The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1877, Page 4

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XEW YORK aquantva, EW YORK, S41 YORK, SATURDAY, AP NOTICE 10 COUNTRY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company ru train over the Pennsylvania Rallros Jeuving Jersey City at a quarter past four A, bunday, regular edition of the Hinatp as tar and South to te ton, reaching Warter past six A. ‘ashington at special newspaper i ections From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be eooler and clear or partly cloudy, followed by rising tem- perature and increasing cloudiness. Way Srreet Yesterpar.—The stock mar- ket was quiet and, asarule, steady. As com- pared with the last few days there was not much business done, the trunk and coal road stocks receiving the most attention. Gold was very steady at 105. Government stocks were firm and railroad bonds were generally higher. Money loaned at 4 per cent, rose to 5 and de- clined to 21g per cent on call. As a Parnetic Story “A Joyless Honey- moon” is matchless. Tre Resoiutions Aporrep at the Louisiana mass meeting yesterday aro remarkable for their good temper and moderation. - Tae SUPERINTENDENT OF PoLtcE asks for the names of men who wish to join the Athletic Club. Is not the police “club” already active enough? To Sx aN Owner OF Gas Stocks ¢ontemplat- Ing the new gasoline street lampson the east side, ap town, is to realize that aman may be rich and yet not be happy. Tur CANADIAN PREMIER advises the unem- ployed to “go West.” Thousands of unemployed men have given themselves the same advice and found money in it. A Lance Number or Hostive Inprans have signified their intention to surrender to General Miles, which means that the General is too lively on the warpath to suit the savages. A Jupiciovs Use of a few quarts of water has heretofore made up the losses inflicted upon dis- honest milkmen in court, but he who was sen- tenced to the penitentiary yesterday will find ‘water powerless to assuage his woe. Why Can Not Comptarinc SArLors organize a “co-operative shipping office?” The expenses would be small, and there are masters of vessels who would be shrewd enough to look for their men ata place where such unusual sense was displayed. Axotuer Spasm or Rerorm—The Corpora- tion Counsel complains that the new Court House Commissioners have contracted for more work than the appropriation will cover. Think of such an act being considered out oi the way in New York, and in connection with the Court House too! Goversor Ronrnson has at least one very clear idea on civil service retorm—he believes that incompetence is sufficient cause for removal from office. His recommendation of the re- moval of Bank Superintendent Ellis seems justi- fied by the‘ charges, and necessary, so that men may learn that bank examiners are appointed to work, not merely to draw salaries. Vatican Movements.—In Rome itis noted that the Pope walks less than formerly and is carried more—an cvident endeavor to economize the easily exhausted vital forces of extreme ago, to stretch the little remaining strength over as tiany days as possible. And the presage of approaching change is the purpose observed at the Vatican to clear and have ready apart- ments fit and proper for the sessions of the conclave that must choose His Holiness’ succes- sor. It is possible that the necessity of making this chvice may be long deferred, but the per- sons immediately about the Pope are not of that | opinion. Tue Wratner.—The depression which moved off the New England coast on Thursday after- noon has taken a northeasterly direction and is now traversing Nova Scotia, following the usual course for disturbances on the North Atlantic coast. The central pressure decreased rapidly during the morning, but increased again as the day slvanced. Brisk westerly and northwest- erly winds followed the depression, and an area of snow and rain attended its movements. The temperature has risen along the coust, but has not changed much in the St. Lawrence Valley. As we predicted, another depression has advanced from the Southwest into the Mississippi Valley, with rain from Texas to Cincinnati, and north- westward to Bismarck ; moderate to low temper- ature and light winds and calms over a large arca, Botween the Mississippi and the Allegha- tics, northward of Tennessee, the weather has been generally clear. Fogs havo prevailed on the Gulf coast, with very high temperature. ‘The Misauuri and Mississippi have risen slightly, and the Ohio und Cumberland have fallen. The weather in New York today will be clear or partly cloudy and cooler, followed by rising tem- perature and increasing cloadiness. The Future of Parties. There isa great deal of