The New York Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1877, Page 6

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PARISIAN VARIETIES, COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE TRIPLE ih = moxDa, MARCH NOTICE TO COUNTRY Py 1877, DEALERS, The Adams Fyprese Company run a special newspaper train over tre Penusylvanin Knilroad aud its connection leaving Jersey City at quarter pust tour A. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular eaition of the /IRRALD xs far West uo Harrisburg und South to Washington, reaching hin at a quarter pust six A. M. and Washington at From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be rainy. GenerRaL BuTLeR’s Views upon an extra ses- sion of Congress will be found in another column. Tne Reat Cause of the continued existence of that relic of barbarism, the Ludlow Street Jail, is more than hinted at in “Our Complaint Book” to-day. Wortn—not the worth that makes the man, but Parisian Worth, that makes the woman—is the subject of an excellent pen-and-ink sketch by our Paris correspondent. Tue Name of the pretended “Lord Bufort” has not yet been discovered, nor is it certain that this is the one of his appanages which victimized hotel keepers most wish to see. Tuere Seems very little difference of opinion among the school teachers about the new sulary echedule, nor is it easy to see how there could be about a document so hopelessly bad in principle. Lrperat THEoLoey will have to take’a step backward. The story of the poor fellow who was killed by being drenched with petroleum and then set on fire shows that fiends still walk the earth and the devil is neither dead nor asleep. Tat Poor Burra.o has found a friend at last; the Manitoba Council has passed an ordi- nance protecting him. The result will be that the Manitobans will cross the line and kill buffalo in our Territories, where nobody cares for them except as targets. Governor Drew considers that petit larceny is the principal obstacle to business success in his State. Florida is not alone in this respect; nor are agriculturists the only sufferers by the practice. We could mention newspapers which exist partly or wholly by this species of enter- prise. i Brookiyn Fottows New Yorx in justifying punishment before trial. Otticer Cleary, who on Saturday clubbed u citizen in a manner which witnesses pronounced brutal and outrageous, is on duty again. The information will probably cause the trade in canes and pistols to look up a great deal, Nor Au THe Penis of explorers are confined to the far West. Fromm the letter of our Florida explorer the intelligent citizen will be enabled to imagine some of the dangers of that myste- rious region, and it is not impossible that the writer of the dime novel may be tempted to let his pen stray in that directiun. Arter tie Worst Is Attowep about tho defaulting bank bookkeeper in Brooklyn it must be admitted that a large reduction of a not over large salary was u powerful incentive to crime, insanity or both. Personal honesty is a rare enough quality at best, and deserves fostering care instead of discouragement, especially in the face of an ever present temptation such as bank clerks have. We Cur rrom aN Excuance some state- ments about the treatment of convicts in the Missouri Penitentiary. So many similar stories have proved true that shrewd thinkers will again begin to wonder whether the making of bad men worse is one of the duties of a great Common- wealth, and whether an indiscriminate slaughter of the predominating breed of prison ofticials would not be a master-stroke in the interest of morality. To Aumy Orricers, legislators, border resi- dents and others who know that the North American Indian is a worthless being, an irre- deemable concentration of depravity, a fiend incarnate, &e., we commend the letter of our Canada correspondent. The Indisis just across our northern boundary line are bivod relatives of those below it, yet they ure all peaceable, and some of them are industrious aud pious. The credit for the difference belongs to the class that in the Union ‘deserve all the blame—-the whites. Pate Suxpar was celebrated in the Catholic churches with the special services appropriate the day, and in many other churches the inci- the day its name and of sermons. Mr. the manifestations of to humanity in the Mr. Hepworth drew the course of good Frothingham announced liberal idea of Christ's death, yet of Christ's life and ‘Talmage the streets religious and fancies. = reg? i ‘ ' of a writer, and not animated by that mere NEW YORK HERALD, MO yika. Mr. Stanley's letter, dated Ujiji, August 7, of last year, an outline of which was given in our cable messages on the 13th