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MEMPHIS, TElSTISr.- FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1878.
VOL XXXYII --2nJMBER 73
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ton, 5 lo-16d. Memphis cotton, 10 l-c. yetc
Orleans cotton, 10 l'4c. Xeie York cotton,
10 13-16s. A, York -gold. 101 3 d.
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Ocr foreign dispatches are of unusual in
terest thi nxra'.ng. Kogland's stubborn de
mands of formal assurances from Russia, in
which tho is sot mp ported by the
other fpowers, has resulted ia ir
reconcilable differences between the cabinet
and Lord Derby, the latter yesterday tender
ing his resignation to the house of lord,
saying that he coald not regard the measures
which have now4been resolved on as ptudent,
to the interests of peace, or necessary
to the safety of the country. When
the concurrence of parliament is asked for
the measures of which he had ' spoken, he
would vindicate his opinions. He would
state, however, that he did not dissent from
the cabinet's views of the conditions upon
which England might go into the congress,
lie lamented the obstacles to the meeting of
the congres., but the fault did not rest with
the government of his country. Later dis
patches announcing the fact cf the alliance
of Russia with Turkey, and the probability
that the sultan would order the British fleet
to depart from the Dardanelles, strengthens
the belief that war between England and
Russia is inevitable.
One hundred and ten thousand dollars was
the footings of yesterday's subscriptions to
the four per cent, loan.
The lower house of congress yesterday
postponed action on the report on Doorkeeper
Polk's case, and mad-! the District of Colum
bia bill the business of the day, after dispos
ing of several items of minor import.
Secretahy-ok-State Hamilton Fish,
it turns up now, was the actual adviser ot
the appointment of Minister Delfosse as
third commissioner on tha fishery business,
wherein the five and a half million award
was decided against this government.
Thb remains ot the late John E. Leonard,
member of the bouse of representatives from
Louisiana, who. died recently in Cuba, ar
rived at New Yo-k yesterday, in the steam
ship Saratoga, fiom Havana. The body will
be taken to Wctt C'aester, Pennsylvania, the
former home cf the late representative, for
burial, accompanied by a jjint congressional
committee appointed .to attend the funeral.
The senate devoted the principal part of
Pacific, railway sinking-fund bill. Among
other matters agreed to was a resolution by
Senator Laraar directing the secretary of war
to transmit to the senate copies of the report
of the board of engineers on the preservation
of the water-front at Vickbburg, Mississippi,
and the litter of the chief of engineers sub
mitting Qi same, vith maps and estimates
relating theso.
Thb house of delegates of Maryland, yes
terday, by a vote of forty-en yeaa against
twant y-eight naj c, passed the joint resolu
tion offered by Montgomery Blair on the
nineteenth of March, instructing the attorney-general
of the State to exhibit a bill in
the supreme court of the United States in be
half of the State of Maryland, praying said
court to revise the decision of the electoral
commission and declare Tdden and Hen
dricks legally pWM.
The bill introduced into the house yester
day, to establish a board of PaciSa railroad
commissioners, provides that the President
shall appoint three persons, who shall consti
tute the board of commissioners and shall
have the supervision ef the various Pacific
railroads, each commissioner to receive a sal
ary of tea thousand dollars per annum, and
they are to be allowed a clerk at a salary of
twenty-five hundred dollars. The salaries
and exDenses are to be borne by the various
corporations.
The contested election ca.se from Massa
chusetts was disposed of in the lower house
of conirress yesterday, by seahnz Dean (Dem-
ocrail oy a majority 01 one voce, cast uj
.
Speaker Randall. Butler, of Massachusetts,
voted in the affirmative with the Democrats,
and the following Democrats in the neg
ative with the Republicans: Cutler, Hart
ridge, Herbert, Henry, Totter, Rea, Sting
er, Walsh, and Williams, ot Delaware.
Chandler (Democrat), who would have voted
in the negative, was absent, and paired with
Jones, of Alabama. Mr. Dean was sworn in,
taking the iron-clad oath.
General George D. Johnston, of New
Orleans, will deliver an interesting address
at the Memphis dab hall to-night, on the
subject of the Southern historical society, the
object being to perpetuate the correct history
of the great struggle known as the "Late
War between the States." The subject be
ing most interesting, the ladies and gentle
men of tho city should attend and listen to
the gallant and eloquent gentleman, who is
engaged in a 1 ibor of love in thus collecting
and perpetuating such records as will in
times to come refute whatever calumnies big
oted and adverse history may publish against
tho southern land of Dixie.
The United States attorney-general de
clined, yesterday, to inform the house of rep
resentatives whether, in his opinion, the an
nual appointments of ten cadets at large,
made by the President respectively to the
military and naval academy, have been in
pursuance of law or custom, stating that
he is not at liberty to furnish the legal opin
ion contemplated. The authority of the
attorney-general to render his official opinion
is limited by law, which, creates and de
fines his office, and does not perra.it him to
give advice at the call of either bouse of
congress, or ot congress ltaeir, out, only 10
the President or the head of an executive
department of the government.
OLM CAPITAL LETTER.
Howe's Tirade against the President,
Based upon a Had Cause, Fails to
Elicit the Applause he Courted
His Splenetic Attack on the
Democracy a Fruit
less Effort.
