The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-13

stead comes, slowly rising above the line of
the horizon, the burly figure of Fisk. Jr.. the
hero of hundred fights and victories-the
man of interior lines and exterior equanimty
There is a hum Of many voices-a hubbub.
clamor-the noise of hustling and iostlng.
and the dust of the struggle fills the air. so
that the only thing that is definite is Fisk. Jr.
He comes out as round and clear as that part
of the moon that first thrust
its impudent periphery between
us and the sun on Saturday last at
one minute past five p. NJ. He is the only
thing that is well defined; but there are other
figures dmly seen in the edge of the glory
that blazes out from his person like the
circle of splendor around a Chinese giant
made of fireworks. There is some mystic
rious creature named Ramsey, touching whom
tradition and history are equally silent; there
are five hundred persons, called the 'indig-
nant public" gathered together in Albany
and shouting for Ramsey; there are captured
trains, burned BRIDGES judges furiously and
rapidly issuing iniunctions; the very air Is
darkened with writs and with sheriffs hurry
ing madly up and down with those puerilities
of the law. Then there is the Governor en-
couraging the diversion by declaring that
whoever gets possession shall be protected
therein; and. better than all, there are the
militia soldiers marching through the blue
and rose-colored fire, the excellent band
playing
"C'est un famcuX regiment
lie regiment lie la Grande Duchesse'
Hurrah for the militial
Then we have the Governor again This
time he threatens to apply the radical cure of
martial law, which, as is known to all ''mussy'
persons, both in this country and Europe has
a sting like viper, seize the road in the
name of the Executive, and run it as military
line under the urgency of a military necessity.
The very announcement of such plan had
soothing effect The belligerents were aston
ished. sobered and finally soothed, at least
for the moment. They appeared as if re-
ioiced that any person or power came be-
tween them to 'hold on" to them and calm
the ''hurly burly" even temporarily 1t was
agreed to hand the matter-road quarrel,
and all-over to the Governor, saving the
rights of the contestants, let him retain
it for a while, and then see how it would
''come out. Governor Hoffman, in the
meantime, event in, as invited. He APP
pointed gentleman to represent him-a sort
of condensed railroad kng-assume the re-
sponsibility and work the road on the zone
man power principle. This has been carried
into effect, and ali refractory members are
likely to be pushed aside equally, after the
fashion of Oliver Cromwell and the first Bona
parte. The precedent may herald grand re-
volution in the matter of railroad manage
ment, for if the Governors man is able to
''tool the coach, after the others have failed,
why not an executive man be appointed to
run each line or all the lines in the State
under authority of law? Good may come
out of evil.
Altogether it is the most magnificent, en-
tertaining, and distracting muddle of modern
times. 1t is better than the anti-rent war;
fifty times better than Grants visit to Long
Branch. (How is it he didn't go to Saratoga,
| since there are races up there y Nobody
| would think of comparing Bismarks Sadowa
war to this war on the banks of the beautiful
| Susquehanna for Bismark is not so stout as
| Fisk, and whereas that war lasted only seven
| days, this will last a great deal longer.
| There is no use to make the comparison
scljotjm with all the great events of our
time, from the comp detat to the battle of
Prince and Turk. 1t is sufficient to say that
this surpasses them all in the dramatic and
| epic elements, and we are confident that if
Fisk owned poet, Achilles, Ulyssus, Dio-
medes and all those fellows would appear as
atomieS beside him. The confusion of the
thing is so beautiful 1t is so exquisitely in
comprehensive. This indeed, is, critically
speaking, the great point. All ordinary up
roars are soon seen through. We know them
as we know the incidents of a ride in a city
horse-car. And it is this familiarity that
breeds contempt for them as commonplaces.
We defy anybody to have a similar contempt
for Fisks doings. He evidently believes in
| Burke, and means to be sublime by keeping
Just in the outer limit of popular comprehen-
sion.
No doubt the public would be sorry to have
this fine row degenerate into a simple thing
that they could understand; but this need not
cause them to regret that Fisk has written
letter explaining his case. He does not ex
plain it, of course. He is not so foolish as tc
make these matters plain. True, he seems
for moment to argue very straightforwardll
that he acts in the interest of owners of the
majority of the stock, and that his object il
to make the Susquehanna Railroad connect
ing Binghamton with Albany, less branch o.
the Erie than main line that in conjunction
with the Erie will connect the West with the
East by the Albany and Boston road. Her,
we can see good and legitimate purpose
and also a plain reason for the opposition OF
the Central that great rival of Erie that now
has exclusive direct communication between
Albany and the West. This, therefore. il
simple enough but, as we have said, tha
very fact is against it, for surely Fisk is no
inclined thus to come down from the thron,
he holds as the Grand Paniandrum of modeu
muddes, and stand before the world simpl,
as a shrewd manager of railroads careful tc
be in the right Such self-abnegaton is no
possible SO we shall suspend our faith in hi
proclamation till we hear what the other sid
says.
IS THE REVOLUTION OVER?
From the RichUtOnd Examiner.
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