inst., is printed in fall in to-day’s Henatp. It will be found of great and peculiar interest to geographers and to the thousands of readers who, through the attention that has been given for many years to the various prob- lems of African geography, have acquired in them that kind of intellectual interest that feeds upon the unknown and the mys- terious. This letter exhibits exceedingly well the characteristic methods of the ex- plorer, who sets out, not to sustain a theory or accumulate evidence in support of views on the geography of Africa formed in some other country, but to ascertain the real state of the facts as to mooted points as ‘well as with regard to points hitherto quite untouched. Readers not inspired by the wish to be smartly critical upon the little mannerisms impulse to objection which urges the bull to try his horns on every stone wall, will not fail to notice the careful spirit in which our correspondent pursues his investigations into points that may seem scarcely worth the pains. But Stanley is an old traveller now, and he has discovered by some expe- riences that no point in geographical explo- ration that is worthy observation at all is unworthy all the attention that is necessary to make the observation absolutely accurate, if that be possible. It may very safely be said that three-fourths of the energy, cour- age ond skill that in the history of geo- graphical science have been given to the elucidation of its great problems in all quar- ters of the globe have been of little value in the advancement of knowledge because thrown away by being applied in pursuance of theories founded upon erroneous observa- tions of earlier discoverers in one direction or another. How many heroic souls have gone under in vain labors based on the notion that our Atlantic shore was the limit of the Oriental world, or, with that error cor- rected, that a way to the Indies might be found by doubling the northern extremity of this continent! Expeditions, though founded upon errors, are never, perhaps, entirely profitless ; for no good labor is really lost in the world, but the same labor would have been more fruitful if applied with the intelligence derived from more accurate knowledge. It will, therefore, be especially agreeable, we believe, to geographers to find that a man with some exceptional oppor- tunities, as are now possessed by Stanley, has acquired a full conception of the great importance of making his observations pre- eminent for conscientious fidelity. An instance ot this wholesome habit may be observed in the attention given to the re- lations of the Lukuga and Lake Tanganyika. It has always been a doubtful point whether the waters of Tanganyika were discharged otherwise than by evaporation. No ex- plorer had happened upon any stream or streams that seemed adequate to this great service, yet the sweetness of the waters seemed irreconcilable with the view that it was an African Dead Sea, retaining all the salts brought down from the drainage of the mountains and for ages losing only watery particles by the distillation of the sun, Or if it were true that this vast body of water received all the streams that fell into it and discharged its waters only by evaporation, yet did not become bitter with salts of various kinds, this seemed to point to the important fact that it was nota lake of great age; that its bed was of compara- tively late formation; and that enough min- eral substances to impregnate so vast a body of water had not yet been carried into it by the veins that scour the African mountains, This view of the age of the lake was sus- tained by the volcanic appearances as de- scribed by Captain Burton. Therefore the announcement by Cameron that he had dis- covered in the Lukugaa stream by which the waters of Tanganyika were discharged seemed that great geographical success, the solution of an important problem. But Stanley's examination has proved that Cam- eron’s statements in regard to the Lukuga are at most only partially true. This was rather delicate ground for an explorer to venture upon who wishes not to be guilty of that rudeness toward a gallant and brilliant laborer in the same field which has marred so many grand chapters in the history of African exploration, and Stanley felt this; but the minute and happy experiments by which he established that the Lukuga is at least not a permanent effluent of the great lake must, we believe, satisfy Cameron himself. It is quite possible, indeed, that when Cameron was there the level of Tan- ganyika was, from some reason or another, a | few inches higher than when Stanley was | there, and in that case it’ appears from Stanley’s own account that the Lukuga