The Two Houses Differ In the Matter of
Economy. Retrenchment and Reform
In the Consideration of the Con
sular and Diplomatic Appro
priatlon Bill The Levee
Question, and
Successful Results of Hon. Casey Young's
Diligence and Energetic Efforts on
the Subject Postal Matters
Unfortunate Divisions on the
inn j BIU A S35,000v
000 Building Fund.
Special Correspondence of the Appeal.
Washington, March 26. Howe's speech
has fallen flat, bo far as the Democracy is
concerned. From that quarter no answer
will come, and it is doubtiul if even Hayes's
friends will say a word in response. The
information called for by the resolution of
Howe, and upon which his speech was based,
will be furnished to the senate, and it will
be found that the cases upon which Judge
Whittaker, of Louisiana, was indicted were
nolle prossed because there was not strength
enough in them to carry them before a de
cent jury. Thus the foundation of Howe's
splenetic attack upon the Democracy and his
attempt to hold his fraudulency responsible
for releasing a supposed culprit Irom trial
and punishment will fall harmless. There is
nothing in the resolution, and I am inclined
to think Howe knew there was not when he
offered it, but he could not find any other
pretext bandy for making a speech that
would suit the tastes of his bloody-shirt
constituents. It will doubtless please them,
and also Wells, Anderson, and the rest of the
Radical crew in Louisiana, now under in
dictment, or likely to be indicted, for the
part they played in defrauding the people of
the Presidential office. They will doubtless
be delighted, and hail it as an evidence that
they have friends in the senate, who, if they
cannot do any better, will aid them by an
attempt to break down the character; of a
judge, who, in their case at least, proved
thai his honor and integrity were proof
against Radical threats and blandishments,
and above the reach even of a fraud
ulent President. It ill becomes Howe
to be throwing stones at Whittaker
from that side of the senate chamber,
where the odor of Credit Mobilier still lin
gers a stench to worry the nose of all honest
men, and he has nothing to gainhy raising the
question of Hayes's title. For that capping
and crowning infamy his party is alone
responsible, and for it will be held
responsible in the campaigns of thb fall
and those of 1880. He should have held
himself ready for defense at that time, and
not have challenged the fates to the ignominy
ot the dead silence which the Democrats in
the senate have resolved upon, so far as his
speech is concerned. Failing to force Hill,
or Thurman, or Morgan, or Harris, to answer
him, he has failed of his purpose, so that,
even as a campaign document, the speech
will hardly have the weight and effect with
his constituents that he expected. Summed
nr. tlm rwnlt may b. atatod as a failure to
affect Judge Whittaker in any way, failure to
stir the indignation of the Democratic sena
tors or party, and failure to even ruffle the
temper or religious equipoise of Hayes's
friends and defenders.
THB HOCSB AND SENATE
will have a very severe contest over the ap
propriation bill. This is already indicated in
the position taken by the senate appropria
tion bill in regard to the consular and diplo
matic bill. It takes direct issue with that of
the house in the matter of retrenchment,
economy and reform, and proposes, not only
to restore the average of the salaries to the
old bases, but to increase some, and addi
tionally to make a very large increase
in the number of subordinates beyond that
allowed by the present law. As I stated in a
former letter, the house will not agree to this.
General Atkins, chairman of the house ap
propriation committee, says he will not con
sent to the senate interfering to rob the house
of one of the highest of its privileges, or
share with it one of the plainest of its duties.
He holds that a strict construction of the
powers of the house will show that upon it.
and it alone, devolves the right of declaring
appropriations, and enforcing the economy
which the people at this time particularly de
mand. In this position he is supported by
his committee, and no doubt will be by the
house. A stubborn contest may, therefore,
be looked tor, one that will develop the con
stitutional prerogatives and powers of the
two houses, and, it is to be hoped, settle a
question that, unless it is delayed to the close
of the session, will so monopolize the time of
congress as to preclude the consideration of
other important questions, including the
LKVKE QUESTION,
a report on which may shortly be looked for,
as the sub-committee from the committee on
Mississippi levees, to whom was referred all
the bills introduced for the reclamation of the
alluvial lands, have agreed upon a bill which
is in the hands of Mr. Robertson, of Massa
chusetts, modeled upon the general plan and
embracing substantially the provisions of the
first few eections of the bill introduced early
in the session by Hon. Casey Young; the de
tails being quite similar to the bill introduced
by Hon. Randall Gibson, of Louisiana. There
was a great difference of opinion in the com
mittee in reference to the character of the
bill that should be introduced, and at one
time it was feared that no agreement could
be reached, but it is now understood that the
whole committee is unanimous in favor of re
porting the bill prepared by the sub-committee,
and it is thought that it will
pass the house by a decided vote,
ihe bill, after providing for the creation
of a commission, as proposed in the bill of
Mr. Young, to make a survey of the Missis
sippi river and tributaries, with a view of de
termining the proper method of reclaiming
the overflowed lands and improving the nav
igation of these streams, and ascertaining
the cost of the work, makes an appropriation
of three hundred thousand dollars to make
the necessary survey. It was found necessary
to couple the reclamation of the lands with
the improvement of the rivers, as the one
purpose seemed in some measure dependent
upon the other. The measure ia not only
thought to be the best one that could be de
vised, but the best that can be passed through
congress. After the survey and report is
made to the next or second session of
the forty-fifth congress, the appro
priation for the work will be made, it is
now generally conceded that the improve
ment of the Mississippi nver ia a national
work, and that at any cost it must be ac
complished. For so much the people along
the banks of the great river are very much
indebted to Hon. Casey Young, who, ever
since he has occupied a seat in the house, has
pressed the condition of the river and the ad
jacent low lands upon the attention of the
country, succeeding at last, after many fierce
and hot encounters, in so measurably break
ing down opposition as that he can see his
way out of the committee with an almost
unanimous report to a house that is most fa
vorably inclined to support the bill for a pre
liminary survey To those who know what
it is to undertake the passage of bills for even
such necessary work as this bill contemplates.
