The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1878, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY BERALD, published every day tide year, Tires cents per copy Sundays excluded). Ten dollars per fate bt one dollar per movih for amy period omit ‘mouths, or five dollars for six wonths, Sunday ded, free of tage. LEKLY MER ALD Oue Collar per year, {ree of post oe. SorICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Remis in drafts on Now York or Post Office money orders, and where neither of these can be procured send the mouey in a reginered lotter. Alimoney reiitted at rise of sender. In order to insure Attention subscribers wishing thei: address chapged must ‘ive their old as well as their new address, PN business, pews letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Jorx HEnatp. ‘Letters aud pack ies should ve properly sealed. Kejected com munications will not be retu PHILADELPHIA OFF NO, M2 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON 01 Ck OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO, 46 Fi yy PARIS OFFICF—49 AVENUS DE LOPERA. American exisibitors at ee International Expos their letters (Y postpaid) addressed to the cave of office free of charge. NAPLES OFFIC 7 STRADA PACE, ES d advertisements will be reesived and scriptions forwarded on the same terms as in New York. GRAND OPERA HOUS PARK THEATRE-Ilv BROADWAY THEATER BOOTH’S THEATRE— WALLACK’S THEATR! BOWERY THEATRE— AMERICAN INSTITUT! STANDARD THEATRE FIFTE AVENUE THEAT! LYCEUM THEATRUS—J 0; SAN FRANCISCO M TONY PASTOR’S—Vaeue ST, JAMES THEATRE—V GILMORBE’S GARDEN—Tuomas’ Concerts. TRIPLE SHEET. 3 ‘ EPTEMDER V7, 1873, The probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and fair or partly cloudy. To-morrow it will be warm and fair in theearly part of the day, fol- lowed by increasing cloudiness. Wart Srreer Yr: DAY.—Stocks active ; advanced-early in the day, but receded at the close to about opening prices. Governments steady, States dull and railways active and higher. Mouey on call easy at lJg to 2 per cent. Gold steady at 100 No Foreign Teams at Creedmocr this year— but, then, what is the use? _Proressor Gotpwin Smirn’s latest idea in Canadian politics is to abolish party. It is a beautiful thought. However it may be with theif unfortunate subjects, the Coroners, it will be seen, cannot complain of the hard times. Tue Exrerion or tuk City Haw. is being scoured down beautifully—but who will under- take the interior purification? Mr. Woop took another of his easy lessons in Custom House management yesterday, The title was “Kid Gloves and Sugars.” Visirors To CENTRAL Park will be glad to hear that the Park Commissioners promise to reform the insolent manners of their policemen. Tue De.ecates to the Republican State Con- vention in two of the Albany districts include, it will be seen, the names of some well known Conkling men. Ir Comrtro.ier Kevry, who now bas charge of the Battery Barge offico resolution, will hasten to act upon it, some of our unemployed workingmen will soou find something to do. Tue Secoxp Apyentists, who are not with - out hope of seeing their peculiar ideas realized in the sweet by and by, meet to compare notes next month. A large delegation from-abroad is expected, Iv tHe Avruonriies wish to see travel over Harlem Bridge indetinitely suspended, or per- haps a terrible accident at that point, all they will have to do is to neglect it fora little while longer. Tue OLp Proven in regard to the slowness and certainty of jnstice receives a fresh illustra- tion in the trial begun yesterday for the murder of Policeman O’Brien, which was committed fourteen year Ar tHE 's Meetixe on the course ofthe Kentucky Association yesterday, which was held for the benefit of the yellow fever suf- ferers, the attendance was very light. Ken- tueky ought to have done better. Ir Is Nor I BABLE that some of the patriotic ward politicians who have surrendered their frandwent naturalization papers to Commissioner Davenport could, if they chose, throw some light on the subject of the Iysteap or Raisrxc Money to protect the works of the Brooklyn Bridge the Comptroller of that city ought to issue bonds for an amount sufficient to finish the structure and have done with it. That is the policy for Brooklyn to pursue. f interest is felt in London in the result of the scullers’ race on the Thames tor the “Sportsman Challenge Cup.” There are four entries—all Englishmen. Two of the pre- Himinary heats, it will be seen by our special vable despatch, were rowed yesterday. he p ure is highest in 1d New England States, batis gradually receding into the ocean. The barometer is low o the Missouri and Northern Mississippi