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The New York herald., 1875-11-21
Turkey and the Great Powers.

Negotiations between the great Powers
with regard to the treatment Of the Herzego-
yinian revolt have reached an important and
perhaps critical stage. Some three weeks
since we pointed out that these negotia-
tions-the most important that have engaged
the attention Of all the cabinets since the
Treaty of Paris-were in very earnest prog
ress though the fact was kept from the pub
lie, and that the result would depend neither
upon the afflicted subjects Of the Sultan nor
their oppressorss but upon the conclusions
that would be reached III one or two capitals
when the pressure Of the negotiation at some
nice points had determined what sort OF
hands were held by the respective parties to
the great diplomatic game. 1t has fallen out
as we hinted, and the case presents charac-
teristic phenomenon Of European politics,
though, indeed it is rather the European
politics Of the older than Of the present time !;
that system in which the course Of govern
ment is not taken from notions Of the newt
able ultimate attitude of the people, but in
which cabinets endeavor to determine the
course Of history without consideration Of
the more important elements Of national
vitality.
It is now recognized between the capitals
that Turkey has no friends who can save her,
and therefore that she must relinquish her
hold upon the Christian populations now in
revolt, and must be put in such a relation
with the remainder Of her subjects in Europe
that travellers Of the next generation will
have to visit Asia Minor to see an Ottoman
capital. This is what is really meant by the
news from Europe that negotiations are
in progress based upon the retention Of the
stutu quo 1t means that the negotiators are
endeayoring to conceal each from the other
their recognition that the continued reten-
ton of the Statat quo is impossible, and that
they are themselves sort Of coroners jury
on Turkey in Europe. Their true thoughts
come out more clearly in other declara-
tions-the thought Of Russia III the article
published in the official Messenger in Octo-
Der the thought Of England in the article of
the Times declaring that the millennium
would be near if Herzegovina should fall
into the hands of Austria. Russia did not
declare that the Turkish abuses ''must end"
till she was sure that none could dispute
with her the ultimate results Of that ending !;
and England was not SO fond of Austria till
she saw that Turkey was in her agony and
that this was the only Power that could be
urged as heir to keep the succession out Of
the hands Of the Northern colossus.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

brigands who take into their hands the power
OF life and death as well as the disposition Of
the property of citizen and State. lie IS re-
sponsible to no man, 10 no party, to no trlbu-
nal whatsoever lie cannot be impeached.
lie cannot be censured. Censure falls with
out effect upon a society of men who call
themselves Indians and sit III secret
lodge and know one another by grips
and signs, who are bound by oath and
compact to defend themselves from any
attack, whether it be from convention or a
public protest or the press. But one intiu-
ence can reach such body-that Of the
democracy themselves resolving to make the
same war upon Tammany Hall that was
made upon the Know Nothings twenty years
ago. The cases are similar. Then we had
secret society for the ostracism of all men Of
foreign birth and Of the Catholic faith.
Like Tammany Hall, that society met
IN secret in lodge room. Like Tam
many Hall, it named its candidates in
secret, MOTTO please the people, but leaders,
who parcelled out Offices as Burr and
Tweed and Kelly parcelled out the offices
Of the city of New York. Like Tammany
Hall, it punished every independent citi-
zen who did not fall down and wor-
ship its leaders. Like Tammany Hall,
il aimed to take possession Of the
country and to administer the laws not
according to the constitution, but
as directed BY a hidden irresponsible
cabal Like Tammany Hall, those leaders
were not open to any censure or any criti-
cism. They were their own masters, and
their ambition was to become the masters Of
the nation. But in time that Order fell. It's
very name became a reproach. Its leaders
hastened to disavow it. They have lived
ever since with no higher hope than to sink
from sight and memory their connection
with the once powerful Order. The time is
coming rapidly we are profoundly CON
vinced, when Tammany Hall will fall into
the same oblivion, and when men who only
yesterday gloried in the name Of Tammany
will think Of it in sorrow and shame.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21
John Agne,o sooutd make an admirable sue
cessor to FItz John Porter as Commissioner Of
Public Works.
PuInit Topics To-day.

