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NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR.
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VOLl'MP. XLII NO. 103
AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT.
BOOTH'S THEATRE?OTiin.LO.
NIBLO'S GARDEN?Aptont a>d CLEorATBA.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC-Do.t Carlos.
EAGLE THEATRE?C now a or Tuokms.
GRAND OPERA HOUBB-Mia* Mpltor.
BOWERY THEATRE?TicKKTor~L?ATa Mar;
PARK THBATHB?Our Boarding I lot..sr..
WALLACE'S TilEATRK?Mr AwrtJL Dao.
OLYMPIC THEATRE?Pantomime.
GERMaNIA THEATRE?AnRiKXRK LKCorraacR.
UKION SQUARE THEATKE?Tim DAKicutcrra.
IlKLLER'S THEATRE?Pit kstidigitation.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE?Tnx Primes* IIOTAU
TOMT PASTOR'S THEATKK-VARiRTr.
NEW AMERICAN Ml'SKUJf- Otiuoamis.
n\'OLI THEATRE?VakTkttT
BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS.
Egyptian hall?Vanis-Tr ~
NEW YORK AQUARIUM.
PAKIRIAN VARIETIES?VAttlKtr.
COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE-Variwt.
THEATRE COMIQUE?VARiKTr."
BILMOBE'S GARDEN?-Museum and Cifoub.
TRIPLE SHEET.
K1W l'UHK, 1-KIHAY. APRIL IL 1877!
NOTICE TO COUNTRY' DEALERS.
Th? Adam* Expresa Company run a >p?cial newspaper
train over the Ponnaylvanla Railroad anil it* cnuneetlona.
leaving Jaraajr City at a quarter uaat four A. M. daily and
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West a* Harnsbnrc and Sonth to Washinrtnn, reaching
Philadelphia at a quarter pait nix A. M. and Washington at
ene P. 11.
From our reports this morning the probabilities
are that the weather in New York to-day will Ite
tool and partly cloudy or cloudy, followed by
threatening indications, increasing northeasterly
winds, and possibly rain.
Wali. Street Yesterday.?-The excitement
in Wall street, although not bo great as on
Wednesday, still continues. The attempts mode
to wreck certain stocks havo luckily been frus
trated, and there was a much butter feeling ap
parent yesterday. Gold, on the receipt of the
news from Europe, rose to 106*8, but afterward
declined to 100, at which price it closed.
Government stocks were strong and railroad
bonds irregular. Money loaned at 4 a 0 per
cent on call, but later in the day dropped to 2
per cent on call.
There Is a Great Deal of Sound and
womanly sense in "A Plea for the Ministers,"
in our "Complaint Book."
Real Estate if not looking up is at least
changing hands. An unusual number of sales
and transfers were made yesterday.
The New Wiiiskkt War finds its cause in
the carelessness of tiic Legislature. legislators
have always been rather .dangerous to whiskey.
Public Interest in the Nichols divorce case
is waning, the reason being that no more
peculiar revelations arc expected. There is sel
dom more than one attraction in divorce cases,
and that one is not creditable to spectators.
The Bert Guarantee of Peace among the
Sioux who deserted from Spotted Tail a few
days ago is tho loss of their ponies. Penitence is
as impossible to an Indian with a horse as to a
drunkard with a bottle of rttm or a legislator
when a horse ear lobby infests the Capitol stejw.
The Project of a mutual health insurance
association, which was explained before the
Public liculth Association last night, is too good
to be lost sight of. Co-operation by neighbor
hoods in the manner suggested would prevent a
great deal of sufi'cring of body, mind and pocket.
"Recollections" of distinguished individu
als usually meet with general welcome, but
in tho case of William M. Tweed this rule
bos some notable exceptions. It is even likely
that some men will put wido oceans between
themselves and New York in order to be absent
on the day of publication.
The City of New York is attempting to
break the lease of tho ferries controlled by the
Union Ferry Company. If it succeeds of course
the fare at the busiest hours of tho day will
again be two conts, instead of one?that is, tho
people, not the company, will pay the larger
sum demanded by the city.
-It Is Reported that fifteen thousand dol
lars reward is to be offered for the de
tection of the originator of some damaging
rumors circulated at tho Stock Excliangu
several days ago. If all Wail stroct lies
?re to bring the same price the whole street
will soon he bankrupt, for there is not enough
money in it to cover them.
