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VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1877. NO. 254 THE CREAT RACE. The Two and One-Half Mile Con test at Baltimore. WASHINGTON. OPPOSITION TO HILLIARD’S CONFIRMATION. Great Excitement Among Men and Women. TERRIBLE ODDS ON TEN BKOECK PAROLE 'WON IN 4:37}, TEN BROEOK SECOND, OCHILTREE THIRD—RAGE DETAILED- TIME—MANT CONGRESSMEN PRESENT— PAROLE CLEANS THE KENTUCKIAN8, WHO STAKED TEN BROECK, OUT OF THOUSANDS. CONTEST OYER A TENNESSEE CIRCUIT— EVERYBODY GONE TO BALTIMORE RAGES— NEGROES ENDORSING CHESTER FOB THE LIBERIAN MISSION—BPOFFOBD BEFORE THE COMMITTEE—SENATE RESTAURANT KEEFER—STANLEY MATTHEWS DEMANDS THE DISCHARGE OF A SENATE COMMITTEE CLERK—BITTING BULL WON’T ACCEPT ANY TERMS FROM THE UNITED BTATE8—SHEL- LABABGKR DEFENDS LOUISIANA RETURN ING BOARD. Pamlico, October 24.—The mile for all ages—Adair won, First Ohanoe 2d, Madge 3d, in 1:45}. One and three-fourth mile—Viceroy won, Mary 2d, Kewny 3d, in 3:11. Two and one-half mile—Parole won, Ten Broeok 2d, Ochiltree 3d, in 4:37}. EXCITEMENT. When the horses came np to weigh af*» ter the race Parole was received with cheers, and the people gathered around him. As soon as his jockey was weighed, the crowd raised him on their shoulders and carried him about the track with cheer upon cheer, until it become a per fect ovation. Such excitement was never witnessed in Baltimore on any previous racing occasion. In the French pool the investment of five dollars on Parole realized one hun- dred and thirteen. THE GREAT RACE DETAILED. Baltimore, October 24. — The third race and great event of the day and of the meeting was a dush of two and a half miles for all ageB, $500 entrance fee, play or pay, club to add $1,000. T. B. Harpers b. h. Ten Broeck, five years old, Walker rider, weighing 114 pounds; George L. Lorillard’s b. b. Tom Ochiltree, five years old, Barbee rider, weight 114 pounds, and P. Lorillard’s b. g. Parole, four years old, Barrett rider, weight 105 pounds, were starters. In the pools Ten Broeck was the favor ite by large odds, selling against the field nearly two to one. He sold for $1200, while Tom Ochiltree brought $400 and Parole $335. EXCITEMENT. The wildest excitement prevailed about the pool stands, and in the grand stand the ladies became almost as muoh exoited as the Bterner sex. THE RUNNING. On the quarter stretoh the horses start ed well, with Ten Broeck in front, Tom Ooliiltree 2d and Parole 3d; on the upper turn Ten Brook opened two lengths ahead of Tom, and Parole was two lengths behind; and at the end of the quarter, while Ten Broeck held his advantage, Parole fell back two lengths. The first half-mile was run without change, and when the horses passed the stand, the moBt intense exoitement prevailed. Around the lower turn Tom Oohiltree recovered one length, and at the quarter pole waB only one length behind Ten Broeck, with Parole three lengths behind On the back stretoh Ochiltree gained another half length,and Parole ran easily, at his distance of two lengths in the rear and at the half mile Oohiltree was only a half length behind Ten Broeck, while Parole had gained one lenth. On tho upper tarn Oohiltree went ahead and showed a head in front, increasing his advan tage to a half length at the three-quarter pole. Down the home stretch he increased the advantage to two lengths, with Parole three lengths be hind Ten Broeok. In that order they passed the stand, but iu the lower turn Ten Broeok gained a length he had lost, as did also Parole. At the quar ter Ten Broeok and Oohiltree ran head and head, and on the back stretch Ten Broeck showed a head in front. He in creased his advantage at the half mile, and went into tho upper turn one length ahead of Oohiltree, who lead Parole over a length. At the three-quarter pole, Parole made a dash and ran up even with Oohiltree. Down the home stretoh, the running was fine. Parole went gallantly to the front and finished two lengths ahead of Ten Broeck, who beat Tom Oohiltree three lengths. Time 4:37}. The time of the first quarter was 0:30}; the half, 0:53}: the three-quarters, 1:38}; the mile, 1:55}; the mile and a quarter, 2:20}; the one" and a half, 2:47}; the one and three-quarter, 3:15; the two miles, 3:42; the two and a quarter, 4:01)}, and the two and a half, 4*31)}. HURDLE. Deadhead won the hnrdle. A QUORUM OF CONGRESS PRESENT. Among tho throng present to witness the races to-doy were Senators Bayard, Don Cameron, David Davis, Beck, Mo- Creery, McDonald, Bruce, Gordon, Arm strong, Thurman, Howe, Johnston, Ogles** by, Ransom and Maxey, and members of the House of Representatives. THE BETTING on all the raoes was heavy, and thousands of dollars, at heavy odds, were staked on Kentucky’s favorite. [Note.—Barr, the Southern press ngent at Washington, adds to the above that he is glad now he oonldn't go. We presume from this be would have bet on the wrong horse, Ten Broeck.—Night Ed.] Billy Pastor Dfad-Strlking Cigar Makers. New York, October 24.