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FOREST AND STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Devotkd to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 

 Fish Culture, the Protection of Game, Preservation of Forests, 

 and the Inculcation in Men and Women of a Healthy Interest 

 in Out-Door Recreation and Study : 



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To Correspondents. 



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 CHARLES DAIXOCK, Editor. 



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Business Manager. Western Manager. 



— We have had the pleasure of a call from Mr. Rutherford 

 Stuyvesant, of this city, who has just returned from a success- 

 ful hunting and fishing trip to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick 

 and Newfoundland. Lie brings with him, amoDg other 

 trophies, a pair of moose's antlers, remarkable for their sym- 

 metry, and a caribou's horns covered with velvet. 

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In our next number we will publish an exceedingly interest- 

 ing paper sent us from the Department of the Interior (U. S. 

 Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories) on the 

 old Inhabitations of a lost Race, which are found to-day in 

 New Mexico and Arizona. 



— Captain A, H. Markham, the second in command under 

 Sir George Nares, was lately in St. Louis. For distinguished 

 services during the late polar expedition, Captain Markham 

 was the recipient of the Royal Geographical Society's gold 

 medal. The gallant captain is still a youngman, of fine bearing 

 and physique, and is undoubtedly possessed of untold pluck. 

 The captain was en route for Fort Sill. We are very sure 

 that our numerous army friends in the Indian Territory will 

 gladly welcome Captain Markham. 



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— Dr. T. C. Ryan has opened his new Russian Baths at No. 

 18 La Fayette Place, this city. This treatment is growing in' 

 public favor, and Dr. Ryan's establishment is a model. 



Tins Woodruff Expedition.— The vessel which had been 

 chartered for this tour proving unfit for the purpose, tho mana- 

 gers have contracted with the famous ship builder, JohnRoach, 

 for a new iron ship. The steamship is to be 325 ft. by 40 ft,, 

 and being built expressly for the expedition, Mill be fitted up 

 with every convenience, and will be especially adapted to 

 cruising in tropical waters. The change necessitates a further 

 delay, and the departure has been defetTed till next May. The 

 party will proceed to England ; then will cruise the Baltic Sea, 

 returning to Paris for the Exposition. Thence they go to the 

 Mediterranean and the Nile, and after that the course will be 

 reversal of the one originally projected. 



SHALL THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSO- 

 CIATION ABDICATE? 



IN the early history of the National Rifle Association, the 

 Army and Navy Journal assumed to bo its organ, from 

 the fact that its most worthy editor was the first President ; 

 and the interest he took in the welfare of what was for some 

 years a novel project, made his excellent journal an authority. 

 These exertions, made to place the N. R. A. on a firm basis, 

 must always be recognized, and the association clearly showed 

 their appreciation of Colonel Church's distinguished services 

 by appointing him an honorary director for life, an honor 

 Avhich has hever been conferred on any one else. 



It does seem, however, as if the Army and Navy Journal 

 has lost some of its interest in the N. R. A. for it certainly 

 has permitted some of its contemporaries to surpass it in re- 

 gard to information on rifle matters. 



In the issue of October 27, the Army and Maty Journal 

 has made a terrible struggle to come to the front, in relation 

 to the much discussed International Rifle Match, but it is 

 somewhat to be feared that in making this unusual exertion 

 it has entirely overleapt the subject. The Army and Navy 

 Journal indulges in a tirade of quite questionable taste, direct- 

 ed against the officers of the N. R. A., for having, in addition 

 to declining to alter the terms of the Centennial Trophy Match, 

 passed a resolution, stating that in their judgment, " it was 

 inexpedient to start another International Match." Such con- 

 duct the Army and Navy Journal considers so reprehensible 

 that it urges " the abdication " of the powers that be, and the 

 immediate organization of a Representative National Associa- 

 tion. In fact, an appeal is made to the rifle shooting public 

 to get up some kind of a substitute association, empowered 

 for the time being to shoot some particular nondescript match 

 or other. This shows what is called the heroic treatment. 

 Admitting, which we by no means do, that the N. R. A. 

 would err in coming to this conclusion, it seems to us some- 

 what extraordinary that a paper which has plumed itself on 

 being the founder of the N. R. A., should even for a slight 

 difference of opinion lie desirous of destroying a flourishing 

 institution, root and branch — one in fact which the whole 

 country looks at to-day with pride. 