Stage Coaching receive commendation from
?n unexpected source; the Afrdirul /Was, uti
English journal of repute, pronnuueeii travel
in unclosed vehicles a rare restorer of jaded
minds and bodies. This is not the first time in
which the medical faculty has diseove.red that
what is called "sport" is generally a form of
?bedienoe to right physical promptings.
Tin Weathkr.?The depression in th South
west has, as we predicted, developed into a
heavy rain storm. The precipitation extends
from the flulf to the Lower Missouri Valley, but
la heaviest on the ooast. The fall at New
Orleans has lieen 1.68 inches; Vicksburg, 1.77:
Shreveport, 1.(111, and at Galveston nearly 'J
Inches during sixteen hours Heavy winds
prevail from Indianola to Mobile, and the indi
cations an- of an unusually severe disturbance.
The trm|>erafure bus fallen iu the South, owing
to the iiwtraugbt winds in that direetion from the
high pressure to the northward. The storm which
passed off the Carolina coast in now moving cast
ward from Newfoundland and is extremely
iovere. Ruins and snow prevail in Nova Scotia
and south west ward along the coast to Huston.
Clear weather and northerly winds arc reported
from all points between Hoston and Charleston,
and west of the Alleghiupcs and northward of
Tennessee to the Mississippi Valley a general
ftll of temperature has taken place. The south
ern storm will probably move northcivsl ward
toward the Carolina coast, w ith dangerous winds
aad heavy rains. 'Die Lower Mississippi and the
Bed River will continue to rise with dangerous
rapidity. In New York to-day it will be cool
ugl parti v cloud.v or cloudy, followed by threat
oahig weather, increasing northeasterly winds,
Blaine's Ktw Demonstration?Presi
dent Hayes anil Louisiana.
Senator Blaine's terse, vigorous letter,
printed yesterday in all the ucwspupers of
the country, is a strong expression of dis
sent from the Southern policy of the Presi
dent. He declares his "profoundest sym
pathy" in Chamberlain's "heroio struggle"
in South Carolina "for civil liberty and con
'stitntional government." This condemns
President Hayes without naming him.
Against whom did Mr. Chamberlain
maintain his "heroio struggle" for
civil liberty and constitutional govern
ment? Why, against the President. Mr.
Blaine's warm eulogy of Chamberlain car
ries, therefore, a strong implied censure of
President Hayes. Senator Blaine espouses
tho cause of Packard with equal emphasis.
"I am sure," he says, in his strenuous way,
"that Governor Packard feels that my heart
and judgment are both with him in the con
tost he is still waging against great odds for
the Governorship that he holds by a title as
valid as that which seated Rutherford B.
Hayes in tho Presidential chair." It is the
evident purpose of this declaration to abet
and encourage Packard in resisting the pol
icy of the President. It foreshadows the at
titude of Mr. Blaine in the approaching
extra session and his intention to lead the
republican opposition to tho Southern policy
of the administration.
In tho fiery, aggressive speech delivered
by Mr. Blaine in the Senate, on the <>tb of
March, ho affected to disbelieve and as
sumed to deny that tho President enter
tained the policy which had been attributed
to him, and proceeded to comment on it in
a strain of mingled scorn and defiance.
He thrust his keenest weapons of invective
into tho sides of the President under the
pretence of assailing a false and dishonor
ing rumor that had been circulated "here
and there in tho oorridors of the Capitol,
around and about in by places and high
places, that some arrangement had been made
by which Packard was not to bo recognized
and supported." Mr. Blaine scouted tho pos
sibility that the President would fail to stand
by Packard. "I deny it!" he impetuously
exclaimed. "I deny it without being author
ized to speak for the administration that
now existB ; but I deny it on tho simple
broad ground that it is an impossibility that
tho administration of President Hayes
could do it. I deny it on tho broad ground
that President Hayes possesses character,
common sense, self-respect, patriotism, all
of which he has in high measure and in
eminent degree. I deny it on all the grounds
that can infiuence human action ; on all the
grounds on which men can be held to per
sonal and political and official responsibil
ity. I deny it for him, and I shall find my
self grievously disappointed, wounded and
humiliated if my denial is not vindicated in
the policy of the administration. But
whether it bo vindicated or whether it be
not, I care not. It is not the duty of a Sen
ator to inquire what the policy of an admin
istration may be, but what it ought to be,
and 1 hope a republican Senate will say that
on this point there Bhall be no authority in
this land large enough or adventurous
enough to compromise tho honor of the
national administration, or tho good name
of tho great republican party that called that
administration into existence."