Colonel Young's triumph is regarded one of
the most complete that has been achieved in
congress in many years.
POST AX MATTERS.
The house committee on postoffices and
postroads to-day agreed to strike out sections
24, 25 and 26 of the bill for the classification
of mail matter. The effect of this will be to
leave it optional with publishers to select the
postoffices or the express companies to carry
newspapers, books, pamphlets and other
publications. The bill, as the committee
has now agreed upon it, will greatly simplify
the laws as to the classification of mail mat
ter, and will meet the wishes of publishers
generally newspaper men especially. One
new feature of it is the abolition of the dis
crimination against periodicals printed less
often than once a week. This class of mat
ter, under the bill, is entitled, upon registra
tion, to the privileged rate of two cents
a pound now enjoyed by the newspapers.
Over
THE ARMT BILL,
which was reported to the house by Mr. Ban
ning on Monday last, there is to be a contest
that ought, if possible, to be avoided, since
it threatens to divide the Democratic mem
bers, and prove, as the military deficiency bill
did daring the extra session, a bone of con
tention and cause of many rankling sores.
The Texas delegation, to a man, will oppose
it, notwithstanding it has passed the approval
of the executive committee of the Democratic
caucus. Thev will oppose it in caucus when
it is presented, as it will be, for final approval ;
and, should it pass there, they will bolt and
oppose it in the house. It is a very sweeping
measure, and can never pass the senate. It
provides for an army of twenty thousand
men, to consist of twenty-five regiments, in
stead of forty, as now, to be commanded by a
major-general and three brigadiers, muster
ing out a general (Sherman),a lieutenant-general
(Sheridan ), and reducing the staff depart
ments from eight to seven by consolidating the
quartermaster and commissary departments
under the name of the department of sup
plies. No staff department is to be com
manded by an officer higher than a colonel.
All are now commanded by brigadier-generals.
Promotion is checked in the medical
and ordnance departments, as well as in the
corps of engineers, the secretary of
war being charged with preparing a
plan for the reduction of the first,
and a board consisting of the three major
generals is constituted to revise the organiza
tion of the corps of engineers and the ord
nance department. The new army will have
six cavalry, four artillery and fifteen infantry
regiments, instead of ten, five and twenty
five, as at present. The company organiza
tion of calvary is changed by giving two sec-ond-heutenants
instead of one, and the num
ber of privates is not to exceed one hundred.
The organization of the artillery regiments is
not changed. The infantry regiments are
to have two majors instead of one, and their
companies, of which there are to be but eight,
save when congress increases them to twelve,
are to have two second-lieutenants and not
less than eighty privates. Other regimental
and company officers remain unchanged.
The judge-advocate-general and four judge
advocates are to be mustered out, to give
place to a single judge-advocate,with the rank
of colonel, and Generals Townsend and Meigs
will be retained at the head of the supply de
partment, one of them as inspector. When
they die or resign, or are mustered out or re
tired, theirs, as all other departments, will be
commanded by a colonel. No staff details
are to be made hereafter until after five years
service with the colors, and instead of twenty
nine aids there will be only seventeen. In
the adjutant-general's department there will
be a reduction of two officers; in the bureau
of justice a reduction of four; in the consoli
dation of the quartermasters and commis
sary departments a reduction of twenty
nine, and in the pay department a reduction
of twenty-seven, making a total of sixty-two
officers to be mustered out. Promotion in
the army in general rank is to cease until the
major-generals are reduced to one and the
brigadiers to three. Below this rank, officers
applying for discharge before January 1st
next, are to be with four years pay for twen
ty, three for fifteen, and two for twelve years
service. A general muster out is provided
for unfitness, and any supernumerary officers
then remaining are to be mustered out. The
bill contains r revisions for promotion of non
commissioned officers, and their service as
enlisted men is to count in their re
tirement. The rent of any building, in time
of peace, for military headquarters ia pro
hibited. Sections in the original bill chang
ing regimental promotion, providing for geo
graphical regimental recruiting stations, pro
hibiting details to institutions of learning,
except irom the retired list, and making de
tails from tho line to West Point, are struck
out. So sweeping a measure as this never
can pass the present congress. All the Re
publicans wilt oppose it, and the cry will be
raised that on account of their loyal services,
bervices for which their present rank was
created, the National Democracy is deter
mined to dismiss Sherman and Sheridan,
punish the staff and cut down the number of
line officers. For this we might not care, if
we had a majority in the senate, and our
party was united in the house. As a party
measure, one of the series of retrenchment
and reform bills, which is to justify our
claims to continued confidence on the part
of the people, we could go before
tbe masses with it and win. But with the
Benate against us, and the Texas delegation
leading off in our own ranfes in the house,
I doubt that any good can come of it. On the
contrary, I think it laden with harm ill-advised
and inopportune. With certain defeat
staring us in the face, such a measure should
not be introduced now, when we are on the
eve of a campaign that will go far to decide
that to be made tor tbe presidency in 188U.
