The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1877, Page 4

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MARCH 19, 1877, NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company run @ special train over the Pennayivania allroad and i . leaving Jersey City xt a quarver past four A. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition of the Henaup as far Wers as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A M. and Washington at one P.M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are thal the weather in New York: to-day will be wold and partly cloudy or clear, followed at night by rising temperature, increasing cloudiness and possibly snow or rain. Tr Is Expectep that the Brooklyn Aldermanic “slate” will be broken to-day, and that ciphering m the new one will result in a speedy answer. Tue Cusropians or fi Crry Hatt bunting will tind something of special interest in “Our Complaint Book.” The topics treated in this famous book are almost as interesting for their diversity as for their material. Asout Turner Hunprep more American work- mev will go to Australia soon. If an island thousands of miles away can afford to carry and locate laborers some of our own undeveloped States should certainly be able to see moncy in the same operation. Tue Toucnwe Tate of an ex-convict, told at length elsewhere, should be more than entertain- ing to its readers, If the bevevolent wait for the needy and desperate to come to them they leave undone a work which is likely to be superseded by one a great deal more costly. A Corrxsronpent calls attention to the dangers incident to the overcrowding of churches. The possibilities of harm from this eause are, no doubt, very yreat; but it is cause for mourning among the religious that there are ‘but few churches that are ever overtilled. Prorrsson Apter said yesterday that tract societies and kindred bodies do not feed the hungry. At least one such society has away about twenty thousand meals in N this winter. If any scientific association has done better we shall be glad to inform the public of it. At THE OvENING of tho new Methcdist mission bouse in Attorney street yesterday one of the speakers said that Methodist work was good for the rheumatism. If this is the case let us have a live Methodist or two in every street car while the present blustering spell lasts ; that is the place to find rheumatics in greatest numbers. Op New Yorkers will have some merry memories awakened by our sketch of ‘Win- dust’s,” and younger men will mourn that they were not born twenty or thirty years earlier. ‘New York has seldom known a public resort in which so many good fellows have gathered and where good humor seemed so completely the genius of the place. Tue Jaranese INsurrection seems to have at tts bottom a lot of wealthy young men who have uo regular occupation. Japan will yet be com- pelled to learn, as other nations have done, that among dangerous classes this is o1 worst. Behe:fling may reform ind: bers of this clique, but’ what to do with the re- mainder is a question for which Japan's answer, if she devises one, will be gladly considered by countries of higher civilization. storm centre which passed off the Carolma coast on Saturday has moved slowly northeastward along the axis of the Gulf Stream and has again presented itself in Nova Scotia. We anticipated this movement in our predictions on Saturday morning, and called attention to the probability of gales on the coast. A depression of considerable area has moved eastward to the Missouri Valley, with high winds on its eastern and a heavy gale on its western margin. Two areas of high pressure are now traversing the United States on the easterly side of the Rocky Mountains, one through the lake region and th through the Southern States. The precipitation has been chiefly snow, and distributed over the Eastern States, the British Atlantic provinces, where it fs very heavy; the lake region and the North- west, where it is light. Rain has fallen on the Middle and South Atlantic coasts. The tempera- ture has risen decidedly in the West within the area of advancing depression, but the contrasts sre very marked. It is also high in the Southern States, especially in the Southwest. It is low at all other points except those tem- porarily embraced within the area of the storm in Nova Scotia, where the contrasts “of temperature are very decided, For instance, Mast evening the thermometric record at Bangor, Me., was only 9 degs. above zero, and at Hali- fax, N. 8., one hundred and fifty miles to the eastward, was 39 degs. The cold in this city has been very severe, as indicated by our local observations. The Lower Mississippi has risen 3 all the other rivers have fallen. The of a Gulf disturbance continue. The