forest and stream. 
strengthened by tli* fact that four cf thcae bills proscribe the rules for 
tlshing iu Oneida Lnltc oneh In n manner different from tho other, so that 
if they were nil signed the gentle llsherman would have to Inquire which 
was signed hist in order to ascertain by what rule to govern his couduct."’ 
The above is about as plain a statement of facts as could 
be desired, to show why existing laws are ineffective, not 
only in Ibis State but in others, and why supplementary 
enactments, no mater liow wholesome, must simply in- 
crease confusion, and thereby insure impunity to offenders. 
What is needed, and this the Governor fully appreciates, 
is a total abrogation of the existing jumble of imperfect 
and inoperative laws, a wiping oil of the statutory slate, 
and a commencement dc novo. To substitute an intelligent 
and practicable code of laws that shall satisfy the necessi- 
ties of the whole country, nnd secure their adoption by the 
several Slates, is the aim and purpose of the two power- 
ful organizations known as the “National Sportsmen’s As- 
sociation,” and the “International Association for Protect- 
ing Game and Pish. Both are seeking the same object in 
dilferent ways. The first operates through State sports- 
men's associations, clubs, and local organizations, and its 
membership is made up of delegates appointed to its an- 
nuul conventions by the State Associations, five from each 
State; and each State association in turn obtains its com- 
position from delegates chosen by tho local clubs The 
great majority of the members so chosen to the National 
conventions have no knowledge of natural history, save 
that acquired in the sportsman’s field of practice, and’ have 
no attainments ns professional scientists. They cannot 
therefore be regarded as qualified to undertake the con- 
struction of a code of game laws, such os we want, creeled 
upon a scientific basis. A committee of seven competent 
men have, however, been selected from that body to de- 
termine species; Ac., and upon this basis draft the code of 
game laws which it is fondly hoped will fill the bill. Still 
noue of these gentlemen are scientists, we believe, in the 
strict acceptation of ihe word, and even were they, their 
number is too small to thoroughly cover a country of such 
vast extent, varied climate, and numerous specie;, as our 
own. The most we can hope from their investigations is 
a valuable contribution to the general fund of information 
Whicli is needed to enable us to reach the result desired, 
'lo supply what may be lacking in the aggregation was the 
purpose that called the International Association into 
being— twfcr-nationa), because the harmonious co-opera- 
tion of Canada, with her homogeneous elements, was in- 
dispensable. The greater portion of the members of this 
body were selected for their scientific attainments as 
naturalists. The committees to be obtained from their 
number will be resident representatives of every locality 
in the United States and Canada, and sufficiently large to 
cover each geographical belt to be investigated, from the 
Atlantic lo the Pacific. The best single' naturalist could 
not do this in a lifetime. 
The “International,” is in no sense a sportsman’s asso- 
ciation; it lias no relation whatever to any club or associa- 
tion; it comprises individual memberships only; its func- 
tions are us indicated above, and its operations are finite. 
Its woik may be said lo cease where that of the “National 
Sportsmen’s Association" really begins. When the desired 
laws are created the International dissolves, but it will be 
the business of (lie National, with its central power, and 
through all its club ramificutions to exert a moral and 
physical influence that shall be felt. The “International" 
is, in a word, purely an advisory body, laboring to enlist 
and use the most competent and potential agents to the 
desired end. It is in perfect harmony with every associa- 
tion that seeks tho protection of game, and in conflict 
with none. It has no ambitiou except to enlist the best 
talent in the country, from every section, and employ it in 
such a way that all coufusion of species and confusion of 
laws shall be swept off. It constitutes but one division of 
the Grand Army of Protection, of which the National As- 
sociation is a potential part. It fully recognizes the valua- 
ble efforts that have been made, and are being made by 
that body, and iu its desire to assist, did offer at its May 
meeting, held at the Cooper Institute iu New York, a reso- 
lutiou inviting a conference between its committees and 
those of the National Sportsmen’s Association, appointed 
by the Convention at Cleveland. It is to be regretted that 
the executive committee of the body last named decided 
it to be “inexpedient” to accept the overture. By what 
method of reasoning they arrived at this conclusion it would 
seem difficult to determine. Certainly, it could hardly 
presume to treat cavalierly, or to deliberately reject the co- 
operation of the gentlemen who are at the heads of our 
scientific public institutions and the government expedi- 
tions, and who constitute in large part the membership of 
the International Association for the Protection of Game. 
