The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1877, Page 8

NEW YORK HI HERALD BROADWAY AND "ANN, STREET. ‘JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE:DAILY HERALD, published eoery day tn the year Three Se mcludedyy ‘Ten doll eur or strate hi ver ach. ‘or any period less lars for six munths, Sunday co per year, tree of post- MROTICE ‘vO SUBSCRIBERS,—In order to insure atton- becribers wishing thelr address chunged must give ibeireid ne roll AOSRLE ROW: OAGTOOR a asches! mast ness, news letters or telegraphic despatches mus deuddrense) New Your [insane Letters und packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications ot Ue returned. peeicehinene ean >HUARELa OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH N OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK NBRALD— me FLEET STREET, pans tga ke NUE DE LOPERA » PLES © BrTINE KO. il agg PACE, will be received and VOLUME XLI Qn AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, BOWERY THEATRE—Texax Avescens. * NIBLO’S GARDEN—Tne Law or tue Lap, GILMORE’S CONCERT GARDEN—Suwxen Comczse.* PARK THKATRE—Crvsuep Thackpras. UNION SQUARE THEAT BAGLE THEATRE—\ WAGLACK’S THEATRE—Nanntac. NEW YORK AQUARIUM—Troricat Fisazs, Mansotaixn. EGYPTIAN HALL—Vauti COLUMBIA OPERA HOt PONY PASTOR'S—Vauier OLYMPIC THEATRE—Vai BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, . IRVING HALL —Vanier “[eromzanr; Norice 10 doececana To insure the proper classification of advertisements ‘it, is absolutely necessary that they be handed in before eight o'clock every evening. From our reports this morning the probabilities are thatthe weather in New York and its vicinity today will be stightly warmer and partly cloudy or fair, followed by increasing cloudiness and The stock market ‘was active, and after selling off in the forenoon recovered later on and closed strong. Gold rose from 1021g to 1025g, Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads steady. Money on call was active at seven per cent. Jox Copuxn’s last struggle for liberty has failed, which will be some satisfaction to law- abiding people. Tux Prous Deacon whose creditors are mournfully exautining their bank accounts baile from Boston this morning. THERE Was 4 Free Figur at the Democratic Senatorial Convention in Nyack. One jaw was broken in the interest of reform. Tne Rear Estate Manet bogins to show Transfers are signs of considerable activity. large and foreclosure sales light. Monrreat Fatts Into Live. Treasurér of the Grand Trunk Railroad has Packed his trunk. Amount unknown, Fourrren Hunprep Postar RarLRoaD Crenxs will be represented in convention ut Cincinnati to-day. The organization is entirely benevolent. ANoTHER SreameR of the National Company has been seized by the government for smug- gling. This is certainly an effective way of getting un American line. Turrty Appitionat Trarss have been put on by the Elevated Railroad Company, but no ar- rangements have yet been made for accommo- dating the public after midnight. to do a0 ought to be kept. Jerome Park Course was bright and beau- tiful with the fashion and beauty of the metrop- olis yesterday, and the racing was in every respect excellent. The steeplechase was one of the best ever witnessed on any course. Turret Is One Sensm_e PLank in the plat- form of the workingmen of this State—numely, that which calis for the abolition of unnecessary | offices and the reduction of exorbitant salaries. They have the remedy in their own hands. Tue American Socrety of the Red Cross, it will be seen by the report elsewhere printed, | although less than a month old, already num- bers vome of our most influential citizens. It will be an additional link between this country and Russia and at the same time help the cause of humanity. Tue Ciry Esrmcares for the next fiscal year are, in the opinion of the democrats in the Board of Aldermen, all right. The unanimity with which resolutions looking to an investiga- tion of the different items were voted down ought to satisfy the most exacting taxpayer that his interests are most rigidly protected. Tuk Eviscorar € ENTION now in session promises to be, in many ways, memorable in the history of that branch of the Christian Church, Some very importaut questions affecting its growth and usefulness are discussed from day to day, and the indications are that in the future it-will become as aggressive in its missionary work as some of the other denominations. Tur Weatnen.