The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
A GALVESTON FISH STORY.
How Capt. ST. Marie Got q Devil
.- fish ON His Cable.

| .r Alsh On H1ls CaDAes
Galveston (Texas) News.I
Last winter the American ship Lar
caster, while at anchor in the QUITE
roadstead of this port caught fire, an,
after burning to the waters edge. sank
In addition to a large number of bale
of cotton, the lower hold of the vesse
was filled with cotton-seed oil-cake ant
bOne-dust. The cotton not DESTROYED by
fire was recovered, by means of divers,
but the oil-cake and bone-dust were left
in the hulk, as not worth saving. Fol
some time past myriads of fish have fire.
quented the wreck, doubtless attracted
thither by the oileake, on which they
fed, and afforded great sport to anglers
from the city. =;
Yesterday the smack Rinaldo, under
command of Captain Leon st. Marie,
who was accompanied by several friends,
left the Central Wharf for the purpose OF
fishing at the wreck, and did SO in spite
Of the fact that the air was little raw
and the sea outside somewhat lumpy, for
Captain and crew had been down to the
sea in ships before. The party arrived at
the wreck in safety and were soon busily
engaged in hauling in trout, reddish and
whiting, as fast as they could bait their
lines, when suddenly there was great
commOtion in the water in the immedi-
ate proximity of their craft, the hawser
attached to the anchor was Strengthened
out, and the yacht began to move through
the water at rapid rate, being towed BY
some submarine monster which had fas-
tened on the anchor. s-
Had any Of the party been inexper-
fenced landsmen, they might have
thought that the twin brother Of the
whale which laid its bones to rest on the
sandy shore of Hanna's Reef some years
since, had come hither and was trying to
wreck his vengeance on them for the un-
civil reception bestowed upon its relative
on that memorable occasion, but, as re-
marked before, the parties were no
novices at sea, for at least one jof them
had plowed the Spanish Main before
eight-gun brigs aud armed schooners Aad
gone out of date, and knew every bay
and inlet in the gulf, from the Capes OF
Florida to Yucatan. Capt. St. Marie
was the man. He had not visited the
hecatomb of turtle shells erected to the
Of his countryman, Jean Lafitte,
on the Island of Muquies. or hobnobbed
with Kelly, the Celtic King of CozumeL
in the old blockade-running days, for
Like some Galveston politi-
clans, he knew, or thought he knew, "a
thing or two," and Immediately said, as
The boat scooted onward, propelled by |
The unseen agency; "a debbil-fsh on
lie cable, by garp' |
The course of the yacht was at first
traight out to sea, and was continued
or at least three miles, when some of the
desired to cut the cable and
make sail for town; but to such a pro-
eeding Capt. st. Marie demurred in the
nost forcible language, going 80 far as to
his eyes if he was going to lose his
.nchor by slipping his cable;" in fact, he
aid that he would as soon go to Davy
ones locker with his sea-boots on as to
10 such an unsailorlike thing. Finally,
he unknown motor of the yacht changed
rs course i'll the direction of Point Boli-
ar, and ran to within mile and half
f the beach, where, just as the sun was
mixing, it suddenly released its grasp on
he cable, and the yacht came to stop
the anchor caught holding-ground.
The party then made sail and returned
, the city, landing at Kuhn's Wharf
bout 8 o'clock last night. Some time
tier a reporter saw Captain St. Marie
nd obtained the above particulars. The
'aptain expresses the positive opinion
nat the monster having hold Of the ,
able was nothing more or less than a
evil-fsh, and says he is perfectly famil-
II with the creature and its habits, hav-
lg met it frequently in the vicinity of
!assau, in the Island of New Providence,
e the Capes Of Florida, and in the
aribbean, but says he has never before
nown of any in this vicinity, except
nall ones, and supposes that the one ,
lckling his craft was initiating the ex-
ius of the Texas negroes to Kansas, and .
links that when it finds out what kind .
waters it has strayed into it will not .
and upon the order of it's going, but de- ,
lrt at once for more tropical latitude.
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.
On the Accomplish nnent of