New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-06

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And the Speaker of the House moved TO make
the nomination unanimous.
Prince Bismarck, to judge from the journal
which reflects his opinions regards the Anglo
Russian quarrel with judicial calmness. The
organ in question holds that the new treaty
could not be carried fully into effect without
another war, but as Austria and England con-
cede that great changes are necessary In the
East, there is fair basis for negotiation. Inc
Car is however determined not to trust 10
diplomacy The precautions he Is taxing
to distribute his army around Constan-
tinople indicate that he expects that
England will endeavor to assail him In
that locality. In that event, some of his
troops are ready to seize on the peninsula OF
Gallipoli, whence they may command the OAR
danees, while others hold the BosphOrus, and
forbid ingress TO the Black Sea. Although
England has sent the formidable Devastation
to the Sea of Marmora, she Is not yet in po-
sition to cope with the Northern Colossus on
his chosen battle-ground.
There has been a caucus in Washington OF
members of the Republican National Com
mittee, and an unnecessarily warm discussion,
we should say, over the relations OF the Adj
ministraton to the Fall campaign. Some dis
tinguished Republicans want to carry 1t on
against President Hayes, Others with him,
others without him. 1t seems to be
good time to remind all Republicans
who wish for success of Mr.. Greeley's
remark that there were Republicans
enough for one party, but not enough for
two The duty of the Republican leaders
seems plain enough. Let them go ahead, ana
organize the Fall campaign on the basis OF
brave defence of sound finance ana an I'M
compromising resistance to the schemes OF
plumber proposed by the Solid South, leaving
the President to take his own position Ill MS
own way. Supporters and opponents OF the
President can easily unite when the Solid
South combines with the Northern Democracy
to sack the Treasury.
The ice monopoly announces already a con-
siderable increase in its prices for the month
Of April over the prices of last year, and adds
notification that a further increase must be
expected as the season advances. AS the entire
supply for this city is in the hands of a single
company, there seems to be no way out but
to submit to its charges, trusting that it may
not prove itself more implacable than other
corporations under like circumstances. The
president of the company is evidently anxious,
from his statement in another column, to make
it clear that no ice can be brought from
Maine to this city, though it can be sent. it
seems, to Philadelphia and Baltimore. The
statement has been made that attempts to
bring a supply of ice from Maine were always
defeated by the immediate reduction of prices
| by the company here to such figure that the
Maine ice could find no customers. Without
yOuching for the truth of this statement, ii
NAV do no harm to suggest that an attempt
might be made to break the back of this mo-
! nOpOly by an organization whose members
should bind themselves to pay a fur price Tor
the ice Furnished by rival company, though
| the KnickerbOcker gave ice away. In that
way new company might be sustained until
it was in position to bring the monopoly to
terms.
The Treaty of San Stefano will rank among
the great events of this century-with the fall
of the French Empire and the union of Ger
many. 1t seals the fate of the Ottoman En-
pire, and reduces its dominion around Con-
stantinOple to the triangular district which
has the Sea of MarmOra and the Egean Sea rs
its base and Adnanople as its apex IL eniarges
the Servian and Montenegrin territory, and
introduces into the community of nations
the new Bulgaria, fair and fertile province,
whose coasts are bathed by the Danube
the Black and Kgean Seas, and whose
limits include the stronghOlds of Schumla
and Varna, Rustchuk and Silistria. The
settlement, if final settlement it be, leaves the
Porte some outlying provinces; but with the
central authority weakened these will inev-
itably gravitate toward neighboring powers,
and snap the slender tie connecting them with
what remains of the Ottoman Empire. The
extent of these changes may be realized from
the map on another page, which the text OF the
treaty telegraphed from st. Petersburg to Lon
don. and received thence by the last mail, ena
bles us to outline From it may be judged the
mastery skill with which the Russians have
seduestered the Ottoman estate, and rendered
1t impracticable for England or Austria to re-
organize its fragments.
During the first part of the vulgar squabble
which took place yesterday between the two
"end men, of the House of Representatives,
Mr.. Cox appeared to advantage alongside of
General Butler, and it would be difficult to
say anything of General Butler more severe
than that. During the last part. General But
Ter appeared to advantage alongside of Mr..
Cox and that is the worst thing that could
ever be said of Mr.. Cox. 1t would be hard to
decide who bore off the palm in this contest
whether Butler, with his brutaly irreyerent
paraphrases of Scripture coupled with his gra
tuitous declaration that he did not vote sac
"cording to the orders of anybody under
"God,n or Cox, Offering to pray for
Butler, and closing the scandaous scene
with mock benediction and an invoca-
ton for mercy on the soul of the member
| from Massachusetts, As for the manners of