The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1877, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD: felltehet crery day in the near, Three cents per copy (Sunday excinded) dollars yer Pear, oF at Tate of one dolinr per month fo poriod less than six mont dotlnrs tor six hs, Sunday tdition ineinded, raphic despatches must 1s addressed New York Henan J etters und packages should Le properly sealed. Defected coum un! will not be returned. TULADELPBIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD~— DO, 46 FLEET STREET. PAIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, ES OF FI NO. PRADA PACK. riptions and advert! 5 will be received and ct New York. 4 pk a BOWERY THEATRE—Sur ( PARK THEATRE—Ovr Boanot WALLACK’S THEATRE—My Awrct Dap. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tux Dasicneres, HELLER'S THBATRE—PrestiniGitatios. FIFTH AVENUE THEA’ wk Princess Rora BOOTH'S THEATRE—Twe Giaviston. GERMANIA THEATH. UPTSCHLV ESSER. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Kosr. Micunt. NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Qoren Fisuxs, PARISIAN VARIETIE: y COLUMBIA OPERA HOCS THEATRE COMIQUE—Vantiry. GILMORE’S GARDEN—Moseem axp Cinces, TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—Vaniery. VRIUSITIRS BROOKLYN PARK TE TIVOLI THEATRE—V SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE) EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanuety. — TRIPLE moany run a special newspaper wilrowd an . reaching Washington at From our reports iy the probabili- ties are that the weather in New York to-day will be cloudy and rainy, with an inerease of tempera- ture following a change of wind from northeust- erly to southeasterly and southiesterly points. Wat Street Yesterpay.—The stock market was active, with a good deal of irregularity in prices. A rumor was started early in the day which sent Morris and Essex down over 10 per cent and affected the stocks of the coal roads. Gold fluctuated considerably, opening at 1065, and closing at 106%. Government stocks were quiet and steady and railroad bonds irregular. Money on call was casy at 3 per cent. M. H. Saxvorn’s American tilly Donna won a race at Newmarket yesterday—a good beginning of the racing season in England. Ir Is Rerortep that the brewers, distillers, &c., are not acting in unison against the Excise Nor Ati tue Sicys or Wak in Europe come from across the ocean. General Newton has re- ceived leave of absence with permission to go beyond the sea. Presipest Noyes seems to have taken a hint from Boss Tweed. At any rate, his statements about the affairs of the New Jersey Mutual are anything but comforting to his old friends. Vico, Wuert Twerp Was Carturep, has quite a sultry atmosphere, but the temperature there is chilling compared with that of the place to which the “Boss’” old friends are consigning him just now. Horst Owners may find a hint or two in our report of Professor Going’s lecture on the lack of veterinary surgeons, In most parts of the United States it is more profitable at present to kill a sick horse than to have him fall into the hands of the ordinary horse doctor. Tne Ponicr Commissioners are preparing a reply to the Mayor's request for information about street cleaning, and hope to have it ready today. The public awaits with great anxiety the publication of the document, for there is no other subject about which they know so little und suspect so much. nt from any that have heretofore been heard, is started in the New Jersey Mutual case, the complainants he retired stockholders, who are to be 1 upon for the payments made to them- 8 out of the company’s coffers for the stock they held, Suoutp THe EvectoraL Birt which passed | a law the | the Assembly yesterday become prophets will have some hard work to do in coming Presidential campaigns. They have enough of sleepless nights under the present . When all the electors are balloted for on tickets. Attempts to forecast the general ticket and thirty-three local tickets that the bill calls for would make new work for madhouse physicians. Tue Best Trix that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers have so far done is to request that any one molesting non-union em- ployés shall be arrested and punished. If, now, they had character enough to dismiss from their Order any striking engineer who is so brutal and dishonest as to abandon a train and put moffend- ing passengers to inconvenience aud loss they would gain some sympathy which might prove handy. Tun Weaturr.