It was thought that Mr. Blaine softened
toward the President within a week or two
after making that bold speech, but his letter
shows that ho stands by his guns. He has
evidently made up his mind to give the
Southern policy of the administration an
overhauling in his most pungent style at
the extra session. If his assault should call
out Senator Conkling in reply there will be
an exhibition of argument, eloquence and
sarcasm the like of which has not been
witnessed in our time. Both Conkling
and Blaine have grown immensely in
intellectual stature since their mem
orable thrusts and counter-thrusts in tlio
House of Representatives which severed
all intercourse between them many years
ago. They are now to meet in a new arena,
with a great increase of reputation and in
fluence on both sides ; and if they come into
conflict on the Southern policy of the Presi
dent there will be a battle of giants. Both
have great resources and a great command
of them ; but we believe that the victory of
Mr. Conkling will be as signal and resplen
dent as was that of Webster over Hayne.
Mr. Blaine, who treated the republican
nominee for President as a nobody in the
canvass, and conducted it in a manner which
not merely ignored, but repudiated his
letter of acceptance, is chagrined at finding
that Mr. Hayes holds himself sacredly
bound by the pledges which Mr. Blaine did
not regard as rising even to the level of
passable electioneering claptrap. Mr. Hayes
does not turn out to be the plastic figure
head, the mere man of putty, which Mr.
Blaine thought him to bo when he impressed
his own strong personality on the can
vass and supplanted the letter of acceptance
with the bloody shirt. Senator Blaine can
not complain that Mr. Haves has deceived
his party or been lalse to it; Mr. Blaine de
ceived himself by underrating his success
ful competitor for the republican nomina
tion.
Even if Mr. Hayes wore bound by no
pledges his policy would be equally wise
and necessary. Ilnd General Grant re
mained in office wc know from his own lips
that he wonld have felt constrained to adopt
a similar conrso. Even if Mr. Blaine
ha<l been elected bo would huve been
compelled by the irresistible logic
of r vents to disconfinne the military
interference. lie might have started
with the old policy, hut he wonld have been
compelled to ubnndon it within a few
mouths by lack of troops to carry it out.
The decisive element in this controversy is
the fact that the House ot Representatives is
democratic and will inflexibly refuse to
pass the Army Appropriation bill so long as
there is any doubt of the withdrawal of the
troops. What would Mr. Blaine ban the
.President do? Ought lie to stultify himself
by making promises to Packard which every
intelligent man knows he wonld have no
power to fulfil? Certain it is that the demo
cratic House will not give the President an
army to be used in the interest of Packard,
Packard rests his case on the impetuous
and mischiovous argument of Blaine at the
recent session of the Scnal-, the substanco
of which is that Packard's title as Governor
rests on precisely the same foundation as
that of Mr. Hayes as President This argu
ment confuses a question of right with a
question of jurisdiction. Who had authority
to determine the election of either Hayes or
Packard? Not Mr. Hayes, most assuredly.
The competent authority to decide the
Presidential election was Congress. Con
gress did decide it, and there is no
legal appeal from its judgment. The
competent authority for deciding who.
was elected Governor of Louisiana is
pointed out by the constitution and laws
of that Htate. President Hayes has no more
to do with it than he has with the question
who is Governor of any other of the thirty
eight States. He is the legal President be
cause Congress declared him elected, there
being no other power competent to make
the decision. He cannot even review his
own title, the constitution giving him no
jurisdiction of the question. The constitu
tion gives him just as little jurisdiction to
decide local questions arising under the
laws of Louisiana. The conclusive answer
to liluine's argument is that Mr. Hayes' own
title and the title of Packard are alike be
yond the provinco of tho President to de
cide. Every question must bo decided by
the authority having jurisdiction, and it is
the plain duty of tho President not to inter
meddle where he haB no legal power.
Thti (iovrrnmrnt OdlcUli In CUh.
