The New York Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD] », BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, "PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, publishet aay day tn the year. Three cents per copy (Sunday excluded). Ten’ dotlars per SOF at Fate ot une dollar per month for any period less tha ie lars for six months, Sunday edition incinde of postaxe. ‘all business, Hews letters or telegraphic despatches mast be addressed New Yor« Hxnatp. ‘Letters and puckages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications wili not be returned, oe ba atte OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON “OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— 0, 46 FLEET sTREET. FICE~AVENUE DE L’OPERA. YO, 7 STRADA PACE, inements will be received and 3 asin New York, AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. sok AIPTH AVENUE THEATRE.—Tus Princess Rora GRAND OPERA HOUSE.—-Manacens’ Brerrt. PARK THEATRE—Cotonx: JOHN H. MURRAY'S GRA GERMANIA THEATRE. OESTERRXICH. WALLACK'S THEATR TIVOLI THEATRE. —' NEW YORK AQUARIU EGYPTIAN HALL.—Va! PARISIAN VARIETIES. GILMORE’S GARDE! THEATRE COMIQUE. TRIPLE NEW YORK, FR NOTICE TO COUNTRY DiALERS. The Adams Express C ran ® special newspaper frain over the Fennsyivania Railroad and {tv connections, aving Jersey City at a quarter past four A. M. daily and nday, carrying the regular edition of the HxRALD as far estas Harrisburg und South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy, followed by in- creasing cloudiness, falling temperature, fog and possibly rain. Watt Srreet Yestervay.—Tho market was active and business was well distributed among the principal stocks. During the fore- noon prices were fairly steady, but late in the day there was a break in the whole list, which closed all round below the figures of Wednesday. Gold opened at 1071, fell to 1067, and fluctuated between the latter price and 107 during the day. Government and rail- road bonds were tirm. Money on call was easy at 2 a 2g per cent. Heavy Frosts Have APPeareD in some sec- tions of the country, and provided sorrow for small boys who expected to steal peaches next fall. Tue New Cop does not seem to be received with the courtesy peculiar to the legal profes- sion; perhaps because there is not enough of it to dow to. Tue Excess or Exrorts ovER Luports during the nine months ending with March is reported as over a hundred and fifty million dollars, Economy and labor are evidently growing in | popularity. ‘. ‘Tue GovERNMENT has very properly assumed the funeral expenses of the victims of the dis- aster at the New York Post Office, and it is un- doubtedly liable for the lasting damage done to the families of the unfortunate men. Summer Music at Wasuincton.—Our Wash- ington despatches announce that it is considered absolutely certain that a proclamation calling for an extra session of Congress will be issued “sfter the adjournment of the Cabinet meeting to- day. Tne First Puniic Atremrr at the reforma- tion of the oratorio is described in another column. It would seem from this report that the reformation is to consist of a liberal use of stage properties, and even some properties of old composers. An ABLE ArGuMENT in favor of free trade in ships is printed in another column. Another argument may be seen on the bay on any gen- eral sailing day in the absence of the American flag from large vessels which carry American produce abroad. Two Aruvetes, both teachers of the manly art of self-defence, met in a quiet way at a pri- vate residence last evening and decided by a contest with gloves which should have a five hundred dollar purse. A full report of the affair will be found in another column. Tue Custom House INvestiGaTion grows more and morc interesting. One witness ad- mitted that in a single department a hundred men might be dispensed with, and if the busi- ness were carried on as a mercHant conducts his private affairs a quarter of its cost might be saved. Tae Masonry or THe ALDERMEN continue their gallant fight against the Mayor's ap- pointees. Of course the important part which the immutable principles underlying party poli- tics plays in the management of local affairs makes it highly improper that the various city boards should be unpartisan in their per- sonnel. Tue New York Ju LE AND GUARDIAN So- CIETY’s pretentious claims to e isiveness and independence were ably ventilated by Judge Daly yesterday. Perhaps now the society will prosecute the State Commissioners of Charities for libel. Such a proceeding would probably dig the society's own grave, but the public would be glad to see such an indication that the corpse ‘was ready. Tas WeaTaer.