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Berlin Turkish council of mini Bs resolved to semi all reiulmvi arriving to Kr/croiim and PHatoiim. liu* tall of Anlalian se (•lives tlm Russians in theii |m i tinn I ((•fore Kars, and o|h*us a new line of operations aaain I Kr/erouni. The Russian* have replaced the Roumanian troop-', at Oltenilza. flu* relieved lion nnmians mulched toward Kittle Wallachia, where they will con centrale and remain on the de fensive. ( 'ONSTANTI Nol'l.l , Mas 1?‘. 111. commander of the Anlalian gar risen will lie oourtmartialed. The Turkish nllicial account <>l the taking of Ardahau admits of a loss of ‘too killed and wounded. London, May 2d. A Renter dispatch front Krzeroum ay the Russian left wing has advanced from Speck to within two hom march of Kara Kili- a. while an Ottoman detatehmeiit holds th position to Toprak Kaleh. Two regiments of Cossack are scour jug the country around the IVnek villages, within seven hom march of Mukhta, I‘a ha' camp, for provision* for the liu ian right wing. I'oNSTAN'I IXOl*l l.May J I The intelligence from iMzerfptm an mmnees that the ian- are extending their left wing in the southerly direction. Detach ments of Cossacks have heen Ka.lv Kasha ha ,i • 1 1 \ i II ! nnßi 'in gfißl ,:K niu ■ . ;,Vi- y r■.* ' v,'s.; gx I'l i Klity. simnltanemi attack upon jv expected to l.e HH||Bmii>i mu I" >1 ..ii Wf y-'S;y’v i B ~v>iyy-,i-, Hr military functionaries |'or tin* nr my. Tile (aimlon Si amlard's sjierial rorre-pnudcnt lias the following, •lated May 2atlt : Hcdlif I'asha, mini ler of war. i~ now dictator, and lor the lime more powerful than ever, Great anxiety pre vails among the European popu hit ion, who fear that during the latent' seige, if news of fresh di-aster arrives, there will he a Colli ion between the populace iiml th" imop Our position i-. oie oi \i iy great danger and i generally so regarded. It is cer tain I hat fresh di-asters must hap pen. fin- tall ef Ardahan and Bay a/id In enabled the Hiissians In march in two converging lines toward' Erzernnm. They have turned Erzermiu, and Mnkhtar I’a ha nnist either aeeepi battle ;r v a 11 \ superior force or i 111 ITi i ■ If he i- beaten, Erze i tall, lor il is without v!> /■ ho. 1 •ii |, .i, 11 I; 11 11■ a. >• .ii" hi ' iiinim more •• I’lOll'd. Il I I'HpOl'lHll in oil i 11 hoi - .in- ai t nail v on PBTii in Berlin lor a cessation of ' hostilities. A special di .patch from Vienna to lln- London rimes of the 20th, ay : l o -mu hof Sukumkaleh a detachment i concentrated under < ii'ii. A I• ■ 1 1 : 1 1: o11‘ to prevent a Tnr | i'ii < ireassian force moving along the shore into the plains of Alin - | grella; if they did so now, the po- I it ions ol'l lie Hiissians in the rear } of Snkiinikaleh and Adler would , siioii heeome iintenahle. As vet I tlie descent of the Turks and (’ir ; cassians is only an inconvenience, hut should the movement reach the Tchelkens, when the revolt in Terek does not -eem quite sup J pressed, then it might heeome real danger to the Httssian lines of communication in tlie < ,’aueas- I Sll s , A dispatch dated Erzeroun. the 2!MIi May, -ays that three days ago reinforcements were sent to Ardahan to oiled a junction with a portion of ils former garrison. We have just received news here that the comliiued force by a coup de main succeeded in recapturing the town. The lurks numhered eight Ilioiisand. The London Telegraph ol the (dlsl ha the following from Ba loiiiii Ihe Hiissians yesterday at tacked the fnrkish position here. \ot withstanding I lie large force w hich Hie Hus inns brought to at tack.and their persistence against the galling lire of the Ottoman art illerv, they were finally repuls ed, leaving great numbers of dead and Wounded. 'The engagement lasted ten hours, during which lime several close combats look place. The 'Telegrapit's Krzeroum spe cial confirms the report that the Ku- ian left wing was repulsed in tlie ailack on Karakieissa. \ special dispatch from Vienna to lh" London Telegraph of June I t ay on the * '/.il arrival at Bluest i a council of war will lie held, and on the 7th instant orders arc to In* given for crossing the Danube at lhrail and Tim in Ni gueril. An important demon .tra tion under I’rince Charles will he made from Kalalat. The W at* Tall* :il Paris. Herein Paris we hear a great deal nl'war talk, tin* Bourse he ing agitated b\ all sorts ot re ports, afleriiiMin and evening.