The New York Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New York Terarp. ee Volume XXXVI... —— No, 144 AMUSEMENTS THIS AF WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadw gpces every afteraoon ani e O3N AND EVENING. , corner Sith st.—Performe BLP. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. Puavine wrrnt Fier, NIBLO'S GARDEN, sesatway.—Kiv, THE ARKANSAS feavize GRAND OPERA HO! corner of Sth ay, ana 23d s— Tat Taxes Huncusacks. LINA oF Ran. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur Gotp BEit— TATE SEORETS. EDWIN's THEA’ 720 Broadway.—ComMEDY K. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Mux Bacur.ox or Axis—T RATIO, \ GLOBE. THAT! rz VARIETY ENTER: RAINMENT, &0.—THE PTER FOILED, Matinee at 234, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—NEw VERSION OF Pack SurrraRp, Matinee at 2. {| BOOTH’S THEATRE, 43d ai., ve:ween Sth and 6th avs,— A Winter's TALE. ACADEMY OF MUS! PRBA—LUCIA DI LAM Fourteenth street.—ITALIAN LOOR, t tid shel MRS. F, B. 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Field—News from Colombia, South America, Jamaica and Hayti—The Great Railroad Scare—The German Peace Jubilee—Lake Mahopae iscellaneous ‘oal _Troubdles—Amusements, 1 between Captain Bo- gardus, of Illinois, and Ira Paine, of New York, for $1,000 and the Champion Badge; Bogardus the Winner by One Bird—the Raliroad War: The Albany and Susquehanna Fignt Revamped— Proceedings in the Courts—A New Charity—A My bea be e Fire in the Woods— Patnam The Trial of Foster Drawing to Homletde in Avenue A—More irg_ Murder Triais—Rul “Head—Brooklyn — Matters— Another Long Island Biga —The Sears Scanda! Klux in Court—Killed by a Kick—Fatal A enutonthe New York Cen- tral Ratlroad—Insurance Convention—Herrera and the Marauders—Mariages, Births and Deaihs. G—Eilitorials; Leading Article, “The Treaty Before the Senate—Views of It ou Both Sides the At- —Ainusement Announcements, is (Continned fromm Sixth Page) —The ditch: Overwhelming Success of tae History of the Re- wing Against King ~ Varitamentry Proceed= ings; the Derby to Come Oi at Eprom Downs Fs i ae Intelligeace—susiness No- ces. S—Financial ana Commercial Reports—Domestic Markets—Advertisements, 9—Advertisements. @O—European Mail News: The Treaty of Washing- ington in the House of Loras; Prince Bis- marck’s Speech on the Tre: The Incorporation of Alsace a Germany—Religious —_snitellig Intelligence—Adyertisements, 91—Advertiscwents. A2—advertusements. y of Frankfort; d Lorraine into ence—Siuppiag: Ovr SrrcraL Apvices from Panama repre- gent the insurgents as within three miles of the city. A battle was expected and there mvas much excitement in the city, but the success of the government troops was believed ‘to be certain. A Footnarpy ApvENTURE.—Tie little City ‘of Ragusa, a miniature ship, started upon a voyage to Liverpool yesterday, manned by two men and a dog. With the exception of the bark of the dog she is probably the small- est bark that ever attempted such a trip, Tne Foster Case has been disposed of, so Yar as the taking of testimony is concerned, in p manner as expeditious as it was tardy in the Belection of a jury. The defence closed yes- terday and counsel for the prisoner finished their appeals to the jury. Judge Garvin will conclude his closing address to-day, and the ease will be given to the jury. Tne News received from Buenos Ayres this morning is to the effect that the yellow fever was decreasing in violence in that city—pro- bably because it cannot find any new victims, But although the disappearance of the dreaded ‘disease was looked for it was thought that the Jast visitation has struck a blow to the pros- rity of Buenos Ayres from which she can mever recover. Vice Presipent Corrax is still unwell and has notified the Senate that he cannot preside at its deliberations any more this session, The ‘Vice Presidency of the nation is an office usually held to be of little account, but Mr. Colfax has made himself so useful and so promi- nent by his good qualities in this political Her- mitage that the country and those who know him best (the Senators) will sadly mies him, Tae Deicurep Paristans.—The Parisians tre in transports of joy over the fall of the Commune, as they are with anything and everything in the way of achange. No doubt, however, as a relief from the Commune, they ‘would have been delighted with the occupation of the city by the Germans. The Commune has thus done some good service—at least in proving to the French people at large that there are other barbarians in France more to be dreaded than the Germans. Tom Murray—‘‘Honest Tom”—is reported to have tendered his resignation as Collector, an act that commends him above all politicians for honesty, especially as his reason for it is said to have been the embarrassment which his possession of the Collectorship has caused President Grant, General Arthur is under- stood to be his successor, It is to be hoped that some one will be found eventually who can administer the great political powers of the Custom House so as to secure harmony in the republican ranks in this city, Honest” ‘Tom as @ harmoaizer has been throughout a woeful failure, o NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1871.