Valley districts, and is falling as the depression moves castward. The centre of the area of lowest pressure is vow over the northern lake regions. Its generakecourse, however, will probably be northeastwardly, so that the Middle Atlantic coast districts are not likely to be very wach affected during its passage. Rain has fallen only in the northern lake regions, and there it bas been very light. Morning fogs have pre- vyailed in the Ohio Valley districts, and clse- where the weather has been ge: wily fair or hazy. The winds have been from fresh to brisk in the lake regions aud in the Upper Missouri and Mississippi valleys. ‘Lhey have been fresh on the Atlantic coast and in the other sections Tne Wr ATH the Middle Atlanti light. There has been a general fall in temperature in the Middle Atlantic and New England States and the North- west. it las risen in the other districts Reports are still coming in giving further det of the destructiveness of last week's 6 My whioh will be found elsewhere. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be warmer and fair or partly clondy, ‘To-morrow it will be warm and fair in the early part of the | ; | committee on credentials is to be ap- day, followed by increasing cloudiness. | ness, tact, boldness and fervor are on the NEW YORK HERALD, A Field Day for eval Butler. The Democratic Stave Convention of Massachusetts, which assembles to-day at Worcester; which may or may not succeed in organizing; which, if it organizes, may be enlivened by a bolt of the old line dem- ocrats if Butler should be nominated, or by a bolt of the Butler mon if they should be defeated, is likely to prove the most exciting and tumultnous political convention ever assembled in the old Bay State. General Butler himéelf is on hand to counsel, encourage and direct his friends, and he possesses all the audacity, ingenuity, readiness and fertility of re- sources which such an occasion demands. Such friends as he has among the delegates are not mere lukewarm adherents, giving him a tame and halting support, but stanch and enthusiastic partisans, who are prepared to go all lengths and to submit themselves entirely to his guidance. If he fails it will not be from any slackness or want of zeal on the part of his democratic supporters, but only by lack of numbers. ‘he propelling power, and the directing power, and the shrewd- Butler side. Not less important to Butler as an element of success is the fact that he has the sympathy and good wishes of the democratic party at large. The democratic party of the United States as a whole is a very pronounced greenback party, and the Butler delegates who have | been sent. to Worcester are not ignorant of | a fact which is so well known to everybody.’ They know too well that the democratic party, as a national organization, is opposed to resumption, and that the votes of its members of Congress have been almost ananimously on the side of obstruction and postponement, They are not ignorant of Mr. Hendricks’ change of base and Mr. Thurman’s change of base on this subject, in compliance with what these distinguished candidates for the Presidency and astute observers of political tendencies know to be the drift of democratic” senti- ment. Butler’s democratic friends at Wor- cester will not be restrained or abashed by the hard money democrats of Massn- chusetts when they know that they are acting in harmony with the mass of the party in other States. They feel that the ardent support they are giving to Butler is a great step toward bringing the democracy of New England into unison with the demo- cracy of the West and the South. If Butler is elected Governor of Massachusetts as the democratic candidate the party will stand side by side with the party in Ohio, and a great stride will have been made toward the full unification of the democratic organization on the question of the currency. They will care littie for the dissent and hostility of the hard money old liners in Massachusetts when they know that the election of Butler by their votes will bring them into cordial fellowship with the democratic party of the West and South at once, and with the democratic party of New England itself-after a brief in- terval. Connecticut is moving in the same direction, and the next clection in Maine will not exhibit three parties, but two; for nothing is more certain than a union between the democrats and the greenbackers in that State inthe nextelection. It will be the general policy of the democratic party throughout the Union to head off'and absorb the so-called national party by adopting its views. There is no room fora separate greenback party in the Mississippi Valley, because