—The depression on the const continues to present a decided barometric fall, and is now central over the cast coast of Nova Scotia, with a pressure below 29.30 inches. The attendant area of precipitation docs not ex- tend beyond the British provinces southwest- ward, but embraces the northern portion of the lower lako region. Snow has fallen at Quebec. ‘The winds on the coast and in the St. Lawrence Valley continue high, with a low but rising tem- perature. The depression in the Southwest has already entered the Lower Mississippi Valley, with rains from the Inkes to Northern Texas, The fall at Keoknk has been very heavy. Brisk winds also prevail on the northern and western margin of thislow area. The pressure is high- est on the South Atlantic coast. It is low on the Pacific const, with cloudy, threatening ‘weather in the southern sections. The tempera- ture thronghout the country has risen slightly eiuce last evening. The weather in New York today will be slightly warmer and partly cloudy, followed by increasing cloudiness, fall- ing temperature, fog and possibly rain. The conditions beyond the Alleghany range favor the development of local storms tu the Missis- stppi Valley region. J NEW YORK HERALD, MAY 4, 187 7.—-TRIPLE § The Omnibus Bill. so-called Omnibus bill passed the Assembly yesterday, and, we understand, will pass the Senate without further amend- ment, and go to the Governor in the shape in which we print it elsewhere, There is an impression here and in Albany that Gov- ernor Robinson will veto it; and we may as well say at once that we shall not quarrel with him if he does. The bill is not en- tirely bad, but it has some very bad features ; and upon the point which almost all people desirous of reform are now agreed to con- sider as vital it entirely fails. What we hoped to find in any amendment to the city charter, and not only hoped but expected, was acentral, responsible head, the Mayor, appointing his subordinates in the administration, to hold office during his own term, unless removed for cause. From a Mayor thus controlling his sub- ordinates and intrusted with large powers we should have a right to expect as good government as the public opinion of the city chose to demand of him ; we could hold him responsible for abuses, because he would have the appointment of his subordi- nates. Now, the Omnibus bill does order the present Mayor to appoint the heads of some of the executive departments; but it gives to most of these subordinates longer terms than the Mayor’s, and in fact, should the bill become a law, Mayor Ely would appoint the most important officers of the city and these would hold over under Mr. Ely’s successor, and thus be independent ofhim. In this, which is the most impor- tant feature of the bill, it copies the notori- ous Tweed charter. The Commissioner of Parks, for instance, is to hold office four years, the two Commissioners of Charities and Correction are to hold four years, the Fire Commissioner five years, the Ex- cise Commissioner three years, and sv on, the Mayor holding two years. Moreover, in several cases it is provided that the person now holding the place shall hold over for his unexpired term. 8o far, therefore, as this bill was supposed to give the city a really responsible and ef- fective government it is a conspicuous fail- ure, and if it shall turn out that the Governor vetoes it, it will probably be on this entirely justifiable ground. That it has also some good features will be seen by the following summary of its pro- visions, which we give for the convenience of those who have not time to read the whole bill:— It provides for spring elections, in the month of April; makes the Mayor's term two years ; makes the official term begin on the Ist of May ; provides for six Aldermen “at large,” besides the regular number, and limits the incidental expenditures of the Aldermen to twelve thousand dollars perannum. It declares that all the heads of departments and the Chamberlain shall be appointed by the Mayor, without the confirmation of the Aldermen, and makes them removable on written charges of mal- feasance, inefficiency or dereliction of duty. The Park Commissioner is to be appointed within ten days after the bill becomes a law, and is to hold office four years, with a salary of five thousand dollars. Ho is to have charge of all parks, squares and public places, and all other duties now under the Department of Parks are to go to the Commissioner of Public Works. This officer is to have charge of the Croton water, drainage and sewerage, construction, repair and lighting of the streets, bridges, tunnels, public buildings, wharves and docks ; he is to have three bureaus, with a city engineer, acity architect and an engineer of docks ; and it is provided that no improvements of any kind shall be made north