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TV. All Lettersand Communications addressed t) the Editor by mail must be post-paid, or they will not be attended to THE GARLAND. —"With sweetest flowervenrich'd, From various gardens cull'd with care." - SPRING. The sweet South wind, so long Sleeping in other climes, on sunny seas, Or dallying with the orange trees In tho bright land of song, Wakes unto us and laughingly sweeps by Liken glad spirit of the sunlit sky. The laborer at his toil Feels on his cheek tho dewy kiss, and lifts His open brow to catch its fragrant gifts— The aromatic spoil Borne from the blossoming gardens of the South— While its faint sweetness lingers round his mouth. The bursting bud looks up To cheer the sun-light, while it lingers yet On the warm hillside—and the violet Opens its azure cup Meekly, and countless wild flowers wake to fling Their earliest incense on the gales of Spring. The reptile, that bath lain, Torpid so long within his wintry tomb, Pierces the mould, ascending from its gloom Up to the light again— And the lithe snake crawls forth from caverns chill To bask as crst upon the sunny hill. Continual songs arise From Universal Nature—birds and streams Mingle their voices, and the glad earth seems A second Faradise! Sunshine and gun, and fragrance—all aro thine, 'Alnico blessed Spring!—thou boarest gifts divine! Nor unto Earth alone— Thou hest a blessing for the human heart, Balm for its wounds and healing for its smarts, Telling of Winter flown, And bringing hope upon thy rainbow wing; Type of Eternal Life—thrice blessed Spring! EIIII , OOMaii_taGMaiOOOO From the London Monthly Magazine. THE GAMBLER'S QUARREL. "Come, gentlemen," cried the banker, "there is still a stake or two to be made up." The players sat motionless, looking at each other, but mado no reply. "I make the rest, sir," said Alfred. un concernedly, willing to try whether the sad forebodings with which his mind had been haunted during the day, had the slightest foundation. And then, without further thought on the subject, lie leaned against the door of the saloon, searching amongst the crowd of faded forms, resplendent with jew elry, features heightened with rouge, and eyes sparkling with artificial lustre; for the charming little head, and the sweet look of his lovely Marietta. The harsh voice of the banker re called the young sailor from his reverie. "You have won, sir," said he, in a sharp and grating tone. And the banker pushed toward him a heap of gold. "P" said Alfred, approaching the table, "nay, but that cannot be possible." "lie refuses," cried one of the players, leaning his elbow on the table, and graep ing with his eyes the glittering pile of Lou is d' ore. "Paha! are such things ever refused?" sneeringly cried another. The young sailor cast a rapid glance at the players, whose e) es were all fixed upon him, and addressing the banker, said, "This, sir, 1 take it, is a joke. 1t is quite impossi ble that all this can belong to me." "But it is all yours, sir," replied the ban ker, in the same cold tone—adding, with a bitter smile, "You held the bank, and the cards pay I" "Then, gentlemen," exclaimed Albert, "the deal is. Void." A prolonged murmur ofastnnishment ran thrdugh the assemblage. . "I was nut aware that I was playing for so high a stake," continued the young sea men, "and had I lost, most assuredly I would lever have paid." The hanker was a man, as yet in the prime of life, hut grown old before his tittle by earn and frequent waichings, and indul gence in the baser passions; with livid hol low checks, and a restless and cunning, though sunken eye, imparting to his looks it character at once false, forbidding, and .:sister. "A h !" said he leaning back in :!•..3ir r his paid lies ciarlins with a faint laugh of scorn and derision. "Indeed, young gentleman I but you would most cer tainly have paid it, though; and that too in good hard Louis d' ors, such as these, or in powder from the royale arsenal." Alfred made a convulsive spring back wards, "Liar!" be exclaimed, in a hollow voice. The banker sat motionless; but his thin lips quivered with suppressed emotion; the same sardonic smile still played on his fea tures, but their paleness had faded to a yet more livid and ashey hue. In an instant the players were on theirfeet, and group ing round the two actors in this strange and unexpected drama. Alfred was standing up, his hands convulsively clenched, his eyes dilated and his whole figure shaking with rage. The banker, on the contrary, was rocking himself easily backwards and for wards in his chair, and casting round on the spectators a look of self.possession and corn placency, at the same time playing with the ' pile of gold heaped up on his right. "Sirl" said ho, at length, measuring Alfred from head to foot, with the coolest effrontery, "It is more than probable you do not know who I am ; that indeed is to me sufficiently clear. And as for these gentlemen here," ho added, with a wave of his hand towards the spec. tators, "1 have every reason to suppose that knowing them you would not have taken it upon yourself to give me the lie in their presence. Pray, air, what may be your name !" "Insolent fellow!" cried Alfred, with con centrated indignation. "Just as it may please you," replied the banker with imperturbable calmness.