— But there i- a hope dial France max not b<* involved at this time. I’m all ica miing men see that she would have to struggle again without allic-. Changes may be brought about a- tin* Eastern war i-developed which will bring her inifr intimate relations with England. Austria and Italy, but for the moment -In* has to keep extremely quiet. Every move ment that she makes i- noted across the Rhine; the transfer of a single regiment to tin* Eastern department* is questioned as a menace. And the speech of Held Marshal N on Moltke shows us that lln* military authorities of Germany are on the <pti e{re. — But the French Government has resolved to keep out of the quar rel it it can. and tin* Due Deoa ze- is showing great prudence in the conduct of bis department. The French do not want war.— They dread it above all thing* at this time. Their military organi zation i' not yet fully completed; but they regard the possibility of complications w ith a sort of rc-ignation which is, perhaps, a surer evidence of strength than the excessive confidence shown at the moment when the popu luce wa* crying a fir, lie about the street' ot rite capital. Cot it xp>‘ii,/<ncf "t tfn A. } I,mu | Tll E FI E LI) AN I) FIHES 1D E. THE CON VEXTIOX. View s oi 10l U . ALen I'aitTf.Ksvii.i.k, March 20. ****** The lirst and leading amend incut lo the constitution that should he made i- a provision prohibiting the members of the legislature from voting them selves the amount they think should be paid them lor their services. They are interested and not proper Judge- a to the value ol then labor. The pen people in convention should de termine what compensation their law maker -hnuld receive. And the sum should he too small to tempt men to seek a scat in the legislature lor the purpose of making money. Asa general rule those men who seek polite val office to put money in their pockets, are to serve them selves and not the people. The people -hould be cautious bow they trust such men. Let the constitution provide that the members of the legislature shall not receive more than three dot lars a day, and you w ill not see so many in every county press ingevery two years their “claims” for seals in the legislature, upon the people. And what is better, it will save a great deal of mon ey to the tax burdened people.— First make this provision, and oth er important changes will lie much more easily effected. The compensation suggested seems small when compared with that which the members of the legislature have been voting to themselves for many years past. But how many members make three dollars a day at home ? Thirty dollars per month will pay a member’s hoard at a good pri vate boardinghouse, and all his other legitimate expenses. This leaves sixty dollars per month clear of all expenses. During the last session of the legislature, members (so one informed me) obtained hoard at five dollar- per week. * * * * * Abolish the senate, and then divide the state into lil'tv legisla live districts, according to popu lation, and give to each district two legislators. Let the districts in* composed of contiguous conn tics, each district having the same number of people as near as practicable. Il' one county has lilt* requisite population make one county a district. If it requires two, thre e or live, have il arranged accordingly. Let the controlling idea he to have the people equally represented in the legislature. By this plan there will he but one hundred legisla tors. They will generally lie elected from a larger territory and will he more efficient, and better men than we now have.— | The pay will not make the posi tion very desirable,and men will In* selected for their worth and not for their electioneering ca pacity and their power and w ill ingness to distribute mean w his ky. Look at the saving to the peo pie from this plan. We now have *219 members in the legisla ture. The plan proposed w ill cut off 11!) of them. These, at seven dollars a day,cost the peejde for every day the legislature is in session $833, and for forty days the sum of $33,320. And then the expense ofllie officers of the senate will lie saved, which was last year $11,525 70. It will also dispense with at leasi two thirds of the clerks of the house. With other change* w hich 1 w ill pres ently suggest, a much larger saving to the people‘may beef fecte.l. I have In-. -ii informed that there were about one thousand bill- introduced into tin* last leg islature, and that nine tenths of them were of