We cannot artord to make mistakes that will
alienate our brethren and our friends. We need
all the prestige, power, influence and votes
we have, and nothing but the blindest infatu
ation and folly can induce or sustain any
thing in the way of legislation that will re
duce us in these essentials to success.
A GOOD IDEA.
Schleicher, of Texas, proposes a measure
of positive economy, in the establishment of
a building iund ot say thirty-live million
dollars, bonds to that amount to be issued
for the immediate construction of all the
public buildings now under way, no more
annual appropriations to be made. These
bonds are to draw three per cent, per annum,
making a saving of nearly half a million in
the amount now paid by the government for
the rent of buildings. I understand that the
committee on- public buildings and grounds
regard the scheme favorably, and are likely
to report it to the house. j. m. k.
Cubans Still HarreuderlDK.
New York, March 28. A letter from Ha
vana, dated March 23d, has the following:
"The surrender of insurgents, armed and
unarmed, continues in different portions of
the island, and only one of the prominent
chiefs, named Maceo, is still holding out in
the mountains in the eastern department,
with, it is said, about four hundred fol
lowers, mostly colored. Martinez Campos is
still actively moving from one district to an
other, as if the campaign was still in full
force. A short time ago he was at Santiago
de Cuba, where he was received by the Cu
bans and Spaniards with great demonstra
tions oi jubilee, and is now expected as far
west as Colon. Although there are still ru
mors afloat of new risings of small bands,
circulated by discontented persons, there is
no doubt that an earnest desire for peace per
vades all classes of Cubans."
Hlcht ef 91 an axe meat.
Philadelphia, March 28. Mr. Sutton,
a most conspicuous opponent of the directors
at a stockholders meeting of the Pennsyl
vania railroad company, says: "The ques
tion of legally contesting the right of man
agement to organize the trust or funding
scheme, under the authority given at the re
cent election, is nnder consideration and will
be settled definitely in a few days."
JLaPase, the Murderer.
St. Albans, Vt., March 28. A report
comes from St. Alexandre, Canada, thirty
five miles from here, that the developments
strongly point to LaPage, who was hung at
Concord for the murde' ofJosie Langmaid,
as the perpetrator of tthe cold-blooded mur
der of two women, mduer and daughter, at
that place ten years ago.
miver.B&ra rroas Eorape.
New York, March 28. The steamship
Abyssinia, from Liverpool, brought five hun
dred thousand dollars in Bilver bars.
It is said in London that considerable sil
ver was purchased for New York yesterday.
The amount is variously stated at from seven
hundred thousand to one million five hundred
thousand dollars.
Ht Reapaaaible.
Baltimore, March 23. The house of del
egates has voted that the State is not respon-
niutu awa, wwiiih, - a ivr;itj UCBUvJOU VtLaA
ing the strikers' riots in Baltimore, it being
an occasion where the laws could not be en
forced in time to prevent the destruction of
property.
To the humble and credulous, as well as
to the rich and skeptical. Dr. Bull's cough
DJIU W " wawau I11CUU.
RED HOT.
England and Russia will haTe to Resort
to Arms to Settle their Differences
The Former Getting her Xsltj
into Position and Calling
Out Reserves.
Lord Derby Resigns from the British
Ministry on Account of Irreconcil
able Differences of Opinion
on the Situation Lord
Beaconsfleld's Reply
Russia and Turkey Allied, and the Brit
ish Fleet vf ill Probably bepOrdered
Out of the Dardanelles A
Panic on the Paris
Bourse, Etc.
Londea.
London. March 28. Representatives of
the admiralty were in Liverpool yesterday
inspecting the steamers of several Atlantic
companies, with a view to their -employment
in transporting troops in case of emergency.
The Assistance, an iron screw troop-Bhip ot
two thousand and thirty-eight tons, is the
only transport in the service specially fitted
to carry cavalry, and an order has been re
ceived at Portsmouth that all troop-ships, in
cluding the Indian troopers, must have their
hatchways enlarged, and other alterations
made, to allow horses, ambulances and baggage-wagons
to be lowered below. Beside
carrying a complete battalion, each troop
ship will be required to carry twelve wagons
and eixty horses.
A bt. .Petersburg correspondent says that
the British cabinet in demanding a formal
assurance from Russia, which none of the
other powers support, must have one of two
aims, either to
INFLICT A FORMAL HUMILIATION ON RUSSIA
or to get out of the necessity of attending
the congress. In the former case, Russia
cannot make any concession, and in the lat
ter the congress will not be held, and Russia
will endeavor to come to an arrangement
with Germany and Austria. Ihus England
condemns herself to isolation, makes a triple
alliance a political necessity, and perhaps ren
ders inevitable that radical solution of the
eastern question which she wishes to prevent.
A dispatch irom bt. Petersburg says there
is an excited party there who oppose any
concession to Austria which might impair
the treaty of SanStefano, which is considered
sufficiently humiliating to Russia already.
