The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1877, Page 4

NEW YORK HEKALD, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1877.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Y HERALD, published day in the year, aie rte oP ae ccs net Sed at ‘mou! ar a 'mantha, or hve dollarr or six mouths. Sunday aed. postage. sae naan ea agrphl eeutcon mus ‘Kew York Hunan. ‘ve property sealed, 1 not be returned. ‘Letters and packages ahi Rejected communication: ——— PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH CONDON. OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Pao price NO. TATRADA PACE. Mee iptionn und advertisements. will be received and ‘on the same terms us in New York. TOLUME XLIL....-.- : AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. ONION SQUARE THEATRE. EAGLE THEATRE—Crows or Tuoxss. tE—Tux Paixcess Rovat. RrELTER Breve, EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanurry. PARISIAN VARIETIES, e COLUMBIA OPERA HO! GILMORE’S GARDEN—Kta OLYMPIC THEATRE—Pax THEATRE COMIQUE. HELLER’S THEATRE: NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, z 1 ealu over the Peusarivania Walrond and ius conneet(onn, aving Jersey City at a quarter past four A. M. dally an enrrying the regular edition of the HERALD as tar West ax Harrisburg und South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter pasy six A. al. and Washington at one P.M. From our reports this. morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warm and cloudy, with rain, followed toward night by falling temperature and increasing south- westerly to westerly winds, Tne Heraip To-Dar tells who may be met at Newport during the coming summer. Lance Bopies or Mex at Prayers seldom present so picturesque a view as may be obtained from our sketch of yesterday's services on the Russian flagship Svetland. Tue Desir anv Crepir view of Ludlow Street Jail is given in ‘Our Complaint Book” to- day, and the reader is enabled to see how the malice of a few creditors is made to inflict a heavy burden upon the already overloaded tax- payers. Tue Orricers of the defunct Continental Life Insurance Company have been severely rated for months, and no one but themselves have thought the charges unduly severe. Now comes ex-Receiver Anderson's attorney, however, and claims that a different set of men were impli- cated in the disgrace—to wit, the oflicials of the State Insurance Department. A Time Honorep Ituvstration of the argnu- mentative was completely demolished in Vir- ginia on Saturday night. Conflicts between bulls and locomotives have always resulted un- favorably to the former, excepting in Wall street; but a Virginia bull threw a heavy freight train from the track and through a bridge, caus- Ing the boiler of the engine-to burst and the bridge and train to catch tire and be destroyed. Upon the final fate of the bull our special corre- spondent is strangely reticent, but his course is dimly foreshadowed by the information that the engine and train tried to creep across him. Yesterpay’s Services were almost all marked by the particular significance of the day. Dr. Armitage presented the legal aspect of Christ's trial and death. Mr. Beecher called attention to the inner meaning of the resurrection and its practical value to every living man. Mr. Froth- Ingham found the orthodox associations of the day suggestive of a discourse upon the value to mankind of the hope of immortality. Dr. Chaun- cey Giles gave an anusually | exposition of the Swedenborgian idea of Christ's physical and spiritual organization. Mr. Hepworth cited the authorities and offered the argument for the faith in a literal entombrhent and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Father Hoban argued that the death and resurrection of Christ were necessary com- plements to the miracles He had worked. Father Kearny preached on the necessity for human yet spiritual emulation of Christ, both living and dying. The universal joy of believers was the topic of Dr. McGlynn’s short but vigor- ous discourse, and Father Preston's theme was of a similar nature. Father Prendergast urged that men might die with Christ by crucifying vile affections. Dr. Potter found in Paul's epistles confirmation of the story of the resurrection. Dr. Talmage found the day suggestive to an ex- tent very wide and sometimes startling. Tue Weatuer.