the democratic organiza- tion bas anticipated and appropriated its issues; and now that a strong green- back sentiment has been suddenly and |, surprisingly developed in New Engiand | delegates against their favorite, bnt there i itis in the line of political tendencies that this unexpected movement will be absorbed into the democratic party. The democratic party as a whole being a vigorous and ag- gressive greenback party it is the most nataral thing in the world that all the minor greenback streams should flow into the main river, however devious may be their windings after gushing forth from their New England springs. If Butler should get the Worcester nomination for Governor a channel will have been cut for the direct flow of New England greenbackism into the main stream of Western democracy, which has swept such bard money statesmen as Hendricks and ‘Tharman into its powerful current. Butler will be strong at Worcester to-day, not merely because so many delegates have been instructed to vote for him, but chiefly be- cause his supporters are conscious that their democratic brethren in most of the other States will indorse and applaud their action and rejoice in their success. They are likely enough to think that they have a mission to bring the democracy of Masse- chusetts into harmony with the party in the West and thereby imsure a great national victory in 1880. The supporters of Butler cannot very well be read out of the party for doing their best to make the party a unit on the chief issue of the day. it appears from our Worcester despatches that the old recognized democratic lead- ers were present last evening in unwonted numbers, So great an array implies a lively sense of danger, It is said also that the Butler men are a hard looking set and have no influential leaders. This is credible enough. His strength has always been understood to lie with the working classes of both parties, which do not furnish politictans of note and distinction. But it is a conceded fact that a majority of | the delegates were elected to support him, and the only question is whether strategy can defent superior numbers. Is it at all likely that the Butler delegates will disre- | qord their instructions and disappoint their constituents? It is improbable that any arts of management can turn the Butler is a» scheme jor excluding them from the | Convention, It seems that after the regular delegates had been chosen in many localities and were found to favor Butler an order was issued by the State Committee to get up contesting delegationy, | ‘The plan of Butler's opponents is to admit all these without question, and thereby secure the preliminary organization of the Convention. It by this means an anti- Butler majority should be obtained # pointed which will report against all the Butler delegates. In that case the Butler delegates, who have an undoubted ma- jority, will hold a separate convention and nominate their favorite. But they will not do this until after they have made a strenu- ous effort to control the Convention. They may succeed in doing this by sheer force of numbers, and in that case it is the pro- claimed purpose of the anti-Butler democrats to withdraw and hold another convention. A split, therefore, seems to be inevitable. After a brisk fight there will be a separa- tion of the sheep from the goats, followed by two conventions and the nomination of two democratic candidates, each claiming to be regular. Butler seems certain of a democratic nomination in any event, and party discipline will be so completely broken that no democrat who prefers Butler will be restrained from voting for him. Cabinet in Tho Crown and the Canada. Sir Francis Hincks contributes an article | to the September number of the Nineteenth Century upon the Ministerial difficulty last spring in the Province of Quebec, which attracted so much attention at the time not only in Canada but in England. The ques- tion has hardly had a parallel in Canadian politics, and as it involves the relations of the Crown to the Ministry it becomes one of general interest to the students of Parliamentary history everywhere. In the whirl of our own politics the facts in the case have perhaps passed from the recollection of the majority of our readers. They are as follows:—Toward the close of 1876 the Governor General appointed the Hon, Lue. Letellier de St. Just Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Quebec. The sympathies of the new Lieutenant Governor were at the time more in accord with the views of the opposition than with the Min- isterial party in the Legislature. -Among the legislative measures brought forward by the Ministers was a