—-TRIPLE SHEET, The Treaty Before the Sematc—Views of Tt em Both Sides the Atl . We have in onr comments on the treaty between the United States and England, which was the work of the Joint High Commission, adopted the well known motto of General Grant on home politics, and have said, ‘Let us have peace.” By this we mean harmony and a friendly feeling between the two great English speaking nations of the world, while, at the same time, we have not thought that actual war could occur now if existing differ- ences were not adjusted, The people of both countries are high spirited, brave and sensi- tive on 2 point of honor or right, but they are practical, too, and, considering the vast com- mercial and other interests at stake and the frightful consequences that war would involve, there was little probability of a bloody con- flict, Such a war would be disastrous enough tothe United States, bat more calamitous to England, It would be a_ great misfortune to the world and to the cause of civilization, Therefore it was well to settle existing differences, though they were not likely to lead to immediaie war, in order to avoid the possibility of war hereafter and to bind in friendship these two mighty nations of the same blood and language, Hence we have said, “Let us have peace,” and have been willing to make some concessions to that end. This feeling or view of the matter has led the American people pretty generally to favor the treaty and to trust to the govern- ment in making it, while they know really very little about its provisions or the principles involved. But there is opposition to the treaty both in this country and England, as well as in the colonies. The opposition in England is po- litical, Disraeli, Earl Russell and others who have spoken against the treaty, from the un- authorized reports that reached them, were influenced by political and party motives. Those opposed to the Ministry make a point of attacking every measure and the policy of the men in power. The very measures assailed by the opposition would be proposed, per- haps, by the leaders of that party if they were in power. This is the system of political tactics in England. We pay little attention, therefore, to the opposition to the treaty by Disraeli, Russell or others in Parlia- ment. Then, the English must grumble at everything. However favorable a treaty may be to them the British must be critical and must show their national egotism, and this even when they desire and intend to accept it, In all international affairs or propositions British pretension stands out prominently, Yet, apart from the opposition to the Washing- ton Treaty by those opposed to the Gladstone government, the people of England, we believe, wish to see it ratified, Not that they understand much about it, perhaps; but they are aware that itis calculated to settle difficul- ties and to cement the friendship of the two countries, They, like a large portion of the American people, look favorably at it on this principle alone, without thinking much about the details, The press of England generally approves, also, of the treaty, partly for the vent fitting out or cquipping any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cause or carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace, and alao not to per- mit or suffer either of the belligerents to make use of its ports or waters as a base of opera- tions for the purpose of military supplies or arms or the recruitment of men. General Builer, in the letter referred to above, seems to comprehend the import of this compact. He shows that while it might be desirable that these rules should govern the arbitration in settling the Alabama claims—in what relates to the past, which the British wili not admit, except by courtesy—tho theory cannot be of advantage to this country in the futare. By the non-observance of these rules England rove our commerce from the seas; and now, having gained the advantages, she asks us to bind ourselves for the future, In any coming war, as General Butler says, we are to lose all advantage of building and selling ships to belligerents, England has fully enjoyed her opportunity, Then, in the event of the colo- nial possessions