The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HER BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ILY HERALD, published every day tn the year, Tee tata per copy, (euaday excluded). ‘Tan dollars por rat rate of one dollar per mouth for any period less x "monthe,,or five dollars lor six mouths, Sunday jews letters or telegraphic despatches must RK HRRALD. ‘be property sealed. Erbe returned. PIULADELPHIA OFFIC! 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— 8 ‘ WFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. RAM ES ori 0. 7 STRADA PACE. Sub verti ts, will be k. be received and ww York. seeveeeNO, 107 AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. GRAND OPERA HOUSER. % Micnet BOWERY THEATRE—Svit Gain PARK THEATRE—Ovr Boanvixe House, FIFTH AVENUE THEATR Prixcxss Rovau. BOOTHS THEATRE—Tne GrapiatoR. NIBLO'S GARDEN: ‘Maw PROM Ammnica, LEXINGTON AY. OP GERMANIA THEA’ ACADEMY OF MUSI EGYPTIAN HALL—V NEW YORK AQUARIU! PARISIAN VARIETIES- COLUMBIA OPERA HO! THEATRE COMIQUE—Vanixry. GILMORE’'S GARDEN—Musewx an Cincus TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—\ NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM TIVOLT THEATRE—Vanuery, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREI ins? Home Muxtixa. TRIPL APRIL 17. 10 COUNTRY DEALERS, 1s. NOTICE fhe Adams Express Company run a special nowspaper the Pennsylvania Ruilrond and its connections, ersoy City at a quarter-past four A.M. daily and rying the reguiar edition of the Hxnatn as tar ‘risburg aud Sonth to Washington, reaching and Washington at ft eiphia ut x quarter-past six A. M one P.M, From our reports this morning the probabili- Yes are that the weather in New York to-day will ye warm, cloudy and threatening, probably fol- towed by rain, Watt Street Yesterpay.—The stock market ‘was active and early in the day showed a good deal of weakness. Later, however, there was astronger tone apparent, and there was a gen- eral advance in pri Gold advanced to 10753, being 53 above the opening price, but closed at 10719. Government stocks, in sympathy with gold, were stronger and higher, while railroad bonds were irregular. Money on call loaned at 3a 4 per cent and closed at 21g per cent on call, Accipent anp Luck Have Compryen to give a long sought clew to the great check forgery of last January. AyoTHER Wonsperrut Case of suspended animation is reported and affords a powerful argument against hasty burials. America Exrertencen Anew the blessings of peace yesterday. Our bonds advanced in Lon- don, while all European securities declined. Tue Reapinc Rarroap is getting all the engineers it needs, and the strikers are in a fair way to give their whole time to their grievances. Tne Livery Ren of the frigate Trenton from New York to Lisbon will hint to critics of our navy that they had better select some other ves- sel to abuse. Owners or Sritz Docs should combine to present « medal to the saloon keeper who com- forted a bitten man by explaining that his dog had wounded a number of ot Tue Pouice Boarp removed some negligent street cleaners yesterday. If the spirit of re- moval has really taken possession of the Com- missioners they may yet reach the dirt in the strects. Tue Fut. Text of the proposed new law detining the powers of the Excise Board is given in another column. It goes to Albany to-day with a strong force ready to receive it and another to support it. is reported, this time in Georgia. Is it not about time that Southerners should realize that those dreadful lists of white men to be attacked never take form, excepting on paper? Tue Anstract Uxper “Mapnovse Sratis- tics,” from a statement of causes of mental aberration, made by the Medical Superintendent of the Flatbush Asylum, contains some valuable hiuts to certain people who could be put to better use than occupying madhouse cells, As THE Rarest ORDER ov Patriotism may still be lying dormant in some hearts the deci- sion of the United States Supreme Court in the Fox case should be read by whomsocver dreams of transferring property to the government. Axotner Pouiceman is charged with brutal- ity, and as it was a mere boy that he struck the charge is probably correct. To hit a man smaller than one's self is, even among the mean- est of men, considered cowardly, and cowards are always brutes. Rarip Transit obstruction has not yet been reduced to # science in Brooklyn. An injunction ‘wae not only not obtained yesterday against the Atlantic avenue track layers, but the property owners must wait several days to find out whether one can be granted at all. Tur Doo Orprxaxce will probably be con- sidered by the Aldermen today, but owners and fanciers do not appear to be fright while the general public, remembering the re- markable manner in which the same subject heretofore been treated by the Board, very arally expect a great deal of fun and no enact- ment at all, Tux Weaturenr.