The United States Marshal and the Dis
trict Attorney of Utah are in groat trouble
at present. They are charged with the
serious offence of obtaining a confession
from the unfortunate Mormon wretch Lee
under a false promise of protection and par
don, and with suppressing statements m
that confession not favorable to the head of
the Mormon Church. They, however, de
clare in refutation of the charge that it is
"a job 'put up' by the Mormons and a
shyster in their interest." They charac
terize the chief complainant, Gilman,
as a liar and unworthy of belief. They
insist that they suppressed no part
of the confession, nor did they sell or
speculate in it. It is also claimed that the
whole thing is done to procure their removal
in favor of certain hungry politicians who
desire their places. Well, wo do not want
to be too hard on these officials ; but it is
worthy of remark that before Oilman was
heard of tho conduct of District Attorney
Howard and Marshal Nelson was such as to
lead us to suspect that something improper
was going on. At the time of the execution
of Lee wo pointed out tho suspicious con
duct of these gentlemen and called the
attention of tho Department of Justice to it,
asking, Did it approve of its subordinate
officers speculating in blood money?
It may be that certain lawyers, ambitious
for the official shoes of Howard and Nelson,
have taken advantago of the suspicions
aroused by oar comments to aid their own
little schemes. Bat it will require some
thing more than a mere naked denial un
sworn to by these officers to convince the
public hereabouts that there is nothing in
the very circumstantial charges of Gil
man bat lies and perversions. Gilman
swears to his statement. Howard and
Nelson content themselves with a card
to tho newspapers. Gilman may be a
very bad man, but let us not take as con
clusive evidence of his ill-repute the unsup
ported statements of those whom he accuses
of grave offences. Should it turn out that
injustice bus been done to the District
Attorney and the United States Marshal of
Utah the Hebadd will cheerfully publish
their defence. But in tho meantime it will
not accept their own defence as final ;
neither will it be satisfied with what may
prove n farcical official investigation. Tho
Herald is making its own inquiries and will
give the result when reached.
How the Reform Charter Stands.
The bill to secure bettor public adminis
tration in the local government of New
York was ordered to a third reading in the
Senate yesterday, after the adoption of a
few desirable amendments and the defeat
of numerous others offered by the Tammany
Senators for the purpose of embarrussing
and jeopardizing the measure. The Board
of Sinking Band Commissioners was made
to consist of the Mayor, the Comptroller,
the Commissioner of Public Works und two
citizens to be appointed by the Mayor, with
the approval of the iiecorder and City
Judge. A clause was inserted prohibiting
the appointment of any city employ^ as
referee or receiver; which meets and
removes a very flagrant abase. The
Board of Aldermen was empowered to
elect a president of that body for an un
expired term in case of a vacancy in that
office. Tho provision for the addition
of two citizens to tho Board of Estimate
and Apportionment was stricken out.
Among tho amendments proposed and
defeated was one which sought to strike
out the provision for the election of a
Comptroller in the spring ob ction, so as to
keep the present Comptroller in office. Mr.
Morrissey met the nmendment with the
argument that if the people desired to
retain Comptroller Kelly they would elect
him, and with tho party machinery wholly
in his hands he could of courso insure his
own nomination.
If the bill as amended passes the Senate,
of which there is little doubt, it will be
returned to the House frtr concurrence in
tho amendments. Should tho Assembly
concur it will need only the Governor's
signature to make it a law. We believe that
it will give us a much safer, more < ffieicnt
and more economical city government than
wo now haVe. The constitutional amend
ments relating to municipal governments
cannot at the beat go into operation
for two years, or until tho spring
of 1870, and there can be no good reason
why we should not improve the administra
tion of our local government and protect
the taxpayers in the interim. But the pres
ent bili will bring our municipal system
nearer than it now is to that proposed by
the constitutional amendments r com
mended by the municipal commission, and
hence will serve as a stepping stone, as It
were, to the more complete and permanent
plan, ft is to be hoped, therefore, that tho
Senate amendments will be concurred in
by the House, and that the bill will be suf
fered to becoino a low.
Prince Bismarck at Heme and "on
Lesre."
The charming story told in oor Paris
despatch giving some details of the pro
fessional meetings of an American painter
with the great architect of the German Em
pire, Prince Bismarck, will be found of pecu
liar interest at this moment when the builder
in "blood and iron" has shaken, for a time
at least, the dust of office irom his feet.