weather in New York to-day will be cold and partly cloudy or clear, followed -at night by ' temperature, increasing cloudiness aud American in Ralirond Securities London. The utter distrust of American railroad securities which has been felt in the London market for the last few weeks will probably continue in amore or less mitigated form for quite a period, The causes which have produced it are still in operation, and will continue to operate until general business shall have revived and our currency have been brought to a sound condition. After a little the distruat will be less undiscrim- inating than it is just at present, when sound and rotten roads suffer from it alike. But even our best located and best managed railroads are not prosperous. ‘he whole business of the country having been for more than three years in a state of great depression, it was not in the nature of things that the railroads should be prosper- ous, When production comes to a stand the business of railroads necessarily falls oft. Itis their chief business to distribute the productions of our various industries. The amount of their business depends on the amount of production and inter- change. A period of industrial stagna- tion dries up the sources of their prosperity. This is the broad, general fact which explains the depressed condition of our American roads and has: well nigh prostrated foreign confidence in their secu- rities. Subordinate to this main cause are several lesser ones, some of which have flowed from it and others been disclosed by it. As an instance of the former we may mention the cutthroat competition which has prevailed between the great through lines. The amount of business being small each road has made a desperate grasp for as much as it could get. They have underbid each other in rates to a mutual destruction of profits, As soon as one railroad war has been adjusted an- other has almost immediately broken out, The roads with much less business than ordinary have been doing that diminished business at much less than ordinary rates, thus voluntarily burning the other end of the candle when one end is burning by cir- cumstances which they connot control. General stagnation having left but little business to be done they have done this small business at lower rates than they could well afford for a large business. When enterprise re- covers confidence and all our industries revive the cutthroat policy of the great lines will be abandoned. In any highly prosperous state of business hereafter the internal commerce of the country between the East and the West will fill and overflow all existing channels, and the roads, having all they can do, will try to reimburse their recent losses. The order of the day will then be, not a mutually ruinous competi- tion, as now, but a general combination to put up and keep up the price of freights. When each is sure of all the business it can do a common interest in maintaining high rates will take the place of the scramble of the last two or three years to draw away one another's business, It is possible that we may then again see, what existed previous to the panic, a great politi- cal party rising in the West to protest against the extortions of the railroads. The granger agitation, which seemed so formid- able and was so rapidly spreading three or four years ago, has quite collapsed since the panic. Nothing was heard of itafter the rail- roads began their war upon each other. The grangers have the low freights for which they 80 loudly clamored, and havealsoan opportu- nity to see the effect of such rates on the prosperity of the roads. When business revives they will perhaps renew their old complaints, but, it is to be hoped, with more moderation. The long stagnation of business has dis- closed other causes of railroad depression of much older date. The chief of these is extravagant management. Stockholders turned a blind eye to the profusion of rail- road officers so long as the roads were doing a good business and earning large amounts of money, but when they find the value of their property wasting away they become more inquisitive ond scrutinizing, They have accordingly discovered great recklessness in expenses and deceptive methods of keeping accounts and making reports. This is by no means true of all the roads, but it is true of too many, and in for- eign estimation all our roads suffer by this bad management and lax morality. It grew up during the war and the period of infla- tion which followed. During the war the railroads had a great harvest, which turned the heads of their managers. The shutting up of the Mississippi River caused the whole trade of the West to set toward the Atlantic coast, and the enor- mous military transportation made another great addition