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IEW IORK. THirRSDAT, JUNE 15, 1878,
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Wall Street Yesterday.?Stocks were
generally higher and the speculative mar
ket more active. Gold advanced from 112 5-8
to 112 3-4. Money on call loaned at 2 and
2 1-2 percent. Government bonds continue
strong. Investment shares and railway I
bonds steady.
Blaine cannot carry Pennsylvania. Then !
why should the Pennsylvania delegation
nominate him ?
The Battle or Dorking may haply be far
enough away, but the German sailors and
the British boatmen have had their first
scrimmage. No lives lost and the price of
consols unaffected.
A Bannockburn Prospect.? The clan
McPherson has beaten the clan Cameron
in the organization of the Convention. But
how will it be when the clans come to close
quarters in the highlands of Pennsylvania?
Battbll was found guilty yesterday of
murder in the second degree, which saves
him from the gallows, but consigns him to
prison for life. Admitting the guilt of the
prisoner the verdict is a curious one.
The Explanation Campaign.?Blaine may
be nominated but he will have to go on ex
plaining all the Rnme. What a luxury to the
republicans would the canvass of a man with
? spotless record like Senator Conkling be !
The German and Russian Emperors have
met at Ems, and will probably discuss Mr. |
Benjamin Disraeli with somo well-founded
turprise that they had not heard of so quick
witted a man before. Prince Bismarck is
oooling himself at Kissingen.
We Heab it rumored that Secretary Pish is
Grant's Great Unknown. Well, can he
carry the State of New York against Tilden ?
Can he take the South with him ? Well, yes,
he might, but to do it ho must have a nig!
ger on the ticket with him. How would
Pinchback do?
All of His Antaoonists for the Cincin
nati nomination have a prouder record than
Mr. Blaine; Mr. Conkling is a better leader in
partisan debate; Mr. Evarts is an abler law
yer ; Mr. Washburno is a purer champion
of official integrity. Any of thoso would
outstrip the favorite before the people in No
?ember.
Lttblt Kaii.r<udino.?The competition
between the rival lines to the West is cut
ting down freight nnd passenger rates in a
manner that must soon cause a compromise
^and a return to paying prices. Meanwhile
he who would travel westward just now can
?ecure advantages not likely to exist very
Jong.
Thb Death Battle.?If the Republican
Convention thinks that it should terminate
the career of the republican party that is ita
business. Perhaps the leaders are wiser
than their generation and see that the* time
has come for the body to die now that the
?oul is dead. This is the only theory upon
which we can explain the determination to
nominate Mr. Blaine.
Thb Antagonism of the French Ministry
to tho candidature of M. Buffet for a lifa
Senatorship is natural enough, considering
all the circumstances. It would, of course?
be a manifest impropriety in any other Re
public?our own, for instance?but tho ex
Prime Minister represents tho anti-repubii
san idea so strongly that his election would
stalely approach a wnnt of confidence.
There is one source of congratulation in tho
natter?namely, that the Cabinet has nothing
?ore formidable to be exeocised over than
the man whom the country so recently repu
Atolcd with ??err possible mark of disap
The R*p?blleaa Co?Temtio?.
Everything points toward Blaine at Cin
cinnati, and that gentleman may well be
congratulated npon the enthusiasm his
name excites among the delegates who will
believe in him right or wrong and the news
paper correspondents, who seem to have
lormed another " enthusiasm syndicate," like
those with whioh Mr. Colfax was wont to elec
trify the country. There is no doubt that Mr.
Blaine is the strongest name before the Con
vention. We think it quite certain that if
his record were stainless and unassailable
he would be the nominee of the Convention.
It is quite possible, and nothing is more
probable, that the discipline which his
friends thus far have maintained may whirl
him through the Convention on an early
ballot. The "entliusiosm" business is a
common expedient in political manage
ment ; for if there is anything a politician
likes it is to be with a majority.
Tho friends of Blaine, by dint of gong
beating and caressing correspondents, and
throwing out insinuations about the other
candidates, have created the impression that
his cause is the winning one. At the same
time the Republican Convention has on its
roll men of calmness and conviction, who
see in the mission of that party a great duty
and opportunity, and who will not be opt to
throw away their almost assured chance of
carrying the country at the next elcc^on to
gratify any personal ambition.
