The New York Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1877, Page 4

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WITH SUPPLEMENT, The Adams Express Company ran a special newspaper train over the Pennsylvania Ruilroad and its connections, leavin, gareey sag | ata quarter-past four A. M. daily and Sundny, carrying the regulnr edition of the Hxatp as far ‘Weat as Harrisburg South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at ‘8 quarter-past six A. M. and Washington at one P. M, From our reports this morning the probabili- ties are that the weather in New York to-day will be partly cloudy and cooler. Wav Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock market ‘was active but weak, the principal feature being further decline in Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and Morris and Essex. Gold opened at 10633, but immediately advanced to 1061y, at which figure it remained steady all day. Government bonds were dull and a trifle lower, while railroad bonds were irregular and gen- erally lower. Money on call was easy at 21g to S per cent. Tae Prixcrear Inpustry or New GRENADA— war—is in a most flourishing condition. Suceestive.—Captain Williams has been Vected President of the Police Athletic Club. Some ArGumeNTs IN Favor of taxing the banks are presented in our abstract of Mr. Behouckin’s lecture. Tue Pecuttar Position or THE Stock of a railroad that has made many pockets suffer within a few days is ably indicated in our money column. Wirn tHe Apvent or Sprine the blood of the athlete tingles as restlessly as the sap of the tree. Several challenges appear in the HERALD today. Tue CANADIAN PirGrims were received with the most cordial hospitality in New York yes- terday. A full report of the reception appears in another column. Tue Custom House authorities have decided to proceed criminally against the cigar smug- glers in future. It is strange that no one has thought of this befor Massacuvsetts will probably not make her regular yearly change in temperance experi- ments this season, the House having rejected the Prohibitory bill yesterday. Tue Nover Proposition was made yester- day, by counsel in the Emma mine suit, that the contestants should form a fund for the extra compensation of the jurors. Tne New Jersey Lire Insurance Muppie is not quite as confusing as it was. Our special report of to-day contains some information more explanatory than gratifying. Tae TemreraNnce MeN and the liquor dealers will meet face to face before a legislative com- mittee next week and say to each other's taces what they have said behind their backs. No Jove feast is ant: “Wat's Iv A Name?” is no longer so un- answerable a question as it has hitherto been, for Mrs. Gaines has suecceded in her great suit against the city of New Orleans and others, with enormous gains to herself. Tne KixGés Couxty Boanp or SvrERvisors are strangely exercised at the story that paupers voted at a recent town election. Men whose entire support comes from the county vote at every election. They may be found on the Court House steps nearly every day. Tne Resorcrne of the Louisianians over the Temoval of the troops is feeble compared with that of the troops themselves. The American soldier instinctively hates local police duty and is certain that he never entered the service for any such purpose. Ture Seems To Be Some Cautious SrarninG between Attorney General Fairchild and Boss Tweed. The former has seen only of what Tweed proposes to tell, w! phjecta to testify before a log’ ive committee antil assured that a full pardon will be granted him. Tar Weatner.—The storm centre has now reached the coast, with continuous rains over the lake region, the Middle and Eastern States. The heaviest raintall has occurred at Quebee, Eastport, Chatham and St. John’s. At New York, 0.37, and at Boston, 0.45 of an inch has fallen. The highest winds have prevailed in the St. Lawrence Valley and in Nova Scotia. special despatch from St. John's describes the effects of the easterly gale nt that port yester- day morning. Westward of the Mississippi the weather is clear and warm, except in the North- eastern Territories, where another depression is now central, with indications of its development into a storm centre of some energy. In the Southern States the weather is warm and clear. Our special report from Nashyille gives further particulars of the effects of the tornado on | Wednesday night predicted by the Herat of Monday and Tuesday. The rivers have gen- erally risen, except in some sections of their courses. The weather in New York to-day will the nartly cloudy and slightly cooler, Our | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Settlement of the Louisiana Ques- tion. After sixteen years the great war is at last over. The last rebel laid down his arms in 1865, twelve years ago, but in one way or another the constitution has re- mained suspended since then and thecoun- try has been kept in a condition of con- structive war, until now, at last, federal sol- diers cease everywhere to interfere in the State governments, and the people of all the States are once more happily to rule them- selves in accordance with the fundamental organic law of the land, and thus the great war is over ; the people of the United States live once more under the shelter of the con- stitution, The