The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. snk el THE DAILY HERALD, pullivher every day in the year, ere etry EE RAD. dny excluded), Ten dollars pet OF At rate Olone dollar per month for any period less Than six monthe fr five ‘doliaes lor six mouths. Sunday inctuded. free of posta All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must De addressed New Youx Ii ‘Letters and packnzes sho Rejected communications ALD. be properly sealed, 11 not be returned. 0E—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH ore NEW YORK HERALD— PR. 0 FLEET STE 2B E DE L'OPERA. RAPEES OFFICE— 7 STRADA PAC Bubseriptions and advertisements will eceived and forwarded on the same terms as in Now Y. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. WEW YORK AQUARI' EAGLE THEATRE—A: GRAND OPERA HOUSE. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—Bive Grass. PARK THEATRE—Ovr Boaxpine House. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tue Dastoneres EGYPTIAN HALL—Sexsati HELLER'S THEATRE: COLUMBIA OPERA HO) THEATRE COMIQUE—\ TONY PASTOR'S THEAT GILMORE'S GARDEN—Mraxt BROOKLYN PARK THEATR NEW AMERICAN MU; BAN FRANCISCO MINS TRIPLE SHEET. "MARCH TO 00 iY DBALER mpany run a special newspaper train over the Penn js Railroad and its connections, Jenving Jersey City ata quarter past tour A. M, daily and Sunday, carrying the recular edition of the HxmaLp is tar West ua Harrisoure and Sonth to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at « quarter past six A. M. and Washington tone P.M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York today will be warm and cloudy, with rain, possibly followed by light snow and colder, clearing weather. ~ NOTICE ‘The Adams Express T YEsSTERDAY.—The stock market ‘was active, the principal business being done in Western Union, New York Central and the coal stocks. There was a general decline in prices, from which Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and Delaware and Hudson were the chief sufferers. Gold opened at 104%, declined to 1041, and closed at 10453, Govern- ment securities were lower and railroad bonds irregular. Money was easy at 212 a3 per cent on call, the closing price being 11ga 2 per cent ‘on call. 5 A Great Dea of information about our dan- gerous classes is given in “The Abode of Crime.” Our Canapa Letter this morning tells of a delightful series of merry makings at the Do- minion capital. ‘Tne Macon’: is in good order again, and every well bred horse on Manhattan Ex-Presipent Lervo, of Mexico, had a peep yesterday at one of the influenceswhich make a republican form of government possible. He visited the Normal College, where teachers are ‘trained. ay Tue Casier of the Continental Life Insur- ance Company gave yesterday some testimony Which will startle people who imagine that the business of large corporations is always trans- acted in a businesslike manuer. Tne Name of an American woman appears in print to-day at the foot of an important State document; and, though the lady belongs south of the Isthmus, her sisters of the North may con- gratulate each other on the fact that no Northern ruler ever said more in so little space. See “Brazil.” & Court's Orrnion, deli » concerning some irregular proceed- ings in a divorce case, will be approved by all respectable people. Divorce may not always bea tragedy, but law and society cannot punish too severely whatever person attempts to make of it a burlesque or a fi Tne Amenican Jockry Cin have petitioned the State Legislature not to pass the bill against pool selling in its present sweeping fu Thev vive abundant reasons for the position they assume, and there can be no doubt but that their statements onght to be duly weighed by the com- wuittees in charge of the bill. So respectable a body of gentlemen as the Jockey Club should have a fair heari nd we hope they will get it. “STEVE” the condemned mur- derer, now a ecution at Aiken, 8. C., makes an a © appeal to his “ole dad,” backed by a proffer of money and a serviceable mule, to tuke his (‘‘Steve's”) place on the gal-* lows. In his anx nt all the advan- tages of the arrangement be: the “ole dad” the young murder avors to excite a feeling his breast { moder,” and points out her son is hanged the survival of her ear-old husband will afford her poor consolation. It is singular, however, that, not- withstanding the tempting nature of the pro- posal, the hundred dollars, the mule and the hangman's noose, the “ole dad” “couldn't sce it Jess yet.” Old as he is he prefers to retain for a while longer that freedom from compression of the windpipe which doubtless gives great effect to his rendering of “Just as I am.” Tas Weaturn.