discussion now- adays about the future of parties. The in- augural address was such a political bomb- shell as caused a grievous lamentation among politicians of both sides. The evi- dent intention and expectation of the Presi- dent that his Southern policy shall divide the democrats of the South and draw into the republican ranks a considerable part of the iatelligent and property owning class there caused alarm in the democratic camp; the more because they were conscious that if the new Southerg policy were carried out with tact and kindly good faith gratitude to the President would combine with other causes to make a very serious break in their ranks, and also because they saw that local rivalries were already undermining their party organization in almost every Southern State. But it is entirely too early, just now, to predict the future of parties. Whether there shall be a break or not depends en- tirely on the President. If he carries out his policy with a faithful and unfaltering will nothing in the world can prevent @ rearrangement of party lines all over the country most beneficial to its interests. If he falters, wavers and tries tc manage and conciliate he will fail, and parties will remain unbroken, South as well as North, which we should regard az a very grave misfortune. Ifhe goes on as he began, with decision and courage, he cannot fail to gather about him the best men of both par- ties in all the sections. They will rally to him as they did to Mr. Lincoln in 1861. Then the issue was the national life; now it will be the national regeneration and puri- fication; and now, as then, the wisest, the most patriotic, the best and most thought- ful men of both parties would hasten to array themselves on the side of the Presi- dent and give him their zealous support in his policy. Indeed, the publication of the inaugural address produced at once precisely this effect. In Washington Senators like Bayard, Randolph, Kernan, Gordon, Lamar, Hill, Garland and many others at once declared that they would support Mr. Hayes in the fulfilment of all he had promised; and these men, democrats all of them, but lovers of country above party, by their firm attitude broke down the republican plot to defeat the President's Cabinet nominations. All over the country the address was welcomed by the best democrats as heartily as by the best republicans; doth saw in ita happy promise of national regeneration, and the soreness over the manner in which Mr. Hayes was made President gave way to the hope that his rule would be beneficent for the country. The course of the President, though right and wise, is an anomaly in our politics, For the first time in our history the remark- able spectacle is presented of an elected President carrying out the views of the op- position. Vice Presidents who have suc- ceeded to the first office have paid little re- spect to the views of the party by which they were chosen; but Presidents elected as such have, in the main, kept step to the party music. Mr. Hayes is the first conspicuous exception. He is pur- suing, with slowness and _ prudence indeed, but with signal steadiness, the policy advocated by his political oppo- nents during the canvass. He is diverging widely—nay, he is moving in exactly the opposite direction, from the outgivings of the efficient managers of his canvass, who marched under the banner of the bloody shirt ‘full high advanced.” But he can- not be accused of any want of good faith or loyalty to his supporters. In his excellent letter of acceptance he made a perfectly frank and explicit declaration of what he would do if elected. Neither his own party nor the opposition believed that he meant what he said. Unexpectedly to both he stands by his word. He proves to be a great deal more of a man than either party sup- posed. But his steadiness, his consistency, his cautious firmness, seem pretty certain, if he holds out as he has begun, to lead to a dissolution and reconstructior of political parties. In considering the future of parties it would be absurd to suppose that the Presi- dent is going to deliberately and purposely break up his own party; just as absurd as it would be to suppose that the democratic leaders, who so quickly rallied to his sup- port when their support was necessary to him, meant thereby to abandon the demo- cratic party. Political changes are not brought about so suddenly or in such ways, Moreover, the President has always been what is called ‘‘a strict party man.” He has followed the leaders of his party, in Congress and as Governor, not, certainly, with the subserviency of a machine politician, but with loyalty and zeal, and with a certain ready sacrifice of his own judgment to what he, perhaps, supposed