—The at rain storm that now prevails over the United States east of the Rocky Mountains is one of those unusual visita- tions that affect extrs ary areas at the same ti ‘That now in pt 8 is felt from Toronto to N Orleans and from Pembina to th Atlantic coast. ‘The heaviest prec during the last sixteen hours has the following points :—Leaven worth, 1.62 inches; Milwaukee, 1.45; Nashville, 1.39; € ri Shreveport, 95; St. i, O1; Br ridge, 47; Louisville, 45; Keokuk, 44; Grand Haven, 38, and New York, 30 | inches. The centre of the depression is still in the Mississippi Valley, where the barometer has fallen to 29.20 inches. Surrounding this centre the winds vary in velocity from ten to forty miles an hour, the gales prevailing on the western side of the storm vortex. The tempera- ture has generally fallen below what it was on Tuesday, but will rise localiy in | advance of the storm centre as the winds become southerly, and fall behind the area of lowest pressure as the northwesterly and north- erly winds prevail. The highest pressures are still off the South Atlantic coast and over New- foundland, With such a general rainfall we must look for » rapid rise in the Mississippi and its tributaries, particularly those of the Ohio Valley system. Little change of level has oo- curred up to the present in any of the rivers. The weather in New York today will con- tinue cloudy and rainy, with an increase of tem- peratare following a change, of wind to the southeast and southwests The Cotton Industry. In the Centennial Exhibition English | and other foreign visitors saw many things which surprised them and enlightened them about the astonishing progress of American manufactures, That these foreigners should have needed an exhibition to enlighten them about our manufacturing skill is not particularly complimentary to Ameri- can enterprise. If we sold as skilfully as we produce the world would know our prod- ucts; if we had not sacrificed our foreign commerce foreigners would long ago have seen in their own markets what so greatly astonished them at Philadelphia, But our Exhibition showed foreign visitors that they could buy many American products toadvan- tage, and there is already evidence that from the centennial will date an important revival of our foreign trade. American cotton, of course, goes to Europe, but American cotton goods have of late once more won favor in foreign countries for their excellence and their honest make, and as the cotton industry is one of the greatest in this country, and one in which | all parts of the country are interested, its ‘future prospects are of the widest and | greatest interest. | We begin to-day the publication of a | series of articles on cotton and cotton man- | ufactures, prepared for the Hzratp by Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, known no less in the South than in the North as one of the | most thoroughly informed of American cot- ton spinners. The purpose of theso arti- | cles is to give information as to the present condition and the future pros- pects of the whole cotton industry of the United States information which will be of interest and valno to every man who raises cotton and who is engaged in its manufacture. Mr. Atkinson's articles are founded upon n careful and very widely extended series of inquiries addressed to cotton growers and spinners—inquiries of | | improved and cautious farming which is taking the place of the old system. We seem to be nearly as much behind- hand in cotton manufacturing as we excel the world in cotton growing. We have but 218 spindles per thousand of population, while Great Britain has 1,180 per thousand of her people, and we export but seven per cent of our total cotton manufactures, while Great Britain exports eighty-five per cent of hers, We have a multitude of people unemployed, and it is evident that our manufacturing capacity, even at a time when everybody is rigidly economizing at home, is but a trifle ahead of the home de- mand. We consume, at this time, at home, all but seven per cent of the cotton goods we make. With the return of good times and the natural increase in consump- tion our cotton manufacturers would be hardly able to supply the home market, and if, as seems not improbable, we shall have a steadily increasing foreign demand for our goods, we shall need more cotton mills. Indeed, we know.of prudent and well informed cotton manufacturers who believe that if the Southern trou- bles are happily settled, and a speedy return to specie payments were probable, it would be séfe and profifnble to invest money in new mills at once, select- ing the most favorable localities and putting in the best machinery, so as to compete on the most favorable terms with the old mills. Hydrophobia. Hydrophobia appears again in one day’s paperas the cause of the deaths of three men and a horse. In the case of young Dickie, the plumber, facts enough are given to make out some important points in the history of that Thirty-fourth street cat. Samuel Richardson died several days ago of the effects of the bite of acat. His death was attributed to fright. Now the physi- cians in Bellevue Hospital seem to be afraid such a character as have elicited s