But unfortunately for our respectable contemporary, to use 

 an expression which its military proclivities will no doubt 

 fully understand, it has gone off at half-cock. In point of 

 fact, the final resolution which the Army and A airy Journal 

 thinks so fatal, which has excited its ire, was never paused at 

 all ! The record of the Association will show that this offend- 

 ing resolution was tabled, and now peacefully slumbers. As 

 the course of the A rmy and Navy Journal has made an item 

 of new T s of an action which did not take place, we publish the 

 so-called resolution in our- rifle column. Some curiosity has 

 been expressed by the members of the N. R. A. to learn what 

 must be done under the circumstances, as they may lie lifely 

 to be left out in the cold. We can assure such timid persons 

 that no instance or precedent is known of an association being 

 destroyed by a resolution, which is not a resolution. The 

 writer of the article in the Army and Navy Journal may be 

 compared, then, to Samson pulling down thecolumns of the 

 temple, because the Philistines annoyed him, only that in the 

 present case there is no grievance, and not much of a Samson 



either. 



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THE WHOLESALE POACHERS ON THE 



SACRAMENTO. 



SOME comments have been directed toward this Journal 

 growing out of an article published in our last issue, in 

 which we spoke, in quite plain terms, about the California 

 salmon interest, and how the law was utterly disregarded on 

 the Sacramento River. Newspaper notoriety, of a peculiar 

 kind, is by no means desirable, and w r e are sometimes chary 

 of giving publicity to the names of individuals supposed to be 

 engaged in breaking the laws. With us, liearsaj-s have been 

 paid no attention to, as w T e have always required absolute proof 

 before we have been willing to exercise even the disagreeable 

 power of casting odium on law-breakers. We congratulate 

 ourselves on the caution we have exercised. If we have made 

 any mistakes by accusing persons wrongfully of breaking the 

 laws applicable to game or fish, we have yet to hear of such 

 errors on our part. 



In the case of Messrs. Emerson, Corville & Co., of Collins- 

 ville, there can be no mistake. These canners have rented 

 Mr. Booth's former establishment on the Sacramento, and up 

 to the first of August, put up something like 10,000 cases of 

 salmon. Then they pretended to close up their establishment, 

 in order to engage in the innocent pursuit of fruit and vege- 

 table canning. This was nothing more than an ingenious 

 blind. The fishermen in the river, for the most pact, are 

 Greeks and' Italians, who are quite as indifferent to the laws 

 as certainly are Messrs. Emerson, Corville & Co. The usual 

 price paid these fishermen was twenty-live cents for a salmon 

 of sixteen pounds, then this price was increased. On the first 

 of August it was intimated to the fishermen, in a solemn kind 

 of a way (perhaps with a wink) that, "St was against the law 

 to catch salmon now— but that if they did happen t o find any 

 very prime salmon in their nets, that may be thirty cents 

 would not be out of the way for 'em." Of course the Greeks 

 and the Italians found, after this warning, no end of salmon iu 

 their nets, and there is no doubt but that from 1,600 to 2,000 

 salmon were caught every day for a mouth or more, as the 

 cannery was running night and day (not on fruit or vegeta- 

 bles) through the close season of this year. Of course, how 



many cases of salmon Messrs. Emerson, Corville & Co. pu 

 up in the close season will never be known. Another little 

 invention used by these people to account for the presence of 

 forty-four white men and as many Chinese tit their works 

 was, that all hands were busy in the manufacture of cans for 

 the season of 78. 



Now, the nearest place of note to Collinsville, is Antioch. The 

 Fish Commissioners of the State, who are supposed to be 

 gifted at least with common sense, to use the Biblical term 

 "sped to Antioch, seeking for justice." But little of that 

 rare commodity did they find in Antioch. AH civil and legisla- 

 tive functions seemed to have been concentrated in one gifted 

 individual there, who combined the varied occupations of 

 Store Keeper, Justice of the Peace, Wharfinger, Postmaster, 

 Express Agent and Telegraphic Operator. Besides these few 

 callings, this person has a keen eye to business. It was the 

 Justice of the Peace who traded with the fishermen. Messrs, 

 Emerson, Corville & Co. gave orders on the postmaster and 

 there was a general dickering all around. Of course, then, this 

 much-employed custodian of the peace and administrative and 

 executive head of the laws could see nothing in the whole mat- 

 ter, and so far the California Fish Commissioners went on then- 

 ways out of Antioch, saying: "Lo! there is no justice iu the 

 land!" 



