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Show A Washington correspondent thinks it hardly probable that the Joint Commission will reach an amicable amica-ble settlement of the Alabama claims. If we are' to fight Great Britain about those confounded claims, we ought to do it while we have Robeson to help us. Place Robeson on a raft, armed with a sis-pounder and amarlin-spike, end we may defy the combined navies of the world; but if we want to get thrashed thrash-ed clean out of the water, we have but to defer the fight until the indomitable indom-itable old sea-dog retires to the marshes of his native and adored Jersey. Courier-Journal. |