The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1877, Page 8

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A Newark Puysicran learned yesterday of an important point of difference between the moral codes of Europe and America. Ir Is Fearep that another coal combination is in its infancy, and we regret that the ordinary chances of infant mortality can hardly affect it. Whatever May Be tne verdict in the Ferch- land divorce ease, Iadics who have seen the evidence in print will hardly be likely to flirt with stable boys. Nogopy will inquire into the dogmatic beliefs of the Bowery branch of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association, through which nearly a hundred unemployed men found situations last winter. Ir tHe New York Yacut Civp, which had such a glorious time at dinner yesterday, is really in a demoralized condition, demoralization will be cultivated as a virtue by lovers of good living. PLEASANT INFORMATION FOR New YORKERS.— Smallpox is most prevalent in Jersey City in the streets which are dirtiest. Most New York streets rank alike in filthiness, and Jersey City tannot surpass them. To Wrestie ALi Nicut only to be put in chan- tery at the end by a wretched bit of paper in the hands of a Deputy Sheriff must have convinced one of the heroes of the late Greco-Roman strug- gle of the final worthlessness of science. Science has no more respect for mythology than it has for religion. The astronomers will search the heavens to-day for Vulcan, although according to the accepted mythology he was kicked out of that locality thousands of years ago. Prestpent Manrtix’s Rerort to the Park Com- mission on desired improvements in the up-town wards will interest every resident of the annexed district as well as all other New Yorkers whose local fecling does not prevent their longing for more elbow room. A Lrttte Story told by our Charleston cor- respondent hints at an influence which will do more toward breaking away sectional lines than the combined political efforts of the day. Social intercourse will do more than law can, for society is the creator of the law-maker. A Nemper or te Contrinutors to “Our Complaint Book” seem of the opinion that a pre- tence is made of cleaning the city strects, and that any pavement which is dirty must be so through oversight. Such a mistake may be nat- nral in a civilized and wealthy city, but it is none the less a mistake. Tue Case or THE Girt Hattie Brows, who imagines herself to be the residence of a living reptile, calls forth numerous comments upon similar cases. Many of these are given in the Herawp to-day, but one, the most common delu- sion of all, is strangely neglected by the physi- cians. Did the faculty never hear of gentlemen with snakes in their boots ? Tux Weatnen.—An extensive area of snow and rain attended the movement of the depres- sion yesterday through the Ohio Valley into Canada. Rain fell over the Eastern Gulf, South Atlantic, Middle and Eastern States and tho Ohio Valley, and snow over the lake region and ao portion of Canada. To ward evening, when the depression had crossed the St. Lawrence, the snow area was limited to Lower Canada. An area of high pressure is now central west of the Alleghanies, causing southerly winds and comparatively high tempera- ture in the lake district. The temperature has Fisen decidedly in the West, being very high in the Platte Valley, The indications on the Gulf coast point to the advance of a depression from tho eastward, probably from the West Indian region. Another depression is moving south- eastward from Dakota, with @ light precipita- tation in the Upper Mississippi Valley. The “Father of Waters” has risen somewhat, but the Ohio has fallen below Pittsburg. The weather fy New York to-day will be slightly colder and cloudy, with carly morning rain and fog, by clearing weather. * The Mormon Murderer L: sion—More Light Wanted. For the first time the full facts connected with the awful crimo known as the Moun- tain Meadows massacre are presented to the public. From the lips of one of the chief murderers—Jobn D. Lee—this horrible story of treachery and bloodshed becomes known through to-day’s Hznaup. There are no longer any doubts to be cleared up, points of evidence to be sifted, motions or ap- peals to be argued, for the criminal himself now confesses to his full share in that ghastly butchery. Not only docs he do this, but he gives us on insight into the or- ganization of the Mormon Church will strike from beneath it tho slender props which toleration give it in a civilized community. He arraigns in the bitterness of his soul the men by whom he was tempted, threatened and cajoled into perpe- trating the slaughter of these innocent emi- grants, and who in the hour of his trial dealt to him the same treachery which he had shown toward those who confided in his word at the Mountain Meadows. He tells us that the terrible deed was directly due to the teachings of Brigham Young, President of the Mormon Church, and that it was perpe- trated in the name and by the authority of the chief men of that organization. Can it be said that the case closes over Lee’s grave at Beaver City on to-morrow? No. It be- comes