The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1876, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business, news letters | or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York LD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, PHILADELPHIA UFFICE—NO. 112SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO, 46 FLEET STREET, PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the enme terms as in Now York. VOLUME XI. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. HUMPTY pumpry bet P wo wid PARISTAN, VARIBTIES, atSP.M. Matinee at 2”. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. PIQUE, at 8 P. M. GLOBs THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P.M. CENTRAL ORCHESTRA, QUARTE GILMOT GRAND CONCERT, at 8 WALLAC! THKATRE. THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, at 8 P.M. William J. Florence. TONY PASTOR'S NEW THEATRE. VARIETY, at 5 P. M. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. CONSCIENCE, at8 P.M. Thorne, Jr. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. NORMA, at 8 P.M. faves KELLY & LEON’ MINSTRELS, ats P.M, a PARK THEATRE. 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Aw Iypontaxt Svrr has been instituted to vacnte o tax lease issued by the city, the re- sult of a tax sale of property on which the taxes had been regularly paid, but which, owing to an error in the registering of the ward number, had been credited to adjoin- ing property. The decision for the plaintiff in this case settles whether a property | owner or agent, when paying his taxes, is | bound to furnish the oflicials of the tax office with information which everybody supposed they already possessed on their schedules and maps. ‘The case presents evidence of a remarkable want of business regularity and intelligence in the Revenue Department of the city government. Ayoturr Porrce Ovrrace is added to the long list that disgraces the civil force on which citizens rely for the protection of their persons and property. A poor Irish girl appeals toa brutal policeman for pro- tection against the assault of two street thieves; but, instead of arresting the latter, he permits them to go their way and hustles the girl off to the station, taking care to tear her clothes and dishevel her hair in order to show that she had been guilty of disorderly conduct. This poor girl has appealed to the Herarp for redress. Herstory is told in another column, and we hope that red tape and unnecessary formalities will not stand in the way of the immediate removal from the police force of a brutal ruftian who dis- graces its uniform. Tue June Txnw of the courts promises to ve a very busy one, a large number of cases being on the calendar awaiting adjudication, The important suits against the Ring chiefs, Tweed and Sweeny, will attract consider- able attention, both on account of the noto- tiety of tho defendants and the large amounts involved. Tweed is sued for one million of dollars and Sweeny for six millions. The Stewart will case will also prove one of the exciting legal contests of the term, as an appeal is certain to be taken by either side from the decision of the Sur- Togate. In the United States courts “crooked whiskey” and Post Office frauds will farnish work for the lawyers, who must rejoice at the rich harvest in prospect during the carly summer months. Street Discirtixe axp Srneer Sarery.— We are glad to see that our city authorities are giving attention to the subject of carringe and cab travel in the streets of our city at night. There have been many unfortunate and painful occurrences in the streets from the carelessness of carriage and cab drivers who go around at night without any lights on their vehicles, The result ona dark night and in» great city with narrow and some- times crowded streets may be imagined. The best way to deal with the drivers is to adopt the Paris plan. When a vehiclo makes its appearance at night in Paris with- out ® proper light the police stop it, and, | taking the number, submit the owner to the penalty of the law. Yct Paris is a city which may be travelled at night, on account of the wide streets and the admirable system of lighting, with mnch more safety than New York. This is one of those small matters in which are involved the comfort and the | safety of the people, and which cannot be | bandied with too much promptitude by our City Fathers, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1876—QUADRUPLE SHEET. The Political Situation—The Skies Clearing in the Direction of Cin- cinnati. We hear nothing from Washington to change the opinion that Mr. Blaine is no longer a candidate for the Presidency. We shall be surprised if his name is even men- tioned at the Cincinnati Convention. If he should prove to the satisfaction of the coun- try that the letters of Mulligan are perfectly proper there will still be upon his name a stain making it impossible for him ever to be anything more than a wounded soldier in the ranks of the republican party. If Mr. Blaine were fighting tor his fortune or his liberty, if he wero in the position of Belknap or Babcock, we could