—The Western depression has advanced into the Mississippi Valley and over the Jake region, with a rain extends from Lake Erie westward to the Missouri. A heavy rainfall has occurred at Leavenworth. The temperature is high through the Mississippi and Missouri valleys as far north as Lo Crosse and Yankton, but falls somewhat sharply thence toward the Jakes and Manitoba. The conditions are favorable for the develop- ment of local disturbances in Iowa and the adjoining States. The highest pressure fs moving southcastwardly off the South Atlan-§ tic const, and we may look for another Gulf dis- turbance within a few days. Tho rivers have generally fallen, except at Memphis, where a Glight rise has occurred. The weather in New York to-day will be warmer, cloudy and threat- ening, probably followed by-rain. area which | 7" | will presently see that these feminine tastes NEW YORK HERALD, TUESD. What Shalt Be Done with the Mormons? Tho large public meeting of people called in the Mormon dialect “Gentiles,” held at Salt Lake City on Saturday evening, and reported by telegraph in the Hxratp yes- terday, is, next to the execution of John D. Lee, the most.noteworthy event which has yet happened in connection with Mor- monism. A strong protest against po- lygamy by a great public meeting in the very citadel of the ‘Saints” marks the beginning of a new era in the history of Mormonism. It is evi- dence of the courage which has been infused into the local opponents of polygamy by the justice exeented upon Lee at the scene of the Mountain Meadows massacre, and the peril which has overtaken his accomplices. The “Saints” are no longer to have undis- puted sway, even in Utah itself, If the offi- cers of justice shall proceed to do their whole duty, if every Mormon.who abetted the memorable massacre, from Brigham Young down, be made to feel the full severity of the law, not merely the Gentiles of Utah, but tho dissatis- fied Mormons, will pluck up courage -enough to declare their sentiments respect- ing the despotic hierarchy from whose tyranny they have so long suffered. Ty- ranny cannot be dear to those who enduro it, but only to those who practise it. The mass of the Mormon people, men as well as women, are slaves. Many of them will join in the efforts for their emancipation made by the Utah Gentiles as soon as the government of the United States takes hold of the Mor- mon problem with an carnest determina- tion to solve and end it, The trial, conviction and execution of John D. Lee’s accomplices would bring to the front and organize into a bold, compact phalanx all the local elements of opposition which exist in the Territory of Utah, We already behold the good effect of one signal act of justice, and when it can be said of three or four other noted Mormon leaders that they have “gone to meet John D. Lee” public opinion in Utah will be emancipated and the federal government will receive a strong local support in its efforts to uproot polyg- amy. The great meeting on the 14th inst. is a promise of better things to come, if the public authorities at Washington will exhibit proper energy in the discharge of their duties. The time is at last fully ripe for disposing of the hitherto difficult and troublesome Mormon question. For a long period it was unmanageable in consequence of the isolation and inaccessibility of the Mormon community. Until the completion of the Pacific Railroad the Mornfons were so pro- tected by distance and by their alliances with the neighboring Indians that the cost of subduing them would have been enor- mous. The abortive attempt made by the administration of President’ Buchanan proved that the Mormons could practically defy us so long as they were separated from our base of operations by im- mense stretches of wilderness. But thecon- struction’ of the Pacific Railroad through the heart oftheir Territory makes it easy enough to pour troops and supplies into that region and crush all resistance when- ever the government deems it expedient. Since the close of our civil war the country has. been so occupied with other exciting questions that it has given little attention to the Mormons. But the execution and confession of Lee have reawakened interest in the subject, and this scandalous plague spot ought now to be effaced once for all. The administration of President Hayes will miss a great opportunity if it does not take advantage of the fresh disgust and horror which have been excited to remove this foul blot which has so long rested upon the American Republic. We do not doubt that tho Mormon prob- lem would in time solve itself, even if the government should stand aloof. There are moral and social causes whose silent opera- tion would eradicate polygamy, even if the government should not lift a finger. But it would require two or three generations for those causes to produce their