— Yesterday the conditions as- | sumed quite an unusual feature, esp Ny with | regard to the distribution and relations of the high and low pressures. The disturbance which | moved from the Ohio Valley toward the lakes | and Upper Canada did not apparently leave the / contiuent in a northeasterly direction, but | was lifted up along the gradient of high pressure immediately in advance of it and | passed eastwardly over New York and the New Englund States, attended by a violent pre- | The promises | | ebb to which political morals had sunk at | so many kindred swindles which astounded | value, NEW YORK HEI HERALD, WEDNESDAY, _OCTOBER 10, 1877. —QUADRUPLE SHEET. Written Confession—The Doe- ument Verbatim. } The Henaxp does pride itself, but rather reproaches itself, that it is able to give the text of Tweed’s famous confession on this 10th of October, after an interval of nearly six months since it was presented to the Attorney General, on the 17th of April. It has not often happened that a paper known to be in existence, and which the public was curious and enger to see, has been kept from the Henaxp for so longa period, As usual, the Henarp is the first to get hold of a document which P re uni- versal curiosity and lay it befor® the public, But we do not congratulate ourselves that our enterprise, which is commonly so prompt in achieving success, was unable to get”possession of this remarkableand closely guarded document for a period of nearly six months efter its existence was known. It is a singular attestation of the caution and reticence of Attorney Generel Fairchild that he frastrated all the ingenuity of the news- paper press, and left it to one jour- nal to execute a flank movement which has at last baffled: all his precautions. We owe no gratitude either to him or to Tweed for having so long foiled us, and quite as little to either of them for our ability to publish the document which Tweed'’s both have taken such extraordinary pains to withhold. The ways of journalism are a great secret both to the public and to reticent officials, and notonly Attorney General Fairchild, but Tweed and his counsel, John D. Town- send, will open their eyes and rub their spectacles when they see spread out in the Herarp this, morning the full text of the document which they have taken such in- finite pains to keep burrowed in darkness. These gentlemen will learn that however successful they may’ be for a time in withholding a secret document from a great newspaper journalistic enterprise is pretty sure to get the’better of them sooner or later. No matter how the Hrrap pro- cured the document, it lays it before its readers this morning and vouches for its genuineness, Indeed, it carries the evidence of its genuineness on its face, since no person can read it without thorough con- viction that it is the production of Tweed, and that no other person could have sup- plied the details of such astory. This remarkable statement is of singular interest quite apart from its bearing on the legal and personal questions to which it will be applied. There may be in it mis- takes resulting from inexactness of mem- ory, and perversions of fact consciously made to help the object of the confession, which was to procure the release of Tweed; but, in spite of such grounds for distrusting the accu- racy of the author in points of detail, nobody can donbt that he has described with substantial truth the methods he pursued in corrupting legislatures and controlling lo- cal affairs. Whether Tweed bribed this man or that man is a question on which his un- supported statement may be of little value, but even on points where he may have substituted invention for memory there is no reason to doubt that he faithfully repre- sents the spirit and general drift of his trans- actions,. Even if partsof his statement be fic- tion it is like the fiction of a novelist, who is true to the manners of the perjod in which ho lays, his scene and correctly represents the local coloring. Tweed may have tried to damn some men and to exculpate others, with a view to his release from prison, but there can be no reasonable question that his modes of action were substantially such an he describes them ; and what a picture of political corruption it is! The utter debase- ment of political morals which Tweed de- scribes was not caused by him; he merely took advantage of the state of things which he found. If members of the Legislature had not been purchasable Tweed could not have purchased them. He did not bribe men of one party, but of both parties, and the success of such a man attests the low { the period when he was so powerful, In every act of bribery there is necessarily a bribee as well as a briber, and both are equally guilty. When one corrupt man, who un- derstands the corrupt element in which he acts, succeeds in bribing a hundred others, his ability to accomplish his objects by such methods brands the age with the same stigma which is fixed upon his own char- acter. The period of the scandalous Crédit Mobilier at Washington was the same as that in. which Tweed and’ his corrupt, accomplices enriched them- selves by bribing the Legislature as a means of plundering this city. The expo- sure of both these gigantic swindles and of the public created