no general inter est. .Now 1 propose to cut off all this expensive, time consuming and useless local legislation. It has long been, a curse to the peo ple. Kverv one who can manage to secure a scat in the legislature and draw his seven dollars a day seems to think it essential that he should introduce some hill, no matter who writes it, and whether it is wise or foolish. Cut all this off and give the superior courts, by appropriate legislation, the power to pass all local acts that each county may need. The courts now have the power to grant charters in certain corpora turns. Why not pass all local laws ; This will render but very few clerks necessary for the leg islature. Instead ol a thousand hills io read, there would not he one hundred. Instead of forty or fifty days for a session, ii won 1(1 not require twenty, he this chance in the organic law. 1 t<. not propose to alter in any way the counties. Lei them remain .just as they arc for all .judicial and every county purpose. I would provide in tin* const it ul ion that the derk of' the legislature should receive a staled -urn per day, and that In* should employ all his assistants. 'This would prevent such a superabundance of clerks as there has been in many legislature in the past. In tin- way SIOO a day would secure a iiio t efficient clerk and out of that urn he could employ all ne cessary assistants to do all tin* work properly and promptly. For Ihe session ot tin* legisla tori' of lsTii, the stale paid clerks, secretaries, doorkeepers, messen gel's, pages,'etc., ol lln* senate and house the sum of 10,043 70. In 1801, tin- secretaries and clerks of tin* senate and house eosf tin* stale lor a session of for ty days, only $7,000. I. ruler a bill which I prepared and which became a law, tin* clerk of tin* house received SIOO per day, and paid all his assistants, and that t wo, w hen we hud so much local legislation and tin* senate and house hills to read. The ex pen sesofthe legislature of last year amounted to $ I 11,103 O.V .Make the changes suggested and the legislature would not In* in ses sion over twenty days. One hundred members at three dollars per day would he three hundred dollars. This for twenty days would make SO,OOO for the mem bers. The clerks’ lure for twenty day's would amount to $2,000 at one hundred dollars per day.— One doorkeeper and one messen ger each, three dollars* per day for twenty days, would make their compensation $l2O. All these smns make the aggregate 0f58,120. This would save to our inipoverised people $103,073 each year. In ten years there would he saved $1,030,730. 'This saving would soon pay off the state debt. The- people, with nearly one half of their property swept away, are now taxed near ly five limes as much as they were twenty years ago. Ought not somH hing to be done to re lievethem from their uppressive burdens? Think of the amount of tax each of you paid before 1800, and tlien compare il with what you pay now, and what you then had to pa.v on and what you now have. I repeat (In* question —‘‘Ought not something to In* done to relieve the people ?” * * I suggest that the legislature meet but once in lwo years. Tin* people would not then be cursed with excessive law making. Pro vide in the constitution that the code shall not be changed or “amended” except by a vote of two thirds or three fourths of the legislature, and then vigilant and industrious law yers may be aide to keep themselves informed as to the contents of the code. I suggest that the term of office ot the judges ol the superior courts be shortened to tour years and their salaries decreased. 1 believe that terms of office should he of short duration. All pow er emanates frnm tin- people, and those who are elected or appoint ed to serve them, should not be removed too far from, or lie made to feel too independent of them. Berrien, Law, Lamar, Cobb, Crawford and our present chief justice and others, presided over the superior courts of Georgia for about SI,BOO a year, and I do not see why others of the present day, who are, to say ihe least, not their superiors, should receive more. This item alone would save to the people over $15,000 each year, making in ten years about $150,000. The patronage of lln- governor i> immense, lie appoints every four years about fifteen hundred' men to office. This gives him great influence over the people. The difficulty i- in making the proper change. But there are certain offices that should be