—The storm centre has moved from the Missouri Valley eastward over the lakes, and is, as we write, passing between Toledo and Oswego in a southeasterly direction, which, however, may be changed during today to northeasterly, The pressure has increased at the centre of the disturbance, but will probably fall again when the storm reaches the coast. During yesterday morning the rain area ex- tended from Omaha to the Atlantic, and south- ward into Louisiona and Alabama, but as tho day advanced the western limit of precipitation moved to the Mississippi River. The heaviest rain occurred at Nashville, Tenn., where 1.79 inches fell during sixteen hours. The winds on the western side of the storm have been very heavy. Gules from westerly points prevailed at Omaha and Duluth in the morning, and at Chi- cago, Milwaukee and Toledo in the afternoon. The temperature within the immediate area of depression is very high, but westward and northwestward falls with great, rapidity. The temperature in the South and along tho Atlantic const is high. The steep barometric and thermometric gradients be- hind the storm favor the development of local tornadoes in the regions of the Missonri and Mississippi valleys. The highest pressure is now over the British Atlantic provinces. The Ohio, Missouri and Cumberland rivers have fallen, but the Mississippi has risen during the past twenty- four hours. Worepeat our warnings regarding dangerous on the Middle and North Atlan- tic coasts during the next few days. The weather in New York today will be warm and clondy, with rain, followed toward night by falling tem- perature and incressing southwesterly to west- verly winds, The Proposed “Omnibus Charter’ —A Good Step in the Right Direction, The bill—or, to speak with strict accu- racy, the bills—for reorganizing the city government in the interest of simplicity and economy are succeeding in the Senate and have a fair prospect of success in the Assem- bly. ‘The main bill passed the Senate three or four days ago, and the twosupplementary bills will go through that body without any doubt. The Albany correspondence which we printed on Saturday made this clear enough by showing that the democratic op- position has been broken in the Senate, several of the democratic Senators who voted against the main bill having discovered their mistake, and wishing to correct it so far as may yet remain in their power. Quite a number of the democratic Assemblymen will support the new charter, and although its friends still feel the need of vigilance and effort they are confident of its passage. In spite of the growling of Tammany Hall and denunciations by Comptroller Kelly it isa wholesome measure. The opposition of Mr. Kelly and Tammany will influence the judgment of no fair-minded citizen or in- dependent legislator, its motive is so easily seen through. They oppose the new measure because it is a heavy blow at machine politics. It curtails the number and reduces the salaries of city officers, and thereby interferes with the election funds raised by assessments on the city’s servants, By depriving the Common Council of con- trol over the nominations of the Mayor it | strips the satellites of Tammany of their power to make bargains in the interest of | their friends. By changing the charter elec- tion to April, thus separating it from State | and national politics, the proposed charter precludes corrupt bargains between candi- dates for the Assembly, Senate and Con- gress and candidates for city offices. They will no longer be able to put all their contributions into a common electioneer- ing fund and lend mutual assistance in electing unfit men. The new charter will thus assist the people in emancipating themselves from the tyranny of machine politics and ring rule; and this is precisely the reason why Mr. Kelly and the Tammany chiefs so stiffly oppose it. City officers who neither drag others nor are dragged them- selves at the wheels of the machine favor the proposed charter. The most conspicu- ous example is that of the Commissioner of Public Works, who keeps himself chastely aloof from vulgar politics and is adminis- tering his department with remarkable suc- cess. He strongly approves of the consoli- dation of departments and single heads, thinking that the present system is as clumsy and absurd as it would be to have three or four heads of the federal depart- ments at Washington, which would impair efficiency of administration and multiply officers and salaries for the benefit of trading politicians. Should it be proposed in Con- gress to reorganize the departments on the model of our present city system, with three or four equal secretaries under the name of commissioners, and a commission of five to manage the postal service, the whole coun- try would pour scorn upon such an absur- dity. But the Washington departments aro much larger in their scope and more multi- farious and complex in the business they transact than any of the many-headed branches of our city government. Some of the details of the proposed char- ter are open to just criticism, but its main outlines are excellent. The Hzratp is constrained to indorse it strongly, both by its deliberate judgment and by its sense of consistency. For years we have been strenuously advocating the substance of its leading changes. In the last months of 1875, during the interval between the elec- tion and