under- stand why he should seek the counsel of Senator Carpenter and Judge Black. But his case required no legal aid. It was the lead- ership of a party, the possession of the highest office in the nation, that were at stake, and the moment he called in a brace of lawyers, the moment the question was made personal, he descended from his proud position as the first commoner of his party, its leader inthe House, and the chief ad- viser, if not the chief executive, of a new republican administration. We are sure that aman as astuteas Mr. Blaine must see that when he called in the services of Carpenter and Black they came as mourners for a political funeral, and not as the cham- pions of a successful candidate for the Presidency. ‘ Therefore, while it may be possible, as we sincerely trust it will so prove, for Mr. Blaino to show that his letters are in no way evi- dence of his corruption as a member of Con- gress, his relation to this canvass assumes 4 new character. THe was yesterday the choice of the républican party in a majority of the States. His friends claimed, and with jus- tice, that he had control of three-sevenths of the delegates to Cincinnati. Can he con- trol these delegates? Can he direct them in the choice of another candidate? Will they run from his standard in despairing mutiny or fall back in good order, following him into the camp of the friendliest rival? It is too soon to answer these questions. All will de- pend upon the manner in which he bears himself in the next three or four days. ‘The chances are, however, that he will have no control over these votes. A political party is not apt tocontinue its confidence ina leader who took it to the verge of that sure defeat which would have attended the nomination of Mr. Blaine. It will argue, | and justly, that with tho knowledge that there was that in his public career which he was compelled to conceal, and the disclosure of which would have imper- illed his party, he should never have gone into the canvass. As the temper of large bodies of political and other followers is to turn upon the unfortunate and unsuc- cessful, it would not surprise us to see Mr. Blaine by the time the Convention assem- bJed at Cincinnati with as little authority in its counsels as Mr, Colfax or Mr. Patterson. It will be a surprise to us and the manifesta- tion of a fidelity which we have never yet seen in politics if Mr. Blaine has any influ- ence in the Convention beyond what he may haye over his friends from the State of Maine. It scems inevitable that the strength of Blaine will crumble as rapidly and as irre- trievably as that of Napoleon at Waterloo. The republicans from now to the day of the Conyention will ask—not ‘What did the late Mr. Blaine want?" not ‘What would be most pleasing to his memory as a political leader?” but ‘What is best for the success of the party in the fall?” The friends of Blaine will go off in various directions. Pennsylvania will be a unit for Mr. Conkling. The friends of Hayes in Ohio will stand by their Governor with renewed devotion in the hope that he will be the Great Unknown. The Post Office peo- ple will show renewed cnergy for the radiant Jewell, and there will be new strength for Bristow. The fall of Blaine and the man- ner of it will be an especial advantago for Bristow. It would not surprise us, a8 one of the consequences of this thunder and light- ning canvass, if Bristow began from now to show himself a formidable candidate—so formidable, at least, that it will require o strong effort on the part of the adminis- tration and the machine republicans to beat him. This is a problem that well considered by the leaders. Bristow is @ good man to fall back upon, and ns a neg- ative leader, with a summer lightning repu- tation, he may have a value at Cincinnati which will make him the candidate of a troubled and weary party looking for a leader, and failing in the men it knows and trusts, takes this new one from Kentucky in the hope that he may blunder imto victory. In other words, Bristow becomes an accidental candidate exactly as Andrew Johnson was at Baltimore when he was nominated for the Vice Presidency with Lincoln. The advance of Bristow means also the advance of Mr. Washburne, of Illinois. Mr. Washburne has been from the first the can- didate with most available strength. We | have felt that if this Convention was not | tango | before, their inconsistency does not prove drilled by the leaders before the meeting it would be apt to gravitate to Mr. Washburne. There seemed to be no better way ont of the quarrels of such candidates ns Morton, Conkling and Blaine—quarrels which make rivals enemies. While Mr. Conkling is justly the choice of General Grant for the succes- sion Mr. Washburne has claims upon the President which he is too grateful to forget. While Grant may not have a first choice for Washburne he can never oppose him, never have anything but the kindest feelings for him. So that while Mr. Wash- burne will have all the advantage which comes from the support of the party in power he will have also the advantage—and | that is now of tremendous value—of having