abolished, and ihe power now vested in the governor of making appointments to many of ihe most important offices should he taken from him. I -ugge-t that the appointment of the judges of the superior courts and the solici tors general be vested in the judges of the supreme court. — They are better acquainted with the qualifications and capabili ties of tin* judges of the superior court-, and the lawyer- general ly, than the governor can possi bly be. Let them nominate to the legislature the names of two men in each circuit Ibi judge, and two for solicitor, and from those lei llie legislature -elect the judge and the solicitor. This will take a way a large portion ot the appointing power from the governor, the most important oiiirei s except the .judges of the supreme court : and the lawyers go there to argue their cases, and in this way tlie judges of the <n preuic court are enabled to tie lei ruibe the qualifications of ,jud (■ and lawyers, better than any one else possibly call. And th*ii it will operate to prevent ap pointees to office from feeling under obligations to the appoint in'.' power. 1 lie favor will be divided among three, and two name will be presented, and the power of selection will devolve upon tin* legislature. The whole matter will In* so divided that no one can claim any merit for it. * Incorporate a provision into the constitution that no appro priation of money shall be made, except by two third votes, and the yeas and navs be entered on the journal. In like manner lei any two members have the pow er to have Ilit* yeas and nays on tlie passage of any law or resolu tion, entered on the journal.— These provisions will save much money to fhe fax payers, and prevent the passage of many un wise and improper laws. Wakkkn A ken. Blirl Mention. A section of the roof in the northeast corner of the new post office building at New York fell at 2 o’clock on the afternoon of the 2d ult., while the men were at work removing the supports which had been placed under it while making repairs. At the time of the accident there were ten men in the room at work, and had nearly completed their labors when, without warning, tjie whole section of the roof which covered them fell bodily, tearing iron gir ders from their sockets, and cov ering the men with the concrete, which composed the tilling of the roof. Two of the men were taken out (lead, and fhe others badl v in jured. Proceedings looking to the re covery of over $150,000,000 are about to be instituted in courts of Pennsylvania by the heirs of Col. Henry Becker, who lived in Philadelphia in 1801. The prop erty claimed consists of six or se ven blocks of buildings on York avenue, in Philadelphia, and ex tends from Vine street to Greene street. In addition to the large claim in Philadelphia, there is a block of houses on Third street in New \ ork. The heirs also lay claim to the entire town of Beck erville, Berks county, Pa., about 10l ly miles from Philadelphia,and a considerable part of the 'coun try thereabouts. The property claimed in Philadelphia includes three churches.,., a dozen large manufactories, one of them an immense sugar refinery, and five blocks of dwellings. Among l best* art* 1 he residence of ex may or l’o\ and ex treasurer Pierson. A i mi ukk in the pine lands near Mammon, about H 9 miles from New Orleans, on the Jack son railroad, last year made four hundred gallons of cane syrup on one acre, and sold it for S3OO. A < 'orpus Christi special reports the murder and robbery of a pro minent citizen and his son, of San Diego, Texas, by eight Mexicans. The same party captured Mr.Seott president of tin* Corpus Christi and Rio Orande railroad, and oth ers, and robbed them of their mo ney, jewelry and clothes. The country is alarmed, and the pen pie are hunting for the robbers. * ten. Grant lias arrived at Liv erpool, England, wliere he was re ceived w itb great enthusiasm, and accepted ilie hospitalities of the city. (ten. < >rd was in consultation at I he state department in Washing ton upon the Mexican border af fairs. He represented that there were but two ways of stopping in cursions into Texas: one by co operation with the Mexican gov ernment. and the other by follow ing marauders into Mexico. The matter rests with the secretary of st ate, who hopes the necessity for our troops entering Mexico may be avoided by the co-operation of the United States and Miexco. Tile secretary of war does not believe in the proposed