The New York herald., 1869-04-23
NEW YORK CITY.
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Tho Union Pacific Railroad war-Ths Pas
sage at Arms In the United States Circuit
Court.
Before Judges Nelson and Blatchford.
James Fisk, m, rs. The Uafon Pacific Railroad
Company ct aL-This case AS interminabe and ap-
parently undetermnable as the extent OF the In
terest OF the lawyers therein can make II the one
side and as the inexhaustible snews OF war welded
by the principal belligerents themselves, can sue
ceed In protracting II on the other-was up this
morning before the venerable Judge Nelson presid.
district, and the learned Judge Batchford,
OF the United States District Court. There
to the extent Of his own peculiar technical system OF
legal strategy and werdy warfare interposing every
Imaginable objection and difficulty to any settlement
OF the cdsus 6elf. The funds OF the Union Pacific
Railroad Company and the Credit Mober Of
America are attempting bait and the lawyers will
as dictated BY them to their employers--the princI
pal htigants on either side-so long as legal Quib
o Ur Ike eaa eaSnr az OF e bar in
assautlng colum the object OF which to dspace
their opponents from their entrenched camp In the
disciples OF Coke and Blackstone:- First requiring
noGce account OF his years-therefore the Nestor
coanoll, but not exposing himself to danger in the
melee, his legal offensive and defensive weapons
and armor being rather rusty aud old fashioned for
order. on the same side, is Mr. Charles Tracy,
good lance enough, but not over lusty and
sometimes lacking In resources when driven to an ex
tlon Of the day In stating the cause OF grievance
which led to the trial at arms, and leaving the
whole affair as dark as night could make 1t
when he concluded Next on the right Of the
like the moss trooper William Of Deorane, is "eood
at need, ~ but having no need to do anything that
might distinguish MIN In the arena on the occasion,
kept manipulating ana coguetting with his waving
upon upon bis A' manly Shoulders. Mr.. CLARK Bell,
q young aspirant for the spurs Of legal
kmghthood, and who, like many youthful asplrant
is as wise In council as bold In the field, comes
He does good deal Of the heavy work devolving
upon the company generals His pen is never idle
and many hastily written despatch from him to the
field ofncer OF the day has prevented threatened
william Mcfarland, q deoonnatre knight untf,
swellish and imposing, Paris who might iAstgate
to the destruction Of Troy, but Whener or not he
would do much through his pro%ess to Its preserva-
On the part Of the challenger, Fisk, appeared In all
the panoply Of legal Warfare that stout and rusty
champion OF any cause he advocates, Edwin N.
Stoughten. as daring and all-conquering among the
appreciated among the ladies' Of the court, Al his
SIDE welding his lenchant scinetaf with terrible
enoct anu bringing continually up reserve forces
from his legal lore Is David Dudley Field; and by his
side young Dudley, Of the same kidney, Is striking
right and left whenever he has chance to 60 In
These three are s.alwart knights capable OF sus-
tanning any cause that may be entrusted to them,
and well the astuIe Fisk knew this when he chose
them to represent him in the great oust that now
going on In the courts. At the time Of going to
press the herald Of the tournament announced that
the lists were closed for the day. and stating the
resuts-Fied VS.. Tracy, Seward and Stoughton the
contest between the latter knights being undecided.
The lists Will open again this morning at eleven
A. NJ.