withdrawal of the federal troops to their barracks in New Orleans will deserve to be remembered as a great event in our history. It signalizes the final and complete return to constitutional govern- ment. When the federal interference ceased in Arkansas at the command of Congress, in 1875, the people of that State, of both par- ties and races, celebrated the event by a day of joyful thanksgiving for the restoration of peace, secur- ity and prosperity; the whole American people might very well mark the restoration of self-government to Louisiana by a similar celebration, for President Hayes undoubt- edly, by this last act of his, gives a new lease of life tothe Republic, a new feeling of per- manence and security to all interests in every State; he adds to the value of every piece of property in the Union, because he opens the way to a renewal of confidence and to a revival of business. He has made the future safe, as it has not been safe in all the long weary years since the first gun was fired at Sumter. The President has redeemed his first and most important promise—that he would so govern as to abolish ‘the South” in a politi- cal sense, and make of us all countrymen, equally living under the same constitution, and with no motives to sectional divisions. For the first time in more than half a cen- tury there is no “South.” For the first time since 1861 the people of all the Southern | States are left at liberty to rule themselves .in their local affairs as their own interests and wisdom shall dictate. No doubt there | are people at the North who sincerely be- lieve the President’s experiment a hazardous one, and who would have preferred, from mistaken but honestly entertained motives, to see a continuance of federal interference. We do not speak now of such men as Blaine and Wendell Phillips, self-seeking politi- cians or fanatical humanitarians, but of earnest, honest, but ill-informed citizens, who are desirous only of the country’s good. It remains for the people of South Carolina and Louisiana to prove to this not inconsid- erable and by no means uninfluential class of Northern men that their apprehensions are groundless; that equal justice, general security and prosperity are safe in the hands of the predominant party in those States. We believe they are, and we find the reasons for our faith not only in a profound convic- tion that natural laws and natural interests, undisturbed by violent extraneous inter- ference, will best solve all the so- cial .agd, industrial problems in the Southern States, as they are doing in the Northern; but further in the fact that in Arkansas, in Alabama, in North Carolina, in Georgia, everywhere, the cessation of fed- eral interference with the local governments has been the beginning of lasting peace, order, general contentment and good feel- ing, security and prosperity. The settlement of the Southern question removes one, and the greatest, of the im- pediments to a renewal of prosperity all over the country. It is not merely that the removal of a long existing cause of irritation will stimulate the industry and greatly in- crease the productive power of the South, though the importance of this is not to be undervalued, for the men of both races dawn there have been so preoccupied by the long and bitter political struggles that, notably in South Carolina and Louisiana, but in some degree in all the Southern States, regular and productive industry has been seriously checked. But the whole country will feel the stimulus and benefit of the cessation of a strife which threatened us constantly with serious internal troubles, and which, while it lasted, made needed reforms impossible and demoralized our politics. Until the Southern question was out of the way no other question could have proper consideration, and all interests suf- fered neglect. Now, at last, after waiting many tedious years, we can come fully to the discussion of real questions—of matters which have been pressing upon the country for along time. We see this already in the prominence given at the Treasury Depart- ment to the question of resumptior and to the more rapid and profitable refunding of the debt. We see it in the newspapers, where questions of internal im- provements, of the tariff, of civil service re- form, already take the place of mere politi- cal squabbles. Congress, when it meets in extra session in June, will find itself for the first time in many years at leisure to con- sider the necessities of commerce, the con- dition of industry, the questions of money and taxation. Whatever it may attempt to do it will listen to debates in which the voice of statesmanship may once more make itself heard ; and men who have intelligent opinions upon real questions and matters of actual public utility will find a field and audience. The men who have obtained un- due prominence in the national councils by fostering the spirit of partisanship, or by that sincere, persistent assertion of patriot- ism which in troublous times is too often mistaken for statesmanship, will either ruin themselves by insane attempts to keep alive sectional feeling or will learn that in order to retain their seats they must devote thein- selves to intelligent work instead of mere talk. It is in this way that new parties will come about through the discussion of new issues ; nor will the