railroad bill upon which the Licutenant Governor asserted he had not been consulted and of which he unqual- ifiedly disapproved. Notwithstanding that the Ministry had the full confidence of the Legislature, and had carried their bill, they were dismissed by the Lieutenant Governor, and a new Ministry was formed from among the opposition, not, however, betore something like an attempt had been made to select a Ministry from the ranks of the majority. Upon the constitutional question thus raised Sir Francis Hincks ap- pears to be of the opinion that the course of the Lieutenant Governor is justified by law and precedent. The thorough knowledge possessed by Sir Francis of Canadian poli- tics and his ability and eminence as a statesman will give his opinions on the sub- ject unusual weight in the Dominion. One of the consequences of the great freedom of the people ef this country from the interference and control-of authority is an equivalent absolution of authority from any responsibility for the welfare of the people, except within the very narrow sphere to which the responsibility of gov- ernsnent is restricted by the State and fed- eral constitutions. Were it otherwise it might not be impossible to overcome such @ painful dilemma as has been witnessed recently in the case of the wretched people living within the limits of the country reached by the fever epi- demic. In Memphis or Grenada, for example, people could not stay without en- countering such imminent peril as made them feel that death was certain, yot they could not fly without the far greater evil to the country of carrying the fever to other places unless they went far to the North, and then they were hounded by ignorant vil- lagers as if they were wild beasts, while we have had one chronicle of people on the Mississippi opening fire at an attempt to land from contaminated boats. Yet cer- tainly it would have been an advantage to the conntry to have had the ravages of the epidemic lessened by the carly removal from a place like Memphis of all the peo- ple willing to leave; and they could have been taken away without danger to other communities, for we have districts within the United States to which fever cannot possibly reach, and where it cannot be com- municated to well persons. Perhaps the money contributed for their assistance, and certainly the loss by the epidemic, would pay for such an extraordinary quarantine ; but our government could not practice ex- tensive schemes of this sort. for want of power—and want of means. Parental Love. Few stories told of the horrors of the famine in China were more horrible than those which represented parents selling their children that they might gain a few coin with which to get food and continue their wretched lives for a few days longer. Wen and women, made savage by hunger, and at their best lacking in that tender- ness of sentiment for their children that is part of the culture of the family as found in Christian countries, were thought to be shown at their worst in that fierce trait, Yei, how much better people axe a great deal nearer home may be guessed when wo note that in England the papers are just now discussing the operation of the law to prevent the insurance of the lives of chil- dren. It is believed that the small amount of money that is made dependent by insur- ance upon the lives of little ones--and made payable if they die—not only reconciles parents to the most distressing mortality in their families, but even makes them indifferent to the ordinary precautions for the prevention of disease and the ordi- nary methods of avoiding a fatal result. By law it is already forbidden to place upon the life of an infant more than six pounds, or thirty dollars, and nominally this is ine tended to give it a handsome funeral in case it does die; but it is believed that anx- iety about the funerals of well children does not account for the extent to which these insurances are made. Asa portion of the money must certainly go for a funeral when it is collected the margin between the sui so spent and thirty dollars must be small; so that, if the Hnglish papers reason accurately on this subject, the money actu- ally gained cannot vary greatly between England and China—and in England there is not a famine, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 17 ,» 1878:-TRIPLE SHEET. Secretary Sherman's Vacillating Sil- ver Policy. When, about » week since, Mr. Sherman issued his order for an unlimited exchange of silver dollars for greenbacks we dissented trom the laudations with which it was greeted by a portion of the press, It seemed too much like a freak. ‘It is difficult to be- lieve,” we said, “that