mass of | facts and statistics such as has not before | been brought together on this important subject. Europe and the United States consume annually at this time six million bales of cotton, and the United States produce four and a half million bales of this total, We therefore supply to the cotton spinners of the civilized world three quarters of their raw material, and it is astonishing to know that this vast supply is derived from less than two per cent of the area of our cotton States. Texas last year produced, on less than half of one per cent of its area, one- half of all the cotton consumed in the United States ; and Texas alone is so fertile end so favored by climate that if it pos- sessed the requisite population it could produce easily all the cotton now consumed by the civilized world and all the wheat now raised in the United States. Cotton spinning and weaving give em- ployment to a million of men, women and children in this country and Europe, who manage, with the help of sixty-eight mill- ions of spindles, to surn six millions of bales into ten thousand million square yards of cotton goods. Three-quar- ters of a million of cotton operatives, therefore, live by manufacturing Ameri- can cotton, produced on less than two- thirds of the area of our cotton growing States. Great and important as our cotton product is to the world it is evidently still in its infancy. Our Southern States have the’ capacity of indefinitely and almost infinitely increasing the annual cotton product, and to what extent, how rapidly and with what security against loss from oversupply they can _ in- crease this crop is a matter of the most vital interest to every man who plants cot- ton. This question among otheis the series of articles of which we print the first to-day will attempt to answer; and as it is a question which has agitated all intelli- geut cotton growers in the South for some years we need not do more than direct their attention to the facts and figures which we shall publish in these articles. The manner of producing cotton has changed greatly since 1865, and is still changing. It is falling constantly more into the hands of small farmers, and the habit of raising meat and grain enough for home consumption, in addition to the cotton crop, is growing very rapidly in almost all the cotton States. The evidence on this point is very gratifying. It shows that the cotton armer is beginning to consider his cotton crop in its true light, as a surplus, an article which represents to him cash on hand be- yond his actual living expenses. In this practice of raising at home the food sup- plies lies, we believe, the safety of the cotton culture against an overstocked market. Less cotton will be raised per man, but the number of persons raising cotton wiil increase steadily, and thus the aggre- gate crop will slowly increase, and without serious risks to the planters. A more varied agriculture will take the place of the simple | and hazardous system which grew up under slavery; and indeed almost every cotton State already feels the advantage of this | change ; villages and towns increase rapidly; | there is more employment for mechanics, and the small farmers have the ability, if they desire, to lay by money, The cost of raising cotton seems to vary | greatly in different parts of the South. The returns in these articles show a difference in cost between six and ten cents per pound ; and the average cost of producing the staple Mr. Atkinson gives, from very ex- tended inqniry, at over nine cents per It is evident that those working under the most favorable conditions, {and with the greatest skill, may make handsome profits, while others, ! less skilful or less favorably situated, would be discouraged. Yet the wisest cotton growers see more to fear in a large advance in the price than in a gradual fall below present prices. Their belief is that low prices will bring this important industry to its best and therefore safest condition; will compel careful culture, the use of improved sced and of the best gins, and will also induce farmers in the cotton region toa more varied agriculture, beneficial to themselves ond to the com- munity ; while an increase in the price, | | | | | | | pound, | i | | | | | ought to see that they cannot coerce the to say that Dickie died from hydrophobia, and the public, which accepts its opinion on authority, even though its guides be blind, must believe that Dickie also died from fright. This tends to establish a great reputation for intelligence and culture on the part of the horse who perished from 4 | bite of the same cat that bit these two men ; for of course the horse also died of fright. This horse had heard of late years all the foolish, sensational reports about this dis- ease of hydrophobia; he had heard that cats as well as dogs may communicate it, and consequently when he was bitten by a cat he took to thinking about it more than was | good forhim. ‘It preyed onhis mind.” It | worried him night and day. He could not | sleep, finally refused his oats, and died from simple ‘nervous excitement.” This is what the doctors who are ignorant of hydropho- bia say about cases like Dickie's and Rich- ardson's, and certainly the same views must apply to the horse; and they tend to estab- lish that this horse had more brains than NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1877.