was the virtue of party fealty. He is probably very desirous to keep his own party together now, and here we take leave to point ont to him one of the greatest dangers to which he is exposed. If he attempts so to shape his course as to please both wings of his own party he must necessarily fail, and fail, not in making the party harmonious, but in fulfilling his pledges to the country. The promises of his inaugural address are at irreconcilable | variance with the spirit, the purposes and the interests of one large part of the repub- lican party and of a great many of its influ- ential leaders. These not only do not be- lieve in his polic their hearts, because if it should succeed it would blast their hopes and defeat their | plans and aims. If, for instance, he means to restore the two Southern States to local self-government and bring the country back under the shelter of the constitution how can he hope in doing so to conciliate or secure the sincere support of those repnb- lican leaders—the Blaines, Logans, Butlers and others like them—who live by the “bloody shirt,” and all whose future plans look to a_ perpetuation of the “solid South” issue? If he means to reform the civil service how can he look for the co-operation of the machine politicians in his party? If he means to bring back specie payments how can he hope to con- | ciliate the paper mpney republicans or secure the zealous help of those whose they detest it with all | policy has so long been to adroitly do nothing? To succeed he must persistently place country above party. He must shut> his ears to mere party pleas. He must keep his eyes fixed on the pledges he has given and let party consequences take caro of them- selves. He must not be alarmed at the op- position of some of his party's leaders ; he should rather welcome their hostility, be- cause it will gather to him at once the en- thusiastic support of the country, which will hail in him the true representative of the best and highest American ideas. If he has courage and steadfastness thus to pursue his own course undoubted|y party lines will be broken, and very rapidly ; but he will find himself the rallying point of a new party, better than either of the present ones, because composed of the best elements of each; a party which will be strong and able enough to de- fend him against all attack, and to enable him to realize all the pledges he has made to the country. But to achieve this result he must act and not hesitate; he must be as bold in performance as he has been in promises; for only decisive action secures confidence in followers; hesitation, delay, are fatal to its growth. With the future of parties he has nothing to do; it is no part of his business to consider it. His policy is | the death warrant of both the present par- ties. He cannot save them without miserably failing to fulfil the just expectations he has raised in the country; and he cannot be ac- cnsed of destroying his own party, becausé he is the servant of the whole people, and his policy is the policy of the whole coun- try. A The simplification and reform of our | dock management can be 50 easily effected | that any novel and complicated legislation on the subject is naturally regarded as offered in bad faith, or as covering some job which would probably be worse for the city than even the present Dock Department. Under the existing system a distinction is made between our dock work and all other public work. The Dock Department is not required, as other departments are, to re- port its annual estimates to the Board of Apportionment. Its expenses are ‘not in- cluded in the yearly budget, as the expenses of other departments are. The Commis- sioners are not responsible, as all other heads of departments. Their expenses have been on an average nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year. Their plans have been im- mature, their counsels divided, their heavy expenditures altogether inconsistent with the amountof work done. They have helped to increase our debt without having much bettered the condition of the docks or given any important advantages tocommerce. The law creating the Dock Commission and de- fining its powers and duties should be re- pealed, the docks should be placed under the management of a bureau inthe Public Works Department, the head of which should beacapable engineer, directly responsible to the Commissioner of Public Works, and all the dock work should be brought under the provisions of the city charter and done by contract, the same as all other city work is done. This would sweep away the triple- headed commission, with its costly political patronage, the boats, derricks and other ex- pensive white elephants of the