—The depression which we announced as approaching from the west has now reached the Ohio Valley. An immense area of rain and snow attends it, embracing ull the territory southward of the upper lakes and be- tween the Alleghanies and the Missouri River. Heavy rain has fallen at Nashvill m., snd at several points in the central distriets, " snow has prevailed north of the forty-second allel. An area of high pressure is moving over the upper lakes, and is followed by a depression i Western Dakota and Montana. » distribu tion of temperature ove rion east of the Rocky Mountains is very irr nd we pre dict that tornadoes will occur between Arkansas and Ohio, and possibly in Iowa. Our prediction of the 4th was fulfilled on the Sth in Ala bama, as will be seen by our published despatch in today’s Henavp. The thermometrie gradient north from New Orleans is extremely stecp. Increasing winds may be expected on the At- lantic const as the disturbance advances from | the Ohio into the St. Lawrence Valley. It isprob- ablethatthe movement of the high pressure off the South Atlantic coast will develop disturbances in the West Indies, The weather in New York today will be warm and cloudy, with rain and rising winds, possibly followed by light snow and colder, clearing weather, The Ohio River thes risen five feet two inches at Cincinnati, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAKUH 13, 1877.-TRIPLE Constitutional Amendments Relating to the Election and Tenure of the President. The highly important amendment recom- mended by President Hayes in his inau- gural address has good chances of success if pushed at the approaching extra session and coupled with other needed amendments re- lating to the method of choosing the Presi- dent. Mr. Hayes merely recommended the exterision of the Presidential term to six years with ineligibility of the incumbent. But the recent trouble- some dispute, settled by «a makeshift |. Which ought never to be repeated, has con- vinced the country that the mode of elec- tion and of deciding contests after the votes have been cast needs a radical reconstruc- tion. The people at large have a livelier sense of the necessity for changing the method of election than for limiting the President toa single term. But the already existing public opinion in favor of an amend- ment which the new President did not no- tice is favorable to the success of the one which he recommended. The people dep- recate a perpetual tinkering of the consti- tution, and the imperative necessity for changing some parts of it which relate to the Executive predisposes them to have all desirable changes made at once. The one- term amendment alone might fail through public apathy, in spite of its acknowledged importance; but since the constitution is to undergo important changes there will be a general wish to make them so complete as to insure stability and permanence in the article which relates to the President. It is not expedient to rebuild a dilapidated edifice piecemeal. The second article of the con- stitution has utterly failed in practice. The Presidential electors are a sham; tho system is so arranged that the candidate having the smallest number of popular votes may be legally clectod; when there is no choice by the electoral colleges a moribund House of Representatives, elected more than two years provious and not reflecting the popular sentiment of the time, chooses the President; there is no provi- sion for settling disputed questions; the electoral votes for any can- didate bear no proportion to the popular votes he may have received; and, in short, the whole method, bothin substance and in detail, is repugnant to equity and common sense. We have tolerated it solong by the mere force of custom and indisposi- tion to change; but our recent narrow escape from dangerous civil commotions has opened the eyes of the country to the full magnitude of the evil. It is universally felt that a change is indispensable before another Presidential election, and we must avail ourselves of the occasion to make all the changes in that article of the constitution of which long experience has demonstrated the necessity. As to the future method of electing our Presidents the plan advocated by ex-Sena- tor Buckalew in the last number of the North American Review deserves discussion and consideration. It is proposed in this plan that the people vote directly for the candidates they prefer without the ab- surd intervention of Presidential electors, but that each State shall be entitled to the same number of electoral votes as at pres- ent. By Mr. Buckalew’s plan these electoral votes are to be divided in ench State be- tween the candidates in proportion to the number of popular votes they may respec- tively receive. We cannot at present ex- plain the details of this plan; buta great deal may be said in favor of its principle, and not much, perhaps, against it. But whatever method of election is adopted it is our strong conviction that the President should be limited to one term, as recom- mended by