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NEW YORK, WRONIvSIi.W, APRIL 11. 1877.
NOTICE TO COUXTlir DEALERS.
The Aditm* Rxprpmt Coidphiiv rnu a unerlnl nrwtniinpr
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Prom mtr reports this morning the probabilities
?re that the veal her in New York to-day will be
tUghtly warmer and partly cloudy or clear.
Wall Street Ykstehda v. ?The stork mar
ket was more active and fairly steady, with
tho exception of Rock Island and tho North,
?west stocks. Gold was higher, tho price rising
from the opening figure of 1051* to 105i<_?
with a subsequent decline of i*. Government,
railroad and State bonds were higher and finn.
Money on call was very easy, at rates fluctuating
from 2L; to 4 per cent, tho former being the |
closing quotation.
Tweed's Release upon a compromise seems
to Ire improbable, and his only chance of obtain
ing his freedom is by a complete surrender.
A Superfluous Importation?tho infernal
machine that arrived yesterday on the steamship
Frisia. The city has quite enough crime of its
own manufacture.
Tub Supreme Co tut Decision that the Cen
tennial Board of Finance must refund to the
United States Treasury the million and a half
dollars loaned to the. Exhibition has had tho
effect to decrease the dividends so much that
stock bought fop ten dollars is likely to pay but
three.
Om Bnu, is a name that has been familiar to
the musical world for many years, and the ac
count wo print to-day of his career, as related in
his own words, will be read with great interest.
It is an example of what genius may accomplish
?when it is attended by energy and ptrsevcr
anco.
Tiik Louisiana Commission lias thus far not
fulfilled tho hopes of the country. Instead of
restoring peace it seems to havo added to tlic
?political excitemeut in that State, and our New
Orleans despatches ore not encouraging. The
problem is difficult indeed to solve but if the
commission is really the failure it is said to be
then the sooner it is recalled tho better.
Tire Excise Law.?'flic recent decision that
? license to sell liquors permits none but hotel
and inu keepers to sell tliern to be drunk on the
promises has alarmed tho retail dealers of the
?ity, and yesterday a new excise bill was in
troduced into tlio Legislature which is meant to
affirm the previous construction of the law.
There arc prospects of another temperance war
in Albany.
The Ameriquk is once more afloat and has
been towed safely to her dock in Brooklyn.
This iH a satisfactory conclusion of n protracted
effort at getting her off the Seabright beach. It
reflects credit on the salvage crews who rescued
the ship; but no merit attaches to those respon
sible for running lier ashore, although they also
helped to save her. They must work long and
faithfully and sail over many seas before tho
stain of that piece of negligence uml stupidity
cun be washed from their reputations as seamen.
Indict Them iiy Am. Means.?We believe
?that, sooner or Infer, and the sooner the better,
the Grand Jury will be called on to deal with our
wasteful, worthless and dishonest officials. No
other course seems to be open to the people of
New York in stopping the system of public plun
der that is steadily draining the city of her re
sources, without a particle of benefit resulting
from these misappropriations of the revenue.
When a citizen takes an official oath to discharge
an imjmrtant public trust for a salary con
sideration and receives from the public tress- !
urv large sums of money to disburse for special
purposes, be assumes a responsibility personally
as well as officially. If he fails to perform his
allotted duty and at the same time squanders the
public moneys intrusted to liim he becomes
amenable to the law.
Tiif. \Y father.?The storm centre lias now
fairly left the Carolina coast, and the pressure is
rising at all points east of the Mississippi River.
Yesterday rain prevailed very generally from the
South Atlantic States northwestward to the
'Lower Missouri Valley, the heaviest fall being
at Norfolk, Va. The winds on the Middle and
South Atlantic coasts are moderating, but con
tinue brisk northward of Boston, and have been
high on flic Icxos coast. The temperature is
high throughout tho States, even in tho lake
district where the pressure is highest. Clearer
fair weather prevails over the lakes and Middle
States, but ruins havo fallen in Nova Scotia,
where the weather is yet unsettled. Another
depression is approaching from the Pacific coast,
where the barometer bus been comparatively
low, with brisk westerly winds. A storm will
probably prevail ou the British, French uml
ftpttsieb coasts ou next Saturday uml Sunday,
with heavy galea and rains. The Lower Missis
sippi and Cmnberlund have risen. All the other
rivers are falling. The weather in New York
to-dejr will be slightly wanner and partly cloudy
The Government Snrvey*.