the duty of the Territorial authori- ties—aye, even of the United States govern- ment—to take action at once for the speedy punishment of every one of Lee’s guilty ac- complices. Need we havo anything more than the evidence now furnished by the condemned murderer to convince us of the necessity of promptitude? The sword of justice should not rest an hour in the scabbard after such a hideous disclosure as that presented in the Hznaxp to-day. We give even the names of some twenty-nine of the murderers, who must be well known in Utah. Brigham Young, the leader and chief prophet of the Mormons, owes it to himself, his Church and the whole country to explain his share in this massacre. What is the story of this tragedy ? Twenty years ago a party of emigrants, with their wives and children, their wagons and herds, made the long and wearisome journey across the great plains through the deep canyons and over the snow-clad passes of the Rocky Mountains toward the golden valleys of California. They had heard won- dertul tales of that land of the setting sun; how its verdure never fuiled, its rivers teemed with life and their waters flowed to the Pacific over sands of gold. They had left their homes in Arkansas and Missouri filled with high hopes of peace, rest and plenty in the distant El Dorado. The prospect of tho reward lightened their weary march and gladdened their hearts as each evening they saw the land of promise pictured as it were in the glowing glories of the western sky. Slowly the emigrant train traced its sinnous course over plain and foothill, through canyon and mountain pass, until it reached the summit of the grent divide and began to descend into the valley of the great Salt Lake, Within this vast basin, which at one time represented the site of o great inland sea that washed the feet of the Wahsatch range of moun- tains as the Caspian now does the bases of the Eastern Caucasus, a com- munity of white men had long been settled. It had migrated westward over tho same route ns that now followed by the emigrant train, and established itself in a condition of civil and moral outlawry in relation to the American people. Its constitution was Is- maelitish, inasmuch as it set at defiance all laws on which modern society is based. It had its own code of morals, its own religious creed, and jealously defended both from the interference of all authority outside its own organization. By the right of pre-emption it owned the land and recognized no power that could question its title or claim to regu- late it. Such was the Mormon community. Because of the isolation which nature and the peculiar laws of the Mormons secured for that people they regarded all outside the pale of their community as enemies to their religion and welfare. They had re- tired to the valley of the Great Salt Lake in order, as they believed and intended, to cut off all communication between them and the outer world. They forgot that the broad domain of the United States belonged to the people, and that no section of the population had an exclusive right to any part of the territory of the Republic, much less to bar the way to a free transit across it. But being firmly impressed with the idea that they were the elect of God—His chosen people—they regarded as an act of hostility any encroachment, even by a passing emigrant train. Owing to the summary vengeance taken by a hus- band on one of their leading apostles for the seduction of his wife the passions of the Mormon community were doubly ex- cited against the Gentiles when the ap- proach of the emigrants was made known in the valley of the Great Salt Lake. They organized a plan for the de- struction of the party, and placed its execu- tion in the hands of a willing instrament— namely, John D. Lee, This man has been, according to his own confession, a leading officer of the Mormon Church, as well as a commander of the Mormon military body known as the Nauvoo Legion, organized for the defence of Mormon territory against inva- sion by the Gentiles. He was a zealot in re- ligion, unrelenting in his hatred of its enemies and unscrupulous as to the means to be employed in giving the strongest ex- pression to that feeling. All was well planned for the destruction of the emigrants. They were permitted to enter the Mormon settlement and to follow the trail toward California which leads southward through the Great Salt Lake Val- ley. They were encouraged in the belief that the followers of Brigham Young meant well toward them and were willing to help them on their way. They felt secure from danger while passing through a region that pre- sented many evidences of civilized occu- pancy, and never dreamed of the bloody fate in store for them at the hands of their treacherous hosts. Reaching a secluded nook among the mountains at the southwestern corner of Utah Territory the unsuspecting travellers, elated by their successful march and thankful for the protection afforded them by the Mormons, prepared to camp for a short period of rest. ‘I'he ground selected was admirably adapted for this purpose, being a sheltered valley between two ranges of hills, with a broad meadow covering its area and several good