The confidences of the busy moments before
the easel or the plastio clay ore among the
rare privileges of the artist, and in giving
us such glimpses of the home life of the
great statesman as he could not put on the
canvas Mr. Hcaly has confined himself to
such only as would not be improper in an
honored guest. By the li^ht of the
artist's story wo can see how heavy the
yoke was which Prince Bismarck bore;
how such a life of incessant toil was met
by the reserve force of a magniQccnt phy
sique, and what strong grounds tho wear
and tear of such watchful days and sleepless
nights would give to tho great Chuncel
lor's demand for a release whenever he
chose to lay his labors by. There is a pecu
liar fascination in reading of the home lifo
of great men ; for in a subtle way it comforts
mediocre humanity to find that the demigods
of thought and action have their feet in the
clay of social habits and their thoughts at
times in the domestic lines which common
mortals seldom associate with the idea of
greatness.
The sittings in the wing of the palace, with
the Prince as firm in his position of Chan
cellor of the German Empire as the lines of
the face on the canvas before him, forms for
the moment a startling contrast to the pic
ture of the Empire without Bismarck. Yet
to-day he is out of his place, out of harness,
away from the obligations of great duties and
the pride of great umbitions, on "leave of
absence" till August?a leave likely to prove
indefinite at last. Precisely what the phrase
leave of absence means in his caso is not
yet known. Until the time when we shall
become acquainted with the whole story, of
which the few facts known are the surface
indications, there will be room for doubt
whether Bismarck left or was put out. In
one sense, of course, he left. That is to say,
nobody exacted his offioe of him. But there
may have been in the highest quarters such
an abandonment of him, such a connivance
with his opponents, such a consent to poli
cies opposed to his, that self-defence and
self-assertion could assume no other form
than the surrender of his office. Men of his
nature do not brood morbidly over small
discontents. They do not magnify little in
dignities in a peevish spirit of personal
pique. Therefore they do not leave great
place until sure that the power which sus
tained them there is no longer in sympnthy
with their purposes, and then they do not
stay to be told that they are not wanted.
How will it bo with the Prussian precedency
and with the new German Empire without
this towering, dominant, capablo spirit?
Bismarck did not oreato the political condi
tion of Germany, becauso no man can bo
said to create that which iB a result of nat
ural causes ; but he is the only man known
to his generation who could have taken tho
advantage he did take of the facts that in
their coincidence rendered possible the or
ganization of a new German Empire and
gave Germany that pre-eminence in Enrope
which is the just consequence of the posses
sion of the greatest people and the greatest
opportunities. Withont this one man Ger
many would be now what she was twenty
years ago, and between the Germany
of ^twenty years ago and the Ger
many of to-day there is as much
difference as between Mexico and the
United States. But the world of common
place men, whether they be princes or ward
politicians, revolts against the notion that
any particular person is "indispensable,"
and this is felt in Germany as everywhere
else. Bismarck will not be indispensable,
because they will get on without him. But
for the judgment as to whether any man is
"indispensable" it is not only necessary to
know that they will get on, but how they
will get on. Emperors, kings and persons
of that order seem sometimes to take a pleas
ure in the slight they put upon genius
when they fill its place with a pigmy and
seem to say that one is as good as the other.
But the history of States that go successfully
through great crises when the genius
guides, and that fall into confusion and
decay and perish disastrously when rulers
have indulged their whim of governing by
means of drivellers and dolts, presents the
other part of that picture. Germany, in the
reconstruction of Europe under Bismarck,
lius gono through all the facts that stood in
the way liko a reaper through the ripe
corn ; but Germany, without Bismarck, with
the Eastern crisis imminent, the Church
trouble in abeyance only, and n formidable
issue of State rights in an explosive condi
tion, may find itself presently more like a
deer entangled in the impenetrable thicket.
Albany Li-slnlntM-.lew York Sutler*.
Wo do not want our legislators at Albany
to prescribe for our Street Cleaning Bureau
some now plan of how not to do it. Wo as
sure them that our oilioinls aro thoroughly
trained in the evasion of law, and that
any new measure tho Legislature
may propose will only complicate
matters still more, and perhaps re
sult in the street dirt being collected
and dumped in our parlors and bedrooms.
What we do want iH the strict enforcement
of existing laws, not the enactment of new
ones. Our worthy bnt spineless Mayor is
hopelessly at sea about the street cleaning
question. He says that ho can only prefer
churges against the Police Commissioners,
but that he does not think the Governor will
entertain them. lie confesses himself
entirely powerless to remedy tho evil.
Comptroller Kelly also declares that he is
powerless to prevent the squandering of tho
public money under the pretence of cleaning
the streets, because tho Police Department
I and its expenditures are placed beyond bis
I control by law. But the Comptroller tells
: us what might be done in the way of relief?