President Hayes. It must be borne in mind that Mr. Hayes has not proposed a novelty. He is far enough from being the originator of the idea, For more than two genera- tions statesmen and publicists who dif- fered on all other questions have agreed in deprecating the re-cligibility of our Presi- dents. It was the chief objection of Jeffor- son to the constitution when he first re- ceived a copy of it in Paris. Jackson, in his first annual Message, recommended an amendment giving the election of the Presi- dent to a direct vote of the people and making him ineligible for a second term. Henry Clay, the greatest of Jackson's an- tagonists, quite agreed with him on this point, and incessantly urged an amend- ment limiting the President to one term. When tho Southern States seceded they put this reform into their constituticn, which was in most respects a transcript of the federal constitution, expecting to make it more popular by so manifest an improve- ment. Mr. Tilden in his letter of accept- ance sought to enhance his popularity by a strong declaration in favor of the one term principle and of the necessity of making it a part of the constitution, The most enlight- ened European critics of our institutions, like De Tocqueville in the last generation and John Stuart Mill in our own time, have strenuously maintained that the re-eligibility of our Presidents is a cardinal vice of our political system. No valid answer has ever been made to their arguments. It is said, indeed, that the President is always a party chief, and that he is quite as liable to abuse his patronage to elect a successor of his own party as to promote his own. But such an argument ignores the strongest principle of huinan nature. It assumes that party spirit is as powerful a motive as per- soral ambition, which is contrary to all experience. This argument also overlooks the chief incentive to the obuse of his patronage by a President in office, The main endeavor of a President who desires a re-election is to secure the nomination of his own political party, for without this he has no chance at ali. The principal hief is done be- tween the time of his inauguration and the meeting of the national convention of his party, and not in the few months between the nomination and the election. If the President were not re-eligible he would have no temptation to abuse his pa tronage during the first three years of his term, because nothing would weaken his administration so much as a strong effort to force the nomination of one of several rival aspirants in his own mis pomty., By favoring one ke would make eney,} mies of the supporters of all the others. A President who was not re-eligible would sel- dom or never attempt to control the choice of the national convention of his party. If he abused his patronage at all it wou!d be only in the brief interval between the nom- ination and the election, whereas a President seeking a new election spends the greater part of his first term in a prolonged intrigue for another nomination. Ordinarily about three years and three months intervene between the inauguration of a President and the nomination of his successor, and about four months between the nomination and the election. Even granting that a Presi- dent will use his patronage for his party, the abuse would only last during four months of the four years if he were ineli- gible for re-election ; but if he hopes fora second term the abuse runs through the whole four years, If the term is extended to six years with ineligibility a second time, as President Hayes recommends, ao still smaller proportion of the period would be devoted to party objects, An ineligible | ashes President would not attempt to control the party nomination, and it is precisely in in- trigues for a nomination that the federal patronage is 60 grossly abused. The argu- ment in favor of re-eligibility is, therefore, of the flimsiest texture, and proceeds in utter disregard of the facts. News from Stanley. All readers interested in geographical dis- covery and in the progress of exploration in Central Africa will be pleased to hear again from Mr. Stanley, of whose latest move- ments an outline is given in our special cable despatches from London. It may be remem- bered that previous to this news he was last heard from by letters dated in April, 1876, and which appeared in the Heranp in August. He had then concluded his minute examina- tion of the Victoria Niyanza, and was mak- ing his way toward new labors, giving proper attention to the primary duty of 'a traveller in countries of that naturo— the duty, namely, of keeping himself alive. Feasted by some savage princes and threatened and assailed by others, he again reached Lake Tanganyika and com- pletely surveyed its shores, and apparently to some extent the country to the west of it. Precisely to what extent he has