—Billy Pastor is dead. The striking cigar makers have organ ized for a prolonged struggle, and yester day opened a provision kitchen and dis tributed food to nearly five hundred men and women, comprising one hundred and fifty families. The hands of two more Bhops struck yesterday. One firm seoeded from the Manufacturers’ Union, and ac ceded to the demand of the workmen and consented to employ none but Union men. THE TURK0-RUSSIAN WAR. RUSSIANS REPULSED AT KARS. THE SIXTH TENNESSEE CIRCUIT. Washington, October 24.—The oontest between the two Baxters of Tennessee will probably give the Oirouit Judgeship of the 6th district to Michigan. GONE TO THE BAOE8. Everybody of any account has gone to the Pamlioo races except this paragraph*• ist, who iB sorry for himself. NEGROES ENDORSING CHESTER FOR LIBERIAN MISSION. Revs. John V. Given and J. F. Lyons, of the African M. E. church, had an inter view with Secretary Evarts to-day in be half of General Chester, and urged his appointment to the Liberian mission. They also filed a document from Bishop T. M. D. Ward, of the same denomina tion, endorsing Chester. SPOFFORD BEFOBR THE COMMITTEE. Washington, October 24.—Mr. Spof- ford, before the Privileges and Elections Committee, to-day argued that according to the Constitution, the Louisiana Re • turning Board has nothing whatever to do with the question of who were eleoted Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the State of Louisiana, and as the Louis' iana law requires all election returns to be delivered to the Secretary of State, and not to the Returning Board, he claimed a seat on those grounds. Most of tho time was consumed iu referring to past reoords and reading journals, Ac., of the Louisiana Legislature. billiard’s confirmation. The Star says, Representatives Stephens and Harris called at the State Department to-day, in the interest of Hilliard’s confirmation as Minister to Brazil, against which there is some oppo sition. SENATE RESTAURANT. Wheeler has given the Senate restan rant to Oscar Barron, proprietor of the Twin Mountain House, New Hampshire, STANLEY MATTHEWS WANTS A CLERK RE MOVED. Senator Stanley Matthews has request ed Senator Dorsey, Ghairman of the Senate District of Colombia Committee, to remove his clerk, W. E. Curtis, corres pondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, on aocount of a letter reflecting on him, Matthews, written by Curtis. THE SITTING BULL MISSION A FAILURE. The official report of the mission to Sitting Bull, after many words, says Sit ting Bull and his chiefs declined the pro posals. The Canadian commissioner had subsequently an interview with Sitting Bull Hud his chiefs, from which we were excluded. In a communication to the United States the Canadian commissioner says in conclusion: I do not think there need be the least anxiety about any of these Indians crossing the line—at any rate not for some time to come. SHELLABARGER DEFENDS LOUISIANA RETURN ING BOARD. Speoial to Enquirer-Sun.] Washington, October 24.—Arguing before the Committee on Privileges nnd Elections in behalf of Kellogg, in conclu sion, Judge Shellabarger entered into an impassioned defence of the justice and equity of tho action of the Returning Board. He specially referred to the Ver non Parish returns for the forgery of which indictments have been found against the Beard, asserting that this oharge was, to his knowleaege, a calum nions outrage. THE RU88IANB PURSUING THE BIT BEATING TURKS IN ARMENIA. RUSSIAN MOBILIZATION OF OOS8ACKB. London, Oct. 24.—On dit—Russia or ders the mobilization of all Cossacks, which will give her ninety-one additional regi ments. FAMINE IN MONTENEGRO. Twenty-one thousand Montenegrins are famine stricken. MOUKHTAH PASHA SAFE. Moukbtah Pasha is safe. Ismael Paaha'a retreat and janotion with Monkhtah Paaha is, however, seriously menaced. RUSSIANS REPULSED BEFORE KAB8—THEY ARE PURSUING ISMAIL PASHA. London, October 24.—A Reuter from Erzeroum, says the following intelligence has been received from Kars: On the 13th instant the Russians attacked Fort Alienz before Kars, but were repulsed. Ismail Fuaha arrived at Zeidikan on the 23d instant. He is expected to join Ghazi Moukhtar Pasha at Zewin. Gen. Terguktizoff is pursuing Ismail Pasha. A Russian detachment is in Saghaulie Dagb. FRANCE. THE COURSE OF THE MINISTERS. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] London, October 24.—In addition to its statement telegraphed last night that at the close of yesterday morning’s Conn- oil President MaoMahou plainly informed Ministers DeBroglie and Fourton that the idea of ministerial changes could not be eutertniued at the present moment, the semi-official Moniteur, of Paris, says the Cabinet will meet the Chamber, vindicate its policy and reply to all attacks and in terpellations. President MaoMahon’s ul timate course will depend on the attitade of the Senate, and the Senate’s aotion will be guided by the position taken up by the majority of the Deputies. [Note.— The foregoing may be merely a continua tion of the coersive policy, designed to affect the supplemental elections.] FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, Washington, October 24.—The House discussed Colorado all day. Randall will name committees Monday, MENA1E. No session. TRIENNIAL EPISCOPAL CONVENTION Excnnlon Hates to Pensacola. Nashville, Tenn., October 24.