such oa moral revolt and so quickened the public conscience that both parties have since raised the banner of reform. Let us hope that our politicians will never again sink to such a point of debasement as that from which they began to recover after the astounding Tweed exposures and Crédit Mobilier exposures. If some great Crédit Mobilier rogue would tell as much as has been disclosed by the great Tammany rogue the public would get valuable hints for | watching Congress, as Tweed has furnished | it with hints for watching the State Legisla- ture, 5 Although this long suppressed confession is curious and valuable as a contribution to the secret history of the Ring operations we cannot perceive that it has any other It was prepared .by Tweed and offered to the Attorney General as a bid to tipitation. The barometer at New York con- tinudd above the mean of 30 inches through- outthe movementof the disturbance, but the rai: ineteased as the ceutre approached the area of | high pressure du the coast. relative depression, central in the Upper Missis- sippi, Valley, approaching the western lake re- giow. It is surrounded by high pressure from two wes Which are in coutact. The pressure is re- fiurkably high to the northward of this area, | and we probably shall note some interesting | changes in it before it passes beyond observa tigu. The rain areas are now within this last | mentioned depression avd on the New England roust respectively. A fog belt extended yester- jay directly from Minnesota to South Carolina. There is but a slight yariation in temperatures. The weather in New York and its vicinity to- There is another | i | prison, We find nothing in it tending | | to show that the Attcrney General was not quite right in declining to | careiul perusal of the confession shows that procure the release of its author from accept itasan equivalent for Tweed's re- lease. It at least proves, now that we have it, that the motives imputed to Mr. Fairchild were injurious fictions. It was said by people who wished to asperse him that the Attorney General refused T'weed’s proffer and suppressed his confession because certain persons, whom he had an in- | terest in shielding, were implicated. A} | there was no foundation for such a charge. | | Mr. Fairchild’s father is not mentioned nor | day will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy” or fair, followed by increasing elondiuess and + 1 ania have any private or personal motive to pro~ | qyen alluded toin any part of the confes- sion, and no other person whom he would | | Stanley Matthews. para ere so far as the public is aware ae his relations, is even glanced at in the confession. We are constrained to believe that Mr. Fairchild acted entirely froin honorable public motives. But we have no desire to foreclose that question. It is a question which intelligent members of the Bar of the State are compe- tent to decide now that they have the con- fession before them. We shall te disap- pointed if their judgment is not unanimous that Mr. Fairchild could not properly have consented to the release of Tweed in exchange for this confession. ‘This great felon has no claim on public sympathy. He is getting no more than he deserves. If He were treated as other thieves are treated who have not stolen a hundredth part as much he would now be serving out a long term in the State Prison. It does not appear from his confession that his testimony would be of any legal value in procuring the punishment of his acconiplices; and even if they could be convicted on hid testimony we doubt whether their conviction would ; be such a terror ‘to evildoers as the spec- tacle of this old man, who was the ring- leader in all those astounding robberies, bearing the brunt of the punishment. The’ Ohio Election. A close State, a fine day and a light vote sum up the information from Ohio up to the hour of going to press. Between apathy on one side and a workingmen’s and a prohibi- tion ticket on the other the republicans, it is thought, will have hard work to come out of the contest with their slim majorities of last year and the year before sticking to them. There appears to have been no personal magnetism in either Mr. Bishop or Mr. West to concentrate attention on their race for the Governorship ; hence there has been much ‘‘scratching,” this always being the case when there is an absence of that vigor in a canvass which carries everything up or down on the ticket. The democratic guins reported are a very vague help to speculation upon the color of the Legislature elected. A sweeping democratic victory for the State ticket would doubtless mean a democratic Legislature anda democratic successor to In the present com- plexion of affairs this prospective Senatorial loss would not be such a stumbling block to the President as the want of confidence in him which a republican defeat on