to the business and profits of the railroads, The habits of extravagance then engendered were kept up under the delusive show of prosperity which led us on to the panic, and railroad management has not yet been generally reformed. There is a great work to be done in this respect, and the present period of depression and dis- credit supplies a coercive occasion. With the revival of our industries the rail- roads will begin to recover, and many ill-informed people in England who are now spasmodically trying to get rid of their American railroad securities will discover and regret their mistake. Speak- ing in general, American railroad property is certain to be worth more two years hence than it isat present. Tho misfortune of the foreign holders is that they have not suffi- cient local knowledge to discriminate. ‘The existing prostration of English confi- dence in American railroad securities, though o misfortune, will have one de- cidedly beneficial tendency. It will greatly facilitate the refunding of our national debt at « lower rate of interest. We aro still paying six per cent on something like a thousand millions of the public debt, although our national credit, next to that of Great Britain, is the best in the world. Englishmen have heretofore pre- ferred to invest in our railroad securities rather than our government bonds on account of the rate of interest, which is gen- erally as high as seven percent. But the distrust which has fallen on our rnilrond securities will cause English investors, for l some time to come, to prefer solid security with moderate interest. Their recent heavy bad luck with Turkish loans and Sonth American loans will increase their tendency to caution and create a strong preference for our gov- ernment bonds to all other foreign securities of every description. No occasion could be so opportune as that which now dawns on Secretary Sherman for converting the whole amount of five-twenties into new bonds within a short period. The credit of our government is of the very best, and every other kind of transatlantic security which could in any way come into competition with it is just now in such disrepute that thé new Secretary of the Treasury will have the field al] to himself. It is not credit- able to the financial ability of recent ad- ministrations that in the twelfth year of peace we are still paying six per cent ona thousand millions of our national debt. Secretary Sherman must not fail to seize this great occasion, so unfortunate for rail- roads, but so propitious to the great fiscal operations with which he is charged. Wrecks on the Two wrecks on Saturday night and early yesterday morning, fortunately unattended with loss of life, make an unpleasant record even for one week. The running ashore of the Rusland, like that of the Amérique, on the New Jersey coast, a short distance south- ward of Sandy Hook, was caused, we fear, by a neglect of the lead when approach- ing land. True, it was snowing at the time, and the lights on the Hook and the lightship were invisible, but these facts furnished all the more reason for extra caution on the part of the pilot and the captain of the ship. Along the Atlantic coast, and particularly that part of it which lies southward of Montauk Point, the soundings give the most reliable indica- tions of the proximity of land. A steamer with her propelling machinery intact can nearly always work off the coast when her captain or pilot finds himself too near land in thick weather, even though a gale is blowing. When the Rusland went ashore the wind, as recorded by the Hzratp yacht observer, was blowing fresh from the north, and not unfavorably for the ship if she was put about. The loss of the bark Gan Eden near Martha’s Vineyard was due to causes which were avoidable if the captain possessed any foresight or knowledge of the climatic conditions on the North American coast at this season of the year. His crew was composed entirely of men from a warm climate, and who were unprovided with clothing suited to our win- ter temperature. They had no shoes or stockings and were therefore unable to work the ship in the extreme cold that prevailed on the New Englani coast during Saturday and yesterday. The prevailing snow storm, with the entire helplessness of the crew, combined to render the wreck of the Gan Eden almost a certainty, considering her position. It is remarkable that the crew escaped destruction. Care in using the lead and the selection of seamen properly equipped for our climate in winter would undoubtedly have saved the Rusland and the Gan Eden. Coast. Getting Rid of a Tax on Commerce. The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States declaring unconstitutional the fees exacted from vessels arriving in the port of New York to