expedi tion from Texas into Mexico in Lerdo's interest. He knowsitoth ingof it except from newspaper reports. Ihe cabinet instructed Secreta ry Kvarts to addres* a letter to Minister Foster at Mexico, to communicate the determination of this government to stop preda ton* incursion* into Texas. Mex ico they ay. must restrain her people, or General 1 >rd will be in stmeted to follow and punish ma raiiders on .Mexican soil. The Philadelphia /ton say s ii has been positively* asserted that ex- President Grant, while osten siblv visiting Europe for pleasure, is really to take command of tin* whole Turkish army against Hus sia. The story is that England was instrumental in making this choice of anew commander for the Sultan, in the hope that Grant's success would render her interference unnecessary. It i added that the offer was brought to this country by the ex-Presi dent’s son in law, Mr. Sartoris, who, with Fred Grant, is to he on tin* General’s staff. Finally, flu* latter's commission, il is said, is to date from May 1, and his pay. three months of which ht%- tore reive in advance upon tamng command, will be inciva ed should he succeed. Early on the morning of the lath nil. a terrible tradegy occur red at Little York, N. Y., a station on the railroad. The place i- a Hag station, and the stationhouse was occupied by Frank Dunne gan,section foreman. About five o'clock he started the kitchen fire, and with his wife went across ihe tracks to the barn, leaving their live children asleep in Ihe house. The mother returning from milk ing discovered the house to he on fire, and called to her husband.— Both rushed to the building, and attempted to get up stairs to re cue their children, but the flame had gained such headway a l<> prevent the ascent of the agon ized parents, and the unfortunate little ones were roasted alive.— The poor mother and father could hear their little ones calling for help, and the situation \va- heart rending in ihe extreme. Political Nrraps. Thu Philadelphia Telegraph’s Mississippi letter says; “The people of this country, although opposed to the election of Mr. Hayes, now that he is in, so long as he behaves as he has done and allows the Southern people to rule themselves, in their own way, so long will they uphold him in his endeavors to do what is right, and just. They do not care so much for the President , as long as he is an honest man. — Everywhere you will hear the people praising him.” If Hayes can give peace to the country, reform the civil service system, restore the dollar of the fathers and put the currency on a specie footing, the country will forgive him for not devoting the energies of his administration in holding up a party by the tail.— [Cincinnati Commercial, Hep. Jr for a few years we can get along without parties; if there can prevail such an unanimity of public sentiment as regards the national interests that we will have only to consider who is best fitted to give them effect, so much the better, and lie is not a patriot who would willingly disturb such a state of things.—f New Orleans Picayune , Pern. Two months have satisfied the country that the Administration lias rare ability and rare courage to deal with the gravest evils and the most difficult problems.— Save by men whose souls are eat on up with malice, and in whom partizanship has utterly extin guished patriotism, the Adminis tration will be watched hereafter with sincere confidence and strong hope, as well as with fa voring wishes.— \Nev> Tori Tvi bane , Pep. Should war be provoked, Tex as would lake the contract at low rates for planting the -tars and stripes on the Capitol of Monte ziinuis in ninety days’ time, and a*k no better fun. Jn view of the sufferings of patriotic pioneers from perfidious Mexico.it is due to the Lone Star Republic that such means of satisfaction should be accorded loher. but red tape ism would never -auction such honor to a Southern State.— [Auxtin Haze tie. Should the Secretary of War resign and the army go to ever la-ting smash on the 13th of June for want of an appropriation, the people will have time, before the extra -es-ion meet-, to discover how well the country can gel on without that worse ihan useless institution, which co<is thirty million* per annum. In that e vent Congress will not be likely henceforth to provide for an ar my larger than i- needed to pro tect the frontier; -ay from live thousand to ten thousand men.— P etc ttrleane Democrat.