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Sea and River Sishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN OCTOBER. 
Coast Fisx. LAKEs. 
Bluefish, Skipjack, Horse Mackerel, Black Bass, (Mic) opterus nig 
(Temnodon  saltator.) and archigan.) (two species. 
Spanish Mackerel,( Cero maculatum.) Pickerel, (Hsow reticulatus.) 
fee Squetaug (Trout) Ofoli- Pike perch,(Lucioperca Americana.) 
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Bays AND EstTuARIEs. 
* Striped Bass, Rockfish. (Labrax leneatus.) 
—The angler’s season for this part of the country is 
nearly at an end, and those indefatigable whippers of riv- 
ers and streams who never tire of fishing, must needs go 
South hereafter, or lay up their rods and fly-books until 
spring. And there are just such men the country over— 
thoroughbred sportsmen, too, who haveno taste for shoot- 
ing, yet delight in the wild-woods as much as the hunter, 
and are justasserviceablein camp or onthe route. If these 
men do notactually despise ‘‘ gunning,” they are neverthe- 
less so wedded to their favorite pastime, and so indifferent 
toward the germain proclivities of their friends, that it is 
impossible to induce them by the most seductive appeals to 
lay down the basket and the rod and take up the rifle and the 
gun. For their idiosyncrasies we have an intuitive sympathy; 
and, when ‘‘ Othello’s occupation’s gone” hereabouts, we 
will open to his desire new realms in fishdom that will 
gratify by the novelty of scene and species, and add im- 
mensely to his fund of experience. 
The fish of the South and semi-tropical waters are but 
little known even to tourists and valetudinarians who so- 
journin Florida during the winter, and yet the varieties 
of fish life there are almost infinite, and among them all 
are many that afford excelient sport to the most fastidious 
and high-toned angler. ‘Io southern waters, therefore, we 
shall devote especial attention the coming winter, and we 
assure our readers that the fund of information at our im- 
mediate disposal, and from which we shall liberally draw, 
will be most worthy of their careful attention and appre- 
ciation. It is of a character and kind not to be found in 
books, unless, perchance in some few surviving copies of 
that very much needed and not sufficiently prized work of 
C. E. Whitehead, Esq., Secretary of the New York Sports- 
men’s Club, long since out of print. We have in 
for the next issue of this paper a sort of preliminary 
chapter, introductory to what is forthcoming; and very 
pleasant it willbe, whenthe winter snows are wreathing 
the fences and gables, and the genial fires are blazing on 
one’s hearth (something seldom seen these days, by the 
way), to read of pleasant experiences among the trailing vines 
and flaring flowers that grow under the sunny skies of 
Florida. Perhaps manya gentleman of leisure, whose at- 
tention has only been attracted toward the pole in mid sum- 
mer, may be induced in these winter days to turn some 
wistful glances toward the South, and having made up his 
mind to journey, and taken his cue from the instructions 
obtained from Forrest AND STREAM, gather up his para- 
phernalia and impedimenta and take steamer for Savan- 
nah and beyond. 
We trust that proprietors of hotels and steamship lines 
will feel it to their advantage to make their routes and ac- 
commodations known to sportsmen through our columns. 
It will be our object toprovide for the comfort of those 
who put confidence in our advice, and we shall desire to 
designate such localities and means of communication as 
may serve thembest. And just here, not from any mer- 
cenary motive, but from personal experience most gratify- 
ing, we wish to reccommend to the attention of tourists the 
hotel of the Messrs. Peterman, at Palatka, Florida, whose ad- 
vertisement appears in our columns. Florida is not famous 
for its superb hostelries, but this is not only luxurious, 
but will serve as a central headquarters for sportsmen who 
' wish to visit the accessible parts of Florida. Intending 
visitors would do well to engage rooms now for the season. 
