The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1877, Page 6

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GILMORE'S GARDEN—Mosnow “AND Ormave TRIPLE SHEET. _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL ; "NOTICE TO “Cou RY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company run a special nowspaper train over tho Ponpsylvanin Raflroad and its connections, rh City at a quarter past four A. M. daily and ring the regular edition of the H1xnaL.p as far burg and South to Washington, reaching Philadsiphta a ‘at a quarter past six A. M. aad Washington of From our reports this morning the probabilities @re that the weather in New York to-day will be | wool and partly cloudy or cloudy, followed by threatening indications, increasing northeasterly winds, and possibly rain. Wat Srreet Yesterpay.—The excitement in Wall street, although not so great as on ‘Wednesday, still continues. The attempts made to wreck certain stocks have luckily been frus- trated, and there was a much better feeling ap- parent yesterday. Gold, on the receipt of the news from Europe, rose to 1061g, but afterward declined to 106, at which price it closed. Government stocks were strong and railroad bonds irregular. Moncy loaned at 4 a 6 per cent on call, but later in the day dropped to 2 per cent on call. Tuere Is a Great Deat or Sounp and ‘womanly sense in “A Plea for the Ministers,” in our “Complaint Book.” Reav Estate if not looking up is at least changing hands. An unusual number of sales and transfers were made yesterday. Tur New Wursky War finds its cause in the carclessness of the Legislature. Legislators have always been rather.dangerous to whiskey. Pusuic Interest in the 2 Nichols divorce case is waning, the reason being that no mire peculiar revelations are expected. There is sel- dom more than one attraction in divorce cases, and that one is not creditable to spectators. Tur Best GGARANTEE OF PEACE among the Sioux who deserted from Spotted Tail a few days ago is tho loss of their ponies. Penitence is as impossible to an Indian with a horse as to a drunkard with a bottle of rum or a legislator when a horse car lobby infests the Capitol steps. Tur Progect of a mutual health insurance aasociation, which was explained before the Public Health Association last night, is too good to be lost sight of. Co-operation by neighbor- hoods in the manner suggested would prevent a great deal of suffering of body, mind and pocket. “RecouLEctioNs” of dis inguished individu- -als' usually meet with general welcome, but in the case of William M. Tweed this rule has some notable exceptions. It is even likely that some men will put wido oceans between themselves and New York in order to be absent on the day of publication. Tue City or New York is attempting to break the lease of the ferries controlled by the Union Ferry Company. If it succeeds of course the fare at the busiest hours of the day will again be two cents, instead of one—that is, the people, not the company, will pay the larger gum demanded by the city. ‘It Is Reporren that fifteen thousand dol- lars reward is to be offered for the de tection of the originator of some damaging rumors circulated at the Stock Exchange several days ago. If all Wall street lies are to bring the same price the whole strect ‘will soon be bankrupt, for there is not enough money in it to cover them. Stace Coacninc receives commendation from @n unexpected source; the Medical Press, an English journal of repute, pronounces travel in unelosed vehicles 1 rare restorer of jaded ‘minds and bodies. This is not the first time in which the medical faculty has discovered that what is called “sport” is generally a form of ebedience to right physical promptings. Tus Weatnrr.—Tho Miphiedon in the s ‘west has, as we predicted, developed heavy rain storm. Tho precipitation extends from the Gulf to the Lower Missonri Valley, but fa heaviest on the coast. The fall at y Orleans has been 1.68 inches; Vicksburg, 1 Shreveport, 1.63, and at Galveston nearl; inches during sixteen hours, Heavy winds prevail from Indianola to Mobile, and the indi- eations are of an nnusually severe distarban The temperature has fallen in the South, owi to the in-draught winds in that direction from the high pressure to the northward. The storm which passed off the Carolina coast in now moving cast- ward from Newfoundland and is extremely severe. Rains and snow prevail in Nova Scotia fend southwestward along the coast to Boston, Clear weather and northerly winds are reported | from all points between Boston and Charle: and west of the Alleghanies and northward of to the Mixsissippi Valley a general a temperature has taken place. The south- ern storm will probably move northeastward the Carolina coast, with dangerous winds ‘and heavy rains. The Lower Mississippi and the River will continne to rise with dangerous . In New York to-day it will be cool partly cloudy or cloudy, followed by threat- ‘weather, ones northeasterly winds, nn | ' Blaine’s New Demonstretion—Presi- | ceived himself by underrating his success- | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRD APRIL 18, 1877. TRIPLE SHEET. dent Hayes and Louisiana. Senator Blaine’s terse, vigorous letter, printed yesterday in all the newspapers of the country, is a strong expression of dis- sent from the Southern