be- | comes an outflowing river, though when the level falls it discharges sluggishly a small amount of water into the lake. From Stanley's description it appears that the bed of the Lukuga is a little way from the lake at a point so near the lake level that it becomes a ‘‘divide,” and that when the level of the lake is low the Lukuga flows into it, while when it is high the waters of the Inke may flow out of the same channél and escape by a descent which begins near the Mitwansi ford, as shown on the map. It is our correspondent’s opinion that the level of Tanganyika is rising {rom year to year, and that the lake will eventually form a great efiluent in the bed of the Lukuga. ‘his view gives value to the material presented in the letter of the traditions of the country in regard to the original formation of this inland sea. These traditions are clearly not myths, but the disordered remembrance of some cataclysm of nature that so im- pressed the people of the region that it can- not be forgotten. Indeed, in the form in which it is preserved by one tribe it has no mythological character. ‘There was a long time ago a small hill, hollow and very deep, full of water. One day this hill burst, and the water spread over the land and became o lake.” Burton seemed to be- lieve that volcanic action had at some time ‘dropped the bottom out” of a great plain and that the fissure made had been filled with water from subterranean sources, Stanley’s etymology, the Lake of | How this story of alake that bursts from the earth ata hollow hill seems to echo at so many ages distance the story Herodotus had from the Egyptian’ priests of the ‘four fountains of the Nile!” It is a’pity Living- stone never learned from this tradition that those four fountains which he hunted with such enduring faith were perhaps at the bottom of Tanganyika. How Can We Get Clean Streets? That some change is needed in the present system of cleaning or pretending to clean the streets of New York is a fact, as the old song says, ‘which nobody will deny.” Dur- ing the past winter there has been scarcely a pretence on the part of the authorities to discharge the duties attached to the Street Cleaning Bureau in unfavorable weather. So long as the skies were bright and the streets free from obstructions the work of collecting the ashes and garbage was per- formed after a fashion ; but after the first fall of snow, which, having been left to harden ynder the traffic, soon became a cov- ering of solid ice and made travel difficult, even this branch of the street cleaning business was discontinued. It was not until the people grew impatient and the press im- perative that the leading thoroughfares were relieved of the snow and ice blockade ; but even then the main portion of the streots remainod impassable until cleared by the sun, the rain and the wind. In favorable weather, when the routine work of the bureau is regularly performed, the city ordi- nances are disregarded hd the ashes and garbage are collected and dumped together, although the people are compelled to be at the trouble of keeping them in separate re- ceptacles, Yet, with all this neglect and inefficiency, the street cleaning costs the city in the neighborhood of a million dollars @ year. Every disinterested person admits that it is inconsistent and unwise to tack the street cleaning business on to the Police Depart- ment. The Police Commissioners have enough to attend to without it. The ques- tion is, How can the city the most certainly insure the proper cleaning of the streets in return for the liberal amount annually expended tor that purpose? It is proposed to try the experiment of placing the power to let out the work by contract in the hands of the Mayor, giving him authority to divido the city into a number of convenient dis- tricts, and to let each contract separately, or several to one person, as may be found most desirable, The division: would enable contractors of limited means to bid for the work in their own neighborhood, and would thus secure lower prices and proba- bly more efficient work. This: proposition at least offers a change from the present sys- tem, which could not well be replaced by a worse one. We now pay about one million dollars a year and only get tho streets cleaned when they do not need cleaning. We can surely do better than this if we au- thorize the Mayor to let out the work in separate divisions by contract, give him full power to keep the contractors up to their work and make it the duty of the police to report all cases of neglect. The experiment is well worth a trial. General Martinez Campos and His Bruised. The gallant General Don Martinez Cam- pos, Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish forces in Cuba, has addressed a despatch to his government setting forth the valuable services rendered by the troops under his command toward the suppression of the Cuban insurrection, The information the General conveys, in the tenth year of the rebellion, is that his battalions of infantry, his squadrons of cavalry and his bodies of irregular troops, have all been placed in the “most suitable positions” within the terri- tory on the island still held by the Spanish authorities, for the purpose of ‘‘maintuining order, preventing incendiarism and other isolated acts of savagery,” while the remain- der of the available forces will proceed to clear the eastern part of the island from “roving bands of insurgents.” We imagine that General Martinez Campos will find a difficult task before him. Other command- ers-in-chief of the Spanish forces in Cuba have written even more hopeful despatches to the home government, and yet have found these ‘roving bands of insurgents” very hard to dispose of. Ten years of successful fighting against the Spanish warriors whose inission has been to ‘‘clear” them ont of the eastern part of the island has made them chronic rebels, and as the sickly season is approaching the General may find that there are other enemies besides the insur- gents against whom his ‘available forces” will be called upon to contend. General Campos evidently possesses one advantage over his predecessors, who have been for a decade endeavoring to put down the Cuban rebellion. He is precise in the statistical information with which he sup- plies his government. He gives the num- ber of the enemy's losses during the time he has been in command at 755 dead and 299 wounded. He is too precise to make the latter number a round 300. His own losses, he says, have been 194 dead, 472 wounded and 29 bruised.” his latter classification introduces « new element into military bul- letins. made as to the condition of the Spanish- Cuban General's “bruised.” Wo sincerely trust that his damaged 29—why could he not have made it an even 30?—are all doing at least as well as can be expected. One Step Further, Mr. Secretary Schurz is honest on the subject of economy, and he proposes to commence the work of saving money atonce. In April and May the government contracts for sup- plies for the various departments of the government and for the public services are advertised, at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars annually. Secretary Schurz proposes’ to establish au advertising bureau attached to the Treasury or some other department, whose business it shall be to invite proposals for advertising from the several nowspapers, and contract with the lowest bidders. But why ad- yertiso in a newspaper at all? The government contracts are taken by persons who know just when they are let and make a practice of bidding. There are probably but tew outside bidders, and Schurz. tho Plain, is notewortly in this connection. the most extensive advertising would only Henceforth tender inquiry will be | | his worst accomplices shall have shared the make a comparatively small addition to the H number, If the government should pub- lish a sheet at Washington in April and May, filled with all the contract advertise- ments, and then give notice through papers of extensive circulation that such a sheet was ready and would be supplied to bid- ders, it would answer just as well as the present plan, by which ‘‘several hundred thousand dollars” are wasted yearly, and would certainly be preferable to hiding away the advertisements in such obscure newspapers as would be willing to publish them at a low price. The Mormon Problem. The time has at last come for rooting out that pestilent, disgraceful, alliance of lust and assassination which, driven in succes- sion out of three States by the outraged in- habitants, took refuge nearly thirty years ago in a remote valley of the Rocky Moun- tains. It did not change its character by emigration to the distant wilderness. It continued to perpetrate the same crimes and abominations which, rendered its pres- ence intolerable in civilized communities. As it had plundered and murdered its neigh- bors in Ohio, in Missouri, in Illinois, until driven away by the wrath of the inhabitants, it continued to practise the same enormities against unoffending emigrants who passed near the Mormon settlement on their way to California, ‘‘he Mormons were able to commit these new murders and robberies under a plausible disguise. They had the Indians of that region in their pay, and pretended that their diabolical atrocities were mere Indian massacres. The trial of Lee lifted one corner of that mask, and his