examined the western country we cannot know till his letters arrive; but, partly from his own ob- servations and partly from accounts of the natives, he seems now able to locate a great lake hitherto unknown, which is called Niyanza Chu Ngoma. Although unknown, the existence of this lake has been guessed at from the theories of physical geographers, who regard the presence of such a body of water in that quarter as a physical necessity from the conditions known. If, as Stanley believes, this lake has an important relation to the Nile, as one of its great sources, its discovery will be a brilliant addition to his achievements in that country, New Hampshire Election To-Day. The State and Congressional election in New Hampshire occurs to-day. The State offices to be filled are those of Governor and Railroad Commissioner. Benjamin F. Pres- cott is the republican candidate for Gov- ernor, and Daniel Marcy is his opponent on the democratic side. For Railroad Commis- sioner, Granville P. Conn is the republican and Thomas J. Dinsmore the democratic nominee. There is a prohibition State ticket, but it will poll only a meagre vote, and the success of the republican candidates is almost certain. The chief interest of the election, therefore, concentrates on the Con- gressional contest. Three Representatives are to be chosen. The First and Second dis- tricts two years ago gave small democratic majorities under the influence of the démo- cratic “tidal wave.” The Third district then elected a republican. The republican candidates are Gilman Marston in the First, James F. Briggs in the Second and Henry W. Blair in the Third district, and the dem- ocratic candidates are Frank Jones in the First, Alvah Sulloway in the Second and Henry O. Kent in the Third. The re-election of Frank Jones, who was a thember of the last Congress, is considered highly proba- ble, the candidate being o successful and popular business man who was twice chosen Mayor before his election to the last House. The two other districts are likely to be car- ried by the republicans. Mr. Blair was the republican Representative in the late Con- gress. Constitutional amendments of some importance are to be voted on, but the campaign has been a very tame one, and it is likely that ao light vote will be polled, Bad Medicine. In the land of the Winnebagos the Big Indian of that warlike tribe sits by the council fire or in the adjacent streets and eats his heart. Dismay, chagrin, despair, anger and apprehension appear on the faces of the braves ; for the Big Indian has, in the bitterness of his spirit, made a terrible threat. He has threatened to turn his face to the wall and lie still and make believe that he is dead, and thus to excite the repent- ance and remorse of an ungrateful people that will not Jet him have his own way. “When you return home,” said Push-ma- ta-ha to his companions, “the young men will come out to meet you. They will ask you, Where is ‘Push-ma-ta-ha?’ You will say to them, ‘Push-ma-ta-ha is no more.’ They will hear this like the sound of the falling of a mighty oak in the stillness of the forest.” And that is just the way that in the Winnebago village they have heard the threat of the Big Indian ; for the sense of startled horror, the wonder what may | come next, the conception that a mere earthquake or meteoric shower would be in the nature of an anti-climax-—-all this over- whelms their thoughts, and they have not en- ergy enough left to put their heads in the or to sew on to their waistcoats the buttons bursted off in the first paroxysm of despair and rage. Some insist that the Big Indian should not take on in this way merely because of the bad conduct of Man- Who-Makes-His-Own-Cabinet; but the Big Indian is resolute and will positively die, and the Little Indian will inherit all his property, including the Winnebago village and the seatin the United States Senate. - | The Leader may be assured that there is President Hayes and the South, We regret that there is any hitch or delay in executing the wise intentions decisved | by the new President in his inaugural, Wo cannot doubt that he was quite sincere in his wish to restore local self-government in the two Southern States where it has not | already been re-established by the action of the people. Even aside from considerations ofright and justice, he should shrink from the troublesome experience of his predecessor in propping up governments which the people of the States repudiate and detest. President Grant himself, grown wise by ex- perience, became heartily sick of his own Southern policy, or rather of the Louisiana and South Carolina paré of it, In Arkansas, in Texas, in Mississippi President Grant re- fused to interfere, and the consequence was that order immediately arose out of chaos, and those States have since been as peaceful and orderly as New York or Ohio. After