The republican party has, of course, the
right to name its leador without any regard
to tho independent press or tho wishes
of tho country. The nomination of
a candidate is one thing, the elec
tion another. When it comes to the
election the press and the country will be
heard. We are thinking of this tribunal
when we say to the Convention that the
nomination of Mr. Blaine gives the country
to the democratio party next election.
Nothing is clearef. Mr.. Blaine can
not carry New York, and there is no
republican named for the Presidency but
Mr. Conkling who can. He may be as pure
as Lincoln or Washington, but his record
throws him on the defensive. Mr. Blaine
cannot carry Pennsylvania. The clan
McPherson may beat the clan Cameron in a
caucus, but when it comes to the people
of that perculiar and steadfast State
success or defeat to the republican
cause will depend wholly upon the
apathy or octivity of the Camerons.
The democratic party has shown a capacity
for blundering which it is hard to surpass,
but it can make no such blunder at St.
Louis as the nomination of Mr. Blaine will
prove at Cincinnati. Hero is a man who is
under the peril of expulsion from the
House of Representatives for tampering
with a witness and suppressing testimony
called for by the House. Here is a candi
date who, by his own confession, written
and read in tho House, made decisions as
Speaker in the interest of railway jobbers,
and demanded consideration for them. On
these two points alono we are willing to rest
the case against Mr. Blaine. The country
will remember that we do not mako
?heso charges, nor are they made
by a "rebel" House. They are in
tho writing of James G. Blaine, con
firmed by himsolf on the floor of the
House. Can any party that is not swayed
by madness, that is not possessed by the
very devils of destruction, even as the swine
that rushed into the sea, think of accepting
a candidate thus burdened to run in a
canvass which will roquire every ad
vantage of name, character and expe
rience? Is tho republican party so
barren of statesmen with stainless and hon
ored names that it must take Mr. Blaine?
It is incredible ; and if it should prove true,
then upon the Convention which assembled
yesterday bo the responsibility of having
thrown away as fair a campaign as ever
opened.
If there were no personal reasons why Mr. I
Blaine should not be nominated there are I
political reasons. The best that can be said |
of him is that he is a young man of average
ability, a ready, free speaker, with an acute
and vigorous intellect; apt in seizing an
opportunity, familiar with every re
source and expedient of legislation ; of
an amiable and winning address, easy of
approach and popular with the young men
of tho country. But what else can be said ?
What has Mr. Blaine ever done to entitle
him to consideration as a candidate for tho
Presidency? On what question has ho
ever made a record that should com
mend him to a convention seeking for tho
leader of the campaign ? Senator Morton is
far above Mr. Blaine in executive capacity.
Indeed, in this rcspect Senator Morton is
one of the really great men of the genera
tion, a man who will be remembered with
Stanton and Lincoln for his valor and
patriotism in a time when these qualities
were sorely needed. Mr. Fish is in^e of i
a statesman ; because, to the honor of Mr.
Fish, it most be remembered that ho car
ried to a successful end and to tho entire
honor of tho country ono of the most difficult
negotiations ever imposed upon a Secretary
of State. Mr. Conkling is a bettor leader in
a partisan debate, as ho has shown on
twenty occasions in tho Senate. Mr. Evarts
is a finer lawyer and jurist, as his whole
life proves. Mr. Washburne is a braver
representative of the people, as he
showed by fighting for twenty years
on the floor of the House tho very
rings which have made Mr. Blaine rich,
and which now rise up to destroy him in
this consummate hour of his ambition and
his hopes. And so we might call the roll of
republican leaders and statesmen who ore
available for the Presidency and we should
find twenty gentlemen more competent to
fill this supremo and lofty station than the
one who now sways tho Convention at Cin
cinnati.
Mr. Blaine's success is that of a shrewd,
untiring politician, who has managed the
country an our Tammany men manage a ward
caucus. As a politician ho undoubtedly
stands at the head of his class. As a states
man he is second to twenty gentlemen who .
will never bo named for the Presidency, j
His nomination is not desired by the real
leaders of the party. It is not the wish of
the administration nor of any of tho
ruling minds who have given the party
its prestige and its power. It it a confession
thai the republican party to no longer a
party with a purpose, bat a ring for selling
and holding office. It is an admission that
the only thing a candidate for the Presi
dency has to do in the future is to trim on
every question, so that he trims always in
the direction of the majority and see that
Stato conventions are handled. It brings
our whole political system, so far as the re
publicans are concerned, down to the very
lowest level of intrigue and chicanery.