policy of the Presi- dent. He declares his ‘‘profoundest sym- pathy” in Chamberlain's ‘‘heroic struggle” in South Carolina *‘for civil liberty and con- *stitutional government.” This condemns President Hayes without naming him. Against whom did Mr. Chamberlain maintain his ‘heroic struggle” for civil liberty and constitutional govern- ment? Why, against the President. Mr. Blaine’s warm eulogy of Chamberlain car- ries, therefore, a strong implied censure of President Hayes. Senator Blaine espouses the cause of Packard with equal emphasis, “I am sure,” he says, in his strenuous way, “that Governor Packard feels that my heart and judgment are both with him in the con- test he is still waging against great odds for the Governorship that he holds by a title as valid as that which seated Rutherford B. Hayes in the Presidential chair.” It is the evident purpose of tlris declaration to abet and encourage Packard in resisting the pol- icy of the President. It foreshadows the at- titude of Mr, Blaine in the approaching extra session and his intention to lead the republican opposition to the Southern policy of the administration. In the fiery, aggressive speech delivered by Mr. Blaine in the Senate, on the 6th of March, he affected to disbelieve and as- sumed to deny that the President enter- tained the policy which had been attributed to him, and proceeded to comment on it in a strain of mingled scorn and defiance, He thrust his keenest weapons of invective into the sides of the President under the pretence of assailing a false and dishonor- ing rumor that had been circulated ‘here and there in the corridors of the Capitol, around and about in by places and high places, that some arrangement had been made by which Packard was not to be recognized and supported.” Mr. Blaine scouted the pos- sibility that the President would fail to stand by Packard. ‘I deny it!” he impetuously exclaimed. ‘I deny it without being author- ized to speak for the administration that now exists; but I deny it on the simple broad ground that it is an impossibility that the administration of President Hayes could do it. I deny it on the broad ground that President Hayes possesses character, common sense, self-respect, patriotism, all of which he hus in high measure and in eminent degree, I deny it on all the grounds that can influence human action ; on all the grounds on which men can be held to per- sonal and political and official responsibil- ity. I deny it for him, and I shall find my- self grievously disappointed, wounded and humiliated if my denial is not vindicated in the policy of the administration. But whether it be vindicated or whether it be not, Icare not. It is not the duty of a Sen- ator to inquire what the policy of an admin- istration inay be, but what it ought to be, and I hope a republican Senate will say that on this point thero shall be no authority in this land large enough or adventurous enough to compromise the honor of the national administration, or the good name of tho great republican party that called that administration into existence.” It was thought that Mr. Blaine softened toward the President within a week or two after making that bold speech, but his letter shows that he stands by his guns. He has evidently made up his mind to give the Southern policy of the administration an overhauling in his most pungent style at the extra session. If his assault should call out Senator Conkling in reply there will be an exhibition of argument, eloquence and sarcasm the like of which has not been witnessed in our time. Both Conkling and Blaine have grown immensely in intellectual stature since their mem- orable thrusts and counter-thrusts in the House of Representatives which severed all intercourse between them many years ago. They are now to meet in a new arena, with a great increase of reputation and in- fluence on both sides ; and if they come into conflict on the Southern policy of the Presi- dent there will be a battle of giants. Both have great resources and # great command of them ; but we believe that the victory of Mr. Conkling will be as signal and resplen- dent as was that of Webster over Hayne, Mr. Blaine, who treated the republican nominee for President as a nobody in the canvass, and conducted it in amanner which not merely ignored, but repudiated his letter of acceptance, is chagrined at finding that Mr. Hayes holds himself sacredly bound by the pledges which Mr. Blaine did not regard as rising even to the level of passable electioneering claptrap. Mr. Hayes does not turn out to be the plastic figure- head, the mere man of putty, which Mr. Blaine thought him to be when he impressed his own strong personality on the can- vass and supplanted the letter of acceptance with the bloody shirt. Senator Blaine can- not complain that Mr. Hayes has deceived his party or been false to it; Mr. Blaine de- fal competitor for the republican nomina- tion. Fiven if Mr. Hayes were bound by no | pledges his policy would be equally wise | and necessary. Had General Grant re- mained in office we know from his own lips that he would have felt constrained to adopt a similar course. Even if Mr. Blaine | had been elected he would have been compelled by the irresistible logic | of events to discontinue the military | interference. He might have started | with the old