President Grant unwarily got entangled in Louisiana he asked Congress to extricate him, or at least relieve him from responsibility; but Con- gress did not choose to act, and he still had the difficulty on his hands up to the time of the last election. Since then he has merely preserved the peace, and before he went out of office he expressed the opinion that the troops ought to be withdrawn. A very complete trial of the policy of interference in some States and refusal to in- | terfere in others brought him to the conclusion that the non-interference policy is the only sound one. We shall be very sorry if President Hayes refuses to profit by the annoying experience of his predecessor and insists on paying tuition ‘fees in the same proverbially dear school, He can never decide this question so easily as now. Governor Nicholls and Governor Hampton are ready to give complete assur- ance of their ability to maintain order, and the President will make a mistake if he does not at once test their promises. To those who best know the South the result is not at all doubtful. President Hayes should at once withdraw the troops becanse it is right, and because he acknowledges the ex- pediency of local self-government. He should not stop till politicians have patched up bargains about the election of Senators. This would hear too close a resemblance to the sale of justice by a Court. What has the Prosident to do with the election of Sena- tors? What title or color of title has he to interfere? The country expects him to be a just Chief Magistrate, and not a shufiling, bargaining politician. Russian Intimidation. Intimidation is now complained of in England. Russia has under arms, it ap- pears, one million men, and that is a men- ace, She has sent to Western Europe the distinguished diplomat to whom she has in- trusted all the negotiations with regard to Turkey, and that is another menace, It is a menace if she prepares to make war; it isa menace if she endeavors to make peace. For certainly Ignatieff’s mission is peaceful. Itis to obtain some form of declaration that will save Russia’s dignity and honor, and so make it unnecessary to vindicate them by war. Russia committed horself late in the year to a declaration that she would make war in a certain contingency, and that contingency has arisen. She must make war therefore, and will, unless she shall be able to plead another solution by the proposed protocol. This attitude, with a million men in arms behind it, will throw the responsibility of war finally on the Powers that shall refuse to join in the preparation of the protocol, and that is the essence of the intimida- tion of which complaint is made in London. Meantime quite another sort of intimidation is in progress in Bos- nia, where events of the nature of those that occurred last spring in Bulgaria scem immi- nent. There the Turks are ready to relieve their oppressed feelings by the massacro of twenty thousand men and women or little boys and girls, and feel sadly outraged, in the touching phrase of Hobart Pacha, at the want of ‘a little kindly, generous feeling” toward them in Europe. Fr "prade or Protection? The Toronto Leader does itself injustice, we think, as it certainly does injustice to the people of the Dominion. for whom it as- sumes to. speak, by its petulant remarks in relation to the Hxraup's advocacy of free trade between Canada and the United States, An unrestricted commerce between the two countries would be beneficial to both, but would certainly be more advantageous to our neighbors than to ourselves. The strong efforts made by the Canadian statesmen to promote the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, and to procure its ex- tension at the expiration of the ten years during which it was in force, are sufficient evidence that they understand and appreciate this fact. It is unnecessary now to revert to the acts of the Canadian govern- ment which made the Reciprocity Treaty unpopular with the people of the United States and induced its abrogation. It is sufficient that on this side of the line we are now willing to extend the hand of brother- hood to our neighbors for all commercial purposes and to give to the industries of both countries all the advantages which we believe free trade would insure. no desire for annexation in the United States. Our vountry is large enough as it is, and our political economists are satisfied that we should be better off with Canada as a friendly and independent neighbor, bound to us by the ties of material in- terest as well as of race and of social intercourse, than as so many States of the Union. If we wish free trade between the two countries it is qhite as much for the good of the Canadians as for our own advantage. It seems folly in these days |} to build up artificial barriers between the inhabitants of the opposite sides