compensate the harbor masters for their services leaves those officers without any means of remuneration, and so virtually discontinues their occupa- tion. Either they must be paid by an appropriation to be levied as a tax on the people of the State or their offices must be abolished. It has frequently been urged that the harbor masters are wholly unneces- sary officials and that all their duties could and should be performed by the city authorities. It will do no harm to try the effect of such a change before making provision by tax for the continuance of the old system. There have been twelve of these harbor masters, one of whom is desig- nated Captain of the Port. Their tees are supposed to have amounted to abont eighty thousand dollars a year, or six thousand dollars apiece, antl eight thousand dollars for office expenses, all of which has comeout of the commerce of the port. But their profits are believed to have been greatly in excess of this sum. No person outside their own circle can get at the exact amount, and, unless they are greatly mis- judged, they have been in the habit of re- alizing large sums of money during the year above their legal fees by favoritism in desig- nating the location of vessels discharging and receiving cargoes in this port. Gen- erally the harbor masters have been se- lected from the long list of country poli- ticians to whom a governor has been in- debted for his election or who may have had friends among the Senators attached to the party in power in the State. In a ma- jority of instances they have been as igno- rant of the port of New York and its com- ; mercial interests as of the wail of China and the policy of the Celestial Empire. An attempt is being made in the interest of the holders of thése fat offices, and of the politicians who believe that they are in the line of succession, to create the impression that the abolition of the harbor masters will be detrimental to the commerce of the port. We do not sharein any such apprehension. At all events it will be well to let them die out for want of nourishment, as they can be re-established whenever necessary, The ship-owners will be very glad to get rid of them, and this is fair evidence that they are more expensive than beneficial to the com- merce of the port. Count Von Ari, who has been brought into prominence during the last three years through the State prosecutions instituted against him by the German government, is reported to be on his deathbed, and his son has been summoned hastily to his side, There are several rumors afloat as to tho real cause of the enmity between the Count and Prince Bismarck, and, whatever degree of reliance may be placed on them, there seems little reason to doubt that the charges actually brought against the former did not disclose the whole story. Throughout Europe and in the United States the public sympathy has been decidedly with the Count Von Arnim. He has been regarded as an unjustly perse- ¥ a2 ge, SO NEW YORK HMKALD, MONDAY, MAKUH 19, 1877,.-WiTH SUPPLEMENT. cuted man, the victim of o bitter and unre- lenting foo and of a tyrannical system. Should he die the feeling in his behalf will become stronger, since it will be generally felt that his death has been hastened by the persecution he has undergone and the in- dignities to which he has been subjected. Frederick Douglass. There are occasions when sentimentalism is sound politics, The country will have no reason to complain of the indulgence by President Hayes of the sentimental regard he is known to cherish for the colored race if he shall be as discreet in its exhibition as he has been in appointing the gifted negro orator, Frederick Douglass, the leading rep- resentative of his race, to an important office in the District of Columbia. The idea that a man of his talents is in- competent—the only objection Senators Bayard and Whyte made to his contfirma- tion—is ridiculous, The duties of s mar- shal are of precisely the same nature as the duties of a constable; a marshal is merely a constable on a larger scale. Most of the actual work will be done by deputies, who. are mere constables under another name, their chief merely selecting ond superin- tending them. Mr. Douglass has resided long enough in the District to be able to make good enough selections, and the volunteer offer of eminent democratic citizens of Washington to be his bondsmen equally attests his honesty and their liberality. The fact that four democratic Senators voted for his confirmation, and that more would have done so had it been necessary, is another pleasing incident connected with this ap- pointment. There is nothing new in a colored citizen and ex-slave holding so important an office. Senator Bruce is colored, and there were seven colored members of