the meeting of the Legislature which preceded this, we incurred the expense of sending reporters to inter- view every member, and when they ‘expressed their unbiassed sentiments at their own homes there was an immense preponderance in favor of municipal elec- tionsin the spring. The result of those in- terviews encouraged us to make a vigorous campaign in behalf of this reform ; but when we had kept it up for eight or ten weeks after the assembling of the Legislature we were mortified to find that neither our argu- ments nor the personal committals of a large majority of the members were of any avail for carrying the reform at that time. The bad influences which are always active at Albany and the absorption of the public mind in the approaching Presidential can- vass blocked the path of reform. But it is better late than never; and we réjoice that after so short an interval as one year our hopes are likely to be realized. * There is nu difference of opinion among intelligent, im- partial men respecting the necessity of sep- arating the municipal from the State and fed- eral elections. So long ago as 1870 Mr. Tilden contended that this is an indispensable step toward municipal reform ; and although he had not changed his mind when he became Governor he preferred to have action post- poned lest he should increase the hostility of a powerful faction of his own party in this State at a time when he was straining all his energies to secure the Presidential nomination. The Hxraup had already put a majority of the last Legislature on record as favoring a spring election; but they were as reluc- tant to act at that session as Governor Til- den himself. Yet they had not changed their real opinion any more than he had changed his. The able Municipal Commis- sion which he appointed adopted the same view, and a prominent feature of the plan which they recommend is that all city elec- tions in this State shall be held in the spring and on the same day. The approach- ing success of this reform will be all the more acceptable by the fact that other indis- pensable reforms are joined with it. We are aware of but one objection to the immediate passage of this new charter which can be entertained by hon- est and candid minds, and even this would have little power to mislead had it not re- ceived the sanction of Governor Tilden last year. Tho substance of this objection is that immediate legislation on this subject would be premature and idle while the pro- posed amendments to the State constitution are not yet acted upon. Why patch upa structure which may soon give way to an entirely new edifice, built on different foundations? ‘This specious argument may be easily exploded. In the first place there is no certainty that the excellent plan of the Municipal Com- mission will be ratified by, or even sub- mitted to, ‘the people ofthe State. It would be unwise to suffer evils which may be promptly remedied during the two or three years required for amending the constitu- tion. In the next place, there is no conflict between the bill which has passed the Sen- ate and is pending in the Assembly and the plan of the Municipal Commission. They are substantially the same system, except that the plan of the commission goes further in the same direction and is more efficient and thorough. Both alike require a spring election. Both alike give the Mayor the sole power of appointment and removal, and clothe him with au- thority commensurate with his responsi- bility. Both alike deprive the Legislature and the local Common Council of control over the tax levy, conferring it upon asmall, separate and more responsible body. The plan of the commission constitutes this body in a different way, and its whole scheme is endangered by limiting suffrage to tax- payers. But, after all, the two systems are, in the main, identical. In the third place, the passage of this charter by the Legisla- ture, instead of obstructing the constitu- tional amendment, would contribute to its success, When the new charter is found to work well in this city there will be no objection here to making it permanent by engrafting it in the constitution, and its beneficial effects would prepossess public opinion in its favor in other parts of the State. Aso means of securing the constitu- tional amendment nothing could be wiser than the passage of the new charter. Ifthe amendment fails our own city will still have the most important benefits of the plan. If the amendment succeeds it will work but a slight change in this municipality and put us to no perceptible inconvenience, Railroad Greed Against the Public Good. The trunk railroad freight wars are grow- ing to be such serious public evils that it is worth while to inquire whether some na- tional legislation not liable to constitutional objections cannot be framed to prevent them. They unsettle values, injurionsly