Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-09

to the American legation at St. Petersburg. A
number of newspaper articles denouncng and
ridculing this clam and vilfying the claim
ants were, upon strong grounds, believed to
have been written or prompted by Catacazy.
Among these was a letter in the New York
World, which attracted much attention. Two
days after its publication Catacazy called at the
state department and denounced this letter as
false, malicious and absurd. 1t was written he
said, by "the Perkins set of fellows" But Mr..
Fish subsequently learned from Mr.. Adams, the
head of the Worlds Washington office, that
"The article was written from notes made
during an interview OF Mr.. Catacazys own
timing and at his own house; that 1t was
written under the stipulation that Mr.. Catacazy
should revise the writer's manuscripts; That 1t
was devised in whole, and in part, from no
other source whatever; that it was lett by the
writer for Mr.. Catacazy, who stipulated the re-
vision at the Russian legation; that 1t was re-
turned to Mr. Adams at the Russian legation by
MIR. Catacazy's direction; that II Dole the
marks of his revision, aud that il was printed
| and published without alteration after such re-
| vision"
A similar article in Cincinnati paper was
also traced to Catacazy. In it he said of the
Perkins claim: 'In which great stake our
worthy president is interested" Mr.. Frank
Turk, gentleman of respeCtabity, and long
professionally associated with the Russian
minister, assured Mr.. Fish that Catacazy had
to him avowed the authorship of this letter,
although, when his attention was called to it
by our secretary, with the most solemn adj
iuratiouS, he affirmed, as a man, declared as
a representative of his most august sovereign,
and swore before Almighty God, as
Christian, that he had no connection with
it, knew nothing of it, and had never seen it,
These are not all of Catacay's peccadilloes
which Mr. Fish exposes, but they are amply
sufficient to Justify the language which we
have applied to him, and the demand by our
government for his recall. Those who have
supposed that the Catacazy difficulty was
petty personal quarrel, unworthy Of the prom
inence given TO it, Will be compelled TO revise
their opinions. Our government could not have
preserved its respect nor that Of the people, if it
had failed to insist with frmness and dignity
upon the withdrawal of the obnoxious minister
The Grand Duke Alexis is in Boston, and has
been duly received and honored in accordance
with the programme of the committee. He has
visited the city hail. the state house, the navy
yard, and Harvard college, where he was hand
somey received. He spent some time in the IL
brary, and, before leaving Cambridge, went to
the house of President Eliot, where ga sumptu-
ous lunch" was served up. The Journal says,
at is commonly remarked that he is a very
handsome gentleman" On the way from New
York TO Boston he stopped at Springfield and
visited Smith & NELSON'S pistol factory, where
some $50 men are at work manufacturing
army and navy revolyers for the Russian gov
eminent. Here the proprietors gave him pis-
tol with appropriate ceremonies. This pistol is
described as tolows:-
at is an elegant revolver made expressly for
him at a cost of over five hundred dollars 1t
is a No. cavalry pistol, and is most ingenious
and exquisite piece of mechanism. The cham
bers contain six charges, which have been dis
charged as many as twenty-four times in min
ute. The stock is of pearl, and bears on one
side the coat of arms of the empire OF Russia,
and on the other the national shield of the Unit
ed States. The barrel bears an inscription in
Russian language, which being translated reads
"Smlth & WeSsOn arms factory, Springfield city,
America" The pistol and its appliances, con-
sisting of a silver wiping rod and two silver
mounted screw drivers, is enclosed in rose
wood case lined with crimson velvet, and inlaid
with ebony, box and other choice varieties OF
wood, the whole highly polished. On the top of
The box are inse ted two silver medallionS, on
which are engraved the emblems of the two ma
tions. That of the United States is inscribed
From S. & W." while its neighbor bears the
letters "IO A. 4"