utmost efforts of those demagogues who would like still longer to keep the old Southern issue alive avail, we believe, todothis, It was in vain that men sought to reform parties while the South- ern question excluded all others, and it will be equally in vain that men will strive to keep together parties formed on that old issue, now that it has passed away and new ; 4} questions press forward. The politicians of both sides are anxiously speculating about the future of parties; but their concern is about a question over which they have no real control, for the new parties, which are inevitable, cannot be formed by Presi- dential patronage nor by astute intrigues ; they will be the slow outgrowth of discus- sions yet to come in Congress and before the country. The Inevitable War. Lord Derby declares in’ the House of Lords that he does not feel justified in in- dulging any expectation that war can be avoided ; he does not regard the case now before Europe as one likely to be reached by the tripartite treaty of 1856 ; he does not see any possible escape from war ; and he takes occasion to renew a previously made declar- ation that Turkey must not count upon England for any material aid in the struggle that the fatuity of her rulers has made inevi- table. From Constantinople itis reported that Turkey is ‘‘dismayed” at the imme- ; diate prospect of the war, and would gladly recede now “‘if it were not too late.” Eng- land could have preserved the peace if she kad so desired atthe right moment. Turkey could have prevented the war at any mo- ment by a process so little humiliating as the acceptance of the will of Europe; and until last year she has not pretended since 1849 to be independent of the will of Eu- rope. But the difficulty has been that both England and Turkey resolved to regard the case before them only in the light of opin- ions hostile to Russia, and not to view the facts simply. They thus misinterpreted entirely Russia’s opinion, and believed that she would give way if firmly opposed. In aclose election in Englend on the 19th a conservative was elected by a very small majority on a large vote, and the Times in- terprets this as a vote in favor of peace, as- suming that the liberals are the party from whom ingerence in a Russo-Turkish war is to be feared—which seems a very odd view of the case. Chatham Street’ or Park Row. Chatham street no longer exists. That famous thoroughfare, which derived its title from William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, is now called Park row by the Board of Aldermen, which has, by the ordinance passed the other day, shown its ingratitude to the first English statesman who advocated the cause of the American colonies in Parliament. But as Aldermen, as well as republics, are proverbially ungrateful, the sentimental point may be dismissed. ‘The practical benefit of the change is the question. It is our opinion that unless strong reasons exist for such action the historical names of streets in a great city should never be changed. Oxford street and the Strand, in London; Sackville street, in Dublin, and Unter den Linden, in Berlin, are known throughout the ‘world, and who would presume to alter their names? Chatham street may not now have as enviable a repu- tation as these, yet if it were called Rose, like its neighbor, it would not smell any sweeter, and both are very dirty. Ifthe Al- dermen think to change the character of the street by changing its titlethey make o great mistake. Beer will still continue to be sold, the Original Jacobs will still consent to sell diamond pins at a dollar each, and the Original Original Jacobs will sell them for half dollar; and the blue coats with gold buttons, which were made for the Grand Duke Alexis, but for which he forgot to call, will be disposed of to greenhorns for whatever price they can afford to pay. The grade of a street cannot be improved by altering its title. Park row is aboutas great a misnomer as even the Dogberrys of New York could invent, for Chatham street never had a park. For these reasons we doubt that the action of the Aldermen will have the approval of the citizens of New York, and are afraid that the Board may be suspected of having formed a corner in corner lamps and signs. Let Chatham street, therefore, still be called Chatham street by all opposed to trifling with ancient titles, and may the Board of Aldermen be called by the appropriate names in private which courtesy prevents us from using in public. Jupiter Pluvius and Jupiter Smith, The rain of heaven and the reign of inef- ficiency in New York have been producing two very opposite effects. The first washes our streets when they are ankle deep in filth, but the second fills them up again with dirt. Were it not for the benign in- fluence of Jupiter Pluvius, who sometimes rescues us from untold dangers, we would be entirely at the mercy of Jupiter Smith. Jupiter Pluvius frowns and his brow is clouded even when he is most active in our | behalf ; but Jupiter Smith smiles at our woes and does nothing. His policy is a masterly inactivity at the rate of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars n year. Jupiter Plavius ‘raises the wind” himself, but Jupiter Smith draws on the public treasury. But the people seem determined, neverthe- less, to pay Jupiter Smith a great compli- ment. They propose to serenade the Mul- berry street Jove with the jovial visage, and pour in their contributions toward the ex- penses. How can Jupiter Smith refuse such a graceful greeting? We print elsewhere in to-day’s Henratp some selected letters from the mass of correspondence on this subject, and we are certain that all the money neces- sary will soon be collected and dumped into the hands of the committee in charge of the affair. Meanwhile Jupiter Smith can amuse himself by reading how the author- ities of Manchester, England, dispose of the city refuse in an efficient and profitable manner. Ma, Twerp's Escare.