The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-19
GENERALITIES.
A Presidential Aspirant.

The only Democrat who seems to be fully up
with the age is the Hon; Augustus Oakley Hall,
Mayor of New York. He has bid adeu to con-
servatism, old-fogyism, and the notions that
were in dispute before the flood, and goes forth
on q new campaign with the flag of free Cuba in
one hand and encouragement to American in
dustry and genius especially in yacht-building
and sailing, in the other. He does not believe
in fighting over again the battles in which the
party has been beaten because it deserved to be,
as do the Democrats of Pennsylvania; but he is
young, progressive, original, and audacious.
Who knows but that, after ALL we may have to
run him for the Presidencyin 1872? ?-N. Y. Sum-
After BOrie.
At meeting of the Maine Historical Society,"
q few days since, resolution was passed ex-
pressing regret that any officer of our Govern
ment with sweep of his pen should endeavor
to obliterate from our gallant navy the beautiful
and cherished names given to our public ships
on wise considerations, and which serve to per-
petuate the terms appropriately applied by the
native Inhabitants to their streams, their noun
tains, their cataracts, and the familiar objects of
their daily life, than which none could be more
pertinent or of striking significance. The
| cety therefore, earnestly protests against this
! action of the late Secretary, and respectfully
| urges that the old familiar names may be re-
| stored and that in the future naming of our
| armed ships due regard may be had to the use
| of aboriginal names, as better suited than any
| other to our national character and history.-N
| Y. Commercial.
The HOOsac Tunnel.
| Work on the central shaft over the Hoosac
! Tunnel, where the fatal accident happened two
| years ago, is now progressing at the rate of a
| foot day. 1t has now reached depth of 705
| feet. New air drills are being set up which ex-
| pedite the work, so that it is expected that the
| whole depth, 1000 feet, will be excavated by
March next. At the eastern end of the tunnel
they are putting up six OF the improved COM
| pressed air-drills. The heading of the western
end is one mile and 200 feet from the entrance.
| Gangs of miners are constantly at work on the
! headings, while others gre carrying out the en-
| largement, $50 feet of which is made. Three
| hundred and sixty feet have been taken from
! the heading since the first of April. Last week
the rock was penetrated Al feet; this week it
| will probably amount to more than 30 feet. At
each blast that is made on the enlargement 70
| cubic yards of rock are displaced At this rate
| of progression, the tunnel can be completed in
Salt Fish Dinners.
The habit of eating salt fish for dinner at least
! once a week was universal here for more than a
century, until the great influx of wealth in the
| heyday of our foreign commerce broke over a
custom which had its origin partly in economy
and partly in the patriotic principle of giving
every encouragement in a business on which our
support as fishing town depended. Saturday
was selected by our worthy great-grandfathers
as salt fish day, as protest against ''the error
of Popery," which prescribes fish or other light
diet on Friday. The gentry of the ante-revolu-
tionary period, the Lyndes and divers and
Brownies, etc, had a social club, the members of
which met weekly at each others houses. The
| ItBuldllOu uluucT WIS hulJ unu anu dpplC plS,
This plain fare, perhaps moistened with good
Wine-procured in exchange for our fish tBom
Lisbon, Cadiz, Bilboa, Madeira etc-or with
stronger liquors from the West India Islands,
was good enough to bring together the culti-
waited, refined, and high-bred people OF that day
Salem (MdSS.) Gazette.
| HuRO's Devil-Gsh.
Captain James johnson, of the sloop Susar
Brewer, which arrived at Sliidmores wharf {
day or two since brought with him portion o.
an unknown seal animal, which he caught II
a seine while fishing off Smiths Island, nea
Cape Charles The fish, when hauled ashore
attracted the attention of every one In tina
neighborhood, and was pronounced by Tn
most ancient and experienced 'sea-goers
be unlike anything of the ocean deep the.
had ever SEEN In shape ii resembled the butter
| fly, with ponderous wings shaped IKE IN
human hand; head formed like bulldog
Z tongue as hard as ivory, and instead OF teet
1 two rows of solid ivory. Its measure
I ment from tip to tip, was twenty Feet with
! tail six feet long, about the size OF telegrap
4 | wire and resembling black leather whip lash
q weighing over one thousand pounds. III wa
a white on the belly, but spotted all over the Dac
r with round white and black marks, about th
size OF a five cent piece, very much In appear
j anee like ladies' mourning muslin, which, II
l. said, made 1t beautiful sight while In the ciea
a sea water, AS stated above every one who hf
:, seen this fish pronounces it a nondescript, an
n the only conjecture which has been made Is thu
r. IL must be the "devil-fsh," about the exstenC
s of which much has been said though 1
n one in these parts has ever seen one unless
this CASE Washington Star.