The Baptist pulpit will be topically repre-
sented to-day by Revs. Osborn, Knapp, Car
Isle, Kennard, Leavell and Jutten, who will
tell US how to win souls, appease the great
heart cry, demonstrate that seasons of tribula-
ton are the harvest time of the Church and
are Christ's calls to repentance They will de-
scribe to US some Of the things that do or
should accompany salvation in every human
heart and life, and will present US a Scrip
tural view Of the Christians present and
future state as founded upon the everlasting
words Of Jehovah, and make. plain to our un-
derstanding that importation is the law Of
Christian growth. The Methodist pulpit
will be represented by Revs. Terry, Lloyd,
Corey, Nathans, Harris and Johns, who will
urge the importance of taking Christianity
into the home and the business life, and the
setting up Of Jesus as King over all. If this
is done there will be no peril attending the
hearing of the Gospel, and no danger that
Christian life will not pay. The yoke will
then appear easy, and Carmel and Calvary will
meet together and Righteousness and Peace
will kiss each other. The Presbyterian pull
pit will be topically represented by Revs.
Kennedy, Phelps and Hugo, who will explain
the kind of revival that we need and with
which the Church will not be ship
wrecked, and will present the anti
Catholic position Of people on the public
school question. The Universalist pull
pit, through Revs. Mccarthy and Sietz,
will show how the conversion of the world
has become the great problem Of the Church
to-day, and how certain great evils may be
avoided or overcome. The Unitarian pulpit,
through Mr.. Alger, will define the religious
and theological position Of the denomination
among Christian sects The Reformed pull
pit. through Mr.. Merritt, will spread itself
over Joseph, and the Swedenborgian pulpit,
through Mr. Giles, will teach us how TO see
the interior or spiritual and real meaning Of
the Holy Scriptures. The man of fire, the
pastor of Mount Zion who gloats and gIories
over the destruction of mystical Babylon,
will tell US how it is to be accomplished, and
the ancient Theosophy or Spiritism Of the
past will be explained by Mr.. Sothern in
Republican Hall this evening.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

THE New DEVELOPMENTS in the Charley
Ross abduction case seem really to promise
more than any preceding discoveries have
accomplished If the facts as related in our
special report are reliable there appears to
be some hope that the boy whose track the
detectives are now following may actually
prove to be the missing child. The relation
ship between the woman in whose company
the child has been seen and the dead burglar
Mosher is established, and this, joined with
the fact that she is evidently seeking to
avoid detection, gives color to the hope that
the right clew has been found at last.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

The WHIsKEY FRAUDS. There IS every rea-
son 70 believe that the Grand Jury now sit
ting in ST Louis is bent upon doing its
utmost 70 bring to justice the parties impli-
Gated in the whiskey frauds. The HERALD's
special despatch from st Louis states that
new indictments were brought in yesterday
two of which were known TO have been
found against ex-Collector Con Mcguire and
MIR. William Mckee, whose wealth and polt-
ical influence, it was supposed, would secure
him from prosecution. 1t il believed that
General Babcock will assuredly be found
among those who viii be compelled TO sub
NIT to a trial and that the conviction Of
Mcdonald is almost certain. 1t Is 70 be
hoped that the investigation will 80 to the
root Of the iniquity and that the persons i'm
)lcated in the frauds will be exposed and
punished, no matter how high the social OF
political position they have heretofore occu-
pis1
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

DEEP OBSERVERS think that the effect Of the
action Of independent republicans like Carl
Schurz in canvass like that in Ohio,
where they threw aside personal feeling and
worked without question or even hope Of
recognition for the republican cause, will
give them powerful attitude in the next
convention, and that the effect Of this infu-
ence will be to prevent the nomination Of
General Grant for third term. If this
rumor is true, and such men can only WELD
their legitimate influence to prevent such o
nomination, we can only say-good for the
republican party.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

In THE BOARD OF APPoRTIoFMENT yesterday
Comptroller Green offered q resolution in
structing the Corporation Counsel to oppose
by all proper means the effort to secure a
mandamus to compel the Board to raise
money by tax to build an armory for the
Seventh regiment. The resolution was ac-
companied by preamble giving concise
history of the whole matter, but this, being
for some reason Objectionable TO Mayor
Wickham, was rejected by the votes Of the
Mayor and Alderman Lewis, while the reso-
luton, pure and simple, was adopted. The
Comptroller also submitted COM
munication favoring general reduction and
equalization Of the salaries paid to city en-
ployes The subject was evidently distaste-
full and, on motion of the Mayor, was referred
back to the Comptroller. These indications
Of desire for economy will, it is hoped, be
followed by the practical reduction Of the
enormous expenditures Of the departments.
The Board Of Apportionment has it in its
power to cut down the estimates for 1876,
and should apply the pruning knife unspar-
ingly. The provisional estimate is at least
four million dollars too high, and by treating
the departments as business offices and not
as political asylums fully this sum can be
saved next year.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