—It is a little cool for the season in Mr. C. O'B. Bryant to con- fess, as he does in a note we printed yester- day, that he wrote the adventures of Mr. Tweed with a view of exciting sympathy for him. A Washington correspondent of the Henatp relates that well informed persons in that city believe Mr. Bryant's tale to be in some particulars rather inaccurate, Our correspondent gives what he evidently be- lieves to be a more correct account, and adds that thé State Department has reasons to know the truth, Will not Secretary Evarts give the public the true story of the ‘Tweed escape, if it is really known in his depart- ment? Reapportionment of the State. There is an imperative requirement of the State constitution that an enumeration of the inhabitants be taken at intervals of ten years and that the Senatorial and Assembly districts “shall be soaltered by the Legisla- ture at the first session after the return of every enumeration that each district shall contain, as nearly as may be, the same num- ber of inhabitants.” The last enumeration was taken in June, 1875, and it was the duty of the Legislature of 1876 to reconstruct the districts. Had that Legislature been democratic it would have done so, since a reapportionment will increase the relative strength of the democratic party in the State government. But, the last Legisla- ture having been republican, the duty was neglected, and the republicans had an un- fair advantage in the last election. The present Legislature is under a still stronger temptation to disregard the constitution, because the Senate to be chosen next fall will participate in the election of a United States Senator. But the postponement admits of no defence or palliation, The members are sworn to obey the constitution, but they defy one of its plainest requirements os a means of cheating their political opponents. The increase of population has been chiefly in the democratic strongholds at this.end of the State, which will have an increased representation after the new apportionment. It is a scandalous breach of duty for the Legislature to have foreborne action so long. We are glad that Governor Robinson has decided to call an extra session if it adjourns without action, or if it passes a gerrymandering bill which he will be com- pelled to veto, The Mayor and the Police Commis- sioners. The Police Commissioners have rendered to the Mayor what they are pleased to term a quarterly statement of the expenditures for street cleaning. President Smith told our reporter some days ago that he did not believe the public would accept it as satis- factory because of the dust thrown in peo- ple’s eyes. He was right. It is not a satis- factory statement in any respect. It ap- pears that the Commissioners cannot expend more than one-twelfth of the street cleaning appropriation in a month, therefore theallow- ance for four weeks should show a hand- some balance in favor of the account when no work is done in cleaning the streets, even after deducting the amounts paid for regu- lar salaries. Now, according to the statement nothing was done in January last. Nostreets were swept or garbage removed. Where, then, has the January fund of over sixty-two thousand dollars been dumped? Surely it ought to have afforded, with the February fund, ample means for clean- ing the city during February. But the streets were not cleaned in February or in March, What, then, has become of over one hundred and eighty thousand dollars appro- priated for three months? The Police Com- missioners have it—as the carpenter had the nails and other supplies—in the account; but where did the money realiy go? Taking a liberty with Shakespeare, we may say that “the winter of our discontent” is not im- proved by the Police Commissioners’ ‘‘sum- mary of expenses.” Mayor Ely should in- vestigate this account, It is a foggy, muddy and malodorous statement of the winter's work, wherein nothing was swept clean but the money. Miss Dickinson’s Dramatic Position. The criticism of the critics of Miss Anna Dickinson, elsewhere printed, does more credit to the heart than the head of our cor- respondent; yet there is some justice in his appeal. The high rank which that lady holds in society and in public entitles her toa respectful hearing on the stage. But art must be respected as well as the artist, and its claims are'supreme. We think that the mistake of Miss Dickinson was that she supposed that the critics were her personal enemies, while, in fact, they were simply unable to acknowledge her claims. She as- sumed at the beginning a place upon the stage by the side of such actresses as Mme, Janauschek, Miss Clara Morris, Miss Ade- lnide Neilson and other ladies, to whom act- ing has been not the