no connection with any of those misfortunes which have fallen so plentifally upon the friends of Grant. He has been out of the country, like Buchanan during the Kansas- Nebraska troubles of Pierce. He has as good @ record as a reformer as Bristow, and is much the better as he is much the elder soldier. He fonght corruption when it was triumphant and arrogant; when it was nmas- ter of both houses of Congress, when under the name of “snbsidy” millions were taken from the ‘Treasury to endow railway corpora- tions. A record in favor of reform made under these circumstances is ten thousand times more serviceable than a record made in the must be | criminal courts of St. Louis and at ‘the ex- | pense of the President and the party. So that Washburne will have as much of the Presi- dent's sympathy and help as Conkling and as much of the reform element as Bristow. He is a candidate who will unite every section of the party from Boss Shepherd to Charles Francis Adams. For these reasons, therefore, we look upon Washburne as, next to Mr. Conkling, the leading candidate for the Presidential nomi- nation. As for Mr. Conkling, his chances are immensely strengthened by the fall of Blaine. courage and the discipline of the party. He is the choice of the commanders of the various contingents that form the republi- can army. He has all the positive strength that comes from admiration for courage, | character and consistent devotion to the interests of tho party. If it is said that he is a Grant man, and that his nomination means the indorsement of Grant's administration, it will be answered that any nomination at Cincinnati will have the same significance. But on all questions of fealty and duty hia record is stainless. This is a great point in any canvass. It is that positive strength, which, after all, ina country where parties rule, must always command our respect. The republican party, under the lead of Mr. Conkling, shows | that it is not afraid of its principles or of its record. It shows that it will not surrender a point in its history, that it has no apolo- gies, no reservations, no compromise. This strength we much prefer to the indirect sup- port of Bristow from malcontents and ‘re- | formers” and the negative strength of Wash- burne, who, if he had remained in the country during the administration of Grant, would now be as much of an administration man as Conkling or as much of a rebel as Schurz. More than all, Mr. Conkling has the enthusiastic support of New York and the growing support of the country. The strong feature in his canvass is that the more the party followers see of him the more they like him. In this State he hasa republican support which no leader has had since the time of Seward, Several days remain before the Convention meets, and in this thunder and lightning weather we do not know what reputation may be struck. It was only yesterday and we saw the army of Blaine marching with massod and swelling columns to Cincinnati. Now his banner is in the dust. No man can say what a day may bring forth. But as the field now looks Conkling leads the column, with Washburne gaining on him and the colors of Bristow stealing slowly to the front. It may be, after all,that victory is declaring for the Great Unknown, whose mystery is still unbroken. Our London and Paris Cable Letters. The topic of the day in England and France is the Eastern question, and in Eng- land particularly, for that Power has sud- denly sprung into the position of one of the principal parties. As England has, in her own interest, taken the sie of Moslem rule in Europe, we are not likely to hear much more of the sufferingd of the Christians of the revolted provinces, who are very good food for pity so long as they do not kick holes in the money bags of Lombard street, and new virtues will just as suddenly be discovered in the polygamous Turks, who, for all their bigotry, financial trickiness and dogged unprogressiveness, stand just now as a check upon Russian aggrandizement. There is nothing brings out your virtues with a true Englishman compared to being on his pocket side. But it is as an Asiatic Power that England sends her powerful fleet to the Bosphorus and keeps her little handful of troops in readiness to march, She has to excuse her- selfas a European Power, and between her acts and her reasons for them there is an inconsequence, which, by keeping the fact of her Indian Empire before one, will disap- pear. Her disingenuousness isa geographic exigency. Leaving everything but her acts, open and covert, aside, she has the best of the game so far, and the English press may well wonder at the sud- denness of the change and ask in a startled way what the English Ministry havo in re- serve to back up the position taken. They want light, and a few days will single the truth from the multitude of rumors afloat. It is reported that Bussia, Germany and Austria will take no steps on the Berlin note until opportunity is afforded to see what course the government of the new Sultan will take on the subjects therein re- ferred to. It is further reported that these three Powers have agreed