the entire State ticket would imply. He is doubtless watching the returns from Ohio with more interest than any one in,the Union, the can- didates scarcely excepted. Unmasked Hypocrites, We hear pretty often just now of an epi- demic of swindling in unsuspected places, which the cynical are inclined to call an epidemic of being found out. The pious young forger Gilman heads the list of the recent victims of the law of honesty, and from various cities of fair repute we learn of soiled saints and spotted Puritans. It is curious to note the effect of these disclos- ures, To the good they bring keen regret and deep disgust, but to the loose people of the world they are a justification and a broad joy, the fountain of a world of leers and grins and the keynote of a jeering chorus that shouts-in the’ slang of the day, “They all do it.” The straight-out burg- lar, the ‘confidence man,” the pickpocket and the sneak thief snicker at what they deem a black eye to decency of life, All the worms of dishonesty wriggle the livelier in their slime that a creature who held up his head in the sunshine is now no better or cleaner than themselves. ‘‘Go- tham’s godly thief,” ‘‘Philadelphia’s fraudu- lent saint,” ‘‘Boston’s bond-robbing dea- | con,” ‘*’Frisco’s holy fraud,” are each sweet morse!s for the lame ducks of the land. Rolling them under his tongue the burglar hums “Hold the Fort” while he picks a lock; the ‘‘confidence man” swindles a hun- dred to the tune of ‘‘Ninety and Nine;” the pickpocket promises himself a wallet to the numbers of ‘‘Sweet By and By.” It is rather disagreeable to acknowledgo these things, but they are worth taking into account. What the professional cracks- man thinks of the moral law may be of little moment to us if he confines his opera- tions to our neighbor's back windows, but in giving all honest folk a stimulus to the prompt detection of knavery that hides under the guise of ostentatious virtue it is well to know it. he ingrained knave for- gets the great lesson at the bottom of the story of the soiled saint caught at his vil- lany—-namely, that the forces making. for good in this world are to the forces of avowed evil what the ocean is to the driftwood of a wreck; sooner or later it will be hurled through the breakers to theshore. But with the ordinary run of mortals who do not re- joice over infractions of honesty there is always some satisfaction at the unmasking of ahypocrite. A stout thief like Tweed, convicted of gigantic frauds, did not awaken half the scorn which followed the smiling statesraan whose white fingers were found in the Crédit Mobilier. St. Thomas, we think it was, who likened « minister, falling from grace (they fell even in his time) to a star fulling from heaven. As the drop is so great it is wonderful that any risk them- selves near the edge. Yet lay or cleric, when they do go over, humanity, good and bad, is unanimous in sinking them out of sight forever. This is a lesson from the stories of Gilman, Morton, Sibley et al. The Edwin Adams Benefit. It is a noteworthy fact that at the auction sale of scats ut the Academy of Music on + Monday afternoon the purchasers, with but one or two exceptions, were members of the dramatic profession. These testified their earnestness in paying tribute to one of their own number who is quietly but surely pass- ing off the earthly stage, uot only by bid- ding extraordinary figures, in order to se- cure places, but by subsequently donating these places to be bid for again. To say nothing of this gratifying exhibition of generosity and sympathy, beyond the re- mark that it illustrates a feeling that per- meates the theatrical guild, it has been o subject of comment that so few among the people at large were present to co-operate in the good work. Perhaps their non-attend- ance was due to the threatening condi- tion of the weather or to fuulty an- nouncement; but whatever the cuuse, the vublic strangely fuiled to lend their endeavors to the success of an occasion from which they are to derive the greatest pleas- ure, The entertainment on Friday promises to be one of the most enjoyable that has been presented to a New York audience for many years, and when it is remembered that Edwin Adams, the recipient of the benefit, was once among the most fascinating and popular of our actors, the representative of a school that is rapidly disappearing, and withal a geniul, whole-souled gentleman in private lite, it seems that a natural impulse should draw together « great throng to bid him welcome back to his native land, even though that weloome may be tempered by the thought that his earthly course is nearly run, and the prompter’s bell will soon ring up for him the curtain that opens on eternal scenes, Stanley’s Letters from Nyangwe. The two letters which we publish this morning from Henry M. Stanley are written on subjects of