—The Convention of the Western and Southern railway lines met here to-day, with 0. A. Atmore President, and decided to pnt ex cursion tickets on sale to Pensacola, Fla., on the basis of $33 from Louisville to Pensacola and return, $4G from St. Louis and $28 from Nashville. General inter est is oentered on Pensacola as the Flor ida point for tho coming soason. Ad American llorsv H im an Edr- Iifcli llaoe. London, Ootober 24.—At New Market Hangbton meeting to day, the race for the second class Czarowitob stakes was iron by Mr. Sandford's horse, Mate, beat- ing Rosini, his only rival. THE MI88IOX BOARD. Boston, Oct. 24.—At the evening sea sion of the Episcopal Convention, the discussion of the cunon relating to the organization of the Board of Missions was continued, and finally the canon was adopted. The canon provides that insti tution be denominated Domestio and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protes tant Episcopal Church in the United States. CONCURRENCE OF THE BISHOPS. The Bishops now concur in the use of the English Leotionary until the next General Convention. The subject was referred to a joint committee of the Con ference. The Bishops oonour in the nse of the special Table of Lesson in the Lectionary for Lent. CIGAR DlAKERfir STRIKE. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Philadelphia, Ootober 24.—At the meeting of the cigar makers, held to organize a plan of support for their New York brethren, who are now on a strike, a large sum of money was raised, which will be forwarded. Committees were also appointed to raise additional collections iu the shopH. GERMANY. Berlin, Ootober 24.—A 15,000,000 mark deficit is anticipated in the German Exchequer. Democrats Carry Baltimore. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Baltimore, Ootober 24.—The eleotion for Mayor and members of the City Counoil was quiet and orderly. The vote was unusually large. George P. Kane, Democrat, reoeived 33,178; Joseph Thompson, Working-Men’s candidate, 17,363; H. M. Warfield. Reform, 535. The Democrats eleoted every member of both branobes of the Counoil. A Sick Ship. Special to the Enquirer-Sun.} New York, Ootober 24.—Spoken Ooto ber 18, lat. 32 deg. 40 min., long. 77 deg. 38 min., schooner Norman, from Mobile for Boston. All hands sick. Cubau Leudcrv to be Carried to Spain. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Madrid, Ootober 24.—It is stated Don Tomas Esbrada and other Cuban leaders, taken prisoners in Ouba, will be brougnt to Spain. Immense Grtiln Arrival* at Buffalo New York, Ootober 24.—A dispatch from Buffalo, dated 23d, says there has been immense arrivals of grain here within the last 24 hours. Eighty-seven Like vessels, bringing over 2,500,000 bushels, destined for Tide Water, having come into port since 8 o’olook last night. Cassimere Factory Burned. Providence, R. I., Ootober 24.—The Fancy Cassimere Mill, employing 250 hands, was burned. Loss $100,000. Failure at Bouton. Boston, Ootober 24.—The Bay State Iron Company has called a meeting of its creditors. Liabilities $500,000. A com mittee will wind up its business. Weather. Washington, October 24.—Indications: For the South Atlantic and East Gulf States, warmer, partly cloudy weather, light variable winds, stationary or lower pressuro, followed in the second distriot by rain areas. Louisiana Affairs. New Orlaans, October 24.—The in junction forbidding the School Board es tablishing separate schools for whites and blacks was dissolved. The European syndicate proposes to loan to Louisiana nearly $13,000,000 to ease her finances. Editor Dead. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] New Haven, October 24.—Minnott Os born, for many years senior editor aud proprietor of the New Haven Daily Rtffii- ter is dead. Aged 67 years. The Woman Who Got Tweed Money. Celia Logan In tho Baltimore Sun.] I had a little business to transact a few days ago with a eertain dealer in real es tate. While sitting in his office there en tered a lady, tall, straight, well built and graceful. Not young, although art had been made to do its share to make her appear so. She was dressed all in black, the silk being oovered with real Spansih illusion—a very beautiful, oostly and per ishable material, seldom worn in this or any other country, on acoount of its ex- peosiveness. She was loaded with jewelry —the diamonds in her ears were almost as large as walnuts,and could cot have coat less than ten thousand dollars. Even the handle of her parasol must have cost large sum. Her carriage and pair outside were enough to make one’s mouth water, ho splendid were they. This lady talked in a loud, shrill voice, with a ring of oom maud in it, as that of a person possessing power and conscious of it. And no d»r she looks grandly, and talks as if ac customed to carry matters with a high hand, for this is Mrs. MacMillan, the lady to whom Tweed, in those days when he was flush and liberal, is said to have pre sented a mansion on Fifth avenue worth $30,000! And as fnrher proof of his em fidenoo in her