policy, but he would have been compelled to abandon it within a few months by lack of troops to carry it out. The decisive clement in this controversy is | the fact that the House of Representatives is democratic and will inflexibly refuse to pass the Army A»propriation Dill so long as there is any doubt of the withdrawal of the troops. What would Mr. Blaine have the President do? Ought he to stultify himself by making promises to Packard which every intelligent man knows he would have no power to fulfil? Certain it is that the demo- eratic House will not give the President an army to be used in the interest of Packard, Packard rests his case on the impetuous | cannot at plan. of which is that Packard’s title as Governor rests on precisely the same foundation as that of Mr. Hayes as President. This argu- ment confuses a question of right with a question of jurisdiction. Who had authority to determine the election of either Hayes or Packard? Not Mr. Hayes, most assuredly. The competent authority to decide the Presidential election was Congress. Con- gress did decide it, and there is no legal appeal from its judgment, The competent authority for deciding who, was elected Governor of Louisiana is pointed out by the constitution and laws of that State. President Hayes has no more todo with it than he has with the question who is Governor of any other of the thirty- eight States, He is the legal President be- cause Congress declared him elected, there being no other power competent to make the decision. He cannot even review his own title, the constitution giving him no jurisdiction of the question. The constitu- tion gives him just as little jurisdiction to decide local questions arising under the laws of Louisiana. ‘The conclusive answer to Blaine's argument is that Mr. Hayes’ own title and the title of Packard are alike be- yond the province of the President to de- cide. Every question must be decided by the authority having jurisdiction, and it is the plain duty of the President not to inter- meddle where he has no legal power. The Government Officials in Utah. The United States Marshal and the Dis- trict Attorney of Utah are in great trouble at present. They are charged’ with the serious offence of obtaining a confession from the unfortunate Mormon wretch Lee under a false promise of protection and par- don, and with suppressing statements in that confession not favorable to the head of the Mormon Church, They, however, de- clare in refutation of the charge that it is “g job ‘put up’ by the Mormons and a shyster in their interest.” They charac- terize the chief complainant, Gilman, as a liar and unworthy of belief. They insist that they suppressed no part of the confession, nor did they sell or speculate in it. It is also claimed that the whole thing is done to procure their removal in favor of certain hungry politicians who desire their places. Well, we do not want to be too hard on these officials ; but it is worthy of remark that before Gilman was heard of the conduct of District Attorney Howard and Marshal Nelson was such as to lead us to suspect that something improper was going on. At the time of the execution of Lee we pointed out the suspicious con- duct of these gentlemen ond called the attention of the Department of Justice to it, asking, Did it approve of its subordinate officers speculating in blood money ? It may be that certain lawyers, ambitious for the official shoes of Howard and Nelson, have taken advantago of the suspicions aroused by our comments to aid their own little schemes. But it will require some- thing more than » mere naked denial un- sworn to by these officers to convince the public hereabonts that there is nothing in the very circumstantial charges of Gil- man but lies and perversions, Gilman swears to his statement. Howard and Nelson content themselves with 9 card to the newspapers. (Gilman may be a very bad man, but let us not take as con- clusive evidence of his ill-repute the unsup- ported statements of those whom he accuses of grave offences, Should it turn out that injustice hus been done to the District Attorney and the United States Marshal of Utah the Hzratp will cheerfully publish their defence. But in the meantime it will not accept their own defence os final ; neither will it be satisfied with what may prove a farcical official investigation. The Henraxp is making its own inquiries and will give the result when reached. How the Reform Charter Stands. The bill to secure better public adminis- tration in the local government of New York was ordered to a third reading in the Senate yesterday, after the adoption of a few desirable amendments and the defeat of numerous others offered by the Tammany Senators for the purpose of embarrassing and jeopardizing the measure. The Board of Sinking Fand Commissioners was made to consist of the Mayor, the Comptroller, the Commissioner of Public Works and two citizens to be appointed by the Mayor, with the approval of the Recorder and City Judge. Aclause was inserted prohibiting the appointment of any city employé as referee or receiver; which meets and removes a very flagrant abuse. The Board of Aldermen was empowered to elect a president of that body for an un- expired term in case of a vacancy in that office. The provision for the addition of two citizens