the-deepest interest to the geographer and the’ humanitarian. They treat ‘respectively of slavery and of Livingstone’s journey in the remote in- terior of the ‘Afriean continent at the time when’ fatigue and sickness and the infirmities ‘of age combined to im- prison the lonely traveller within a very small area of exploration. The horrors of the atrocious slave trade are depicted by an eye witness of the miseries of its victims nad the terrible depopulation of once smil- ing and well cultivated districts. Few trav- ellers have hed the opportunity such as Stanley enjoyed of recording on the very ground of exploration the strange sights and incidents of’ travel in a region #0 little known to the outside world. In- deed, this particular district of Nyangwe may be said to have been visited by only two explorers—Livingstone and Stanley—for Cameron made Lo excursions northward when he found his journey down the Lua- laba barred by the savages. One of these witnesses is dead; the other now gives us the opening chapters of the story which will enlighten us as to a région of which nothing was previously known. One can share Stanley’s gloom when, surrounded by the natives, he learned the particulars of the last wanderings of the man he risked so much to rescue, but who, with a heroic stubbornness, refused to leave his work un- finished and died. in the effort to accomplish it. Wecan readily understand how appro- priate, then, is Stanley’s suggestion to name the Lualaba after its discoverer. Every object that he gazed on inspired Stanley with sympathy tor the man who, knowing that his days were numbered, ran a race with Death along the line of discovery, which was now about to be followed with success. So. it is and ever will be. Some sow the seed and others gather the harvest. In his comments on the slave trade, which still flourishes in Central Africa like a poi- sonqus plant that overgrows and destroys all it tOuches, Stanley points to where and by whom this iniquitous traffic is most actively maintained. In the face of outraged civil- ization great Powers preserve friendly rela- tions with the authors of this cruel and de- yastating trade. It the only result of Stan- ley’s journeys was the exposure of the slave trade, which is. connived at by great European commercial nations, it would be a praiseworthy achievement worthy of the days of chivalry. But Stanley has accom- plished more’ than this by opening to the world. territory. so vast and varied in character as to tempt enterprises that of themselves annihilate the illegitimate trade in human beings. If production attracts commerce the poorest policy that the Arabs could adopt toward the natives would be to kill them off, as they now do, Labor would be too profitable to warrant an indul- gence in wholesale massacre, and one of the first results of commerce would be the preservation of human life. With commerce civilization would come, and then treedom. It is not easy to place a'limit to the advan- tages that must arise from Stanley's success. French BSilection Figuring. It would not be at all surprising if the French Ministry should reduce the repub- lican phalanx of three hundrod and sixty- three by a score or so in next Sunday's elec- tions, but the claims their organs make im advance of from one hundred and seventeen to one hundred and sixty republican seats are the merest political “bluff.” The republicans, not to be outdone at this game, lay claim to four hundred seats. ‘This counting of chickens before they are hatched isn device not unfamiliar in American politics, and is not new even in France, The immense pressure brought to bear by the government will not be with- out some effect in the rural districts, where the priest and the prefect are still powertul; but in the cities and even the smaller towns the revulsion against a repressive policy more odious and barefaced than that of the Em- pire will be noteworthy. In the towns and even in numbers of villages it has been found. impossible to break up the republi- can machinery which Gambetta, who has studied our political campaigns to advan- tage, put in motion long ago and which he has taken good care to keep well oiled. After six years of the Republic men are no longer afraid to vote for republi- can candidates, although the priest may still persuade the peasant it is for the good of the Church to vote for the legitimist or Orleanist. In the anxiety | of De Broglie to win at any cost the Bona- partists expect to find their account, and the indications are that whatever may be lost to the Republic will be a gain to the party of Sedan. * Meanwhile Gambetta keeps attention cen- tred in the vigor of his movements. The threatened prosecution has dwindled into a charge of illegal bill-posting. Truly, the government in its shifts for oppression is leaving nothing undone to make itself ridic- ulous, and