— "Then you are equally unacquainted with my name. 1 have the choice of weapons, sir. Now 'tis as well you should know, that the Izard.hunter of these mountains is not more sure of his rifle, than 1 am of my pistol." This was said distinctly, coolly, and with an air of conviction that caused a shudder amongst the spectators. The man was re ally frightful, with his measured phrases, and his sang froid. The players listened to him, one and all, with a kind of dread ; Alfred himself was scarcely proof against "You have a mind to frighten me !" said he, very impatiently. - "I! not the least," replied the methodical banker, with a pathetic indifference, and the same cold sneer and smile of duplicity. "But 1 cannot feel it in my conezience to assassinate you." And so saying, he felt slowly in each of his pockets, from which he drew at last a small rifle barreled pistol, which he placed before him on the table.— A death-like silence pervaded the whole room. "There sir!" he continued, turning di rectly opposite to the young sailor, and crossing his legs, as though he was about entering on the most common-place con versation imaginable I "This is the best thing I have to propose ; indeed, it is all that I con possibly do, in order to accom modate matters. Iping the dice," he con tinued in the same tone of voice, turning half round on his chair, "and shut that door." The door of the play room was closed, and the dice placed on the table. The sound of the orchestra and of the festive ball, only reached the room as a suppressed and distant murmur. "Now, then," said he, "here we have dice and a pistol ; the highest thrower kills the other. We shall settle it thus, eh ?" The young sailor approached the table seized the dice•box in mere desperation, shook it with convulsive energy, cast one furtive glance towards the ball room door; and threw ! ks if bowed by an electric shock, every head was simultaneously bent over the cloth ; the action of this --terrific drama had passed so rapidly; the-denoue ment was so near at hand, that one could scarcely believe in the reality of the atroci ous scene thas enacting without noise or in terruption, around that accursed table.— The banker in a loud voice reckoned up the points. "Six and six ere twelve, and one—thir teen ; good throw, a very good throw, a ye ry good threw, upon my word, young gen tleman—a good throw 1" He took up the dice, replaced them in the box, and with an air of the coolest effrontery, addressing the spectators, "Thirteen?" ho exclaimed, "a very good point I but it's always an un lucky number. Come, gentlemen, who bids fifty louis d'ors on me. Fift3 lonia on the life of that gentleman yonder 1" he con tinued, fixing his eye with a malignant and deadly glare on the young lieutenant, who quailed voluntarily beneath it. The players turned pale and remained silent. "Well, then," said he, with a smile, "as there seems to be no bet, here's for myself" and the dice rolled upon the table. "Fif teen I You have lost, sir. A pity, too, with so good a point: the affair, gentlemen, was well contested, at all events. So then, sir, your lite belongs to me. Are you ready?" All present drew back in terror. The banker, still stretched out in his chair, was quietly engaged in adjusting the lock and carefully examining the pinning of his pis tol. "I am ready," replied the young man, standing motionless before him. "A little more room if you please, gen- demon," said the banker, at the sama time bowing to the spectators and motioning them with his arm to stand on one side. They obeyed mechanically, gaping with mute astonishment, each vacant face para lyzed with a stupid stare and betraying • „ G. WASHINGTON :OWEN, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR. lid The liberty to know, to titter, and to argue, ireely,,ie above all other liberties.”—MlLTON. samarqraanr.ras. 4%)9the wzrabmitir. catart scis aoda. nought save a feeling of instinctive dread. The banker, with his arm resting on the table, and his head supported in his left hand, took a steady aim at the young lieu tenant. "Fire," exclaimed Alfred, uncovering his breast, his countenance beaming with intrepidity and unehrinking resignation.— The banker withdrew his hand, and raised his head. The spectators breathed once more. This unnatural scene had been pro tracted too long, and for an instant there was hope. We have not chosen seconds," he remarked. "But as for that matter," he added after a moment's silence, "these gentlemen may servo as witnesses in case of need." He levelled again and fired. The young lieutenant lay gasping on the floor in the last agonies of death. "The cards pass, gentlemen," cried the banker as he laid the pistol still smoking on the table. A Taros OF VAR.