to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment was stricken out. Among the amendments proposed and defeated was one which sought to strike out the provision for the clection of a Comptroller in the spring clection, so as to keep the present Comptroller in office, Mr. Morrissey met the amendment with’ the argument that if the people desired to retain Comptroller Kelly they would elect him, and with the party machinery wholly in his hands he could of course insure his own nomination. If the bill as amended passes the Senate, of which there is little doubt, it will be returned to the House for concurrence in the amendments, Should the Assembly concur it will need only the Governor's signature to make it a law. We believe that it will give us a mnch safer, more efficient and more economical city government than we now have, The constitutional amend- ments relating to municipal governments the best go into operation for two years, or until the spring | of 1879, and there can be no good reason why we should not improve the administra- tion of ourlocal government and protect the taxpayers in the interim. But the pres- ent bili will bring our municipal system nearer than it now is to that proposed by the constitutional amendments roeom- mended by the municipal cormission, and hence will serve as 2» stepping stone, as it were, to the more complete and permanent St is to be hoped, therefore, that the Senate amendments will be concurred in and mischievous argument of Blaine at the by the House, and that the bill will be suf- recent session of the Senaf., the substance | fered to become a low. Prince Bismarck at Home and “om Leave.” The charming story told in our Paris despatch giving some details of the pro- fessional meetings of an American painter with the great architect of the German Em- pire, Prince Bismarck, will be found of pecu- liar interest at this moment when the builder in “blood and iron” has shaken, for a time at least, the dust of office from his feet. The confidences of the busy moments before the easel or the plastic clay are among the rare privileges of the artist, and in giving us such glimpses of the home life of the great statesman as he could not put on the canvas Mr. Healy has confined himself to such only as would not be improper in an honored guest. By the light of the artist’s story we can see how heavy the yoke was which Prince Bismarck bore; how such a life of incessant toil was met by the reserve force of a magnifjcent phy- sique, and what strong grounds the wear and tear of such watchful days and sleepless nights would give to the great Chancele lor’s demand for a release whenever he chose to lay his labors by. There is a pecu- liar fascination in reading of the home life | of great men ; for in a subtle way it comforts mediocre humanity to find that the demigods of thought and action have their feet in the clay of social habits and their thoughts at times in the domestic lines which common mortals seldom associate with the idea of | greatness, The sittings in the wing of the palace, with the Prince as firm in his position of Chan- cellor of the German Empire as the lines of the face on the canvas before him, forms for the moment a startling contrast to the pic- ture of the Empire without Bismarck. Yet to-day he is out of his place, out of harness, away from the obligations of great duties and the pride of great ambitions, on ‘‘leave of absence” till August—a leave likely to prove indefinite at last. Precisely what the phrase leave of absence means in his caso is not yet known. Until the time when we shall become acquainted with the whole story, of which the few facts known are the surface indications, there will be room for doubt | whether Bismarck left or was put out. In one sense, of course, he left. That is tosay, nobody exacted his office of him. But there may have been in the highest quarters such an abandonment of him, such a connivance with his opponents, such a consent to poli- cies opposed to his, that self-defence and self-assertion could assume no other form than the surrender of hisoflice. Men of his nature do not brood morbidly over small discontents. They do not magnify little in- dignities in a peevish spirit of personal pique. Therefore they do not leave great place until sure that the power which sus- tained them there is no longer in sympathy with their purposes, and then they do not stay to be told that they are not wanted. How will it be with the Prussian precedency and with the new German Empire without this towering, dominant, capahle spirit? Bismarck did not create the political condi- tion of Germany, because no man can be said to create that which is a result of nat- ural causes ; but he is the only man known to his generation who could have taken the advantage he did take of the facts that in their coincidence rendered possible the or- ganization of a new German Empire and gave Germany that pre-eminence in Europe which is the just consequence of the posses- sion of the greatest peoplo and the greatest opportunities, Withont this one man Ger- many would be now what she was twenty years ago, and between the Germany of "twenty years ago and the Ger- many of to-day there is as much difference as between Mexico and the United States. But the world of common- place men, whether they be princes or ward