A Vienna correspondent telegraphs that so
long as the slightest chance remains of
real congress of all signitary powers, thus se
curing the possibility of European settlement,
it will be tenaciously clung to there. All ef
forts will be concentrated on increasing these
chances, and on
REMOVING OBSTACLES IN THE WAT OF THE
CONGRESS.
The pro-Kussian party is urging the gov
ernment to accept the Bosnia-Herzegovina
territory on the Aegean sea. Another cor
respondent says that a sudden.and unaccount
able chansre ia tho government's attitude is
reported. It w said taat (Jount Andrassy
has only bten feigning a concurrence with
the court party, and he is now prepating to
oppose Russia openly, with the entire Hun
garian army at bis back.
In tbe house ot commons, this afternoon,
Sir Stafford Northcote. chancellor of the ex
chequer, in reply to an inquiry put by Lord
Partington, ine leader oi me uoerais, saia
that the correspondence in the recent negoti
ations will be all on the table this evening.
Russia's reply
was received yesterday. She adheres to her
previous declaration, and explains the point
of leaving full liberty of appreciation and
action to the powers, which leaves every
power at liberty to raise such question as it
thinks fit to discuss, and reserved to Russia
the liberty to accept or reject such discussion.
LOUD DERBY RESIGNED. I
The house of lords was very crowded this
evening. Many members ot the lower bouse
were present. Lord Derby entered soon J
after five o'clock, and took seat
below the gangway, instead of on
tho treasury bench. He rose almost imme
diately and announced his resignation
as secretary for foreign affairs, which, he
said, had been accepted bv the Queen, and
he only continued to hold the office until the
appointment of his successor. He regretted
that, under the circumstances, it would not
be lustifiable for him to follow the customary
course of explaining in detail the difference
which led him to resign. Ihe cabinet bad
arrived at certain conclusions of a grave and
important character, in which he was not able
to concur, lo
PREVENT NEEDLESS ALARM,
he would say he did not consider those meas
ures as necessarily tending to bring about
war. He gave the cabinet credit for sin
cerely desiring European peace, but he could
not regard the measures which have now
been resolved on as prudent, to the in
terests of peace, or necessary to
the safety of the country. When
the concurrence of parliament is asked . for
the measures of which he had spoken, he
would vindicate his opinions. He would
state, however, that he did not dissent from
the cabinet's views of the conditions upon
which England might go into the congress.
He lamented the obstacles to the meeting of
the congress, but the fault did not rest with
the government of this country.
LORD BEACONSFIELD
said he would willingly refrain from noticing
the reasons which influenced Lord Derby to
resign until the period when those reasons
misht be legitimately considered by the
house. So much mischief might occur from
the unnecessary mystery that it was his duty
to say that in consequence of the belief of the
government that the congress would not be
held, and the hopes of recti
fying the disturbed balance of power in
the Mediterranean by means of the congress
seeming to have altogether ceased, it was
the duty of the ministry, to consider what
steps should be taken to prevent the impend
ing mischief, and they had therefore advised
her majesty to avail herself of the services
of the reserve forces, and a message to that
effect would be laid before parliament. Lord
Beaconsfield deeply deplored that he would
not have
THE SUPPORT OF LORD DERBY,
when he submitted the measures on which
the cabinet had resolved to parliament. He
had felt of late that the political ties between
Lord Derby and himself must soon terminate,
but he had believed that it would be in a
very different and more natural manner, viz:
That he (Lord Beaconsfield would disappear
from the scene, while Lord Derby would re
main to take a leading part in public affairs.
He was sustained at the present moment by
a confidence that the policy of the govern
ment recommended to her majesty would
tend to the maintenance of her empire, the
freedom of Europe, and the greatness and
security of the country. Cbeers.J The op
position, in the absence of definite informa
tion, abstained from raising any discussion
tor the present.
CALLING OUT RESERVES.
In the house of commons to-night Hon.
Gathorne Hardy, secretary of state for the
war department, replying to various ques
tions, said it was necessary to call out the
first class of the army reserve, numbering
thirteen thousand, and the militia reserve,
which was between twenty-five and twenty
six thousand. The queen's message to that
effect would probably be presented Monday.
This would be followed by a proclamation
calling out such of the reserve forces as may
be required. Mr. Hardy pointed out that
this was not an embodiment of the militia.
which would not take place until it was
necessary to send the regulars abroad. It is
understood that the royal message will not
enter into a detailed statement of the causes
for calling out tha reserve.
RUSSIA IS NOT ALARMED.
A Vienna correspondent states that Gene
ral Ignatieff so far seems to have confined
himself to demonstrating that Uussia s
military position is- such that she
has no occasion to fear anything,
and that she has - carefully considered Aus
tria's interest. The correspondent thinks
that he comes too late to impress these views,
as Austria's opinion is already tolerably
well formed, while if he has
any more positive proposals ' he
may be early, as Austria still seems to cling
to the hope of a European solution. A Berlin
dispatch says that General Ignatieff seems
authorized to promise, as
THB PRICE OF AUSTRIAN NEUTRALITY,
the restriction of the Bulgarian and Mon
tenegrin frontiers, a railway from Salonica to
the Austrian frontier, and a possible exten
sion of Austrian territory. If these condi
tions are accepted, Russia is expected to take
action on the east. '
A Vienna correspondent gives an account
of an interview he had with General Igna
tieff, who declared that he did not wish to
join in a war, as it certainly would be
without results. He argued that the treaty
carefully guarded English and Austrian
interests. He saw no reason why England
should not take Mytilene if it choose, but the
Dardanelles must remain open. He attribu
ted the difference relative to congress to the
mere misunderstandr of words.