—-TRIPLE SHEET ih 2 la i os ay ec iit cr from the date named would be three shil- lings sterling (seventy-five cents gold) per word. Now we are informed by the Super- intendent of the Direct Cable Company that from May 1 its charge will be twenty-five cents gold per word, with a concession of half rates to press messages left to be sent ataconvenient hour. Let the public take notice, therefore, that the Direct United States Cable Company’s charge will be one- third that made by its opponent, the Anglo- American Company. The Custom House Investigation. Secretary Sherman is trying, it seems, to form a commission to investigate the New York Custom House. The object of the in- quiry is, we presume, to discover where and how the political part of this machine can ; be amputated from the business part. Re- port says that several gentlemen, among them General Dix and Mr. Royal Phelps, have declined to serve on the commission. We do not severely blame them, because if the inquiry is to amount to anything it will impose tedious and thankless labor on the commissioners. Suppose the President should request a hundred or two of our lead- ing importers and other merchants to give him privately and briefly their ideas of needed custom house reforms, we believe the answers he would receive would give him much valuable information, and that when he had digested this he would need no com- mission. To put capable and experienced business men at the head of the Custom House, men not entangled in politics, and to require of them a strict performance of duty, by them- selves and their subordinates, would prob- ably be the best way to reform the abuses. If, in addition to this, the President should follow the example of the Hznaup and open aComplaint Book, he would soon find where reforms were needed. What is wanted for the Custom House army is o new gen- eral. We do not in this mean to say anything even uncomplimentary of Collec- tor Arthur; but he bas fought under a system which the new President means to abolish, and it is necessary to have a new general, who ought to be allowed to select his subordinates. Nobody doubts that the work of the Custom House can be done more efficiently and with a much smaller force than now. Nobody doubts that if the Custom House is divorced from politics it will be far more economi- cally and efficiently managed. The Presi- dent probably sees as clearly as everybody else that if he means to reform the civil ser- vice he cannot go far before he comes to the Custom House, and that he cannot leave | that unreformed without abandoning the whole purpose of reform. We believe he will not be scared off by the machine politi- cians; but we see also that he has under- taken a big job, and that a commission will hardly help him through with it. The New York State Centennial. Many States celebrated their battles or some of the doctors. It is « queer phase of medical opinion that is to be noted in the hesitancy of many newly fledged doctors and some finbby minded old ones to believe in hydrophobia. From the earliest period of medical study it was observed that men who had been bitten by rabid dogs were'nffected at variable periods thereafter in substan- tially the same way and died with definite, well marked symptoms. This group of symptoms following the fact of a bite was therefore classified under the name of hy- drophobia, and there was fora thousand years no doubt that this association of symp- toms with a cause was valid. But people possessed with the lunacy of logic come up in all lines of thought and demand more spe- cific evidence than is in the facts, and faith is shaken. So it happened in this case. Into the breach thus made the societies for the prevention of cruelty force their propa- ganda and boldly proclaim that the old opinions are a libel on the dog. In this city that vein of thought has been worked with such effect that many doctors fear to believe in hydrophobia when they see it lest they shall be laughed at. If all this were in the field of opinion merely it might be of no great consequence. Unfortunately it is practically mischievous by the obstruction it opposes to the passage of laws for sweep- ing from the city all vagrant curs and cats for which some one is not responsible.by taxation or otherwise. Packard Making Friends with the President. The Louisiana