


In the next heat Fullerton acted badly, and was beaten by 
Camors in 2:264, but in the last two heats Fullerton 
steadied himself, and won them both, although pressed by 
Camors. Ben. Mace’s ch, g. Judge Fullerton won—Time, 
2:192; 2:22; 2:224. 
PirrspurGu, Pa., August 27.—The first meeting of the 
Friendship Park Association, The first race was for a purse 
of $1,500 for horses that have never beaten 2:50. Seven 
horses started, and the race was won be Kitty D in three 
straight heats. Time, 2:36; 2:36; 2:33}. The second race for a 
purse of $2,000 was won by Slow Go in three straight heats. 
Time, 2:35; 2:34: 2:352. 
PortsMoNnTH, Onto, August 28.—The races were very 
largely attended, notwithstanding the threatening aspect of 
the weather. The race for horses never having beaten 2:47 
was won-by Gray Alexander, Gray Sam second, Black 
Maria third—Time, 2:403; 2:424; 2:374; 2:394; 2:454; 2:481- 
Gray Sam won two heats, the second and fourth, and Black 
Maria the first. The race for three minutes horses was won 
by Lady Alice, a Kentucky mare that shows a clinking rate 
of speed, in 2:40}; 2:48}; 2:392; 2:464 
A splendid attendance was visible at the races. In the 
race for horses that had never beaten 2:40, Lady Alice, the 
favorite, won in 2:404; 2:484; 2:393. 
The running race, half-mile heats, was one of the most 
desperately contested affairs that was everseen here. Mollie 
Foster, a splendid looking nfare, by Asterold, won the first 
heat in 53} seconds, Ida Osa won the second at the killing 
pace of 52 seconds; the third heat was won by Mollie Foster, 
by six inches in 524 seconds. Ida Oso took the two last 
heats, by a hand’s breadth, in 534 and 55 seconds. 
August 29.—Annie Collins won the free-for-all race in 
2:332, 2:30%, 2:303, 2:334, 2:40. Thomas L. Young, of Cin- 
cinnati, was second and Red Dick third. Annie won in 
splendid style, earning the enthusiastic plaudits of all the 
spectators. The pacing race was won by Rattling Jim, 
after a slashing race with Tinder. Jim was the favorite, 
and won in 2:314, 2:34, 2:37, 2;822, Tinder taking the third 
heat. 
Prospect Park Farr Grounps, NEAR Brooktyy, L. L., 
August 29.—Match $500, mile heats, best three in five, in 
harness. Judges. Israel Denton, John Moore and George 
W. Oakley. W. 8. Thoms’ b. g. Slippery Dick, catch 
weight, won—Time, 2:42; 2:40; 2.404. The second event 
was a match between John Murphy’s sorrel gelding Sorrel 
Jake and Thomas Trimble’s gray mare, Alice Gray, mile 
heats, best three in five, in harness. Sorrel Jake won the 
money, whatever it was, in three straight heats—Time, 
2:48; 2:44; 2:44. 
Wurrtsy Raczs, Onrarto, August 80.—To-day was the 
second day of the Whitby races. The first race was a 
hurdle race over eight hurdles; two miles; the first horse 
to receive $159, the second $50. The race was won by 
Old Rye. Jack the Barber was second—Time, 4:38. The 
second race was for the County Purse, and was won by 
Long John, Kate Goulding second—Time, 3:21; 3:21; 3:22; 
3:25. The Ladies’ Purse of $200, a mile and a half dash, 
the first horse to receive $150 and the second $50, was won 
by Montreal; Lottie was second. The next race was the 
Merchants’ trot, open to all: the first horse to receive $175, 
the second $100. Eva won the first money in 2:483; 2:54; 
2:51. The fourth race was the Post Sweepstakes for $10, 
with $100 added, a dash of one and a quarter miles. Carle- 
ton was first, and the War Cry second—Time, 2:13. This 
race closed the meeting. ; 
Sea and River Hishing. 
GAME FISH IN SEASON IN SEPTEMBER. 
Striped Bass, (Labraax lneatus.) 
Black Bass, (Centrarchus fasciatus. 
Maskinonge. . 
—+ 
Our Canadian friends are good correspondents. Dr. 
James Lyster, an old army snrgeon, of Belleville, Ontario, 
speaks of the black bass fishing in the Bay of Quinte as 
having been very good all through the season, and is now, 
many great baskets having been caught with the fiy, which 
is the only method in yogue among the Canadian anglers 
for taking black bass. The Doctor is off for ducks in afew 
days. 
One of the most famous black bass localities in the world 
is Lake Simcoe, Canada, and its contiguous chain of lakes. 