Mr. Sherman has adopted such a plan on mature considera- tion.” That it was not adopted on mature consideration is proved by the fact that the order was withdrawn as precipitately as it had been adopted. ‘his financial infant did not live long enough to cry; the order was cancelled two days jin advance of the time set for carrying it into effect. ‘The promptness with which it was rescinded must be mortifying enough to those eulogists'in the press who extolled it as “a resumption of specie payments on September 16.” There could not have been a greater folly than to represent it in that light, As we said at the time:—‘‘To dignity it as a resumption of specie payments is absurd, Specie payments must be resumed by law and not by caprice. Mr. Sherman will be just as free to stop this experiment | any time between now and the Ist of Jan- uary ashe is to begin it, and if it is cried up as resumption the country may be mor- tifiéd with a new suspension.” But freaky and sensational and foolish as we thought the order to be we did not expect Mr. Sher- man to indorse our opinion before the end | of the week, reminding one of the epitaph on a very young infant's tomb:—‘‘Since so soon Ihave been done for, what on earth was I begun. for?” : The opinion has been thrown out in some quarters that-the order was a mere eleetioneering artifice, and that its with- drawal is a-consequence, of the surprising Maine election... We do not know that there is anything to support such am opin- ion beyond a coincidence of dates. The order was promulgated about three days in advance of the Maine election and was re- scinded about three days after the election was over, The theory erected on this slen- der basis is that Mr. Sherman supposed he could help the hard money party in Maine by conveying the impression that resumption is already a fixed fact, and as soon as he found that this was a vain elec- tioneering device he suddenly abandoned it. We are unwilling to believe that the Secretary of the Treasury could descend to so paltry a trick. But whatever may have been his motives a freak so lightiy adopted-and so hastily abandoned impairs public confidence. ‘The country was enti- tled to expect in the head of the Treasury Department dignity, steadiness, consist- ency, caution and both the appearance and the reality of wise deliberation. His friends are annoyed and mortified at his capricious playing fast and loose with any part of the important matters committed” to his charge It does not ‘beseem “4 great government in a conjuncture so critical as the present to build up and tumble down a house of cards, like children playing with their toys. The Hznaup per- formed an act of friendship to Mr. Sher- man in belittling the order which more ad- miring journals were so swift to magnify, for we were unwilling to see applied to him Burke’s memorable phrase that he sneaked ont of difficulties into which he proudly strutted. The strut was not his, but his eulogists’, but we are sorry that he should have attempted anything fromm which he was forced to make so precipitate a retreat. ; uae The East Sife Elevated Road. Yesterday the elevated road in Third avenue doubled the number of its trains, and found even then that during the busi- ness hours of morning and evening the in- creased facilities were not sufficient to seat the entire number of passengers. The plat- forms of some.of the cars were as crowded as those of the surface road in the same avenue used to be in the good old times when everybody was busy end could afford to, ride. Some- thing should be done to obviate this diffi- culty, for in spite of the railing with which every platform is enclosed the possibilities of danger are great; besides it is im- possible to maintain schedule time it there is to be delay at every station in forcing passengers back and forth through a tightly packed mass of humanity. Mr. Field's statement, in another eolumn, contains some gratifying assur- ances. Nearly all the projected stations are opew, though we lack any specific promisé of what.these stations, when complete, will amount to. The cars are said to be well built, but Mr. Field is silent about the additional number necessary to properly accommodate the populous erst side. We are glad to learn that the company is not wholly responsible for the hitherto inex- plicable blunder of the delay with the Chatham street branch and Tryon square station, but it is matter for wonder that so important a question of difference between two great corporations should not have been earlier settled, even by arbitration. Home Once More. Boats, trains and ocean steamers have during the past week been bringing into the city