full effect, whereas active governmental interference would extinguish polygamy within the en- suing ten years. The reason why it could not long endure, even if there should be no hostile legislation, may be made easily intelligible. «Polygamy is possible only in communities where women are kept in a state of degrading servitude and where their irrepressible instinct for per- sonal adornment is trodden under foot by a domineering tyranny. The most marked distinction between Occidental and Oriental civilization consists in the different posi- tions assigned to woman. Polygamy is an Asiatic institution; its permanence is possible only in communities where the free play of natural tendencies is obstructed by artificial social arrangements. In every community where there exists what is called ‘‘society” polygamy is impossible, because in society, taking the word in its accepted sense, woman is supreme. Society implies gather- ings of the two s¢xes, in which woman is the attractive and controlling element and the chief object of attention and homage. It further implies that the reigning influ- ence has a wide choice of expense in dress, jewelry, upholstery and other things which bring heavy cost to the master of the establishment. This, to be sure, relates | only to the upper circle of fashion. But its influence descends through all the gradations of the social scale and stimu- lates the love of silks, laces, ribbons, jew- elry and finery, which is the dearest passion of the sex in all orders of society. But what, it may be asked, have these self-evident truths to do with the Mormon question? If readers will be patient they and vanities have a great deal to do with it. As soon as the Mormon women are brought into contact with Gentile communities the irrepressible instincts of the sex will assert their supremacy. Like their Gentile sisters, the Mormon women will worship at the shrine of fashion, and this chief passion of the sex will inevitably destroy polygamy. The love of fashion and taste for personal adornment make marriage a very serious question with most | men in our present state of society; and wives could not be entertained at all. Nothing is more certain than that polygamy cannot survive the introduction of what is called fashion among the Mormons. To satisfy one woman's taste for per- sonal decoration is a pretty formidable undertaking for an intending husband in the present state of society; and as soon as the Mormon women are accessible to the spirit of fashion which reigns in the Gentile world husbands will think the expenses entailed by one wife quite sufficient. The rapid settlement of the Territories which border upon Utah will bring the Mormon women in contact with their dressy Gentile sisters, and as soon as they acquire a taste for finery Mormonism will be doomed by the pecuniary impossibility of hus- bands maintaining the requisite style and fashion for more than one wife. In proportion as the surrounding Ter- ritories of Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming become peopled will be the difficulty of maintaining polygamy in Utah. Whatever may be true of the Mor- mon wives the Mormon daughters have no tinge of the fanaticism by which their mothers were seduced, and they will elope to the neighboring Territories to secure the advantage of an undivided husband and the indulgence of such feminine tastes as his purse can afford them. A great preponder- ance of men emigrate to -the neighboring Territories, and the Mormon daughters will De too eager to escape to them as wives. We have no doubt that the Mormon question would in time settle itself by the potent in- fluence of feminine instincts; but we hope to see it settled more speedily by govern- mental action. We assume, as a matter of course, that Utah will never be admitted into the Union as a State so long as it tolerates polygamy. While it remains a Territory the legisla- tion of Congress is supreme, and if Con- gress will adopt the wise recommendations of the great Salt Lake meeting and disfran- chise all polpgamists it will expedite a reform which the whole country stands ready to indorse. England’s Position. An Italian caricature which happily records the humors of opinion in Europe gives an illustration of the first collision of the war. There is the terriblo General Ig- natieff flourishing a portentous sabre, and there are the awful Russian soldiers bearing down on the Grand Turk, who is pictured in the placid guise in which he appears on the outside of half pound packages of to- bacco. But this picture of the Grand Seignior is borne on the shoulders of a stalwart fellow whom it partly hides—as the advertising plucards are borne on the backs of city tramps. As thesharp weapons of the Russian soldiers pass through the picture of the mustachioed Turk they tease this fellow behind, who, in a desperate move to get out