to abandon their note entirely, and still further reported that England, Italy and Austria are secretly allied for mutual support in any course they may collectively deem it proper to take with reference to Turkey. These re- ports are inconsistent, but as their in- consistency is principally Ine to the fact that they present Austria as practising a lit- tle treachery or double dealing, and as Austria has been exposed in that position that they are false. All that seoms certain is that England would not act without some support. France finds herself happily unembar- rassed by the gravity of the situation. It is thought in Paris that war has been delayed a twelvemonth, and so the gay city turns with her wonted joy to the pleasures of art, literature ond the drama, as if the world was typified by the youth piping under the shade of the beechon tree, To read the list of new plays promised is just as refreshing to ordinary mortals as the news of the rally in Turks and the flatness in Russians was to the London stock brokers who had been in the depth of despair till Disraeli fished them out after his groat trang- formation scene at Constantinople, Tar American Jockey Crvp opened the spring meeting at Jorome Park yesterday, and the event attracted a large number of our lovers of racing to that beautiful suburb of New York. To say that the sport was all that could be desired would be only doing simple justice to the managers, Tue Yacutixe Season commences this | week, and we give a description in to-day's Hera.p of the programme of the races that will be sailed by the fast schooners and sloops of the various clubs. He has the merit of leading the | The Democratic Canvass. All political interest centres in the repub- lican canvass mainly because the republi- cans hold their Convention before the dem- ocrats and the action of the St. Louis pol- iticians will be governed by the action of the Cincinnati politicians. The demoerats will nominate whoever the republicans compel them to take; that is to say, there will be acandidate at St. Louis whose name will be the most useful in taking advantage of the mistakes of the republicans. Thus, if the republicans had named Blaine the dem- oerats might almost have taken any one, as victory would have come with the exposures which, happily for the republicans, have been discovered before the election. As it now stands the danger of the republicans from Blaine will make them more than anxious about their candidate. This will react upon the democrats. It will tend to give the country a good President, whatever else may be done. As the democratic canvass stands Mr. Til- den shows increasing strength. The con- spiracy to destroy hm in his own State, although it has assumed formidable propor- tions, is meeting the fate of all conspiracies, from that against Cesar down. It is seen that the only objections to Tilden are selfish and personal, Some democrats do not like him because they think he has not yielded to their dictation. Others think that if he were President he would do as he pleased with the patronage of the State and take no counsel from ‘lammany Hall. Others argue that h‘s record in 1848, when he went with Jolin Van Buren and the free soil democrats against the South, will hurt him with the | Southetn people, who may be sensitive even now over the anti-slavery expressions of a democratic rebel in the last generation. Others take the eccentric ground that Mr. Tilden is to be slaughtered because he is op- posed to certain railway schemes, Under all this, however, the canvass of Mr. Tilden shows increasing strength. The criticisms upon his manner of managing his canvass which we observe in the interview with Governor Dix are sound. It would be much better if the Governor were to fold his toga about him and, confining himself to Albany duties, allow the Presidency to come or go as it pleased. It would be better if his indiscreet friends remained at home, But we are not ina Roman age. Politicians will not seriously quarrel with a statesman of whom the worst that can be said is that he minds his business and sees that his in- terests are neither overlooked nor de- stroyed. In the democratic field, then, we have Tilden leading, with Bayard and Hendricks challenging his supremacy. Bayard is op- posed, even by those who admire his charac- ter and his name and his noble life, on the ground that he might be a Bourbon and | would carry into the Presidency his predi- lections for the South. Put this is a great injustice to one whose record during the war was that of a patriot and gentleman, and who would as President see that the inter- ests of every section were respected. Hen- dricks represents the elements in the demo- cratic party which will lead it to ruin. His nomination would be nothing more than the alliance of the West and the South on the platform of repudiation and revolution. If the friends of Tilden can put him ona good platform and give him as Vice Presi- dent a man who will satisfy the West we do not see that they can do any better. They might enter the canvass with many chances of victory. It may be that there