department, and would bring the docks under the prac- tical management of a competent and ro- sponsible head. We would then have the docks improved and the work done effi- ciently, cheaply and in a business like manner. mple Reform. Charity Scandals. The scandalous disclosures in relation to the management of some of our private city charities are very properly attracting the attention of the Board of Apportionment and inducing greater caution in the distribu- tion of the excise moneys among them. ‘The action of some of these societies in refusing to allow any investigation of their affairs to be made, except under such rules and regu- lations as they think proper to dictate, nec- essarily deprives them of public confidence and should be an absolute bar to their re- ceipt of a single dollar of the public funds. The Commissioner of Accounts, who has been endeavoring to investigate the financial affairs of the St. John’s Guild, reports that it is impossible to do so, since no books have been kept for three years, and the moneys re- ceived have been deposited to the private bank account of one of the managers. The Children’s Fold scandal has been revived by the attempt of the deposed manager, Mr. Cowley, to force himself back into the insti- tution by a coup d'état, The State Board of Charities reports the management of the New York Juvenile Guardian Socicty to be utterly untrustworthy. These are not pleas- ant subjects to contemplate. It is deplor- able to be forced to believe that the miserable crime of abusing a charitable trust is possible in this city. At the same time the poor should not be allowed to suf- fer from these scandals. Indeed, there is no good reason why they should not be bene- tited by the disclosures. Every charitable association should be searchingly scruti- ; nized and the money of charitable citizens as wellas the pifblic funds should be given only to those by whom it will be faithfully transferred to the deserving poor. Then the needy will receive more solid assistance than they have obtained in the past from the same amount of contributions. Unq Mu An important point in the foreign news is that the Mussulmans in Bulgaria ‘have re- | commenced threats, the same as preceded the last massacre.” All the people of a vil- | lage near Philippopolis have been notified that they have only a fortnight to live—a piece of intelligence that reminds one of the missives in this country of the Kn Klux Klan and the Molly Maguires; though the whole- sale butcheries that last year startled Europe sufficiently evidence that the grotesque re- semblance does not go far. It is worthy of note that the possible occurrence this year of massacres such as were perpetrated last year is touched upon in the declaration made by Count Schouvaloff in London before signing the protocol on the Bist ult. It is there said:—‘If mas- sacres similar to those which have stained Bulgaria with blood take place this would necessarily put a stop to ‘measures of demobilization.’” That is, if all other difficulties in the way of peace should be re- moved and Russia should be in the very process of disbanding her armies the repe- tition of last year’s outrages would change the situation completely. As it is thought that Russia would not be displeased at any event which might seem to fairly arrest the process of disarmament the early report of these threats following that declaration may excite suspicions that Russian agents in- spired the report, But the news came from the troubled neighborhood in a special despatch to the London Times, and Russian stories do not generally come by that chan- nel, Roundsman ester Lewis. Roundsman Lester Lewis is a fine speci- men of ‘the best police in the world.” Some weeks ago he'was on a Fourth avenue car in citizen’s dress, with nothing of the policeman about him except his natural ruf- fianism and innate blackguardism to desig- nate his profession. An old and highly re- spectable citizen who was riding on the same car and conversing with some friends happened to express the opinion that, among other desirable municipal economies, the pay of the police might properly be re- duced. Roundsman Lester Lewis thereupon interfered in the conversation and com- menced to shower foul abuse on the gentle- man who had ventured to advocate such a policy. If Roundsman Lester Lewis had been armed with his club at the time he would, no doubt, have knocked the offender senseless and broken in his skull at his leis- ure for the purpose of admitting into it more liberal views. As the only police weapon he had about him at the time was his foul tongue he used that freely on the astonished citizen. But Roundsman Lester Lewis had his op- portunity in reserve. A few days subse- quent