It is charitable to assume that they misapprehended the 
functions, offices, and purposes of the organization. The 
inference is sustained by the publication of the following 
paragraph in a paper of such established character and 
honorable dealing as the Turf, Field and Farm, from which 
We clip it; — 
“A Black Eye. — The International Sportsmen’s Asso- 
ciation failed to get tho life infused into it at the National 
Sportsmen's meeting that its projector anticipated for it. 
«>it, on the contrary, got a terrible black eye. All it 
needs now is Col. Mucurty’s “big hunt” brass baud to 
Play tho funeiul dirge while it is being interred.” 
This is in ullusion to tho cold shoulder given to the reso- 
lution referred to above. Tho writer evidently wrote in 
ignorance, jealousy, or rank prejudice. We ure fain to be- 
lieve that our contemporary admitted it inadvertently. 
Regarded in the light of the facts as we have attempted to 
give them, it is souseless and puerile. It would have 
Passed unheeded by us, had we not been urged to define 
SoEr's •%£ ,k -. obj “' * 
for g a ?,i 1 18dom wl,ich otlier men are delving 
^ . P otection is adopted it may be Derfcot in iu 
We y t,H T, dUP ° n truthfuI nnd scientific principles 
I , 2r mt lh08C Wb ° C0 ">P-hend the true InSSt 
noZ7CL7fZZT lbC rC8U,tS ° f aC,i0 “ 
THE AMERICAN TEAM AT WIMBLE- 
DON. 
HERE unfortunately appears to he some hitch in the 
anticipated arrangements by which the American 
riflemen are to contend for the Elcho Shield at Wimble- 
don. Mr. Henry Parsons, Adjutant of the English eight 
writing to Colonel Gildersleeve, says: “The council is not 
willing to admit another team to shoot with our three 
eights in the Elcho Shield match, hut they propose a 
match, to take place on the 17th instant, for the Lloyd’s 
Cup, between the Americans and an eight selected by the 
respective Captains from the three British teams At the 
same time the council does not despair of a match between 
the four eights, which perhaps may be managed for the 
Monday following the shooting at Wimbledon. In the 
meantime it hopes that the match proposed for the 17th 
instant may be agreeable to the Americans.” 
It is just probable, however, that the deed of gift by 
which Lord Elcho presented the trophy contains some 
clause which restricts the compe'ition to eights selected 
from the English, Irish, and Scotch riflemen, and that the 
council of the National Rifle Association has not the power 
if even the inclination, to admit further contestants. The 
Euglish papers appear to have criticised rather severely 
Mr. Parson s proposal for a match between our men and a 
mixed British eight, to which he replies that his original 
plau was for a match between the English, Scotch, and 
American eights, which was approved by the G’aptaius of 
all the teams concerned, but afterwards vetoed by the 
couneil through the persuasions of outside parties. Mr. 
Parsons is of the opinion that a mixed British team, armed 
with vurious kinds of rifles and unknown to each other, 
would have no chance against the Americans, and that 
when they have been thoroughly beaten every riflemen in 
England will say, “After all it was no match.” 
We are not inclined to be so sanguine of victory over a 
team selected from among all the riflemen of Great Britain 
as the English are of defeat. In a team of six against six 
the case might be different, but we look upon our team as 
being by no means so strong as an eight as it is as a six. 