the last House. The position of Senator or Representative is of far higher dignity than that of marshal. The President, having decided to make no difference between citizens or States on account of the rebellion, wisely de- cided to give conspicuous proof that he will make no difference be- tween citizens on account of color. Hav- ing proved the sincerity of the first part of his intention by appointing a democrat and ex-rebel to place in his Cabinet, he has proved his sincerity in the second part by appointing an able colored man and ex- slave to an office of more emolument, though of less honor. After the recent intemperate letter of William Lloyd Garrison assailing the Southern policy of the President it was as politic as it was just and considerate to bestow this mark of confidence on Mr. Douglass. When Mr. Garrison and Mr. Douglass were constantly ap- pearing on the same platforms Mr, Douglass was always deemed the more interesting speaker, and for effect on a col- ored audience there was never any compari- son between them. If men of the stripe of Garrison attempt to sow the seeds of discon- tent among the negroes by misrepresenting the policy of the President, no man in the country is so well fitted to explain it cor- rectly and allay their fears as Frederick Douglass, who knows all the avenues to their hearts. Mr. Hayes is wisely aitempting to secure influence with both races in the South by gaining the confidence of their natural leaders, In that portion of his last .quarter’s report which refers to the Croton water supply the Commissioner of Public Works enumerates some of the methods by which great waste is occasioned, but he neglects others which are equally inexcusable. The use of water to increase the contents of the milk- man’s can is not alluded to at all; can it be possible that the Com- missioner is 4 silent partner of some city milk vender? A vast quantity of water finds its way into liquors before they reach the consumer, though it is utterly useless therein except as a provocative of profanity among those who pay the price of a pure article and of despondency over the mani- fest depravity of business men. Countless tubsful of it are used to cleanse the garments of women, in spite of the fact that the slightest venture into New York streets makes null and void ‘the effect of the liquid. It is allowed to bubble ceaselessly from the fountain in the Gold Room, though no stream can ever heal the wounds and ail- ments received in that arena, It flows con- stantly in almost every barroom in the city, though no patron of these establishments ever drops in for a drink of that particular fluid. The Commissioner should rub his eyes and look around him until he perceives the truth that carriage washing, street clean- ing and kindred practices are reputable compared with the methods of waste that we have instanced. A Benighted Community. the people defeated the proposed amend- ment abolishing the religious test which has disgraced the State constitution for ninety- three years. By the old constitution no Catholic is allowed to vote for, a Governor or legislator, and none but Protestants are permitted to hold any position in the com- mon schools, This evidence of intolerance, worthy of the days when the tests of water and fire were applied to witches, would scarcely be looked for in any intelligent community under such a government as that of the United States at the close of the nineteenth century. It is a signifi- cant fact that Mr, Blaine advocated the amendment. He is shrewd enough to know that the day has passed for such dis- plays of bigotry, and was no doubt anxious to head off any ill effect of his previous complications with Know Nothingism, The people of New Hampshire, by their adverse vote, have only proved that they are behind the civilization of the age. Let them pic- ture the indignation that would fire the New Hampshire heart if Louisiana should adopt a State constitution stripping Methodists or Congregationalists of the elective iranchise on the Governor and Legislature and shutting out all but Cath- olics from the public shools, and then they will be able to form an iden of the renti- ment which their own stupid intolerance excites among the people of less benighted States, At the recent election in New Hampshire | Shall the City Charter be Changed? While the Hznarp has opposed charter tinkering by the State Legislature we can- not agree with a contemporary that the com- prehensive bill just reported by the joint committee on cities of the Senate and Assembly bears that character. Neither can it be regarded as a measure framed by country members who are ‘‘taken at random throughout the State and sent to Albany to make laws” and who are ignorant of the wants of the city. The bill mainly