Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-07-26

uduy pcTSouS WIN ReL LnelT suppuSS VI uSu
from tie Potomac. Aud therefore it is 40 item
fact just how the bass we're first introduced.
This feeling on the subject accounts for letter
lately written by DR.. Wall, of the Valley of
Virginia. to General Shriver, of this city, max
iDg inquiries Of the latter as to what he knew
upon the subject. The following is the Gene
rails reply:
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, !
September l7th, 1857
DIR. A. WALL-Dear Sir: Your official com
municatioD of the lst instant, on the subject of
transferring the black bass of the Ohio to the
Potomac river, came duly to hand, and I here
with send you a printed slip having an extract
of letter wrote to Philip T. Tyson, of BAti-
more, Agricultural chemist of Maryland, in re-
ply to his letter to me of Sept. 4th, 1860, upon
this same subject, which | hops will give the
desired information. The number Of these
black bass taken to the Potomac by me, as we'll
as cao now recollect, was about thirty. The
writer Of this is undoubtedly the individual and
the only person who had ever anything to do
with the transfer Of those fish to the Potomac.
Very respectfully,
W. w. SHRIVER.
The following is the extract referred to:
Il have received to-day your very interest
ing communication of the 10th instant, upon
the subject of an experiment made by me
some six years sioce of transferring some of
the several varieties of our finest game fish of
the Ohio river to the head waters of the Poto-
mao at the town of cumberland, iu Allegheny
county, Maryland.
The enterprise or experiment was contem-
plated by me long before the completion of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad to the Ohio river
at Wheeling, but no satisfactory mode of trans
portation presented itself TO my mind until the
completion of that great work, (iu, / believe,
the year 1859. and in the following year
made my first trip, (although | made several
afterwards in the same year,, carrying with
me my first lot of fish 10 large tio bucket,
perforated, and which made to fit the open.
log 10 the water tank attached to the ocomo-
tive, which was supplied with fresh water at
the regular water stations along the line of the
road, aud thereby succeeded we'll in keeping
the hsh (which were young and small, having
been selected tor the purpose) alive. fresh and
sound.
This lot of fish, as we'll as every subsequent
one, on my arrival at Cumberland, were put in
the basin Of the Chesapeake 4 Ohio canal, from
which they had free egress aud ogress to the
Potomac river and its tributaries, both above
aud below the dam; and although somewhat
rldlculed at the time by some of the inte-
gent citizens of Cumberland, | am grati6ed to
learn from Others we'll as yourself. that in
this, my hrst plscatora experiment, the object
OF which was to supply the water of the Poto-
mac With some as tue varieties of game fish,
both lu size aud quality, as ever inhabited the
fresh water streams Of any country, has been
crowned with complete success and I feel
that am fully compensated 10 this for ali the
time, trouble, and expenses I have bestowed on
the subject.
will add one singular fact 10 this connection
which is that there is not kuown to exist 10 any
streams(as far ss have beer. able to learn) east
OF the Allegheny Mountains, from the Falls of
Niagara in the north to the Gulf of Mexico iu
the south these varieties of game fish, while
they Exist In every stream west Of the Allegheny
and in every lake and stream west of the Falls
OF Niagara. aud as far south as the Gulf of
Mexico W W. W. s.
The foregoing is reliable account of the in-
PRODUCTION of black bass in our waters, now
abundant in the Potomac, from its source to
tide water, and in all its tributaries and from
thirty fish, the Schuylki, Susquehanoa
Delaware and other streams have been stocked.
They are sold daily in the Washington market
and along the line of railroads They are the
best fish for the table, aod auglers all agree that
no hsh affords as good sport. About a thous-
and escaped from John Downings pond, near
the Blue Ridge, in Rsppahannock county, two
years since, and some have been caught at the
Springs and Rappahannock station. Clear
water suits them best. The mill pond club of
Kichmood, or Turner chub known in Ala
6ama Georgia, Florida and Texas as trout
a misnoma, is very like the bass, will thrive
10 water not so clear and grow to fifteen and
twenty pounds: All honor to w. w. Shriver
remarked, and justly too-"He that stocks a
good stream with black bass is a public benefac.
tor. w n
THE GRAPE CURE.--The grape treatment
has been employed With favorable results by
patients suffering from bronchitis and consump.
tlon 10 Its pre-tubercular stages. 1t is especi
ally practced at Moran, in the Tyrol, whittier
large plumbers of German, Russian, and Ita-
an asn lnvads resort to experience its benefits
lhe patient begins by eating one or two pounds
OF grapes each day, dividing the quantity into
three portions, one Of which is taken an hour
before breakfast, another before dinner--which
occurs between twelve and one O. o'clock-and the
thlrd IN the afternoon or evening. After two
or three days the quantity is increased BY half
pound daily, untll it reaches three or four
pounds. This amount often proves sufficient
the patient finding, as rule, that he gains 10
weight and strength upon it. Chronic liver
complaints, especially when due to excess 10
wine drinking, are, it is said, notably relieved
by this treatment, the potash-salts 10 the fruit
supplying the element which the wine loses in
the process of manufacture. Hepatio dropsy
has also been miigated in this way. One
feature in favor of the cure is, that no
exclusive diet is prescribed To fact, the
grapes themselves are 50 nourishing that other
TODD is scarcely needed