carpet-baggers, prompted it is supposed by their Northern allies, are threatening that if Packard is not recognized and sustained he will show up the whole Louisiana fraud and make an explosion. That is to say, like the late Orville Jewett, Packard is loading a hand grenade, and means, if he cannot get his price, to attempt to kill his political partners. It is one way, but we judge the wrong way, to conciliase the President. Packard, Keilogg & Co. | President of the United States by sneh | threats ; they simply make it impossible for him to listen to them. If after such threats the President should recognize Packard, or favor Kellogg's pretensions, the country would say that he was scared into doing it ; and that neither the President nor the country could afford. But of what account could Packard's exposures be? He may certainly show up the frauds committed by the ropublican Re- turning Board and the republican politi- cians in Louisiana; he can show that the democrats carried the State, and that conse- quently Packard has no claim to the place of Governor. But that does not affect the President. Mr. Hayes, as we have on sey- eral occasions shown, holds his office not by | the Louisiana election, but by the verdict of the Electoral Commission, approved by Congress. ‘That is to say, the President's title to his office is the most perfect imaginable, and cannot be disturbed by any revelations which Packard and Kellogg may make. They may blow themselves into the air, and if they do it they will give general satisfac- tion, but their explosion cannot affect the President. Caste Rates. —-Both cable companies have now announced changes in their charges for the transmission of news after May 1. On the | promising extraordinary profits, would j produce careless culture and check the part of the Anglo-American Company it was birthdays of a hundred years ago last year, when the nation itself honored the anniver- sary of its independence. New York now has the opportunity of commemorating her birth asa State in the American Union, It will be exactly a century to-morrow since the constitution under which we live was adopted at Kingston, and on the 30th of July-it will be a century since George Clin- ton was inaugurated at the same place the first Governor of this Commonwealth. It is proper that the citizens of Kingston should celebrate the birth of the State, and just that the whole people of New York should take part in the ceremony. By a com- munication elsewhere printed it will be seen that Kingston has wisely decided to select the 30th of July for the erec- tion of a permanent memorial, and that her citizens desire the co-operation of all who are proud of the record of the Empire State. The Legislature has been asked to appropriate $25,000 for this pur- pose, and will no doubt do so, with the understanding that other expenses are de- frayed by the people at large. The gentle- men who make this appeal are right in say- ing that the celebration of the event is of State, not local, interest, and we anticipate a prompt and generous response. Massn- chusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and other States have not forgotten their centen- nial glories, and New York, which is now the first State in the Union, should make her natal day illustrious. When Clinton was proclaimed Governor the population of the entire State was less than that now con- tained in » few wards of this city. In the splendor of her prime New York should not fail to remember the sacrifices and patriot- ism in which her grand career began. The Liquor Dealers and the Legis- lature. We cannot doubt that the Legislature will | interpose to relieve the licensed retailers of spirits from the condition in which they are placed by recent judicial decisions. The cause of temperance has nothing to gain by oppression and injustice. The dealers ought not to be punished for the ignorance, care- lessness or other faults of the Board | of Excise which granted their licenses, To be sure it cannot be maintained, since the decision of the Court of Appeals, that the licenses are legal; but the equity is all on the side of their holders, who acted in good faith, who paid heavy fecs for a privilege which they had no reason to doubt the Board of Excise had au- | thority to grant, and who made engagements for the rent of their stores on the strength of their licenses. The judicial decision which annuls the licenses does not exempt | them from their engagements to landlords. Their rent will have to be paid notwith- | standing the destruction of their business. If they have no other means of paying it than their profits the loss will fall on the landlords who granted leases on their | faith in the validity of the licenses.’ The licenses being void, the money paid for them ought to be refunded, and it would have to come out of the pockets of the taxpayers. It is in the power of the Legislature to ex- | tricate all the parties from this sudden mud- | dle, and expediency and justice alike re- quire it to be done. Whatever new liquor law may be passed should be so clearand explicit that no Board of Excise can misunderstand it, and it must engagements should be respected, and unintentional violations of law, for which public officers and not the liquor dealers are responsible, should be condoned. The first step is to afford relief to those who have paid the publio for a privilege which they supposed to be legal, and permit them to transact business until the expiration of their licenses, ‘Then let as stringent a liquor law be passed as can be enforced in the present state of public opinion. But let nothing be done in the natureofatrap. In the interest of temperance itself it is better that the liquor dealers have full notice and fair warning of what they are to expect, and that no just oecasiun be given them to com- plain of » swindle perpetrated under cover | of law. The Dog Question, In different parts of the country timely notice has been taken of the dangerous pres- ence of vagrant curs, and the authorities have provided for the safety of the people. In some States a tax that will, it is to be hoped, prove prohibitory, has been imposed on the Spitz dog. In other places he is to be killed when seen like any wild animal dangerous to life, and dogs of ordinary breed not registered as taxed are to be treated in the same way. In this neighbor- hood no precaution has been taken. There are two authorities, either of which might act, It would be more desirable that the Legislature should revise our State laws in regard to dogs and make them such as to protect the people from present dangers; but there is ‘‘no money” in a mere law for the good of the people, and the legislative mind is too much concen- trated on schemes of party advantage in charters. It is within the function of the Common Council, however, to do all that is necessary for the city ; and it is here that provision is most needed, for it is in the swarming streets, crowded with children, andin thealleys and back yards that be- come the refuges of fugitive curs, that the greatest dangers lie. But every step taken hitherto by the Common Council has been obstructed and impeded by the mistaken philanthropy of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals. We may cite the acts of this society with regard to dog ordi- nances as an instance of the conduct we re- ferred to yesterday, which has alienated trom that society the sympathy of a large part ot the public. But the cases of death from dog bites have recently been so numerous, and the trouble seems so distinctly to increase, that we believe the Aldermen may yet be stimulated to take some effective measures against this pest, undeterred by the objec- tions of visionaries, Ten Hours’ Work ror Ten Hovns’ Pay.— Secretary Sherman will get the good opinions and thanks of the public for his order directing that hereafter persons em- ployed by the government shall not get ten hours’ pay for eight hours’ work. There is no reason why the government should carry on business on such unbusiness-like prin- ciples. There will probably be howl from the eight hour men, but we trust the Secre- tary will stand firm. The times are hard; hundreds of thousands of able-bodied and capable men need employment: If any laborer now in the government’s service does not like the Secretary's terms his place can easily be filled. Government work is notoriously easy work. If the eight hour men think the Secretary’s order wrong let them strike, by all means. There will be no difficulty in getting men to fill the places of the strikers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Count Arnim is sick at Nice. Even gum arabic will stick to a lie, What is needed is a purse for Tweed, Some of the new bonnets are crownless. Bunting is used for travelling costumes, Straw trimmings will be very tasbionabdle. San Francisco ladies are jealous of Neilsov, Not one of the old Tweed régime took a dollar, White cuffs are to be worn outside the sieeve. General Banks has been to hear Moody ana Sankey. Miss Clara Morris, who bas been ill at San Francisco, is better. Tweed won't say anything, and that Is where he is Tweedlo dum. Dried grasses and ferns aro employed in making bonnet wreaths, Mr. Cornelius A. Logan, United States Minister to Chili, ts at the Metropolitan, They all seem to lay the Tweod charter on Horace Greeley, but oot one of them says much about Tweed. Senator Thomas F. Bayard, ot Deinware, and Con- grossman Hiester Clymer, of Pennsylvania, are at tho New York. Senator Kennedy says that Tweed was Infataated in regard to the affairs ol New York. In-fat-uated isa good word. Black silk net with little dies of bright colored silk caught in the