It is.only twenty-fours from New York city, oa Niagara 
Falls and Toronto, and thence by the Northern railway of 
Canada to Barrie or Bellewart, at which places a steamboat 
.connects with the railway. This boat traverses Lake Sim- 
coe thirty miles, and passes by a connecting channel into 
Lake Coochachung, touching at Orillia, at which place there 
is also arailway connection with Barre. In other words, 
there is an all rail route from New York to Orillia. From 
Coochachung is ten miles of staging to Muskoka lake, one 
of the very finest bass lakes in the world, and there we take 
steamboat again, and traversing the lake, pass through a 
canal and lock into Lake Rousseau. This whole region 
swarms with bass, and is well worth a week’s visit. Cost 
of a ten days trip about $75. 
Some sheepshead have been taken the past week on the mus- 
sel-beds opposite the Neptune House, on Rockaway Beach. 
A few days previous they were found a short distance to 
the eastward, but have since shifted their position. The 
season for this delicious fish is rapidly drawing to a close. 
To catch sheepshead, fish from an anchored boat with hand 
line and shedder crabs for bait. A good many bonita have 
been taken outside the bass with a troll. Bluefish have 
heen searce and small in size. A heavier runis constantly 
expected. The bonita isa most peculiar fish. It has the 
tail of a mackerel, but is a much thicker fish in poprortion 
to its length, and is much more brilliant in its colors, the 
back being a vivid green that merges into an equally vivid 
blue upon the sides. 
decided black longitudinal stripes. 
erage weight, one pound and a half. 
Captain George Gelston, of Fort Hamilton, took ninety- 
three weakfish in two hours at the ‘‘Swash,” in the Nar- 
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Bluefish, (Temnodon saltator.) 
Land-locked Salmon, (sa@imo Gloveri. 
Trout, (Salmo fontinalis.) 

Its belly is white. Av- 



Its upper part is marked with five 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

rows just sonth of Fort Richmond, last week. The weak- 
fish had not been running much for several days previous, 
but this shoal struck in justin time to afford this veteran 
angler all the sport he wanted. 
The exportation of Oregon salmon is rapidly increasing; 
scarcely a vessel leaves San Francisco for any part of the 
world that does not carry a greater or lesser amount. The 
popular form of the trade is in cans, holding one, two and 
two and a half pounds each. The sources of demand are 
Australia, England, New York, and South America. The 
ship General McClellan, which cleared last month, took 
4,600 cases to New York. Other lots are shipped by almost 
every steamer. The schooner Mina Bell, for Melbourne 2d 
inst., took 1,500 cases, while the Gem of the Ocean, for 
Valpariso, took 100 cases. The heaviest demand is from 
England. The demand is in excess of the supply, and the 
trade is very active. 
The Niagara river, both above and below the Falls, is a 
favorite resort of the anglers in the vicinity, who take large 
numbers of black bass by loading their line with a bullet, 
and slinging it out into the channel of the river. Then 
hauling in, the current gives the line an oblique direction, 
and the angler frequently brings a fine bass to hand. On 
the lake shore, in the vicinity of Buflalo, the residents of 
the city take many bass: 
A. gentleman friend of ours who has just returned from 
Maine, says that he caught one six pound brook trout and 
forty-eight trout that weighed forty-six pounds, and all 
in two hours; but he doesn’t say where. We suppose that 
is a secret which no other fellah can find out. 
PasQueE Istanp, August 21st, 1873, 
Epitor Forest AND STREAM: 
Your fayor of the 20th inst. asking for some information as to the sport, 
&c., of the Island this season, is received. It affords me great pleasure 
to comply with your request. The attendance thus far at the Club 
House has not been as large as last year, but our catch is larger than that 
of any previous year, and now bids fair to continue fine. Our first bass 
was taken July 5th, and from that date we have averaged two rods, never 
more than five fishing any one day. Onr record shows as follows: 
C. P. Cassidy, July 14, five fish, 12,8, 8, 7. 6, 
A. B. Dunlap, July 18, four fish, 37, 21, 7, 7. 
Syl. Stearns, July 21, three fish, 12, 12, 9. 
T. E. Tripler, July 24, four fish, 14, 6, 6, 5. 
C. Jennings, July 25, six fish, 26, 25, 25, 10, 8, 6. 
T. E. Tripler, July 26, three fish, 31, 22, 19. 
C, Jennings, July 28, six fish, 16, 16, 14, 11. 
C. P. Cassidy, August 14, three fish, 12, 11, 14. 
T. E. Tripler, August 14, two fish, 14, i8. 
Silas C. Herring, August 14, two fish, 11, 5,74, 3, 3. 