that, in France, is akin to being contemptible. Our Albany correspondent states that the politicians opposed to the democratic party, are engaged in hunting up the record ot Mr. Allen C, Beach, while Lieutenant Governor of the State, with the object of showing that he chargea the State for mileage from Water- towm to Albany and back whenever he at- tended o meeting of the Commissioners ot the Canal Fund or of the Land Office during that | the session of the Legislature, when io fact he was in Albany in the discharge of his public duties, and only had to walk from the Capitol to the State House, a distance of a few hundred yards. For each of these at- tendances Mr, Beach is said to have made the State pay over one hundred and twenty dollars, Our correspondent alleges that te practice of collecting constructive mileage has been common with Lieutenant Governors since the time of Hamilton Fish, probably with one exception, ‘We suppose he may refer to Lieutenant Governor Selden, and, if this is so Mr. Selden will deserve credit for disregarding a very reprehensible example and acting with simple justice to the State. Certainly no example could jus- tify a public officer in forcing the State to pay an unjust account, even if s loose law seemed to warrant a charge for services that had never been performed, or, what is the same thing, for expenses which had never been incurred. . The longest line of reputa- ble names could form no good excuse for the collection of constructive mileage by Mr. Beach or any other public officer. « It is noteworthy that the payment of such unjustifiable accounts appears to have been discontinued in the first’ year of Mr. Til- den’s administration. “It is not likely that when once such a practice has been checked it can ever again be resumed, and none of the outstanding bills for constructive mile- age stand a chance of being settled. It seems that both parties have been in the habit of demanding these perquisites, so that very little political capital can be made out of the matter by either ; but it is not the less reprehensible because it has been an offence common to democrats and republicans alike. An account for con- structive mileage is just as unjust if col- lected by Mr. Beach or Chief Justice Church as if recéived by General Robinson or any other republican, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ivan Ivaniviteh is Joho Johnson. Bluegeyed ‘Ouida’? braids her buir. Blue James Williams expects to succeed Hayes. Count Pio Resse, of Italy, is at the New York Hotel. Wendell Phiiips will go lecturing in the West in November. Liszt has long, sensitive flagors, and he loves to play nocturnes. Mr, Marshall Jewell, of Hartford, is at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel, + Farmers in Western Now York are recovering trom the bard times, Chicago bank presidents are studying up on the ad- vantages of rapid transit, Ata Ore a adder company can book more crackers and cheese than any other organization. Some one says that a caulifiower is an educated cab- bage. Well, Stanley Matthews is a cauliflower, English military critics do not seem to have any doubt concerning the ultimate success of the Russians. v aman living at Yorkville who never offers to say his prayors except when he is tight. .His wite Bays £0, ‘The Denver Tribune Bays that the recent fight for woman suffrage iu Colorado brought outevery element that was in its favor. M. Oatrey, Freneh Minister at Washington, arrived at tho Clarendon Hotel yesterday, and will leave the city to-day for Newport. The Dubuque (lowa) Times thinks that tho abolish. ment of the deuth penalty for murder hag contributed to tho increase of crime and of lynching. A flat country, says a oritic, makes a melancholy, fanciful ana superstitious people, Thus Buckle would have understood the Rusmans and Poles. An English writer says that the Rusaians fil their commissioned offices of the army with men of nigh Dirth fistead of with hambiy born abtitty. Mr. Dalrymple, the great Minnosota farmer, culti- yates 9,000 acres of’ land He ‘raises nothing but wheat. His profits this year will be $50,000, ~ It is promised that Senator Newton Booth, the George William Curtis of California, will make an attack upon the position of Mr. Gorham, the Secretary ofthe Senate, * Norristown Herold: 3 young man who has de- posited all his valuables at the sign of the ‘three balls’ meditates writing a book entitled ‘That ‘Uncie” of Mine.” Fo of the convicts: in the California State Prison democrats aud most of the other fifth are Culnamen. This shows that the democrats and China- men’ are cgay 10 catel. in the boxing thatches or the Russians each of the adversaries stands up aud receives blows, the merit being ascertained by the number of bruises 4 man may receive without asking for quarter, No skill, but endurance, Memphis Appeal :—‘‘30 far