of the way, discloses the red coat and well known visage of our cousin John Bull. This is the opinion of diplo- matic Europe, that the Turk is a show and an appearance of no more consequence in the case than a tobacco label, and that the real figure behind the Inbel is England. There is so much truth in this that it scarcely meets the requiremerits of a joke, It is an obvious fact to whoever has observed the case with ordinary attention that England is the Power that is hurt, and the very occur- rence of the war is the defeat of English statesmanship. It is England's case that the Turk stands for, and the tone in which the last note of Lord Derby is written re- flects the humiliation felt over the fact that England is not a party to a war in which her own case in the East is the ¢ast, is the most important point at stake. It is not with a sense of satisfac- tion that the Ministers of a country fully conscious of its greatness and of its own part in the history of the human race aro compelled to take notice of the evidenco that they cannot act up to the scale of their pretensions; that they are unequal to what the world expects of them; that, in fact, the position of their country, if not precisely that of political decadence, is one so much in contrast to what it was in the days when it gave the law to those from whom it must now accept it that it has the effect of de- cadence upon the observer. Earl Granville’s reference to the Eastern question in the House of Lords puts this fact before the Ministry very successfully without overstepping those limits of patri- otism that every Englishman regards. He declares, with truth, that England is ex- posed to ridicule in the world to-day pre- cisely because she has been placed in a po- sition where she is necessarily impotent by a Ministry that plunged head first into this vortex of Oriental politics, professed to ‘raise England's position in Oonti- nental politics,” to assert abroad her ancient consequence. In fact, the Min- istry began this game as Ollivier began the last war—‘“‘with a light heart,” with an easy ignorance of all the conditions of suc- cess and the possibilities of calamity, and now wishes it was as safely out of it as the government it displaced was out of the Continental cataclysm that occurred in its time. Events exhibit that the difference as to Continental politics between the Glad- stone government and that now in power is that the former perceived immediately the ‘changed relations of England to the rest of Europe, and the latter only learned them by a great humiliation. The Truth at Last, Our special despatch from Albany cor- rects many misstatements about the ‘Tweed proposition and gives a sufficiently distinct outline of what may really be expected should the State accept Tweed’s offer. The service which Tweed can do the community by giving the evidence offered will be of much more value than all the property ho can restore, That ho was made a scape- goat for his friends is the belief of nearly every one, and the greater seom Tweed’s own offences tho greater is the need to discover and mark those who aided him and are still influential in city politics and as likely as ever to steal and swindle when opportunity presents. It is sometimes claimed that no man has a right to inform upon his associates ; but all rules of good fellowship must be suspended in when the question of one wife causes so | Tweed’s case, for no spirit of good fellowship | much hesitation the idea of a multitude of | has been displayed toward him sinco ho first .to exhaustion 4%, APRIL 17, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET, « fell into trouble. He has been neglected, avoided and abused by many a man who would still be poor and unknown had it not been for his influence, and such fellows deserve no mercy from any man, The anxiety of the public for the full text of ‘I'weed’s offer will doubtless be intense ; but our report may be relied upon as a faith- ful foreshadowing of the document itself. Military Resources of the Belligerent Powers. In speculating on the issue of the strug- gle which must soon commence between Russia and Persia on the one hand and Tur- key, probably assisted by England, on the other the relative military strength of the prospective belligerents must be carefully considered. The information regarding these factors in the calculation, which we print on another page of to-day’s Hyerap, will be found reliable and useful to the student of events, as well as interesting tothe general reader. The Russian army, although by far the largest in the world, is less homogeneous than those of other Euro- pean Powers, and is therefore directed with more difficulty against the three points on the imperial frontier where warlike opera- tions are most likely totake place. The want of a perfect railway system in Russia further neutralizes much