What is more, the country will never sub
mit to this nomination. This election is
not to be determined by the shouting mobs
in the lobbies of Congress and the barrooms
of Cincinnati. Mr. Blaino will go into the
canvass on the defensive. His letters will
rise against him in every township. All this
summer shower of enthusiusm will pasB
away and then will come those six
months of cold, pitiless scrutiny. Mr.
Blaine cannot explain his record as a rail
wny jobber by telling the country about
Andersonville and the Duke of Alva and
Ben Hill ; for, whatever tho country may
think of this foolish gasconading Georgian,.it
would much rather see an honest rebel in the
Whito House than a gentlemen whose decis
ions as Speaker wore at the bidding of the rail
way jobber, and whoso most conspicuous ser
vice in behalf of the Union, at a time when
there wore daily chances of serving it in tho
field, was in huckstering gun contracts with
the War Department. The canvass will be a
walk-over for the democrats. The real re
publicans -those who have stood by tho
party from the beginning, and who still
have a pride in its history and its des
tiny?will feel that the nomination of Mr.
Blaine is the repudiation of Lincoln and
Grant and the whole war record. Let the
republicans take this responsibility. They
will rush upon the fate that befell tho whigs
when, in their mad lust for office, they
abandoned their party, their real leaders,
like Clay and Webster, their principles and
their hold upon the moral sense of their
own followers, by seeking out a successful
military chieftain and endeavoring to crawl
into power. The end was a defeat which is
monumental in our history. It might have
been a victory if tho wise men of that day
had been heeded. The soul had gone out
of whiggery, and its death was inevit
able. The nomination of Blaine will
mean the same with the republican party.
Nor is this a contingency we regret. The
republican party should die. Its work is
done. Tho soul has gone out of it. A gen
eration of power has deadened its once noble
aspirations. It is a party without princi
ples, without aims, without even a decent
consideration for its true statesmen.
"Whom the gods would destroy they first
mako mad," and tho nomination of Mr.
Blaine will be the madness which precedes
destruction.
Blaine and Tilden In New York.
If the Cincinnati Convention thinks it can
elect its candidate without the aid of New
York it is in a hopeful state of mind. Now
York is a democratic State, and it will re
quire a strong man to take it out of demo
cratic hands. A man may be very popular in
Maine or Minnesota, or other States which arc
suve to give their electoral votes for the repub
lican ticket in any event, and still be a weak
candidate to run against Governor Tilden in
New York. Blaine has no hold on the citi
zens of this State. Ho has never been
invited to speak here in a political
canvass; he has no intimate relation
with our leading politicians ; his
views on several public questions
are out of harmony with those of the com
mercial metropolis ; and, above all, our citi
zens regard him as a trickster and a jobber,
whose transactions, as exposed in his own
letters, prove him unworthy of tho confi
dence of honorable men. The politicians who
control the republican organization of the
Stato would not work for him with any zeal;
the leading republican organ of the city and
State has declared its opinion of his unfit
ness with so much emphasis as to nullify
everything it might say in his support if it
should so far stultify itself as to support him
at all; and the independent republicans and
reformers would go straight into tho Tilden
camp as soon as Tilden is nominated at St.
Louis. Blaine would not come within a
hundred thousand votes of carrying this
State against Governor Tilden, and would
be beaten out of sight in every other doubt
ful State.
All the indications point toward the ftomi
nation of Governor Tilden. Boss Kelly's
opposition will help him in all the
other States, which would rejoice in a can
didate who goes to the Convention
covered with honorable scars received
in a war against Tammany. The very name
of Tammany is odious throughout the United
States, and the opposition of that disgraced
organization relieves any democratic candi
date from a heavy load. Governor Tilden
has tho New York delegation, and there is no
possibility of its deserting him. Ho is gain
ing bo many delegates in other States that
he will enter the Convention with a major
ity, and tho two-thirds rulo will be
no impediment to his success when
the delegates have assembled nt St. Louis
and compared views. Ho will have tho
unanimous support of the South as soon as
it is seen that he is the strongest candidate..