as the President sub- serves the public interest by abandoning radicalism and accepting democratic doctrine, he will be eu- couraged by democrats, who, in a few weeks, will be his only supporters,” Several democratic papers, and notably the St Louts Tim buse Senator McDonald, of Indiana, for efforing to withhold Lis vote at the special session of Congress. What the Senator really said was, thet if his colleague, Senator Mortou, went to the District of Columbia, and, while there, was, by reason of physical ‘weakness, unable to go to the Capitol, he would pair with bim. The promise did not affect Senator McDon- ald further than that, LITERARY CHIL T OH CHAT. From Ciycinnati we are to have the first American book om “Chima Painting; a Practical Manual for the Use of Amateurs ta the Decoration of Hard Porce- lain,”’ prepared by Misa McLaughlin, @ practical painter on china, The most elaborate history of the Vatican Council is by Professor Frioderich, aod is appearing at Bonn in German, the first volume embodying more than 800 pages, Bulsac’s posthumous novel, “Les Petits Kourgeois,’’ Jost cut to Paris, is not unworthy the fame of the great novelist, A volume of etchings from the works of William Blake, by William B, Scott, is in the pross of Chatto & Windus. The second series of Swinburne’s poems and ballads will shortly appear, at. Lévy, of Paris, announces for speedy publication “Dernidres Pages de George Saud.’ Among thé pew art publicavions fur 1878 will be the works of J. M. W. Turner, R. A., with w biographical sketch by James Dafforne, and tho wistory of coramie artin Great Bri by Llewellyn Jewst, in two vol. umes, with 2,000 engravings. Mr. Matthew Arnold bas takou up tne cudgeis against the spelling reform and he ts now ono of Her Majesty's inspectors of schools, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, ‘The Olympic ts drawing lurge audicnces and presonts attractive variety business, After the 224 inst, Howes’ London Circus will take possession of Gilmore’s Gardou, 1t 1s said to be a mammoth concern The original Swedish lady vocal quartet, which is to appear in connection with Tueodore thomas’ orchestra, arrived hore in the City of Brassels Saturday evening, Our French residents have a rare opportunity this week to enjoy some of the best of acting by French artiste at the pretty theatro on Twenty-third street, The Philadelphia theatres combine on Friday alter. noon in giving performances for the benefit of Edwin Adama. 1t Js intiaated thas the Boston thoatres will do the same, ‘The great colored anvil chorus of 500 pertormers are fu active practice at Gilmoro’s Gurdeu, aud the artuxtes are preparing to make the beneilt hight to the maestro Mr. John Moore, the old actor, has acceptod gagement as siage manager at the Filth Avenue The Atre for the dramatic season which is to follow the bveriormances of the Hess English Onera Comvany, THE WAR. General Todleben Superintending « the Investment of Plevna. TURKEY THREATENS SERVIA. Russia Annoyed With In- surrections. GREECE SHRIEKS DEFIANCE [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] LONDON, et. 10,'1977. ‘A Bucharest special despatch says the Russian have commenced ‘their parali¢la before Plevna un der’ the superimtendence of General Todleben, ‘The heavy manses of troops which are being sem to Bulgaria certainly indicate their purpose t prosécute active operations during the autumg, as the Russians do not need these ‘reinforcements t retain théir present positions. © TURKRY ASKS AN EXPLANATION OF SERVIA. A Belgrade correspondent says he hears frome diplomatic source that the Porte has demanded ex. planations regarding Servia’s purpose in arming and negotiating with Russia and Roumania The Porte declares it will pe obliged to send a speciw commissioner to Belgrade to inquire whether it suzerain rights are not Being tampered with. * TO THE FRONT. ° All first class militia brigades, except those o! Belgrade, Shabatz and Valievo, have marched to the tront. The second class will follow in ten aays. More money aid several hundred boxes of shoes have arrived from Russia Negotiations’ with Rusala have at last conie to a satisfdctory close. A Cabinet council has resolved upon watilke measures, though not before the middle of Novembér, 7 DEFENCE OR aTTacky ~~ “a Vienna special despatch says:—‘The fact that the ‘Servian militia are reported to have marched to various points around the fron tier commanding the entrances to Servia says it looks more like preparation for defence than attack, as the largest portion ot the Servian forces would thus forn a cordon round the country. THE NICOPOLIS BRIDGE BROKEN. ‘Several pontoons of the Nicopolis bridge were carried away. by a storm. The bridge, however, ‘was repaired, GRERCE TALKS OUT. The Berlin Norddeutsch <Aligemeine Zeitung's Athens correspondent states that M. Tricoupis, Minister of