discretion and business ability, he is reported to have deposited for safe keeping, until be abandons his retirement, the snug sum in bonds, etc., of $12,000,000 or $14,000,000, leaving himself, as he truly states, with only a few paltry hundreds of thousands. A secret drawer in an old bureau in New Orleans was found to contain an explosive machine, intended to demolish anybody, but the owner attempted an opening. Age bad destroyed the effect* iveness of the device, however, so that when tho drawer was pulled out there was no explosion. The contents oonsist* ed of old papers of no value or interest, and it is supposed that the arrangement was a result of somebody's insanity, ELECTIONS OF PRERIDENTM AMD VICE PRESIDENTS. The Senate has now a resolution pend, ing appointing a committee of seven to confer with a like committee from the House to consider the best mode for pro viding for the eleotion of President aud Vioe President. Mr. Springer has already prepared amendments whioh he will introduce into the House. We condense the provisions as we find them in the Herald. It provides the term of the President be for six years Bnd be ineligible to re-elec tion the ensuing term. Eaoh State shall be entitled to as many electoral votes as it has Senators and Representatives iu Congress, except that States having but one member of the House, shall be entitled to but one vote, and States having but two members shall be entitled to but three. Each shall vote ou the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, 1880, and every sixth year after. The electors shall be suoh as are qualified to vote for members of the most numerous branch of the Stato Legislature. We quote from the Herald: It shall be the duty of the Governor, the Secretary of State aud the Chief Jus tice of the highest appellate court in euoh State to weei at the scut of government of the Stato ou the second Wednesday of December next alter each Presidential eleotion and canvass the votes cast in such State fur Pre&ident and Vice Presi dent of the United States, but suoh can vassers shall have only ministerial powers. They shall aggregate uil the votes cast for President and Vice President. They shall divide the aggregate popular vote by the number of the Presidential votes to which such State is entitled, aud the quotient shall be the ratio of a Presidential vote in ■uoh State at said eleotion. The whole number of votes received by euoh candi date for President shall bo divided by the Presidential ratio and the quotient shall represent the number of votes to whioh said Presidential candidates shall be en titled in such Slates. Tho candidates having the largest fractions shall be enti tled to the odd State votes. They shall make a similar disposition of the votes oast for Vioe President. They shall there upon certify iu triplicate the result of their canvass of the votes oast in suid State, and they shall transmit one copy to the Judge of the District Court of the United States in whose district the can vass is made, one oopy to the President of the Senate and one copy to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. The Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States shall meet in the hall of the House of Representatives on the third Monday in January succeed ing every election of a President and Vice President, and the President of the Sen 1 ate shall be the presiding officer unless he be one of the persons who bus received a majority of the votes of any State for President or Vioe President at said eleo tion, in which case the Speaker of the House of Representatives, unless he shall also have received a like vote, in which oase the joiut convention shall choose a presiding officer. All the certificates re oeived shall then be opened by the presid- ing officer and the votes shall be oouuted. The person having the greatest number of voieB torPresidentshuli be the President and the person having the greutest uum her of voles for Vice President shall be the Vioe President. The joint convention shall be tbe judge of the eleotion returns and qualifications of the persons who shall be the President and Vice President, and the two houses acting separately, or the suid joint convention when assembled, may make all tbe needful rules and regu lations for canvassing the voles and for ascertaining and declaring the result ot the eleotion. If said joint convention shall not have declared the result prior to the second Monday in February next suc ceeding each Presidential election, it shall, at twelve o’clock of said day, pro ceed, to the exclusion of all other ques tions, to vote, viva voce, on each office separately upon the question as to who was eleoted, agreeably to the constitution, President and Vice President of the United States at the said election, and the result shall be entered on tbe journal of each house. A majority of the members pres ent, eaoh member having one vote, shall determine all questions tbat may arise in said convention. article xvii. Seotion 4 of article 1 of the Constitu tion shall be amended so as to read as follows: “There shall be au election in each State for