There is a weak spot that would fell very much in the aver- 
ages. Besides, we think that too much stress is laid upon 
the fact that, as the Irish have beaten both the English and 
Scotch, and the Americans them, ergo, the Americans can 
beat the world. Let us see how the case stands with regard 
to the Elcho Shield. During the twelve competitions 
covering the years 1862 to 1873, the match was won by the 
English nine times, twice by tbe Scotch, and once by the 
Irish. The best score was made by the English in 1871, 
being a total of 1,204 out of a possible 1,440 (under the 
old scoring); average, 3.34. Iu 1873 the Irish score was 
1,195; average, 3.32. The improvement made in shooting 
of late years is shown in tho fact that iu 1862, the first year 
of competition the score was but 890 points. Again, in 
selecting a mixed British team the best shots only would 
probably be taken from each of the eights, aud a team thus 
organized would possess elements of strength sufficient to 
overcome the disadvantages of unfamiliarity and mixed 
rifles. We do not mean to say that even against these odds 
our men would not win, but the victories won in Ireland 
should not make us over sanguine, or inclined to look too 
lightly upon tho new adversaries our team are to contend 
with. A defeat after anticipations of certain victory is 
much more bitter to endure, while victory following more 
modest expectations is doubly sweet. 
Since the above was written, the correspondence which 
has passed between Colonel Gildersleeve and tho Loudon 
agent of the Associated Press seems to preclude the possi- 
bility of another team match, as the Colonel has definitely 
and officially announced the determination of the Ameri- 
cans not to shoot agaiu, as a team, in Europe, although, he 
says, five or six of them would probably be glad, as indi- 
viduals, to shoot at Wimbledon on Suturduy next, if the 
Lloyds cup is offered for competition to all comers. 
Tuout Poaching on Long Iri i. • 
that we record the fact that at tew one of'uTm ’ T"! 
poachers w h ° Lo „ g „„ „ t * “* ;> h ">« 
“Xoau “edTh e' 0 ult T *•» “"fed 
preserve iron? . h “ bec0m ® Dext ,0 impossible to 
have been netted u r i*"* ° f lhe beat 8lrcum8 on ,hc island 
the poachers u n ‘ / fl * h h lefr - T,,e boldness of 
the ordinary ™ 8 ° # y ,° nd belief ’ aQ d <« punishment by 
ffmEEa t fr,oi,c‘:i„r cn,s r ,,f «- 
that there is some risk in n T ^ " l ° convi,,Cc ,he »■» 
oguc a contemporary gives the following account — 
« s fts s Sara 
niirht. n»ri«„ S .i.„ for lh ! 8 Purpose on Saturday 
ap- 
proaching. evidently with the purpose offunhe? piundT 
« to intercept then.: two' of ike 
(hulled off , n o the bushes and escaped, but the third find 
SS£i»S * d ew (ormittK 
and attach one of the wSmen named ' Zlgfa ri?. 
dent of Canaan. The niter i..- “ . esi . 
!! e v U the f dfsn naan , ** 
by the desperado, struck at him with the ax with wl icli he 
hU, j ng bim over ,he ‘boulder iSSuf* a 
fearful gash under the shoulder blade, from the effects of 
which it is doubtful whether recovery is possible This 
mSES* 1 / 0 be an0tbcr re8ident of Canaaf, Earned 
BUI * T Ung maU of bad character, and son of 
BUI McGregor who was arrested and lodged in the Suffolk 
county jail, at Riverkead, some years ago on suspicion of 
having murdered a German peddler, whose bones— or at 
east aske eton suppose!! to be hfi-were found iS .be 
« od V° r ! b of 1 ‘^hogue, but who was discharged for 
llifir/ffr, ° De 0f ,lie ,wo men who runaway 
named Jedediah Dayton, resided in the neighborhood and 
was urrested, taken before Justice Smith, at Patchogue 
f/'A on b» 8 ow n confession was sent to the county jaiffor 
thirty days. A man named Fields, of Wading River was 
arrested as the third man, but was discharged* for want of 
proof, although lie is believed to have been the principal in 
Wljll f , h !? “^complices supplied the local knowl- 
ed B c which enabled them to secure their booty. Many of 
the numerous trout ponds in Suffolk county have suffered 
from time to time from similur depredations. Dr. Terry 
of Patchogue who dressed McGregor’s wound, thinks 
supervene , ’’ )SSlbl ° f ^ recovcr ^ “bould lockjaw not 
Lkipzio, GcrmaDy, .Juno Will, 1875. 