THE HERALD BY FAST MAIL TRAINS. Neacs-
dealers and the public throughout the States ot
Ae,0 York, Ne,o Jersey and Pennsylvania, as
,oeH as u, the Vest, tie Pacific Coast, the North,
Ae South and Southeast, also along the lines
Of the Hudson RiUa, Nea0 York Central and
Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con-
aections, lcia Be supplied 1ah The HERALD,
free Of postage. Extraordinary inducements
ofersd % ne1csdealers by sending their orders
direct 70 his office.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

The QUESTION is sometimes asked by those
who are deeply interested in politics whether
General Grant in his Cuban flibustering
letter to the Spanish government, was actu-
ated by any desire TO commit the party to o
policy which would make third term a
necessity in the next canvass. We do not
venture to answer this question, except to say
that, in the event of such a nomination n-
bad for The republican Ddrtp
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

tion Of Tammany to prevent every plan
looking to this end which did not
heavily subsidize the Tammany chiefs. So
furious was their greed. 50 hostile
were they to every improvement which they
could not control, that they even caused the
Indictment of the present Elevated Railroad
AZ i public nuisance, and tried to break
down what time has proved to be a most i'm
portant convenience to the public.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

JUDGE BENEDICT was detained from the
United States Circuit Court yesterday
through illness, and an adjournment till
Saturday next took place. The motion for
an arrest Of judgment and new trial in the
case of ex-Deputy Collector Of Customs Des
Anges will then be decided.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

The REroETs IRON England Of the de-
struction Of life and property in the recent
gales On the coast are contradictory. 1t APP
pears certain, however, that much damage
has been done Notwithstanding the excel
lent arrangements for warning ships Of the
approach q danger al over the British
coast
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

A jury WAS OBTAINED in the Scannell
case yesterday, after five days labor The
jurymen are all business men, and will no
doubt try the case faithfully. There are to
be evening sessions Of the Court until the
trial ends.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21
ADJUSTMENTS TOMORROW.

SAN FRANCISCO MISsTRELs,
He Opera House broadway Of Twenty ninth street
THEATRE COMIQUE.
No 5l4 Broadway-VARIEFS. at 4 NJ
BOOTHS THEATRE,
twenty third street and Sixth nue-PASIohlhE at
N q. II Fox.
CHIcKERING HALL --..-,,,,,,
Fiah avenue and Eighteenth street-GRAND CONVERT
A. r. n. Won Bulow.
v,, !, r PARK rHEATREr I-,I1E ErgE MIGHTY DOL.
LAR, a. : +. NJ. Mr.. and Mrs.. Florence
MErRopoLrrAN MUSEUM or Arr.
No 2s West Fourteenth streeG-open from ~ 4 ~ =
ACADEMY or MTsIc, G, Al ro,v !. !
Fourteenth sreet.-Geunan Opera-IL IkOFAIORE ~ >
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE,
sgh;h stree, near Nay ral NEW SEw LEAH
EAGLE THEATRE.
Broadway and Thirty third street-yARIETY, at p ~
sTADT THEATRE.
Nos. 45 ana q Bowery.-rHE ROBBERS, at r N.
GLOBE THEATRE.
Nos rs and 7so Broadway -MINsTRELsY and VARIETY,
WOODS MUSEUM,
/ NJ closes !. 10 As p NJ Mr. Joseph Proctor III
Nos IS5 and 5s7 Broadway.-VARIETY, 1t . NJ
THIRD AVENUE THEATRE,
rhrd between Thrtieth and Thirty drst streets
AINsTRElsy and VARIETY. at > r NJ
LYCEUM THEATRE,
FIpEes2s street near SIKH pEcx OF
GERMANIA THEATRE,
fourteenth street, Irving piace.LEMONS A. T.
TIvOLI THEATRE,
Eighth street Third avenue.-y AgfETY, ats P. N.
BOwERY THEATRE.
Bowery.-MARKED FOR LIFE AZ r NJ
COLOSSEUM,
Thirty fourth street and BroadwayPRCSSIAN SIEGE Of
PARIS open from 10 A. NJ 70 8 X A. and +. N. @ X
r.
OLYMPIC THEATRE,
No 624 Broadway-YARIETY. at 3 r. NJ
wALLACK'S THEATRE
Broadway and Thirteenth street-CASTE, a ? NJ close
It 10 a. T. NJ. Mr.. Harry Beckett, Miss Ada Dyas
PARTISAN VARIETIES,
Sixteenth street, near Broadway.-VARIErY at r. N.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