When ho is nominated all tho demo
cratic opposition to him in this
Stato will cease. There was a much
more formidable opposition to his nomi
nation for Governor, but everybody
knows that it did not hurt him in the elec
tion. Ho not only destroyed the fifty
thousand majority wnich had been given to
Governor Dix in the preceding election?
which alone would have been a great tri
umph?but he had a majority of fifty thou
sand himself, making a democratic
gain of one hundred thousand votes.
Before the election the prospect looked so
doubtful that Chief Justice Church, who
might have had a unanimous nomination if
he would have taken it, an.l was sensible
that an election would have put him on
his way to the Presidency, positively de
clined ; and yet Mr. Tilden, after a most
strenuous tight against his nomination,
carried the election nioro triumphantly
than afty other gubernatorial candidate
in the wholo history of tho Slate. As
that opposition did not hurt him, so neither
will the weaker and less courageous
opposition which exist* at present.
Indeed, it is alnadv barinniiui to rtUs. and
when ha is nominated he will carry the State
with greater iclat than when he was elected
Governor by a majority whioh astonished
everybody. If the democratic party
?ill only keep elear of the soft
money shoals and pnt a popular Western
man on the ticket with Governor Tilden for
Yice President the democratic chances will
be good againat any republican, and against
Blaine the democrats would sweep the coun
try with a storm that would leave the repub
lican organization a shattered wreck.
Blaixb is in danger of expulsion from the
House of Representatives on account of his
conduct in *regard to the Mulligan letters.
The republican party cannot afford to nomi
nate a candidate liable to be disgraced in
so conspicuous a manner.
The 8i<nation at ClnciBBktl.
Nothing was done by tho Convention yes
terday beyond arranging preliminaries nnd
completing the organization. When the Con
vention reassembles this morning the Com
mittee on tho Platform will probably bo
ready to report, and their report will, no
doubt, be adopted as soon as it has been
read. There are no serious differences of
opinion in the republican party on
questions of principle or pnb'ic measures.
The platform prepared by ?> ? committee
will be acoepted without dobate or dissent,
and the balloting will immediately begin,
and with it a period of high wrought ex
pectation and anxiety.
The spirit of tho republican canvass, so
far as it was foreshadowed by the speeches
made while the Committee on Permanent
Organization was out, will be aggressive
and denunciatory almost to the point of
violence. More moderate sentiments were
expressed by one or two speakers, but those
were coldly received, while the most trucu
lent assaults on the character of the demo
cratic party were greeted with tumultuous
applause. No matter who is nominated, the
campaign will be ongof the most bitter and
vehement that has ever taken place in our
politics. It is the purpose of the republi
cans to "carry the war into Africa," to
arraign and assail the democrats as disloyal
ists, who first attempted to destroy the
Union by arms, and, failing in this,
are now trying to capture the government
by stabbing and assassinating the character
of every loyal man who stood by the country
in its great struggle against treason in arms.
The democrats are to be accused of impair
ing the public credit by advocating repudi
ation, of a settled purpose to throw
clown the barriers erected for the protec
tion of the freodmen, of a relentless
design to put the government under tho
control of the old Southern oligarchy, to
burn back the hands on the dial, destroy the
results of the war, nullify the constitutional
amendments and put our politics in the
same condition as when tho Southern whites
ruled the country by tho aid of Northern
doughfaces. Such a discharge of political
venom as seems to be in preparation at Cin
cinnati will fill tho country with animosi
ties sadly out of keeping with the centen
nial year. This modo of warfare is to bo
adopted as tho only means of breaking
the force of the democratic investigations
and the chargos of official corruption which
will be the 6taple of the democratic canvass,
[t is a matter of sincere regret that old ani
mosities are to bo inflamed by a campaign of
violent recriminations in a year when it was
hoped that so much would be done to restore
fraternal harmony.
The relative strength of the republicah
candidates has Undergone no material
change within the last twenty-four
hours. Tho Blaine men have mado no
gains, and their favorite will recoive no
more votes on the first ballot than wore
claimed for him two days ago. But if Blaine
has received no accessions of strength,
neither have any of his rivals. It is their
common interest to beat him and put him
ant of the field, and this much may be ac
complished without a coalition or any conces
sions to one another. The various delega
tions have only to stand by their first choice
through three ballotings to put Blaine hors <h
romJ/aL If he makes no gains on the second
ballot his nomination will be impossible,
and on the third his forces will begin to
break. It would be bad policy for his oppo
nents to attempt to form any combination
antil he has been disposed of, because there
is no candidate on whom they can all unite.