springs. Near one of the latter the emigrants encamped and cor- ralled their wagons in the usual manner when halting on a journey over the Plains. Here they were suddenly attacked by a party of Indians employed for the purpose by the Mormon leaders, The defence of the camp lasted a week, and was successful in repelling the assaults of the enemy. Toward the close, however, a force of Mormon troops, under the command of John D. Lee—al though he claims that leader was Higby— appeared on the scene, snd negotiations were opened for the protection of the emi- grants. The conditions were that the men should surrender their arms and place themselves, their wives, children and property under the protection of Lee and his Nauvoo Legion, After sat- isfying the doubts of some of the more suspicious among the emigrants, and their surrender to Lee, tho latter separ- ated the men from the women and the chil- dren from their parents, and murdered them all, with the exception of seventeen little children who were deemed too young to re- member the horrible incidents of the butch- ery. Thestory of this awful deed, happi- ly unparalleled in treachery and atrocity in the history of this country as the work of white men, is detailed in John D, Lee's confession, which we publish to-day. Rejection of the Governor's Nominees. ‘The Senate has refused to confirm any of the nominations recently sent in by Gov- ernor Robinson, with the exception of the Trustees of the Seamen’s Fund and Retreat on Staten Island. ‘The rejected names are those of Dr. Austin Flint for Health Officer of New York; Allen C. Beach for Bank Su- perintendent ; Charles S. Beardslee for Cap- tain of the Port of New York; William W. Gordon for Port Warden, to fill a vacancy, and General George B. McClellan for Super- intendent of Public Works. The adverse report of the committee in the case of Gen- eral McClellan was, however, laid over until to-day for the final action of the Senate. If any or all of these nominees are unfit for the positions to which the Governor de- sires to assign them the republican majority is justified in rejecting them. But if the action of the Senate is induced by partisan considerations alone, or by a desire to force the Governor into a division of the offices, it will be generally condemned. The Bank Department is known to be inefficiently managed, and the present Superintendent, whose term has long since expired, cannot too soon be replaced. The office of Super- intendent of Public Works, created by the constitutional amendment, must be filled before the system of reform so heartily indorsed by the people of the State can be inaugurated. There should at least be no _ factious opposition to the filling of these two offices, provided capable and honest nominees are selected by the Governor. For the rejection of Mr. Beach no reasons appear to have been given, and we do not regard those assigned for the rejection of General McClellan as sufficient. They are that he is not ao resi- dent of the State, and that the duties of the office are not such as to require his peculiar talents. The first of these objections is too trifling to be worth considering. The sec- ond is unsound. General McClellan is an accomplished engineer, an excellent organ- izer, thoroughly conversant with the busi- ness of transportation and unquestionably honest. Whatever motives may have influ- enced the Senate in his rejection it is quite certain that the majority of that body will not succeed in forcing Governor Robinson into any political trade for the offices or into any compromise that will be detrimental to the interests of the State. An Unjust Complaint. An over logical correspondent takes somewhat bitter exception to the treat- ment of the Dane who denounced him- self lately as an ex-convict, eager only to get again snugly within the comfortable prison walls. Hanson the Dane is no doubt a humbug, who adopted the course alluded to in order to excite sympathy and obtain assistance ; but if it were otherwise, if he were really aconvict and all reported had happened as it was made to ap- pear on the surface, the facts would pot have justified the recrimination made by “A Porter.” That he is unemployed and finds it difficult to obtain employment is a hardship which he shares with many thousands ; but would his case be any better if charity were altogether banished from the world, and if the generosity did not exist that induced a gentleman to encourage what he deemed to be the repentance of a rogue? “Friend, I do thee no wrong,” said the master of the house in the Scripture when they who received but little murmured be- cause more seemed to be given to others. Let the laborer remember that Hanson's case as presented in the story was far more desperate than his, as the case of a jailbird is not in such connection to be put by the side of the case of an honest man. Cornectine a Corrrctiox.