of European Powers in this hemisphere attempting to throw off their yoke and to become independent republics, will not the hands and sympathies of the American people be bound up? What equivalent do we obtain for this compact? May it not prove troublesome to us? Heretofore we have care- fully avoided making such a compact with European Powers, regarding our own policy and destiny better promoted without it. The treaty is, in every way, greatly in favor of England and British policy. If the English or the colonists are not content with what is much more advan- tageous to them than to us we can afford to wait for a settlement of the Alabama claims and all the other differences between the two nations till a future day. The time is not far off when we must take the American posses- sions of England and of other European Powers in this hemisphere, for that ts our destiny, and then we can balance the account of all outstanding difficulties, There will be no further difficulty then about the fisheries, the navigation of the St. Lawrence or boun- same reason and partly because it has the sagacity to see Great Britain will have the best of the bargain, The opposition to the treaty in this country is local to some extent, and is strongest among the fishermen of the Eastern States. General Butler's letter to Senator Ames, which we published yesterday, shows this. The General may be regarded as the month- piece of his constituency, the Gloucester fishermen, in this matter. He declares that the treaty, if ratified, will ruin the fishing interests of the East and destroy that fine nursery of our seamen and navy. There is, no doubt, some truth in what he says, though he pleads like a skilful lawyer for the special interests of his clients on this point. Strange to say, too, the colonial fishermen make use of the same argument against the treaty. They pretend that the New England fishermen, the very people whom General Butler says will be ruined, will have the lion’s share of advantages, and that they, the colonial fishermen, will be the sufferers, In fact, the opposition to the treaty is as strong on the part of the colonial fisher- men as with those of Massachusetts, This curious state of things shows that both want to drive a hard bargain and that it may be difficult to reconcile them to the treaty It must be remembered, too, that there is a re- markable feature in the treaty which calls for the ratification of that part of it relating to the colonies by the colonists or colonial gov- ernments, We suppose, however, that the imperial government.of Great Britain can, if it wishes, force the treaty upon the colonies, just as the government at Washington can overrule the opposition of the New England fishermen. The hostility to the treaty in the United States Senate seems to be rather feeble, and the probability is that it will be ratified. Most of the republican Senators are for it, because it is an administration measure, and because they hope the party may be strengthened by its ratification. Mr, Sumner opposes it, partly upon principle and partly because he was committed to a different course in settling our difficulties with England, Yet his opposition springs probably more from personal pride and an unfriendly feeling toward the administration than from anything else, It is said the demo- cratic Senators also oppose the treaty; but this may be a political movement, chiefly to prevent, if possible, the administration getting the credit, if any credit there be, of making such a settlement with England, The govern- ment has made a mistake in not making the treaty public in time, so as to get at the senti- ments of the people, If it should not prove to be what those who made it and the admin- istration claim for it the impression will pre- vail that the government has hurried it through and taken a sort of snap judgment over public opinion, The feature of the treaty which has been less discussed than any other is, undoubtedly, the most important one in it. We refer to the rule laid down as the basis of the whole and as the fundamental condition to the settlement of the Alabama claims, The rule is:— “That a neutral is responsible for depreda- tions committed on a friendly Power by a ves- sel fitted out and manned at a neutral port.” Then, again, the rule says that a neutral gov- ernment ig bound to use due diligence to pre- ————<<X dary lines. The people of this Continent, from one end to the other, will have a common interest and a common government. There is no necessity for us to be so desirous of making the treaty, and, looking to the future, perhaps we should do better without it. We tell, therefore, the British statesmen and the obstreperous colonists who oppose