of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street un- less approved by the Board of Street Opening and Assessments, and no.street or road shall be paved anywhere within six months after it has been sewered and the Croton mains laid, excepton the application of, the owners of a majority of the property lying upon it. In the Department of Finance the duties of the Tax Receiver and the Collector of Assess- ments and his deputy are consolidated under one officer subject to the Comptroller. The Bureau of Licenses is abolished. Two Commissioners of Charities and Correction are to hold office four years at five thousand dollars perannum; and the present President and the Commissioner having the shortest term are to hold over during their terms, A Fire Commissioner is to hold for five years, at five thousand dollars per annum, and is to perform also the duties of the present Department of Build- ings, and the present President of the Fire Department is to hold over for his unex- pired term. Two Police Commissioners are to be appointed, and they are to be not merely non-partisan, but, as the bill says, to be ‘‘opposed to each other on State issues ;”’ but the persons who were presi- dent and treasurer of the present Board on March 1 are to hold over for their unexpired terms. The Mayor is to appoint a Commissioner of Excise, to hold for three years, at three thousand dollars per annum, and he is not to spend more than twenty thousand dollars per annum. The Police Commissioners ‘‘opposed +to each other on State issues” are to make contracts for cleaning the streets, and not more than seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars per annum are to be spent for this purpose. The Corporation Counsel is made also public adiainistrator. The clerks in the Clerk's office and the clerks of tho Aldermen are to help the Board, sitting as canvarsers, to compile the vote at elections without extra charge ; and, finally, the Board of Estimates and Apportionment is to re- vise and redetermine by a concurrent vote the estimates for the current year. ‘That is the bill, It could hardly help hav- ing some good features ; but it seems to us to be a very crude, ill-digested attempt at reform. It tinkers, ond in the essential points the tinkering is of a bad kind. If it should become a law it will not give as a responsible Mayor ; it will not give us clean streets ; it will not give us more efficient gov- ernment ; it will not secure to any citizen ® speedier redress of grievances, It will work some economies, but not, so far as we can see, very important ones, and it will prevent a few abuses. That is all; and we the bill. Soanother yearseems likely to pass without giving the city an effective govern- ment. The War News. Perhaps the report. that the Turks have been beaten at Kars is premature, for as that theatre of war is not in a country covered with telegraph wires it is scarcely possible for us to know the mere fact without know- ing somewhat more. If the defeat of the Turks at Kars were known in Europe the news must have come by way of St. Peters- burg or Constantinople and would be more complete. Inventions made at Vienna are likely to figure conspicuously in the daily chronicle of events. It is worthy of note that in the news to-day the Turkish and Russian governments simultaneously deny one of these fictions given several days ago in regard to a battle near Batoum. Doubt- less the reported bombardment of Odessa is as mythical as this battle or as the bombard- ment of Poti. There are too many tor- pedoes in the neighborhood of Odessa for the Turkish navy to be fond of that place. The sort of craft they are seems to be indicated by the report from Ibrail, which tells that the Russian batteries on the Danube beat off a Turkish monitor and setheron fire. There aresome important in- dications of the future in the news. For in- stance, the Turks are said to have evacuated Tultcha, which seems to refuse their right flank on the Danube. ‘The punishment of Chefket Pacha for his participation in the Bulgarian massacres, if the story shall prove true, implies that there is a ‘‘change of heart” in the Turkish capital as to the merit of those proceedings. In Austria the gov- ernment probably expresses its views sin- cerely in the response to the two Parlia- ments that she will do her utmost to ‘‘insure the localization of the war.” How to Beat the Silver Men. It is reported from Washington that the Treasury authorities are alarmed about the growing strength of sentiment in some Western States in favor of making silver coin a universal legal tender. They fear that Congress, at the extra session, will be moved to pass a silver bill, ‘‘in direct an- tagonism to the policy laid down by the Treasury