F. O. Herring, August 15, six fish, 50, 3. 
J. B. Stearns, August 15, five fish, 38, 13, 7,3, 2. 
Mrs. T; E. Tripler, August 21, one fish, 15. 
The members at present here are, Thos. EK. Tripler, Peter Balen, John 
Cooper, C. P. Cassidy, T. O. Herring, and J. B. Stearns, 
The wind has been east with us for the past fortnight. This is bad for 
our peculiar sport. Bluefish and all other kinds generally found here are 
in great abundance, and this affords an unfailing source of amusement 
for those who are not fishy enough for bass. 
Yours, truly, 
. Ablilitary dlews. 
HE cadets of the Military Academy, having had their 
prescribed three months’ vacation, will commence 
their hardships and trials as commissioned officers of the 
army September 30. Four will report to the Corps of En- 
gineers, one only to the First, Second and Third Cavalry, 
three tothe Fifth Cavalry, two to the Eighth Cavalry, two 
to the Tenth Cavalry (colored), one each to the Second 
and Third Artillery, eight to the Fourth Artillery, two to 
the Fifth Artillery, one each to the First and Eighth Infan- 
try, two to the Twelfth Infantry, one to the Thirteenth 
Infantry, two to the Fifteenth Infantry, one each to the 
Nineteenth and Twentieth Infantry, two to the Twenty-first 
Infantry, and one each to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third 
and Twenty-fourth Infantry. This will make forty assign- 
ments of Second Lieutenants to the United States Army 
from West Point. It will besome time before these young- 
sters get well in the harness, but many of these boys may 
in time be great generals, and be instrumental in saving 
the country. Jt was West Point graduates who led the two 
opposing armies of the Rebellion, and it was West Point 
graduates who closed the war, despite the efforts of inter- 
fering politicians. The Army seldom make a war; and 
as,Peace Commissioners its officers in the end have heen 
from time immemorial the surest and best. 
—During the present ‘month a board of United States 
Engineers, comprising Colonel James H. Simpson, Majors 
G. K. Warren, Godfrey Weitzel, Wm. E. Merrill and 
Chas. R. Slater, will examine the construction of the Great 
St. Louis Bridge, to see that if im any way seriously 
affects the navigation of the Mississippi River. We guess 
this board will not have it reconstructed quite, or to any 
great extent modify the present plans of this great wonder 
of the world. Still now is the time, if any, to receive the 
suggestions of Government engineering experts. It will 
be many years yet before this bridge is completed, and the 
East River Bridge, between New York and Brooklyn, 
will undoubtedly be in use before the St. Louis Bridge is 
completed. 
—Second Lieutenants Thos. N. Bailey, Corps of Engin- 
eers; John A. Lundun, Ninth Artillery; Wm. H. Coffin, 
Fifth Artillery; and Joseph H. Dorst, on duty at the 
Military Academy, have been granted three months’ leave 
of absence. 
—The standard height for recruits for the Artillery and 
Infantry service of the Army is four feet five inches, that 
for the Cavalry not less than five feet five inches nor more 
than five feet ten inches. The Army now appears to have 
all the tall men it requires, the War Department is, 
therefore, cutting them down, Unfortunately we have no 
‘‘ Life Guards” nor ‘‘ Cold Streams,” ete,, as specialties for 
J. B. STEARNS. 






‘six footers.” Why don’t the Gover. rent organize a regi 
ment of men over six feet in heise :!, and place them on 
special duty at the Capitol, to be wed by the foreign 
diplomatic corps? 
—We recently alluded to the few and unfrequent 
promotions to commissions in the rank and file of the Army, 
and showed that this slight is severely felt. It is only neces- 
sary to quote from the letter of one who “ knows whereof he 
speaks,” when he puts the following suggestive inquiries: 
“Tf eyery enlisted man in our Army knew that in his 
knapsack he carried a ‘‘ commission,” in which there was 
a fair possibility of his name being inserted, would we not 
have a better Army than it is to-day ?—and would not our 
country be doing justice to those for whom it may be said 
they are among the best rewarded and most faithful of its 
servants ?” Of course it would, but unfortunately ‘*kiss- 
ing goes by favor” in these appointments, and we all know 
republics are truly ungrateful. 
—The disturbance between the Sioux and Pawnee tribes 
has resulted in forcing the Government to keep both tribes 
upon their reservations. 