is a Great Unknown in the person of General Hancock, who seems to have a sudden and enthu- siastic support in some parts of the South and West ; or Joel Parker, of New Jersey, who has a splendid war record, if that is what the democrats are after; or General Sherman, who might be carried off into the democratic camp by violence, as the Romans carried off the Sabines ; or Gas- ton, of New England; or, in an excess of magnanimity and virtue, Charles Francis Adams. The contingencies of the demo. cratic canvass are as uncertain as those of the other party. Although Uncle Samuel shows his well known equestrian power by keeping the lead, there may be a Great Un- known or a “dark horse” to ride him down and pass the pole, as the Mineral colt did at the Derby last week, to the annoyance and pecuniary discomfiture of many shrewd statesmen who had made books in other directions, Pulpit Topies To-Day. Last Monday the Methodist preachers, in their weekly meeting, appointed a commit- tee to report on some form of action in which tho Methodists of this city can ex- press their sentiments respecting the sale of liquor on the Sabbath in this city. ‘They agreed in part at the same time to preach a sermon on the subject as early as possible. To-day, therefore, many of them will speak out on this topic, though many more will wait to hear the report of their com- mittee to-morrow. Mr. Harrower will ask us what interest we have, if any, in the enforcement of the Excise law, Mr. Johns will cast out the liquor demon and make an appeal to his people in behalf of the Police Commissioners, who have already received the congratulations of many Christian bodies in this city. Mr. Hastings will also preach on temperance. Brooklyn pastors will take up the same gen- eral theme and discussit, While Mr. Rowell is demonstrating that all things are for the Christian's profit, and Mr. Thomas is looking ahead and encouraging his people to fidelity to Christ, and Mr. Moment is describing the morality of religion, and Mr, Martyn is portraying the lights and shadows of the metropolis, they are not likely to pass by in silence such a shadow and such a blemish on the fair fame of our city as this. They, too, will lift their voices against Sabbath liquor selling. If, as Mr. Giles will show, true religion consists in a lite according to the commandments of God, intemperance and Sabbath breaking can have no part in that life or religion, The Church that Mr. Seitz exalts cannot give forth her voice of joy when drunkatds and Sabbath breakers are harbored within her fold. Nor could home or heaven be light and cheerful wero such characters as are indicated ad- mitted there. Mr. Lightbourn will make that matter plain. Tho wonderful book that Mr. Lloyd will open to-day ix designed to turn men away from such practices, and the blood of Christ, our passover, on their hearts like that of the paschal lamb on the Jewish doorposts will secure them salvation, rest. and peace, ac- cording to the Spirit's revelation in heaven, of which Mr. McCarthy will speak. Jesus a8 @ conyversationalist will be set forth by Dr. Armitage; His preaching and life and His changed countenance will be presented by Mr. Hepworth, who, this morning, will add abont fifty communicants to the mem- bership of his church and thereby strengthen his hands for the sale of his house of worship to-morrow. Mr. Hatfield will introduce our first parents to his congregation. Mr. Jatten will tell us how much the world owes to Baptists, and at the same time, perhaps, how much Baptists owe to the world. Mr. Bishop and Mr. Leavell will expose the jugglery commonly called Spiritualism. Mr. Snow will describe the new heaven and the new earth which God is to create when these old ones give out, and Mrs. Schertz will treat of the ingathering of Israel into the life eternal. Religious Press Topics. Manifestly the Sabbath question as related to the Centennial Exhibition is one of great importance to the editorial mind of our re- ligious contemporaries, seeing that many of them ‘indulge in comments thereon, The Christian Intelligencer thinks the conflict be- tween the Sabbatarians and the non-Sab- batarians has assumed national propor- tions, and that the newest efforts to force the Commission to open the Exhibition grounds and buildings on the Sabbath by its very boldness surpasses every other, and by its exceptional occasion and circumstances touches the religions life of our whole people and will make a new era in the his- tory of the American Sabbath. The Jntel- ligencer thinks Archbishop Wood, of Phila- delphia, isa blind guide in his conception of the obligations of the Sabbath. - The Cafholic Standard, of Philadelphia, warmly indorses the anti-Sibbath meetings, speeches and resolutions, and points out the incon- sistency of closing the Exposition and leav- ing the liquor saloons open. Those who crowd the latter would be innocently enjoy- ing themselves in the Centennial grounds, were they permitted to be, instead of pro- faning the Sabbath in drinking saloons and other places of like character. The Episco- pat Methodist, of Baltimore, hopes the