the treaty that we are conscious of getting the worst of the bargain, and that we can very well afford to wait for a settlement till a more convenient season to ourselves, The Final Struggles of the Communo in the Streets of Paris. The insurrection is at an end; the power of the government is supreme within the walls of Paris, The troops of the Commune, defeated at every point, have been compelled to suc- cumb to the strength of MacMahon’s army, composed of the old and tried soldiers of France, Even their stronghold has boen wrested from their grasp, the tricolor now flying over the fortifications of Montmartre, where they made their last and most desperate stand, The fighting in Paris, although very severe, was not of the desperate character we were led to expect, judging from the deter- mined manner in which the insurgents had defended other points, The barricades did not, apparently, offer any very great resist- ance to the onward march of the government forces after they were once fairly established within the enceinte. The Nationals did not hold those positions with the determination we thought they would. They were, no doubt, discouraged when they found the tide of war setting so strongly against them. They were probably desirous of getting out of harm’s way and appearing as friends rather than the ene- mies of the government when the assault was made. Still there has been some hard fighting. A few have resisted stubbornly, but their efforts were of no avail, They were borne down by the masses of troops hurled against them, and they only furnished food for the bayonets of the exasperated soldiers, who did not listen to the cry for quarter, and who were in no mood to grant much mercy. The massacres in some places, in consequence of this foolish resistance, have heen terrible, as we thought they would be, and the streets of Paris yesterday must have presented a har- rowing sight to those Frenchmen who have their country’s best interests at heart. We are rejoiced that the insurrection is over; that, great as the loss of life and destruc- tion of property has been, it is no greater, It might have been far worse, and the city might have been almost destroyed had those miscreants persisted in carrying out the plans of their leaders, For the latter we have not one word to say. No punishment meted out to them can be too severe. They should be turned over to the army; their fate should be decided by the French soldiers, Mercy to them would be misplaced, and we are satisfied that clemency shown them would be mistaken kindness, Now that the war is virtually over and peace reigns once more, we hope soon to see every vestige of the past wiped out, order completely restored and France once more happy and prosperous. Fight of the Factions the Cortes. We print this morning a cable despatch to the effect that the session of the Cortes on Tues- day had been exceedingly stormy. The radi- cals presented a resolution for the establish- ment of a republic; and the Carlists, taking encouragement from the bold example of the republicans, submitted a motion declaring void the election of King Amadeus and proclaiming Don Carlos by right King of Spain. We do not make much of this little storm, A repub- lic in Spain or Italy has been made impossible for some generations to come—thanks or the opposite to the Paris Commune, Divine right, on the other hand, has few followers, even in Spain; and Don Carlos, King by the grace of God, has but p small chance, Except in Fratce Sruets they Swing round the circle), revolutions do not go backward, King Ama- deus and his young Queen are, as we think, doing very well in most difficult circumstances, Liberty of speech is so much of a novelty in Spain that we must not be surprised if there is once and again @ little extravagance, The Deputies of the Cortes will soon cease to be intoxicated with the music of their own voices and then they will get recouciled to reasonable liberty, in Spanish Upeutug of the Yachting Season—Our Plea- eure Fleets Under Weigh. It is only a few years since yachting in our waters was a fair woather pastime. The fleet then restricted its cruises to the placid waters of the Sound, and confined its races to the lightship off Sandy Hook and return, Now, however, the programme has changed; our pleasure vessels go everywhere. <A gale of wind and a beavy sea have no terrors for them, and our yachtsmen venture across the briny deep with all the boldness of veteran mariners—as witness the Enchantress, now in European waters, after a stormy voyage across the Atlantic; the Josephine, just returned from her West India trip, and the Wanderer, now on an ocean cruise to the southward. The yacht racing season of the present