meshes, is a new trimming for Diack chip bonnets. The State Department yesterday roceived » despatch by cable from Brussels announcing the serious filness, by a paralytic stroke, of Mr. A. J, Morrill, United Staves Consul at Brussels * Commodore Vanderbilt's will has been admitted to probate at Bennington, in virtue of a mortgage of $500,000 ho held on the Harlem Extension Railroad, It 18 sa)4 that the fees wil] more than pay the whole ox- pense of the local court for the year. Major Reno, United States Army, recently tried on the charge of insulting the wile of a brother officer and sentenced to be dismissed from tho service, has forwarded tothe War Departmont a request for delay 1m the presentation of the case to the President, claim. ing that he has additional evidence which will tend to the mitigation of the sentence, and bis request has been granted. After the evening service on the 4th of March, Rov, Dr. Newman and his wife cailed at the White House to suy goodby to tho President and Mrs, Grant, and, ag it happened, they were the last to leave, As they roso to go and were about to say ‘Adicu,” Mra Grant touched the Doctor's arm and said ‘You won’t say goodby to us without a parting prayer, will you, Doc. tor!’ and then and there they all knelt down while Dr. Newman tenderly and earnestly prayed for God’s blessing on thom and theirs, Evening Telegram:—"‘One of tho quickest revenges of time is contained in the report from Washington | today that Me, William E, Dodge, tho senior partner of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., ts likely to be made by the Secretary of tho Treasury one of the three commissioners to investigate the management of the Now York Custom House, Collector Arthur shared in the distribation, only four years ago, of the molety money which war extoried from this firm and became some $26,000 richer thereby at Mr. Dodge’s expense,”’ Chicago Times ;— ‘There seem to be threo classes of players, The first can never absorb themselves in their music when playing before an audience Howevor } well they may know and like the piece they are play- | ing they scarcely think of it at all, put an uneasy - sciousness of tho audience fills their mind, For this reason they mike only a scattering impression. AS grout a master as Adolph Henseit is subject to this In- firmity, A second class think of their music, but can. notabsorb their audience in it They aro not mag: netic. A third c Bot only absorb themselves in TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE EASTERN WAR CLOUD. Still Talking of Negotiation and Preparing for Aotion. ON THE EVE OF BATTLE Attitude of Austria—How Roumania and Servia Stand. BUSINESS TROUBLES IN ENGLAND, [B¥ caBLEZ TO THE HERALD] Loxpom, April 19, 1877. There ig still some talk of negotiations, and there area few people here and there who havo still some hopes of a peaceful settlement of the Eastern question, There are sanguine peoplo at all times who are so muoh in the habit of mistaking their own hopes and wishes for ostablished facts that they may be par- doned if they fail through natural weakness to see the real drift of events, All through theao dreary Eastern negotiations those who wished for peace have expressed their conviction that war would somehow or other pe averted, and, on the other hand, those who hoped for war {rom political reasons or sympatiies felt equally confident that the diplomatists would inevi- tably fail, The question has now arrived at sucha stage, however, that every well informed man not blinded by prejudice must see that theehances of a peaceful settiemont of the difficulty between Russia and Turkey are of the faintest possible Kind, It ia'a noteworthy fact that during all these negotiations, which bavo resulted in placing the position of Russia in the most favorable light Before Eu- Topo and creating o situation faférable to Russian designs, the Czar's military preparations have been pushed with upfagging sigor ontil now his army ts in a really formidable condition, botb as regards numbers and efficiency. - Untit ft is actually in motion, therefore, we may expect that the same course will bo continued. The HzRaup correspondent in Vienna telegraphs that be bas been iiformed on very reliable authority that when the Caar arrivus at the beadquarters of the mobilized army at Kischenefi the last eflort at a peaceful settiomont with Turkes will be made, When the armed band is raised t. strike, Turkey will be asked to yield or take tho con sequences of refusal. INDICATIONS OF THE COMING STRUGGLE. Advices trom Bucharest indicate an eatly outbreak of hostilities. Orders have been prepared with a view to rendering tho immediate mobilization of the Rous manian army possible, Much anxiety prevatis respect- ing the design attributed to the Turks of occupying Roumanian territory near Kalafat, even before the Russians