New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-28

will bring about considerable variations
Whether the change will help our companies
in the long run seems doubtful probably they
have yielded to it because they could not
help it.
Fighting has been renewed near BatOum,
and, according to the Turkish account, has
resulted unfavorably for the Russians. The
bombardment and destruction of POti, town
on the Phasis in Asiatic Russia, is, however,
the most important act of war since the cam
paign began. 1t cannot fail to incense the
Russians, and add intense bitterness to the
conflict No shots have yet been fired on the
Danube. The Russians have advanced to
GiurgevO, opposite Rustchuk, and will prob
ably attempt soon to cross the historic river
at that point. Heavy fighting must follow
promptly that aggressive act
Some remarkable statements were made re-
specting our public domain at the last days
session of the National Academy of Sciences
Most people retain the belief that there are
plenty of good lands not yet appropriated in
the far West. 1t will probably cause surprise
that Major Powell estimates the quantity of I'M
sold lands fit for poor mans homestead as
not enough to make a gOOd-sized county. The
great plains are not available for ordinary ag-
rculture. The suggestion that the Indians
should be set at the business of herdng cattle
on the plains has met with favor from many
thoughtful students of the Indian problem.
The proposed plan has the merit of dispOsing
of the problem without killing the Indians !;
and the nation will certainly not be the loser
if both the savages and the sagebrush can be
utilized.
This is pleasant report from Washington
TO the effect that there is to be complete
reorganization of the Federal offices in LOU
isiana, with view to replacing carpet-baggers
with natives of the State. The principle, in
general, is good One If the administration
of the government of the State is safer in the
hands of men identified with its interests
than of men in search of easy fortunes
and not - scrupulOus as to the means
of getting them, then the supervision OF
its commerce might surely with equal
propriety be regulated by the same considera-
tons. The principle is good, but the applica-
ton is especially good. The Federal offices in
Louisiana have been nests of carpet-bag
rascality for years. They have made and
sweet will with Legislatures. 1t was Federal
official who always did the telegraphing to
Washington for troops and then proceeded to
pass upon the qualifications and elections of
members of the Legislature it was a Fed
eral official who cot the midnight order"
from Durell; and it was Federal
official who employed Government
gunboat in cruising up and down the
river with enough members of a certain Legis-
lature on board to prevent the getting of
quorum. This sort of thing has come to
stop already. but it is time that the men who
put their places to such uses were thrust out
of them.--The President, of course, will not
make Mr.. Packard Collector though Mr.. Pack
ard wants The position; but If provision must
be made for him, one of the South American
republics as is suggested would be just the
place. There Mr. Packard might at least ac-
ouire a more definite notion than he seems to
have at present of what revolutionary" gov
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