Representatives in Congress on the Tuesday next after the first Monday iu November, A. D 1880, aud every sec ond year thereafter. The place and man ner of bolding 6uch elections shall be prescribed in each State by the Legisla ture thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regnla- tions. The terms of tho Representatives elected in November, 1880, shall begin ou the first Wednesday in January there after, and tho terms of their predecessors shall expire on said day. “The times, places and manner of ohoosing Senators shall bo prescribed in each State by tho Legislature thereof; bnt the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations except as to the plaoes of choosing Senators. Terms of Senators shall expire on tho first Wed nesday in January, A. D., 1881, and every two years thereafter according to their respective classes. “The Congress shrtll assemble on tho first Wednesday in January, A. D., 1881, and on tbesame day iu onchy ear thereafter; bat special sessions may be culled at other times by tho President.” OIL ON THE WATERS. PEACEFUL C'ODNkEL FICOM HOR TON'S SICK BED. the repurlioan party leaders and the president's policy. Indianapolis, Oct. 22.—The following editorial will appear iu tho Journal to morrow. It expresses Senator Morton’s views upon the duty of Republican mem bers of Congress, having been rend to him, reoeived bis hearty approval aud embracing his ideas: While there are few Republicans who can give a full aud hourly indorsement to every act and declaration of the Preai dent whioh goes to make up what an known as his Southern and civil service policies, yet we huvu seen nothing, taken either separately or collectively, to justi fy Republicans in distrusting either hts patriotism or his Republicanism. There seems to be a feeling ou tho part of those who disapprove of certain nets of the President that they are better Republicans nnd more fuithful to the principles of the party than he. Suoh usHumptiou does injustice to the President. He is an original Re publican, and has been tested for twouty years as a soldier and civilian, nud bus never wavered or been fouud wanting iu his devotion to the great fundamental dootrines of the Republican party, lie was eleoted as a Republican, and it is im possible for him, with tho present organi zation of parties, even if ho should so de sire, to aot other than as a Republican President. Until it is demonstrated that he has not this devotion and this denire the Republicans iu Congress should l ot breuk with him ou mere questions of puls icy. President llayes has u most difficult role, and, instead of receiving the un friendly criticisms and attacks of his par ty friends, he should receive their sup port and be given their best advice. The President’s paramount duty is to tho country, and if he wore to place simple party success above the public interest he would render himsolf hateful to every right minded man and infamous iu history Tho day for discussion has passed to the right or wrong of the Southern pol- ioy. We might not have gone to tho same extent in pl#oing the South upon its hon or; wo might, after what has transpirod iu tho past few years, have required some protection er exacted some boud to keep the peace, but President Hayes has seen proper to accept the assurance of the people of the South that they will main tain tho law and rospeot the equal rights of all classes, and if they keep fuith with the Administration, his Southern policy cannot fail. As long as these pledges ure kept the policy should bo supported, and we Hhould sustain the President in tho efforts he is making for peace. When these StateB fail to maintain tho law and protect tho equal rights of classes we shall expect the peace policy to he abac** doned by the Administration and a forco policy inaugurated. The President was elected under a pledge of civil service reform. The pledge was made by his party and was fully ap proved and endorsed by him. The votes of the people had been proourod for him upon his sol emn promise that ho would inaugurate the reforms demanded. Iu consultation with his Cabinet ho laid down three lead ing rules: 1. That he would not remove any faith ful, competent officer without cause, aud would not retain au incompetent officer for any cause. 2. That, while he would freely advise with Senators and members of Congress, their recommendations should not be im perative, and in no case lead him to vio late the first rule. 3. That any one assuming to perform the duties of a public office and receiving its reward sould give to it his undivided attention. Who can object to one of these rules ? Tho executors may, and, we doubt not, have drifted into some proscriptive meas ures whioh they will have to abandon' The details may not have been applied practically. It iH not likely the Adminis tration oan control the action of civil of ficers conueotod with the detail work of their party, nor do wo believe there is u necessity to do so. Liberty of thought aud action should not be abridged t»e- oatiHO a man happens to be in office. When a civil officer performs faithfully and honestly the duties