Fore'gn Affairs, has informed the British Mintster that Greece was obliged to regard the threatening language of the Porte as a motive tor completing her military preparations as rapidly as possible, MOURHTAR’S LOSS AT GREAT YAGNI, A Russian estimate places Moukhtar Pacha’s loss on October 2 and 3 at 6,000 men. _ A REVOLT IN DAGHESTAN, The insurrection which broke out about the 12th of September in the central districts of Daghestan and gradually extended through the whole of Cen- tral and Southern Daghestan does not appéar to be quelled, as it was thought to be after the defeat of the main body of the insurgents, numbering 6,000 men, by the Russians on the 23d and 24th of Sep- tember, DEFEAT OF THE REBELS, A Russian official despatch from Korajal says a band of 4,000 insurgents were defeated on the 30th of September and the 3d of “October, with a loss of 850 killed, wounded and prisoners. The Russian loss was insignificant. Other bands are still being pursued, ANOTHER CONSPIRACY DISCOVERED IN RUSSIA. A special despatch from Berlin says the Russian police have diacovered: a.:iresh Nihulist plot. Numerous atreats have been made in Moscow and bail ; ‘8 pe se SM EMPRATIC DENRAL. = 60)')">* ‘The Jatiéa, of Rome, denies the statement, iets tofore published, that the Porte had demanded the recall of the Italian Qonsul at Rustchuk. GENERAL EUROPEAN NEWS. GAMBETTA AND HIS PROSECUTORS—THE COMING YRENGH ELECTIONS—END OF THE AVALANCHE AND FOREST INVESTIGATION. (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonpox, Ost. 10, 1877. The French Mintateriat papers announce that of the 368 republican seats the winning by the government of 117 is very probable, indeed, almost certain, while in forty more tho prospects are favorable, so that the government will havo s majority of st least 20. The Left, however, still reckon confidentiy on 400 seats, MORE MINISTERIAL QUIBBLING. It is now gaid shat “‘M. Gambetta is prosecuted for placarding bis manifesto to the electors of the Twentioth arrondissement on the streets, not for ite publication, The printer ofthe manifesto hae been summoned before the Corroctional Tribunal” . Gamaatra’s CANVASS. ‘M. Gambetta addressed a groat meeting in Paris last evening Six thousand cards of admission wore issued. Every precaution was taken by the or. ganizers of the meeting to prevent disturbance. The military autborities on their part took special meas. ures, They stationed detachments of troops in the Place Chateau d’Eau, which is close to the place of meeting, and posted guard of police in the neigh: borhood, 4 SUCOESSPUL DEMONSTRATION, The meeting passed off without any disturbance, In bis speech M. Gambetta said the existence of unr versal suffrage was ot stake, and pointed out the danger which that institution would incur, if after having, at the last elections, Pronounced in favor of the Republic, it should now give itself the he in consequence of governmental pressure. Im that case the publi¢ peace would be_ compromised, for univorsal suffrage was possibly ite only aetence, lis fall would involve the decadence and death of the country. 4 GREVY POR LRADER, ‘M. Gambetta eulogized M. Grevy as the man best fitted for continuing the work of concord, conciliation and respect for the law, and disclaimed apy desire tor power for himself. THE OLLRICALS DENOUNCED. Ho concluded peech with a violent attack bn the clericals, who, he xcited the fears of Europe by the presence of an anti-republican coalition. HOPEYUL OF SUCCESS The republican meoting was bold in the American Circus Chateva. All the admission tickets were taken the day before the meeting. Thousands of applica tlons bad to be refused. . Gumbetta was enthusi- astically received. Relative to republican prospects he said:—*Alter sifting the information which reaches mo from’all quarters | assure you the 363 will retaro to Vergailles reinforced to 400,"” THe AVALANCHE AND THE FOREST, At the Board of Trade inquiry on Monday {nto the cause of the collision between Yhe ghips Avalanche and Forest, in the Engh channel on September 12, a rep- resentative of the Board of Trado presented a charge against Captain Lockhart, of the ship Forest, of bad soumunship and neglect of the preceution required vy the ordinary rulos aod by the special circumstances of the situation, thereby being the cause of the col- d the sacrifice of lives and property. Captain ounsel stated that he would reply to the josday. BOTH CAPTAINS TO BLAME. in tho Avalanche and Forest collision case the Court of Inquiry has decided that the Avaianche was primarily responsible, as, accoraing to the rule of the Lor protaptitude ded oes to cancel or COTTON IN KaYPr, The Daily News! Atexaudria special says: at Vommpt to intraguce the new Bahama cotton plaot into E,ypt, which excited yreat oxpeotutions, 1s consid: ered « failure.’ DULL WeaThER, ‘The wasthar yesterday was duih