Among the minor bat by no means un
important reforms in the work done by the
government we hope to Hee the next Con
gress consolidate and pnt into some sys
tematic order the various government sur
veys and explorations in the Western Terri
tories.
There are now three principal surveying
parties, which take the field every Bummer
and spend the winter in Washington, em
ployed in the double task of working out
their field noteH and lobbying in Congress
for noxt year's appropriations. As the gen
tlemen employed in thoso scientific labors
are, or at least ought to bo, scientific men,
it is certainly not fair that they should have
to give any part of their time to the painful
work of buttonholing Congressmen for the
means to continuo their explorations. It is
an indignity that science should have to
stand about in tho lobby. Tho three prin
cipal surveys are thoso of Lieutenant
Wheeler, called the ??Geographical Survey
of Territories West of tho One Hundredth
Meridian Dr. Hayden's ??Geological and
Geographical Survey of tho Territories,'
and Major Powell's '?Geographical and
Geological Survey of the Rocky Moun
tain Region." King's important "Geological
Exploration of tho Fortieth Parallel" has
| been completed, wo understand, and Mr.
King is now seeing through tho press tho
last volume and charts. Thero are besides
these a Black Hills surveying party and,
we believe, some others.
The three first named are the principal
surveys now going on. Hayden and Pow
ell are nnder the control of tho Interior De
partment. Wheeler is sent out by the War
Department. Tho last Congress gave $75,000
to the Hayden survey, $50,000 to tho Powell
survey, and $50,000, with transportation by
the War Department, to Wheeler. Wo tako
it for granted that all three of theso parties
are headed by able men and do nseful and
important work. But wo notice that a not
unnatural rivalry between tho three, each
working independently of tho others, leads
to tho multiplication of needlessly costly
bookB, which are no doubt pleasing and
seductive gifts to Congressmen when tho
appropriation bills are coming up for
scrutiny, but which are certainly tho cause
of tronblo and waste of time to men of
science here and in Europe, to whom tho
results of these surveys aro for tho present
of the greatest interest and importance.
Why, for instance, should each of thoso ex
peditions pnblish an independent account
of tho natural history of its region, includ
ing descriptions of all the animals found,
when, as is easily seen if one compares the
different issues, they cover the same animals,
with very few exceptions? It would surely
be better to have one systematic account, easy
of reference, and then note the exceptional
animals, if any. No one can examine and
compare the numerous and sometimes very
costly pnblications made by theso surveys
without seeing that a great deal of public
money is wasted on mere book-making
work of a kind which can make only con
fusion and vexation for scientific men, and
worso for a layman who seeks information.
Wo venture to say that the nnmorous and
bulky volumes, enough to form a library,
?hich have been pnt forth by thoso different
expeditions, if properly edited and con
densed, as they wonld be if the expeditions
were all controlled by one head, could be
compressed into a tenth of the space they
now occupy and be a hundred times more
nseful, besides costing very much less to
tho country.
Nor is this all. Tho work of these expe
ditions is conducted in so unsystematic a
manner that, as the charts and other records
show, one survey often in its work overlaps
the other, and thus duplicates expense by
needless resurveys; and not only this, but
causes another wosto in the duplication of
printed volumes of often very costly charts.
For instance, wo notice that Wheeler's
Snrvey, volume 3, publication of 1875,
contains a map pf the Twin Lakes which
seems to us substantially the same as
tho map of the Twin Lakes at page 53 of
Hayden's Report for 1873. We do not mean
that Lieutenant Wheeler has t?kcn a copy
of Dr. Hayden's map, but that the two
parties have evidently covered the same
ground by their survoys. Again, tho trian
gulation charts of Wheeler, 1875, and Hay
den, 1873, to a considerable extent cover
the samo ground, and hero must have been
a serious waste of human effort, not to
speak of money. Wo should think not less
than fifty thousand dollars must liavo boen
flung away here. Again, King's and Powell's
reports show duplications to the amount,
we judge, of at least eight thousand square
miles of country which King appears to have
surveyed in 1875 and Powell in 1876. Mr.