of her strength, because in modern warfare # means of rapid trans- portation for troops and supplies is as essen- tial to success as numeridal strength, first class maéériel and good generalship. How- ever, Russian enthusiasm and perseverance can overcome great obstacles, and there is no doubt that when the armies now concen- trating from the bases of the Pruth and tha Caucasian provinces are fully organized and equipped, and backed by the small but ef- fective army of Persia, the results will prove that the Russian government is capable of extraordinary energy in the prosecution of an offensive as well as a defensive war, While the English army is more easily handled, being small and homogeneous, than the Russian, it still possesses elements of weakness which render it peculiarly liable al in a prolonged campaign. The troops are unaccustomed to the severe active service in a rigorous climate such as that of Russia; and while in India they become unfitted for campaigning except in tropical countries such as Abyssinia and Western Africa, on home service the daily life of an English soldier is not calculated to prepare him for the fatigues of active cam- paigning, and the result is that when ex- posed td them he is more likely to succumb to sickness and exhaustion than even his less robust Continental neighbors. Against these considerations, however, must be set the courage and discipline of the English army, which has enabled it to wrest victory from many fields when defeat would have overtaken almost any other troops. The higher branches of the military art have not been mastered by the’ larger num- ber of the English officers. So far as regimental details go their training has been excellent; but in operations involving the movement of large bodies of troops, the science of logistics, the superior officers of the English army are decidedly liable to bungling and lack that grasp of the situation necessary to success. Their vic- tories against the Emperor Theodorus and King Coffee would have been di- sastrous defeats had the commanding generals been obliged to contend against Russian, German or French officers instead of the half-clad savages of the desert and the jungle. Acting as acon- tingent Turkish force the English army will serve as the straw that was used to make the Egyptian bricks; but beyond increasing the internal strength of the Sultan’s forces the English army will exercise very little influ- ence on the issues of the campaign. With regard to the Indian army our article shows how it is constituted and how closely bal- anced the imperial and native forces are in case they should ever come to blows. The fact, however, that the first is under one head and the second under many gives the British army a strength and cohesiveness which enables it to control the situation. Whether this native force will side with the Sultan in the waris a question worth the attention of military observers. The Turkish army is a thoroughly reliable one for the defence of Ottoman territory against a Russian invasion. The troops are stout, brave and fanatical—three military elements that have before now combined to win great victories against desperate odds; but once fairly on the run before a conquer- ing Muscovite army not the Bosphorus itself can stop the retreat of the Turkish fatalists into Asia Minor. So long as victory hangs in the balance the Turks will fight with stubborn éerocity worthy of the days of their greatest power; but once the scale falls to the side of the Russians, weighed down by their heavy swords and trampling legions, then will the followers of the Prophet com- mence a “hegira” that will carry them out of Europe forever. It is probable that the small force of English cavalry that will un- doubtedly be attached to the British expe- ditionary army when such is despatched to the seat of war will be used chiefly in Asia Minor to co-operate with the Turks against the Russian advance from the Caucasus. In European Turkey the English infantry will be sparingly used in field operations and will be distributed among the important forti- fied places that cover Constantinople. Tho English artillery contingent will prove of immense value to the Turkish field forces, while the engineers will make good all de* fensible points against a Russian coup de main, We write of England as Turkey's active ally, notwithstanding her protests of neutrality, decause events will force her into the position, willing or no. Should the English eventually abandon the defence of Turkey their army will probably be concen- trated in Egypt, where its effectiveness will be much greater for the seizure and oceupa- tion of that country. The Situation in Louisiana. Owing to some accidental causes the progress toward a final adjustment was not so rapid yesterday as had been expected ; but there is no longer any doubt of an early and