But they may keep their votes by giving
them to their own candidates steadily for
three ballots and attempting no concentra
tion until Blaine is practically out of the
race. Blaine lacks at present about a hundred
votes of a majority, and if tho supporters of
Conkling, Morton, Bristow, Hayes and Hart
ranfi stand firm for their own candidates :
during tho first three ballots Blaine can j
give them no further trouble. All of his
rivals would have to take their chances
afterward, and perhaps nono of their >
chanccs would then bo very good. But
they wonld enjoy tho satisfaction of
having prevented an insane and sui
cidal nomination, and of saving tho j
party from destruction. At that stago
it would be possible to unito upon some !
new candidate and nominato him ; but if
this be attempted w hile B aino is yet in the
field with hopes of success the result will '
be a loss of control over their own delegates,
a part of whom would go into tho Blaine |
camp and reinforce him with tho hundred
votes which he larks.
Coiosel Fornf.t thinks Blaine is coming
out of tho furnace ten times purified, and
that having trampled upon every slander
nnd having triumphed over every opponent,
he has but to ascend into the Presidency ns
Elijah ascended into heaven. Colonel For
ney is a gallant and chivalrous champion,
but he may as well write it down that no
Speaker of the House who makes rulings to
ploaso railway jobbers, nnd asks their con
sideration as favors, can be President ol the
United States.
A Great Chaste.? If tho lines of Blnino
arc forced at Cincinnati, which is one of tho
contingencies ot the Convention, then look
out for tho Great Unknown. A brave, elo
quent or trusted leader could nt the right
moment swing the Convention for Wash
burne; but the man has not made his appear
ance. Perhaps the man will come with tho
hour. What a chance lor Mr Curtis, or Mr.
Pomeroy, or some of the eloquent gentle
men from thia State!
Coventor lorgai'i Opening AMwm.
It has fallen to Governor Morgan to open
fonr of the six Republican National Conven
tions that have assembled since the exist
ence of the party. His speeches on such
occasions are more remarkable for vise,
practical suggestions than for what is called
eloquence, his talents being rather solid
than showy. The ornate passage yesterday
about the mariner tossed in thick weather
is repeated almost verbatim from Webster,
and might wisely have been omitted, as not
in keeping with the plain texture of his
own language. But the advice he gave to
the Convention is excellent, as his advice
on such occasions is very apt to be. He
recalled, with pardonable pride, an instance
which occurred in his opening remarks in
the Convention of 1864, when he suggested
an amendment to the constitution abolish
ing Blavery in the United Statea. The sug
gestion was adopted by the Convention, em
bodied in its platform, taken up by Congress
and submitted to the States for ratification
at the next session. One of the recommenda
tions made by Governor Morgan yesterday
deserves equally prompt acceptance by the
republican party. We refer to his advice to
propose in the platform of this Convention
an amendment of the constitution limiting
the President to one term and extending it to
six years. This is both a recognition of the
great danger which the country has recently
escaped and the proposal of an adequate
remedy. It was by the mere accident of the
exposure of Babcock and Belknap that
President Grant was prevented from
taking a third nomination for himself.
A second term is objectionable as
well as a third, because when a Pres
ident hopes to be re-elected he spends
his first term in scheming for a second, in
stead of devoting himself solely to the pub
lic interests. We should be glad to see both
parties committed in their platform to a
one-term amendment, for in that case we
might hope to see it adopted at an early
day. Another excellent recommendation of
Governor Morgan is that relating to the cur
rency. He thinks property has already set
tled to specie values, and that no additional
shrinkage or distress wonld result from put
ting the currency on a metallic basis, while
the feeling of stability would set all the
wheels of industry again in motion.
It Blaikk is nominated the Great Un
known and the one to be dreaded will be the
man whom the demoorats may nominate at
St. Louis.
The lewlnf Machine Demon.
