The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-08-30

BREEDING FIsH.-The following was brought
out in one of the discussions Of the American
institute, at the late meeting Of the farmers
club
Dr. Adams communicated tie SUCCESS Of
those engaged in the business, as it has now
become ca business, of breeding FISH. Fish eggs
can be transported between folds Of vet linen
in box, and FIVE hundred thousand eggs can
be hatched in stream under q sieve fifteen
inches in diameter. Another paper treated Of
the mackerel fishing of the BlaeE sea and Bos-
phorus. The fishing season commences at Com
stantinople on the 18th Feb. The fish are then
five or six inches long. By the time tl!er reach
Gibraltar, the mackerel are about half grown.
In September the same fish arrive on the Amer
ican coast, and are full grown. Hundreds Of
thousands of people are engaged in gre fishing
business in the spring of the year ia the Bos~
phorus. The water seems alive with these fish
as they come down from the Black sea.
MI. Pel said, upon the subject of fish, that
he would give the club some information. He
was convinced by his own experiments that ali
salt water fish can be bred in fresh water, and
that fish are easily domesticated. He says his
pike are voraclous; he has seen one strike into
school of small fish he was feeding, and take
| full mouthful in an instant. He feeds his fish
upon liver, Indian meal mixed with blood, aud
boiled rice. Hesad perch or golden carp csn
be frozen in ice solid, and thawed ont without
INJURY. He spoke of the great value Of fish az
manure, containing all the elements necessary
for the farmer to fertile his crops H said that
he had succeeded in producing Swedish lscches
in his fish ponds. By cutting off thcrai. ofths
leech, the blood will pass off and the leech do
double the duty.
LONDON TO AN AMER1cAN-The editor Of the
New York Express, writing from London, says:
The immense and the prodigous wealth Of
London exhibits itself, despite the many efforts
to cloud it. It is not seen, as in New York ON
the backs of the owners, or as in Paris on beau
tifu day, in the Bos de Boulogne, nor in the
house display of costly curtains of brocade and
lace, mosaic work, fresco painting, bois de Rases
buhl, or marqueterie. For wherever such
things exist, they seem to be cloalsd rather
than ostentatiously displayed. Nevertheless.
the great and mighty wealth of London peeps
out in spite of itself, as it were. Istood tor an
hour in Hanover street, think it was gazing
with outstletched eyes and open mouth, upon
the horses, the carriages, the servants. the live
rles the equipages, receiving the wealthy visitors
of an afternoon public concert there, The la
dies and gentlemen are well dressed, no more.
But the coachmen, the lveries, the horses are
exquisite-all. There was not a hair in a horse
main or TAIL that did not seem to be ela6orately
pressed. Co!faur, Or Frisseur of the B0ule-
wards never more dressed a Partisan dandy, for
the eyes of his mistress fair, than had been
groomed these steeds for this display. The
liveres of the servants were not SO much dag.
zling as rich. The scarlet was not So abundant
as soberer, tanner colors, but all things bore the
mark of care and cost. Such equipage8 were
there not in twos, nor fves, nor tens, but in
hundreds. To an American eye it was show
of something between fairyland and harlequin
and could have gazed upon it, as upon
vaudeville for hours and hours. The humble
policeman regulated the equipages for the great
as if he had been Caesar the emperor, himself.
The crook of his finger turned back dutchesa
or duke. All were as obedient to his nod or
his beck, as if Xerxes had been wrapped uD in ii
a policemans coat. The armorial bearings, tho
escutcheons about, were all Greek, to me. but
| suppose they meant much, or they could not
have been so carefully wrought for public dis
play. England shows, ostentatiously shows
tiles, not gold.
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