of the waters of the St. Lawrence, and our con- temporary will pardon us if wo suggest that its own arguments in favor of such a policy will scarcely bear the test of criticism. Under the present laws, says the Leader, Canada suffers gross injustice. Her exports are taxed antl her imports go in free. Then, surely, she would be at. stili greater | | disadvantage under a policy of protec. | | for Megal and dishonest enterprises, sneer. tien @bich would afford an opportunity especially with neighbors who, acoord- ing to the Leader, are “trade sharpers,” aad an “inferior population.” If our con- temporary’s policy should prevail in the Canadian government and the colony should draw her head into her shell like a snail and surround herself with prohibitory duties to protect her ‘young develop- ments,” she would certainly be more hope- lessly at the mercy of the ‘trade sharpers” | of the United States than she would if no advantages could be gained on either side except such as may be secured by the enter- prise, tact and business ability for which our Canadian neighbors are distinguished. A Tribute to the Brave Firemen. The promptness, coolness and courage displayed by the firemen who rescued o number of children from the burning tene- ment house on Ludlow street last Sunday night reflect credit upon the force. The first thought of the brave fellows was to save human life, and in so doing they must have incurred no little personal risk. One of them dashed into a room filled with smoke dense enough to have killed one boy eight years of age and to have rendered his brother, two years younger, insensible, and bore the bodies of the children to the roof. Another carried out a gir! ten years old, who was also in & state of insensibility, and im- | mediately returned to the building and assisted in rescuing a woman and five young children who were huddled together in a room, helpless with terror. One poor little fellow, who had attempted to escape by the roof and found no means of exit, had hid- den himself in a small rear apartment, and | would have perished but for his timely dis- | covery by a fireman who heard his sobs and saved his life. Seyen children and a woman ; were thus rescued from death, although two of these are in a critical condition from the effects of the smoke they inhaled. The names of the men who were promi- nent in this noble work are Chief Miller, As- sistant Foreman Thomas Lally and Firemen Dwyer, Grey, Foley, O’Hearn and Cavanagh, all of Hook and Ladder No. 6. Their con- duct deserves recognition both from the authorities and the people, and it is to be hoped that some way may be found to testify the public admiration of their coolness, cour- age and efficiency. ‘ Bogus Opposition to Rapid Transit. It is about time that public sentiment should express itself in a very emphatic manner in relation to the illegitimate oppo- sition of the street railroad companies to the great public work of rapid transit and the aid afforded to those corporations by venal Aldermen and legislators. The so-called ‘‘meeting of property own- ers” to protest against the completion of the Gilbert Elevated Railroad which was held | at the Masonic Temple, last night, was only another movement of the horse railroad companies in the effort to defeat rapid tran- sit altogether. The meeting was promoted by the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company and paid for with the money of the combined horse car corporations. It was intended for effect on the Legislature, but was as illegiti- mate in its character as all the other demon- strations made in the same interest. It did not represent New York property holders or their sentiments, for they favor rapid transit asa public convenience and as a necessity to the growth and prosperity of the metrop- olis, The meeting was a false pretense, as unsubstantial and unreliable as the doc- trine that the people have no rights in Sixth avenue, an avenue which was opened and paid for by the city. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Murtagh bas nowhere to lay his heels. General Babcock will remain in Washington, Charleston, S. C., has revived the planchette mania, General Benjamin F. Butler ts at the Fifth Avenue, Mr, Joremiah 8. Black, of Pennsylvania, is at the Astor. Somebody else took away the log, but Hewitt cat sticks. Ho who best observes Lent will get a chromo in heaven. Beebe, of Orange county, is the plebian sawbuck of oratory. Vice Prosident Wheeler will remain in Washington during the summer. \ A South Carolina negro stole a clock, and he is going to jail for somo time. Springer, of Illinois, should have talked less with his pistol pocket and more with his reason, Rev. Mr. Balloon lives In Nebraska, and it ts not told to us whether or not he is full of gas. Senator Cameron, of Wisconsin, who has veen quite il for somo