cross the Pruth. Tho government has or- dered all telegraphic despatches announcing movements of troops to be stopped. Another despatch from Bucharest reports that the Roumanian goverpment has resolved to concentrate 10,090 men for the protection of the capital against suddea attack of the Turkish trrregular tvoopa, The Vienna Dewtsche Zeitung announces that the Cabinets of Vienda, Londen and Paris have notified Roumania that the privileges she cnjoys by virtue of the Treaty of Paris would be considered null and void shoald she actively co-operate with Russia, Abdul Kerim Pacha, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, and Achmet Eyoub Pacha arrived at Rustchuk on Monday, and were to leave on Tuesday for Silistria, Seventy Krupp guns have reached Rustchuk for the Turks. The Russian Consui at Kustchuk has been ordered to prepare to depart. The general staff of the Turkish army has arrived at Varna, going to Rustchak and Tultscha, Two more Turkish iron-ciads, making eight altogether, have arrived at the mouth of the Danube. The Monte- negrin delegates trom Constantinoplo are expected at Kischeneff, where probably they will have an inter- view with the Czar and Prince Gortschakofl, who, itis stated, will accompany the Czar, A despatch from Constantinoplo dated = y: “The Russian Chargé d’Affaires informed by telegraph that he will receive instructions by courier, The Russian despatch boat Argonaut left to-day for Odessa. She will probably return on Mon- day with instructions relative to the expocted rupture of diplomatic relations, The staff of tho Russian Em- bassy is expected to leave next week, Nothing is yet officially determined in regard to Russian subjects who remain hereafter tho outbreak of war, Russia wishes them placed under the protection of the German Em- bassy, but it is believed the Porte requires their ex- pulsion from Turkish territory.” A telegram received this morning from Constantinople ro- ports that tho Russian Steamboat Company has announced the suspension of their service. The last boat to Udessa sails on Friday. WAITING FOR HOSTILITIKS, nt of the Times at Belgrade tele- “General F, Addiaff, the Russian Panslavist, who arrived here recently, remains almost incognito at present and people cannot discover bis mission, it is doubtful whether be represents official or unofficial Russia. The latter ts most likely the case, M. Ristics, the Servian Primo Minister, declares that Servia peace and intends to proserve 1. Notwithstanding this Ministerial utterance it is possible me msy endeavor to retrieve herself in the eyes of her critics.’ A despatch from St. Petersburg says the rumors of a change in the ministry of Constantinople aro contradicted, The Czar and Czarewitch will leave St, Petersburg on Friday Morning and arrive at Kischeneff om Monday night, The Agence Russe states that, as the Porte has peremp- torily rejected the protocol, that agreement in virtue of Egland’s declaration {s anvulled, Russia, whose hanas are thus freed, will endeavor to accom- plish Europe's mission in regard to Turi A tele gram from Constantinople say: ‘A rumor is current that an engagement has been fought in the neighbor. hood of Nicsics, Great anxiety continues, as Russia's decision 1s still unknown. Hobart Pacha bas inspected the Black Sea fleet and has gone to inspect the fleet in the Mediterranc Advices from Madrid report that Midhat Pasha has arrived at Barcelona. ON THN EVE OF RATTLN, The Paris correspondent of the Zimes reports that couriers, bearing a Russian manifesto addressed to the army, the nation and to Europo, will start simultancously with the Emperor and ar. rive at their destinations at the same time His Majesty reaches Kischenefl on Monday. On that day or the next the Czar will issue a manifesto to the army, which will be simultaneously delivered to the Powers and to the Russtan Chargé a’Affaires, who will then quit Constantinople, This is the exict programme given im a letter from 8st, Petersburg. It is rumored that tho Porte intends to prociaim a slate of siege, Greceo is pre- paring, in case of war, to incite iusurrection in the Greok provinces of Turkey and in the Island of Crete, The Zimes' Vienna despatch re marks that the fact that General Ignatief! will accompany the Czar would indicate the possibility of @ turn of things in Constantinopie favorable to direct negotiations between Rusia and Turkey. As the Russian army advances gradually toward the frontier its pt Bessarabia is being taken by troops coming their music but carry their aadience with them. Only two lady pianists have ever played here who excelled in published a few days since that the charge relate solely to the future. Existing eee the latter trai, They were Essipof and Rive,"’ trom the interior, Tho Times’ Berlin special represents that Persia at Ruseta’s bidding threatens the Aviat froauera ef