New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-09
Aem'llork Ds1iln gribnae,
FOUNDED eY HORACE GREELEY.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER o. 1877.
THE NkBS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Servia treasures the Porte Of her pa
cifc intentions. "A Russian detachment has
been defeated by Turkish forces escOrting convoy
10 Plevnn == Ii is intimated that there is no al
lance between Germany and Italy, but negotiations
ore pending
DoMrsrJc.-The Patent Office at Washington has
been covered sufficiently TO protect it from the ram
now falling. == The New-York WOrkngmen's
Convention was held at Troy, to nominate State
ticket -= Senator Mcdonald, Of Indiana, has writ
ten letter in explanation of his visit to Senator
Morton. -= Striking miners have burned railroad
tresle-work 10 prevent the continuance of work in
the Pouusyyama coal mines.
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-Ihe Independent Repnbli-
cans condemn the Rochester Convention, and APP
prove the Administration. -= Tammany ratified
the State ticket yesterday. - Dsordery meet
ings of the XIlIth and XYIth Assembly District Re-
publican Associations were held == mass meet
ing is TO be called to support the Constitutional
amendments and reform candidates. -= Detect
i've Wallings trial was begun yesterday. ==
Over $1,000 was raised by the sale of
boxes and seats for the Adams benefit =
Daniel Bradley was nominated 90 the Brooklyn
Police Board, G. c. Bennett to the Board of City
Works and d. Williams and Bernard Gallagher to
the Fire Board. -=-The Pavilion Hotel at Glen
Cove, was partially destroyed by fire. told,
1929, 1923, 102l2. Gold value of the legal-tender
dollar at the close $3.50 cents of the silver dollar
OCH cents Stocks at first buoyant, then fcverish,
and closing irregular.
THE WEATHER.-TmBUNE local observations indi-
cate rainy weather, followed by colder winds and
clearing sky. Thermometer yesterday 57o, &c,
go.
President Hayes is more than right about
the vacancy on the Supreme Bench. The man
who asks for such place ought to be held
ineligible
The authorities of South Carolina WILL no
doubt, be relieved to know that Senator Pat
terson does not think an immediate trial of
his ease will be best for the interests of the
State.
BY following the suggestion made yesterday,
The Albany Argus clears its skirts of all re-
eponsibility for Tweed's $4,000 check, and
shows that Mr.. Manning's statement of the
transaction was correct. Tweed told the facts,
but he told them in way that made them
lie If he wants to preserve his reputation for
yeracity let him leave State politics alone and
stick TO the legitimate line of nOn-partisan
revelations.
So far the Russians have been more friendly
TO the war correspondents than the Turks, who
supervise rigidly all kilograms, and allow none
to be sent which they deem hostile to their
interests. Should the Russians carry intO effect
the recent order restricting the journalists TO
headquarters, except when a great battle takes
place, there will be little difference between
the intolerance of the Turks and the vexatiOus
restraints of the Russian camp.
Yesterdays auction sale of boxes and seats
AIou,sfa hopoGf wall iIiustrafaH tho
preverbial generosity of the theatrical profess
sion when a brother is in distress. This par
tial sale realized more than $4,000, and al
most the whole of it came from managers and
actors. Mr.. Sotherns bid of $500 for The first
proscenium box recalls the high prices of tho
Jenny Lind furore. But they were given for
show, or even for advertising, and this Is the
gift of ardent friendship.
TIE one thing which Captain FOlcy's prOce
dure against Detective Waing makes plain is
the pleasing confusion Of membership in the
Foley family. Captain Foley testifes that the
Hunts, his two principal witnesses against
Walling "may be" relatives OF his, but he
does not know that they are; and one of the
Hunts testfes that lac "may be brother or IA
"cousin of Captain Foley" bat he does not
know that he is This is evidently ingenious
uncertainty, and ought to bc resolved by the
historic test of the strawberry mark.
Colonel Miles's request that the Canadian
authorities might be informed of the possible
approach of the Nez Perces toward their from
tier. serves TO remind us how near this band
is TO the border-liae. and to the camp of Sit
ting Bull with which Colonel Miles believes
they have had communication. In the position
20 which he has chased them, he is within
about Fifty miles OF the British frontier. and
about the same distance from Fort Benton. Ii