time is looked forward to with as much excitement as any popular amusement can create. A great interest in it has grown up among all classes, and the time is not far distant when a great yacht race will command as much at- tention among our own people as a similar occurrence does among the people of England. We are destined to have our marine Derby days, when all will flock to see the races and to welcome home the winners. Every clique will have its favorite, whose merits and demerits will be fully discussed. Tar and rope yaras will become the favorite topic; anchors and sails will be fully discussed ; length and breadth of beam will be in every one’s mouth. In fact, the races afloat will be as popular during their season as races ashore, and the regatta course will be as well and as fashionably attended as the course at Jerome Park and other places of similar character. The excitement that attended last year's yacht- ing season bids fair to be equalled this year. There are many new vessels to be tried for the first time, and no oxpense or trouble is being spared to make them put their best foot fore- most in the hope of gaining a reputation for great speed and weatherly qualities, We shall probably have some foreign yachis among us, which will come in the hope of car- rying off some of the prizes that will be offered to the yachts of all nations, without excepting any, and this will serve to enhance the interest that all will feel in the success of our own vessels, In former years our yachts made but one short cruise together; this year the case will be different, Besides the regular squadron cruise of the New York Yacht Club, an invi- tation has been accepted to take part in the regatta that is to come off on the 4th of July at Cape May. This will afford another inter- esting cruise in squadron and at sea, wherein our magnificeat fleet will show to great advan- tage. Again, when the Russian Grand Duke Alexis arrives he will be received by our yachts in squadron, and the attention thus shown him by our flect of pleasure vessels will be, doubtless, as fully appreciated as if the same consisted of national ships. The latter would be government formality, while the former will indicate a hearly welcome on the part of the people, which will be, no doubt, very grailfying to him, The prizes that are to be sailed for this season are numerous, In addition to the regular prize given by the club there will be eight or ten cups offered from other sources, all of which will be most eagerly sought after by our yachtsmen, Consequently we may expect a race that will be scarcely inferior, in the number of yachts entered and the interest it will create, to that of last season for the Queen’s Cup. The yacht- ing season, as now adopted by the New York Yacht Club—viz., from the 1st of May until the Ist of December—affords ample opportu- nity for the most enthusiastic, and gives all foreign yacht clubs an opening for sending a challenge in time to have it accepted and the race to come off within the yachting period. Seven months is long enough for the home season, beginning, as it does, on the 1st of May and ending with the first month of win- ter, when yachts not going abroad are com- pelled to be laid up. All the good and all the bad weather necessary can be had in that time, and no one will care, unless bound to a warmer clime, to continue in commission longer than the allotted period. The probabilities are that during the present season the cruising ground of the yacht fleet may be more extended than heretofore. As far south as the capes of the Chesapeake or even further may be the southern limit, while to the northward and eastward of Bos- ton Bay will not be too far for the seagoing vessels. The more our yachts are exhibited the better it will be for the yachting interesis, and the more the yacht squadron is carried into our home ports the more excitement will be created, Crowds will flock to see them; they will be visited by those who only know what a yacht is by hearsay; andin this way the season will be passed not only pleasantly, but profitably for all concerned, Yachtsmen are sure of a hearty welcome wherever they go, and we have no doubt that the annual visit of our yacht squadrons will be looked forward to as the event of the year at many of those ports whereat they have heretofore been strangers, Already the dif- ferent yachts are being fully prepared for the coming season. Their while sails are to be seen in every direction, and it is very evident that none will be behindhand in getting ready for the opening regatias that are announced for the coming month. Not only in New York harbor, but in other ports the yachting spirit is all alive, and the numerous vessels that will be in commission before the month is ended will be hard to excel in any point that constitutes a first class yacht, Could they all be collected together we have no hesitation in asserting that the world could not produce a superior fleet, either in speed or perfection of equipment, The yachting season is des- tined to be inaugurated with great éclat, ina manner worthy of our country and its en- thusiastic yachtsmen, Awnp Now tHe Canat Boatmen.