—We have anticipated the coming months a little, and at 
once take the back track to Maine. Or rather, we are per- 
mitted to-day to inspect a souvenir of the season from the 
waters of the Oquossoc Club in Maine. What a sight for 
an angler’s eyes to behold, even toan appetite cloyed by 
the summer’s surfeit! It was the genial secretary of the 
club who sent for us, R. G. Allerton, Esq., him of the rub- 
ber boots and outfits—well-known toanglers. On tiptoe, 
with a tread subdued and soft, we silently approached the 
sarcophagus that was placed in state in the center of his 
store. (It always makes one feelsolemn to approach one’s 
bier). The receptacle that encircled the dead was full five 
feet long by two and-a-half in width, and was surrounded 
byacordon of gentlemen mourners with liquid eyes and 
watering mouths. Slowly they lifted the winding sheet; 
the sheet was straight and smooth enough—lifted it from 
the beautiful defunct, and there lay stretched out in liv- 
eried array three dozen monster trout! They were as beau- 
tiful in death as inlife, and ‘‘none knew them but to love 
them.” The largest weighed eight pounds and a quarter, 
and the balance a sum total of forty-two pounds, which 
indicates a fair. average even for Maine waters. The jury 
that ‘‘sat on” that case were inclined to bring in a verdict 
of ‘‘ killed out of season,” but the testimony of reliable 
witnesses proved that in the place where they had been 
taken, their capture was lawful. 
An eight pound trout is something to behold; the sight 
is marvellous to country lads who have been trained on fin- 
gerlings. But after all we are glad that nature has or- 
dained that trout shall not be whales. Any specimen 
over a pound in weight lacks that rare delicacy and lithe 
beauty which makes the race attractive. and as for that 
logy old eight-pounder that lay among the others, it 
seemed to beinvested with a grossness of a fat old dowa- 
ger tricked out in all her fanciful tawdry and glaring colors. 
We believe it is conceded that’ a monster trout is not so 
gamey as one of average size, say a pound in weight, and 
if we could have our own way, we would obtain an injunc- 
tion upon those big fish which every now and again in- 
trude themselves upon the skilful attention of our Moose- 
luckmaguntic and Mollychuckamunk friends. 
—The St. John river, New Brunswick, Canada, was 
never so low as now. Above Fredericton 40,000,000 feet of 
logs are high and dry in the river bed. At Fort Kent 
sixty miles above Grand Falls, people cross the river dry 
shod on the stones left above water. 
—The blue fish and seines have almost swept the South 
and Jamaica bays of other fish, and the principal sport 
left for anglers in this vicinity is for striped bass at Hell 
Gate, Eastriver. A few weak fish are taken at intervals. 
—There is good sheepshead fishing at the mouth of the 
Potomac. ; 
Satmon Trout Propacation.—The Rochester 
of the 3d says: 
The United States Revenue Cutter Chase is to call at 
Charlotte this afternoon and leave this evening for Cape 
Vincent, carrying to that port Seth Green and eight men 
inhis employ, who will go prepared to engage in the sal- 
mon trout fishery. There are some half a dozen or more 
places on the Islands at the foot of Lake Ontario where 
fishermen are employed in taking the salmon trout, all 
within twenty miles of Cape Vincent. Mr. Green under an 
arrangement with these fishermen, puts one or more men 
with each boat who secure the spawn when they capture 
the fish. A small boat is sent by Mr. Green from one 
station to another, which gathers the spawn and carries 
them, into Cape Vincent. From that place they will be 
brought to Charlotte and taken to the State hatching house 
in Caledonia and developed, and thence they will be dis- 
tributed through the lakes of the State the coming winter. 
The taking of the spawn of this excellent fish begins 
about the 15th of October and continues about one month. 
This is a perilous season to be navigating the lake in small 
craft, and the process is attended by considerable hardship. 
—Nearly two millions of salmon eggs, taken from Cali- 
fornia waters, are on their way tothe Atlantic seaboard, to 
be placed in hatching houses on the Delaware, Schuylkill, 
Susquehanna, and James rivers. 
Atlilitary Flews. 
N accordance with the provisions of an act passed at the 
last session of Congress, a Board of army officers has 
been organized to adopt plans and to take measures for the 
building and establishment of a regular military prison. 