Editoii Forest and Stream:— 
Allow me as a passionate hunter. (I cannot say "sportsman." as I do 
not know anything about Ashing like most of my compatriots,) lo ask 
you why inalllhe American sporllng papers nobody talks any more of 
pln-flre (Lefauchenx) gone, and all prefer central Are. With us it is the 
contrary; most of mv brothers in Dianum wear Lafauchoux ptn-Are guns 
and ptn-Are sporting rifles. I possess myself two shot guns, a doublc- 
barreled rifle for hunting red deer, wild hoar, aud chamois, ana a gnn 
« ith two barrels, one for shot and the other for bullet, which I use in 
stalking roebucks. All four guns aro Lufoncheux ptn-Are, and I am so 
saiisfled that I never wish to get any belter ones should I live tlfiy years 
more. 1 cars, very truly. Fb. von Ivhwou. 
[The above note is from the very intelligent editor of 
Der Waidmann, a sportsman’s paper published at Leipzig, 
with which we have had the pleasure toexchaugc for eight- 
een months. The writer’s letter carries with it to us a 
handsome complimc-nt for Fokest and STitEAsr, and the 
German word of welcome and salute to hunters — “Waid- 
maonsheil.” This we cordially reciprocate, with the addi- 
tional sentiment, in plain English, "Success to your fisk- 
iug! The question included as above has been often asked 
of us, and we can offer no belter reason for the apparent 
preference of the central fire cartridge and action than that 
it is the fashion. The pin fire gun certainly has ad vau» 
tages which the central fire has not, one of which is that 
the pin always indicates when the guu contains a shell. 
The respective merits of the two systems are so evenly 
balanced that “Gloan," in his work on “Breech Loaders,” 
can give neither a preference in recommendation.— Ed. ] 
Spout on the Erie.— The woodcock shooting in Pike 
county, Pa., and adjoining region of Sussex couuty, N. 
J., promises to be excellent this season. “Bub” Wells, Ed. 
Imick, J. H. Wells, aud C. P. Mott, well known shots in 
Milford, have bagged a number already in the haunts about 
Milford. Gecrge Malvern, of Port Jervis, brought down 
seven out of nine shots iu the Nearpass and Hornbeck 
Swamps, on tbe Jersey side of the river, on the 5th of 
July. The birds are good size and strong of wing. 
A Voice from the West. — Our correspondent “Fred, 
writing from Montello, Michigan, states that the West is 
enthusiastic over the victory of the American riflemen iu 
Ireland, and suggests that a grand reception should be 
given them on their return. Wc can assure “Fred” and 
our Western frieuds generally that this matter has already 
been thoroughly ventilated and arranged. The team will 
be banqueted, and each member receive a testimonial. 
Mr. A. T. Stewart has given $500 toward the fund for this 
purpose. Colonel Porter, of the Twenty-second Regiment, 
has telegraphed Colonel Gildersleeve that his regiment will 
act as an escort on their arrival home. 
—Mr. J. H. Rogers, of Ogdcnsburgh, whose advertise- 
ment will be found in another column, has made arrange- 
ments for the manufacture of skiffs and hunting and fish 
ing boats, suitable for the Thousand Islands. These boats 
can be procured ready made, or will be constructed to order 
of any desired style and size. 
— The Palace Hotel, now nearing completion, in San 
Francisco, is the largest hotel structure in the world. It 
covers 96,250 square feet of ground, and is seven stories 
high; 24,661,000 bricks were used in its walls, 3,000 tons of 
cest and wrought iron, and 4,561,524 feet of lumber and 
timber. It coutaius 1,060 windows, 337 of which are bay 
windows; 926 rooms, none of less size than 16x16 feet, aud 
388 bath rooms. It contains over three miles of hulls; 
there are five passenger elevators and seven grand stair- 
ways; there are 4,540 doors, 0,000 gas burners, and thirty- 
two miles of gas aud water pipe. It requires 50,000 yards, 
or twenty-eight miles of carpet. It can accommodate 1,200 
guests, besides 360 servants and employees. 