to this car rencontre Lewis met and recognized the gentleman who had favored reducing the policeman’s pay on Broadway. Lewis was then a full fledged bully and ruffian, for he had his well stuffed police coat on his back and his skull-cracking club in his fist. So he walked up to the citizen, addressed him in an insulting, swaggering style, followed him along the sidewalk with abusive language for the purpose of provok- ing a breach of the peace, but, finding that impossible, at last made up his mind to ar- rest him anyway, and so dragged him along Broadway from Bleecker street to the Tombs, There the trumped-up complaint he made was instantly dismissed by the magis- trate and the police ruffian was se- verely rebuked. Roundsman Lester Lewis has now been tried before the Police Com- missioners on these charges and they have been fully proven against him. _The Board has directed that the ruffian shall be pun- ished; but how? He is to be ‘‘reprimanded by Commissioner Smith!” Now a repri- mand by Commissioner Baldy Smith may be a very terrible infliction, but will Roundsman Lester Lewis care a snap of his fingers for it? Will he not laugh in his sleeve at Baldy’s rebuke, however severe it may be? The whole proceeding is an out- rage on the public, and the Police Commis- sioners who dare to leave so unmitigated a ruffian and loafer as Roundsman Lester Lewis on the police to be a terror to peace- ful, law-abiding citizens, prove that they are as unfit to manage the force as that worthy is to be intrusted with a club. Who Killed 0: le D. Jewett? No doubt exists as to the cause of George W. Jewett’s death—the horrible laceration of his leg by the fragments of the exploded grenade gives all the evidence necessary on that point. But another life has been sacri- ficed in this dark tragedy, and investigation is groping for facts that will show who killed Orville D. Jewett. The wounds on his body are seven in number. Two of these were caused by the explosion, the other five are perforating wounds in the epigastric region from pistol shots. The bullets have been traced in their downward and backward course into the intestines. The pistols by which they were evidently made lay on the floor beside the bodies. One of these weapons was a four-barrelled pis- tol of small calibre, corresponding to the size of four bullets found in the body; another was a large navy revolver, the heavy ball from which made the large wound over the stomach. Who fired these pistols? Were both discharged by Orville D. Jewett with suicidal intent? Or did he only fire the larger one into his body and Dean the other in the act of self- defence? Lastly, is it possible that a struggle took place after the explosion between young Jewett and his uncle, and that the latter fired the small pistol, which he may have wrenched from the murderer's hand at the moment or previously held? ‘These theories invite investigation. Any of them may be the true one. One of them must be. The facts gathered yesterday by our reporters and published this morning do not change the general features of this mys- terious affair from those ofmurder and suicide which it assumed from the start. There are indications, however, of an effort to cloak it from the public curiosity which must not be permitted to succeed. No fam- ily considerations should stand between the | law and the facts. If Mr. Dean had no hand in Orville D. Jewett’s death he owes it to himself and to the public to give the fullest explanation he can offer as_ to its immediate cause. How Oper: e Put on the Stage. Can any of our operatic managers, whose taste and judgment are so admirable in the selection of contraltos, sopranos, tenors, bassos and the rest, and who caf nose a successful prima donna across the Atlantic, | give us any satisfactory reascn why, in pro- ducing an opera, the music of the composer, the skill of the musicians and the voices of the singers should be left to gain popular favor unaided by any of the customary | accessories of a well-directed stage? As a rule, which, indeed, has but very few excep- tions, to put an opera on the American stage means to procure one or two stars whose light happens to be bright in the musical firma- ment at the moment, a few good second class singers, as large a chorus as the trens- ury will permit, and of course a good orchestra, which can generally be found in New York. For the rest the lumber of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. property mun’s trunks are ransacked for wardrobes, The chorus, always of # very miscellaneous character and seldom distin- guished for the grace and dignity of its males or the beauty of its females, is made todo double or treble duty, now coming on as gay and careless