—As we have said, our ‘Complaint Book” is not in- tended to be a medium for expressing pri- vate grievances, but one for the redress of public wrongs, and an example of its value in this respect is furnished by the letter from Postmaster James which we print be- low. A citizen who had been overcharged for postage at one of the stations entered his complaint in our book, but it was said to be unfounded by the Postmaster. He now nd- mits, in a frank and manly way, that he was himself mistaken, and that our correspond- ent was right:— To tax Evitorn or THe Heravy:— Finding myself in error as (0 tho date of the deten- tion of the steamer Huntsville, tor Porto Rico, I desire publicly to admit tho fac. The Huntsville sailed on the 15th inst, with matis for Porto Rico, and the rate of postage properly chargeable on letters by that vessol was five cents per half ounce, Tho postponement of her sailing day from the 5th to the 15th probably caused the erroneous information given at Station H to your correspondent, The superintendent thero will reiund the excessive charge on bis application. Respectfully, THOMAS L. JAMES, Postmaster, New York, March 21, 1877, It is in this way that such letters can bo made aseful to the community and mattors apparently small become sources of genoral information, The Southern Commission. ‘We hope the President will not forget that the favor and support he has met with from the whole country, regardless of party lines, was given, not to Mr. Hayes, but to the pol- icy Mr. Hayes announced in his inaugural Message. The Hznaxp, in common with al- most the whole people of the United States, has given a very earnest and, indeed, some- what enthusiastic support to that policy, but it was with the understanding that it would be carried into effect, We want no more irredeemable promises, The country wel- comed President Hayes because it was led to believe that he was not one of the kind of politicians who ‘soar into the infinite and dive into the unfathomable,” but one of the rarer kind who pay cash. The new President has been now seven- teen days in the White House. He entered it with a solemn promise on his lips to re- store the country to constitutional govern- ment. He could have given us that great boon in five minutes, for it needs only an order from himself as Commander-in-Chief of the army to the officers commanding in South Carolina and Louisiana to cease to interfere in the local affairs of those States. That is absolutely all, One of the most prominent republican statesmen remarked ten days ago in Washington, ‘The Presi- dent need not do anything. He needs only to stop doing in order to bring us back at once and completely under the shelter of the constitution.” On the 5th of March he solemnly promised to do this, and the country answered him with a joyous and universal acclaim. Atter seventeen days of hesitation and delay we at last hear—what? That it is now, at last, to be done? No, but alas! that it is now, at last, still further put off. We trust the President does not fall into the error of believing that what the country expects of him in this Southern bus- iness, and what he has promised, is only a favor to the people of the two States. He has promised, not a favor, but justice, tothe people down there. On whatexcuse can he delay justice? But they are not alone in- terested. This is a matter in which the whole country is vitally concerned. When he suffers the people of Louisiana and South Carolina to enjoy once more what he so solemnly promised them, local self- government, then, and not until then, the nation will know that the war is at last over ; then, and not until then, business men will think in earnest of new enterprises ; then, and not until then, industry will begin to revive and confidence to be re-established. Why delay the good time for which every American who is not a demagogue longs? Governors Hampton and Nicholls have given him the most positive guarantees that they are able to maintain peace and order, and that they willdo so, The business com- munity of New Orleans has given him the same assurance. The people North, East and West have heartily approved of his policy. A few unscrupulous demagogues in his own party slone opposed it ten days ago, and their opposition was beaten down at once by the voice of the nation. But he ought to know that every day's delay makes these demagogues more dangerous to him and to all his plans and hopes. He ought to know that until he settles the Southern question he can do nothing else, and that his dolay here imperils all the other reforms he prom- ises. Of what use or authority or force or consequence is a commission? ‘Boards are screens,” said Jeremy Bentham. Is there something to be hidden then? One thing the President may depend upon—when he sends a commission to Louisiana he pleases every demnagogue who hopes to keep the Southern question open for another four years, and he disappoints every man who wants to see the country back safe under the shelter of the constitution. Rapid Transit in the Legislature. There is one thing which the friends of members from this city would do well to impress upon them, which is the impossi- bility of their ever having another chance to abuse positions of trust if they aid the enemies of rapid transit during this session. They cannot act against the strongly ex- pressed wishes of their constituents in so vital a matter without incurring suspicions that they have been purchased by the