satisfactory result—satisfactory we mean to the property and intelligence of the State and to the public sentiment of a largo majority of the American people. There was a very marked advance yostorday in the price of the Louisiana State bonds, which attests the belief of the people that their prosperity will immediately revive when the State regains control of its own affairs. Self-government having been recovered in all the other States it would be a national calamity if it should continue to be with- held from the State which is first in com- mercial importance and whose interests are most widely connected with those of other and distant communities. President Hayes may or may not be a statesman, but certain it is that the most sagacious public man in the country could not take a juster view of the bearings of the Louisiana con- troversy than that on which President Hayes is acting. There is another point on which his view is broad and statesmanlike, even if it be thought somewhat too sanguine. He is understood to aim atthe revival of the old whig party in the Southern States, or rather at detaching former whigs from the demo- cratic organization, the policy of internal improvements by the federal government for the benefit of the South bejng the ful- crum on which he intends to rest his lever. This may not be the best plan of opera- tions, but the fundamental conception which underlies it is the wisest that could be formed for securing protection to the colored race, Mr. Hayes is not mistaken in cup- posing that a division of the white vote is inevitable as soon as federal pressure is removed, and nothing could be more sound and sagacious than his opinion that two contending white parties in the South would insure good treatment to the negroes. All our political experience in the North demonstrates the tendency of both parties to court and caress every large class of voters and to outvie each other in humoring their prejudices. The negroes will be courted, caressed and humored in the same manner in the South as soon as the color line is broken and two great par- ties of whites aim at success by winning negro suffrages. President Hayes’ Candor and Good Temper. In dealing with the difficulties which confront him in his own party the President has a great advantage in his perfect freedom from heat and passion. There would seem to be nothing impulsive or resentful in his nature, or if there is his self-command is so perfect that he betrays no symptom of impatience at the opposition which is beginning to find utterance in so many quarters. This is a most en- viable endowment for a Chief Magis- trate who thinks it his duty to pursue a pol- icy which provokes dissent in his own party: Blaine, Butler and their followers will find it difficult to quarrel with a President so considerate, conciliatory and even-tempered as Mr. Hayes. He carefully avoids offensive self-assertion, concedes the right of other republicans to disdpnt from his policy and criticise it, describes it as an experiment which must be judged by its fruits, and admits the possibility of its failure unless supported by public sentiment in the South and the North. It will not be easy to array the republican party against the President if he continues to be as discreet and moderate as he has thus far shown himself in his steady advance toward the objects announced in his inaug- ural address. Mr. Hayes resembles President Lincoln in his methods. There is the same slowness, the same disposition to listen patiently to all sides before acting, the same tolerance of criticism, the same serenity of temper. The country did not expect much of either while they were mere candidates, and Mr. Hayes is developing unexpected elements of character even more rapidly than Mr. Lin- coln did. Nobody supposed during the can- vass that Mr. Hayes would show himself a man of sufficient character and self-poise to withstand the chiets of his own party and sail by his own compass. This apparent strength of character is moro likely to prove genuine by the fact that there is nothing spasmodic in its exhibitions. The respect- ful tone in which Mr. Hayes speaks of his re- publican opponents shows that they are not likely to gain any advantage oyer him by destroying his composure and hurrying him into indiscreet acts or utterances. The con- trast between him and Andrew Johnson is even greater than his resemblance to Abra- ham Lincoln. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Senator Booth has returned to Sacramento, Justice Swayno will summer at Long Branch. Jules Simon is living in a quiet street in Venice. Mr. Oyster, there isonly half an R left tn this month. Mr. Robert C, Winthrop, of Boston, is at the Fifth Avenue. The bommopathists say that apomorphia Isa remedy tor sea sick! Mr. Henry. Sanford, of Florida, formerly United States Minister to Bolgium, is at the Brevoort, Sefior Don José do Soto, Second Secretary of the Spanish Legation at Washington, 1s at the Filth Avenue. It is claimed that the portrait of Dorouda’s mother, by George Eliot, wos from a study of Disraoli’s grand- mother. M. Max Outrey, French Minister at Washington ; and M, Eugene de Vorges, Fronch Minister to Hayti, are at the Brunswick. Danbury News:—“We should like to kindly but stoutly affirm, as summor is drawing near, that wo have no relatives in Philade!pmia, and never claimed to have,’? ‘A member ot Congress bas sold to a second-hand dealer 200 copies of the Annual Agricultural Report, and the dealer offers them for fifteen cents each, It costs fifty-five cents for tho government to produce ono volume, Dr, Biorstadt, the well known artist, joined his ac- complished wife at Nassau about the middie of Feb- ruary, after a harried trip to the Colorado, There has been 275 American visitors to the city of Nassau this season, and with new and better facilities for getting to tho island there is no doubt that another season will seo more than double tho above number, Joseph Smart, butcher, of Kales Owen, and George Wilmot, keoper of the turnpike gate at Coopor’s Bank, near Dudley, are descendants of Edmund of Wood- stock, Earl ot Kent. They are entitled to quarter hia arms, and are co-hoirs of the old burony of Dadley, created by writ in tho reign of Edward ll. Their royal descent and quarterings aro derived direct from Joan Plantagenet, the ‘Fair Maid of Kent,” A German resident of New York has written to Post- master General Key requesting to, bo invested with a post office paying $5,000. He promises to give $1,000 of his salary yearly to tho pcor it Mr, Hayes will give him the office; ana if there is any doubt on this sub- ject, says the $1,000 can bo deducted, and $4,000 be given to him, He hopes for an early answer before all of the best offices are taxen up, As there is but one offico—that at Now York, whero the salary is $8,000— paying more than $4,000 por year he will not probably be accommodated, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. TURKEY ANGLING FOR AUSTRIA. An Offer of a Part of Herzegovina for an Alliance, PARLIAMENT DISCUSSING THE PROTOCOL. [DY ABLE TO THE HERALD,} Lovpox, April 17, 1877. The war news is very moagre this morning, Ite feature, however, is the reported effort of Turkey to form an Austrian alliance, A kingdom for an ally! Itis rumored in Vienna that the Porte shows an ine clination to voluntarily cedo to Austra certain districts in Herzegovina, which will increase the strategical im- portance of Dalmatian, Tho Paris Temps the question of mobilization 1s still in sug penso in Austria, The Buda-Pesth Correspondenz, however, says the reports of impending mo- Dilization of the Austro-Hungarian army are untrue, The Bosnian refugees now in Austrian territory number 110,962, who cost tholr entertainers 300,000 florins per month. If, in consequence of: insurrection this number should be doubled, Austria might be com. polled to cross the frontier with an armed force to localize the insurrection. With this view Count Szapary has received orders to make evory prepara- tion at the frontier for sueh necessity. THR DATE FIXED. According the Political Correspondence the four corps in Bet ‘abia had orders to begin a movement to the Pruth on April 13, whilo two corps are march, ing to take their place in Bessarabia. A correspondent of the Fremdenblatt confirms that roport, The right wing, which 18 the weakest portion, crosses the Dniester at Chotcym and goes along the Austrian frontier to Paskany. Thocentre gocs by rail to Pas- kany. The loft wing, the strorgest, will cross the Danube between Remi and Ismat!l, The Vienna corre- spondent of tho News telegraphs the following :— Two papers havo made the statement that the Turkish Ambassador here has remarked that thero would be no war, T havo made inquiry and found that ho really said so, but in 9 vague manner, A COINCIDENCE, A despatch from Pesth says it is expected that wat will be declared at Kischeneff on April 21. ASt. Pe- tersburg special states that Genoral Iguatief wil! ac- company the Czar to Kischenoff. NO MORK DIPLOMACY. The Vienna Political Correspondence has a telegram from St. Petersburg stating that tho diplomatic cam- paign is finally terminated, GOVERNMENT DEFENDING ITSELF. In the House of Lords, yosterday afternoon, Earl Granville criticised thd government’s policy touching the Eastern question. He said the protocol was noarly tho eamo as the Berlin memorandum. Why did not the government accept that? Tho united action of Europe at that timo might havo prevented war. Neither Russia nor Turkey had then taken an irretraccable position, He attacked the Ministers’ boasts about raising England’s Position abroad, which now subjoct them to ridicule, and he advocated a European concert for the bettor government