New-York tribune., 1870-12-14
GENERAL NOTES.

The fate of the honest fisherman who sadly
ended his pscatOria efforts by going down to feed the
sh he'd baed oft before" strkngy paraleed In the
fate OF the ex-Mayor of Richmond, George Cahoon, 30
unhapply notorious for being involved in the quarrel
for the MayOralty OF Richmond-that finally ended In
the frghtful COurtHouse disaster He was trleu I0r
forgery and convicted short time since and II Is grsVey
related that Immediately following the sentence the
culpnt-who filed at the time the office OF United states
taken y Sy & he s Of he en day ne t
in Judgment criminals sent before his Court Weh
the judicial work of the day was ended he was marched
off TO prison, and Is serving out four years III the
Virginia Pententiary.
The uses of SOAP like the ways of Democracy,
are wonderful Demetrus PalOrcetes-n the days when
he carried on the heavy business for the Greeks
put by eaponaceOus tribute TO be paid yearly TO Ills
love, the Athenian wanton, Aspasia Countess ana
curious have tho uses OF that cleansing emoent
since and not the least striking, the purpose to which
It recently put by ST. Lawrence County criminal
After discreet arrangement with outside friends the ad
ventrOus genius submitted his right arm TO thorough
soaking In soft SOAP and when the member was SUM
cently slippery he thrust hand and arm through bars M
that would hardly admit infants and unlocked the
door, the key having been left there by the Jaor'
Emerged from his own cell as befted 80 original nna,
he proceeded TO his frendswho had taken care before
hand make wooden key which opened the outer iron
door of the jail The main door once passed 'ne PrSon-
ers In two hours reached the Canada border
All the Western cOuntrymen of " Our Fritz"
do not attain the fame Of that cheftain. Cali
forna still traversed in the widest parts by that prm
tive locomotive the stage, and ourneyng thereon Is at
tended with quite as much danger as discomfort Re
Gently as the Marysye coach pursuing its accus-
toned way burdened with three inmates, Yankee and
two Germans, a cloud OF Road Agents" dawned on its
peaceful horizon and called at for the spos OF war
The trembling Teutons awoke to the situation, and
pernaturay keen caring for the treasures threw the
f on sscy bes for at tho S point
the robbers pistols. The third passenger in the coach
TO have slept through this preliminary scene for
he suddenly eaped from his seat with picturesque forms
OF speech and charging at once upon the nnsnspecng
bandits by well directed fire and shrewd stimulation
OF heavy force aid, put them to fight. while the
good Tenfons vet aid inporing penite nee the cold
ground The stage escaped further Inolestaon and
large amount of treasure belonging to Wells and Fargo
was thus saved by the emphatic courage of ndomit
able Yankee The Germans waited until daylight and
found their scattered gold
If anybody is fearful that all the wonderful
things on earth will be discovered and paved over by
scientific gentlemen and classified and stuck up in cabi-
nets before he get chance at them, let him take
heart and hook and line and palace car to san Fran
CISCO and try the anglers art the Pacific Coast As
things both above and below the surface also is the
water II he has luck he may come back with not only
the extraordinary OF fish stories but the queerest OF
queer fish Only two three weeks ago. there pre-
sented 10 the San Francisco Academy Of Sciences two
specimens OF finny genus tO the sayans OF Cali
forna one had been caught by, the other OFF the
mouth OF Chetts River Oregon. The animal s sort of
cross between a catfish a dogfsh, dolphin, and a
devil It has teeth, horn fins and legs capable OF being
doubled up and concealed when 1t Is necessary one OF
the two was savage fellow, when captured blew
stick placed in It's mouth would seize 1t and hold
with sufficient tenacity TO be raised from the ground
gentleman present at the meeting undertook TO declare
that such an animal was not unknown In European
waters and there called the king herring" I'm
fortunately for his assertion those who viewed the curl
ostes were rather inclined to say that they were
neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring But that's
what II il to have Academy OF Sciences with such an
institution on hand the most extraordinary curiosltes
bound to turn up.