horse car companies. No member of the Legis- lature who lays himself open to this suspicion can ever be re-elected, or will ever again enjoy the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens, At this stage of the business we are reluctant to mention names, hoping that those who have listened to the temptersmay think better of it and redeem their reputation before the session ends, But they have no right to expect this.for- bearance to continue if they should prove incorrigible. If one of the Staten Island members should vote against the Rapid Transit bill he will have a better excuse, inasmuch as some of his misguided constituents fancy that rapid transit would impair the value of real estate on their own island, This is an error, but o natural error. It may be honestly, however mis- takenly thought that quick transit to the part of this city north of the Harlem River would impede the growth of population on Staten Island. But no member from the city can honestly think that he is acting in the interest of his constituents by aiding the horse car companies in their obstructive tactics. Investigating Bad Characters. The Secretary of the Interior has ap- pointed the commission to investigate the character and habits of the grasshoppers and other destructive insects, as authorized by a provision in the Sundry Civil Service bill. The Commissioners are Professor Riley, of Missouri; Professor Thomas, of Illinois, and Dr, Packard, of Massachusetts. They are all accomplished entomologists sand fully capable of discharging the important duty to which they are assigned. We shall doubtless know more about these unwel- come visitors when the commission con- cludes its labors than we know at present. What we are already certain about is that they have very disreputable characters and very bad habits, They are found in places where they are not wanted, and no one can tell how they mannge to get there. They stick closely together, so that by tho power of numbors they can defy all attempts to get to others, fatten upon the good things of the country and leave behind them ruin and corruption. There are other destructive living things—we may call them political grasshoppers—whose characters and habits are very similar, and these also have been time and again ‘‘investigated.” But the in- vestigations have not amounted to much. Indeed, they have generally concealed the real characters and habits of the investi- gated, and furnished them with new and acceptable ones through the purifying quali- ties of whitewash, This has probably been due to the fact that the investigators have been themselves, in some way or another, closely or distantly connectedwith the ex- tensive political grasshopper family. As the learned entomological professors have no affinity with the grasshoppers they are appointed to scrutinize their investigation will, of course, be of a different character, and will not only prove to us what a bad lot these plagues of the farmers are, but inform us how the country may effectually get rid of them. What a public blessing it would be if some investigator of our political grass- hoppers could lead us to a similar knowl- edge. Striking Engineers, Some salutary measure of legislation seems likely to be adopted in Massachusetts as a remedy against a trouble lately felt in that State, and of which several other States are not without some acquaintance. The abandonment of trains at a certain hour by the engineers that have them in charge—no matter where the trains are or what the cir- cumstances of passengers that make the journey urgent or haste imperative—is am evil of very great magnitude, and one that» no disagreement between the engineers and their employers can justify ; because, though the company is apt to be asufferer, itis not the only sufferer and not always the greatest sufferer. In Mas- sachusetts this subject has recently come forward in consequence of the strike on the Boston and Maine Railroad, and though the committee of the Legislature to which the subject was referred produced a majority anda minority report, there is so fair an agreement on the main point that the minority report itself—given in another col- umn—favors all the legislation that would be necessary to overcome the evil. An Insufficient Plea. An attempt is being made to retain the present Dock Department on the plea that it has charge of between thirty and forty millions of dock property, collects a revenue of over half a million, and decides impor- tant and complicated questions in relation to the water front. It is urged that for these reasons the docks should be managed by a separate and independent department, and not by a bureau in the Department of Pub- lic Works. Tho argument will not bear the test of criticism. The Public Works Department collects one million and a half of revenue yearly from the Croton rents alone, and can with very little additional expense col- lect the dock rents. So long as the dock property is properly cared for, judi- ciously improved and economically man- aged it does not matter whether the controlling authority is called the chief en- gineck of a bureau or commissioners of a department. The head of a