pensants, now as grim warriors and again as brigands and their picturesque wives and daughters. To change a “‘supe” froma peasant to a soldier needs only a long red coat, acap with a feather in it and an old musket. To take away his good charac- ter and degrade him into a bloodthirsty brigand requires simply a circular brown cloak, a slouching brown hat, a pair of turn- over boots, a brace of pistols, a long knife apd a fierce stage mustache. In a recent opera a peasant lover in the first scene was transformed into a corporal of the guard in the second, and in the third became a re- morseless mountain robber. Through all the changes he was easily recognized by his remarkably thin legs and his painfully weak eyes, In the opera ‘Il Ballo in Mas- chera,” as recently presented at the Academy of Music, the historian would be puzzled to recognize the old fishermen and sailors of Boston in the gentlemen who appear to have been just turned out by some dealer in the cast-off clothes ofa band of Italian brigands. Because the story of ‘Lucia di Lammer- moor” is ‘laid in Scotiand the inevitable fates that frown on the stage destinies of operatic performances always provide warm Italian scenery, and the stout Scottish peas- ants invariably ptesent the appearance of Bohemian gypsies. The scenery in ‘‘Trova- tore,” on the other hand, is generally such as might be used in parts of ‘Der Freis- chutz,” while the troops might pass for Jersey militiamen on a training, Who ever saw the sailors in the ‘Flying Dutchman” look like anything but a cross be- tween an Italian brigand and an English marine? On one occasion when “Norma” was produced in this city some of the Druids astonished the parquet by dis- playing Oxford ties under their long white robes, and we remember to have seen a Norma wearing a handsome pair of solitaire earrings and a profusion of diamonds on her fingers and wrists, A famous Gennaro in “Lucretia Borgia” once pulled out and re- | ferred to a handsome double cased gold Jur- gensen during the poisoning scene, appar- ently for the purpose of ascertaining how long hehadtolive. The carelessness of dis- tinguished singers as to their acting and | dressing is often a subject of remark. Is it not greatly due to the indifference of the management as to the manner in which an opera is put on the stage? Phair, the Murderer—An Alibi. Vermont furnishes an event that is mildly sensational in its way, as an apparent departure from correct and methodical con- duct on the part of the authorities. In that State in the year 1874 the crime of murder was brought home to a young man by evidence satisfactory to a jury, and this culprit is now under sentence of death. But a+ person has ‘turned up” who promises to prove that at the time the crime was committed in Rutland, Vt., the alleged murderer was not in the place, but somewhere else, on his way to Providence. That the Executive should stay the arm of the law out of regard to a mere expression of opinion of this nature must be attributed to the readiness of the authorities to exhaust the smallest chance that, may present itself in the, culprit’s favor—to a dis- position not to hang anybody in favor of whose innocence a word can possibly be said. It is nearly three years since the occurrence of the crime. On the trial the whereabouts of the murderer on the day of the murder was made out by a consistent train of circumstances, and did not at all agree with his own account of his where- abouts. No evidence was produced on the trial to sustain his own account, and the jury decided against him. Now a man comes forward whose statement amounts to an expression of opinion that the prisoner's story was true. It seems not according to ordinary methods to stay an execution on such ground. Doubtless the Governor attaches weight to the story, snd that of course is sufficient; but it is evident that a man who knew so little of the pris- oner that he did not appear on the trial, and | who yet knows so much that he can swear as to the culprit’s whereabouts on a particu- lar day in June, 1874, is a person who knows at once too little and too much, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Blaine is at Augusta, Me. Even ribbons nowadays are two-faced. A girl robbed Mr. Custard, of Chicago, of $30; he eustard. Many a lover has wondered how a cat can walk along tho top of a spiked fence. In some paris of the country the farmers aro be- ginning to {cel their oats. ‘Yhe novel combination of sky-blue and olive-green was seen in ap clegant Paris costume. London has a statue of a young Englishman which in form 18 more graceful and beautiful than the great Apollo Belvedere. Raiph Waldo Emerson will get up in tbe middie of | the night to jot down