Department.” Now then, if the Treasury Department has a policy, a real, definite and positive policy looking to speedy resumption, and will let the country know it, and know that the administration means business, we have not the least fear of the silver people. But if the Treasury means to drift, or to resume on the sly so to speak, or to trifle with the question and put it off, then we think the silver people may prove troublesome, It is whispered about Wall street that Secretary Sherman has lately begun to think of “accumulating” gold asa means toward resumption. He has now, we believe, only five millions of gold, and if he really means to buy gold enough to redeem legal tenders, then he is giving the silver men about as good a chance as they want; for if the Sec- tary goes on a wild goose chase the silver people will beat him. We trust there is no truth in the report. If the administration wants authority from Congress to issue a four per cent bond and to fund the legal tenders in it, it has only to bo dead in earnest about it and Congress will pass the bill. The President has already surprised many of his admirers by showing himself an extremely skilful politician; he has known how to overcome the opposition to his Southern policy, and if he wants to, he will know how to get Congress to allow him to fund the legal tenders. And then we shall hear no more about silver. A Bad Oatlook for Bears. The Grand Jury of the Court of General Sessions made a presentment yesterday of persons alleged to have circulated rumors affecting the credit of a corporation, which rumors, the Grand Jury say, they have as- certained to be ‘‘wholly unfounded, unjusti- fiable and false.” They add:—“The im- pairment of credit, the distrust of securi- ties, the wreck of fortunes occasioned by such false and calamitous reports, impose upon us the duty of presenting any and all persons found guilty of fabricating, cir- culating or publishing such reports as amenable to the statute provided for the punishment of such person or persons.” We know nothing of the merits of the particular case referred to by the Grand Jury, but there is no doubt justice and good sense in the ground they have taken on general principles. If, how- ever, their example should be followed by succeeding grand juries, the pigeonholes of the District Attorney's office are likely to be crowded with the names of bear operators on Wall street whose profits are measured by their success in impairing credit, dis- trusting securities and wrecking fortunes by false and calamitous reports. North Carolina and the New Party Movement. A Raleigh correspondent gives elsewhere a curious account of North Carolina politics. Governor Vance, he declares, has alienated from himself the best of his own party and is seeking support among the colored voters. Numbers of the white democratic voters are ready to leave their party and enter a new organization ; the negroes will, in great numbers, vote the democratic ticket; and the best part of the population have welcomed President Hayes’ new policy and are full of confidence in him, in spite of Governor Vance's denunciations of the new administration. In short, North Carolina seems readier for a new party movement than any other State from which we have so far heard. The State is not really demo- cratic, and our correspondent asserts that in the election of next year, with proper and prudent management, it should be carried for the Hayes policy and the republican party by a large majority, and that majority largely of white voters. But he adds that the federal office-holders appointed by Gen- eral Grant are strongly disliked and ougnt to be replaced by better men. Government Drrecrons.—General Grant’s administration was not so bad after all. Secretary Schurz has just reappointed all the vld government directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. It did begin to do not hesitate to express our disappoint- | rain, a while ago; but some people think itis ment, for we hoped to be able to approve of | not going to be much of # shower after all, Mr, Gladstone and the Liberals, .Our London special indicates the excite- ment over the resolutions of which Mr. Gladstone has given notice in the House of Commons, There is no country in the world where the standard of political morality in regard to loyalty to the nation is so high as in England. Party differences, party pas- sions, party theories of what is expedient, just or desirable for any reason whatever, may be indulged to any possible extent short of the point at which the interest or welfare or pride of England against the rest of tlie world is found to be on the other side. There they must stop. No man must prefer his own party to his country, nor his