the thousands of people who several months ago hurried away from stifling air and dirty streets, and fathers of families, considering the whole duty of man accomplished when they have paid the bills, have rashed back to store and office, leaving their wives to reunite the thread which was broken when the hegira began. There is nothing unusual about this, al- though there is a great deal that is un- just; those who have most heart and most tact always have the greatest share of the world’s burdens heaped upon them, so what can Woman expect but the heaviest, most responsible and most unpleasant of life's dutios? To cleanse and renovate the home is a charm- ing task if one chooses to regard it under the mellow light of sentiment ; but she who finds the burden of it upon her own shoulders knows that it implies as much torment as taste and as many headaches as heart promptings. But whatever has a value has also a price, and the woman who spends days of torment. and nights of anx- iety over housecleaners, decorators and upholsterers—none of whom have an iden larger than the dollars and cents which their bills express—will take considerable private consolation from the fact that the results will lessen the annoyances and dis- comforts of those for whom she lives. To find her husband relieved of everything that could be cause for complaint, and her children happy and healthful in spite of being deprived of the greater free- dom and variety of scene which they have enjoyed out of town, will reconcile the lady of many a house to the worst of her own grievances, even to that never ending one which comes of the engagement and train- ing of a new corps of servants. And some day, even thongh it comes not until she is where servants cease from troubling and the mistress is at rest, she may be sure that the law of compensation, which never sleeps, though it may seem. to be hidden beneath the dust of forgotten places, will award her the dues of affection and respect which she has so honestly and herdly earned. The Injunction Nuisance. It has generally been admitted that tho risk of attending the first representation of a, new play is great enough of itself to appall any but the most intrepid theatre-goer, but when this is enhanced by the probability that the play announced will not be seen at all, but will, on the contrary, be closely curtained by an injunction, the pub- lic cannot be blamed for regard- ing first nights more suspiciously than ever. The much enjoined ‘M’liss” has already, drawn two houses which were compelled to look at. plays many thousand nights old, while ‘M’liss” herself remained a sort of ward of court in strict seclusion, No American branch of the Richardson family has yet applied for an injunction restraining the resurrection of the long’ dead ‘Clarissa Harlowe,” and the reprodtiction of ‘Henry VIIL” has not as yet, upon complaint of some pretended descendant of Shakespeare, been forbidden by legal authority, but it is hard to imagine any step too ridiculous or improbable while injunctions are easily procured upon affidavite. It is time that a little legal sense should be put to use in such cases. The tendency to withhold proceedings during the period of preparation of a piece, but to force them at almost the last moment before production, should be regarded by a magistrate as it would be by emy other man, and the law should be saved the disgrace of assisting business trickery. We allude to the proceedings in no particular case, but it is a notorious fact that those who know the stage bast have least respect for the honesty of injunction proceedings in general, Temperature and Crime. It seems ridiculdus that so slight an in- fluence as that occasioned by a change of weather should alter the tendency of human nature for good or for bad, yet it is an in- controvertible fact that any unusual change of temperature is generally followed by a great mass of details of crime. The past few daya have afforded a case in point. On Sunday and yesterday, after a pertod of moisture which, besides being un- usual, was very depressing to physique and spirits, the newspapers were supercharged with stories of crimes most unusual and ro- wolting. Murders, fearful assaults, quarrels and other manifestations of irritated men- tality and deteriorated physique crowded pleasanter news out of the columns of the Heraup, and seemed to in- dicate a general outbreak of human viciousness, No matter how illogical the connection between weather and wickedness may seem, the fact that such an interde- pendence is manifested should prompt physicians to look more closely to causes of abnormal action, and see if it is not possible to stop the undesirable developments which law seems powerless to prevent. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Lottezy investors always look out for the number won, Sir Frapets Hincks, of Canads, is at the Windsor Hotel, London bospitals are parttally closed for want of tunde. Pe Since Keorney began to swear Zack Chandler bas ordered v1] the jootlights te be put out. Many Chinese familics keop carrier pigeons, by which they send letters to their friends, The President bas appotnted Gideon 8. Meedy Avsociate Justice of the Supreme Court ot Dakota ‘Terrivory. It 1s reported in Lon High Chancellor of Engi Bari Catras, lt te generally conceded im Philadelphia that in Congress S. J, Rendall bas represented his ’residen- tial aspirations very well. The story goes irom Fremont, Ohio, that last win- ter Mrs. Hayes tried to crimp her , DUb that it would porsist laying plain. lariy print telegrams of storm uw York Aguaip within a tow Ot from here, that Lord Cairns, Lord |, is about to be created hours after they ari A Dayton man boaste of owning a dog that bas learued to smoke. It must bo a little whiflt,—Cin- cinnati Saturday Night 1a vhien pull tor the dog? Dr, Linderman, the Director of the Miat in Wash. ington, who on quit me weoks, ts pow somewhat better, and was at his office tor a short timo yesterday. Lovdon Court Journal:—"‘Ag e¢x-captain of the Rieventh regiment is about to bring out a gun with an ex-captain of the American army. The invention promises to bo a success,” qok’s lecture this «The Innor Life of a Nowspaper,’’ a subjeet with which, not knowing anything about the subjcct, he ts perfectly qualified to deal, Washington Capital saye:—"We have to apologize to our readers for the appearance of the word ‘transpire’ in our columus, As old Tom Beuton once d iu his wrath so we feel:—-Lon’t say transpire, sir, or I shall expire, editor has so abused, aj spire’? The Richmond (Va.) State, believing that the genins of Now Kugiaod is a queor mixturo of froth and firm. | says that every ism has ite hotbed there, but ism—vitehoralt, Spiritualism, Nothingivm, Maine tiquorism, }, Kearaeyism, &e., &0.—ever got south “Being German the Black Forest is not a cheap plac Evorything in Germany is sup- plied in a scrimp and scanty tashion. ‘Portions’ are measured out with such @ olggardly hand, and the prices charged for these portion: so bigh, that Germany is perhaps the dearoat country for travel- Jers ta all Rurepe except Spain.” Ol City Derrick:—“Burgiars eovered the tosidence of acirens clown, who was summering |p Pottstown, (his State, and carried off some silver spoons aad clothing. on! mm the cl ia cellar, hats and proceeded with Worg with unvoverod heads, thus showing eglars have as much re. spect for old age as anykody.’”” In romuag' tough the house they 4 ia pickle ‘ TELBGRAPHIC. NEWS BISMARCK AND THE SOCIALISTS. Austrian Efforts to Crush the Bosnians. CHOLERA IN MOROCCO. Destructive Fire in Zante—Mu- tiny at Sea, a [ex caBLE TO THE HERALD.1 Lonbon, Sept. 17, 1878. Debate opened in the German Reichstag yester day on the Anti-Soviaust bill. Herr Reichensper. ger, the ultramontane ieader, declared himself op. posed to the bill, but said his friends would not meet it im a purely negative spirit. He wished to have it referred toa committee. Herr Bebel, socialist, denied that there was any connection between the attempts against the Emperor's life and socialism He deciared the socialists did not desire the abolir tion of property, only ite modification. Count von Eulenberg showed that Nobiling had declared him- self'a socialist, the socialistic press had defended him and Hoedel, and had approyed the recent mur- ders in Russia, Herr Bamberger, liberal, supported the bill. He thonght Herr Bebel’s speech was an incontrovertuble proot-of the necessity of taking measures against socialism. He aesired the bill, however, should be limited. In its operation to a certain time and should be otherwise amended. He moved it be referred-to @ committee of twen- ty-one members. - The debate was adjourned. The Vorwartz, of Berlin, reports that tne Ger man soctalists collected 150,000 marks to meet thel) expenses in the recent elections and that of this sum 3,860 marks came from the United States. ANOTHER CONGRESS SPOKEN OF. The Vienna despatch says it is reported the Ainbassadors of two Powers have informed the Porte that it is possible another Congress might be proposed to expedite the exe ecution of the Treaty of Berlin. ‘he Porte, im consequence of Russian pressure, 1s intercepting arma for the Rhodope insurgents. WARLIKE SIGNS. A despatch from Pesth says a telegram from Rustchuk reports that three Russian army corps which had