King's work has been going on for ten years
and has produced results of undoubted
scientific and public importance, and surely
there was no need of Major Powell going
over a part of King's ground.
The work of the United States Coast Sur
vey has always been under a single head,
and it is the admiration of scientific men all
over Europe. If, however, there had been
three or four or half a dozen coast surveying
expeditions, each taking a part of our shores
and working independently of the rest, our
charts would be muddled, the work of tho
Coast Survey would have been tho contempt
of men of science and it would huve cost
probably ten times as much as it, lias. Why
should not the same system he applied to
terrestrial explorations and surveys or to
marine? It esn very easily bo done. The
whole of tho surveys of the Western Terri
tories ought to be put under a single compe
tent head, who should lay out the work sys
tematically, and who conld then carry it on
with economy and efficiency. At present
much inoro money is wasted in printing
than in the field work. The annual appro
priations, tho amounts of which we gave
above, cover only tho outdoor work ; tho
printing is extra, and wo believe if a com
mittee of Congress would collect all that
has been printed at tho public expense in
the last ten years by the three principal ex
peditions we have named, and carefully
look up the duplications in charts and im
ports, it would almost be tempted to abolish
the whole surveying business in pure dis
gust. We wonder that some of our scien
tific men have not called the attention of
Congress; to thins matter before now ; and iih
under President Hayes we are promised
various reiorins wo suggest hero an evil
wliioh needs attention.
Officials Speculating In Murder.
Lee's confession continues to create a fool
ing of intense uneasiness among those whom
there is good reason to suspect were his con
federates in crime. Hut, singularly enough,
it is not to the Mormon leaders exclusively
that we now look for attempts at concealing
the facts, but to those who should be most
active in making them public in the inter
ests of justice. There is a strong suspicion
that the confession of Lee, as officially com
municated by the United States District At
torney, is a garbled statement made up for
I either one of two purposes?namely, a book
| making speculation or the protection of rich
| and influential Mormons. We do not seo
how any other view can be taken of this mat
ter, considering the evidence before us.
If the officials involved foci aggrieved
by this suspicion they hnvo only them
selves to thank for the position in which
they are now placod. While Lee was in
their hands at Beaver City they took extra
ordinary precautions against any outsiders
reaching the prisoner and learning any
thing from him. They refused the I1kraij>
representative access to Lee until a short
time before his death and when it was
too late to obtain a detailed verbal state
ment from the condemned man. From the
beginning of the last trial, and when it be
came almost certain thut Lee would be con
victed, thero was plainly to be perceived
a desire on the part of the Mormon load
ers to isolate and destroy him before he
could give any statement damaging to their
Church. They had used Leo and were ready
to cast him into his grave as a sacrifice to an
outragod public opinion, but chiefly to si
lence him forever. In this they were success
ful, thanks to the co-operation of the legal
officials who saw in the situation an oppor
tunity well worth improving. The develop
ments of later evidence promise, however,
to make everything clear and to brand tho
guilty with tho full marks of their crime and
bring them to Bpoedy justice. It is plain
that the officials "dickered" with Leo for his
confession as the price of his life in order to
use the first as a means of speculating on tho
fears of his confederates. According to tho
statomont, under oath, of Gilman, one of
Leo's keepers, which we print to-day, tho
representatives of justice held out delusive
hopes of pardon to the prisoner; and these
were extinguished only by the death volley
of tho executioners. The prospective profit
was temptation enough for the officials to
screen the leading Mormons by suppressing
every damnatory statement of Loo regarding
them. We have pursued the investigation
of this shameful affair so closely that, as a
correspondent writes us, the officials are be
ginning to "squirm," and we certainly will
not abandon it until every fact is known. In
another column to-day will also be found
soma very interesting details of tho game of
"hide and seek" sought to be played in
screening Brigham Young, as well as a
strong indiotment of the officials who
should, but, wo fear, do not, represent the
majesty of the law.
The Trouble In Europe.
Russia, it is reported, demands that
Turkey shall decide by the 13th?in two
days?what course she intends to take with
regard to the suggestions of the protocol.