imposed by his office, this is all thut should bo required, and au attempt to dictate what political work an officer may perform for his party must of right and necessity fail. This will be discovered by the President about as quickly as by Congress, and it is a matter of minor importance. Congres sional patronage may have boon abused, Wo have no doubt it Las been, but it is impossible be should know all the appli cants for offloe in tho several States, that he should know bven one good i tor each of the offices to ho filled, and we know of no safer advisers in reference to such applicants than the Senators and members of Congress who represent the people. If any Senator or member should prove himself an unsafe advisor then the President would bo justified in ignoring him and seeking information from other sources and judge for himself with all the lights he can obtain as to tbe fitness of the applicant. The Republicans in Congress should not embarrass the Administration by any factious opposition to tho measures in augurated or appointments made, and should seek to promote tho harmony of tho party, in which none are more inter ested than the President and his Cabinet, and to secure which they have only to remain steadfast Republicans. CATCHING THE DEVIL FI8II. THE MOBT TERRIBLE OF THE KNOWN MON STERS OF THE OCEAN. Now York Sun ] The enormous ootopus in the Now York Aquarium, the largest ever caught, is at- attracting attention. Viotor Hugo has vividly described the prodigious power of this dovil of the sea, with its long feelers aud great, muscular arms, covered with rows of snekers, which instantaneously, fastening to any living thing they touch, drag the victim uuder water and to death, to feed the monster which, hiddeu iu the orevioe of a rook, lies in wait for his prey. Moro than 2,200 years ago Aristotle re corded observations of tho octopus, or polypus, whioh allow that he had then a better knowledge of its wavs than any othor writer since his day. The fish has long boon known to naturalists. It figui among Egyptian hieroglyphics, and from a knowledge of it was probably originated tbe idea of tho Lernean Hydra, whose heads, when out off by Hercules, grew again. In 1867 an octopus was exhibited in the aquarium in Boulogne, and iu 1872 the first specimen wus received in tho Brigh ton Aquarium, it was very small, aud was caught in a lobster pot at Eastbourne. Like all of its kind it dislikes the light, aud soon built for itself a grotto of living oysters, which tiio attendants called the “Cottage by the Sea,” and in whioh it lay partly concealed most of the tirno, only occasionally emerging from its hiding place. In January, 1873, it was swallow ed whole by a voracious dogfish. The dovil fish now in this city is an euormous specimen. Its body is ten feet long, it has two tentacles thirty feet long, and eight arms eleven feet long. The tentacles are long, thin, of triaugular form, end tough as leather, and are d at tho ends with over 100 suckers each. The arms have two rows of suckers running their entire length. An notual count was not made, but it is estimated that altogether it has between 2,000 and 2,500 suckers. Tho sucking disks are composed of a muscular membrane, whoso circum ference is thick and fleshy. Tho outer circle of the cup is a horned ring sharply separated around its edge. When they strike a victim tho sharp points penetrate tbe skin, and tho cups, by nir exhaustion from within aud consequent pressure of tho outer atmosphero, adhere firmly to any substance to which they are applied. The object thus secured, so firmly bound by these terrible arms that no strugglo for freedom can bo made, is carried to its mouth and torn to shreds beforo it is de voured. Tho head is about two foot and a linlf iu circumference, tho eyes largo and sturing, and the beak, formed almost exactly like n parrot’s, is Very powerful Tho aotion of tho octopus when seizing its prey is liko that of a eat pouncing upon a mouse, but tho struggle is shorter, and there is something devilish in its movement ns it plunges its fierce black, horny beak deep into tho quivering ttosh of its yet living victim. Tho Professor told the Sun reporter how ho caught tho fish, whioh may loam our Snnppers something : “But you were asking how I caught my dovil fish. Well, I neurly forgot them but now I will tell you how it is done. First you must remember that ho is au enormous eater and a groat lover of shell fish. If, when slowly sailing along the shore at low water, I see anywhere lots of mussel shells piled up in heaps, I know that there iH a devil hidden in the rocks somewhere near by, aud I move off’ care fully, so as not to disturb him, for if he is frightened he is likely to cjoot his ink, u a second make tho water black as Egypt, and under cover of this darkness to escupe. Next I bait a good strong pot with a dead lobster, for which ho has a great liking, some mussels, and perhaps a few oysters. Then I lower it as neur as I oan guess in front of his hole. Iu a very little time ho will go iu to get his dinner, and then while ho is eating I bring him quickly to the surface, and