—A correspondent of he Knickerbocker, in a well written article, mentions that during the late war with Great Britain,he accidentally got possession of some of the signals of the British Navy, which ho put into the hands of Commodore Rodgers—and he thus concludes his ac count: "Soon after the peace, dining with Com modore Rodgers, at his house in Washing ton, he related to me the following circum stance,which I give nearly in his owu winds "I acknowledged the receipt, of •our lot ter," he observed, "and was determined to have the signals made on board, and to try the experiment, none of my officers under. standing for what purpose they were inten ded. I cruised some time without meeting an enemy, until one afternoon we fell in with a schooner, some six or eight miles to wind. ward ofus. We hoisted the British ensign, which she answered by displaying another, and at the same time a signal at her main• top-gallant mast head, which immediately discovered was like one of those you had given me. From the list of English fri gates, I selected the number of the 'Sea Horse,' one of their largest class, and known to be on our coast, and hoisted it. She bore down at once and come under our stern; I ordered her to heave to, and I would send a boat on board of her. ' , This order was obeyed, and I despatch, ed a lieutenant to bring her signal-book; enjoining on him and the crew the strictest secrecy respecting our character. He was politely received by the captain, whose schooner proved to be the 'llightlyer.' Our lieutenant's coat attracted his attention, not being of the latest London fashion,although the crown-and-anchor was on tho button; but casting his eyes on the frigate, seeing the British • ensign, and now and then the red coat of a marine appearing above the hammock-netting, his mind mtn apparently set at rest. "The Lieutenant informed him that he was requested to bring his signal-book on board the 'Sea Horse,' in order to have some alterations made,as there was a rumor that the Yankees had possession of some thing like the signals, and it was therefore necessary to change the numbers! This ruse had the desired effect, and our lieuten ant returned with the book, which pla ced me in command of the whole corres • ondence of the British Navy. I then sent the gig for the captain, requesting him to come on board and bring any despatches he might have In charge. "On seaching our deck be seemed sur prised at the size of our vessel, praised her cleanliness and the order in which every thing appeared; admired the new red coats of the marines, and on being invited into the cabin, handed me a bundle of despatches for Admiral Warren, who, he observed, must be within forty miles to leeward. I ordered refreshments, and, in company with several of my officers, we entered into gen eral conversaken. "I asked him what object Admiral War ren had in cruising in that neighborhood? He said, to intercept the American priva teers and merchant men, but particularly to catch Commodore Rodgers, who, he under stood, had command of one 'of the largest and fastest sailing frigates in the American navy! I inquired of him what kind of a man this Rodgers was, and it he had ever seen him? He said no; but he had under stood he was an odd character, and devilish hard to catch. After conversing on several other subject, I abruptly put this question to him. "Sir, do you know what vessel you are on board oil" "Why yes, Sir," he replied, "on board his Majesty'," ship Sea Horse." "Then, sir, you labor under a great mis take; You are on board the United States frigate President, and I am Commodore Rodgers at your service:" "The dying dolphin never assumed a greater variety of colors than did this poor fellow's face. "Sir," said he, "you are dis posed to be humorous, and must be joking!" I assured him it was no joke; and to satisfy him on that bead, handed him my commis sion. At the same moment the band struck up 'Yankee Doodle,' on our quarter deck; on reaching which he saw the American ensign flying, the red coats of the marines turned blue, and the crown and-anchor but tons metamorphosed into the eagle. "This affair," observed the commodore, "was of immense importance to our coun tiy. We obtained in full the British sig nals; the operations of Admiral Warren, by the non•receipt of his despatches, were de stroyed for the season; and it probably sa. ved the frigate, for the course I was running ...yrip 0 1N0N... at the time of my falling in with the High flyer, would have brought me into the midst ofhis fleet during the night. New York, March, 1840. ..THE HALF REASONING BRUTE." Ono day last week, a slut hound on Dr S. A. Cartwright's plantation, a few miles opposite Natchez,on Concordia Lake, in the parish of the same name, having six puppies of some weeks old, was observed to come down to the dwelling house from the Gin house, where she had her young, with unu sual signs of distress. In a hurried and very anxious manner she fawned upon the per). ple, giving out cries of distress, and soon hurried back to the bed where she had her puppies under the Gin house, three hundred yards or more distant