These suggestions were that Turkey should
reduce her armies and reform her govern
ment. Turkey, it was to be assumed,
would take the suggestions in high dudgeon
and rant somewhat about her independence,
a possession sho did not greatly plume her
self upon in the days when she needed the
support of Western armies to prevent
her annihilation. Sho has proved as
intractable in the present case as it
was thought she would; but Russia
wishes to know immediately whether Tur
key proposos to act or to treat the proto
col and declaration with contempt. This
reported demand of Russia is somewhat in
tho nature of an ultimatum; for it can
scarcely bo doubtful that if Turkey gives an
unfavorable answer Russia's inquiry con
templates immediate action as the next
necessity. If Turkey takes tho protocol in
good p.art and nets on the declaration tho
result is to bo tho disarmament of Russia,
and thoro an end for the present. But if
Turkey takes tho other course, then Russia
docs not disarm, and she cannot pro
pose to keep her armies on foot and
idle indefinitely. She will use them for the
purpose for which they were equipped,
and will use them forthwith. It is already
reported that Turkey has rejected tho pro
tocol and the demunds of tho Montenegrins,
but will send an envoy to St. Petersburg.
But the sending that envoy is, by tho pro
tocol and declaration, only to follow action
on the other demands, and if sent without
such action ho would probably not be re
ceived. It appears to be generally agreed
that the declaration by Count Schonvaloff
is now the one great obstacle to peace,
which is a quaint commentary on tho skill,
foresight and happy inspirations of British
diplomacy.
Cuti and Dork.
For children in tho streets alone to bo bit
ten by Spitz dogs is one of the common cas
ualties ot the time. Scarcely a day passes
without the report ol such an occurrence ;
and one recently reported in Brooklyn might
almost be accepted as an evidence that this
species of <log, reputed to be related to the
Arctic fox, is in reality related to the Arctic
wolf. Hydrophobia results from those bites
in au extremely large proportion of the
cases. It is noted that in sevornl recent
cases of hydrophobia the rabid animals by
which men or women were bitten were not
of the Spitz species, and sumo comfort
seems to be gathered from this fact by tho
people who admire the Spitz. But tho pre
sumption is that the Spitz dog does
not confirm his attentions entirely
to tho human family. He sometimes
bites other dogs ns well as children, and
tlio'o dogs in duo time become mad also; so
that hydrophobia caused by tho bite of
another dog is, perhaps, in the large num
ber of cases, only one remove from some
virulent Spitz. Recently a person bitten by
a eat died, iih chronicled, from "fright."
These cases nt "fright," as a consequence
of bites, will perhaps bo found always to
occur in the practice of physicians 'who
deem themselves a little wiser than any one
efse and superior to the oommon "preju
dices" about hydrophobia. It is strange,
considering the number of cats in eny city,
how few cases of hydrophobia result from
their bites. The fact is probably due to
their great activity in keeping out of the
way of stray curs and mad dogs on their
"march."
South Carolina Free?Bx-Gor?rno*
Chamberlain's Address.
At noon yesterday, in pursuance of the
order of President Hayes, the federal troops
were withdrawn from the State House at
Columbia. There was no visible excitement
or commotion; nothing occurred to disturb
the publio tranquillity or create apprehen
sion; and we are oonfldent that that mis
governed, faction-tossed State, the sccno of
bo much agitation and violence for the last
eight years, will henceforward be one of the
most orderly and best administered of our
American Commonwealths, as it always was
previous to the war. Under the r^ime which
has now closed South Carolina has suffered
moro than any of her sister States. Her
Legislature has been the most ignorant and
corrupt, her county officers the most incom
petent, her minor judges tho most scan
dalous, her taxes the most exorbitant, her
expenditures the most extravagant and
wasteful, the increaso of her debt the most
stupendous in proportion to her resources,
and the depreciation in the value of prop
erty the most alarming of any oven of the
carpet-bag States. The people have been
compelled to pay six or eight times as much
annually for bad government and for in
tolerable oppression and swindling as they
paid for good government previous
to the war. The restoration of local
self-control foretokens striot economy, low
taxes, business confidence and an immedi
ate and decided enhancement of tho valuo
of proporty. The withdrawal of tho federal
troopB is an auspicious event for which tho
whole country Bhould thank President Hayes
and congratulate Governor Hampton and his
fellow citizens.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain acts wisely in
making no further resistance. Wo are sorry
that his addross announcing this intention
is not in better temper ; but some allowanco
most be made for his disappointment and
chagrin. A suitor in court who loses his
caso must be pardoned if ho "goes to the
tavern and swears," since it is his only re
source for relieving his excited feelings. In
tho course of a month Governor Chamber
lain, who is really a man of sense aud ability,
will probably recover his equanimity. He
will then perceive how wildly illogical are
the denunciatory parts of his impetuous ad
dross. The facts he states, allowing them
to bo facts, demonstrate how utterly un
worthy his supplanted State government
ever was of respect or support. By his own
confession it disgracefully failed, even with
federal troops to reinforce it, to discharge
tho first and chief duty of a government?