There is a petty business done in New York
by the agents for certain sewing machines
which is pure brigandage. An agent haunts
the homes of the poor working women until
he induces ono to buy a machine, to be paid
for by instalments. The rate at which the ma
chines are sold to the poor creatures is gen
erally fifty per cent above cash price, and at
a profit of two hundred per cent. Let a poor
seamstress have paid within five dollars of
the full amount and fail of one month's pay
ment, Shylock goes to his lawyer, the ma
chine is taken away under a clause in
the "contract," and the poor girl or
woman left to starvation or worse.
The means of earning her living are
taken from her, and because she is poor,
and ignorant of legal forms, she cannot
even get the money she paid or a part of
it A case with some striking features in it
was brought into a police court yesterday.
The woman had paid within ten dollars of
the full price for her machine; it was taken
from her. Maddened by a refusal to return
either money or machine, she sought "the
wild justice of revenge" with a paving stone,
which she crashed through five hnndred dol
lars' worth of plate glass. This is an excep
tional case. The dispirited things that see
their mochines and their money disappear
together generally sit down and "have a
good cry" and go on starving as before.
Bridget Barry's paving stone, however, has
brought their sorrows into the light of day.
We Hr.AB it rumored that Secretary Fish is
Grant's Great Unknown. Well, can ho
carry the State of New York against Tilden?
Can he take the South with him? Woll, yes,
he might, but to do it he must have a nig
ger on the ticket with him. How would
Pinchback do?
Conkllng and Logan.
The danger which threatens the republi
can party may be compared with that which
destroyed t'.:e democratic party in 1860.
Then, if the democratic leaders had been
wi?e they would have accepted some candi
date who would have represented the disci
pline and the patriotism of the democracy.
But one side, by insisting upon
slavery as a divine institution, and the
other, by insisting upon the personal
claims of Douglas as a successful political
leiulcr, divided the party, destroyed Doug
las, who died of a broken heart at the failure
ot his aims, threw Breckinridge from his
proud position as the lender of a national
party into the attitude of a sectional leader
and an adventurer in a rebel army, and,
worse than all, brought upon the country the
horrors of civil war. The lesson of that
unfortunate and unpatriotic time should
not bo lost upon the cool, wiso heads of
the republican party nt Cincinnati. Let
these gentlemen throw aside a candidate like
Blaine, who is merely a mushroom growth of
unhealthy politics ; a candidate like Bris
tow, who is a detectivo candidate ; a candi
date like Morton, whoso health makes him
impossible, and take up Mr. Conkling,
the only man who can carry New
York against Tilden, the only re
publican whose nomination means a
victory in New York. Let them take with
him a brave, brilliant commander like
Logan, whose name is a trumpet note of
victory, and the republicans open their cam
paign with an assurance of triumph. This
is the solution of the problem, and if wis
dom can gain tho ascendancy there is no
doubt that the Convention may adjourn
without, as now seems probable, sealing the
destruction of the republican party.
Whbbb thk Daicoeb Libs. -The Blaine
men are fighting a desperate fight, and,
although the despatches are rose colored, i
aetms to bo a fight that cannot win. Thtt
republicans aro wise, or at least thero nre
wise men in that body, like Mr. Dana, Mr.
Ooyainor linnmn ?*??
?eterans of the organization, who hare idett
abore the success of a mere man. Who trill
hare the courage to say to the Convention
that the nomination of Mr. Blaine meant
the success of the democratic party if inch
a man as Tilden is nominated at St Louis,
with a Vioe President who la acceptable to
the West
I -
Tl?? Amerlrma Rlfl* Team.
The test by which the twelve good men
hare been selected who are to represent
America in the Centennial contest has bees
a most severe ona, each man who won a plaoa
having to fire 300 shots. This made it ami.
nently a test of endurance as well as skill
for weapons as well as men. The result has
been eminently satisfactory, and the scores
of the twelve marksmen testify to the highest
qualities that make the successful rifleman.