follows the suggestions of one of the most practical democratic politicians in the city—Senator Morrissey—and accords with the well known and repeatedly expressed views of our best citizens. It makes changes admitted to be wise, ensures greater efficiency and respon- sibility in the local government, and econo- mizes our annual expenses without lessen- ing the efficiency of any of the departments. As the plan of municipal government devised by the late municipal commission proposes amendments tothe State constitution, the merits of which will not even be discussed until next year, and which could not be finally adopted until after the election of the Senate of 1880, it is desirable that the existing charter should be thoroughly revised. The present is a good time for that work, and the joint committee's bill certainly carries out the views of a large majority of the people in a very thorough manner. We can see but little that is objectionable in it. Retici0us Rzriections.—The personality, services and influence of Christ had more than their ordinary part in the teachings of the pulpit yesterday, though other topics found eloquent expounders. Father Brady recalled the hero of the preceding day by an interesting sermon upon Ireland's Patron Saint ns an apostle. Dr. Duryea, preaching for Mr. Beecher, outlined the spiritual con- dition of the world immediately before the coming of Christ, and showed the inability of mankind twenty centuries ago to proceed further in spirituality without new light. Mr. Frothingham took for his subject the prophetic soul, and, denying its ex- istence in many cases where it is claimed, indicated the spiritual con- ditions from which the»prophetic instinct must spring. Mr. Hepworth called atten- tion to the numerous tangible and im- portant services which Christianity has ren- dered the world. Father Kearny im- pressed upon his hearers the lessons to hu- manity of the Passion of Christ. Father Hoban urged a proper preparation for the mysteries of the Holy Eucharist and Dr. Morgan explained the benefits of com- munion at the Lord’s table. Father McGlynn explained the practical efficacy of Christ in His capacity of priest. Dr. Tal- mage’s sermon was fiddressed. partioularly to telegraph operators, and contained con- siderable that should convince these es- timable ladies and gentlemen of the dignity of their calling. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Pale straw color will be queen of the yellows, Sir Hugh allan, of Montreal, is at tho Windsor, Rev. Horatio Alger is in California writing storics, Count and Countess Desiours, of Austria, are at the St. Nicholas. General Sberman left the city last evening for Washington. Mr, Bergn bas invented a bluo glass Spitz dog, with a telephonic bark. Chickens for broiling should be dipped in olive oil Ddefore being put on the gridiron. Twenty inches round the waist aro Evarts’ mensuro; but ho wears the chan pion belt. Wo are reliably informed that Matt Carpenter abso- lately refuses to sing in tights, Eldor Lard preaches in Louisville, He has been “tried” and not found wanting, Senator Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, is at the Sturte- vant, on his way home from Washington. The Knoxville Chronicle is dissatisfied because there 8 not one more Southern man tn tho Cabinet, Cbarles Francis Adams is said to be level-headed and to drink water. Well, doesn’t water always find its level ? Chicago possesses 800 Frenchmen, and one of their number defies any one to select three who cannot read or write. Said @ man 10 a car seriously to another man, yester- day :—‘Kalamazoo is a kingdom in South America. ‘That is where they get calamus.”’ Chicago Times:—'‘Jonn H. Noves, the founder, and to a very large extent the father of the Oncida com- manity, was the man who frst norhinated Hayes for the Presidency.” The Detroit Free Press credits paragraphs to the Ricbmond Enquirer, The Enquirer is o nice paper, and doserves to be quoted. Weare thus giad to con- tribute to its success. The Graphic says the correct way is not, ‘It was he whom | lent It to,” , “lt was nim whom [ lent it to,” bat, ‘1 lent itto bim.” Really, we should say, “Whero’s that dollar you owe me?” The Milwaukee Sentinel thinks that Senator Lamar, when sworn in, failed to make an effect when he did not tollow the custom of being escorted on the arm of his colleague, who was tho colored Senator Bruce, Goorge Sand is to have a statue, Now, the idea of building @ statue of wand!—Kzchange, It will be of Sandstone, stupid.—Norristown Herald, That would not be ee noless it had a good deal of hopin. Springt publican: —'*Ex-Governor Stanford, of California, ‘ordered a $20,000 picture from Bierstadt, a $10,000 one from J. B. Irving and $5,000 ones from W. IL Beard and James H. Beard cach. But this was before Senator Booth prevented him from getting twelve years’ release from paying his debts to the government,” A Chicago playwright has produced ‘Ripe Apples,’’ a mellow drama.