the preservation of order and protection
of citizens against violence. Here is what
he says to his supporters in taking leave of
them:?"From authentio evidence it is
shown that no less than one hundred of
your number were murdered because they
were faithlrfl to their principles and exor
cised rights solemnly guaranteed to them
by tho nation. You were denied employ
ment, driven from your homes, robbed of
the earnings of years of honest industry,
hunted for your lives like wild beasts, and
your families outraged and scattered, for no
offence except your peaceful and firm de
termination to exercise your political
rightB."
Beit observed, this is Governor Chamber
lain's own description of what took place
inder his government It was a govern
acnt that did not govern ; even with federal
roops to back it it was powerless to pre
ervo order, powerless to repress violence,
,rotect life or punish crime ; and a govorn
nent of which this is a true picture, painted
,y a friendly hand, passes an irreversible
jentenco of condemnation upon itself. And
when it is added that this condition of
inarchy and violence, this government
which did not govern, ate up the substance
af tho people by exorbitant, ruinous taxes,
nnd was a hotbed of recking corruption,
Mr. Chamberlain's protest seems absurd to
the degree of being an insult to tho common
sense and moral feeling of tho country,
'hero is every reason to expect that this
Lnoru i? * ? , ..
lideous picture will be reversed under the
vise, just, enlightened administration of
Jovcrnor Hampton.
Mis* Dickinson and Ilor Critics.
The strange spectacle of an actress criti
jising her critics was presented at the
Ea^lo Theatre on Monday night, when Miss
\nna Dickinson replied to tho censoni of
the New York press. While slio complained
of their cruelty she was herself more merci
less than the worst of them, and wo con
sider that in fiery and eloquent denuncia
tion tho lady has the advantage. She com
plains that she has been unjustly treated,
and to prove it she attempts tho task of
stepping outside of herself and judging
the critics and Anna Dickinson as an un
prejudiced observer. This is impossible.
The command of the Grecian philosopher,
"Know thysolf," has never been obeyed,
aud to appreciate tho truth of un
pleasing criticism is as difficult
is noteworthy that artists never com
plain of praiso when it is unjustly
bestowed, but invariably resent censure.
Miss Dickinson supplied an example when
she quoted, with evident delight, Mr.
Henry Wattorson's opinion that "A Crown
?f Thorns" was the greatest historical play
of the century, which is quite as unjust as
10 LtDiuijf ? ,
16 opinion that it is tho smallest. It is,
\lQ OIHH*'-'" ?.????
hereforo, natural that in her capacity aa
upreme jmlgo she should decide that the
ritics arc all wrong, that the play and the
layer are all right, and should repeat her
rerdict 011 the first night she appeared in
Boston?"Thin is success." lo make ho
1>nbuc agree with this verdict is another
nutter. l'eoplo do not pay
nutter. icopiu ?? i -
heutres for tho purpose of magnanimous y
vcrlooking defects because of other
tier its, and Miss Dickinsons illustrious
arecr as a lecturess does "Otatone for her
loficioncios as an actress. W hen a y
?an.e.?blgh ?rtu>tio f?"iti0n'n"?L?u'
,l,c most expect to bo coldly sod crttloo.ly
considered, nnd the true critic must be as
calm as the anatomist who nses his dissect
ing knife. It is not only what the artist is,
bnt what ho claims he is, that must be con
sidered. Probably Miss Dickinson expects
by this appeal to the public to increase her
audiences, and we do not object to this
kind of criticism occasionally, but we sug
gest that it would be quite as well to hire a
few discharged critics who are capable of
writing letters on both sides of the subject
Still a better way would bo to act, not argue,
and let the work speak for itself. But as
this conrso is not likely to bo adopted we
suggest in all kindness to Miss Dickinson,
and without prejudice against the critics of
the "Hub," that she shall produce her next
now masterpiece in New York, and by pur
chasing the leading journals crush the con
spiracy of critics, and thus obtain all the
praise she desires, but which, under the
present system, it is unlikely she will get.