from the dwelling houses Her manner having appeared so strange, some of the people, after talking about it and after some little time, went up to the Gin house; and were attracted by the cries of one of the puppies whom its mother was carrying in her mouth, up a steep flight of steps into the loft of the Gin house. Fol lowing this pattern of a good mother, the person found that the puppy which the slut was carrying up made three which she had removed, and hastening down to her nest on the ground, beneath the Gin house, there was seen an alligator of from six to eight feet in length,which had devoured the other throe. He was killed, cut open, and the three puppies taken from his stomach Now, what could a human being, a ration al creature, have done under the peculiar circumstances of the case, so trying to ma ternal feelings The hideous monster,guar dod from assault by a mail as impenetrable as that which covered the Macedonian pha lanx, had approached the canine care and affection; he had probably seized one of the puppies; and the distressed mother instant• ly flow to where her reason taught her she could find an intelligence and power able to destroy this horrid vampyre and save her young from his reeking jaws; but, alas, she had no speech to tell the mighty woes which were rending her heart I She could only look and act her dumb sorrows I Instantly, as if despairing of human aid, she throws herself upon her own bravo resources— rushes back, and snatches her young, one by one, to save, while the "gordon diro" snatches them, one by one, from death. Size saves half! Unaided, alone, distressed, in imminent danger herself of being struck dead by the recoil of his brazen tail, and crushed- . in his spear-set mouth. this affec tionate and more than "half- reasoning brute" divided the spoil with the mighty, and snat ched half her young from the open jaws of imminent death. Such a motherly brute should have no common burial at her death. Young girls who love their mothers, dressed in white, should throw evergreens over a grave filled by such brutal worth. The facts in the foregoing narrative are strictly as we received them, from the lips :if Dr. Cartwright.—Natchez Courier. ROGER MINOT SHERMAII.-A correspon dent has sent us the following anecdote: Many years ago, whEle the legal reputa tion of Roger Minot Sherman was yet in its infancy, and he himself a young man of twenty-three, he was a resident of Norwalk, Connecticut. He had been a member of the State Senate, and was very highly re spected; but the party adverse to him in politics suddenly gained the ascendancy, and determined to bring him down a peg or two. A "town-meeting" was to be held, and town officers to be appointed; among whose number, in old Connecticut, is an official personage designated a " flog-ha ytoard." The duties of his dignitary are not exactly synonymous with those of the "High aga tor," of the sister state of New Jersey, (whose business it is to take the curls out of pigs' tails;) but are much more responsible, though perhaps hardly as laborious. The hog-hayward's duties are to "captivate" all stray pigs, put rings in their noses, and im prison them in "the village pond." To this high office, his enemies resolved to elevate Mr. Sherman. The town meeting conve ned, despatched its other business, and came to the election of petty officers, at the tail of which list, stands the officers we speak of. "Gentlemen," said the moderator, "please to nominate for hog-hayward." "Roger Minot Sherman!" exclaimed half a dozen voices. The moderator, being a worthy man, was somewhat amazed; but could do no less than put it to vote, by re questing "those in favor of the nomination to hold up their right hands." The majority of elevated hands was over whelming; but the moderator felt inclined to give the matter the go-by, and said it was "not a vote." The voters immediately clamored for a division of the house. Mr. Sherman, who had remained quietly seated in a cdrnor, now rose, and with great frankness said:— , 'Mr. Moderator, this seems to me most decidedly to be a vote; but, nevertheless, I would thank you to allow the house to di ode' in order to show me how many hogs I shall have to take charge of!"—Mirror. A HIN T rf , TO vr arrams..--We found the following scrap floating about the other day in the newspapers. We commend it to the particular attention of all who write for the press. - Good Advice.—Never send any thing to be printed until you have read-it over care- fully at least twice, after having written it; arida io see Ur -L ather you have thing wrong or unwise ; and once to sea whether the spelling and grammatical con. struction are correct, and whether the let ters are sufficiently plain for the printer's boy to read. Many people from the neg lect of this rule, print whnt they are sorry for afterwards. Many don't gat their pieces printed at all: and many wonder why omis sions are made by the editor; yet they would wonder still more to see their articles in print as they wrote them; sentences begun and not finished; or things mixed up so strangely together that nobody can decipher their meaning. Some of our best educated mon send perfect nonsense to an editor to be printed, because they will not give them selves the trouble to know what they write. TAXING BACHELORS.