—Will we never get through all the ramifications of the goal troubles? Everything seems to have been harmoniously arranged between the original strikers and their employers, even the railroad corporations seem to have been satis- fied with their gorging and gouging, and the general public of New York are beginning to feel complacent over the probabilities of cheap coal and bright firesides next winter, when here come the canal boatmen rebelling against the starvation prices offered for coal freight- age, and threatening a strike of their own that will further retard coal operations, “The Cry te, Still They Come”—Another Presidential Candidate—Robert B. Roose. volt in the Field. The political world has been electrified by the announcement that another candidate has wriggled himself before the public, like an electric ecl, for the unmatchable honor of being a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, Before his name those of Gen- eral Sherman, General Grant, Peter B. Sweeny, Governor Hoffman, Hendricks, B. Wright, Senator Trumbull, Fernando Wood, Judge David Davis, General Hancock, Smiler Colfax, John Quincy Adams, Gratz Brown, Frank Blair, Clement L. Vallandigham, Judge Thurman, Garret Davis, Charles Sumner, Hamilton Fish—ay, even Fish!—pale into the mackerel-moonlight of insignificance! That name is . ROBERT B, ROOSEVELT, OF NEW YORK. Before proceeding to dilate upon the claims of Mr. Roosevelt for the honor proposed to be conferred upon him, we beg leave to present to our readers the following copy of a corre- spondence which has recently taken place between that gentleman and a number of his admirers, premising that the movement origi- nated in no less an important political centre than Cincinnati :—. PRESIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE, Hon. Ronert B, RooskvELT:— Dear Sin—Before proceeding further in a politi- cal movement in which you are interested, we desire to know from you personally whether, ti we nomi- nated you tor the Presidency, you would feel com- pelled to decline the nomination? With great re- Bpect, KC, JOHN SMITG, oe er iS, 0B ROBINSON, And several other independent citizens, To Messrs. JOHN SMITH, TOM JONES, BoD ROBINSON and several other tadependent ¢itizens:— GENTLEMEN—The question that you have asked me isan exceedingly dificult one to answer. No poli- tician, without, extreme pain to his feelings, ever declines any ofiice that is better than the one he has already secured; but of late there has grown up a habit of exhiviting coyness about accepting nomt- nations, which 1s very impressive if it Is not carried too far, After considering my own case carefully, I think I may safely say that if you are sure of nomi- nating me over again, or insisting upon the with- drawal of my refusal to serve, I am ready to cecline. But if there is any doubt about that result, 1 should prefer not to refuse a chance which may never pre- sent itself again. The good sense and practical force of these Views must strike you at once, and you may conform your action to them. Tam, with great respect, &c., ROBERT B, ROOSEVELT, Now, Mr. Roosevelt need not attempt to blind the public by any ambiguity of expres- sion like that contained in the concluding por- tion of his letter, which can be interpreted, no matter how Machiavelli might have twisted it, clearly into a downright acceptance of the proposed distinction, His modesty may impel him to say, as he does, that he declines the nomination, but, with Talleyrand-like adroit- ness, he couples that declension with the as- surance that he would acceptif renominated— or, in fact, he would not decline at all if he thought his declension would be accepted. Like Ensign Stebbins, of Massachusetts, who was “‘in favor of the Maine Liquor law, but was opposed to its enforcement,” Mr. Roose- velt says he is in favor of declining, but is op- posed to his declension being accepted. We take it, then, for granted that Mr, Roosevelt scorns to say, with Horatio Seymour, ‘Gentlemen, I appreciate your kind opinion of me, but your candidate I can never be,” and then accepting the nomination, with an appeal ‘‘so child-like and bland” to honest old Peter Harvey to “‘pity him’—we say we take it that Mr. Roosevelt accepts the nomina- tion and