Her appeal for sympathy on the ground that
sho is a small, weak, sick, miserable,
crushed and heartbroken woman, will not
bo unheeded, and we hope that the public
will tako her advioe not to trust to news
paper estimates, but to go to the theatre and
judge for itself.
A Just Decision.
Judge Davis rendered a deoision yester
day which seems to be so sound and just,
and covers a matter so frequently in litiga
tion, that it is surprising it has not been
reached before. In contested will cases it
has been the practice of the Surrogate to
make an award out of the funds of the estate
to the counsel of the contestants where
they have been unsuccessful in their oppo
sition to the probate. Judge Davis decides
that the Surrogate has no power or right to
make any such award ; that when a contest
ant fails to break a will the rosult shows
that the property belongs to others, and not
to him, and no person has a right to take
one man's money out of his pocket to pay
another man's legal expenses. This is the
substance of the docision, and it appears to
be a wise judgment. The practice of paying
the legal expenses of contestants out of an
estate is calculated to lead to illegitimate
litigation and even to conspiracies to con
test wills, especially where large estates are
involved. Judge Davis' decision is likely
to do a great deal of good.
The Garbage <J,ueatlon Solved at
I.ast.
Having awaited with becoming modesty
tko action of the Boards of Health and
Polico regarding the filth in the streets, and
having waited so long that patience has
ceased to be a virtue, we would ourselves
suggest a plan by which this most impor
tant problem may at onco bo solved. Let a
number of hurdles be prepared by which
any street can be closod at any portion of its
length; let a certain number of streets be
daily fenced off in short sections, and then
let the city advertise itself as a great hog
fattening corporation. The modest and ac
commodating naturo of tho porcine palate is
well known. All is grist that comes to tho
pig's digestive mill, while the adequacy
of the swine's snout to any amount
of investigation of tho soil is uni
versally admitted. Put pigs into theso
street pons, and all garbage would speedily
bo transformed into primo pork, while tho
residue would bo a fertilizer of established
commercial value. At first thought it would
seem that peoplo might object to having
manuro factories in front of their doors, but
this is a mistake; they would, at least, know
tho namo and naturo of what is before
them, and that would bo a degree of knowl
edge about tho contents of our streets after
which tho wisest of observers have groped
with only indifferent success. It may bo
urged- in objection that such a system
would prevent many streets from being
thoroughfares; but tho truth is that many of
them are ulrcady in this condition and
without any friendly fence to warn
the traveller against risking his lifo in
them either. It may also bo urged
that tho porkers' vocal notes would prove
unwelcome to refined ears; but it should be
remembered thut many New Yorkers aro
pious, and would prefer any sound to that
of tho swearing of tho truck driver or milk
man whoso way is blocked by tho hills and
valleys of our city streets. Should tho sup
ply of offal run short we might send tho in
active scows of the Streot denning Bureau
after the garbage of Boston and Philadel
phia, though the pnltry filth of another city
or two could not mako any considerable ad
dition to our homo supply. As for our citi
zens, they would never object to onr strcots
becoming the dumping ground of tho
nation; they have been trained to endnro
any quantity of garbage. It seems, how
ever, that our prosent accumulation is suffi
cient to feed all tho hogs of all tho world for
at least a century to come.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Miss Kellogg will summer la Connecticut.
Ucneral 1'opo lias dined with the l'resldont.
Hayes baa a good memory for names and faces.
The englishman naturally hates a money lender.
Senator Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, is at tho Fifth
Avenuo.
If Anno Dickinson would only writ* a play with a
lecture in It I
In Bonaparto'a time there were 10,000 marrtcd
priests in Prance.
"Humpty Dnmpty" Fox Is Improved In health, and
Is visiting his sister nl Cambridge, Minis.
Captain Wllllum (lore Jones, ntvul altachii of tbo
British Legation at Washington, is at llio Clarendon.