politicians, revolts against the notion that any particular person is “indispensable,” and this is felt in Germany as everywhere else. Bismarck will not be indispensable, because they will get on without him. But for the judgment as to whether any man is “¢ndispensable” it is not only necessary to know that they will get on, but how they will get on. Emperors, kings and persons of that order seem sometimes to take a pleas- ure in the slight they put upon genius when they fill its place witha pigmy and seem to say that one is as good as the other. But the history of States that gosuccessfully throngh great crises when the genius guides, and that fall into confusion and decay and perish disastrously when rulers have indulged their whim of governing by means of drivellers and dolts, presents the other part of that picture. Germany, in the reconstruction of Europg under Bismarck, has gone through all the facts that stood in the way like a reaper through the ripe corn ; but Germany, without Bismarck, with the Eastern crisis imminent, the Church trouble in abeyance only, and a formidable issue of State rights in an explosive condi- tion, may find itself presently more like a deer entangled in the impenetrable thicket. | Albany Legislates—New York Suffers. We do not want our legislators at Albany | to preseribe for our Street Cleaning Bureau some new plan of how not to doit. We as- sure them that our officials are thoroughly trained in the evasion of law, and that | amy new measure the Legislature may propose will only complicate matters still more, and perhaps re- sult in the street dirt being collected and dumped in our parlors and bedrooms. What we do want is the strict enforcement of existing laws, not the enactment of new ones. Our worthy but spineless Mayor is hopelessly at sea about the street cleaning question, Hesays that he can only prefer charges against the Police Commissioners, but that he does not thiuk the Governor will entertain them. [ie confesses himself entirely powerless remedy the evil, Comptroller Kelly also declares that he is powerless to prevent the squandering of the to public money under the pretence of cleaning | the streets, because the Police Department and its expenditures are placed beyond his control by law. But the Comptroller tells us what might be done in the way of relief— “One cart might come along and take away the garbage, while another could take care of the ashes.” This certainly is news! Why did not somebody think of the Kelly plan before? How stupid we all have | somehow to stop legislation for New York at Albany and then cart off tothe dumps every useless drone and intriguing knave who en- cumbers our city offices a practical step would be taken toward the cleaning of New York city. Precautions Against Fire. If great fires or small are frequently due to simple causes it is also true that all such conflagrations ean be prevented by equally simple precautions. We have only to ob- serve how fires generally originate in order to take the proper measures for guarding against. them. Woodwork unprotected enters too largely into the construc- tion of our public and private build- ings. It furnishes ready food for the flames. Then woodwork should not be used so much and shonld be guarded by masonry or some non-conductor of flame. Wooden staircases become mere death traps during fires. From their structure they readily burn and carry the flames rapidly’ from the basement to the top of a build- ing. Then we must modify our stair building and use iron more extensively. Elevators and dumb waiters become fire flues of the most dangerous kind. They should be fitted with sliding or folding horizontal doors on each floor, so a8 to cut off tho draught at the first alarm of fire. Large buildings, such as hotels, should have coils of knotted rope long enough to reach the ground ready at each window that does not open on a regu- lar fire escape ladder. These can be used very quickly by the inmates who are cut off from any other means of egress. All large buildings, such as theatres, hotels, factories and warehouses, where many people assemble or are engaged, should be divided into sections by fireproof walls fitted with iron doors. By these means the fire can be confined to the section in which it breaks out and the gen- eral danger lessened. No storage of inflam- mable materials should be permitted in any but vaulted basements with iron doors. | Matches that ignite by friction on ordinary surfaces should not be used. Thus, looking over the long list of causes of fire, we find that they suggest preventives, which, if we only adopt them, will reduce the chances of danger from the probable to the possible. Another Chance for a Reprimand. A month ago a youth named Peter Brou- ner, nineteen years of age, was arrested on suspicion of being implicated in a burglary. While in a cell of the Tenth precinct sta- tion house the prisoner was visited by a hu- mane, mild-mannered Christian police offi- cer named Devlin, who entered the cell and strove to induce the wicked young man to confess the sinfulness of his ways. The hardened youth proving obdurate the gentle Devlin knocked out his eye with the end of a stick or club. Brou- ner has remained in the hospital from the date of the occurrence until last Tuesday, when he was taken to court and admitted to bail on the charge preferred against him. He has lost the sight of his eye forever. On Wednesday Officer Devlin had an interview with the Palice Commissioners to explain his peculiar reformatory process, The prisoner swore that the oflicer struck him with the stick or club, and the officer swore that ho did not. As the young man’s eye is not in its socket, and as he has Inin in the hos- pital fora month snffering from the process of having had it knocked out, the weight of corroborating testimony seems somewhat against the officer's statement. But then we have no doubt the latter can farnish any re- uired amount of evidence as to the excel- lence of his character and the gentleness of his disposition, so that a reprimand from Baldy Smith will fully mect the exigencies of the case. Doubts in Europe. “Diplomacy has not yet said its last word,” This is the judgment of the Lon- don Times on the doubtful condition of peace in Enrope. It is possible that the Times is right, and that negotiation may yet drag its tedious length through a few addi- tional days, and supply a few more last | words; for the ronds from the Pruth are per- haps not yet in precisely the most desirable condition. But the result will be the same, whether it comes tc-morrow or next month, and the possibility of averting war is not apparent. An effort is made in England quite naturally to put upon an act of Rus- sia the responsibility of being at Inst the di- rect cause of the war. It is said that Russia has been too hasty, and has unjustifiably used the protocol as the basis of an ulti- matum, and demanded peremptorily an im- mediate answer. . But Turkey has not ob- jected to answering on one day rather than another, and has objected specifically to England's part of the protovol and docu- ments. That, therefore, does not leave the responsibility on Russia. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The English aro disposed to relinquish the use of scarlet for tho field, ¥. Emmons, United States ‘The jolly little crocus is peeping out Into tho chill, | with its colors of violet and yellow and white. The Sceretary of tho Navy 1s expected to return to | Washington on Saturday trom Terre Maute, Ind., with his family. A Scotch boy anys that the only way that Noah know that there was going to be a flood was by consulting his almanac, Suint-Sa6ns is very near sighted, and whon ho gets sented at @ piano nothing in the way of a hint can | drive him from tt. | Chicago Times :—*Evidently this man Hayes has no | friends, A month in the White House and no one bas sent him even a ball pup.’ The curfew bell has been restored to Stratford; but in this country a man can’t sleep late of Friday morn- Ings because of tho fish horn, Poiladelphia Bullelin:—“The manufacturers of the Jewsharp are beginning to get frightened at the success of the telephone, It will drive their musteal instru- ment out of the market altogether, they sny."’ A scientist says that oysters have digestion, Yet it | may be asked whether a bigk-tonod and chureb-going | Shrewsbury has over been known to scold bis wife | becauso she didn’t put enough hquor into the stew. Hon, Charles F. Conant, ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. John Bigelow, who is to be his assistant in London in the transaction of the govern- meni’s business with the Syndicate, left Washington last night for this etty, en route for England. Tho Turks do not mako good dragoons, but in Nght cavalry they are well equipped; and Colovel Valen: tine Baker, who was disgraced from the English army for brutally fooling with a girl in a railway car, is or- ganizing a corps of cavairy in the Torkish army which been! The fact is, if wo could manogo | may mako some of tho Russians sick, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. " FLASHES FROM THE STORM, Russia and Turkey at Last Arrayed for the Great Struggle. EUROPE AWAITS THE ORASH. —_-—_— Idle Talk of Another Appeal to Diplomacy. SULCIDE OF AN AMERICAN STUDENT. (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, April 15, 1877. | Delusive are the hopes of peace. However well one great metropolitan journal may assume an, attitude of calinness, its expressions are not from the heart of the man who wrote its “leader.” Whether Europe ts to have a gigantic war inaugu- rated within its borders in a week, or whether this calamity may be again briefly delayed matters very little. A few weeks or months in the history of .a European nation writh- ing under the galling goad of revenge are to be borne with a show of patience if the final mecting 1s certain, And Fate now decrees that war must come. Diplomacy may intervene, may. check the flood, but every moment that the torrent is held back it gathers within 1t more elements of dire destruction when the final moment comes. Like the monk hurled by Quasimodo from the tower of Notre Dame, the” Powers of Western’ Eu. rope cling to diplomacy in grim terror, knowing fall well that they must eventually let goand fall—some shudder to think where. New maps will have tobe made alter such a war. Old allies will sunder their bonds to seek new coadjutors. Ministries will go by the board, old statesmen will be crowded aside by younger men. Anarchy will succeed the temper- atg rulership of past years in one nation, and peace will be found by poor crushed provinces that lave never known aday of quiet. The results will be of world-wide reach. Therefore it is not sur prising that Europe world stands aghast. WHY IAS TURKEY REFUSED? The proposal made by Russia to the Powers after the signature of the protocol regarding the mode of proceeding in Constantinople leaves little doubt that she is disposed to !ook at its stipulations, if not quite in the light of an ultimatum, at least as a last effort at conciliation. That proposal consisted of a demand for a fixed time to be given to the Porte within which It must answer, and that It be asked directly to accept the protocol and send im- mediately an envoy to St. Petersburg. The Powers did not share Russia's views in this respect, wish- ing to give their diplomatic procedure the mildest, form by avoiding collective action and de- ciding to have the protocol presented by the representatives at Constantinople singly. Though first disposed to raise difficultics, Russia ul- tumately acquiesced and seemed to abandon the idea of fixing the Porte to a definite term, buf on Friday or Saturday last the Russian Chargé d’Affaires, in endeavoring to induce the Porte te yield, mentioned April 13 as the term beyond which Russia could not wait tor an answer. Curiously enongh, the French and Italian Chargés d’Affaires also mentioned this asthe date on which Turkey ought to give an answer, while the others gave gen- eral advice not to delay too Jong. But itis more curious, as an illustration of the double element fighting for the supremacy at St. Petersburg, that at the very time this occurred at Constantinople an intimation came from St. Petersburg that if the Porte sent an en- voy Russia would not watt even for peace with Montenegro, or preparation tor carrying out re- forms or disarmament, but would immediately begin direct negotiations, indicating that she would be generous if the Porte was inclined to give her moral Satisfaction by negotiating with her. The Porte at the same time seemed indisposed to carry things to an extremity. Therefore further in- formation 1s, necessary to explain this sudden momentous change showm by Turkey's direct re+ fusal of the protocol, ANOTHER DOSE OF DIPIOMACY THREATENED. There are rumors from some sources that diploms acy will be again resorted to to avert war. I wonder if this is trae’ A recent French writer says:—St le ridicule tue, qu'elles continuent, mon Diew | quelles continuent !’ So of diplomacy. “Let it continue, be dad!* Listen to the complacent tone which the Times affects in its leading article of yesterday:— The news from Turkey woula be grave if wo be Heved Russia was eager to precipitato war; but hap- ily there no need to draw such a conclusion. Piptomaey b not satd its jast word. New appealg may be made to the Porte, now compromises suggested to Russia, How, then, bas the prospect suddenly been overshadowed by lear of a speedy war? Tha change has come tbrough tho action of Kussia ana by means of the very document which was signed for the purpose of maintaining pence, Hardly bad the document been signed when orale showed a disposition to take from it the materi of an ultimatum and the Porte was informed that it would be expected to decide by to-morrow whether it would or not accept the protocol and send sosuoere If, n8 our Austrian correspond nd French Chargés dA ffairos sive intimared Ld a detinite reply shou be given by the 13th inst, 4 may be able to make an unexpected detence + er haste; bat our own govern. ment at least did not intend the protocol to havo the character of an ultimatum, Russia | cannot be surprised indeed if the recent ne, | tations should expose ler to severe charges, She must expoct it to be said that she wished to pass the time anti! the roads toward the Danubo should fit for the passage ot her artillary, and that she drew up the protocol, not to secure’ peace, but to obtain from tho united Powers sach condemnation of Turkey jon of war seom fnevitable, against Russia, but tho Pows | ers will have reuson omplain, if, now that thoy havo put their reals to the protocol, Russia should | refuse to stnooth the way toward peace. She | will be expected at least to postpone any decisive action until the Powers shall have again appenied to tue Porte, and she may be invited to consider whether demobilization ‘might not be brought about in some manner leas hurtful to Ottoman pride than the stringent terms specified by Vount Schouvalof, Tho Indepenciance Belge cf Brussels publishes a special despatch trom Paris, which states that the Duke Decazes, French Minister of Foroign Affairs, ar- rived 1n Parts on Wednesday, aud mado, in conjunction with Lord Derby, a final effort to induce the Porte to seud a special envoy to St. Petersburg, This is the last chance of preserving peace, WHAT THE PORTH SATs. A summary of the Turkish circular ts pubdlishod A desire i# oxpresved for disarmamont It announces that the Ottoman embassy at St. Petersburg made vacqnt by the death of Cabouly Pacha will ba Imme- diately filed. The tone is much moro conciliatory than was expected, The sending of an ambassador 10 St. Petersbarg has nothing to do with the question of disarmament, which can bo effected by orders addreesed to the commanders of military torces. Iu Conclusion, the circular expresses the cemviction ‘Ubad