confession has completely stripped it off The horrible Mountain Meadows massacre was planned and executed by the Mormons themselves at the insti- gation and with the sanction of the heads of their so-called Church. It was the Mormons that assembled and incited the Indians; it was the Mormons that, under a deceitful pretence of protecting the emi- grants and leading them away in safety, lured them out of their intrenchment, making treachery a stepping stone to whole- sale murder. The confession of Lee proves that Brigham Young and other noted Mor- mons were confederates in that stupendous crime and that the execution on Friday was but a slight beginning of the retribution which long-slumbering justice exacts. The other instalments of that deferred debt ought now to be paid. The next step should be the indictment, arrest and trial of Brigham Young, the arch- contriver of that bloody massacre. There can be no longer any moral doubt of his guilt, and if the officers of the law are ener- getic there need be no difficulty in finding legal proofs. Other leading confederates who held prominent positions in the hier- archy at that time should also be arrested and confined asa precaution against their flight from justice. With these sons of craft and violence in safe custody the lips of hundreds of witnesses would be unsealed. No Mormon has dared to tell what he knows lest Brigham Young and his coadjutors should execute their threats of vengeance. They have understood too well what Brigham meant in the infuriate sermon he preached at Cedar City shortly after the massacre, in which he said:—‘‘I have been told there are many brethren who are will- ing to inform on those who did this thing. Thope there is no truth in the rumor. I hope no such person lives. If there is, I tell you what your fate will be. Unless you repent at once, keep secret all that you know and protect each other, you will die a dog's death. You will soon go to hell as damned, lost souls, Let me hear no more of treach- ery among my people. Any one who had proved traitor there would have met the destroying angel at once.” ‘ This was a plain threat that anybody who blabbed should be straightway murdered without remorse. Besides the menace of ‘‘a dog’s death” and a speedy passage ‘to hell as damned, lost souls,” the admonition about the ‘destroying angel” was pecu- liarly significant. It was a reference to the Order or tribe of ‘‘Danites,” called also “Destroying Angels,” organized among the Mormons while they still lived at Nauvoo, in Illinois. The Danites were a band of secret assassins, sworn to execute without question any order given them by the Church authorities. The passage of Scrip- ture from which they took their name sufti- ciently indicates their character:—‘‘Dan shali be a serpent in the way, an adder in the puth, that biteth the horse’s heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.” A community that kept such a band of stealthy assassins would stick at no act of treachery or violence. Considering the despotic nature of the Mormon organi- zation it is incredible that the Mountain Meadows massacre would have been ven- tured on without sanction from headquar- ters. Lee's confession is thus corroborated by all that we know of the history of the Mormons before as well as after their hegira to Salt Lake. There can be no doubt that Brigham Young is the guiltiest of all Lee's dastardly, diabolical accomplices. “Legal evidence enough will be found to convict him as soon as he and his leading confederates are within prison walls and his abject slaves relieved from the mortal terror in which they have been so long held by his threats, When Brigham Young and half » dozen of fate of John D. Lee there will be but little further difficulty in dealing with the Mor- mon problem. Hydrophob: Another case was lately reported of death from the bite of a dog; but the attending physician refused to call the disease hydro- phobia, although it wassnid all the symptoms of hydrophobia were present except the dread of water. Cases of this sort naturally come before the public in a form in which the | nice distinctions of medical science may be somewhat blurred; but if the statement above made accurately represented the posi- tion of the doctor it cannot be thought strange that the authorities were inclined to require a coroner's inquest—to be dissat- isfied, in short, with the doctor's certificate. As to this one symptom of the dread of water that has given a popular name to the I hensions were entertained that an attempt | possessed, and this was the kind of life lived, by such NDAY, MARCH 26, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. recognition ; but it has attained