This Board comprises Colonel Nelson A. Miles, Fifth In- 
fantry; Lieut. Col. Wm. H. French, Second Artillery, 
Major Thomas F. Barr, Judge Advocate; the Rev. E. C. 
Wines of New York, Secretary National Prison Associa- 
tion, and Z. R. Brockaway, of Detroit. The passage of 
this military prisonact was an important measure for the 
army, and the establishment of a special prison for the in- 
carceration of all criminals of the army is something the 
service has long needed. The Government, for want of a 
military prison, is now forced to use the State prisons 
nearest the various posts of the army for this purpose, and 
by this means has lost direct control over this class of its 
men. Inalmost every other department of the army the 
service is under the direct charge of its officers and gov- 
erned by its military laws; the establishment of a military 
prison, therefore, is an exceedingly wise measure, and a 
matter too long delayed by Congress. We trust the Board 
will act speedily, and provide at some central portion of 
the country a building adequate in every respect for the 
purposes for which it is intended. 
—The leave of absence of Col. George L. Andrews, of 
the Twenty fifth Infantry, which had expired, has been 
extended six months; of Captain May H. Stacey, Twelfth 
fnfantry, for four months; Colonel P. R. DeTrobiand, 
Thirteenth Infantry, has been granted one year’s leave, to 
go across the sea; also Second Lieutenant Wm. L. Eng- 
lish for six months with similar permission. First Lieut. 
John W. Hannay, Third Infantry, has received an exten- 
sion of just 42 days to ‘‘ go beyond the sea.” 
—Surgeons James C. McKee and Warren Webster have 
been relieved in the Department of the East and ordered 
to report for duty in the Department of California. Sur- 
geon Chas. H. Alden is dispensed with in the Department 
of the Lakes, and will now dispense medicines and attend 
to\the surgery of the Department of Columbia, or in the 
vicinity where a few Modocs were suspended a few days 
since. 
—The headquarters of Companies G and K, Second In 
fantry, have been charged from Mobile to Mt. Vernon Bar- 
racks, Ala. Five companies of the Eighth and six compa- 
nies of the Ninth Infantry, under General Bradley, have re- 
turned from the Northern Pacific survey ‘The return of 
these troops had nothing to do with the downfall of the 
Northern Pacific in Wall street. 
—The ground of encampments have expired, and the 
troops are gradually going into winter quarters. Compa- 
nies D and Iof the Seventh Cavalry, have gone into quar- 
ters at Fort Totten, D. T., and like other portions of the 
army are preparing for the winter’s blasts. The army boys 
on some portions of the plains heve a rough time of it dur- 
ing the winter months, and no one can begin to estimate 
the amount of their sufferings. 
—fFirst Lieut. and Brevet Maj. Lafayette Hammond, 
Adjutant of the Twenty-third Infantry, died at Fort Yuma, 
California, Sept. 6th, after a long illness. Major Hammond 
served and held many responsible positions during the war, 
and was an officerof rare excellence and highly esteemed 
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in the army. He was physically imposing in his bearing 
and one of the handsomest officers of the service. 
—First Lieut. Woodruff, a promising young officer of the 
Engineer corps, was one of the victims to the ravages of 
the yellow fever at Shreveport, La., Oct. 1st. On Sept. 10th 
he returned to Shreveport from the service of the import- 
ant undertaking, in process, of removing the Red river 
rafts, which have so long obstructed navigation, not being 
warned of the epidemic. Instead of fleeing from the dan- 
ger, as m»st of the panic-stricken cirizens were then doing, 
he joined the Howard Association and faithfully devoted 
himself to the care of the slek; but not being acclimate 1, 
he, too, after a week, was stricken with the disease, and 
two weeks later died. 
—Captain Seneca H. Norton, of the Second Cavalry, 
following the illustrious example set by some of the Gov, 
ernment officials, not long since undertook to apply to his 
own personal use a small detachment of the cavalry of the 
army, comprising four enlisted men and four horses, by 
employing them in drawing material, etc., to be used in the 
construction of a quartz mill at Cherry creek, Montana, in 
the net proceeds of which mill he was pecuniarily inter- 
ested. Now the Government has not the least objection, 
we presume, to any of its poorly paid officers making for- 
tunes rapidly, if they can, by legitimate means, nor does 
it even object to their adding to their small means by Wall 
street speculations, etc. It, however, has many serious ob- 
jections to its officers using United States property in so 
doing, and if it come to light in the army, the officer found 
guilty has to suffer the consequences. The dignity of the 
army must be sustained, even if the dignity of the Govern- 
ment suffers in many of its civic departments by similar 
transactions. Captain Norton therefore has been tried, 
found guilty of the charge of ‘‘conduct to the prejudice 
of good order and discipline,” and sentenced to ‘‘ be sus- 
pended from rank and command until December, 1873, 
and to forfeit fifty dollars of his pay per month, for six 
months.”’ 
—Colonel Ronald McKenzie, Fourth Cavalry, has been 
granted a three months’ leave on surgeon’s certificate of 
disability. We presume therefore the dashing ‘‘“McKen- 
zie raids” along the Rio Grande will cease until this officer 
again resumes command. 
Art and Drama. 
EW York the last week was crowded with dramatic 
representations. All classes of society, not only the 
theatre goers, but the church goers, joined, it would seem, 
in an unusual turn out for evening entertainments and mid 
day matinees. The weather has been simply superb, and 
way toward midnight the principal thoroughfares of our 
great city. especially in the vicinity of Union Square, were 
crowded with animated groups on their way home, dis- 
cussing the merits of the new opera stars, or the grandeur 
of the Evangelical Alliance. Our city with these influences, 
joined with the balmy night air, resembled a southern 
European capitol, under the excitement of some great na- 
tional upheaval, a centennial anniversary for instance, or 
an inauguration of a new sovereign. We venture to pre- 
dict, that this ‘“‘holiday work,” will materially improve 
the excellent sanitary condition of the city—will show 
that it has driven dull care from many aching brows, 
opened a brighter future to the nervous and hypochondri- 
cal invalid, stimulated intellectual enquiry, and made our 
citizens and our innumerable visitors better, and conse- 
quently happier. Altogether, New York has presented an 
unrivaled front in all matters that pertain to intellectual 
enjoyment, and moral culture; verily we gradually ap- 
proach our destiny, of being the true metropolitan cen- 
ter of civilization. 
No marked sensations are to be recorded immediately re- 
lating to our dramatic world. The managers of the two 
grand operas have at last brought all their forces into the 
fieid, and the companies are as strong as possible, and 
alike presenting the most varied excellencies, and certainly 
most evenly balanced in merit. All that can be obtained, 
that is soul-stirring, and truly sublime from combinations 
of the human voice, and musical instruments, is pre- 
sented to perfection. The audiences are large, but pre- 
sent no real enthusiasm. Not a lady’s eye through the 
whole routine of opera representations up to date, has 
beamed as brilliantly at Nilsson or Tamberlik, as it beamed 
atthe ‘‘last opening” of the fall fashions. This fact was 
illustrated when the audience at the Academy of Music 
was informed that Miss Nilsson was ‘‘indisposed,” and 
that her place at a ‘‘moment’s warning,’ would be un- 
dertaken by Signora Torriani. This was a disappointment, 
for the audience had decided it was ‘‘the thing” to ad- 
mire Nilsson, so they were at seas as to their treatment of 
the gallant lady, who had under such adverse circumstan- 
ces come to the rescue. The first act of ‘‘ Lucia de Lammer- 
moor” was gone throgh with—the hearers listless—the 
ladies busied themselves with talking innocent gossip, the 
gentlemen yawned, because they thought it was safe to do 
so. 
But on went the gallant Torriani, conscious of her real 
merit, and evidenty determined to improve an unexpected 
first-class opportunity. The result was, that the audience 
was forced to attend at the opening of the second act— 
once daring to admire, the wall of suspicion broke down, 
and all became enthusiastic, and ‘‘ Lucia” was never more 
satisfactorily given under the Strakosch management, 
Miss Nilsson we fear is becoming indifferent from over 
praise and attention, and there is a cold windblowing ove 