—New York Commercial Advertiser, Such a piay would provoke lots of en-cores, Yorriss town Herald. Yeu, no doubt. If it doesn’t ap-peel to tho feelings ot the dress circle it may touch the old seeds im the orchestra chairs,—St Louis Republican, It might alarm the greenings In their pits, Mme. Essipoff attributes ber hand and wrist power | to the constant, unremitting practice of Czorny’s “Ex. ercises,’’ which, she says, are the bes! er written for the piano; and she says thata girl who tries to play tho “Sonata lathotique’’ or Weber's “Concertsteuck’ without practising rigorous exercises is wasting her time aud bas a teacher who knows nothing of bis business, Evening Telegram ;—“The qaicker Mr. Tyner’s wings are clipped the better for the credit of the new admin- istration. The notion which, tu bis absurd vanity, he has given out, that the Post Office Department 18 going to be run by himself North and by Mr. Kev South, is perfectly ridiculous. Instead of permitting Tynor to Toost lower the best thing would be to put him out of tho coop.”” : London Punch:—Genuino last (10 his be- trothed)— When we wed, Saccbarissa, we will shun the vulgar West End and dwell in somo old, old wainscoted house in the hourt of Sobo; we will have no friends that are not fine old English gentlemen, all of the olden time; no books that have not got nice long ‘esses’ like ‘els;’ our only newspapers shall be those of the past century, and we will laagh at po jokes that are not at least of a handred years ago. When the gloaming comes wo will carol quatat old canzonots, in early | French, toan old spinet that I have my evo upon (quite a birgain in Wardour street). And soo here, Saccharsra! when the candles aro it wo will snulf thom with this exquisite pair of old silver gt't snuffers which I picked up to-day, for half a crown, in a small court, near St. Martin’s Inne! Dost thou like the picture?’ Saccharissa (whose real name is Sarah’ donde fat oan Va taneme |? . TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the: World. RUSSIA AND THE PROTOCOL. Movements of General Ignatieft in England, : SHALL WAR BE AVERTED1 The Turkish Senate—Some Christians Appointed. THE FAMINE IN INDIA (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Loxpoy, March 19, 1877. ‘Tho protocol is still the principal subject of discus sion among those who take an active interest in the Eastern Question and the hopes of a peaceful solu- tion are still in the ascondont, But as the Protocol only secures the accord of the Great Powers, and may, after all, meet with the same treatment at the hands oftho Porte as the proposals of the Conier- ence, the situation is still far from clear. The move. ments of General Ignatieff aro still watched with un- flagging interest, and that able diplomatist is suocecd- ing in placing the demands of Russia in the most favorablo light. GENERAL IGNATIRFF'S MOVEMENTS. General Ignatieff attended the reception at the Fore eign Office yesterday, and in tho evening left for Hat. field Houso, the seat of the Marquis of Salis. vary. Among tho guests of Lord Salisoury whom he will moot «here are the Earl of Deroy, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Assheton Cross, the Austrian and Italian Ambassadors, the Marquis of Hartington and Mr, Goschen. General Ignatie® will dine with the Earl of Beaconsfield on Monday, hav audience with the Queen on Tuesd: and leave for the Continent, according to present ai rangements, on Thursday. The London Observer states that Sir Henry Elliott will return to Constantinople, but will defer his departure from England for some little time for the recovery of his heultn. THE PROTOCOL. Le Nord, of Brussels, the Russian organ, declares that the protocol will contain no stipulation respecting the disarmamont of cithor Russia or Tarkey. The article continues:—‘‘The protocol not only as. sures the peace but the accord of Europe. It is, hows ever, as well to warn tho public against jumping to the conclusion that a pacific solution is already completely certain, The important point must not bt forgotten that, while Europe has como to an agreement, Turkey so far has only made promises, If the Ports continues in its old courses the prospect of a conflict may be renowed, But the protocol will at least give assurance that the conflict wi!l be localized. The Standard’s correspondent at Paris sa: e bas reason to believo that the foregoing was telegraphed from St, Petersburg and reprosents the views of the Russian Court Tho Montenegrin delogates still await instructions, It w believed that the agreoment