commenced their homeward march have been ordered to return to Hasterm Roumelia. The Pesther L'oyd says the Sultan has definitely decided to-cede nothing to Greece. A SANGUINE AUSTRIAN GENERAL. Notwithstanding the stubborn resistance of the Bosnians and the near approach of winter the Austrians seem to be confident of an early triumph, Tne Vienna Free Press pubiishes an account of an interview between one of its correspon- dents ana General Philippovich, the Austrian commander in Bosnia. Tne General said the in- surrection must collapse in a very short time. It has no resources to sustain it and no intelligent direction, ang he is confident he will be master of Bosnia four weeks hence. The Tagblatt says the Austrians have captured Samatz, on the Save. The town sent a flag of truce after a short bombardment, hut as the Austrians entered they met with resistance in the streets and were compelied to bombard the piace again before its capture was compieted: It was reported Sunday the Powers had accepted Austria's last proposition relative to the Conven- ion THE PROTECTORATE OF RGYPT. Acontradiction is given to the statement pub: ushed in the Fanjfulia (Roman newspaper), that the bases of a new treaty between the Porte and Engiand have been settled, giving England a pro- tectorate over Egypt, with the approval of France, and that Lord Salisbury insisted that France should occupy Tunts. ENGLAND AND THR BAST. A Vienna despatch says it is reported Lord Saliabury has refused to use his infu. ence to induce the Porte to com. clude a@ convention with Austria, as he considers that Turkey 13 not dloae hehindhand ig fulfling the ‘Treaty of Berhn. A de spatch from Constantinople reports that te Brilsh ficet has received orders ta Temain at the Princes’ Islands as long a8 possibie and then go to Ismid, there to remain until the Rusian evacuation (presumablyof the neighbos hood of Constantinople) is complete. MIDMAT PACHA'S RETURN, . It is reported io Paris that the Otloman ambas- sador 10 that city has delivered to Midhat Pacha a em the Suttan authorizing him to re-enter territory aad reside ia Crete, whore he wishes to live with nisfamily. Midbata Peca will embark a¢ Marseilles, during the present weok, 12 8 Turkish versel specially ordered there to tako him to Crete, Se will be accorded a reception befitting his rank, A 4cspatch from Pera staves that Midhat Pasha wit! probably be entrasted with the pacification of C®ete, CHOLERA IM MOROCCO, ‘The appearapeo of cholera in Morocco has been tele graphed bere, though the o 1s deciaedly conflicts ing. Ono correspondent says the discaso is wide Spread, another declares there is no contagion at all, There is undoubtedly suffering there owing toa scarcity of food, but the se-cailod cholera is probably bo more than an aggravated type of cholera morbus, ‘The Sultan of the province ts sill very il. FIRE AND KOUBE! IN ZANTE. A despatch from Zante, in the Ionian Islands, states that a fire there on Friday night destroyed seventeen dwellings and several factories, In order to arrest the progress of the flames it was found blow up & number of build the panic occasioned by the ich at threatened the capital a, number ef robberies werg committed, and tho police authorities had to arte some of the citizens who led in creating disoraea Zeute bas of late years made great advance im the manulacture of fabrica, and it was probably in a mi, Uhat the fro eriginatec, MUTINY AND INCUNDLARISM, ‘Tho crew of tho American bark Lavinia, which was beroed at Duukirk, have been arrested for matiay and imcendiarism, 10 AWAIT ALFONSO'S RETURN. A Madrid telegram announces thet the Spanien Cortes will meet on Decembvor 2, after King Alfonse returns {rom his tour among the Northern gerriseps, POLIMNUAL AND SPORTING. ‘The announcement was made yosterday morning that Her Mujest)’s Ministers bad recommendod that Parliament should be again prorogued to November 30, The Australian cricketers, who are to playa number of gamos in the Uaited States during next month, will leave Liverpool Thursday, Septembor 19, 1m the steamer City of Richwmond, 1 jew York, JAPPISTS COMING TO a. According to a Paris cospateh perior of the Trappists at Sept-Fonds, in the Department of Allier, bas purchased land in Penneyivania for 200 monke ftom Sept+-Fonds, Mount Miliary ({reland) and Mart astein, The monks will themaelves erect a monastery an batidings. SCULLERS’ RACK ON THE THAMES, necessary to joge During “THE SPORTSMAN” CHALLENGE CUP—EZLLIOTT AND BOYD THE WINNERS OF THE TAIAb MEATS, {»¥ cape To THE mERALD.] Lonpon, Sept, 16, 1878, ‘The trial hoate of the single seull boat race for “the Sporteman’’ Challenge Cup took piace to-day on the