affect “commerce among the several States," which Congress is empowered to “regulate,” and are a constant injury to all steady commer- cial interests. No one is really benefited by them. When grasping corporations, eager to outbid each other for the transpor- tation business, adopt the cutthroat policy of carrying goods and produce below a fairly paying rate, afew sharp operators may make contracts and secure a petty temporary ad- vantage over other dealers. But in their turn they suffer from similar success on the part of their competitors, In the end, after the roads have become sick of their losing game and are ready to ‘‘kiss and be friends,” they make the public pay in exor- bitant tariffs for the losses their own rival- ries have entailed upon them. It is only a few weeks since the bitter “railroad war” in which all the trunk roads were engaged during the fall and winter was apparently ended by a treaty of peace, The terms of the agreement then made have, it is said, been faithfully observed by the New York Central, the Erie and the Penn- sylvania Central. The Baltimore and Ohio, on the other hand, is accused of keeping the word of promise to the ear only, and of privately making rates against the letter of the agreement and unjustly discriminat- ing against New York bound freight. Mr. Garrett may be a very sharp railroad man, but he has evidently yet to learn that fair, open dealing must lie at the founda- tion of all solidly successful busi- ness, The Baltimore and Ohio road in the recent war was found not to be in such good condition to defy its great com- petitors as was supposed. Its reported sur- plus, which was to support it in diverting trade from New York, vanished in smoke. It was found to be a surplus very much like the assets of some of our savings banks and insurance companies. As the New York Central, Erie and Pennsylvania Central seem now to have made up their minds to let the Baltimore and Ohio have all the fight it desires, we may soon hear of another patched up settlement. But the constant recurrence of these disturbing contests is a deplorable injury to all steady, legitimate business, and they ought to be rendered im- possible by legislation. Work and Crucity. Judiciously enforced, qualified with some discretion as to their application, there is no doubt that the laws in regard to the pre- vention of cruelty to animals would be useful to the community, and would be universally sustained by ‘public opinion; but the enforcement they receive is cer- tainly preparing the way for their inevitable repeal or great modification at no distant period. As applied these laws are mere covers for all sorts of tyrannical and offi- cious intermeddling with concerns that have at most only a constructive relation to the objects of the law. Itis outrageous that a poor wretch who gains a meagre livelihood in the gutter should be compelled to pay a heavy fine because he has his dog to help him in his labor, and because the two work hard together. There are cities in the Old World where a great deal of labor is done by dogs. Are those, therefore, barbarous cities? In Belgium they have the breed of big mastiffs that once exclusively hunted the wild boars in the forest of Ardennes, but now these great beasts drag the milk carts in the cities, In Brussels a milk cart is scarcely drawn in any other way than by a dog team. Dogs are in fact utilized there as ponies are in England, and people who could keep neither a horse nor a pony yet have in their dogs a handy team that trots away to market every morning with the product of the dairy and helps to support the family. Is that barbarism or an eco- nomical use of the means athand? Why should not a gigantic cur from Newfound- land, weighing a hundred and fifty or two hundred pounds, do his share of the work as well as a puny boy of half his size? And is it not a nonsensical mockery to say that it is cruel to compel a dog to do what is done necessarily by all the children of the poor? The South Carolina Decision. The final action of the President in giving Governor Hampton, previous to his depar- ture from Washington, an. explicit promise that he will within a few days withdraw the troops from Columbia and allow the State free control of its own affairs puts an end to a long period of needless suspense. The value of this satisfactory decision would have been enhanced by greater promptness ; but justice to the President forbids us to underrate the difficulties and embarrass- ments which attended his action, He is naturally averse to exciting a great storm of indignation in his own party. Even now there is some danger of an impulsive, unre- flecting meeting among the fanatical flaunt- ers of the bloody shirt. The President hoped to forestall an émeute in the repub- lican party against the execution of the pol- icy declared in his letter of acceptance and