days, was reported much bettor last even- ing. ‘The Springfleld Republican has short editorial articles on social topics that are equal to anything in the Satur- day Review. Congressman Chittenden’s house in Wasbington is very prominent, near the Arlington, It Is full of bricks and brains. Simon Cameron wants to know whether ono little motto-paper should have consequences equal to a President's message, Associato Justice Stephen J. Field, of the United States Supreme Court, arrived at the Albemarlo yos- terday from Washington, ‘The opposition to Evarts was that when he used to put up a clothes Ime he would bitch it seven times round a post without stopping, like making one of his sentences. General Sherman says that, while General Joe Johnston ts an accomplished soldier and a faultiess gentleman, he Was not his recommenaation for Secre- tary of War, Speaking of two renderings of Hamlet, an English erttic says:—"Mr, Irving rendors the argument with himself—the argument of reverle—better than Mr. Brandram, Mr. Brandram the passion of sell-scorn | better than Mr, Irving.” Hon. ©. M. Dennison says that Senator Conkling un- doubtedly supported Ellie H. Roberts, the talented | editor of the Utica /Terald, for Congress, and thinks that Mr. Roberts’ efforts at revenge for what he con- siders a slight are hurting the republican party, When the tnbabitant of the Netherlands starts from his lethargy he seeks high colors, as Jie did when he | was coizod with the tulip mania, M, Havard says that | the wealthy men of the province of Friesland havo on | their Jakes “yachts with dark red sails, finely cut | bows, carefully varnished, delicately carved, glaringly colored and gilded on the quarter, throughont the sum. | mor laden with family parties and cruising in company for days aud weeks,” Evening Telegram:—''There are two ways of inter. viewing & man, Qneis to let him know that he is being interviowed; the other is to keep bim in the dark, You must vary your manner with your man, and the accomplished interviewer ts perfect master of | all the little arts, There are some men who tumble to tho interviewer {mmediately, They take to him as naturally as ducks to wator or babes to milk. Then TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. EUROPE AND ITS SKELETON. Admiral Hobart Pasha Pleads for Turkey. LAWLESSNESS IN BOSNIA Wild Russian Stories from Central Asia. HERALD WEATHER FOR ENGLAND See cremataer (BY CABLE To THE HERALD. ] Loxpox, March 18, 1877. ‘The feature of this morning’s news on the continent is Admira! Hobart's letfer in reference to the true cone dition of Turkey. Notwithstanaing the fact that the Admiral takes occasion to make the contradiction of many Jate rumors about Turkey the pretext tor his opistie, there ts much else in it, A care- ful reading of 1 lets in many sidéd lights upon the previous management of the Ottoman Emptre, It traly argues that tho work of reorganiza- tion and reform must be as slow in its progress as the cure of a chronic discase of long growth. A slight flutter of excitement was occasioned here yesterday by the announcement that a Cabinet Council would bo held’ io-day in Downing street, to decide upon the to be pursued in regard to the proposals brought by Count Schouvaloff, the Russian Ambassador, It was asserted 1m this connec tion that General Ignatieff would certainly remain in Paris until he had been notified regarding Eng- land’s reception of the Russian plans, It now seems to be assured that General Ignatieff will succeed Prince Gortschakoff when he returns to St. Petersburg. Mr. Gladstone’s latest pamphlet, which !s summarized in all tho papers this morning, will be the theme of to-day’s conversation about town and all over England. SPECIAL PLEADING IN TURKEY'S BEHALF, Admiral Hobart Pacha, of the Turkish navy, writes to the Zimes from Constentinople, under date of March 2, contradicting the reports current about Turkey. He says:—lt exactly suits Turkey’s great enemy that these reports should be promulgated as proof of the impossibility of Turkish reform. The Turks say these reports are too ridiculous to require refutation. In ordinary timea this might be true, but we livé in extraordinary times, and 1 cannot stand by and allow such injustice to pass unnoticed. The Sultan is in pericct health and works day and night tor the welfare of his country. Shevket Pacha has not been appointed to avy command on the Danube or elsewhere. Midhat course Pacha was not removed through palace intrigues, ‘rho Sultan bimself, for reasons 1 do not pre tend to criticise, dismissed him. Mahmoud Neddim Pacha is pot recalled trom exile, nor is there any probability of his being. No money was sent to the palace from Russia on Midhat Pacha’s dismissal, This country, although passing through a fearful crisis, and while the passions and aspirations of five or 81x different religious