in regard to this disease, and apparently in the minds of some physicians, a relation that is mis- leading as to its real significance. Dogs die of rabies without any dread of water, and, what is more remarkable, with the capacity to swallow. water to the last moment. And it is not only possible that a child of three years might die of hydrophobia without dread of water, but it is in the highest degree proba- ble that it would die that way, the fact being that the phenomena of disease dependent oncerebral action aro always differént in infants from what they are in grown persons. Important parts of the cerebro-spinal system of nerves are at three years of age in an al- most rudimentary condition, and the hydro- phobic fear of water is an extreme instance of reflex action—an exaggerated activity of a highly organized vital machinery—such an activity as occurs to the whole system of spinal nerves under poisoning by strych- nia, when the impact of a draught of air upon any part of the surface throws the vic- tim into convulsions, But there is no touch in the sight of water; it reaches only the eye; how then can it be related to any path- | ological fact? In this malady the seat of disease is in or near what may be called the drinking apparatus, and the nerves that con- trol the composite actions of respiration and the ingestion of food or fluids are crippled. To attempt to swallow provokes a convulsion, But the throat is dry, parched, burning; and as the sight of food will make a hungry man’s “mouth water” so the sight of water to one in agony with thirst provokes and produces involuntarily the act of swallowing. The victim cannot help this. It is an operation of the vital machin- ery that is out of the control of his will. All he knows is that the sight of water pro- duces impending suffocation and he turns away with fear of what incites the agony he feels when his throat acts. In the case be- fore us the doctor prefers to consider the convulsions as ‘‘the result of severe fright and nervous irritation from the biting.” Now, as the bites were given February 22 and the first convulsion occurred March 18, it must be admitted that it required some time for the fright to affect that baby. Enterprise Under Difficulties. The United States Marshal and District Attorney used every precaution to prevent the Hxratp correspondents from gaining access to John D. Lee during his incarcera- tion at Beaver, U. T. Their excuse for this extraordinary conduct was that appre- to rescue the condemned man might, would or could be made, and that therefore too much care could not be observed in guard- ing the prisoner. Now it appears thatasnug little scheme to profit pecuniarily by an al- leged second confession of the prisoner Was the real cause of the exclusion of all corre- spondents. Parenthetically, we would like toask here whether this is a business that the Department of Justice permits its subordinates to engage in? That the Henatp is not dependent for its news upon the will or the whim of officials is a fact which, we imagine, the District Attorney and Marshal at Beaver have discovered by this time; for the confession and statement they sought to keep from the Hznaup was obtained from the confidential lawyer of Lee, and published exclusively in this paper in advance of all its contemporaries. The Henatp was, moreover, the only New York paper that had a representative with Lee in his final march from Beaver to the place of execution. Our correspondent during this journey had free conversation with the con- demned man, and telegraphed us a graphic and exclusive description for the readers of the Henan. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, . Ignatieff has weak eyes. Gum camphor drives ants away. Evarts swears at a shirt button in hexameters, John Simms, the colared steward of the White House, has given bonds in $20,000, Chicago Times:—*‘It would have been better tor Reno had he shared Custer’s fate.”” f Leshe Stephen has been admitted to tho Atheneum Club as a distinguished member, We take no stock in fun that must be helped out by a letter in parentheses; not a w(h)it. Cincinnati! Commercial:—“Oakey Hall may have come to Ohio to grow up with the State.”” ‘Twenty years’ study are required by a Chinaman for learning his native language and literature, Frank Spinola, the political wheelbarrow, will take down his Picadilly sides when the spring violets come, Darwin is receiving elegant albums containing por- traits of eminent actentitic men of Germany and | Russian Holland, . Louisville Courier-Journal:—"Pheebe wants the St, Louis Post Office, but Hayes, remembering Grant, says Mo cousine nocd apply.’ ” Detroit Free Press:—“Tho New York Heravp has run as high os 2,800 new advertisements of a Sunday, but isn’t willing to quit on that”’ Aon of the lato Hon, Henry T. Blow, of St. Louts, has gono looney on Alico Oates, the actress, and follows hor around offering her costly presents. German music is having a rapid influence in chang- tng English taste; and the most popular music in London drawing rooms is heard in the singing of Scotch songs. Disraeli says:— “Evening dress is a style of costume sanctioned by society for onabling ladies to display their natural beauties with a profusion worthy of a Grocian statue.” Boston Post:—The New York critics can’t under- stand how ladies can go and hear Aimée in ‘La Tim- alo d’Argent’ without vlushing. Pertiaps the ladies never studied French.” Poet laureate of Nebraska:— And the hounds wero baying 8 long and so loud, When along a path came un hunter so proud, He was all robed o'er troni head to too, In buckskin made from the hide of the roe, In France novolists almost invatably belong to the bourgeoisic, and very often to the lowest ranks of it. Novels, says a writer, aro raroly discussed in a Parisian salon, Whilo plays constantly form the subject of con- versation, Examiner:—'*For the fostering of dramatic imagina- tion there is necessary a large experience of men, as woll ns a large sympathy with man—w practical mas- tery over particulars as well ax a philosophical mas- tery over aniversals—a knowledge, moreover, of man as a cog in the social whool, as well ay a knowledge of man a8 an isolated unit—a knowledgo, indeed, of ‘Ite? in the ordinary sonse, and, we had almost said, a knowledge of affairs, This was the kind of knowledyo dramatists as Aschyius and Sophocles, Shakespeare und Goethe, and Monire,”” Some idea of the extent towhich maideonhair fern is used in Covent Garden for vouquet making may be gleaned from the fact that Mr. Rochtord, of Totten- ham, bas several Jargo, span roofed houses entirely devoted to its culture for furnisbing frofus in acut state, The plants are grown in twelve-inch pots, and in order to keep up a regolar succession only a por- tion of them is cut ata time, those whjeh furnish such fronds being subjected to a lower temperature than the rost, by which means the fronds assume a deeper malady induced by the bite of a dog, it is a cuaracteristic sicn of value and of casy TELEGRAPHIC NEWS - From All Parts of the World. EUROPE GROWING ANXIOUS, The Obstacles to a Peaceful Solution Becoming More Apparent. DEMOBILIZATION IMPROBABLE, GERMANY AND FRANCE, The English Oarsmen—A Serious Railroad Accident. §BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonpvon, March 26, 1877. Nothing in European politics is more re markable than the steady advance which Russia has made in the public opinion of Eu. rope since the commencement of the present negotiations on the all-absorbing and intricate Eastern Question. She seems not alone to have recovered the position, &c., lost among the Greats Powers by the Crimean war, but to have gained increased weight in the councils of Europe. Whatever the final resulé may be m_ the event of a European war her diplomatists have shown wonderful dexterity in turning everything to their own advantage and creating a situation favorable to Russian designs. ‘The gaze of Europe is now fixed on them, and their movements and utterances are the subject of anx- ious thought and lively comment among the leading statesmen, thinkers and journalists of Europe, The situation is undoubtedly nearing a crisis, and every day the hopes of peace with which Europe had beguiled itself into a false security are fast fading away, giving place to a feeling of anxiety and uncertainty which is bes coming painful. General Ignatief is still in Vienna, and his advent to St. Petersburg is looked forward to in the belief that Russia will soon take such action as will clearly indicate her real intentions, SPRRITED LITTLE MONTENEGRO, Tho Montenegrin Delegates bave again conferred with Safvet Pacha, Tho Porte still refuses to cede Nicsio and Koutchin, but evirices a disposition to agree to the other demands of the Montenegrins, The latter, how- ever, decline to renounce their demands for Nicsic and Koutchin, Later advices say that the Montenegrin Delegates have telegraphed to Cettinjo that the Porte persists in its refusal to cedo Nicsics, Koutchin and Kalatschin, and will only grant rectifications of fron- tiertoward Zubei, Paniani, Piva, Drobruak and Char antz. The delegates ask Prince Nikita how they are toact. It isgald that England advises the Porte to cede Nicsics after dismantling the fortifications, but the Porte considers cession impossible even then, The Porte has informed the Montenegrins that