Now, it is bad enough at any time, or under any circum- 

 stances, to break the laws, but, to use an English expression, 

 there is something peculiarly "cheeky" in the action of tho 

 firm we have, unfortunately, to do with. Exactly at the head 

 of this river is the precise place where the eggs of the salmon 

 have been collected for general distribution all over the coun- 

 try, and where, for the erection of the salmon works, a very large 

 amount of money has been spent. There is not a river in the 

 whole Union, East or West, North or South, where greater 

 injury could be done to the fishery interests of the country. 



We are glad to learn that the leading San Francisco papers 

 have taken this matter in hand, and we trust that the good 

 sense of the Californians will be on the side of the Fish Com- 

 missioners of the State. As much as anything else, it is to 

 the labors of these very Commissioners that the Sacramento 

 River is fruitful with fish once more ; and it seems worse than 

 absurd, that the very river which shows the best results from 

 their care should be exactly the stream where law-breaker,, 

 should have the power to inflict the greatest injury. 



The Forest and Stream: never enters into political, topics, 

 aud though we have been assured that somewhat of flema- 

 gogueism has been allowed to enter into this topic, as far as 

 relates to an opposition to the Fish Commissioners, we can 

 hardly credit that the intelligence of the Pacific State 

 can ever be on the side of those who willfully shape their con- 

 duct in opposition to the geuoral welfare' of the community. 



AN APOLOGY TO A TRUE POET. 



IN an issue of this paper of August 9th, we regret to slate 

 that an injustice was done to the most distinguished of our 

 American poets, John G. Whittier. A poem entitled, " The 

 Cry of a Lost Soul," was published by us as "Translated 

 from the Portuguese for Foeest axd Stream." Struck at once 

 by the elegance of the language and the beauty of (he lines, 

 the poem found a ready place in our columns. Quite properly 

 Mr. Whittier's attention was directed toward the poem, of 

 which he is the author ; and he has written us a letter which 

 we cheerfully publish. We are only glad to make the amende 

 honorable, and to frankly allow that we were imposed upon. 

 There is something even ludicrous at times, when such plagia- 

 risms are laid bare, for instead of " The Cry of a Lost Soul" 

 having been translated from the Portuguese originally into 

 English, the verses were written first by Mr. Whittier, and 

 were then rendered into Portuguese by His Majesty Dom 

 Pedro, Emperor of Brazil. In fact, no more graceful compli- 

 ment cotdd have been paid to the gentlest and sweetest of our 

 poets : 

 To the Editor of Fokest and Stkea^i : 



My attention lias been called to a poem in thy paper purporting to be a 

 translation from the Portuguese, awl to have been written by the Em- 

 peror of Brazil. A note appended to it places me under the charge of 

 plagiarism aud of falsely claiming the poem as mine. 



The poem is mine, and was translated into the Portuguese tongue by 

 the Emperor Dom Pedro, together with other pieces of rny own and of 



Longfellow. I have by me a copy of the translation forwait led t 



the Emperor, in his own handwriting. Be Kind enough to set the mat- 

 ter right, and relieve me from a charge I never expected to be brought 

 against me. Thy friend, John C4. Whittier. 



Amasbury, Kith Mo., 28, 16T7. 



P. S.— If I remember rightly the pretended translation was an exaci 

 copy of my poem, word for word. 



HIGH PRICES OF SPORTING GOODS. 



THE cost of nea.ily every material or implement used by 

 sportsmen is much too high, and out of all proportion 

 with most articles that enter into ordinary use or daily con- 

 sumption. It amounts to a prohibitive tariff to persons of 

 moderate means, and actually discourages thousands from en- 

 gaging in sports of the field and the stream, whose tastes lead 

 directly thereto, and whose desires being thus nipped arc per- 

 haps crushed out forever. In fishing rods, reels and tax 

 the prices are generally beyond all reason, and the same may 

 be said of other branches of trade that cater to the lovers of 

 out-of-door sports. 



The old proverb of "penny wise and pound foolish " never 

 applied more direct ly. It would ssem that cupidity argues 

 that it will be belter to take dollars from the few than dimes 

 from the many. But prohibitory or exacting ratea for 