own theagies to the general opinion of what is for the national advantage. This isan Eng- lish" virtue of the sterling kind. In some other free countries it is otherwise. . In France, for instance, there is no extreme republican, no thoroughgoing legitimist and no Bonapartist who would not pre- fer to sce the nation fall into the hands of the enemy rather than into the hands of his party opponents. Any party would rejoice at invasion if it resulted in giving them power. Opponents of Bona- partism in that country, with all the pas- sion they may feel against the German invasion, relent perceptibly when they re- member that it overthrew the Empire. In our own country Northern men: rejoiced during the war, for party reasons, in the defeat of Northern armies, and men dared de- clare from public platforms that they would rather see the nation perish than slavery survive. Any declaration equivalent to that in reference to English politics could not be safely made in a public place in England, and especially not in a time of excitement. Mr. Gladstone’s resolutions touching the Eastern war seem likely to come into colli- sion with this intense national sentiment. Not that Mr. Gladstone is less an English- man than other men in public life, or a man likely to oppose his theories to the welfare of his country. But there are differences of views as to what is for the national welfare or honor in this crisis, und Mr. Gladstone is not of the same opinion on the subject with many distinguished leaders, As we have hitherto shown, we believe that Mr. Glad- stone takes a larger and more statesmanlike view of the relations of England to Turkey than is taken by the government. He does not believe it is expedient in point of pres- tige for England to stand aside and see others do all toward the Christianization of Europe. He does not believe, economically, that it is wise for England to continue to support a policy in Constantinople that destroys by butchery the producing classes of the Otto- man Empire. He believes it is demoraliz- ing that England should believe in freedom at home and support a barbarous tyranny at the other extremity of Europe. But the common opinion on the subject is framed around old prejudices with regard to the relation to Russia, and the tory party is far nearer tothe net result of those prejudices than Mr. Gladstone is. His associates of the liberal party, if they even sympathize | with his views, will not venture to brave public opinion, though they know it to be ill informed and ignorant. They will not venture to seem for a moment against what the many regard as the real policy of Eng- land, They will, therefore, oppose his resolutions. In this the liberals will simply recognize that as a party they haveno policy on this subject. They will refuse to take ground on it now, and their course will be esteemed patriotic. Another Harlem Odor Abated. We wish the Mayor, who has just renomi- nated Professor Chandler as member of the Health Board, would use his influence with that Board to induce it to appoint a good smelling committee. There has been a “fertilizer” factory at work on 105th street for three or four months turning decayed horses and other animals into manure, and spreading pestiferous odors all over the neighborhood, and it was not until the resi- dents could stand the vile stenches no longer that the Health Board found out about them. In fact, if it had not been for a Henaup reporter we doubt if the Board would have acted up to this time. Now, Providence has wisely arranged that putre- fying matter, the existence of which would produce disease, shall give out disagreeable odors, and it seems to us that the necessity for an active smelling committee, as part of a municipal board of health, is thus pluinly indicated. We donot think Professor Chand- ler ought to be a member of such a commit- tee, because he seems to rather like the smell of decayed horses. Whipping a Certain Person Round the Stump. The investigation of the charges made against Bank Superintendent Ellis has been closed, Meagre and insufficient as it has been it has disclosed quite enough to make it impossible for the Senate not to consent to the removal of that officer unless the re- publican majority is satisfied to defy public sentiment for the sake of protecting a politi- cal partisan. If the Senate committee had been disposed to inquire into matters con- nected with the Third Avenue Bank failure they would have found yet more convincing reasons why the department should be placed under different management. The danger- ous looseness that has crept into the man- agement of trust institutions was strikingly exemplitied by the testimony given on Mon- day last before the Woodin investigating committee by