Another telegram fivw Vienna says that it
is untrue that Count Andrassy informed Mr.
Elliott that Austria would remain neu
tral in the event of an Anglo-Russian
war. Things looked very favorable to Russia
at the commencement of the week, but have
now resumed an uncertain aspect.
Count Andrassy shows no, disposition
to yield to the persuasions of General Igna
tieff. The latter only speaks of explanation,
and not of concessions to be made by Russia.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY AS ALLIES.
A Constantinople special says it is thought
Safvet Pasha will request England to with
draw her fleet, as Russia and Turkey are now
allies.
The Times, in its leading article, says Rus
sia has adopted an utterly indefensible atti
tude, and unless she withdraws it may be
necessary for us to be prepared
TO FULLY ASSERT OUR RIGHTS.
A special from Portsmouth says orders
have been received at the dockyard for the
immediate preparation of all the troop-ships
belonging to both the Indian and imperial
governments, except the Simoon and the
Assistance, for the transportation, in case of
emergency, of an expeditionary army corps.
Rumors to this effect have been for some time
current, but orders, now positive and defi
nite, have been issued with the concurrence
of the controller of the navy.
The admiralty have purchased the large
mail steamer Mentas, building on the Tyne,
for a troop-ship.
It is probable that either Lord Lyons or the
Marquis of Salisbury, will succeed Lord
Derby.
The Press Association says Lord Lyons is
mentioned as the possible successor of Lord
Derby, but nothing definite is yet known.
Home.
Rome, March 28. A consistory was held
at the Vatican to-day. The pope delivered
an allocution, and then nominated the Scotch
episcopate, as follows: Right Rev. John
Strain, D. D., metropolitan archbishop of St.
Andrews, at Edinburgh ; Charles Eyre, arch
bishop of Glasgow; MacDonald, bishop of
Aberdeen; MacLachlan, bishop of Gal way,
and MacDonald, bishop of Argyle. His holi
ness then appointed Father Chatard. rector
of the American college at Rome, bishop of
Vincennes, and Father Reave bishop of
Richmond. He then made a profession of
faith, according to the established usage,
and took the oath to the apostolic constitu
tion. Finally, he conferred the hat qs Car-,
dinali M'Closkey, who, after the consistory,
bad a private audience with the pope.
Cardinal .Louis Amal de ban iiilippo e
Lorso is dying.
ihe pope in his allocution to-day said that
the loss of the temporal power rendered a
free exercise of the spiritual power impos
sible. Versailles.
Versailles:- Macfa 28. The chamber of
deputies rejected all .the grants which had
been restored to the budget by the senate,
except the increased grant for invalids. The
increased grants include those for a naval
chaplain-general and for scholarships at
Reminaires, which created especial ill-feeling
on account of their clerical tendency.
Versailles. March 2s. ihe senate has
amended the press amnesty bill, making it
applicable to all press onenses, instead ot
only to those committed under the DeBroglie-
Fourtau cabinet.
Constantinople.
Constantinople, March 28. The Rus
sians have issued a proclamation inviting the
Mussulmans to return to their homes in Bul
garia, and warning the Bulgarians to pre
serve tranquillity. Two transports with Rus
sian troops have left for Odessa.
Bnstehak.
Rustchuk. March 28. The feeling of dis
like between the Russians and the Rouma
nians is increasing. The latter contrive all
kinds of annoyance, especially to civilians
carrying Russian passports. The Roumani
ans nave also estaDiisnea auues amounting
to fifteen per cent, on all provisions brought
here from Guiegevo.
Pera.
Pbra, March 28. The Italian cabinet is
not considered favorable for Turkey. Count
Corti, recently minister at Constantinople,.
and now minister of foreign anairs, was the
ally of General Ignatieff, and is now strongly
pro-Russian.
Jamaica.
Kingston, March 28. Troops and war
material are- being got in readiness for
transport to England. White troops are in
readiness.
Bnkarest.
Bukarest, March 28. Premier Bratiano
has started for Vienna to interview General
Ignatieff and Count Andrassy. He hopes to
avert the retrocession of Bessarabia.
Hajtl.
Hayti, March 28. General Tannis, who
at Port-au-Prince attempted to revolt and
take up arms against the government of
President Canale. has fled and secreted him
self in the Liberian consulate.
- Paris.
Paris, March 28. There was a panic on
the boulevards to-day, and rentes fell to 107f.
40c.
TELEGRAMS.
Boston, March 28: John Taylor has been
arrested on the charge of murdering his wife
on the fourteenth instant.
London, March 23: The directors of the
Bank of England have advanced the discount
rate from two to three per cent.
New York, March 28: The steamship
Abyssinnia, from Liverpool, brought five
hundred thousand dollars in silver bars.