BY CABLE DESPATCH from Madrid we are
informed, on the authority of the Cro7istd,
that 'the present satisfactory situation
promises favorable and early settlement Of
all pending questions affecting the relations
with the United States" We wish we could
believe il tie Crorista's happy view of the
situation.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

THE CAPTAIN GENERAL Of Havana went to
the field Of operations against the insurgents
yesterday accompanied by two officers, rela-
tives Of King Alfonso. 1t is not stated
whether Valmaseda goes on pleasure ex-
cursion or fighting mission.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. Stocks were
dull and the market without important
feature Gold closed at ia 3-4. Rag money
is worth STA Money On call vas easy at
3 and PEI cent
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

SPECIAL DESPATCH to the London Times
from Calcutta represents the Burmese trou-
BILE at Rangoon as only the result Of the at-
tempt of band Of robbers to seize the ar
Yenal and as having no political significance
The New York herald., 1875-11-21
QU ADRUPLE SHEET.
NEW YORK, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER q. 1875.

From or reports this morning The probabilities
IRE tot the loeather to-day eoH be partly cloudy,
Vih q possibility Of rain.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

John Agnelo ,ooud uadlce an admirable s,tc-
cessor 10 Fit John Porter as Commissioner Of
Public Works.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21


EXCITING NEWS FROM TExAs.-The Calves
ton Ne,os has a special despatch from Browns
vile, Texas, bringing intelligence of an ex-
citing character from the Mexican border.
band Of Mexican robbers having made a
raid into Texas and driven off quantity
Of cattle, were pursued by a company Of Texan
rangers, numbering thirty five, led by Captain
L. Fl. McNeeley, formerly gallant cavalry
officer in the Confederate army, who has re-
Gently been commissioned by the Governor
of Texas to protect the property Of American
citizens on the border. Captain McNeeley
and his force killed four of the thieves, but
before they could reach the river on their
return were surrounded in gulch. The
Mexicans are gathering in force and de-
mand the surrender of the American
party, with the intention, no doubt, of tax
ing all their lives The United States troops
cannot interfere, but it is probable that
Texans will hasten to the rescue of their fell
low citizens, and it is not easy to see where
the trouble may end. Captain McNeeley
will make desperate struggle for life, and
it is to be hoped that he and his followers
may yet escape.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

John Agne,o ,oo,od make an admirable sue
cessor 10 Fit John Porter as Commissioner Of
Public HorICs.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

John AgneU soould make an admirable sue
cessor 10 Fgts John Porter as Commissioner Of
Public Works.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

.Joha AJneo ,oould make an admirable sue
ceSSor to Eytz John Porter as Commissioner q
Public Works
The New York herald., 1875-11-21
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
rRoPRIEIOR
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

SAN FRANCISCO hINSTRELs
New Opera House. Broadway Of Twenty ninth street.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

OLYMPIC THEATRE,
10. 624 Broadway.-YARIETY. at . i. N.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21
How the city Expenditures May BE
Reduced.

One of the greatest abuses under the
city government is the system OF day
labor In every department the public
works ought all to be done by con-
tract, open to competition. When the
heavy payrolls of the day laborers, which
are SO many robberies of the taxpayers are
dispensed with. the most Objectionable fea-
ture of the political influence in the depart
ments will be removed. Original works and
repairs should all be done by contracts
given to the lowest responsible bidders The
inspectors on the part of the city should be
appointed by the courts, as commissioners
for street openings are appointed, or by some
other authority outside the department by
which the contracts are made. This would
render less probable any collusion between
contractors and inspectors, and would in
sure q more faithful performance Of con
tracts. The needless bureaus should be
abolished, some of the existing departments
should be consolidated and number Of
high-salaried commissioners swept ptaway. The
Finance Department should have charge ofall
the financial business of the city-of the
Taxes and Assessment Department the Gro
ton Water Bureau and the Encumbrance and
Licensing bureaus. The business now dis
charged by the Department Of Taxes and
Assessment and the Bureau Of the Receiver
of Taxes should be performed by the same
set Of officials. When the assessments are
being made the receivers Of taxes have
nothing to do. While the taxes are being
collected the clerks of the Assessment De-
partment are idle. These and similar econ
omies, which might be enforced without
detriment to the public interests which
would, indeed, increase the efficiency Of the
city government would save the taxpayers
from five to eight million dollars year in
the city estimates If the Comptroller will
bring about these reforms and we think he
can, we shall no longer oppose him, but sup
port him to the best of our ability.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