bureau would be responsible to the chief of the Depart- ment of Public Works, himself an accom- plished engineer, while the Dock Commis- sioners, appointed too often for political considerations, are responsible to nobody. There would be the same restricting au- thority of the Sinking Fund Commissioners over the proposed bureau of wharves and piers as there now is over the Dock Depart- ment. The real issue involved is not touched in these objections. The department has been in existence between six and seven years, and its system has been similar to that of the Circumlocution Office—‘ how not to do it.” Life was temporarily thrown into it under the Board of which Mr. Agnew was the head, but it has always been more or less subjected to the rule of the Barnacle family. It has spent nearly six million dollars without leav- ing the city one-half that value to show for the expenditure. The question is whether we shall continue to have little progress and large expenses, or whether we shall put the management of the docks into practical, competent hands, have all the work done by contract, and rid ourselves of a costly political asylum. If we do this the net revenues of the docks will soon be doubled and the work of improvement so much needed will be pushed forward to comple- tion as rapidly as the resources of the city will warrant, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Frogs’ limbs are in market. Dir, Jease Seligman is in California, Ex-Secretary McCulloch is in San Francisco. ‘There is neither a Speaker nor a Vice President pro tem. Stanloy Matthews and Henry Watterson married sisters. Congressman Hiester Clymer, of Pennsylvania, is at the Filth Avenu Mark Twain:—*The safest way 1s to culogize a per- gon you don’t know.” Vice Admiral Stephen C, Rowan, United States Navy, is at the New York. Joo Coburn feels repentant and thinks ho might rather have gone to Congross, M. Max Outroy, the French Minister, arrived at the Brunswick yesterday from Washington. Hon. Thomas A, Hendricks, of Indiana, is looking after his mining interests in California. Cineinnatt Saturday Night:—“Isn't a wooden-headed man peculiarly susceptible to disorders in the lumbar region?” “Springtime.” —You will find such subjects as you spenk of treated at longth in ‘the Home’ and “the Farm” departmonts of tho Wrexiy Henatn. Rochester Democrat:—'A young lady of Vicksburg,” says the Herald, ‘picked more than a ton of cotton,” Good gracious! Why did she need so much? Paterson Press: —'Protessor Langston may be a first rate lawyer, but that does not fit him for the Commis- sionership of Agriculture. It it wero ‘moral agricul- ture,’ now!’? Yonkers Gusset: —“Colonel Delancey Kane, of conch- ing fame, was in town Thursday. Ho is thinking of establishing a coach lino between Now, York and Yonkers this sammer,’” Louisville Courier-Journal:—"‘One of Evarts’ sen- tences and one of Alexander H. Stephens’ paragraphs met the other day and chatted In a triondly way for seventeen or eighteen hours.’ Norristown /erald:—"Tho New York Herato P, 1. anys Blaine has ‘petroleum on tho brato.’ That’a oil wel enough for a joke; and although tho Senator from Maine flows freely at tho mouth, ho js nota ‘hghv-headed spouter, as may have benzine trom his rid ofthem. They live upon what belongs I speoches in Congress," TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE PEACE MIRAGE Europe Olutching for a Substance and Finding Only a Shadow. AMERICAN ARMS IN TURKEY. Growing Curiosity to Know What Terms Montenegro Will Get. THE POPE DECLARES WAR, a [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.]} Loxvox, March 22, 1877. The British Cabinet bas not accepted the Russian modifications, and requires before considering them a distinet pledge of demobilization, Tho government is asked not only to submit to an amended version of the protocol, to which it is disposed to agreo, but also to concur in arrangements by which they would find themselves, alter the signature of the protocol, bound to ask Turkey to disarm be- fore Russia would demobilizo its army. This condition has seemed inadmissible, The state. ment is flatly contradicted in St Petersburg, that England will sign the protocol only on condition of Russia disarming. Rugvia can only promre to demobilize when peace is concluded between the Porto and Montenegro, when Turkey bas first disarmed and when a moderate degree of tranquillity is restored throughout European Turkey, The correspondent points out that as Turkey will probably object to dirarm before Russia the result is a deadlock, the only escape trom which is coercion, which would mean order and tranquillity in Turkey and peace ror twenty or thirty years. As the cuntemplated protocol alludes to the intention of the Powers to discuss mutters should Turkey fall in reform, Turkey if asked to sign itis expected to assent upon the understanding thas her indopengapoe:is not to be infringed, * NO sloxaTunE Yer, The announcement that the protocol has not yet been signed, finds confirmation im the Times of this morning. It says, in a leader:—‘‘Our government is understood to have urged or demanded Gat if Eng- land signed the protocol, Kus: should in turn