between England au¢é Russia relative to the protocol will render the continu ation of nogotiations between Turkey and Montecegra possible, It {s stated that if the negotiations are con- tinued both sides will order their commanders to con- tinue on the dofensive when the armistice expires on Tuesday. It is gaid that the Porte is displaying a very conollia. tory spirit toward Montenogro. It still refuses to cede apy fortified places, but is inere accommodating in ree lation to the other demands of Montencgro. AWAITING THE RUSSIAN ANSWER, ‘Tho Post publisbes the following in an official form:— “The government still awaits the Russian answer, Wo may have to remain in an expectant attitude for @ day or two, When Russia's decision on the modifications suggested by England are ascertained, negotiations of much importance must be commenced with the Porte.” Tho Daily News’ dese patch from Constantinople favors the idea that an un- derstanding between England and Russia will be fol- lowed by a pacific arrangement between Montenegro and Turke, THE OTTOMAN SENATE. The preparations for tho meotiug of the new Otter man Parliament continue at Constantinople. Thirty Senators have been appointed to be in readiness fot the meeting on Monday. Among them are several who are not Mussulmen, But these appointments of Christians to such oflices, however they may affoct that small class of Christians in Turkey proper who may hope for the distinction at some future day, ecem to have littlo effect on the insurgent pro s. The Bos- Drang still seom inclined to prolong the struggie, and are appealing to Russia for ald. A deputation from Bosnia sent to implore the ard of the Czur has passed through Kischeneff recently. The Cretans seem to be as little} disposed ta submit to Turkish rule 8 tne Bosniaus, The Revolutionary Commitico at Athens has sent a circular to various committees in Crote de- claring that tho watchward to rise will s20n be given, To add to tho Porte’s troubles the Arab tribes, ot Yomen have revolted. The Turkish come mander of that district asks lor reinforcements, AN INTKRNATIONALIST RIOT, ‘The internationalists made a demonstration in Berne, Switzerland, on Saturday, on the occasion of the niversary of the outbreak of the Paris Commune. The police seized a red flag which was borne in a proces- sion, Tho crowd resisted, and sabres and knives were used. Several gendarmes and internationalists were wounded, THE INDIAN FAMINE. ‘The number of natives employed on the reliof workr in Madras has decreased 9,805 during the past week, and in Bombay the decrease was 37,000 during tht same time, principally due to the Jaborers absent ing themselves on accuunt of the native holidays. The Bombay authorities roport that the physical condition of the laborers is good, and there arene signs of starvation. a ‘The Afroedis have submitted and given hostagos for good behavior, The Kohat Pass is consequently quiet, BURIED CITIES IN CENTRAL ASIA, [From the London Athenwum.) An expedition to explore tho buried cities of Centrad Asia {3 talked of In Bombay and els re in India That treasures like those at Mycenw may be found in the sands of Mongolia is at least possible. It tradition be of any value—a tradition, too, whieh has porsis- tently clung to one locality through tho lapse of cen turies—the tomb of Ghepgiz Khan is yet, with its fabulously rich treasures, to be found (as Colonel Pre- Jevalsky was told by the Mongols) to the south of Lake Tabasun-Nor. Your readers may remember the quaint Jegend about the last resting place of the great Khan, Within the tomb hes a man who seems asloep, Every evening a shoep oF 4 horse is tied near to the spot, and Jo! in the morning the animals have been eaten. In 300 years, say the Mongols, the sleeper will awake and ‘lead countless hosts of his children to victory and dotninion, The cld story is said to be circulating more and more widely every year, Then the Mongols say that constantly the drifting sands dis- close, here and there, gold and silver treasures, which they bavo a guperstit‘ous dread of touching, The buried cities under the sands of the Gobi are aMrmed to bu mines of incalculable wealth, guarded by gnomes and tearful spells, while all the deserts around the hidden ruts are peopled by myriads of bowling ghosts, Dr. Betiew established to 4 some time since that fy ‘al of these buried cities mn Datural manner to thin. J Primarily concerted trom the sight of man, Tho sands of the deseris of Central Asia reg- ularly move and drift from east to west, and even now the oastern borders of deserts aro being denuded widely of all soil that can be tern away and borne westward by the violent winds rago with tneredt- ble fury many months ot the in_ those regions, Will Rassit Teresa het OTe MOE seem