New York, March 28: The steamer Celtic,
which sailed for England to-day, took out
three hundred thousand dollars in double
eagles. -
Findlay, O., March 28: The Hancock bank,
a private concern, suspended to-day. Lia
bilities unknown; asssets, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
Marseilles, March 28: The Japanese em
bassy, numbering fifty-eight persons, includ
ing the president of the exhibition commis
sion, arrived to-day,
New York, March 28: The Evening Post
says engagements have been made for the
shipment of one million dollars in gold coin
in Saturday's steamers for Europe.
Boston, March 28: Mrs. Phcebe Atkinson,
aged seventy-eight years, who, it is alleged,
murdered Miss Annie Jones, her lunatic sis
ter, aged seventy-six years, on Monday last,
at Andover, has been arrested.
New York, March 28: The Post says the
well-known dry goods auction firm of Kobbe
& Ball have decided, on account of the dull
ness of trade, to go into liquidation, and that
it ia not improbable that arrangements may
be made with another auction firm by which
the businessof the two firms will be merged.
New Orleans, March 28: Ryan & Clay, of
Calcasieu parish, have brought suit against
Ex-Marshal Pitkin and Jack Wharton, United
States marshal, for five thousand dollars
damages, growing out of the illegal seizure
of eighteen hundred logs taken from private
lands, which had been purchased byplaintiffs.
Mauch Chunk, March 28: Thos. P. Fisher
was hanged in the corridor of the iail this
morning, for complicity in the murder of
Morgan Jroweu, mine-boss at Summit Hill,
on the evening of March 2. 1876. Fisher
was one of the most influential members of
the Molly Magniro association, and a more
intelligent, mu umu uii vi nis companions
WASHINGTON.
Synopsis of the Bill Proposed to Regulate
Postofllce Department Advertising
A Fond for Educating the Blind
The Classification or Mail
Matter.
The President Approves the Resolution
Concerning the Tax on Distilled Spir
its Telegraphic Communication
between the United States
and Foreign Countries.
Hypocritical, Lying and Trifling," are
A'ot the Words, Sajs Mr. Thompson,
Used in his Interview with Sec
retary Sherman Concerning
Schoeflld's Appointment.
Washington, March 28. Secretary of the
Interior Schurz was at his office for half an
hour to-day.
The President has approved the act to
authorize the granting of an American regis
ter to a foreign-built ship for the purposes of
the Woodruff scientific expedition around
the world, and also the bill making appro-
nations for fortifications and other works of
efense.
THE BILL TO REGULATE ADVERTISING
MAIL-LETTINGS.
The house bill to regulate advertisements
of mail-lettings, as amended by the senate
committee on postoffices to-day, provides
that before making any contract for in
land mail transportation, other than by rail
roads and steamboats, and except for tempo
rary service, the postmaster-general shall
cause to be published in not more than two
newspapers in the State or Territory in which
the service is to be performed, a notice, in
displayed type, not exceeding six inches of
space, that proposals will be received and de
tailed information furnished by the depart
ment within specified dates, and no other ad
vertisement shall be required.
The house prohibition of subletting is
modified by the senate committee bo as to
provide that no contracts for mail-service
shall be sublet without the consent in writ
ing of the postmaster-general, and, in case
any contractor sublets his contract without
this consent, his contract shall be considered
as terminated, and the route shall be again
advertised. Copies of contracts for sublet
ting must be also filed in the office of the
second assistant-postmaster-general, and
notice must be given to the sixth auditor of
the treasury, who shall thenceforth make
distinct payments of the amounts specified
to the sub-contractors, and pay the original
contractors no more than the balance re
maining, unless satisfactory evidence be fur
nished that the parties have made settle
ments between themselves.
The senate committee also incorporate into
this measure the following provisions: "Here
after advertisements, notices, proposals or
contracts, and all other forms of advertising
required by law for the executive and judicial
departments , of the government, may be
paid for at a price not to exceed the commer
cial rates charged to private individuals, but
the heads of departments or their authorized
agents may secure lower terms, at special
rates, whenever the public interest requires.
All newspapers, or other publications in
which said advertising shall be inserted,
shall file with each department a certificate
of their commercial rates as aforesaid, and
all accounts against the United States for ad
vertising shall be audited and paid at a rate
not to exceed such certified rates on file, pro
vided that all advertising in newspapers since
the tenth day of April, 1877, shall be audited
and paid for at like rates."
EDUCATING THE BLIND.
The house committee on education and la
bor to-day agreed upon the bill introduced by
Representative Willis, of Kentucky, to pro
vide a fund of two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars in United States bonds, the in
terest on which shall be paid to the trustees
of the American printing-hou8e for the
blind, and expended for the benefit of 'the
various institutions throughout the country
engaged in the education of the blind.
CLASSIFICATION OF MAIL MATTER.
The house committee on postoffices and
postroads to-day took final action on the bill
for the classification of mail matter, and au-
.1 . tt I T . l. ll. i 1.1
tnonzea me cnairman to report it u me
house lor passage. The committee, by a ma
jority of one, amended the bill so as to allow
registered publications to pass tnrougn lue
mails at a uniform rate of two cents per
pound.
MOULTON BACK AGAIN.
Charles H. Moultbn, the twice-absconded
real estate broker, who was arrested in Lon
don, has returned in company, with one of
the sureties on bis bail-bond, ana been trans
ferred to the law officers.
