The Arkansas advocate., 1830-12-22


 He jumped, and was successful in plac- ling his fingers ofboth hands in the tish's Igills. Instantly the animal darted down the river like race-horse, sometimes under the water, sometimes out. The rider could neither stop him, nor get his hands out of his gills. which clasped them like vice. Fortunately the fright ened fish, after a race of fupwards of q quarter ofa mile, bolted into one ofour friends own fish traps, and there the spectators, who had pursued onthe bank, tfinally found him, swearing in the most positive manner it was the last sturgeon The would eyer ride.-Augusta Cotr.
 The following amusing extractis is from a work which has just appeared in Lon don, called Tales of z 1ars by the an- thor of the diverting nautical stories which were published some two or three years since under the title of The Ma val Sketch Book. The sailors descrip- ton of beauty, and of the effect which her condeseension had upon him, is quite sailor-like and diverting.
 "Bless your hearts, l lost--or, what's all as one as lost, let slip through my tln- gers, on an out'ard bound voyage to Madras, as nice little craft as ever hit the fancy o'man-and for why? Because miss was too modest to open her mind, and Phil too green, at the time to dis kiver her drift. She was reg lar built tlady-played on the forty-planer, and wore nothing but silks and satans all the way out to Madras. She, the wicked eye, and yet there was never DO wicked ness in it; for twas as blue and as bright as the sea in calm; but twas the most rogishest eye l seed with winch. She used to look under her Iee-iid as was al ways on the drop, for all the world like the slope of a lower deck port or a rainy day. There was neveI--Io, neuer d craft more beautifuller built. When ever twas n2y weatner-wlieel, she was sure to be backing, and filing, and box ing bout the pinnacle lsSe d copper round cask. There sh'd be, one time larning her compass; another seeing which way her head was--now axing the name Q that rope, then the name O this; the difference 'twixt reef and a ir7te loyer's not and then sh q send flyin such glance at a fellow IS would either shake the ship in the wind, or make her yaw from her course four or five points. Many and many's the btowin' up she's a-got me. But take it Miss Morton Qor she didn't go by the purser's name) took 'em all more at heart, nor ever did phih. SD loves the sea- says she, a day or two after we crosses the line: sSal- lors,' says she,' sare such kind hearted men. They've such sinnayating ways with 'em. They take such care Q the,r hair; aud they seem," says she, so fond O chlldren-exen among the very pigs and poultry they've always pet. Oht Mister Farley, says she, (fof yousee, and what's more, never could come at the cause, she always zuould clap handle to my name) you doesn't know Mr. Far ley says she, show much ] doats upon sailors. What acould l giye,' letting fly another flash of her eye-'what zooutd give, continued Farley, endeayoring to initiate the feminine tone of his quon- dam love, could ] only followstheir for tunes.' thinks 1 now hears her voice -sees her afore me with her halflower- ed lid fixed onher tapered foot (for she'd a foot like Chinese child as it peeped from under her petticoat, showing the sand, that lay spread upon the deck, in- to the pitchy seams, as piled out in spite O the awning. Well, you know when she says, What mould give could on- l ly follow their rfortuncs--somuch she gets hold O my mind, that Pm blessed if the ship didn't broaeh to instantly and slap goes short in the irons, the fore-topmasf. and topgallant studden-saii booms.'
 THE LIFE OF AN EDITOR.
 x There is species ol cores pondents, who under the pretence of l giving advice, are the most abominable, saucy, ,and dimpudentfellowsin in the world, and who modestiy give their crude sugg- gestions as infallible axioms, which, If yOu do moi obpy you mI1sf lose their 11-