Cen- tennial Commission will adhere unflinch- ingly to the resolution to keep the grounds closed, and under no plea whatever allow themselves to be inveigled into what might properly be regarded as a national desecra- tion of the Lord’s Day. The plea that the Exhibition will not pay unless it be opened on the Sabbath is to reduce a great moral question to a mere monetary standard, But, adds this journal, if the God of our fathers is not recognized in the consti- tution of the country, let Him at least be honored in the hearts and habits of our people. The Independent indi- entes some of the material, commer- cial and political benefits of the Exposition. It is the first World's Fair ever held ina re- public, and its success has proven the grandest demonstration of republican possi- bilities that the world has ever known. It offers the strongest inducements to Euro- peans that they will ever have to visit our conntry and study our institutions, con- cerning which they know 50 little. It will give an opportunity for an interchange of opinions between our own and European scientific workers, and it will make us more fomiliar with our own resources and give us anew impulse of patriotism. The Eeaminer and Chronicle says there are two Sabbath questions—one in relation to the Centennial Exhibition and the other to liquor selling in this city—and both are settled. But strenu- ous efforts aro being put forth to unsettle them. But the Lraminer cannot think there is any danger of a reversal of the wise and righteous decision in both cases. The Texas Christian Advocate thinks the utter disregard of the Sabbath indicates more clearly than anything else we encounter the great de- pravity of the age in which we live. Sunday has. ceased to be o day of rest; it is no longer devoted to the worship and glory of God, The Church and the beer garden are the rivals of this age, and while one begs the serious reflections of the reckless sojourner in this changing sphere, the other calls to him to come and drink and make merry with those who have risen above the wisdom of Solomon and have satisfied themselves that there is no God. The Hebrew Leader and the Jewish Times are very naturally more interested in the proposed theological seminary which the Israclites of this city and vicinity purpose to found. The necessity for such an institu- tion is deeply felt, and the Leader regrets that so little interest is manifested by the congregations in providing funds for it. Touching the Presidential election, the Christian Union has a tentative article on Minister Washburne as the “great unknown” who is likely to get the republican nomina- tion. The Methodist thinks the political parties are less evenly balanced now than they were in January, and that the advantage of the intervening months has been to the repub- licans. But, looking at the hotly contested race of candidates, and without expressing preferences for any candidate, the Union be- lieves that good men will be placed in nomi- nation by both parties, leaving us a choice of principles, which is a most desirable state of things. . Murder by Apothecartes. The children have a hard time of it in the city, especially the children of the poor, Compelled to run the gauntlet of a large number of maladies exceedingly fatal it is often a mero toss up whether such medical attendance as they get is a greater help or hindrance to recovery. Death is in many instances, perhaps, a logical and necessary result of the prescription, even when faith- fully and accurately prepared. But when inevitably fatal maladies have taken their proportion, when those whose diseases are not necessarily fatal are likely to escape from under the hands of clumsy and ineapable practitioners, there is still a further danger. Yor the little troop that has escaped so many troubles the blundering apothecary lies in wait. He is not altogether a new evil. Men and boys, carefully putting certain death into little bottles and labelling them healing remedies, have flourished in nearly all times, and evem the modern legislation contrived to protect people from such scourges is not of great exe tent. But, like all other minatory legislation, it is effective against the evil aimed at only where it is put in force. Consequently it is not effective in this city, where it can, per- haps, be proved, if all other defences fail, that the apothecary was insane. In the present state of our law it is forbidden for any unqualified person to dispense medicmes us an apothecary, and if death results from the use of medicines dispensed by such unquali- fied person the offence is a felony and may be punished by a fine of from one to five thousand dollars or by imprisonment for from two to four years. Doubtless the penalties are as heavy as could be morally justified in the case. But when are they applicable? Not simply when death results from an apothecary’s blunder, but only when death results from such a blunder made by a person not properly qualified. What is the law's standard of qualification? The person must have a diplomas from a college of pharmacy or he must have been apprenticed