"One curt might come along and talc? away
the garbago, wlule another could take care
of tho ashos." This certainly is news!
Why did not Romebody think of tho Kelly
plan beforo ? How stupid wo all have
been! The fact i?, if wo could manago
somehow to stop legislation for New York at
Albany and then cart oft to the dnmps every
useless drone and intriguing knave who en
cumbers our city offices a practical step
would be taken toward the cleaning of Now
York city.
PrMMtloM Against Fire.
If great fires or small are frequently due
to simple causes it is also true that all such
conflagrations can be prevented by equally
simple precautions. We have only to ob
serve how fires generally originate in order
to take the proper measures for guarding
against them. Woodwork unprotected
enters too largely into the construc
tion of our public and private build
ings. It furnishes ready food for the
flames. Then woodwork should not be
used so much and should be guarded
bymasonryor some non-conductor of flame.
Wooden staircases become mere death traps
during fires. Prom their structure they
readily burn and carry the flames rapidly'
from the basement to the top of a build
ing. Then we must modify our stair
building and use iron more extensively.
Elevators and dumb waiters become fire
flues of the most dangerous kind.
They should be fitted with sliding or
folding horizontal door3 on each floor, so as
to cut off tho draught at the first alarm of
fire. Largo buildings, such as hotels,
shonld have coils of knotted rope long
enough to reach the gronnd ready nt
each window that dops not open on a regu
lar lire escape ladder. These can be used
very quickly by the inmates who are cut ofl
from any other moans of egress. All large
buildings, such as theatres, hotels,
factories and warehouses, where many
people assemble or ore engaged, should
bo divided into sections by fireproof
walls fitted with iron doors. 13y these
means the fire can bo confined to the
section in whioh it breaks out and the gen
eral danger lessened. No storage of inflam
mable materials should bo permitted in any
but vaulted basements with iron doors.
Matches that ignite by friction on ordinary
surfaces should not be used. Thus, looking
over tho long list of causes of fire, we find
that they suggest preventives, which, if we
only adopt them, will rednce the chances
of danger from the probable to tho possible.
Another Chance tor a Reprimand.
A month ago a youth named Poter Brou
ner, nineteen years of age, was arrested on
suspicion of being implicated in a burglary.
While in a cell of the Tenth precinct sta
tion house the prisoner was visited by a hu
mane, mild-mannered Christian police offi
cer named Devlin, who entered the coll and
strove to induce tho wicked young man to
confess the sinfulness of his ways. The
hardened youth proving obdurate the
gentle Devlin knocked out his eye with
the end of a stick or club. Brou
ncr has remained in the hospitnl from
the date of the occurrence until last
Tuesday, when he was taken to court and
admitted to bail on the chargo preferred
against him. He has lost tho sight of his eye
forever. On Wednesday Officer Devlin had
an interview with tho Police Commissioners
to explain his peculiar reformatory process.
The prisoner swore that tho officer struok him
with the stick or club, and tho officer swore
that ho did not. As tho young man's eyo is not
in its socket, and as he has lain in tho hos
pital for a month suffering from the prooess
of having had it knockod out, tho weight of
corroborating testimony seems somewhat
against the officer's statement. But then we
have no doubt the latter can furnish any re
quired amount of evidence as to tho excel
lence of his character and the gentleness of
his disposition, so that a reprimand from
Baldy Smith will fully meet the exigencies
of the case.
Doubts In Europe,
"Diplomacy lias not yet Baid its last
word." This is tho judgment of the Lon
don Times on the doubtful condition of
pence in Europe. It is possible that tho
Times is right, and that negotiation may yet
drag its tedious length through a lew addi
tional days, and supply a few more Inst
words; for the roads from tho Prnth are per
haps not yet in precisely the most desirable
condition. But tho result will be the snmo,
whether it comes tomorrow or next month,
and the possibility oi averting war is not
apparent An effort is made in England
quite naturally to put upon an act of ltus
sia the responsibility of being at last the di
rect cnuso of tho wnr. It is said that Russia
has been too hasty, and lias unjustifiably
used the protocol a. tho basis of an ulti
matum, and demanded peremptorily an im
mediate answer. But Turkey has not ob
jected to answering on one day rather than
another, and has objected speciAcally to
England's part of tho protocol nnd docu
ments. That, therefore, does not leave tho
responsibility on Russia.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
The F.uetieh aro disposed to relinquish tho use of
scarlet for tho field.