it will submit to the Turkish Parliament next week for final decision the concessions which it 18 willing to grant Montenegro, and will also submit therewith the Montenegrin demands. RUBSIAN VIEW OF THE PROTOCOL. A despatch from St. Petersburg controverts the views of the English press relative to the protocol, It says:—The protocol presupposes conclusion of peace with Montenegro and the demobilization of the ‘Turkish forces: ‘Tho conviction still prevails in St, Petersburg that if the Powers unanimously hold dos cided language they will obtain the acceptance of their demands by the Porte, and the peace of Europe will be maintained, One thing is inadmissible—viz., that Europe should compromise herself a second time by failure to achieve a result. ‘An Odessa despatch reports that tho Grand Duke Nicholas started trom that city for Kischeneff om March 18. Ho is still unwell, but has beon walking ana drivfbg daily. IGNATIEFF IN VIENNA. General Ignatieff has arrived im Vienna, He has, visited the foreign ambassadors and had two confers ences, each of an hour’s duration, with Count Ane drassy. As grave doubts aro felt in the higher politie cul cireles in Vienna as to the sincerity of Russia’s professions of a dosire for the preservation of peace, a decidod pronouncement of opinion on the probable result of Ignatieff’s mission may be expected from the Austrian capital at an early day. The Austrian Cubinet will inform General Ignaticff that it still considers the reforms proposed by Count Andrassy to be the best means of preserving peace and ameliorating the condition of the Christians in Turkey, Andrassy will propose that Russia and Turkey de mobilize simultaneously, and it is hoped that Russia will consent, DEMODILAZATION IMPROBABLE, The Berlin correspondent of the Standard tele graphs:—“I can affirm confidently that the Porte o1 the 20th inst. informed the Powers that it would under no circumstances yield assent to the protocol if the document required ‘Turkey to demobdilize before Russia.’ The prospect of, ‘Turkish demobilization im any event is rendered very improbable by the renowed ac- tivity of the insurgents in Bosnia and Herzegovina, To whatever influence this is due it undoubtedly exors cises a disturbing influence just now, and, coupled with the boldness of the Montenegrin de- mands, makes the difficulty of arriving at a peaceful solution all the more apparent It is reported from Vienna that General Despotovich has organized the Bosnian insurgent forces into ten boutes, the majority of which aro armed with Pea- body rifles. MIDIAT PACHA AND HIS FRIENDS, Areport comes from Constantinople that @ group of deputies in the Turkish Parliament intend shortly ta question the government on the subject of Midhat Pacha’s banishment. The garrison of Constantinople has been changed and replaced by troops from Syria, This would seem to indicate that the Tarkish govern ment anticipates trouble in the capital on account of Midnat’s banishment, and gives some color to the roe cent rumors of plots and conspiracies in his favor, extending even to the soldiery. A despatch from ! Rome states that Midhat Pacha has arrived in that city, ‘THE FRENCH CHAMBERS ADJOURNED, The French Senate and Chamber of Deputies, accords ing to a despatch from Versatllos, have adjourned until May 1. By the time the Chambers reassemble tha Eastern question will, in all probability, bave assamed a more definite shape and the abilities of French legis Jators will probably be put toa severe test, Whether France would or would not take a band in tho ex. pected conflict must depend, to a great extent, on the action of Germany, and no little anxiety ts felt in French political circles as to what course Bismarck | may pursue, During the recess the various parties and groups will have time to plot and combine for the struggle of the next session, which will undoubtedly bo one of unusual activity and importance, GERMAN AFPAIRS, According to a despaich from Berlin tho bill finally making Leipsic the seat of the Supreme Tribunal of the Empire passed its third reading in the Reicvstag. The government has informed the Reichstag that 5,000,000 of the balance in band of the French indems nity, representing the share of the former Nortn-Gers man Confederation, will be distributed among the States which belonged to the Contederation, A further sum of 0,000 may be expected from the same fund, GERMANY AND FRANCK ON FRIENDLY TERMS, ‘Tho Marquis d’Abzac, the Aide-de-Camp of President Me. jon, Who came to Berlin to congrate- green color, and tast longer aftor being cut than they otherwise would. late the Emperor William on his birthday, met with @ distinguished reception, Wrince Rismaesa