—The reported capture and massacre of women and 
children and one-half of the Ninth Cavalry by Indians at 
Fort Sill, Texas, has no confirmation in fact; and as the 
Fourth Cavalry are mainly stationed at Fort Clark, Texas, 
some 500 miles distant, the report seems only the work of 
anidle mind. Fort Sill is the head-quarters of the Tenth 
‘avalry (colored), some five companies of that regiment 
being stationed there, also one company of the Eleventh 
and five of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. There should be 
some means instituted by the,;Government to stop the tele- 
graphing of these reports all over the country, causing dis- 
tress, as they do, to the families of hundreds. 
—Cavalry enlistments South are slow during the month 
of July, only about a dozen white men presenting them- 
selves at the Richmond, Va., Rendezvous, and since then 
only negroes have been the ambitious recruits, 
—Grace Greenwood (Mrs. Lippincott) and daughter have 
been cheering the camps_and forts of the ‘‘ plains ” by their 
charming presence. The former made a pleasing sensation 
at Fort Hays recently, by ‘‘ preaching” to the garrison one 
Sabbath evening, taking for her subject, ‘‘ Home duties.” 
The following evening she gave, in costume, some fine 
readings of a pathetic, humorous and instructive character. 
Fort Hays is the head-quarters of the. gallant Third In- 
fantry; the 6th Cavalry is also in camp nearby. 
—Company B, Tenth Infantry, has been changed from 
Fort McKavett to Fort Stockton, Texas, and Company A, 
Twenty-fifth Infantry, from San Antonio to Fort Clark, 
Texas. 
—Major A. B. Gardner, recently appointed Judge Advo- 
vate United States Army, and now in this city, has been 
ordered to his post for the present at Louisville, Ky., th® 
head-quarters of the Department of the South. Majo 
Gardner will not, for the present, therefore, leave his chief, 
yeneral McDowell. 
—First Lieutenant John W. Chickering, Sixth Cavalry, 
who we announced last week as having been subsistently 
“docked” $51 21, will not have this amount stopped from 
his pay, as it has been subsequently shown that he settled 
the matter with Lieutenant Wetmore satisfactorily tc the 
Government. These subsistent accounts are bother ‘ve 
matters sometimes. In fact it is difficult to subsist at all 
nowadays without being ‘‘docked” by Uncle Sam. 


—lLast week Signor Ballini, performed his difficult feat 
of crossing the river below the Falls. The cable was 
stretched from nearly in front of the Clifton House toa 
point just above the suspension bridge in Prospect Park on 
the American side. It was made of the best Manilla rope, 
two and ahalf inches in diameter, and was securely an- 
chored at either side. A goodly nuniber of persons were 
assembled within the enclosure near the Clifton House 
when the time approached for Ballini to begin his walk. 
About 4 P. M. he made his appearance, and stopping but 
a moment, was off on his perilous journey. His face was 
as calm and composed as though he was starting for a stro}l 
6n terra frma. After going a few steps he stopped, and re- 
turning, alighted from the rope and said that the cable 
needed tightening. This took some little time, but it was 
accomplished to his seeming satisfaction, and then he started 
again. He made his way across to the American side in 
just twenty-three minutes. The,ascent from the centre of 
the rope was evidently hard work for him. 
After resting a few minutes he started back, aud as it was 
understood that he was to make the descent from the rope 
on this trip, of course expectancy was on tip-toe. As he 
reached the center he stooped down to unfasten a coil of 
rubber rope which was secured there, and by means of 
which he was to make a plunge into the river. The centre 
of the rope was about one hundred and ten feet above the 
water. The rubber rope was but fifteen feet in length, but 
it was expected that it would stretch sufficient to reach the 
water, though the way in which he made use of it there 
seemed to be little gained by its aid» Having made all 
ready and seeing that the boat was near at hand, he slipped 
rather than jumped off from the rope, and as he let go it 
flew back again. To describe the feelings of the spectators 
for the moment is beyond the power of mortal man—each 
breath was hushed, every eye was distended—every neck 
craned forward. Down he went, down like the stick from 
a rocket, into the water. ‘‘ Where ishe? ‘Is he dead 2” 
“ My God, he’s dead!” A woman faints, themen generally 
turn pale, but it is only for an instant, as the daring fellow 
was soon seen upon the surface pulling lustily for the boat, 
the occupants of which were evidently more scared than he. 
He was taken into the boat, his form wrapped in blankets, 
and was rowed ashore. He was then driven rapidly up the 
hill to his stopping place, about two miles from the Clifton 
House. Ballini is of Italian parentage, having been born 
in England—an Italian gypsy in fact, and from his child- 
hood has been given to feats of skill and daring. He is be- 
low the medium height, slim built, muscles like iron and 
nerves like steel. —Sun, 