Hear Admiral George K. Emmons, United States
Navy, Is at the Ml. J nines.
The Jolly little crocus i? peeping out Into tho chill,
with Its colors of vtoloi nn<l yellow nnd white.
The Secretory of the Navy is expected to return to
Washington on Saturday from Torre Haute, Ind., with
his lamlly.
A Scotch troy says that tho onlv way that Noah know
that there was going to he a dood was by const) I ting
his almanac. ,
.Siilni-SaAna Is very near sighted, and whon ho gets
seated at a piano nothing In tho way of a hint can
tjrlve him trom it.
Chicago Times .????'Evidently this man Hayes has no
friends. A month In the White House and no one has
sent him even a bull pup "
The curlew boll has been restored to Stratford; but
In tins country a man can't sleep late <>& Friday morn
ings because of tho fish horn.
I'nllridelphla Bulletin ?"Tho manufacturers of (he
Jewshurp are beginning to get frightened at (be success
of the telephone. It will drive their musical instru
ment out of the market altogether, tney say."
A scientist says that oysters have dlgesttou. Yet it
niuy bo ssked whether a hlgh-tonod nnd church-going
Shrewsbury bus ever been known lo scold his wild
her huso she didn't put enough liquor Into tho stew.
Hon. Charles F. 1 ounut, exAs-oslnut Secretary of
the Treasury, nnd Mr. John Higelow, who Is in be his
aasistanl In Condon In the transaction of tho govern
ment's business with tho Syndicate, left Washington
lust night for this city, m rntilf for Knglnnd.
The Turks do not make good dragoons, hut In light
cavalry they are well equipped; and Colonel Valen
tine fl iker, who was disgraced from the F.ngllsh army
lo' brutally fooling with a girl In a railway car, is or
ganizing a corps of cavalry In the Torknb army which
msy mako some of the Hussions sick.
From All Parts of the
World.
FLASHES FROM THE STORM,
Russia and Turkey at Last Arrayed
for the Great Struggle.
EUROPE AWAITS THE CRASTL
Idle Talk of Another Appeal to
Diplomacy.
SUICIDE OF AN AMERICAN STUDENT.
[bt cable TO THE HZ1ULD.1
LONDON", April 13, 1877.
Delusive arc the hopes ol peace. However well
one groat metropolitan Journal may assume an,
attitude ol calmness, its expressions are not from
the heart ot the man who wrote Its "leader."
Whether Europe is to have a gigantic war inaugu
rated within Its borders in a week, or whether
this calamity may be again briefly delayed
matters very little. A lew weeks or months
iu tho history of a Europeau nation writh
ing under tho galling goad of reveng#
are to be borne with a show of patience if the final
meeting Is certain. And Kate now decrees that
war must come. Diplomacy may Intervene, may
check the flood, but every moment that the torrent
Is held buck it gathers within It more elements of
dire destruction wheu the final moment comes.
Like the monk hurled by Quasimodo from tbo
tower or Notre Dame, the" Powers of Western En.
rope cling to diplomacy In grim terror, knowing full
well that they must eventually let go and fall?some
shudder to think where. New maps will have to be
made alter such a war. Old allies will sunder their
bonds to seek new coadjutors. Ministries will go
by the board, old statesmen will be crowded aside
by younger incn. Anarchy will succeed the teroper
atf rulcrship of past years la one nation, and
peace will bo lound by poor crushed provinces that
have never known a day of quiet. The results will
be of world-wide reucli. Therefore It is not sur
prising that Europe world stands aghast.
WHY IIAS TUltKKY KF.KCSKD?
The proposal made by Russia to the Powers after
the signature of the protocol regarding the mode of
proceeding in Constantinople leaves little doubt
that she Is disposed to look at its stipulations, If
not quite in the light of an ultimatum, at least as a
last effort at conciliation. That proposal consisted
of a demand for a fixed time to be given to the
Porte within which It must answer, and that It be
asked directly to accept the protocol and send Im
mediately an envoy to St. Petersburg. The Powers
did not share Russia's views in this respect, wish
ing to glvo their diplomatic procedure the mildest
I form by avoiding collective action and de
I cidlng to have tho protocol presented by the
representatives at Constantinople singly. Though
first disposed to raise difficulties, Russia ul
timately acquiesced und seemed to abandon
the idea of fixing tho I'ortc to a definite term, bu(
on Friday or Saturday last the Russian Cliargf
d'Aff'alres, In endeavoring to Induce the Porte te
yield, mentioned April 13 as the term beyond which
Russia could not wait lor an answer. Curiously
enongh, the French and Italian Chargds d'Affalres
also mentioned this as the date on which Turkey
ought to give an answer, while the others gave gen
eral advice not to delay too long. But It is more
curious, as an illustration of the doublo
clement fighting for the supremacy at St.