of Turkey. Earl Derby, replying to Earl Granville vindicated the signing of the protocol. He refused to present the first drafts of the protocol because Count Schouvaloft objected to their publication. Count Schoavaloff was questioned whether Russia was prepared to disarm if England signed, ond said, ‘That depends on Turkey’s attitude.” England declared that she signed with that object If that object were not gained tho document should not bo mado to serve another purpose. England attempted mediation between Russia and Turkey, but when one Power refused mediation it mattered not what form was chosen. If England had not signed tho protocol all responsibility for tho war would have been thrown upon her. He further said that he believed the House would agreo with him that, under existing cirs cumstances, it was best not to say anything concerning the future, THE SACRED SANCTUARY. ‘The Paris Union affirms that Cardinal Ledochowski’¢ extradition was really demandea, and granted by the Italian government, but the Pope gave him asylum at tne Vatican. BISMARCK IN RETIREMENT. Princo Bismarck has left Berlin tor Varzin, TURKEY'S CONDITION. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT RECEIVED BY THE TURKISH AMBASSADOR. Aristarchi Boy, the Turkish Ambassador, has roe ceived adespatch from Constantinople, of which tho following is a translation :— Some journals have spoken of local disorders which were reported to have broken out at certain points in Turkey and which alarmed the people, Reports havo also been circulated to create the impression that the Turkish army a destitute condition, None of these reports ha’ ny foundation in fact, DOMINION OF CANADA EXCITING SCENES IN PARLIAMENT—PARTY LINES CLOSELY DRAWN—RESIGNATION OF MB. CURRIER. [By TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Ortawa, Ont., April 16, 1877, An oxciting econo, and one thorougoly illustrative of the character of Canadian politics aud public men, oc- curred in Parliament to-day, in which the opposition set the government a noble oxampic. It appears that some time in 1874 lumber was purchased by govern. ment from a firm of which Mr. Joseph Currier, member of Parliament from Ottawa during the last thirteen years, was a momber. Last week the account, amounting to less than $5,000, was brought to tho at- tention of the House by Mr. Laurier, one of the gov. ernment followers, who demanded that the matter be referred to w comMmiltes for investigation on the ground that such o contract was a violation of the Independence of Parliament act, which vacates the seat of any member having « contract with the government, Mr. Currier took occasion this atter- noon lu makea statement of tho matte:, in which he declared that now, for tho first time, he had learned of the existence of any such relations between the gov- ernment and the firm of which be wasa silent partner; but 1p view of ailthe circumstances he begged leave to vender his resignation. VICTORY IN BETRRAT. The statement of Mr. Currier, which was manly and Aignified, was roceived with loud applause, Wheu he compicted his address he took bis hat, gracetuliy bowed to the chair and retired, Alonzo Wright, the King of Gatineau, paid a handsomo tributo and eulogy to the retiring member. The Speaker at once ordered a new writ for election, and the probability ia that Mr, Currier will be returned in a few days by « large majority, he being one of the most popular men in Ottawa—as be is popular on both sides of the Com- mons, A CONTRAST. Meanwhile another vf tho government followers, who is a member, was furtively stealing in out of the galleries, alraid to take his s2at on the floor because of a charge by Sir John MacDonald that te not only made but signed a contract, whorevy ho derived emol+ wment. MEMNERS IN DANGKR, By the Independence of Parliament act any mem ber, directly or Indirectly having a contract with the government, ceases to be a member and exposes him- self toa tine of $2,000 per day for every day ho site and votes. A gooddcal of teeling has been generated between the purties, and many members supporting the administration are to be overhauled on the slight est attempt at bribery of corruption, even to the ex- tent that a glass of beer will invalidate an election and be quite equal in result to tho cases above cited. NAVIGATION OPENING. Montexat, April 16, 1877. Tho river ia now cloar ol ico in front of the city. Boats may be expected srom below in a fow days, Qurmne, April 16, 1877, Thetco bridge at Capo Rouge moved up with the tide this morning, bat jammed again in coming down, | or expected that the next bigh tide will carry the ice off, A DRUGGISI'S ‘AL ERROR, Provivency, R. L., April 16, 1877. William J. Reed, foreman of tho pattern shop of the Corliss Engine Worke, died to-day from an ovordose of morphine, which, it ts alleged, was put up by a | druggist for quinine