New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-25

is not supposed that the management has oeen
otherwise imprudent, and no fraud is charged.
Hence, if the bank could be wound up eco
nomicalIy, there would not be much loss TO
depositors; but that is scarcely to be hoped
for, under receiver.
The serious sickness of both Prince Bismarck
and Prince GoItschakOff is one of those I'M
foreseen dangers which beset the Eastern Cues
ton, and upset the wisest calculations.
| While General Ignatief may supply tenn
porarily the place of GOrtschakof III
the direction of Russian affairs, there
is no one at this critical moment
| TO assume the grave responsibilities
which rest on Bismarck as cOnservator OF the
peace Of EurOpe. His tact, sagacity, and COM
handing influence are all essential either to
avert war or carry diplomacy to its utmost
! limit
Interesting details regarding the situation
at ConstantnOple are given i'll the letter from
that city, on another page. The good
naturcd manneri in which the Russians fraternize
with their recent foes; the mutual distrust
| of the English naval and Russian military
commanders; the undercurrent of discomfort
IN the DObrdja, and the ELUSIVE greet
| ing which Osman Pasha received from
the Sultan, combine to invest the Otto
man Empire with peculiar inter-
est for the Western World. After an en-
campment of centuries i'll Europe the Turk
remains as Oriental as when his victorious
squadrOns threatened to destroy Christendom.
| has
seems TO be aimed at the recent ordinance of
this city requiring its licensed cartmen to live
within its limits. This bill prohibits any city
or village from passing an ordinance which
will prevent any citizen of the State from
doing business on equal terms with others in
any part of the State. 1t seems to be good
bill to pass. New-YOrk City has not grown
so poor that it must inhlct the penalty OF
loss of business here on Woodworking men
who go to a suburb in search of low rent.
| This attempt to build up wall about a single
! trade is q Tammany device to catch votes,
and it ought not to be allowed to succeed.
The Committee on Noses seems to he form
| ing. correspondent, whose letter is given
on another page, declares that the Board of
| Health allows rendering establishments to
| discharge their foul gases into the sewer or
river instead Of compelling them to use, at
small expense, a gas-cOnsuming attach
| ment, already existing, IN connection with
! their tanks. These gases, instead Of being
decOmposed by the water of the rivers, rise,
after time, to the surface, and are borne
over the city by the winds. The writer chal-
| lenges the Board of Health to a public test
of his statements, and the fact that he was
once interested in these machines does not
deprive his challenge of point.
Some important notifications are reported
! from Albany of the Public Burdens Bill,
which. at the present rate of emcndatiOn, is
! fast becoming a legislative burden. The
Board of Estimate and Apportionmcnt will
still be empowered to fix the total amount
of salaries to be paid in any department.
but the distribution of this amount within
the department is to be left to the depart
ment itself. This principle was already applied
in the bill in the case Of the Board of Educa-
ton, and it has merely been extended. A
considerable reduction in salaries is assured by
the provision that One-half of the reduction OF
two millions prescribed by the bill shall be in
| department salaries
1t is difficult to imagine well-rcdd man, as
Mr.. Henry Carey Baird is known to be, or
sane man. az he has always been supposed to
be, talking the Jacobin nonsense with which he
! delighted, yesterday, a Subcommittee Of wild
! Western tnanciers in Washington. Mr.. Baird
complains of contraction as the source of all
our woes, and yet he wishes the war had
lasted two or three years longer, and the debt
had been two or three times as big.
lie actually demands that the currency be
inflated to three thousand Millions and wants
the money spent as fast as it can be printed
printed as fast as ii can be spent. In short,
he thinks the best fun the country can have is
to keep on sliding down hill. II would be-
Mr.. Baird, but for the solemn necessity of
coming to a stop some time, and pulling the
sled up again! There is only one place that
has no bottom -, and that place is Just where
Mr.. Baird's political economy would take us.
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THE PATCHUORK TARIFF.
In the attempt to remedy the blundcrs of
Mr.. Woods original tariff bill the Committee