the President of the National Trust Company. That officer testified that he had in 1870 made‘a loan of twenty thou- sand dollars in the name of J. E. Winslow, which was placed to tho credit of Senator N. Winslow. ‘Was there any reason why you could not loan the money directly to N. Winslow in his own name?” asked one of the conmittee, “Yes, sir,” was the reply; ‘‘as President of the National Trust Company I cannot loan to any director.” ‘Was Mr. N. Winslow a director?” ‘Yes, sir.” The. answers were given in a matter of fact manner, as if an admission of the wilful evasion of a wise and proper provision of law did not require the slightest apology or call for even the mildest appearance of embarrassment, This disregard of law has prevailed too long and cannot be checked until there is more efficient supervision over such institutions than we have had for some years past, HEET. Who Owns This Comet? In placed where game is very scarce it is accounted quite a triumph to bag evens robin after a long day's tramp through the woods and fields, and disputes frequently arise between claimants for the solitary feathered prize. How much more interest- ing and exciting it must be to go gunning for comets with a single barrel telescope and beat the turn-up fields of the heavens fora shot! And when the eager sportsman flushes a comet and shoots it on the spot how boldly and determinedly he wil! claim iti for his bag! Now, a difficulty of this kind has arisen, and the astronomical world is called on to resolve itself intoa cometee of the whole and settle the dis- pute. We print to-day a letter from Mr. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, who claims to have hit a tailless comet in the same field as Mu, and demands recognition as the man who did it, On the other hand, an- other astronomer denies Mr. Swift’s marks- manship and his right to the game. Comets without tails are scarce, so we cannot afford to have this difficulty remain unsettled for any time, because who can tell what might happen if the curtailed luminary dodges around the kennel of the dog star and climbs over the back fence and escapes? It would then require a Gatling telescope to hit him, and astronomical science would suffer an irreparable loss. We must know at once who owns this comet. Europe sneers at us for our want of success in catching even ordinary comets, and therefore one without tail should be secured nt any price. Then, indeed, we could, with justifiable pride and confidence, call on the effete despotisms of the Old World to bring out their comets and see if any of them could compare with ours. We might even get up grand inter- national match—a comet race between the sun and Uranus or down the Milky Way and back for half a million a side, en- trance fee one hundred thousand dollars, the second comet to save the stakes. But all such sport can be possible only when we know who has the rightful claim to this comet. Why Not an Electric Light? An engineer, in a communication in yes- terday’s Herat, reports the invention of an improved electric light in Germany, supposed to be fit to light city streets. Such an invention has been desirable for many years, and if this report is true we should like to hear that Mayor Ely would offer the inventor an opportunity to light some of our New York streets by way of ex- periment. Many people, who have watched the advances made in the practical applica- tions of electricity within a few years, be- lieve that the day is near when all great cities will be lighted, so far as their streets are concerned, by electric lights. It would be a great improvement, for this light is the most powerful next to sunlight, and if it can be used it ought to make the streets of New York almost as light by night as by day. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The gardener reads Iveanhoe, ’ A lump of sugar cures hiccups. There will be many pear blossome this year, Matton-headed people do not go wool gathering, The Street Commissioners are stillinthedumps, | Since the great fro tramps refuse to sleep in St. Louis barne. It will soon be time for the bushes to lilac a pol tician, General Dent has command of @ detachment of troops in Florida. The Atlanta Constitution is crying out against the evil of a solid North. M. Henri Cernuscht errived at the Brevoort yester- day from Washington. ‘There is one Ohio man who hasn’t received an office; and he thinks of going West, An uncertaker is not always a radical, though he is likely to ran things In toe ground. Professor Seelye somotimes goes fishing. sce how he gets bait, unless he is infra dig. Henry Clav Dean docs not want to go noar the White Houeo so long as there 1s nothing but water there, Spinner the Florida alligator get along very