THE PRESIDENT APPROVES THE NEW
WHISKY-TAX REGULATION.
The President, on the recommendation of
Commissioner Raum, has approved a joint
resolution providing that the tax on all dis
tilled spirits hereafter entered for deposit in
distillery warehouses, shall be due and pay
able before and at the time the same are
withdrawn therefrom, and within three years
from the date of the entry for deposit there
in; in case of non-payment of the tax on
any distilled spirits within one year from the
date of the original warehousing bond for
such spirits, interest shall accrue upon said
tax at the rate of five per centum per annum
from and after the expiration of said year
until the tax shall be paid.
THE NEW REVENUE BILL.
The committee of ways and means had un
der consideration to-day the internal reve
nue tax bill, and agreed to the clause fixing
the tax on tobacco at sixteen cents per pound.
This action is liable to be changed. The
committee also agreed to reduce the tax on
cigars from six to five dollars per thousand,
and the rate on cigarettes, weighing less than
three and a half pounds, was fixed at one
dollar and twenty-five cents, and upon those
weighing over three and a half pounds five
dollars per box.
THE RIGHT TO LAY CABLES.
The house committee on foreign affairs to
day unanimously agreed to recommend the
passage of Representative Monroe's bill re
lating to telegraphic communication between
the United States and foreign countries. It
gives the right to lav cables to both United
btates citizens and foreigners, subject to cer
tain specified conditions heretofore published,
and also provides penalties for wilfully dis
closing or intercepting the contents of cable
messages, and tor willull injuries to cables or
otherjproperty ot ocean telegraph companies.
THE THOMPSON-SHERMAN INTERVIEW.
The following correspondence explains it
self: House or Rkprkhkntattvks, I
Washington, March 27, 1878. (
Eon. John Sherman:
Dear Sir My attention has just been
called to a letter in the sew York Tribune,
purporting to give a history of our yesterday's
interview. This letter does great injustice to
both you and me, inasmuch as it says that 1
referred to the administration as "hypocrit
ical, lying and trilling. sio Bucn language
was used by any one, nor any such charge:
certainly I did not, and I am very sure you
did not. True, I entertained and expressed
an opinion that the several preceding inter
views had not been characterized by that de
gree of candor which I then believed was due
to me. It was on this point alone that we
had any discussion which approached a dis
agreement. I said that, although Judge
Schoheld bad been already appointed. I was
not informed of that fact; but that, on the
contrary, your voluntary oner to deliver my
papers to tbe President next morning, and
your advice to call on him, conveyed to me
the impression that the Question of apioint-
ment was still open. You justified your
action, and the President s also, on tbe ground
that until the offer was accepted the appoint
ment was not considered as made, lo this 1
took no exception. If I said anything at
which you were surprised I am not aware of
it; it you said anything at wnicn i might
have been surprised I did not hear it. The
interview was earnest on my part, but in no
sense was it either ill-tempered or ill-mannered
on either side. Yours, very respect
fully, JOHN M. THOMPSON. Q
Tbeasfbt Department, March 28, 1878.
Hon. John M. Thompson, House ot Bepreaenta-
uvea:
Dear Sir Your note of the twenty-
seventh instant was received this morning.
1 agree with you that the article in tbe .New
York Tribune was without truth in spirit or
in form. You did not utter tbe language at
tributed to you: and especially the last ex
pression could not have been used by you or
any one without exciting my notice aud re
mark, and I know you did not utter it. You
no doubt were disappointed that Colonel Sul
livan was not appointed as register, but
in expressing your disappointment there
was nothing unkind said, or that I remarked
as in the least degree unpleasant. You and
Ueneral VV hite seemed to think that t ought
to have communicated to you the fact that
the office had been tendered to Mr. Schofield.
but I do not think so; nor would I feel at lib
erty, in like circumstances, before acceptance
to communicate the tender of tha appointment
made by me, by direction of the President,
especially when there was great doubt of its
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fev Parasols! fJew Parasols!
Novelties in Ladies and 3Hsse' Hosiery-,
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acceptance. In our conversation Monday we
spoke ot'Schofield, but you and General White
thought be would not accept, and I was some
what of that opinion, and therefore both the
President and I were reticent about the ten
der of the office to Schofield, and I received
his acceptance by telegram not five minutes
before yon came in Tuesday. The President
knew nothing of it. and I stated it to you
first of all. Ihe President was entirely with
out fault in the matter, and very properly
heard you state the claims of Colonel Sulli
van, as he bad no information of its accept
ance, and I know had great doubts ot it- It
Is eay enough to excite unkind feeling among
gentlemen, but in this case I agree with you
that there was none, nor any occasion for any.
Very truly yours,
JOHS SHERMAN. Secretary
Dead wood, D. T., March 28: During the
trial of an important mining suit to-day, in
the district court, one of (the witnesses
thinking the questions of W. H. Claggett,
attorney and ex-congressman from Montana,
were too personal, drew a six-shooter on him,
but was prevented from using it by bystand
ers. The witness was fined for contempt
court.
OTHERS
OPESED
tlxo Season.
BROTHERS.
MAIN STREET.
wotices
Bonnets and Round Hats.
STREET, OPP. COURT SQUARE.
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