means to stand by it, as Daniel Web- ster would say, ‘‘hook and line, bob and sinker.” Mr. Roosevelt will prove a strong candi- date, He possesses every element of success, Born of highly respectable Knickerbocker parents, he will be sure to carry the native ag well as the German legions, and there are O’0's enouzh in his name to constitute him a descendant of the O’Neils, O’Doughertys, O'Tweeds, O’Sweenys, O'Halls, O’Connollys, O’Brennana, O'Fields, O'Wileys, O’Briens and all the rest of the O’ kind, including even O’Tammany. He _ will carry the female suffragists because of his manly beauty and cordial devotion to the sex, however bounded or hooped in, He will carry all the female benevolent societies, especially the foundling hospitals, for he was ever fond of fondling foundlings; and, although a man of means, was never guilty of meanness when called upon to assist worthy objects of charity, He knows all about our foreign relations, having visited Paris and dined with the Joint High Commission in Washington. He knows all about home legis- lation, being now a member of Congress, hav- ing been elected from one of the most intelli- gent districts in the city of New York—a district in which temples of learning are to be found at every corner and many other places— temples in which the young and old idea is learned how to shoot—temples that are “‘open all night,” unless gaslight is made to shine through the bodies of some of the devotees before ‘‘daylight doth appear.” A good citi- zen, he makes use of a Citizen to aid virtue, reprove wickedness and support the game laws, Although no “rounder” he has devoted many a night to a Round Zable, as many a knight has been devoted to his dinner table. On the fishery question he beats Ben Butler allhollow! He goes for a violator of the fishery lawsas a hungry pike would for a young trout, He is the great promulgator of the home fisheries, As a member of the Joint High Fish Commission of the State of New York ‘he has supplied the depleted ponds of the State with the spawn of the best specimens of the finny tribe to be found in the world, and they have all fructified, increased and multiplied, until now there are millions upon millions of salmon, shad, trout, black bass, perch, cat- fish, pickerel, pike, whitefish, blackfish, blue- fish, porgies, Yarmouth bloaters, Canso gut- ters, chub, lamper eels, flounders, gapheads and squizzledunks where not one of the scaly tribe has been caught for years, In short, he is the embodiment of the twelfth signin the zodiac of one of our great local institutions— the interior fisheries—Pisces! Therefore, when elected President, he would, in making up his Cabinet, know how to select the sound fish from the unsound, Moreover, he is equally at home with the fowling piece and rifle as he is with the rod and line, Many a poor devil who has defied the law and killed game out of season has quailed when he found himself in the network of the law at the Instance of Mr. Roosevelt. Many a lordly buck has moaned a last adieu to his forest home at the crack of Mr. Roose- velt’s rifle, And many a swift-winged wild duck has “spread all canvas,” like a flying ocean racing yacht, to.aygld the ‘acattering votes” from Mr. Roosevelt’s unerring fowling piece. Hence, from Lake Momphremagog to the Adirondacks, from the Adirondacks to the affluents of the broad Chesapeake, from the broad Chesapeake to the sunny Suwanee, from the sunny Suwanee to the dark-flowing Walla-Walla—in the forests and upon the lakes, on rivers and on the rivulets, on crecks and on creeklets, on ponds and on pondlets, in cities and in citylets, in towas and in town- lets—yes, even in hams and in hamlets—wou!ld the name of ROBERT B, ROOSEVELT resound with universal acclaim when once fairly before the people for the Presidency, In conclusion, Bob, when you go salmon- fishing or trout-fishing the coming season, Bob, remember the Presidency, -Bob, and fight it out, Bob, on that line, Bob, if it takes allsummer, Bob! Bob! and Fraice—MucMahon Master of the Situation. Marshal MacMahon, made Duke of Magenta by Napoleon the Third, in recognition of his skill and bravery in the great battle of Magenta, in the Austro-Itahan war of 1859, and who bas ever since been a great favorite of Napoleon, is now master of the situation in Paris and France, No wonder the imperial exiles at Chiselhurst are hopeful of a recall— and an early recall—io France. The intimate relations established between the ex-Emperor and the Marshal from the declaration of the war against Prussia to the capitulation at Sedan, together with all the subsequent events in France, it may reasonably be supposed, have not materially weakened the devotion of MacMahon to the empire or