august master, Fifth—Prohitbition of the immigration of Circassians en masse into Roumantia and non-employment of regu- lar troops except when absolutely necessary. Sizth—Interdiction against carrying arms without special authority. Seventh—Amnesty for individuals implicated in ree cent ovents at Phillipopolis, Eighth—Tho formation of special commissionsto be despatched to the Vilayots of Bosnia, the Danube ana ‘Adrianople. Ninth—Sanction of the liberty of public worship, all litigation upon religious mater to come under the . Jurisdiction ef the patriarchates, Tenth—-Remission of the arrears of taxcs duc to Jan- ‘uary 1, 1877, in the provinces that fave suffered, Eleventh—Maintenance of the right to. property already acquired by the Christians in Bosnia aud Her. zegovina, The elections having been completed throughout the Empire, the Deputies are beginning to arrive in the capital, The two chambers will open in the third week of March. THK MONTENEGRIN QUESTION, A telegram from Constantinople contirms the states ment published this morning that the Montenegrin and Turkish representatives are unable to agree. It says the Montenegrins told Safvet lacha that all their demands were necessary to insure a lasting peaco, Satvet Pacha objected in general terins, and said public opinion rendered acceptance impossible, He par. ticularly opposed the idea of the cession of Niesic, the “increase of territory in tho dt. rection of Albania, and the cession of Spizza, Negotiations will. be continued on Saturday, The Montenogrins conferred with Safvet Pacha again ‘The situation is unchanged, the Moatenegrins ing all their demands, and tho Porte persist. ing in its objections. The next conference will take placo on Monday, A council of Ministers will bo heid on Sunday. THE COUNT OF CIAMMORD, Several Deputics of the Left bave givon notice in the French Chamber of their intention to question the governmont respecting the publication by legitimist journals of the Count of Chambord’s speech at Gorita toa deputation from Marseilles, THE CAIRO AND ISMATLIA CANAT. Tho Egyptian Finance Committeo has accopted the proposals of M. do Lessep, made in tho name of the Suez Canal Company, to complete and work the canal between Cairo and Ismailia, provided the company be authorized to levy certain dues upon vessels passing through, The canal is nearly completed, The works were formerly abandoned for want of funds, By tho execution of Lessops’ plan Inrge tracts of desert land will be ro. claimed to cultivation. A FINE DAY, og Tho English capital was treated to a day of fair wonther yesterday. MEXICO. GENERAL CORTINA TO BE SENT TO THE cITY oY MEXICO IN ORDER THAT HE MAY BE SHOT ON THE WAY. Matamoros, March 9, 1877. Notwithstanding tho telegraphic order received yes terday from President Diaz to send General Cortina ta the city of Mexico, the military court © last night, at ten o'clock, pronounced sentence of death upon him. His counsel published « protest to-day against tho scntenco, declaring tt illegal, as it Was pronounced ton hours after tho re ceipt order of tho chief executive of the nation to transfer tho accused and the record of the procecd- ings 10 his case to the capital, Cortina’s organ de- is to-day that tho ruse of sonding him to the Cly of Mexico is moroly to havo an opportunity ta