to secure my game. That is the way wo got tho little fellows. I should hate to bo in the Lizzie, though, (tbat is my littlo boat, named after the wife of Mr. Edward lteioho, the first gentleman who successfully brought tropical fish to New York,) and have a forty-foot fellow taokle me. I am nfraid the catch would bo ou tho wrong side and that it would be the last of both me and tho boat, nud that ho would not leave so muoh us the American Hug to float over Ladies’ and Misses’ Striped Hose just opened at Lie’s New Store, 102 Broad street. oc21 lw The first object iu life with tho Ameri can people is to “get r>ch”; the second, how to regoin good health. Tho first can be obtained by energy, honesty ana sav ing; tho seooud, (good health) by using Green’s August Flower. Should you bo a despondent sufferer from any of tho ef fects of Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, In digestion, Ac., such us Sick Headache, Palpitation of the Heart, Sour Stomach, NEW SAMPLES FALL AND WINTER 1B77 and 1070, Thomas A Prescott, having received a large variety of Fall and Winter Samples, are now prepared to tnko measures and have Special Order Suits made up at short notice, in the most elegant styles. Perfect natief'auction guaranteed. CiT The latest Fashion Plate ou exhibi tion. an 10 tf The largest assortment of Gold and Pla- “I suppose, however, that after the fish nro caught jour troubles are over, and thut bringing them to New York is com paratively au easy matter.” “You do, eh ! Why, then, is just when my trouble begins. As soon as I get u good supply and *a good assort merit of fish, I start from Platt’s Villinge for Ham ilton, aud try to get there on steamer day as near as possible to tho hour for sailing. If the weather is fine, I sail across the Sound iu the Lizzie, and tow my fish after mo in a zinc car, which was made espe ciully for the purpose ; hut if it is windy and rough, I put them in big tin cans, filled with their native water, aud rido them uoroHH tho country in carts. Arriv ing on the wharves, I do not lose a mo ment iu getting my tanks ou thostonmer’u deck. Thou I connect them all by syphons, and at once start a smnll steam pump going, which keeps u fresh supply of water continually passing through them. This continues lor about twenty- three hours uud until we leave the Gulf stream, where tho water is from 80 to 82 deg. Thou the pump is stopped, for the water suddenly drops to u temperature of from 60 to 62 deg., and if used m half an hour would kill all my fish. It would be like taking them out of warm water aud plunging them into an ioo bath, and trop ical fish are very sensitive to tho most trifling change in the temperature of tbe water in which they are kept. 1 now test the water every half hour, and chango it frequently from a supply tauk I keep filled aud warmed uutil wo pass Sandy Hook. There a now trouble awaits mo. The water becomes muddy, impuro aud utterly unfit for my oho. From this point to New York I cannot chango tho water, but I immediately start my little donkey engine again, this time attached to an air pump, which unceasingly forces j a current of uir through tho water, thus keeping it well oxygenized until we roach Now York. Of course I lose aoine fish on the way, particularly if wo have rough, stormy weather, and they are knocked around a great deal, but I generally de liver from three-quarters to four-fifths of my invoice in good order. Novelties received weekly at Lee’s Now Store, 102 Broad stroet. condition of ihe great contractor s ESTATE. New York World.] Mr. W. R. Graoe, of the firm of W. R. Grace A Co., New York, andBryoe, Grace A Go., of Paris and Callao, says there is little doubt that the report of the death of Mr. Henry Meiggs, at Lima, on the 23th ultimo, is oorreot. Mr. Grace thinks that really nothing except a mass of worthless weourities and contracts is left behind Mr. Moiggs, and says that he sbonld be very sorry to be a creditor of the estate. Everything of real value, or nearly everything, had been got- teu rid of by him some time ago, and what may be left was probably mortgaged for its full value. Mr. Meiggs was a vis ionary man, who earned out vast schemes, but they were often things whioh a sound business man would consider worthless, aud he thiuks that the estAte cannot be settled so as to pay his debts, let alone leaving any surplus. The project of continuing the Oroya road to the Oerro de Pasoo mines has not been carried out. The road is finished, Mr. Graoe thinks, to about ninety miles from Lima, at a place oalled Anohi, having been pushed, at un enormous cost, to that place, whioh is about 11,000 feet above the level of the sea. The road, of course, is not doing any business. As for this pro ject of opening the Oerro de Pasco mines und draining them of water, Mr. Graoe considers it visionary in the extreme. There is nothing new in the project; it was a nursery fable when Mr. Graoe was a boy, iu Peru, over twenty-five years ago, uud was thought about as feasible as the discovery and recovery of the buried treasures of the late lamented Gapt. Kidd. The stories of the masses of silver left in