to an apothecary for twa years. Ifhe is thus qualified the law is not violated, and where the law is not violated there are no penalties. In the case now be fore the public, therefore, if the apothecary can prove that his son was his apprentice for two years he escapes the law, except in sa far as he may feel its pressnro in a civil suit for damages. It is one of the presumptions of our system of law that events like the killing of a child by an apothecary’s blunder provides its own remedy in the fact that it ruins the apothe- cary’s business. But alas! the public for- gets very readily. Moreover, our public isa movable quantity. In a few years the whole neighborhood will change, or in less time the apothecary will go to another corner and take, perhaps, a better start. As liquor deal- ers are licensed by the Excise Board, apoth- ‘ecaries should be licensed by the Board of Health, and o death caused by ao blunder should permanently retire the license of the establishment from which the medicine was sold. The Selection of the American Rifle Team. As the object of the competitions for places on the American Rifle Team is to secure the very best shots in the country it is but just that the utmost liberality, combined with good sense, should rule. Hence we heartily agree with the decision of the joint commit. tee on Friday to widen the conditions, so as to give certain good shots another chance for a place, who would under the conditions first declared be ruled out. In face of the formidable competitors who are to come here from Ireland, Scotland and Canada, it would be folly to stand on any strict con- struction which might not insure the very highest skill available. Tho decision of the committee allows eight of the marksmen in the contests of last Wednesday and Thursday in addition to the sixteen highest on the list to compete next Tuesday, and.as Colonel Bodine was prevented by bodily injury from entering last week we have no doubt that way will also be cheerfully made for “Old Reliable,” the hero of two American victories, to attest his right to a place. To this end wo call the attention of the committee to his case. " The result of the first competitions has been in many respects a surprise. That General Dakin heads the list on both days with fine scores on cach shows that he is stil] worthy of the place he took at Dollymount, It is, however, striking that of the old teams and reserves only Dakin, Yale, Ballard, Bruce and Fulton appear among the sixteen, while eleven places are taken by new men, The most remarkablo of these is Mr Rathbone, o gentleman well past fifty years, who began to shoot last summer and who stands second on the list. He is likely to beatough customer to dislodge. Mr, Hyde, fourth on the list, is also one of the long range men who began last year. An« derson and Washburne are reliable shots, not always of the highest grade, but if they win a place on the team will keep up to their work. Mr. Jewell is at times a brilliant shot, but has his unaccountable fallings off. Mr. Overbangh, although new to long range, has been shooting all his life and will un- doubtedly be heard from hereafter. Mr. Gray is a Boston rifleman, modest about his merits, but of good promise. Colonel Shaffer, of Chicago, who was Jast but one of the sixteen, as he becomes accustomed te the Creedmoor atmospheric conditions will undoubtedly do better, and is a coming man. The gradual appearance of strong shots from parts of the country outside New York is especially gratifying. ‘The extension of the list to twenty-four will bring in such men as Farwell, Webber and Canfield, who are certainly unlikely to fall so low this week as last. It looks altogether as if we should have a strong team. The Rights of an American Citizens We believe that the two eminent lawyers who have advised Mr. Blaine to assert his rights as an American citizen, and to resist to the last extremity any demand for the surrender to the Congressional Committee of the letters he obtained from the witness Mul- ligan, have made a mistake. Nothing that those letters could show conld prove so damaging to the ex-Speaker as the conceal- ment of their contents from the public. As a Presidential candidate Mr. Blaine may be regarded as already out of the ficld. His nomination is scarcely more probable than that of Grant or Belknap or Babcock. The question now to be studied by him is how best to save his former good reputation from unnecessary stain, and we believe that this can be better done by a bold, open course than by withholding letters, of which he obtained possession in a questionable manner, under the shallow pretence of “asserting his rights as an American citizen.” No person is so simple as to suppose that if the Mulligan letters were not damaging to Mr. Blaine their surrender to the committee would ba resisted “‘to the Inst extremity.” Publie imagination will be certain to mnke the suppressed letters even more objectionable than they probably are, and Mr. Blaine must bear in addition the odium of having obtained possession of them by a trick and adecevtion. Hence we do not think that