inaugural address by inducing Governor Chamberlain to waive his claims and make a voluntary retirement. When the Presi- dent found he could not succeed in this attempt he vindicated his steadiness of pur- pose by doing what he had fully decided to do from the beginning. We do not doubt that order and tranqnillity will be preserved in South Carolina; but it is barely possible that Mr. Chamberlain may make an appeal to the republican party of the country. But should he do so he will meet with a feeble response. The in- telligent part even of the aggressive repub- licans see that the old game is played out. They can have no reasonable hope of ever carrying the country again on the bloody shirt issue. They made that issue promi- nent in the late election and in the popular yote there was a majority of a quarter of a million against them. They succeeded in electing Mr. Hayes only because the elec- toral vote does not correspond to the popular vote. A very large majority of the citizens of the United States fre unalterably opposed to military inter- vention by the federal government to thwart State independence. All the wiser republi- cans see that there is no salvation for their party if that policy is presisted in. If, therefore, Mr. Chamberlain should be so injudicious as to make an appeal to the country it would fall on listless ears. It is so evident that we have passed into anew era that we have been surprised at the grop- ing hesitation of President Hayes in carrying out a policy which his own judgment strongly approves and to which he has long stood publicly committed. He is in no peril; it is only the republicans who are blind enough or crazy enough to oppose him that are in dan- ger of being swept down by public senti- ment. There is no possibility that the policy of military intervention in the States can stand. That was the policy of Grant;: but, in spite of it, every Southern State but two was wrested from the republicans during his administration. This great revolution will not go backward. The idea that any kind or any amount of military interven- tion could retain South Carolina and Louis- iana in control of the republicans for the ensuing four years is as ridiculous as the attempt of Mrs. Partington to keep back the rising tide of the Atlantic with her mop, Even if President Hayes had no need of Congress to maintain the army he would lose those two States as certainly as Presi- dent Grant lost all the others. But he is hedged in by an obstacle which General Grant did not have to encounter. He will be permitted to have no army at all if he does not satisfy Congress at the extra ses- sion that State governments are no longer to be interfered with. If he were ever so much inclined to pursue the old exploded policy it would be practically impos- sible against the opposition of a demo- cratic House, which will insist on the same kind of an army bill as that which was defeated at the last session, unless the troops are previously withdrawn from Lonisiana as well as from South Carolina. Every republican who meditates an outcry because the President has decided to with- draw the troops is a political lunatic. Even if the President's judgment and conscience were not opposed to continuing the inter- vention policy nobody could reasonably complain of him for not attempting a plain impossibility. Horse Car Hints. One of our Complaint Book entries sug- gests the division of the seats in the horse cars—as is done on all the ferry boats—by means of an iron arm, which sets off the space allotted to every individual. This would render it impossible to cram in a few more on either side, and would prevent that probably more common evil—the occupa- tion by three or four selfish people of all one side of a car while a timid or diffident passenger stands up and contemplates their sublime indifference to his or her exist- ence. The only reason we know why the horse car companies should not adopt this system is that it would be convenience to the public. Complaint is frequently made that people who get into the west side cars to come down town are landed at the corner of Canal strect and Broadway through their having taken cars not marked Vesey street. This is a mishap likely to occur to any per- son not constantly riding on these lines, who are forgetful of the Canal street diver- sion or do not even know how to distinguish the cars. Why should not the conductor be authorized to supply every passenger thus mistaken with a coupon good for one hour for the rest of the ride down town on the cars of the same company? Not To Be Complimented. A correspondent, in a letter published in yesterday’s Hrnatp, suggests that we should have a Compliment Book, as well as a Com- plaint Book, and that one of the first to be complimented should be the Commissioner of Public Works. ‘For the first time in eight years,” writes our