those mines when they were drowned out by tho water from the mountains umong which they are situated, has lost nothing the repetition during all these years. Thu mines were opened by the Spaniards before the days of independence,and have been submerged ever since, but in parts they are and always have been working, while the shafts, which are being worked, are now three hundred feet deep,and muoh below that depth they cannot be worked on account of the water. Now this vis ionary scheme is to constrnot a tunnel to drain these mines and find masses and masses of silver worth millions and and millions. “Well, to give an idea of the work to do this,” Mr. Grace contin ued, “I must tell you that it would re quire moro time, money and labor; in faot, that it would bo a greater under taking in every way than tho work which Gen. Newton did up here at Hell Gate. One Inrge English house ruined itself years ago on that scheme. By the terms of Mr. Meiggs’ oontraot he must drive a tunnel with' galleries in tho solid rook, about sixty yards below the present drainage tunnel—a work of the mo*t stu pendous magnitude, anyway, and more especially when all tho material and ma** chtnery will have or would have to be transported from the remote seaooast up into those wild mountain tops. The $5,000,000 gauranteed by the Peruvian Government, if it was judiciously expend ed, would be about enough money for them to oommenoe to bore the tunnel with. “There has always been a halo of glory about this thing—a sort of an Alladin’s dream of silver in untold quantities, hich was grasped at by Meiggs as drowning men olntoh at straws. The sugar haciendas ou the line of tbe un finished Ghimbote railroad no longer be long to Mr. Meiggs, bnt are in possession of Mr. Dortiano, of the great honse of Dreyfus A Co. These two estates, on which over $1,000,000 a piece was ex pended in improvements nlone, were squandered and paid away as u commis sion on the sale of Peruvian bonds. They are now paying handsomely. The Ghimbote road was expected to open np a rich mining country, but failed to do so ; there are, turnover, some ooal and silver mining interests about there fairly pros perous, but they have passed out of Mr. Meiggs’ hands. His town house in Lima ho never owned, but his two neighboring estates, ‘Villegas’ aud ‘La Legna,’ he owned, subject, however, to mortgages foi more probably than they will ever realize. I do not know whether Mr. Meiggs still owned his magnificent house at Suntiago de Chili or not—*Da Quinta’ ho called it. I know he valued it at $500,000, and pat it np once and rallied it off, winning it himself, with the iuok that has always followed him. “Peruvian finances and credit, with whioh, of oourse, Mr. Meiggs was always intimately connected, are now in a very bad state.” Habitual CostiveDesH, Dizziness of tho i Watch Chains,Necklaces aud Lockets, Head, Nervous Prostration, Low Spirits, Ac., you need not suffer another day. Two doses of Auoust Flower will rolievo you at once. Sample bottles 10 cents ; regular size 75 oeuts. Positively sold by all ffrat-olass Druggists in the U. S. yon can see, at sep30 d3ui WTttich A Kinrel’s. New Flowers, Feathers and Wings just opened at Lee’s Now Store, 102 Broad my8 dAwly » street 10o dozen Hats, just opened, at Lee’s New Store, 102 Broad street. oct21 lw Tho best and largest selection of fine aud cheap jewelry in this city is at 8ep30 d3m Wittioh A Kinsel’s. AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PUBLIC. New York, Ootober 1st, 1877. I have devoted twenty years of patient study to tho Liver and its relations to the human body, iu search of a remedy whioh would rostoro it, when diseased, to its normal condition. Tho result of that la« bor has been the production of TIIIT’8 LIVER PILLN. Their popularity has become so extended and tho demand so great os to induce un scrupulous parties to counterfeit them, thereby robbing me of the reward, and tho afflicted of their virtues. TO CAUTION THE PUBLIC, and protect them from vile impositions, I have adopted a new label, which bears my trade-mark and notice of its entry in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, also my signature, thus : *WTTo Counterfeit this is forgery. Before purchasing, examine the label closely. THE GENUINE TUTT’S PILLS oxert a peculiar influence ou the system. Their action is prompt, and their good effoots are felt in a few hours. A quar ter of a century of study of the Liver has demonstrated that it exerts a greater in fluence over tho system than any other or gan of tho body, and when diseased tbe outiro organism is derauged. It is speci ally for the healing of this vital organ that I have spent so many years of toil, and having found the remedy, which has proved tho greatest boon ever furnished the nlUictod, shall they be deprived of its benefits, and a vile imitation imposed up on them ? Let the honest people of America see TO IT THAT THEY ARE NOT DEFRAUDED: Scrutinize the label closely, see that it bears all the marks above mentioned, and buy the medicine only from respectable dealers. It can be found everywhere. Very respectfully, tf W. H. TUTT,