the faith of Napo- leon in his great soldier. On the 17th of July, 1870, the format declaration of war was sent by the French Imperial government to Berlin, and on the 26d of July the Emperor Napoleon, in bis proclamation, said:—*‘There are ‘certain moments in the life of peoples when the national honor, violently excited, imposes itself with irresistible force, dominates all interests and alone takes in hand the direction of the destinies of the country,” and that “one of these hours has now arrived for Paris France.” In other words, Napoleon wished it to be understood from the outset that he was driven into this war by the will of the French people; and it is at least true that the French people shouted him into it and urged bim to bis ruin and their own. On the 28ih of July he took the field, and on the 31st King William left Berlin for the front. At this time the army of Napoleon, of 300,000 fighting men, was dis- posed in a semi-circle from the strong fortress of Metz, on the left (the army fronting the Rhine), around to the strong fortress of Stras- bourg, on the extreme right and close upon the sacred German river. Marshal MacMahon, with fifty thousand of the finest and best equipped soldiers of the line, held Strasbourg. To him was entrusted the important duty of heading the advance over the Rhine. The other French columns, extending back to Metz, were to keep the field clear in that direction, and were then to follow him. The necessary pontoons awaiting him for crossing the river, MacMahon, on the 2d of August, marched out of Stras- bourg, with his fifty thousand men, to open a passage to the Rhine and to cross it; but on the 6th of August, in the disastrous battle of Woerth, the whole face and plan of the cam- paign on the part of the French was changed ; their whole line was broken up, and its shat. tered columns were turned right about face for Paris, and next day Paris was declared in state of siege. MacMahon, escaping from the Prussian pure suit with some fragments of his army across the Moselle, pushed on to Chalons to reorgan- ize and reinforce for another trial, while the rest of the ‘‘Army of the Rhine” concen- trated above Metz, under Bazaine, With the crossing of the Moselle, after a sharp fight, bythe main body of the German army, Napoleon and the Prince Imperial sought safety, and none too soon, by falling back from Metz to MacMahon at Chalons. Then, after the bloody battle of Graveloite and the shutting up of Bazaine in Metz, and with the advance of the Prussian Crown Priace toward Chalons, MacMahon and the Emperor retreated, and so on, from point to point, with the approach of the Germans, to Mczitres and to Sedan. We know what happened at Sedan; but had not MacMahon been disabled in that battle it is possible that he might have saved the Emperor from capture and Paris from the revolution which followed. Thus intimately associated with Napoleon from the beginning to the end of his struggle with the German armies, it is difficult to believe that MacMahon, from his present posi- tion as the master of the French situation, is not thinking of the ways and means for the restoration of his Emperor or his Prince Impe- rial, The atrocities of the Paris Commune, on the other hand, including the destruction of the Vendéme columa, have prepared even Paris for the imperial restoration, We hardly expect, however, a coup d'état from Mac- Mahon in favor of the empire, or an immedi- ate movement in this direction by M. Thiers and the Assembly. They have firat to restore’ order in Paris, and next to look about them to see how the popular wind of France is blow- ing; and, meantime, MacMahon, a loyal sol- dier, will probably await the shaping of events, At all events, he is the General Monk of the situation, George Ticknor Curt! and the Albasy and Susquchanna Railroad War. Mr. George Ticknor Curtis’ pamphlet on the Albany and Susquehanna litigations—a résumé of which will be found in another column— will doubtless attract considerable notice, not only from the members of the bar, but from hundreds of people who, ever since the strug- gle began, have been completely befogged as to the real merits and demerits of the railroad wars which followed so closely upon the heels of the first skirmish between the opposing parties, The pamphlet has this merit about it, that it has been written in a spirit of fair- ness to all the parties concerned in the various suits which have from time to time bothered judges and lawyers nearly to death, The author contends that his acquaintance with the litigations when they were carried on amounted to absolute ignorance, He had, therefore, to ‘‘study up,” as it were, all the faota pbout them before venturing ta give his