study of o year, but the study and practice of a lifetime. By the standard she herself creates she must be judged, and if she fails, compared with those she would equal, the critic is bound tosay so. The true question is not one of power, but of actual performance. The actor, like the poet, must be born with the genius of his profession; but there never was an actor who sprang fully equipped upon the stage. Acting is of all the arts that which requires the largest personal preparation, and for that reason nearly all great dramatic artists have not appeared suddenly, like comets in the sky, but have dawned slowly like stars. Miss Dickinson may naturally possess the greatest ability for the stage, but she has not had either time or opportunity to show it. Events have conspired against her success, and the engagement which was to have been so brilliant ended in the gloom of a lawsuit. Her appearance next season in this city will be under more favorable conditions, In Mr. Daly's theatre she will have the advantage of a strong and well directed company and of competent instruction in those branches of acting in which she is now deficient. When Miss Dickinson returns to the metro- politan stage we think she will find the critics as kind as just, but their verdict then, as now, will depend almost entirely upon her own merit. Keeping Up Appearances. Among impecunious people there is one class which does not merit even the slight- est sympathy of any one. Wo refer to the people who, with the assistance rendered by other people's money, keep up appearances. None of them live in tenement houses; they are altogether too high spirited to do that, If out of busi- ness or preserving as a patent of respect- ability the skelcton of some used-up calling, they still live in as good style as ever, and their friends, their butcher and their baker are compelled to sustain the expense. As to clothing, Solomon in all his glory was particular the resemblance between the two is utterly imperceptible. They occupy good seats at the theatres and prominent pews in churches. They go into society and receive society in return, but they never pay cash unless they first pro- cure it without rendering an equivalent. Their condition is known to nearly all of their acquaintances, but no mat- ter how great their ability no one ever seeks them for business asso- ciates, Morally they are as utterly without visible means of support as the gambler or thief. The honest man out of employment or in business embarrassments modifies his manner of life so as to exist upon his in- come, but these high-strung spirits know a trick worth two of that. The only justifica~ tion they ever plead is that they are keep- ing up appearances. Of what the ap- pearances consist is never stated. They are certainly not appearances of respectability, for the time is gone in which a man could live upon the earnings of others and be called respectable, Neither are they appear- ances of being well-to-do, for the feeblest financial eyesight can generally penetrate at once thesubterfuges of these people. Sooner or later—yet the sooner the better—such paupers will learn that, even in a city which has its full share of men who will ap- plaud the successful sharper, the appearance of honesty counts for more than anything else. Gifts to Public Oficers. The correspondence between Mr. Wash- burne, our Minister at Paris, and Prince Hohenlohe, recently published by the State Department, is especially creditable to our representative at a time when the examples of public life have well nigh swept away all respect, not only for tradition and consid- erations of propriety, but for the definite constitutional rule against the reception of gifts. With sound good sense, that has no taste for baubles, the Minister informs the State Department that he would not in any circumstances accept a ‘‘decoration,” but if a portrait or vase were offered would accept the gift, if permitted, by Congress. But the fact that he made no effort to extort this permission from Congress will always be a greater honor to him and a greater distinction than any such gift could ever prove. Caste Rates.—The publication of partial rules as a statement of new rates following the late cable complications misled us yes- terdsy intoa publication that did injustice to the Anglo-American Company. We cor- rect that statement on authority, as fol- lows :— Exrcutive Orvi7K, Western Usion Tetecraru Company, New York, April 19, 1877. To tHe Epiror or Tay HexaLp:— On and after May 1 the rates of the Direct United States Cable Company and of the Anglo-American Company will be the same—viz., threo shillings (sev- enty-five conts, coin) & word for ordinary messaxes; one shilling (twenty-five cents, coin) a word for mes- sagea in plain, unabbreviated language containing news for publication by the press, and twelvo and one-half cents (sixpence sterling) a word for dclerred news messages to be sent at the convenionce of the com- panies, when tho cables are not occupied with busi- ness at the three shilling and one shilling rates’ Very respoctfully, WILLIAM ORTON. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Satin and brocaded ribbons are, she moat feshionable. Calla lly by any other name and {twill smell as sweet. Wendell Phillips, now an orator, was once a leg of the law. Jn times of domestic war prepare for a pleco of your wife’s mind. Senator Theodore F. Randolph, of New Jersey, is at the New York. Mobile discovered a two hundred pound trog. it was singing jog-a-rum. In Central Asia there are spiders whose bodies are as big as butternuts. Go West, young man. Tho modest dandelion, that Wendell Philips of flowers, 1s peeping from tho bright green sod. English heutenact generals are figuring for the ap- pointment to the command at the Cape of Good Hope. Wagner was once hissed out of London because he wanted a society to change tho style of the old com- posers, ‘The Japanese are becoming social guests wherever they go; but the Chinese are received with favur no- where. 7 The son of an old family which has nothing lef but time and name is usually @ chip off the ola biock of decayea sandstone. Utah eo Turkey of America, am@.what we like to read 18a Utah paper which thinks tuat Turkey ought to ve driven out of Europa, Ex-President Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada and Sefior Don Manuel Romero Rubio, of Mexico, returned to tho city yesterday and aro at the Windsor, Ex-Secretary of the Navy Borie and ex-Secretary of the Interiur Chandler arrived at Harrisbarg yesterday and are stopping with Senator Cameron, A few ladies of fashion, and of sense, are having their walking suits made with a single skirt, short enough to escape tho ground, and with the Bretun jacket. The same contest for State independence and for mere confederation ts going on in Germany ai inet Prussia that has existed in the South of the United States since the toundation of the government, In a recent suit in which the young Lord Boresford was engaged with a money lender, who was in the right, the judges at Middlesex disgraced themselves by competing with ono anothor for the right of bailing tho sprig of nobility. A spiritualist says that the essenco of the other lifo meets the reality of this lite and so produces a two- sided oneness among animals, which may be realized in fruit or in flowers. Yes, some of the antiaals went into the ark in pears, An old Highlander with two sone—one a minister and the other a doctor—being very proud of thum, said to a friend, ‘‘Had I kent ane o’ my sons was gaun to be a medical man and the other a clergyman, | wad never hao hacn auld Jenny for their mither."” Newark Advertiser:—"We assert that there is no such thing asa Spitz dog. The beasts we call Spitz are only Esk wolves—treacherous, spiteiul, cowardly and sneaking. They are as intelligent as the ordinary run of prowling animals; but the only quality tbat commends them is their fussy fawning.’’ Nothing so gently ploases a Passaic father as to hear his son in dresses speak of “unduos’’ for onions and ‘-vindegar’’ for vinegar; but when ten years atter- ward, as they all sit at supper eating carly radishes, it “rouses the momory of that parent te see the young man rise from the table, button up bis coat and ex- claim, “Thero’s an alarm in the Fitth district, and I'm gorn’ to be the first one at the house to git the | ‘srompet, by gravy!’ Scotch excbang “A first class passenger arrived ata railway terminus not a hupared miles from Gias- gow the other day who bad been unfortunate enough to get Lis finger bruised by the carriage door, and in 4 rather excited manner inquired of a porter (who hailed from Kirin) where the nearest surgeon was to be found, Pat, who saw no reason for such excitement, ex- claimed, in a pot over respectiul manner, ‘Shut up, ye dirty spalpeen! Sure ye’re makin’ more noiso than the gintleman that lost his head here yesterday.’” A Highland laird was checked off (n nis financial ac- counts by his wife on his return, ile had calied at the chemist’s for a draught for tho babe of three years old, Sbo said, “1 sce ye canna buy pootbers for bairns; 1 would gotten twa as big as yours for a shillin’” Jamie replied, *‘Hoo wud you manage that?” “Well, Wit tell you. He would epier hoo auld the bairn waa?’’ “Ay, of coorse, an’ I teli’t him jt wis three years auld,’ “Well, if it had been me, | wud say the babe not arrayed like one of these; but Solomon’s tailors probably got their money for their work, in which ‘was six years, an’ I would 'a’ gotten ane as big again, and then divided it in twa,” “That thocht never struck me,’’ answered Jamia, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. A WAR MANIFESTO, Russia Invokes the Ordeal of Battle. She Intends to Occupy and Hold Roumania As a Medical Guar- antee for the Reforms. THE CZAR OFF FOR THE WAR, England Stands Aside, Leaving Turkey to Her Fate. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] y Loxpox, April 21, 1877. At last Russia has put her feeling into explicit language, She deciares that she snall at once occupy Bulgaria and hold the province as@ mate- nial guarantee for the execution of the relorms; that she will invite other European Powers to take part in the occupation; and finally that she disclaims any intention to acquire territory perma- nently, Prince Charles of Roumania has received a copy of a Russian manifesto which contains the following declaration:— Whereas every endeavor by the Emperor of Russia to preserve peace has failed, owing to the stubbornness of the Porte, while the condition ot the Christians im the East is unim- proved, their lives and property being menaced; therefore His Majesty, in the name of humanity and in the full consciousness of his sovereign duties as the natural protector of the Sclavonian nations in the East, has been com- pelled to resolve on obtaining by force of arms such guarantees for his distressed fellow believers on Turkish soil a8 appear absolutely necessary for se- curing their future welfare, The document proceeds to state that this armed intervention is not meant for the purpose of con- quest, and will end after securing the above-men- tioned results. A despatch from Constantinople fully confirms the above. NO FOUNDATION FOR HOPE. ‘The peace bulletins lately have been somewhat like those issued from the sick chamber of a dying man, All that could be said was that things were as before and that the final catastrophe had not come. For the last forty-eight honrs, according to a Vienna correspondent, there seems to have been a disposition to take a more hopeful view of the case. The impulse to this comes from the remark of Mr. Hardy, in the House of Com- mons, that all hope was not abandoned, also hints from Paris that further efforts for peace were making on the ground of the eighth | articie of the Treaty of Paris. To this may be added the hopes of a direct understanding at Kischeneff, raised by the fact that the Czar does not go to Moscow on his way to Kischeneff, and that General Ignatieff accompanies him. After weighing these driblets of rumors and con- jectures against my best information I believe the suppositions about further negotiations on the part of the Powers have no positive, tangible founda- tion, nor is there any information that a step will be taken in the direction of concession to Russia during the Emperor's visit at Kischeneff.. The Russian Teiegraphic Agency reports that the declaration of war is imminent. There will be no ultimatum, but simply @ declara- tion of war. The, above. manifesto is there- fore to be regarded in the light of a positive declaration of war. Nelidoff, the Russian Chargé d’Affaires at Constantinople, breaks off diplo- matic relations with Turkey on Thursday. RUSSIA'S BRIBE TO AUSTRIA, Despatches from Berlin roport that Russia has given Austria to understand that if she doos not object to tho occupation of Bosnia by Austria and of Constantinoplo by England if tho Russians are obliged to cross tho Danube, The reception givon to these overtures, however. has been far from favorable, It is certain that Austria will enter into no premature arrangoment. if Rus- sian operations should be delayed or pro duce no tangiblo result, Austria will not act at all’ It is reported in Pera that Russta has decided to send a second circular note te the Powers and wait fora reply before she declares war. It ts considered possible that the bad condition of the roads in Asia Minor is the cause of this ap- parent hesitation, TURKRY DISMATED. Contrary to the idea that thero is a break in the clouds, I hear on high authority that in St. Petersburg, Constantinople and London the = most authoritative diplomatists have firm conviction that war must come No government action is being taken in either city with the view to averting the cates. trophe, ‘The circular note of Gortschakoff may arrive any day, A special telegram from Constanti- nople say: ‘Turkey is dismayed at the prospect of imminent war, and would gladly listen to proposais for a pacitic arrangement if it were not too late,” THE RUSSIAN PLANS. In military circles at Bucharest it is generally be. lieved that the bulk of the Russian army, to avoid crossing the river Sereth, mm Moldavia, by Barboche bridge and being surprised by the Turkwh flotilla on the Danube, will go by railway from Ungheni to Mara. sette, thence march by the high road through Focsani and Rimnic to Bouzeo, and afterward by different roads diverge trom Bouzeo toward Kalalat, Flamonda, Magurelo, Giurgevo and Calarassi, The Russian head- quarters will probably be at Bouzeo, as they were In 1856, or possibly at Pleosti, Bouzco is a large town om one of the main highways of Lower Wallachia, sixty miles northeast of Bucharest. The intention of an attack from Asia daily growing more evident, Russian troops are reported to be nearing tho Asiatic frontier, OFY FOR THR WAR, ‘ The Czar started for Kischeneffdirect yesterday. He ‘was accompanied by General D, Miloutine, the Minister of War. The Czar is expected at Kischonef on Sunday. He will hold a review of the army on the banks of the Pruth on Monday. Many Russians havo leit Constantinople, All the Russian merchantmen will soon quit that harbor, The Vienna /olitical Vorrespond- ence has a despatch from St. Petersburg stating that Prince Gortschakof’s circular hus not yet beou do+ spatched, the open declaration of Russia’s resolves having been postponed until April 29, The Czar’s ree turn to St, Petersburg from Kischeneff is fixed for April 30, TURKEY MUST NOT LOOK TU ENGLAND, In the House of Lords last night, Lord Roseberry desired to know what were the views of Lord Derby in Tespect to the tripartite troaty of April, 1856, and how tar it was to be considered obligatory on this country, It guaranteed tho independence and integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and if that treaty was disregarded it appeared to him a vital blow would be strack at the ance of all trea: ties, Was it intended to take ang steps to free our