Petersburg, that at the very time this
occurred at Constantinople an intimation came
from St. Petersburg that If tlie Porte sent an en
voy Russia would not watt even for pcaco with
Montenegro, or preparation tor carrying out re
lorrus or disarmament, but would Immediately
begin diicct negotiations. Indicating that she would
be generous tf the Porlc was Inclined to give her
moral Satisfaction by negotiating with her. The
Porte at the same time seemed Indisposed to carry
things to an extromtty. Thereiore further In
formation Is necessary to explain this sudden
momentous change shown by Turkey's direct re?
fusal of the protocol.
ANOTIIICB D08K Of nil'IOMAUY TIlltKATKNBD.
There are rumors lrom some sources that diplom*
acy will be uj;uin resorted to to avert war. I
wonder If this Is true * A recent l-'rench writer
says:?"AT If ridicule lue, qu'eUea cuntlniient, nion
Difu I (ju'i'llet contimwu /" 80 of diplomacy. "Let
it continue, be dad !*' Listen to the complacent
tone which the Times affects In Its leading article of
yestcrduy:?
Tho news from Turkey would be grave If wo be.
llevcU It a sain was eager to precipitate war; but hap
pily there Is no need to draw such a conclusion.
Diplomacy has not said Its lust word. New appeals
may be made to itio Porte, now compromises suggested
to Russia. How, then, ties the prospect suddenly
been overshadowed by lear of a ??poedy war? The
change lias come through tho rtenon of Russia and by
mcaus ol the rery document which was Signed
lor the purpose ot maintaining pence. Hardly
Had the document been signed when Russia
showed a disposition to take irom it the materials
ol an ultimatum and tho Ports was Informed that
It would be expected to decide by to-morrow whether
It would or not accept the protocol and send an ODV07
to Rt. Petersburg. II, as our Austrian correspondent
stsies, tbe Italian and French Chargds d'Affairos also
Intimated that a dellnitc reply should bo gircn by tho
litlh Inst., Russia may ho able to tnako an unexpected
dtlcnce ? 01 her haste; but our own govern
ment at loast did not Intend tho protocol to
have the nhnrteter of alt ultimatum. Russia
cannot be surprised Indeed if the recent nego
tiations should expose lior to severe charges,
.She must export It to he said that she wished to puss
the time until the roads toward the llannbo should ha
fit for the passage ol her srtlllary, and that she drew
up tho protocol, not to secure peace, but to ohlmn
from tho united Powers such condemnation or Turkey
ns would make a declaration of wnr srom inevitable.
We bring no such charges against Russia, hut tho Pow
ers will have reason to complain, if, now that thoy
have put their seals to tho protocol, Russia should
refuse (o smooth tho wsv toward ponce. She
will l>e expected at least to postpone any decisive
action until the Powers shell have again appealed td
tue Porte, and she may be Invited 10 consider whether
demobilisation might not be brought shout :n some
manner leas hurtful 10 Ottoman pride than ilia
stringent terms specified by Count Mchouvnloff.
Tho //ide/xrt'foece lMgr cl Brussels publishes a
special dospatch Irom Paris, which statoa that the
Duke Peruses, French Minister ol Foreign Affairs, ar.
rived in Paris on Wednesday, ami made, in conjunction
with Lord Derby, 11 lltiul effort 10 induce tits Porte to
send u special envoy to St. Petersburg. This is the last
chance ol preserving peace.
WHAT THK POKTK SATS.
A summary or the Turkish circular is published. A
desire Is ox pressed lor disarmament. It announces
that the Ottoman embassy at Ht. Petersburg made
vacant by the death or Oabouly P.ioha trill bo imme
diately filled. Tho tono is much moro conciliatory
than was expected. The sending of nn ambassador is
Hi. Petersburg lies nothing to do with the question
of disarmament, which can bu effected by orders
addressed to the commanders of military torcex. lu
L conclusion, tho circular expresses tbe oeavictlea Utol