correspondent, ‘‘we have water on our third story. Two months ago the Hznap complained we had not, and we have had it ever since.” The writer dates his letter from Fifty-second street, and we congratulate him on his temporary good luck in the way of water. We believe, however, that the improvement in his supply must be attributed to local causes. We haveas many a8 a dozen letters from residents in the upper part of the city, bitterly complaining of the continued insufficiency of the supply, to set off against his single communication on the other side. Householders along Sev- enth avenue and on almost all the principal uptown streets are seriously inconvenienced by the scarcity of water. In many instances the flow in the second story, even when the basement faucets are closed, is a mere drib- bling, and no water at all can be obtained on the third story. There is no reason why this evil should exist. It ought not to con- tinue am hour. Clubs in Brooklyn. The ruffianly policeman, Michael Cleary, who so brutally clubbed an unoffending citizen of Brooklyn a little over n week ago, has been lodged in jail ona charge of assault with intent to kill, The condition of the injured man is critical, and the prisoner is held without bail to await the result. Should his victim die, os the attendant physicians think he will, Cleary will be tried for murder. There will be no diffi- culty in proving that the deadly assault was premeditated, and the ruffian’s words, while he was coolly beating the life out of his vic- tim, were that he would “kill him.” It is to be hoped that the man may recover, but should he lose his life through the assault the spectacle of a bloodthirsty policeman dangling at the end of a hangman's rope would be a lesson of inestimable value in the two cities. In such an event the fellow should go to the gallows in his uniform, with his bloodstained club in his hand, and a deputation of New York policemen, headed by Captain Williams, should be in attend- ance at the gratifying operation. Brigham Young. Lee’s confession, made in view of death, of the history of the Mountain Meadows massacre so plainly incriminates Brigham Young as to leave no doubt on the mind of the unprejudiced reader that the Mormon leader was cognizant of that horrible slaughter and a party to it. But this is a moral conviction only, and unless the crime can be legally brought home to him it would be unwise in the govern- ment to initiate proceedings, for the fail- ure to punish would have a bad effect. It is, therefore, a point of very great public interest whether or no it is’ not yet possible to obtain evidence to prove legally that guilt of which there is morally no doubt. Many stories that have appeared in Western papers since the pub- lication in the Henaup of Lee’s confession, and many statements made by frontiersmen, seem to indicate that there are persons hav- ing knowledge of the occurrence who are now willing to tell all they know. Some of them may themselves have been accessories, and are now frightened at the fate of Lee and the indication that the heads of their Church have given them up; but whoever they are the occasion to make them of ser- vice in the enforcement of justice should not be lost. It is just possible that the criminal law may yet solve the most difficult parts of the Mormon problem. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mozart composed minuets when only four years old. Beethoven sought inspiration in walking in the coun-. try. Gluck lked to write out of doors in a bright sun- shine. One gentieman in Paris lost $100,000 at gaming in a single day. Amsterdam, the commercial city, leans over on piles and has mosquitoes. M. Joualt has written a new life of George Washing- ton, but is contains nothing new. Hamburg bands embroidered 1n colors are imported for trimming dark percales and Scotch gingnams, Salieri collected his musical ideas whilo running through the most frequented streets eating sugar plume. “Music,” gays Bach, ‘is an elegant art and fine amusement, but as an occupation It hath little dignity, having tor its object nothing better than mere enter- tainment and pleasure.” New Jersey’s law for the appointment of a district judge in citios of 15,000 inhabitants 1s a wiso one, doing away with the ignorant, picayune justices of the peace. Tho only judge so tar confirmed ts ex-Senator Hopper, one of tho best lawyers of the State. St. Louis Kepublican:—“'The New York Herawp tn- forma us that an author of that city is writing a book ‘On Paper.’’? On what in the mischief could he write it but on paper?—Cincinnati Enquirer, Well, he might write on compulsion, or on reflection, or on Sunday. Louisville Courier-Journal:—“Now, my young friends, can you tell me who Leonidas was?” “Yes, sir; yes, sir; he was a momber of the Legislature.” “And what makes you tnink ho was a momber of tho Legislature, my children?’ Because, sif hie) held a pass with Spartan firmness,’ \ Burlington Hawkeye:—“Three hundred “Years ago forks were unknown in England, and a man coal scoop up all the green peas be could carry on the flat of te knifo and shovel them into his mouth without having his wife stamp on his corns, or nudge his elbow and spill the peas all over = his napkin ought to be and never 1s, and say in, @oarse, reproachful whisper, ‘Why, Bartholomew!’ Punch:—*'Mistress—'I really must inquire, Timmins, why the tea comes up so weuk of an afternoon?’ Parlor maid—‘Well, it should not, m’um! Cook, she puts in a spoonful for ’erse!f, a spoonful for myself and a spoonful for tho parlor; and as you rings as wo finishes I fills up the teapot mysel! with bilin’ water!’ ’? Haydon says of Keats:—'That because tho world did not bow at once to bis talents, as nis triends had done, he distrusted himself and flew to dissipation. Fop.six weeks he was hardly ever sober, and he once covered his throat and tongue as tar as he could reach with Cayenne pepper in order to enjoy the delicious coolness of claret in all its glory.’” Norristown Herald:—“'Tho Tokio (Japan) Times says:—‘Mr, Kanda Kobel, recently Gi Kuwan of tho Genro In, bas been appointed Mombu Shoyu. Ho was at one pertod Director of the Kal Sei Gakko, and after. ward Rei of the Hioga Keu.’—We always thought Mr. Kono! would make a good Mombu Shoyu, and wo aro pleased to hear of his promotion. Tho Times neg- lects to state, however, that the gentleman for a short timo held tho office of Swe Et Po Tai Ti of Nue Je Rse, and was subsequently made President of tho Kor Nort Oat Ers of Pu Bi Ck St Rei Ets.” Of the candidates mentioned for Governor of New Jersey on the democratic sido ex-Governor Parker probably carries most co: ‘ative weight, Leon Abbet the brightost and least trustworthy talents, and Judge Green, on account of his defeat by McPherson, the best political rights, On the republican side Cortlands Parker, though porsonally a brutally cold man, has the most brilliant oratory, and Joho Hill bas the greatest claim on the honest, sincoro convictions of the indus. trious men of the State, The contest is likely to be between Green and l’arker, with Abbet and Hobart in reserve, “The Countess of Blessington’s Country Quarters” will be the initial volume of Peterson's “Dollar Series of Good Novels’? Threo hundred and fifty-two dif. ferent authors have contributed to tho three volames and a half of St Nicholas, Tho contributors to the May number are among the best writers in the coun- try. They are John G. Whittier, Saxe Holme, Celia Thaxter, Richard A, Proctor, J, G Molland, Lucy Lar, com, Sidney Lanier, Donald G. Mitonell, J. T, Trow. bridge, Frank R. Stockton, Edgar Fawcett, Mary Mapes Dodge, Mary Treat, G. B. Bartlett and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, No wonder tho children ory for iy TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From. All Parts of the World. EUROPE STILL IN DOUBT. The Question of Peace or War Not Settled by the Protocol, ITALY AND THE PAPACY. The British Revenue—Strike of English Shipbuilders. RUMORED TUNNEL ACCIDENT, [BY CABLE TO THE HEBALD.] Loxvom, April 2, 1877, The protocol is still the subject of comment in the pross and among public men hore, and the prevailing view of the situation is anything but hopeful. It is felt by those bost informed on Continontal politica that Russia bas all along been simply fight tog for time to complete her preparations for war and placing the sitnation in such alight before Europe as would justify an invasion of Turkey. The grand scale on which her preparations have been made leave no room to doubt her intention to fight eventually, and the only contingency which can avert war would be a concession on the part of the Porte which Turkish stubbornness and fanaticism will nover submit toa After the signing of the protocol by tho representatives of the six Powers at the Foreign Oftice in London Count von Beust, the Austrian Ambassador; Count von Mun- ster, the German Ambassador; General Menabrea, the Italian Ambassador, and Count Schouvaloff, the Rus- sian Ambassador, had a conference with the Marquis d'Harcourt, the French Ambassador, at the French Embassy. The Marquis d’Harcourt subsequently left London for Paris, OPINION O¥ THE CONTINENT, The protocol and its posaible results are still the sub+ Ject of discussion in continental capitals as well as ich from St. Petersburg eays:—'*Ae- elligonce from London the protocol, which was signed on Saturday afternoon, will be im- mediately notified to the Porte, General Ignatieff ar- rived Friday evening and immodiately bad an interview with Prince Gortschakof. The newspapers, comment. ing on his mission, express the belief that the protocol will only guarantee peace if Turkey carries out the ree forms, which they regard as doubtful.’