—We should like to know how any rule can be honestly laid down in law or equity, for taxing a bache lor. You tax a man for his house, his land, his horse, his watch, things that ho has— but how is a man to be taxed for a thing that he has not? If matrimony is to be made a subject of taxation, it is the marri ed man that ought to be taxed, and not the bachelor. If a wife is a good thing, it is worth paying for—but it is very hard to do without the good thing and yet be made to pay for it. It is as bad as the pastry cook's charging a poor hungry devil for looking at her pies. No, if a revenue is to be rais ed out of the single population, tax not the bachelors, but young women! Tax eyes, and lips, and dimples, and chins,.Mr. Speak er, and most honorable gentlemen of the . Senate and House of Representatives.— There's the point, gentlemen, on which to display your wisdom, and immortalize the state. Tax lips that won't kiss, eyes that won't smile chins and dimples that are un approachable, and noses that turn up. Tax 'em all, and lay it on heavy.—N. 0. Pic. COLLEGES AND NEWSPAPERS. — We learn from the Christian Review, that there are nominally ninety-five colleges now in the United States, with about nine thousand five hundred students; twenty-seven medical schools, with about two thousand seven hun dred and fifty students; thirty-seven theolo gical schools, with about fourteen hundred students; and eight law schools, with about three hundred and fifty students. We learn from the same source that there are now ono thousand five hundred and fifty.five newspapers and other periodicals published in this country, two hundred and sixty-seven published in New England (Massachusetts ono hundred and t wenty.four ;) two hundred and seventy-four in the State of Now York, two hundred and fifty-three in Pennsylvania, one hundred and sixty-four in Ohio. The next largest number in a single State is six ty.'hino, and the smallest number three. ELOQUENT AND SOUND ADVICE.—The following by Todd, is full of salutary advice. 'Beware of bad books—never open one— they will leave a stain upon the soul, which can never be removed. If you have an ene my whose soul you wish to visit with a heavy vengeance, and into whose heart you would place vipers which will live, and crawl, and torment him through life, and whose dam nation you would seal up for the eternal world, you have only to place one of these destroyers into his hands. You have cer tainly paved the way to the abodes of death; and if he does not tread it with hasty strides, you have, at least, laid up food for many days of remorse. Those who print, sell and peddle such works to the young,are amongst the most awful scourges with which a righ teous God ever visited our world. The an gel of death can sheath his sword, and stay his hand in the work of deittruction. But these wietches I they dig troves so deep that they reach into hell. ' Therblight the hopes of parents, and pour more than seven vials of wo upon the family whose affections are bound up in the son who is thus destroy ed." A young German girl in the family of He ron Humboldt, begged to speak to,her mis tress, when falling upon her knees; she sup plicated her to turn her out of the house, or otherwise she felt convinced that she would tear her infant to pieces. She added that it was the whiteness of the child's skin that inspired her with the horrible desire. "Marc relates the case of a young lady, who, on the approach of this dreadful propensity to shed blood, begged to have a straight waist coat put on; and Mr. It—, ft distinguish ed chemist, committed himself a prisoner in an asylum, to avoid the commission of some murder. He would 'often prostrate himself at the foot of the altar, and implore the divine assistance to resist t his atrocious propensity. When be felt the desire for blood, he always requested the medical at. tendant to tie his thumbs together: This unhappy man at Inst endeavoured to kill one of his friends,and died in a paroxysm of fury. GALVANIeM.—Some of the most ordina ry experiments in chemical deuce are to be accounted for by the galvanic action, which takes place during the experithental process, as the precipitation of metals from metallic salts. Polished iron, for example, when plunged into a solution of sulphate of copper, becomes coated with metallic cop per. If we take nitrate of silver, a plate ofzinc will become black when plunged into the solution, which is no more than the ail ver precipitated in minute division. A piece of zinc, suspended from a wire, in a bottle containing a clear solution of su• gar of lead, produces a beautiful crystali zation of metallic lead, formini , a delicate a rliaraananna. All then DEC LUPY 11F'lLe01122 a - POO 699 Q !illustrations of galvanic agency; and this peculiar property of certain metals, to form precipitates in metallic solutions, has.nmorg !other applications, been advantageously used to detect arsenic. White arsenic, dis solved in an acid, is precipitated on copper, when lunched with a slip of zinc plate, in the form of a black powder. The arsenic may be sublimated in a glass tube, by ap plying tho heat of n spirit lamp, when it is farther rendered obvious by its garlic odour, peculiar to this metal. These experiments are interesting, chiefly in a chemical point of view.