Tlio Chicago Timr? now uses nnnumallo tubes
throughout Its building, thus saving much lime at lute
hours.
Opium eating and amok log have boenmo so general
that llu-y can uo longer bo called exclusively Chinese
habits.
Coventor Ilartranft, of Pennsylvania, accompanied
bv Frame Boeder, oi Euston. Pa., arrived in Washing
ton last evening.
'I lie (loriiians mid Scandinavians ol the West, we ore
Informed, are, as a rule, lighting the political aspira
tions of the Irish.
Tlio Marquis and Marquise do Bnssano, of France,
arrived at tlio I'.rovnort yoslcrday Irot t Montreal, anil
will sail lor England to-duy in the steamship Bussin.
It ts understood that Mr. lillly llircli. not hoing sat
isfied with the criticisms of I he press, will take mi early
occasion to denounce tlio critics Iroin tlio stugo of the
Bun Francisco Miustrcls.
The I'all Mill (iiurltr says that the Chinaman Is dan
gerous to America, not because he Is culled n bar
barian, but bocauso lie belongs to a civilisation which
precludes htm (rem assimilating with ours.
Wkkkj.y Hekai.d:?"Scour light paint with a soft,
flat nrush; wash of! with old llinnel dipped in eold
water, and wipe dry quickly wltli u linen cloth, that the
water may not dry and atreak the paint. To waah the
windows put a tablespoonlul of alcohol and ammonia
In equal parts to a quart ol 4 a tar."
m
From All Parts of the
World.
A CRISIS IN EUROPE.
Russia Demands Turkey's Answer
Within Two Days.
WILL THE CZAR MAKE WAR?
Tnrkey Rejects the Montenegrin Demands
Wrecking nn Empire Rather Than
Cede a Seaport.
BISMARCK OUT FOREVER.
[BT cable to the hebald.1
Londos, April 11, 1877.
If tbo news of this morning which reaches as from
Ihe Bosphorua and the Neva be irue, thero Is an end
of doubt. England will be pushed aside; all her
good intentions nnd most or the astute lgna
tlon-s promises will bo forgotten together. Tur
key has trifled too long. The hour lor Russia
has como. A vast future, flllod wlih all
sorts ol grand possibilities, looms up before her.
Nows unfavorable to peace flows Into St Petersburg
from all dlrectlous. A war manifesto Is expected to
be promulgated there on Friday. This Is the most
sorlous crisis that has yot come. England's media,
tlon tailed, the conreronco was unsuccessful and now the
protocol proves worthless. Russia has not men enough
lo take Constantinople, but she can proceed at once
with her conquests in Asia Minor nnd the annexation
ol tbo northern Turkish provinces. England has al
roady declared that she will not interfere unless Con
stantinople is directly monaced. This Russia need
not do at present. Wallachia. Roumania and Bulgaria,
on the one band, and Armenia, on tho other, will
satisfy her for tho prosont. Sho can afford^ to wait.
Tho Timet, In Its leading editorial, reviewing the sit
nation, says:-?'A circular has been issued by the
Porte giving an unfavorable reply to the protocol
and the derosnd lor disarmament. Evon though
the refusal may not be so absolute as M
preclude further negotiation or dissipate every hope
that the determination may be roconsidcreJ, it Is
impossible to look upon It except as a very grave
ovent. Only tho most urgent representations ol th?
powers at St. Petersburg and Constantinople can now
prevent n collision.'
CIIASUB OF YJZIKR RKPORTKD.
The Berlin correspondent of tho Standard says so
cording to private intelligence Irom Constantinople
a change lu the vizieruto ts expected
Acbmcd Vcflx Effendl la to succeed Kdhem FachA
The loiter ts said lo bo Inclined to comply with thw
protocol.
tnx ULTIMATUM.
Tho Russian representative in Constantinople ba.
Informed Satvot Pacha Ibat Russia desires to ?co,?
tno Porto's reply about the protocol *>etore lh?
13th IdsL This Is reaffirmed in the most post
a general feeling thai what is meant I.
that the Porte must give Its decision In regard to send
ng an extraordinary ambasa.dor to St
In whichever way It Is viewed tho crisis is a most
critical one. The Agence Untie says everything do
ponds upon the decisions which an ambassador from
Turkey would bring; bat In any case Russia, having
Iom To the inmost limit In tho path of concession,
wtU not go a singlo step lurther. Tho SL Petersburg
IVmrte Gazette declares thai war is Inevitable. The
situation is such that rotrcat Is Impossible for either
turkity throws all nor* awat.