PARTISAN VARIETIES
Sixteenth street. Broadway.-VARIETY, at r N.
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

wALLACK'S THEATRE.
Broadway and Thirteenth street-CASTE at VI closes
It 10 a. H. NJ. Mr.. Harry Beckett. Miss Ada Dyas
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VOLUME A-..............................No. 81
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PARK THEATRE, - ! y
Broadway and Twen " second street.-the hIShIi ~
LAR. AZ : +. NJ MIR. and Mrs Florence
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

COLOSSEUM
Thirty fourth Broadway.-PRCSSTAN SIEGE OF
PARIS open from 10 A. NJ. s T. Al. and r NJ. 10
The New York herald., 1875-11-21

CHICKERING HALL -
Filth avenue and Eighteenth street-GKAND tOaOEhi'
TSP. NJ Won Bulow.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-30
News and Other Items.

The income of Girard College at Philadel-
pha last year paid all expenses and left a sur
plus of 100000. 1t now has $50 pupils.
Mrs. A. j. Patterson officiated at funeral
on Monday at Boston Highlands, in the alb
sence of her husband, the Rev. DR.. Patterson.
Two sons of Frenchman at New Orleans,
recently went to France on a pleasure trip
They were conscripted, and are now defendin e
the flag of their fathers native land in Africa
The Chinese claim to have originated mac
adamized roads so long ago as to have forgot
Ten the cir ,umstance. 1t is said that the prin.
cipal roads of the Empire have been construct
ed in this way for many centuries.
In Chicago library book on "selfculture"
never got a reader. The librarian had it re-
bound and chrlstened it "a Young Man on his
Muscle" and anxious readers had to wait for
weeks before they could get it.
Lieutenant General Pemberton, of the late
Confederate army, who commanded at Vicks-
burg, is now employed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company in establishing iron works
at Perth Amboy, N. J.
1t has just come to general knowledge in
England that ex-Col Baker was once before
arrested for an offence of the same nature as
that of which he has just been convicted, and
suffered three months imprisonment at Cey-
Ion.
The ex-Confederate General Imboden has
been sufficiently Reconstructed to issue a
stirring address calling on the citizens of Vir-
GINA to make strenuous efforts for the repre-
sentation of their state at the Centennial Exhi-
bition.
Sophia Tessman, of Plymouth, Mich, a girl
of seventeen, was playing croquet with some
companions, contrary to the orders of her faith =
CT. who came out and lifted his foot against
her save in the way of kindness, so she went
into the house and poisoned herself with Paris
green
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-30
MINOR KILOGRAMS.

Charles f. Howe, 26 years old. hung himself
at Fitchburg, Friday night.
President Grant and family, were in Ne W
York, Saturday, to witness the departure of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartors for Europe.
The commissioner of internal revenue has
awarded the contract for the printing of cheek
stamps to the Graphic Company of New
York
A man named Henry Wilson is held in New
York for the assassination of Mr.. Noe.
Cattle stealing and murder are still rife on
the Mexican border.
Wendall Phillips has letter in SATURDAYS
New York Herald, in favor of legal tender
notes, and addressed to the Secretary of the
Legal Tender club.
The steamship Montana has arrived at New
York.
Fifty thousandIdotlars worth of grapes and
ribbons, seized for undervalution, were sold at
auction in New York Friday.
A. Cowing & Co., one of the largest manu-
featuring firms in the United States, have
made an assignment to William b. Lathrop
Of Senaca Falls, where their factory is. They
lave large concern in New York and depots
In Chicago, ST. Louis, Kansas City and other
places.
Capt. Lawrence of the schooner Josephine
Fotts, was murdered by his mate Friday night
~ quarrel in the cabin of the vessel, in New
York harbor.
Judge Wyne has refused an order to sell the
property OF Ottman, the treasury robber.
Gen. HaWley addressed a large meeting at
Wheeling, Friday night, in the interest Of the
Centennial.
Rumors of another marital poisoning. this
fime the husband being the victim, are rife in
Gambia, N Fl. The body of the deceased is to
be disinterred.
s. A. Cragih, of the Boston firm of Crap;p
Hay & Co.. died suddenly at The Continental
Hotel, st. John, Friday, while reading news
paper
In the consolidation SC lemA of the Yves ern
Union with the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company, the latter has been treated at a cap
italization of $2,500,000.
The entire business portion of Reyneldville,
Pa, was burned yesterday.