communities and nationalities are roused, is perfectly quiet. Life and property are as safe as anywhero in Europe. ‘There is no panic in any place, Christians follow their vocations in safety. It the ruinous drag of impending war were removed I believe Turkey would soon be able to lift up ber head again, The Turks honestly admit tho trutn of the accusation of bad administration and are most desirous to make radical changes, but a bad system from beginning to end, {n a vast Empiro full of conflicting elementa cannot be changed in a day. Tney ask for time, help from without in the way of administration and a little kindly, generous feeling from Europe.” A “PELL MELL’? VIEW. “We do not believe the signature of the projected Protocol will give any security of peace,” sagely re- marked the Pall Mall Gazette’s-leader writer last even- ing. ‘Already, if reports from Bosnia are true, forces are at work thero to prepare another series of outrages which might precipitate the very war which the pro- tocol imtended to provont. Droad has been expressed if Russia is allowed to come mence war with Turkey this may af- ford Germany an opportunity of making the attack upon France, which it 1s commonly supposed sho was restrained from making two years ago, bat if Germany helps Russia to recall her troops with honor and profit it may be this year she will find herself under no such restraint, The outlook in that direction scoms to bo darkening daily. If the Russian troops must be cmployed or dispersed, so, per haps, must the enormous armies which aro grinding Germany to the earth. The outlook eastward is as threatening as over, The negotiations between Turkey and Montenegro. are approaching » deadlock. Reports of Russian movements grow more alarming. The danger lest an attack upon Turkey may load toa groat Kuropean war must always haye been present to tho Russian mind, and, in view ot such danger, it is impossible to say, even so vast mile itary. preparations as the Zimes correspondent at Belgrade reports this morning—viz, that 1,000,009 men will be in arms by the 16th of March—exceed the requirements ot the situation, It may bethat Gencral Ignatieff’s language and the enormous muster of Russian troops on the Turkish frontiers are only meant to intimidate, In any caso we may as well face the fact that Europa dation, and that the Russian threats are for the most part addressed to England, DREADPCL PROSPECTS FOR BOSNIA. The Mohammedan population of Bosnia Is becoming very much excited by the addresses of Imans, Hadjas and wandering Dervishes, who bave roused tho fanatie cal passions of their followers to such a pitch of excitement that foreigners residing in Bos. nian towns state that there 13 imminet danger of a massacre of the rayahs., In the district of Tamela, the Turkish authorities have made requisition for 800 horses and pack saddles with one driver for each horse, Similar requisition has been made in Serajevo, the animals being used for transporting mili ‘ary stores and aumunition through the stations in the porthern§ part of the province. The Chriettans im Bosnin assert that they have already patd taxes far tho present ye; being collected a second time, Taxes aro asse eighty-four piastres per head, Besides this the rayabs are taxed thirty-one piastres on each male for exempe tion from military duty. The government’s tonth of the produce of the country is exacted in money, and the beys or landlords, who receive one-third of tho products of the lands cultivated by the peasants, exact this third in money, as they know that their third will be requisitioned by the military authorities if taken in kind, The Turkish military authorities are strongly fortifying Serajevo, Salo Pacha has left Belina with a staff ot engineers for the purpose of fortitying Bartshka, Shamaty and Orashia The Turks are also fortifying the southern bank of the river T and compelling the rayabs without distinction of age or sex to work upon these fortifications and furnish them- selves with provisions, Banjaluka 1s being trans- formed into a fortified encampment by the forced labor of men and women of all ages, The Insurgents are gathering in the there are others who, while not disliking the operation, wre shy and skittish, hke a girl with her first kiss ora boy with a sweetheart older than himself, Then, there aro treacherous and diplomatic frauds, who dying to get interviewed in order to ventilate for thoir | private (ntoreats opinions which they do not entertain.’ Rozara Mountains and are recetving reinforcements, The Governor of Bosnia has mado rbquisition of all grain and Indian corn im the district of Serajevo ai Travnick, Itis reported that a Mohammedan official in Banjaluka cut off the band of a man of that place on tho 4th of March, on account of his having base does He unger an open and flagrant process of intimt.- ‘5 wi i