with. draw ber troops trom the fron it is quite possi- ble that Russia is unwilling to make such an uncondl- tional pledge, The difficulty may vanish in a few days or even hours, To all appearance Russia is eager to find any honorable means to retreat from her perilous position, The European Cabinets aro anxious to aid her as far as they can without compromising thomeelves. According to our Vienna correspondent Rassia is willing disarmament should be simultaneous on both sides, It to be hoped tho difficulty will be ar- ranged, Safvet: Pacha, in thanking the foreign Chargé d’ Affaires for their presence at the opening of the Turkish Parliament told thom they heard the intentions of the Suitan, who hoped he would not be called upon to give any more positive utterances of bis sincere intention to ameliorate the condition of the peopie, The correspondent remarks if this is correct it indicates o purpose to forestall! any demands which might be made to induce Turkey to sign an inter national obligation. THE CENTRE OF CURIOSITY. Suspicion still centres about Montenegro. If the Porte does not make peace with that province on somo terms within a few weeks at most, the question of peace or war will bare sottled itself for over. A despatch from Vienna declares that the Montenegrin government is about to address a circular to the Consuls of the Powers at Ragusa, declaring that Montenegro cannot renounee the territories she bas conquered. Sho will continue to occupy them and defond thom against any attompt at recapture, A military council Las been held at Cettinje. Some insurgept chiofs who urged immediate action wet must wait a whilo. In the event of a the Turks of the Montenegrin war the Herzegovinida insurgents intend to offer the Prince of Montenegro the chief command, A Constantinople correspondeat announces, however, that the Montencgrin delogates have received a despatch from the Prince ot Mop- tenegro in whieh ho abandovs tho claim to Spizza, the right bank of the Moratcha Kiver, the fortified islands im Lake Scutari and some otber points; and besides the territoty already conceded by the Porte, merely asks for the districts of Nicksich and Kautchi and a portion of Kolatschin and the right of the Iree navigation of tho Boyana, Ho \doos not agree to cedo Vassoyewitz to Turkey. The delegates communicated these reduced conditions to Safvet Pacha, and the Council of Minis- ters considered them this alternoon. It is stated that the Porte persists in refusing the Prince’s demands, especially as regards the ecaston of Nicksich. Satvet Pacha will communicate tho Porte’s decision to the delegates, Theso despatches, utterly contradictory, are given as a sample of the kind of news we havo to deal with. The only way to be right is to send both stories. ARMS FOR THR BASBI HAZOUKS, It may be interesting to the Providence and New Haven companies who have furnished the arms and ammunition to know that many cases of the rifles and cartridges upon which so vast o part of Turkey’a shrunken resources aro wasted, have beon sent into the prov- inces, especially the European districts and along the enstorn frontier, and distributed to the, Mussulman population, which 1s now being organized as a na- tional gnard, which 1a only another name for Bashi-Bazouks. The only task assigned those irreguiar bands can be to overcome and, if necd be, crush and aDnittlate the Christian population, for this ts, after all, the real war to which a long continuance of armod peace 16 likely to load. If an Odessa telegram be true somo ot the American guns will never be used to butcher Christians with, It is stated that an English steamer, with arms and, ammunition from New Haven for Constantinople has been lost. We know of no steamer which has left Haven for Constantinople with or without arms thas bas not arrived. The King Arthur arrived on | January 28; the Lotus reached tho Golden Horn on February 17, after a tempestuous voyage; and the J, BR, Walker, the last to sail, landed her cargo on March 13, Unless the J. B. Walker’s arrival was in- correctly reported, or unless foundered off the Golden Horn whilo at anchor, the news is probably ine correct, THR DEMON OF DISQUIFT. Despatches from Vienna intimate that the feee meat diequiet in the Eustis spreading among al classes. Whother it 18 because of dela; an understanding has already beon pronounced as pertect and tho signa. ture of the protocol is impending, or because of some other cause which is not yet made public, cortain it is that the prospects are not now looked upon as quite so hopoful, and fear seems to have arison lest the advantages expected from the protocol might prove deceptive, In the first piace, g doubts aro entertained of the Porto giving Its adhest in any shapo to the protocol, which Is said to have already been sent to Constantinople through tho Turkish Ambassador at London, The Porte seems atill to defend the position which It took up during the conference, and will pomt to the con tution and to the newly opened Parliament, It tht {taclt 40 much more justified in so doing, as it has, by Safvet Pacha’s late noto, takon tho initiative im the mat~ ter of reform advocated by the Powers, Auether 4if-