well, Whon a storm comes they both make tracks. Sprinkling carts rolling near the curbstone have begun to take the polish off of boots for the season, The Norwich Bulle tin wants to know whether a bee doesn’t cell its honey. No, it honeys its coll, honey. It is said that the Chinese make a broth of a cortain kind of paper, {t must give them soup-ream pleas- ure. When two newspaper men dine together they always look at each other in hope of finding out which has got the money. St. Paul says, ‘Take a little wine for thy stomach’s sake;’? but Hayes says, ‘Take a little ice water tor thy stomach’s acho,’’ The provincial papers are adopting our fashion of giving tid-bits of items for the ladies—as it were, little hairpins of journalism. When some old humbug or thief dies wo grab up a lot of flowers, hasten to his funeral, and say, ‘Poor old fellow, he 18 gone.” Harriet Martineau hated a low-neck dress. Just be- cause she was deaf herself she thought that every- body else ought to be blind. If you want to Onda summer resort where the beef is tough and the beans are stringy seek some old farmer who says he shaves bis “‘baird,’’ Tho prime duty of a church treasurer is to pass counterfeit stamps on the mercantile members of the congregation. 1t makes things averago. On cars, in tho streets, in restaurants, everywhere, radical republicans saying that if they had in they would vote for Tilden, r Wado Hampton speaks the flowers on a woman's bonnet tremble and tears carrythe carmine down her checks to the delta of her chin, Hon, Hugh MeCalloch, ex-Secretary of the Treasury; Hon, Frederick 0. Prince, Mayor of Boston, and Hon, A. ©, Harmer, of Philaaeiphia, are in Washington, No lady should woar ber hat crooked at a concert, for fear that tho lady bohind her may be so tickled with laughter that she cannot rise to the hoight of the music, Jobn Tyler, Jr, son of ex-President Tyler, was among those who took part in the competitive exami. nation on Monday last for a first class clerkship in the Pension Office, Mr, Frank W, Palmer, editor of the Jnfer-Ocean and Postmaster of Chicago, visited the Post Office yoster- day, and inspected the working of every branch of that dopartment. Rev. Robert stewart MacArthur, Pastor of the Cal- vary Baptist Chorch, West Twenty-third stres to-day for Europe in the 8! er State of Pei vania for a summor tour, Protessor J. B Revs, of the Agricultural College of Portugal, who represented that country at the Centen- mal Exbibition, 8 ona visit to Washington, prior to visiting the South and West. Stealing docs not pay in the long ran, Many a para- graph, Jor instance, would be copied with credit (rom halt original colamas if one wero ablo to distinguish between the original ana the stolon matter. Puck;—One of the triamphs of the country para- gtaphist is achieved when ho sacceeds by means of a tow amusing items at the hey f bis colamo in luring us on to reading an advertisement of somebody's best tumily soap."’ General Hancock, commanding tho Military Division of the Atlantic, accompanied by Colonel Mitchel! ofhis staf, arrived in Washington yesterday morning ona We don’t iy tour of inapection. He will visit Fortress Monroe before his retura to New York. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE WAR, Threatened Disruption Among the English Liberals. RUSSIA'S SWEEPING ADVANCE Further Details of ths Engage-~ "ments Before Kars, ROUMANIA FINDS A PRETEXT, [BY CABLE TO THE RERALD.) Lonpon, May 4, 1877, Agreat deal of feeling is now manifesting itself among the libera) party with reference to the mo- tion which Mr. Gladstone has announced that he will make ou Monday night next. A faction of the liberals, under the leadership of John Bright ana ‘Sir John Lubbock (who, it will be remembered, hag already declared his intention of moving the previous question on Mr. Gladstone's five resolutions), proposes to vote against the ex-Minister. Lord Hartington will act with them. He declares that in the event of Glad- stone receiving the vote of a majority or even of a large minority of the liberal party, he will resign the leadership, on the ground that if he cannot keep the party together he will not hold his pres- ent position. Lord Hartington’s successor will be elther Mr. Goschen or Mr. Forster, as Mr. Glad- stone will under no circumstances return to the leadership of his party. There is a very strong feeling growing in favor of Gladstone throughout the country; but this disruption will probably lead to the disorganization of the liberal party. THE TORY DEFENCE. In the House of Commons yesterday Lord Elche placed on the calendar the following amendment to Mr. Gladstone's resolutions:— That the House, while anxious to promote the well being of the Christian subjects of the