? Another St Petersburg despatch says in spite ot the signing of the protocol pessimist ws again prevail there and war is considered inevitable,” TheSt, Petersburg Vedomosté declares that ‘the protocol is the begin- ning of the dénouemont, Russia cannot disarm unless she is. convincod that she will not have to arm again, War may not be immediate, but it is inevitable’? The not decide peace or war. However dosirable peace may be, there are situations in which war would be nocessary.”” The Journal de St. Petersburg says the tone of the debates in the Turkish Parliament Jeaves littls hope of a peaceful issue. La France, of Paris, says:—‘The signing of the protocol virtually abrogates the Treaty of Paris, We believe Russia will soon proclaim this result. Among the obstacles to the conclusion of peace with Montenegro is Italy’s opposi- ton to the cession of the Port of Spizaay” THE QUESTION OF DISARMAMENT. The Times’ correspondent at Vienna points out that the question of digarmamont still remains the real question at issue. It has not been solved by the protocol, but only postponed. The chances of an eventual agreement about disarmament have not, perhaps, been greatly improved by transterring the nogotiations from the Powers to the parties im- mediately interested and influenced by popular feelings and passions. Despite all this the turn which affairs havo taken is undoubtedly favorable, as it removes danger of an immediate collision and places the Powors in a position to exert some influence on the course of affairs, Although no agreement seems yet made concerning tho iuture mode of proceoding it. is probable that England will be allowed to take the lead in negotiations in Constantinople, as she hap done in those with Russia, ‘TH PORTE TRYING TO FORESTALL RUSSIA, It 1# stated that Safvot Pacha is preparing a diplo- matic note to the great Powers. Its object is to obtain agreement to a delay of one month, in which to terminate the prosent situation ot uncertainty, which compromises all interests. According to telegrams trom Constantinople the Grand Vizier and Safvet Pacha have resolved to forestall foreign diplomatic pressure by making peace with Montenegro and complying, by anticipation, with the condijions of the protocol, Even with this news the hopes of peace are very aint. The Mon. tenogrins will’ have another interview with Safvet Pacha in the course of the week. Dervisch Pacha hae been appointed Governor of Salonica. DORS IT MEAN PEACE? + According to advices irom St. Petersburg Russia hag ordereé her squadron in the Mediterranean and American waters to return to the Baltic, It ts expected, according to @ telegram from Berlin, that Russia will raise a heavy loan as soon as the confle dence of Europe in peace ts strengthened. THE PAPACY, The Pope received 1,000 pilgrims on Saturday and delivered a speech im French. The Corriere d’ Italia says In view of the agitation which the Catholics ap- pear to desire to raise Signor Melogari, Mintster of Foreign Affairs, has authorized the Italian representa: tives abroad to give, If asked, the most reassuring ox: plapations as to the government’s firm intention to respect and insure respect for the Papal Guarantees law. DETROTHAL OF A GERMAN PRINCERS, Tho Princess Cuarlotte, eldest daughter of the Crown Prince Frederick-William, has been formality betrothed to the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen. THE BRITISH REVENUE, The revenue returns for the financial year onded Saturday show that the total revenue was £73,565,036, which is £153,036 In excess of the budget estimate and £1,433,343 in excess of tho revenuo of the previous year, SHIPRUILDERS’ STRIKE, ‘The shipbullders in tho iron ship works at Stockton. on-Tees, to the number of 1,000, have struck work be- cause their demand for an advance of ton per cent in their wages has been refused, RUMORED TUNNEL ACCIDENT, A rumor comes from Paris that tho roof of tho Mont Cenis Tunnel has fallen in, overwhelming two passen- ger trains, THAT SPANISH MARRIAGE, Tho Maarid correspondent of the Daily News says:— “Notwithstanding official denials, 1 am still assured that the report of the intended riage of King Ak tonso with the Duke of Montponsier’s daughter 1s core rect, but the date originally appointed has beon post poned.”” EGYPT AND ARABIA, A despatch from Alexandria announces that Captain Burton left Suez on Saturday for Mor. Jah, on the Arabian coast, on a special mission from the Khedive. Ho sailed in an Egyptian man-of-war, id was accompanied by two European and two Egyptian staff officers and a bodyguard of troops, FRESHETS IN NOVA SCOTIA, Hauivax, April, 1877. Freshets in Annapolis, Kings and Queens counties have done much damage. Sevorai bridges and large quantitios of logs wero carriod away. At Gaspreaa the mill dam was carried aw. ind two men who were working im tho mill were drowned, -