The Turkish Chamber of Deputies ha. "***
the demands of tho Montenegrins by a vote ol 64 to 18.
Twenty-two members were absent, howevor. The I
wtewa will be ascertained before a flnal dce.s.on I.
made In regard to Montenegro. Tb.Chargd.d Aflatre.
have received tbo Porto', doc.alon respecting thw
. moos not dlirer from tho ctr
cuur which the Porto yesterday tolographod to
Turkish representatives abroad. ?
nonnced therein were not announced to lh. Chargd.
d'AlTalrcs in Constantinople until last night
cular lays stress on the Porte's doslro for peace and
determination to execute reforms. It does not reject
tho protocol absolutely, but only those points which
admit ol foreign Interlerenco in Turkey ?' ,nter??*
affairs. It repels the declaration appondod to the
protocol by Count Schouvnloff, and says the Porto w 11
otdj^consent 1? ?en<1 ^
disarm 11 Russia is disposed to disarm at the same
time It asks tho Powers to induce Montenegro to
show a more conciliatory attltndo. Peace or war now
depends upon Russia', recoptlon ol the Turkish cm
cular. Thero Is some question ol prolonging the arm.
istlco botweon Turkey and Montenegro alter April 11
Tuo Porlo will coweull tho Chamber ol Deputle. lo-daj
about Montenegro, and give the Montenegrin, a fln?l
answer to-morrow, l'ho Political Correspondence,
of Vienna, claims to have intolllgcnco Irom (M. 1 olcr*
burg that the Porto has rejected tne protocol and the
Montenegrins' demands, but will send an envoy to 8W
Petersburg.
THIS PROTOCOL 15 THK WAT OP PRACS.
To a certain extent tbe Russian dcclarat.on which
was devised to prevent a collision and remove dlfflcul.
tl08 has become an obstacle lu tbe way of a settle
menu Although not officially Informed regarding
tbe negotiations In London, the Porte seemed
before band to anticipate the general tenor
of ,bo protocol. It was immediately perceived
at Constantinople that the main quoatlon at
issue lor Turkey was tbo principle whether she should
bo a party to a transaction virtually abrogating the
treaty ol Paris or by protesting place herself in oppo
sition to the guarantying powers But .he stipule
"ions of tho treaty ol Paris could only have real value
l0 Turkey so long a. ?h?y were respected and
recognized by the powers who signed the
treaty. Thcrofore, boforo seeing tbe pro
tocol the Turks bad reconciled thomselvoi
to it's acceptance. Although some are convinced thai
sooner or later a collision with Russia is Inevitable,
and that It will be some limn bet-re Turkey will bo m
well prepared as row, those al the bead of affairs il
Tuikey shrink from iho roaponsibility ot a slc|
whlrh might bring the country to ruin, anl
they And support In tho Sultan, who yioldi
nothing to the Cxar in hi. desire lor peace. In lacs
previous to the communication of tho Russian declara
tion tho best disposition prevailed al Constantinople,
and had It not been for Una declaration pot-Mbly at!
might have been arranged by this limo. Rightly or
wrongly, It I* looked upon as nn insult. Turkoy by
now sending nn envoy lo SL Petersburg would accept
the part of an Intorlor, not an equal. In tho prosont
state ol the population iho Sultan and his Mlntaiers
cannot accept such n position.
Tim ISHCK LV PA It LI A MINT.
In Iho llouso of Commons on Monday Iho Msrquls
of Darlington guvo notice that ho will on Friday movs
for further papers on Turkey, and particularly tin
ilrnll of tho protocol which Count Schouvnloff pro
pented to Lord Dorby on March 11; also lor nnj
correspondence In relerenco to Ihe Russian
circular of January 19 and Iho protocol
ol March 11. It Is gonornlly believed that this Is In
tended to tiling on n debate on Eastern affairs wulioul
challenging the government, nnd to prevent individual
members ol the opposition Introducing resolutions
diroctcd against the ministerial policy. It seems tbo
enders of Iho opposlbon aro unablo to agrco upon a