Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-06-29

ing is an extract from letter written by ".
W. Shrivcr esq.,, of Cumberland, in 1860, and
Just published in the Newly ork Turf, Field and
Farm:
The experiment of transpating the game
fish Of the Ohio river TO the head waters OF
the Potomac river at the town Of Cumberland,
Aega6y county, Nd, was contemplated by
me before the completion of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad to Wheeling, but no satisfactory
mode suggested itself until the completion of
that work in 1853 In the following year |
made II first trip, but made several afterwards
in the same year, conveying the fish IN per
iorated bucket made to fit the opening in the
tank of the locomotive, which being supplied
with fresh water at the several stations kept the
fish alive, fresh and sound; they were young,
small and carefully selected. On the arrival at
Cumberland they were put into the basin OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal from which
they had ceress aud ingress to the Potomac
river and its tributaries above and below the
dam at Cumberland. | am pleased to learn
from yourself and others that this my first
piscatorial experiment, the object OF which was
to supply the waters Of the Potomac with some
of the varieties of game fish equal in size and
quality to any that ever Inhabited the fresh
complete success, and [ feel that [ have been
fully compensated for all the time, trouble and
expense | have given to it. The following are
the varieties of fish transplanted :-Green bass
varying in size from Ill., to 5lbs perch vary
ing in size from lib. to l5lbs salmon varying
in size from lib. to 13lbs; Jack salmon vary
ing in size from lib. to 3Ibs; blue cat varying
in size from lib to 20ibs. These fish, from all
ali can learn, arc known to exist in any of the
streams east Of the Allegheny Mountains from
the tails of Niagara north, to the Cult Of
Mexico, south, while they exist in every stream
west of the Alleghanies and in every lake and
Stream south and west of the Falls of Niagara
and as far south as the Gulf OF Mexico. These
fish, like almost all fresh water fish, ascend the
streams with the first rise in the Spring, say
April or May, for the purpose of spawning and
remain up all Spring and Summer, and descend
with the first rise Of water in the Fall, say
October or November, for the purpose of tax
ing up their Winter quarters in the deepest
waters they can find.
THE STATE OF VIRGINIA VS.. THE CHEsA-
pEAKE AND ONO CANAL CoMpANY.-T
case Of the State of Virginia VS. the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Company. the trustees
under a mortgage and the holders of repair
bonds, was concluded in Baltimore on Friday.
The State OF Virginia in its complaint alleged
that it's prior claims amounted to 100000 of
repair bonds guaranteed by that State, and
which were taken up by the guarantee as they
fell due after the first of Janury, 1858, togeth-
or with the interest thereon, besides the pay
ment of $4,000 Of certificates, and ask an in
junction to prevent the canal company from
using any of the net receipts, except for the
payment of the prioriies claimed. The deci-
sion of Judge Pinckney has not yet been rem
dered, and whatever it may be, the case will 60
to the Court of Appeals.