a thought or gee whether there | is @ mouse in the trap, The sweet air of spring comes slowly but surely, and the violets and milk punches on the Jorsey bills begin to peep their heads above the ice. Rome Sentinel:——"“Even if a boy is always whistling ‘I want tobe an wogel,’ it is just as well to keep the preserved pears op the top shelt of the pantry,” Thore are uine things that will make a mau mad, but one is enough when his wife tells bim be can’t have any diuner because she couldn’t get the wash boiler off the stove in time, Worcester PrestigeAb the age of ten Dr, Schifemann, the excavator at Mycenw, presented nis father with a Latin essay on tho Trojan war and was loft father! | ata comparatively early age.”’, Mr. Isaac W. Andrew, only brother of Governor Andrew, who was removed from the office of Inspector at the Boston Custom House, alter a service of four. teen years, has been restored by the new Secretary ot | the Treasury. Andrews’ Bazar;—“A party of Chicago girls wero out jumping the rope on the prairie recently, and an unsophisticated Eastern man who passed over the ground shortly after thought there had been a buffalo fight there.” Moses wag a civil enginecr. He surveyed the prom- ised Innd.—New Orleans Republican, No, be was @ miniug engipeor. He viewed “the landscape ore.”— Boston Post, This is Morebie; he was a Wall strect engineer. He wasa littio bare among the ballrushes, Burtington Hawk-Kye :—“Screntiie men say that the use of opium engenders a tendency to steal. We now understand why De Quincy, in his ‘Confessions of an Opium Kater,’ casually montioned that the para- and TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE. PROTOCOL DISCUSSED, Its Peouliar Character Becoming Daily More Evident. BISMARCK IN’ RETIREMENT. Does He Still Retain the Em- peror’s Confidence? HIS HOLINESS’ HEALTH, [Bx CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Loxpox, April 7, 1877, It is stated from Constantinople that the Porte will give the Chargés d’Affaires verbal reply relative to the protocol on Monday, and subsequently send a circular to tho Turkish representatives abroad, Tho Porte ine tends to subduo the Miridites without delay, so that they may be prevented from supporting the Montene. grins in case of a renewal of hostilities at the expira- tion of the armistice. Last evening’s Paris journals display uneasiness in discussing the present phaso of the Eastern question, La France says:—“The Divan is resolve! to frustrate, by incessantly raising obstacies,f all negotiations bes tween Russia and Turkey. We appeal to England to present. these manceuvres in Constantinople.’”? It looks very much.as though the difficulties mentioned rolative to beginning diplomatic action aro due, to a certain extent, to a stato of fecling of disappointm iu St. Petersburg, at the diplomatic victory whi Russia supposed she gained throcgh the signa- ture of the pretocol The shouts of triumph with which the Russian press first received this vic- tory have died away, and tne conviction is dawning that the affair wa: drawn battle, Feelings of per- sonal influence and rivalry futervene much to biag judgment, Count Schouvaloff will receive the princk pal share of praiso or biame for the signi of the protocol, His having induced the Russian govern ment to consent toa compromise certainly proves be has triends and influence, but this would only seem t¢ afford all the more reason to those who succeeded in removing him «from St. Petersburg to om deavor to represent his last = diplomatie achievement in the worst possible light. The most it made to prove that the protocol, in consequence of the reservations made by the Powers, contains vo aubstan- tial gain and is quite at the discretion of Turkey if ghe chooses to prove stubbora. It is almost too much to expect that such views expressed by the influential porty should not produce somo effect, and this may in some measure explain the more rigid attiiude agnia assumed by Russia since the sicuature of the protocol, which, It is to de Loped, is oniy transitory. ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN OPINION, In an article considering the effects of the protocol the Pall Mall Gaseéte of last night said:—‘‘Grave dan- ger to poace lies in the fanaticism, or patriotism, of the new Turkish Parliament, and the protocol and at- tendant declarations do not diminish It. If their gene eral tendency !s to soothe Russian susceptibilities they aro at the same time calculated to exasperate or to harden tho Turks” The St. Petersburg Golos of yosterday, commenting on the situation is of opinion that the present crisis will terminate if the Porto will make concessions, The Golos adds that the signature of the protocol was proo! cf England's readiness to accept everything that would prevent armed intervention in Turkish affeire by Russia, In official quarters in St. Petersburg it ia statea that by the presentation of the protocol to the Porte, which 1s regarded by Russia ai 0 final issue of the conference, the Ru government has manilosied its peacciul and unselfish policy. The maintenance of peace will therefore depend principally upon England’s endeavors to relieve any doubts still existing at Con+ stantinople that the political influences actively at work on the Bospborus against the maintenance o/ peace must not expect official support fram England, and must understand that the latter Powor will in every way strenuously oppose them. Peace with Montenegro 1s regarded as an indispensable condition for establishing amicable relations between Turkey and Russia, and for insuring a policy on the part of Turkey offering guarantecs for the future, It ts pointed out that no effort has been spared by Russia to dissuade Montenegro from putting forward excessive demands, and that endeavors have alsu been made to provent obstinacy on the part o¢ Montenegro in any particular point from creating dif- ficulties in the political situation. TURKISH WONORS AND REVENGE, ‘The Sultan bas conferred the Star of the Order of Osmauli upon Edhem Pacha, the Grand Vizier, as a token of His Mojesty’s recognition and approval of the policy pursued by bim since he bas becu in office. ‘This does not indicate any intention to recall Midbat Pacha, The Turkish Vice Consul at Naples bas becn ‘ | removed, beeauso of the honors he paid Midbat Pacha during the Jatter’s sojourn at Naples, FORENODINGS OF MORK MASSACRES, ‘The Times’ Philippopolis correspondent writes as follows:—‘The dark rumors which were current this time last year are again revived, The Mussuimans have recommenced threats, the same as preceded the last. massacro. The inhabitants of Iyvor, a village only three hours distant, have been informed that they had only @ fortnight to live. The Chri Ss are greatly alarmed, and everywhere the same uneasiness is current as last year.” BISMARCK AS A CHECK TO RUSSIA. Prince Bismarck’s long furlough has produced great regret in Vienna, not uomixed with something like misgiving for the future. The course of Eastern events have been Viewed in Berlin rather less hopo- fully than avywhere cise, Alt along the impres- sion has been prevalent that tbings had gone too far to allow a@ pacific settlement, Whenever tho prospect scomed a iittle more hopetul it was always from Berlin that warning was sounded against prematuro hopes, It has been the same relative to the protocol which, per- haps, inspires less bope in Berlin than elsewhere, It would, therefore, be very like sell-delusion to inter- pret Prince Bismarck’s withdrawal us a symptom that things are deemed at Berlin to havo taken such aturo as to allow the services of the Chancellor to be dis- pensed with altogether or temporarily. What- over may bo the causes of that withdrawal, it opens up ® prospect of uncertainty, especially ag rogards Austria, the pivot of whose foreign -policy since 1871 has been a good understanding with Ger. many, Rightly or wroogly, Princo Bismarck’s presence at the head of the German government has come to ba regarded as asortof guarantee that Germany would never allow Russtan influence to assume dangerous preponderance’, Though there is no reason to suppose that Prince Bismarck’s withdrawal will produce any change in this respect, and much less that his with- drawal bas been iniluenced by auy change which may be preparing tn this direction, still it is a step intothe unknown, which cannot fail to cause misgivings, GERMAN PRESS OPINION, Up to noon yesterday the Emperor's decision re- garding Prince Bismwnare! pplication had not been pronounced. The North German Gazette catogorically denies that there has been any disagreement between the Emperor and Bismarck as to the extent Germany should support Russia; also that Bismarck’s resigna- tion is due to an intended change of attitude toward tho Papacy or to the Von Stosch affair, The Borla Poste says Bismarck still regularly attends to bis oficial duties and has mado no preparations for a journey, Bismarck some weeks ago declared if the public service remained on its present footing his labors would become too heavy for him to bear. But he did not then suggest tho distribution of bis duties graphist of the Globe-Democrat had been addicted to le the stage is overhauled for scenery and the the use of opium from the early ff two anda half years,” among Various responsiblo persons. On the contrary, Bismarck entertains great plans of reform in internal administration, social legislation, the system of taxa: