The New York Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1877, Page 7

en TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. EUROPE’S WAR SPECTRE. Active Preparations on Both Sides for the Struggle. A LAST EFFORT OF DIPLOMACY. Probability of an Anglo-Austrian Alliance Against Russia, [Bx CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Loxpow, April 15, 1877, ‘The coming European war is the all-absorbing topic of conversation here, and the possibilities of the future aro discussed with a koennoss that shows the intensity of the public feeling. Tho tate of Turkey isa matter of deep interest to a large number of people in England, as on the success or failure ot the Turkish armies in tho field will depend whether the holders of Turkish bonds will lose their money, or at least jeopardize their chances of receiving their interest for many years, Then those who have commer- cial interests at stake in the countries likely to suffer from the ravages of war are naturally in a state of great anxiety, and clutch with eager grasp at every fleeting chance of a peaceful settlement, The fecling seems to bo universal vhat if war doos break out—which is now ‘most beyond the possibility of a doubt— % will be on a_ gigantic scale, and that England must sooner or later become involved. ‘This prospect is not very encouraging, and the most gloomy forebodings prevail. The outlay necessary to carry on a war on a@ scale greater than that of the late Franco-German struggle is enough to appal those who aro already grumbling about excessive taxation, and tho possibilities that may follow defeat include, in the opinion ot many, the loss of some of the best possessions of the British Empire, In spite of the rumors of a last effort to sottle the difficulty by diplomacy the actual out- break of hostilities is expected in a few days, MAKING READY FOR THE WORST. From Constantinople it is reported thata Russian yacht arrived yesterday to take the members of the Russian Embassy to Odessa the moment they recoive orders to quit Constantinople, The Porte be- Neves that the rupture will be delayed until Russia. bas communicated her intentions to the Powers, but no hopo of a peaceful sottlement is entertained, Russian subjects in Turkey are to be placed under the protection of the German Embassy. Constantinople will be declared in state of siego tmmediately alter the rupture, It was said in Paris last night that the staff of the Russian Embassy havo been ordered to leave Constantinople to-morrow. A telegram from Scutari announces that the Russian consuls at Scutari and Bosna-Serai have received orders to depart. Tne Journal des Débats says the Rassian fleets in the Atlantic and Pacific have been or- dered to concentrate in the Mediterranean. Mr. Layard, the newly appointed british Ambas- sador, has left for Brindisi, where he wiil embark on a special steamer in order to reach Constantinople quickly. The Czar is expectod to arrive at Kischeneff on Tuesday. The Grand Duke Nicholas held a great review of the Army of the Pruth yesterday. It is said in Rome that in view of compli- cations HKussia bas proposed to the Vatican to settle dong existing differences, BOTH SIDES ACTIVELY PREPARIXG. The German contractors who supplied the corps at Belfort and Strasburg have arrived at St, Pesersburg, where they are making large contracts, Fifty raliway engines, fitted for the gauges of the Roumanian lines, have been supplied by Berlin factories, One- third of the army at Kischeneff will not cross the Pruth, buat will move toward Salina, to cross over into the Dobrudscha, Two Turkish moni- tors are at Sulina, A telegram from Coustantinople says Colonel Valentine Baker will be attached to the staff of Abdul Kerim, the Commander-in-Chief, who bas gone to the Danube. Kerim’s first headquar. ters will bo at Rutachuk and his next at Schumla, A Bucharest telegram announces that the entry of the Russians into Roumania will begin on Monday or Tuesday. Notwithstanding all denials, it is certain that on Friday a telegraphic despaten was received from St, Petersburg advising Russians b of the immediato declaration of war against Turkey, LORD DERBY ON THE TURKISH CIRCULAR, Lord Derby has sent the following despatch, dated April 12, to the British Chargé d’Affaires at Constanti- nople:— ‘Sin—The Turkish Ambassador cailed to-day and left a copy of the circular on the subject of the proto- col lexpressed my deep regret to Musurus Pacha at tho view the Porte had taken. I thought it unneces- sary to enter on any further discussion of a step which had been adopted by the Porte after full considera- tion and could not be retraced. 1 said, however, it did not scem cloar whether the Porte would send an am- bassador to St. Petersburg or not to treat on the ques- tion of mutual disarmament, Musurus Pacha stated that Turkey was not prepared to adopt any such meas ure, and oxpressed the opinion that matters could not be settled satisfactorily unless the Powers should consent to annul the protocol. 1 replied that the difference between the views of the two goveruments appeared so wide as to render further discuasion use'ess, and I said that I could not see what farther steps England could take to avert war, which appeared inevitable. Musurus Pacha answerea tnat the attitude of his government was simply defensive; that they did not desire war, but they would prefer it to the sacrifice of vational independence which ap- peared to be involved in an acceptance of the proto- col”, THK LAST KFYORT OF DIPLOMACY. The Standard’s special {rom Vienna, Sunday night, “The Russian Ambassador an audience with the Emperor of Austria to-day and afterward an Interview with Count Andrassy, to whom he commu- aicated a telegraphic circular from Prince Gortschakoif, Yesterday’s panic in financial circles was followed by a Wifling recovery to night in consequence of private messages from Paris and London stating that dipio- matic attompts are likely to be mado to pave the way for giving satisfaction to Russian susceptibilities by amondng the Treaty of Paris, The greatost readiness Is discernible on the part of the Austrian government to support any last attempt to procure peace which may bo madu by Engiand. Tho Berlin correspondent of the Standard telegraph: ‘| bear trom Vienna that hegotiations are pending, between the Powers on ono «side and Russia on the othor, by which an immediate outbreak of war seoms likely to be prevented,” ALL HOPE OF PRACK ABANDONED. The Stondard’s special from Pesth says:—*‘All the journals here are agreed that it 1s impossible for Austrit and Hungary to remain neutral m the war which impends, They unanimously agree in fayor of an alliance with England oguinst Russia, Austria and Hungary are even more interested than England in preventing the entrance of the Russians invo Balgaria.” The Standard in its leader says:—'A last effort is being made to avert war, and ® last appeal has been addressed to Rugseian good faith, We bave no confidence in its suce cess,’ Tho 7imes despatch irom Pera reports that Talaut Pacha, agent for the Viceroy of Egypt, an- nounced yesterday an official visit of Ismail Pacha to the Sultan, Tho Knedive is to arrive in Constantinople next month. The St. Petersburg Vedomosti says tho result of war will depend on the attitude of Germany. Russia requires Germany to prevent Austria from ine terfering with Russia's sien ea ra Turkey, arroxD, Conn., April 16, 1877. st Rocky Hili yesterday alternoon Robert Espy murdered his wife, He had peen intoxicated several days, Hor body was found on tho floor naked, beaten and trampled to a shapeless inass. Espy was ited and lodged 1 Jail, | crave and cold-blooded, NEw YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1877.~TRIPLE SHEET. - THE MATTER OF ARMS. THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT NOT LIKELY TO PIND A MARKET AMONG THE EUROPEAN BELLIGERENTS—PRESENT SUPPLY OF TUR- KEY AND RUSSIA—CONDITION OF OUR OWN ABMAMENT. Wasmixerox, April 15, 1877. At the beginning of the present diMcultics between Russie and Turkey there was a gencral opinion among Many of our army officers that the troubles would create a market for ordnance supplies, arms and other implements of waFfare, and that the United States would be enabled to dispose of the vast amount of un- serviceable goods of that character now stored in our arsenals and fortifications; but a careful cxamination of the subject by prominent officers of the Ordnance Department loads to tho belief that there will be mo demand upon our country for these goods, for the reason that England, Germany and France have vast quantities of condemned arms for sale, and therefore neither of the contending partics would find. it necessary to make purchases on this side of the Atlantic when they can obtain similar goods so much nearer bome, unless the Present complications should assume such shape that the Powers mentioned would decline to dispose of their condemned arms and supplies to either party, and then there might be a demand for ours, Since the Franco-Prussian war both France and Ger- many bave been rearming and replacing the arms used by them in that war with those of more !mproved patterns, and consequently have many old arms for sale, ‘TURKEY'S PRESENT SUPPLIES. It has also been ascertained that Turkey is much better supplied with arms than was at first supposed, she having received over three hundred thousand stand of arms from the Providence Tool Company, of Providence, R, 1., within the past two years, under a contract mado with that company to furnish halfa million Peabody guns, a breech-ioading rifle similar to the Martini-Henry rife used in England, These rifles are still being manufactured for and delivered to tne Turkish government, several officers of which have been in this country for some months past inspecting the arms and superintending their manufacture, The Tarks also have contracts with various firms in this country for 200,000,000 rounds of metallic 4 for # large number of cartridge are now being Pegi at Bridgeport and ir places. That govern. ment is also well supplied with breech-loading steel guns for feld service, and it is not probable thate there will be any great demand for arms of obsolete patterns upon this or any other country. OF THE UNITED STATES, gale about four hundred new Sprin; muzzie- Joading rifles, and rge number of repaired breecn-lox besides ordnance anda ordnance sup- plies of ry description, left from the late civil war. The rfl juld be converted into breech-loaders, but it bas been found cheaper to make new ones outright than to ke to change the old ones, The Urd- nance Department has from year to year urged upon Congress the necessity of making sufficient appropria- tions for the manutacture of improved arms, 50 as to permit the gradual accumulation of them in store for in case of an emergency. Duriog the ten TET 008 preceding the iate war an average of per aubum was appropriated itor the manulacture of such arms, but tor several Ten past the oti hae for that purpose has been 100,000 or $150,000, It ts estimated that there will not be more than eight thousand arms of approved pat- terns on hand at the ond ol the Figen en fiscal year, and should the States draw upon the national government for the full quotas to wh:ch they are entitled the limited stock of improved arms held in reserve would bo ex- bausted, Tne act of April 1808, makes a permanent anoual appropriation of $200,000 for arming and equipping the militia of the United States, and itis argued that if that sum was necessary at that time, when the population did not ex. ceed eight millions, at least $1,000,000 ‘should be appropriated now, the population having ifcreased nearly ilve fold. Under the act named the state of Now York is annually credited with $16,799 of the $200,000, but If the appropriation should be increasea to $1,000,000, as recommended, she would have $83,962, and so with the other Statez according w their population, Tho 8 stags of gun now being manu- factured is the Springtield breech-loading rifle, ana it “We argued that tlrese guns should be manufactured in quantities sufficient to render a gradual accumulation of them in store a certainty. THE ARM OF THR FUTURE. That a better arm than the Springfeld may some dsy be invented isnot at ali improbable, and experienced ordnance officers contend that a magazine gun will no doubt be the arm of the future; but anti! such a one suitable for the military service has Fa pertected and approved a reserve spire Rcd ids camcigg @ necessity. SPOTTED ‘TAIL'S MISSION, Ww thousand the CRAZY HORSE'S BAND AGAIN ON THE WAR PATH—ALLEGED MISREPRESENTATION f&E- GSEDING THE DISARMING. Deavwoop, D. T., April 15, 1877. It 1s reported that 100 of Crazy Horse’s vand havo taken the field again. They passed through Spearfish yesterday on their way west mouat- ed and in war paint. The cause of this renegade movement is supposed to have been caused by deception practised by Spotsed Tail in representing that only the arms takeb by them in the Custer fight would be demanded upon their surrender, when in Teality the government demanded of them all their arms and ponies, HIGHWAY ROBBERY, A NEW YORK MERCHANT STUNNED “CLEANED GUT” IN A PUBLIC STREET. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD, | St, Louis, Mo., April 15, 1877. Ap alarming cose of highway robbery occurred in this city Saturday night. Between seven and cight o'clock Mr. N, P. Carter, a New York commission merchant, entered the Western Union Telegraph office and sent a message. On making bis cxit he was attacked on the eps by highwaymen, who beat him senseless a Fifled his poek f between $60 and $70. Heo remained insonsible is Toom in the Everett House nutil the morning, when he furnished to the polico the above information. Third and Olive streets, where the outrage was committed, is one of the prominent localities in tho city, the Post Office being Immediately opposite the telegraph office. SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD, (by TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) CauniicoTue, Ohio, April 15, 1877. Mr, George Barmann, Jr., of the frm of Burmann & Burgess, a leading dry goods firm of thiscity, shot himself through the brain about six o’clock yesterday morning, producing instant death. This is stated by luis friends to have been the result of accide: Mr. Barmann was well known by merchants im the East aND | and West, GUILTY OF MURDER, A COLORED MAN TO BE HANGED FOR SHOOTING A GIRL WHO REFUSED TO MARRY HIM. {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] Parerancra, Va, April 15, 1877. ‘The trial of Jack Pleasants, colored, for murder, was concluded in the Circuit Court of Dinwiddie county, on Friday, the jury finding the prisoner guilty of gar. der im the first degree. [Pleasants’ victiin was Ano Sundy, acolored woman, of whom he was enamored, but who persistently refused to marry him. On the 8th of April last while Anb was at work in the fleld, planting corn, Pleasants, armed with a gun, came up and joined her, Renewing his proposals and being again repulsed, he picked up his gun and while her back was turned blew out ber brains, the muzzle of thé gon being only a few inches trom ler head. Pleasanis was sentenced to bo executed on the 8th of June next. A PRISON ER’s ESCAPE, DESPERATE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM—A 8UC- CES8 AND A FAILURE, Mascnveter' N. H., April 15, 1877. This evening Emmet Lyons and James G, Gonnier, two !nmates of the jail, who had been allowed by the turnkey to onter the corridor to wash, sprang upon him, knocked him down and took away his revolver, He succeeded, however, in throwing the keys beyond their reach. The jailer was absent and his wile heid the door leading -into the audience room, Lyons or- dered ber to open the door, and, after fring three shots through the wicket, irightened her into compti- ance, when he escaped, ' Several men were attracted to thotspot by the noise, and Gonnier was locked up, ‘The aflair created sbonagvoras emt for a time, DELIBERATE MURDER, PuLAoKLPHIA, April 15, 1877. Andrew Grier was sbot and mortally wounded in this city to-day by Morris Taylor, The shooting was delib- Grier bad obtamed a pistol from Taylor, and the latter, meoting him to-day, asked for the same, and, upon receiving it, immediately fred, ‘Taylor is in custody, . WASHINGTON. Active Operations Among the Cabinet Wreckers. FIRING THE NORTHERN HEART. Last Desperate Attempt of Radicals and Carpet-Baggers. t JUDGE TAFT'S AND GEN WADES LETTERS + The Extra Session of Congress and the Louisiana Settlement. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. Wasitxatow, April 15, 1877. RUMORS OF CABINET CHANGES IN THE INTEREST OF CARPET BAGGERS. The Cabinet wreckers, who are an element of Washington political society much altor the fashion of the stock wreckersa of Wall street, held high carnival hore this evening and throw Newspaper row into con- vulsions of excitement over reported dissensions and changes among President Hayes’ minis- terial advisers. The wreckers first started a rumor that William M. Evarts, Secretary of State, was to be offered up as a vicarious oflering to appease the radical wing of the republican party, who woula be content with nothing less than his immediate dismissal from the Cabinet, They went so far as to say that Stanley Matinews, who arrived here to-night post haste, riding all day Sunday from Ohio, was to take Mr. Evarts’ place alter the Presi- dent had cast the headiess trunk of the latter gentle- man into exterior darkness, This part of the story ‘was seen to be devoid of the requisite thickness when, on being interviewed, Mr. Matthews said he had come hero to argue a caso in the Supreme Court to-morrow morning. Hence his all day ride from Obio, The otber changes made by the wreckers wero tol- jows General Devens was to renin the Attorney General. ship and be appotuted to the vacant seaton the Su. preme Bench, Ex-Governor Rice, of Massachusetts, was to be made Secretary of the Navy, vice Secre- tary fhompson, who was to be made Attorney General, vice Judge Devens, appoimtod Supreme Court Judge. Of course, there is no truth in these rumors, Thoy are the work of the radicals and carpct-baggers, with whom the wish is father to the thought that there ia or may be trouble in the Cabinet, or who would like ‘the public to believe thero is. Tho carpet- Daggers, secing the handwriting on the wall again in Lousiana as they saw it in South Carolina are making a last desperate effort to frighten the President and to divide and distract public sentiment concerning him, his Cabinet and his policy, Hence they have culled to their help the Cabinet wreckers, who are as unscrupulous as their employers, Within the present week it is likely that the Louisi- ana question will be settled, and in a way that will anger the carpet-baggers as much as did the adjust- ment of the South Carolina diMeulty, Loutsiana ts the last ditch of these men, and they are making a last desperate effort to avoid the inevitable. The paci- fication of Louisiana puts an end to their career, THE MUCH TALKED OF LETTERS OF JUDGE TAFT AND BEN WADE. A-good deal of fuss is sought tobe made here over letters said to have been written by ex-Attorney Gen- eral Taft and ex-Senator Ben Wade, in the style of Wendell Phillips. Judge Taft denios having written any such letter, and as for Ben Wade’s fulmination it bas been placed in the hands of a speculative correspondent here either to encouragea movement for its supprossion or to excite so much public atten- tion as to give it ap undue importance when it shall be finally published. Friends of Mr. Wade have re- queated him to order the suppression of the paper. THE EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS, A member of the Cabinet says that if the Louisiana diMculty should be ended at an carly day Prosident Hayes would tssuo his call for the meeting of Congress to take place as early as May 15, THE VACANCY IN THE SUPREME COURT—AN OLD LINE WHIG WANTED, The vacancy in the Supreme Court will not be filled | until the extra meeting of Congress, There is good ground for the supposition that a selection will be made of an old line whig or Union man jn the South. Foremost in this connection the gentlemen most prom- inently mentioned, and one of whom is most likely to vo selected, aro Mesers, William H. Hunt, of Louisiana, and Edward H. East, of Nashville, Teno, Gonoral of his State. The latter was prominent as a Union man, and is a distinguished ex-Chancellor of Tennessee. Mr. Hunt was mentioned ‘tor the succos- sion to Judge Durrell some years ago, when the latter resigned after his famous midnight order. Both gentiemen have been quite favorably considered by the President, ‘The canvass which has been mado of their availability and capability induces a strong belief that cither onc or the other will be nominated. Meantimo Judge Clifford, who, it was conjectred, would retire on account of ad- vanced years and create another vacancy, prefers, it is understood, to remain in active service, ee GENERAL WASHINGTON Wasutnatox, April 15, 1877. THE OVERFLOW OF THE ALLUVIAL LANDS OF THE MISSI-SIPPI DELTA—SURVEYS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF LEVEES, ‘TheSunary Civil Appropriation bill, passed at the last session of Congress, contains a clause appropria- ting $26,000 for continuing the survey of the Mis: sipp! River and its trioutaries, with a view of deter- mining the proper inetigd of reclaiming from overflow the alluvial is of the Missis- sippt delta and the Chicfof the Engineer Corps has directed Generul Comstock, the officer in charge of the work, to expend this money for surveys with a view to the construction of levees particularly in conformity with the report of the commission, consisting of Gen- eral Warren, General Abbott and Captain Ben of the Engineer Corps, ant Jackson E and Paul ©, Herbert, civil engin ‘rhese surveys are essential to determine the exact location, dimensions and cost of the levees, Their estimated cows is $300,000. They will determine all matters ro. Jating to the river beds, such as heights of the banks, the places whore caving in 18 taking placo or other- wise and the past history of seach changes as far ay it can be made out, Level lines will be run with the greatest care, 80 as 10 determine the slopes of the water surface and of the laud and the elevation of all high water marks. VACANCIES IN THE MEDICAL ConPs. ‘There are ten vacancies in the Medical corps of the ariny, all im the grade of assistaut surgeon; but uo ap- pointments will be made therein until next fall, A board of medical officers will be organized to meet in New York city early in October for the purpose of ex- amining applicants for admission to the corps, appointments will be made from those who pass a suc- coastal examination, HUDSON BAY NAVIGATION. A MOVEMENT ON THE PART OF THE CITI- ZENS OF MANITODA—FEASIDILITY OF OVER- COMING THE 10K. Wisstexc, Manitoba, April 15, 1877. Aspecial trom Emerson says a public meeting was held, at which a letter was read from EB, W. Sewell in relerence to the navigation of the Hudeon Bay, It stated that vessels on the ame principle, but larger than the steamer Northern Light, which so success. fully overcame the tee in the Guif of St. Lawrence dur- ing the past winter, could run from Liverpool to York Factory from the 1st of June to the let of November. OESPATCHES. The meeting passed a resolution to jon the Do- minion government to order a survey bes the route bi twee! n Bay, and to ‘vessels to report on jou of thera watara, The former | is known as an able lawyer and has been Attorney | xc. PRESIDENT HAYES SPEAKS. 18 SOUTHERN POLICY IN ACCORDANCE WITH ‘HIS O¥T EXPRESSED OPINIONS AND A BESO- LUTION OF THE CONVENTION WHICH NOMI- NATED HIM—IT WILL BE CARRIED OUT. Wasmxorox, April 15, 1877. In the course of conversation yesterday President ‘Hayes said that ho had no concealments regarding his Southern policy, which, however, bad been foreshad- owed ip ora! and written utterances, and in this con- nection he adverted to. the gubernatorial campaign in Obio in 1875, which resulted in his election over Gov- ernor Allen, the people of the State baving a full knowledge of bis sentiments on nat! nestions, in- Cluding, of course, those which a the South, The opening speech of a gubernat candidate is generally considered to be the key pote of the cam- paigo, and in such @ speech at Marion, as early as the Bist of July of that year, he fully and distinctly ex- pressed bis opimons. THR SPRRCH AT MARION. ‘This speech was published at length in all republican and many other newspapers; and, therefore, his views were gencrally known. In that speech, alter con- gratulating bis fellow citizens on the complete triumph over those who sought to destroy the Union and the grand results of the war, ho aliuded to the coming to- getmer again of Northern and Southern men in a spirit of harmooy and friendship, including those who had fought against one another, and, as a prominent feature tn this evidence of good feeling, he, on that oc- casion, spoke of the kindly manner in which Vico Presi- dent Wilson was received on his visit tothe Soutn. In this era of good feeling and reconciliation he further said there were still persons who talked of bayonets and who sought to revive tho prejudices of the past, This was much to be regretted, but there was enough to fill every heart with gratitude, the house being no longer divided and all the inhabitants having a lair start in the race for fe, In this and in all bis other specches he earnestly condemned the reopening of the old issues between the North and tho South, assuring his hearers that the time had como for compicte reconciliation, RESOLUTION OF THE CONVENTION. The President in further conversation referred to tho fact that thi ational Republican Convention which nominated him for the Presidency passed a resolution sacredly pledging the republican party to protect every citizen of the United States in all bie civil and political rights, and decluring that the permavent pacification of the South should be effected by removing ali causes Ot discord, The spirit of this resolution was in pertect Accord with his own views previously expressed, and he repeated them in bis lester of acceptance of the nomination and more fully elaborated them in his in- augurai address, consistently maintaining the policy of reconciliation and local self-government, and when heentered upon the duties of the Presidency he in- tended that this policy should not be one of sentimont merely, bat of actual administration. DETERMINED TO STICK, He spoke with omphasis when he said:—My belief 4s that this course: tends to give good government to the South. It tends to secure peace between tho sec- tions and between the races or parties of the South, and it tends to securo the rights, interests and safoty of the colored people. Therefore, { am in favor of the policy. Ido not know whether [ shall succeed in carrying it out, because there are Northera and South- ern men who, in various ways, may possibly thwart me. But of one thing { am confident—namely, I think it my duty to try and carry out the policy, and I am going to do it.” LOUISIANA, THE BEGINNING OF THE END—REPUBLICANS READY TO SUBMIT—PACKARD'S GEACEFUL BETIREMENT ANTICIPATED. (Bx TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] New Orueans, April 15, 1877. The commission bas not transacted any business to- aay, The opposition to the proposed adjustment de- veloped last night inthe Nicholls Legislature caucus bas been all smoothed away, and it is expected that all necessary assurances will be given the commission by noon to-morrow. Immediately thereafter it will be officialy recommended to both parties as the basis ot be arse recommended by Mr. —— NG OF THE REPUBLICAN! Inan interview with Governor Warmoth to-night he assured me that he was oniy waiting jor this action beioramgoing to the Nichoils Legislature with his triends, whether Packard accepted the plan of settic- mentor not. They were ready to conform to tha wishes of the President whenever and however ofli- cially expressed, but would not allow themselves to be used as u means of destroying Mr. J’ackard as long as the present status existed, PACKARD WILL RETIRE. From conversation held with General McMillan and other leaders, I infer that this feeling 1s very general with tho mombers of the Packard Legislature, and, as he mnust be aware of it, the prospects are that he will retire from the field gracofully despite his many and violent assertions to the contrary, As the Commissioners have made preparations to leave in aitew days, and as they now appear to be re- heved of all anxiety, no serious difficulty can be an- ticipated in carrying ‘out the programme, PROTECTION TO ALL CLASSES, In connection with the adjustment proposition the Nicholls Legislaturo will to-morrow pass joint resolu- nteeing the thirteenth, foarteenth and fil numents, general equal protection tor all ses and races, with equality im the public schools, Theso regolutions, together with the adjastinent propositions, will be subseqnently indorsed by the commission and by them recommended to the Packard lature, instead of the Governor, tor action, which eady cousidered to be assured, PEREMITORY DEMAND PROM PACKAKD, Packard 18 preparing « letter to-night to the commis- sion demanding that they request the President to either recogmze himself or Nicholls at once, and in- timating that that will place the President and tho commission upon record before the people. A committee ot the Legislature has been in session all thy ning at the 8. Caoarles Hotel, preparing the resolutions to be offored to-morrow, SOUTH CAROLINA, ANSWER OF THE STATE OFFICIALS TO GOVER- NOR HAMPTON’S DEMAND, Covemma, April 15, 1 It ts reported from reliable authority that the sub. stance of the reply of the St Hampton’s demand will be the assertion that they hold their offices by the declaration of the State canvassers trom the face of all the election returns that they wero commissioned by Governor Chamberlain | while his title was undisputed; that their contestants havo taken tho cases to the Supreme Court; Governor Hampton has no right to anticipate the Judgment of that court or in any way to pass upon their tule, and that this action is a violation of his Dieuges to leave disputed questions to legal settiement. For these reasons they will deciine to give up their omices. A SENSATION SPOILED—sCoTT, THE COLORED PREACHER, NOT MURDERED. Caansstox, April 15, 1877, ‘The News and Courier has trustworthy information that Rev. W. H. Scott, the colored preacher, who was reported to the New England Methodist Conference on Friday a8 baving been murdered, is alive and well, and periorming his pastoral duties without molestation in Marlboro count, a A TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. (BY TELEGRAPH TO 1M® HERALD.) Laxeaster, Obio, April 15, 1877, The Murphy temperance movoment has roached this city and promises to be rigorously prosecuted during the coming Week, Thousands of people have signed the pledge in N kK, 7 ville and th DISSATISFACTION WITH THE RECENT APPOINT- MENT OF FLEET PAYMASTER OF THE EURO- PEAN SQUADRON—A QUESTION OF RANK, Wasnixcron, April 15, 1877, There is considerable comment among members of the pay corps of the navy at the recent selection of Paymaster James E, Tolfree to be fleet Paymaster ot the European fleet, in placo of Inspector Foster, deceased. Fleet paymasters, as well as fleet engineers and fleet surgeons, Leeeive a compensation of $4,400 per annam, or $1,000 less than the captain of a ship, and 1 1s claimed that a fleet pay master should be either a pay director who ranks apiain OF & pay ihepector who ranks a$ commander. A paymaster ranks ax lieu- tenant commander only, and it is sald that a pressure will bo brought to bear upon Secretary Thowmpeou on his return to Washington this week to have the orders ot Paymaster Tolfree revok pector or a pay director ordered to the : in his place, PAYMASTER TOLPRER'S RECORD, Paymaster Tollfree entered the service in 1862, and it is claimed that there ure many officers in the pay corps who have been longer in the tervice, and should Were fore receive the choice of positions,’ Mr, Toltree is a very efficient officer and stands high with the dop ment. Hence there is a probability that thero will be a pg! contest in his benalf, as he has many friends to ai io, da pay i fi officials to Governor | that | THE SOUTHERN HOTEL, CONTINUATION OF THE SEARCH AMONG THE RUINS—NO MORE BODIES DISCOVEBED-—A DEFENCE gOF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT BY & ¥IREMAN—WHAT If ACCOMPLISHED. Sr. Lovis, Mo., April 15, 1877. Vigorous search has continued all day in the ruins of the Southern Hotel, but no bodies were dis- covered. Numerous articles of jewelry, silver- ware, bar and table furniture, broken and burned trunks, articles of clothing and papers of various kinds, valuable and otherwise, have been taken out Much the larger part of the dévris has been turned 01 and belief is coneral that tere can- not be more than two or three bodies remaining in the ruins, Viz., those of Charles Kivfnicht, the head water; the child of Mrs. H. J. Clark and its nurse, Ella Jack- son, This beliet is strengibened by the tact that ali the help of the hotel, except the head waiter and girls known to have been killed and previously men- tioned, have reported, and ali the guests excepting one have been heard from, RK. M, Clark and T, F. Stevens, relatives of H. J Clark, arrived yesterday from North Adams, Masa., but they do not seem to be quite satisfied with the identi- fication of the bodies supposed to be those of H. J. Clark and wife, This morning they had workmen begin a search in that part of the cellar directly on the corner of Walnut aud Fourth streets, adjoining the room on which the bodies were found; but thus far it has been (ruitiess. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, In view of the sharp criticism directed against the Fire Department, an interview with John Lindsay, one of the assistant engineers of the department, which gives a detailed account of the eflorts of the fire- men to save lives, will be of geveral interest, Mr, Lindsay drove from his h@use to the fire as fast as hia horse could run, and was at the hotei in less than five minutes after the alarm struck. The tire was then coming out of the sixth story windows and through the rool, STORY OF AN ASSIZTANT ERGINEER, He say: 1 stood in front of the hotel and after a few minut Jook at things | made up my mind tha sible to save the building, and that the object should be to save the people, The Skinner Hook and Ladder truck stood at the main entrance on Walnut street in front of the veranda, The skinner Hook and Ladder truck is used ag a regular book and ladder truck «3 well as a tire escape, It bas all the appliances of a hook anc ladder truck on it as well us the escape. These things have to be stripped off, and the men were stripping them off whea I got there, I ordered them to get ready as evo! pos- sible, One of the principal ladders, the extension ve- longing to the fire escape, was laid on the sidewalk, and when the men came to look for it the crowd of people hud become so great that the men could not find it, and it was probably two or three minutes before they yot it 1 thought somebod: would be coming to the Walput street front tor assiat- ance, but nobody appeared im sight, | ordered 1 Apparatus ratzed and the boys raised the machine, abd just at the moment we got it up somebody came runoing from tho Fourth street front und said:— “There’s a lot of people on the Fourth street troat who want to get out"? ‘The escape 16 not along the street. Y uch that you can run with it may Move tt on smooth ground, the car tracks with safety, Sol ordered the apparatus down again, und the men took the Fourth street front and raised it, It wi raised right again: the veranda, which cumes out to the edge of the sid walk, and on that account we could not gut it right into the window, which we wanted to do, the connecting rod pin taken out, and let the upper ladder tall back on the wire rope usea for raising until wo got the escape right Mhto the window, and then Toole and MeKeernan od wont up the ladder and brought out seven persons. ‘There was nobod, tn sigbt in the Fourth street windows, 801 took a run uround the fire to see how things were going on, When I got back to Walnut ain there was a man in a fourth story window, @ indder up on the veranda of the side, but it was not lor ough by one story. The man cried for help, a ordered the men to tako the ladder and throw hima rope, which was done, and the man caine down salely; then { went back on Fourth street. Tho tire escape had taken out everybody that was in sight that iad come to the windows. I ordered th to take down the ladder and take it around to Elin street, where the girls w A not get to them. We could not reach treet. We had to splice two judders together aod then take up a scaling ladder on a man’s shoulders, and wo took out seven or eight girls ot the back of the Elm street wing. Michael Hester, driver of engine No. 10, took tne sealing lad on his shoulder and hooked it to the window sill, and by himself brought down seven or eight girls, Shortly after this, word came to us that another man was window on the Fourth street front, We went there und found C, R. Kennedy in a filth story window, like the boy on the burning deck. We took him down; he was the last one taken from that side of the purldiny There were iadders on the Walnat street front by which Mr. Spauiding, tho proprietor of the Ulympic, and some others got down, We used tho ladders all around the hotel wherever occasion required. Lindsay emphatically dented that a part of this fre escape was not on the ground atthe commencemont ot the fire, as has been charged, and said there was no delay in handling it, except when the crowd covered up the extension ladder vy standing on it He praised the excape said there was nobody who came to the windows who was not taken out by the Skin: ined there natii it could reach them. cape could not be on all aides of the building at once; but he thought if those persons who jumped had waited they could have been saved by the escape, FUNERAL OF A Sf. LOU! Syracuse, N, 18 VICTIM. Y., April 15, 1877, ‘The funeral of Mrs, William 8. Stewart, who was | ing lowered | killea by the breaking of a rope whil from a window of the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, ing the fire of Wednesday, was ueld here to-day aud was largely attended. BURNING OF THE LEO, THE NAH. Savasnan, Ga, April 15, 1877, Captain Daniels, following statement :— We left Savannah on the 12th inst ,eenbed out. side at tour P. M. breeze up to 12 o'clock that might, creased [rom the southeas\, At th! morning we slowed down, examine the cargo and discovered fire below, t the hose and threw water on the fire, ed so rapidly that we bad to le wool the mea were badly burned, F indiug ible to put the fire out and save tl e two lileboate and rait. oy rapdly that we could get no more and those who were forward were cut off ose who were alt, bat it - goined bo. from When the first boat was launched I went aft to cubin door, but was beaten back by flames could oot go in Lf mov the first engineer and Mr. Papondick. 1 told the first en- gincer, McDonald, to go into the boat ana | save ail he couid. ‘Le went over the sido into the boat | 1 then Jett and went It Was impossible to flames having taken was wo intimation were opeued and with Mr. Papendick atter him, fgrward to get the raft off, rfach tho ludy passengers, ti possession of the cabin, of the tire unl the hate 1 caunot account for its origin, There were about eight in the bout that got away clear of the abip, Mr. Papeadick was in the boat--one of the best metaile voate ou board. [| saw wsothwe of them afterward. 1 ivoked around and saw no one forward, and 1 then went on the ratt mysell. The stewardess and two men were aft, hanging on the rail, The stewardess sang out to me to save her, Ltold her to jump. Shp came down hait way and bung on, but the raft drifted away, and she, not letting go, wae lost with the two men. Alter bein taken ot tho raft by the bark the copiain headed towurd the sbip to look after the boats, which he did until five o'clock in the evening, but saw nothing of them, We were seven hours on the fait before being rescued, JAMES DANIELS, Captain, THM SAVED. The following persons wore saved and broughs to {bis port:— James Daniels, captain, ©. ©, Weldman, purser. G. W. Olsen, first officer, N. Lindman, second officer, William J. Gray, seaman. RK. M. Rankin, seaman. Jobn Leonard, first as Joun Walsh, otler, Pietre Power, fireman, rFehx Shelby, fireman, D. W, Silvera, steward, James Ferro, waiter, Thomas Hughes, waiter, Olsen and Gray aro seriously burned, been heard from the missing boats, INCEN! DIARIES SENTENCED, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THR HERALD. 1 Hannisnena, Pa, April 15, 18 Lyttle and Georgo MeCarty, concerned in a series of incendiary fires in Cumberland county, were yesterday sentenced to the Penitentiary nine and seven years | respectively, | Scranton 10 be perf I ordered | CAPTAIN'S STATEMENT REGARDING THE DISASTER--NOTHING SEEN OF TH BOATS— LIST OF THE SAVED WHO ARRIVED AT BSAVAN- of the steamship Leo, makes the auled up to the head of the wind and hove to, the gale imcreasing very fast, At about bail-past turee o'clock we opened the hatches to We got Nothing has FOREST FIRES, THE WOODS NEAR SCRANTON ALL ABLAZE BRILLIANT SCENE FLOM THE CITY—SMALEy SETTLEMENTS DESTROYED. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Scnaxro, Pa, April 16, 1877, ‘The forests on all sides of the city are biasing fiercely for miles away and present a weird aspect. In some places where the growth of trees and breshwood is dense the rush of flame along the hillsides is awer inspiring and grand, A FIRE PANIC. The reflection of fre trom the woods south of the city was so vivid to-night at eight o’clock as to cause an alarm that it was rnging in the Sot and for a time the people were pante was a rush from the several churches, and quiet was red until it was ascertained the brilliant ight was caused by the burning of the woods three miles away. SETTLEMENTS DESTROYED. Of course, these fires are tar enough removed from y harmless here, but they cuuse considerable havoc among the &mali settlements and the narrow clearings along the bills, where the occupants of frame shanties often have to beat a hasty | rotreat before their roaripg advance, ‘The forest fires have not been so flerce in this neighborhood for many Years as they are at present SMALLPOX DISAPPEARED. Wixsirea, Manitoba, April 15, 1877. Advices from Gimli state that the smallpox bas cue tirely disappeared from the coass and islands ef Lake Winnipeg. STABBING AFFRAY. Betnecuxm, Pa., April 15, 1877, Ina fight last night betwoen Thomas McAdams and Martin Eckert, in a saloon in Catasauqua, Pa, the former stabbed the latter in nine different places, in+ tieting wounds which oh may pre’ faval, NEW ORLEANS RACES, New Oxveaxs, April 15, 1877, To-morrow is the fifth and last day of the racey Pools sold last night as follows:— FIRST RACK—MILE AND A QUARTER, Jack Hard: $160 Kilburn. . Bob Woole: 160 Verdigris. . SECOND RACCE—COTTRILL STAKES—ONZ AND A HALE MILES, King William. $130 Rowett, 80 John Ca 1 50 Cora Linn. 10 40) Lynehvar 10 ONSOLATION—0! .$50 Woodinnd, $16 Maria Bai 13 FOUR-MILE 1 $100 George Quinine, 80 Uncle Tom HOTEL ARRIVALS. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is at the Clarendon. 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