— Bost. Traveller. Us OF THE TOE.9.—The natives of Aus tralia have a power of manipulating with their toes, so as to do many things surprising to men who wear shoes. This power they acquire chiefly by ascending trees from in fancy, their mode of climbing depending as much on the toes as on the fingers. With the toes they gather fresh-water muscle from the muddy bottom of rivers or lagoons; and the heaps of these shells beside their old fire-places, which are numerous along the banks, show that this shell-fish is the daily food of at least the women and children. In their attempts to steal, their feet aro much employed. They will tread softly on any article, seize it with the toes, pass it up the back, or between the arm and side, so as to conceal it in the arm-pit, or between the board and throat.—Australian Chron. ANOTHER SIGN.-4 backwoodsman of the Far West, Who keeps a 'Traveller's Rest,' has this announcement inscribed over the clapboard door of his Log Cabin: We have in store for Travellers,— Oats and chops for the horse, and for the rider, Hog homrniny and hard cider, The politics of Harrison Rules this little garrbon, Those lir Van Buren Is beyond all endurin. The people will certify to the truth of this declaration of the honest pioneer, in duo season.. DRUNKEN Csows.—A South Carolina paper relates a curious incident, which tells well for the moral character of some of the parties concerned— in one point at least. A gentleman on finding that his cornfields were besot by great numbers of crows, steeped a quantity of corn in alcohol,and threw it forth as a special "treat." The unsuspecting spoilers swallowed the bait greedily,and soon began to manifest all sorts of funny conse quences, being most essentially fuddled.— They staggered about, even in mid-air, as they shambled towards a neighboring forest; where they held a most loquacious and up roarious confab in the Cawcaw language, resulting it seems, in a resolution to avoid that shop in future; which resolution they faithfully tulfilled,after having regained their sober senses—(a lesson to other bipeds)— although they continued to plunder the neighboring fields in all directions. COMMON SCHOOLS IN PENNSYLVANIA. - According to the Annual Report of the Su perintendent, the whole number of Common SclfOOls in Pennsylvania, those accepting and rejecting the law, in each year from 1836 to 1840, was as follows : In 1836, the whole number of districts wag 907; in 1837, 987; in 1838, 1001; in 1839, 1033: in 1840, 1050. The number of districts accepting tho law was respectively in those years 536, 603, 765, 890, 887. Those not accepting during the same years respective ly, 371, 304, 236, 193, 103. The number of scholars taught was in 1835, about 100,- 000; in 1836, 139,604; in 1837, 192,355; in 1838, 233,719; in 1889, 254,108. In tho first year the schools were kept open three or four months during the year, but from an additional appropriation of 8500,- 000, they are now kept open between five and six months. The whole amount re ceived from :he Treasury by the accepting districts in five years, is 81,408,812 31 cte.; from tax, 81,206,973 62 cents; making 82,615,785 93 cents. On the school hou ses over $600,000 of this sum was expend ed; the rest to education proper. Thus it seems that the scholars have in this time increased from 100,000 to 254,908. Philad. Inquirer. GENERAL HAREISON.--A letter from Cincinnati to the National Intelligence( says: "General Harrison camp up to the city yesterday from the North Bend, and I met him this morning at early sunrise walking through the streets of Cincinnati for health and exercise, as he always rises at day break, and is abroad with the first light of the sun. He is it, excellent health and spir- its, and the news that old Virginia, the home of his fathers, is getting again upon the true Republican track, has afforded him not a little gratification. A man of General Harrison's habits of life but grows hardier as he grows older. A frame indurated by work and exposure may wear out, but can not rust out." A Fisu Sroar.---The Peoria (Ill.) Re gister chronicles the capture of a cat fish in Peoria Lake, weighing one hundred and forty pounds ! It was five feet long, thres and a half round, and twelve inches betWeP: a the eyes. On opening it, it was f0u...,d to contain two large fishes, one of which ap peared to have been swallowed but an hour or two previously, and the head and winga of a wild duck. The flavor, according 14 the editor of the Gazette, whotried 't t eNgclittit.
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