The gentlemen who have found them*
selves unfortunately excluded from th<
high honor of representing America in th?
team must console themselves with th<
thought that the national honor was in th<
scale, and a few points make the greatest
difference in a match where skill will be m
evenly matched. Mr. Rathbone, ' who
failed to secure a place, probably de
served a better fate, but a poo?
weapon is as dangerous in a contest ?
as a poor shot. The twelve men selected
yesterday scored in the four days a grand
total of 9,810 points out of 12,000, or a per
centage of 81.75, which is very high, indeed,
but scarcely seems marvellous when we
the scores of the eight highest who
made 6,654 out of 8,000, or a per*
centago of 83.175. Every one ol
these gentlemon was above the centre
average. Messrs. Farwell, Hyde and Weber
deserve great credit for their fine shooting,
particularly the first, and General Dakin,
on the entire shooting, probably exhibits the
best qualities of all. We are glad to see
Colonel Shaffer well within the first eight*
The outlook for the match is now bright
on all sides. The Scotch riflemen are
well to work and doing good shooting, al
though not up to what they will exhibit
when in full form. The Irishmen are se
lecting a really strong team, and we learn that
the Australian rillemen are already on their
way hither. The Canadians will soon be
heard from, and the shooting next Septem
ber will, we think, beat anything that
been done heretofore.
The Strong Point against Mr. Blaine is
the letter in which he calls attention to his
ruling as Speaker of the House in Cald
well's interest, and expresses a wish for
favors in return. This cannot be explained
away.
Thx Turkish Difficulty, as we have had
occasion to remark lately, is just now con
fined to Turkey and its dependencies. The
Porte has adopted a conciliatory policy with
Servia, which may serve it better than any
other, for there was evidently nothing to b?
gained by threatening or bullying the prin
cipality. The insurgent chiefs have, how
ever, rejected the armistice offered by
Turkey, they having evidently no greatei
trust in one Turk than another, imtter h?
his speech never so thickly. It remains to
be seen what sincerity there is in Servia'a
pacific professions, and whether she will aid
Austria and Turkey in the endeavor to iso
late the fighting rayahs of Herzegovina. As
the assistance given both by Servia and
Montenegro to the insurrection has been
more or less underhanded from the start it
seems Tery likely that it will continue.
Thus will the little dangerous spark be kept
burning.
It Mb. Blainx is nominated at Cincinnati
to-day it will be through the operation o<
the "enthusiasm" expedient and the gong<
beating of the newspaper correspondents.
There is a class of journalists who go out
from Washington every four years to nomi?
nate some favorite for the Presidency. It if
the merest claque business, but soiqetimei
it succeeds; and if Blaine is successful,
like an unreal triumph in a theatre, it will
be due to the claque.
The Western Papers are complaining ol
the manner in which the prison authoritiea
in Missouri treat the whiskey thieves. The
thieves have a good time, with no work, no
cares and no indignity. Altogether they
have about a", good a time as if they were
summer boarders at the seaside. Well, we
should not be too critical! When we had
Tweed in jail we made it very comfortable,
and when he tired of our hospitalities we
allowed him atrip abroad. This is a very
free country for those who have money
and power.
Mb. Blaine cannot carry New York and
Mr. Conkling can. As a republican Presi
dent cannot be elected without the aid of
New York it is suicidal to throw away the
State on the favorite of a set
The Extradition Treaty.?In pursuance
of its "technically wrong but substantially
right" position on the Extradition Treaty
with the United States Great Britain will, it
is believed, order the release of the forgei
Winslow to-day. This will be the signal foi
the repudiation of the treaty here, sinci
America cannot permit the existence of as
international bond which has no reciprocity
in it except at the whim of a Cabinet which,
rejecting the practice of its predecessor^
sets up a lawless idea of its own.
The Colobed Methodists of Roslyn must
bestir themselves and send more money t?
the Annual Conference than, fifty-one cents,
which is all Brother Davis had to offer on
behalf of his black sheep. At this late day it
grieves us to think that there should be any
necessity at Horlyn or elsewhere for the min
ister to caution the brother who passea
around the "sasser". to keep his eys
"skinned for buttons."
Thk Pivotal Point.?Blaine's nomination
will throw New York awny from the repnb
lican party. A modicum of sense will give
the country to the democrats in that event.
The Nerves or thx Sixth AvjtNrs Cak
j Horse have been gravely discussed in
the Superior Court, and one sad-hearted
man was of opinion that the sorry beasts
would only get over th* shock to their ner.
\ous systems from a steam railroad running
overhead by the timo they were worn out.
I kos always been understood that no hors<
was ever nut on any ol tke ? *?