Sultan and all races under bis rule, condemns the interference of a foreign Power by force of arms in the internal administration of the Ottoman Empire, and this House is satisfied that Her Ma- jesty’s government, while maintaining neutrality as long as our interests are not affected by the war which Russia is waging against Turkey, will not fafl to promptly take such steps as would enable them, should occasion arise, to protect our interests and maintain our empire in the East, The Times in an editorial continues strongly to protest against panic in England in reference to Russia's movements and says :— The alarmists have apparently boundless faith in the ignorance and increduitty of their countrymen, They are-preaching war on pretexts that will not bear the test of statement In plain English, but the good sense and patriotism of the public will, we are convinced, defeat these traders in ignorance and passion. THR FIGHTING BEFORE KARS. Official intelligence received at St. Petersburg May 3 from the Caucasian frontior gives an ace count of the military operations {rom April 28, Tneso were mostiy cavalry reconnoissances, one of which succeeded in destroying telegrapnic communication from Kars to Erzeroum for a dis- tance of ten versts, Relative to the operations before Kars the official report says General Melikof, with the object of supporting his cavalry, left his camp on April 29 accompanied by twelve battalions, forty Pieces of artillery and a large force of Cossacks, His cavalry reached Vizinkeff on the evening of the 30th, After a two hours’ artillery engagement, eight Turkish battalions, with feld artillery, issued from the fortress * of Kara and occupied a position protected by forti- fications. The Russian artillery fire dismounted one Turkish guo. Goneral Melikofl, on May 1, leaving the body of cavairy at Vizinketf, returned with the ro- mainder of his forces to the camp at Ziama, Tho Kus- sian loss was one killed and five wounded. The Rus- sians took over one hundred Turks prisoners, The population of the occupied torritory is so friendly thal General Melikoff is about to form a cavalry regiment of native volunteers. : THE RUSSIANS VICTORIOUS aT KARS. Reports are current at Constantinople of a Turkish defeat at Kars and the capitulation of a Turkish corps, but the Minister of War is understood to have contra- @icted the rumors. The Turkish official journal states that no important battic has been fought in Armenia The Russian vanguard has only made ‘an appearance at Batoum, Tho Journal de St. Petersburg contradicts the Turkish reports of Russian losses in tho engage- ment ear Batoum. Moukhtar Pacha’s army is at Zenikay, forty miles west of Kara, A son of Schamyl, the famous Circassian chieftain, was expected to take command of the Circassiana, who, howover, refuse to submit to military organiza. tion, A BLIGHT BRUSH BEFORE IBRAIL, A despatch from Bucharest dated April 30 says: “Fire was opened at ten o’clock this morning between the Russian batterios near Ibrail and one furkish monitor. It had only fired twice when it was scton fire by the Russtan batteries and compellod to with- draw, The damage done to [brail by the Turkish bom- bardment was unimportant, Nobody was kitled. It ie stated at Constantinople that the Russians have occupied an itland in the Danube, near Lorail, a left bank of tho river as tar as the mouth of ¢ About fifty shots sian battories at Ibrail and a Turkish turret sbip and gunboat. Tho Russian batteries and the town were uniajored, The apparent object of the Turks was to ascertain the strength and position of the batteries, It is certain that tho Russians will bridge the Danube a little below ita junction with the Pruth and a:so at Turaa, nearly opposite Nikopvlis, There will, doubt- loss, be intermediute bridges. Russian engincers have bought a steamtug from an English firm here for use in the construction of the tirst bridge, and a tug and some burgos at Turna tor the second, No frosh troops have recently crossed the Pruth toward Ualatz, but # large mass is concentrated on the turther side, The bouwbardinent of Lbrail was probably precipie tateu by the conclusion of an offensive alliance be> tween Roumania and Russia, which is already ra garded as inevitable by leading Roumanian politi« cians of all parties. REFORMS TOO LATE. In consequence of the tho British representative, it is expected that Pacha, one of the Turks responsible for the Bul mussacres, will be removed from his important mili- tary command and sent to Bagdad, Sifvet Pacha’s note to tho Powers, appealing to the cighth article of tho Treaty ot Paris, Is, according to a Times Pera cor- respondent, supposed to be due to the suggestion of Mr, Layard, It is atated Council of Ministers disap