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points tor Station Creek taking the regular steam
boat track. As soon as he gains the deep channel
! he turns for Bay Point. "Now, then, another
| trial-a bouse on him." Three fellows are set to
! the rope-his wing appears-C- aims his bayo-
net, and plunges it deep into his body-another
shudder of the fish, and the bayOnet snaps short off
at the eye-the blade remains buried in his body.
! ''Now for it, George" HIS bayonet is driven in,
and, at the second blow, that is snapped off in the
! blade. Here we are unweaponed! our rifle and
! Ratchet useless our other implements broken-
'Givo him rope boys, until we haul off and repair
! damages" At every blow we had dealt him, his
| power seemed to have increased, and he now swept
down for Egg Bank, with a speed that looked
! ominOus. "Out oars bows, and pull against him. -
| The tide was now Aood-the wind still fresh, had
shifted to the east; six put out and pulled
Justify against him, yet he carried us rapidly sea-
ward, against all these impeding forces. He SEEM
| ed to suck in fresh yigor from the ocean water.
George meanwhile was reftting the broken imple-
ments; the lance fixed in new staff, and Sc
cured by tic of triple drum line; the broken
blade of the bayonet was fixed on another staff
| Egg Bank now but one hundred yards to our
left. Grow him ashore, boys" The devil-fish re-
fused, and drew the whole concern in the opposite
direction. "Force him, then, to the surface" He
! popped up unexpectedly under the bow, lifted one
| wing four feet in air, and bringing it suddenly
down, swept off every oar from the starboard side
of the boat; they were not broken, but wrenched
out of the hands Of the oarsmen by electric
| shock One man was knocked beneath the thwarts
| by the rebound of an oar, and was laid almost
speecbless on the platiorm-qute hors de combat.
! Fresh hands are brought from the smaller boat; the
fish now leads off with thirty fathoms of rope-he
steers for Joyner's Bank. Bay Point recedes; Egg
! Bank disappears, Chaplin's Island lies behind us,
! and Hilton Head again approaches, but it is the
eastern face of the island that presents itself
| The breakers of the Gaskn Bank begin to loom in
our horizon, and this is done against wind, tide
and oar! doubt of capturing the fish began
now to steal over our minds, and show itself in our
faces; of assailing so powerful an antag-
onist were too inadequate; nothing remained but
TO bouse on him once more, and endeavor to dis
patch him with the weapons that remained to U.S.
Three fresh hands took the rope and after giving
him long run to weary him to the uttermost, We
succeeded in drawing him to the surface. Helay on
his back without moton-and we looked on victory
as certain. The socket of the harpoon appeared
sticking out, from the belly of the fish; the whole
shank was buried in his body. We saw neither
| tail nor head, nor horns, nor wings-nothing but
an unSlghtly white mass, undiStinguished by mem
Der or feature. After moments pause, to single
out some spot for a mortal blow, | plunged the
lance, socket and ALL into the centre of this white
mass. The negroes who held the line of the har-
poon took turn round the gunwale, to prevent
its slipping. The boat lurched with the swell of
the sea-and the moment the dead weight of the
| fsi-unsupported by the water, was felt, the har-
| poon tore out! An instant before, saw it driven
to the socket in the body of the fish, the next, it
was held up in the air in the hands of the negro,
| bent like scythe. There was time, if there had
been presence OF mind, to plunge it anew into the
fish, which tloated a second or two the surface.
cribe the bitter disappointment that pervaded the
| party. For moment, only, a faint hope revived;
| my lance, secured by a cord, was still in his body
| it might hold him! "Clear my line, boys!" Alas
| the weight of the fish is too much for my tackle
| the line flies through my hands checked-the
socket of the lance is drawn through the orice by
| which it entertd-oHd the fish IS gone!
| From the same, also from the press OF Derby &
Jackson, New York:
FABLES OF Ia FoyTAINE, Illustrated by J. j. Granville
Translated from the French by ELzUE WEIGHr, Jr II
two volumes, limo. 1859.
Also:
The HENRIADE: with the Battle of Fonenoy Dissertations
"a Man Law of Nature Destruction OF Lisbon; Temple o.
R Est 5 wv Wa METZ from all 1 the Emo 1s5
Also
| TIE THoUoHrs LETTERS AND OprscuLrs OF BLAIsP Pas
| CAL, Translated from the French rs O. NJ WIaHT, <
mentatorS l vol. l2mo. 1889.
| Also:
cqEiTyE or ITalE BY Madame De sae Traaglated by
l. Laudon. vol. Emo, 1888
| Also
TINS MARTYRS. by NJ De Chateaubriand revised trans
| iation Edited by O.. NJ WONT, \. NJ / vol. I2mo.-
| These works are all OF the uniform editions of the
transatons of French classics, in course of pub
| LEGATION by Derby Il Jackson, which we have hat
| frequent occasion to notice previously. We neeC
only remark, that high standard of mechanical
| excellence is maintained thus far.
| From T. B. Peterson & Brothers. Philadelphia
! through Henry Taylor:
! PIC Nc PAPERS By CHARLES DICKENS and others
No 10 Of Peterson's cheap edition Of DICKENS Works.
WILD SoUTHEEy SCENPs. ! Tale Of Disunion and Borde
scenes nc vol i2mo. 1859 VI wiz "sS'e'i
The author of this historical romance is that Johr
Jones who was the Madisonioa when John Tylel
the President 1t is the fullest most authentic
and most interesting history yet written of The
troubles in this Republic which occurred under
President Randolp h--when General RufIeton, will
an army of one hundred and fifty thousand north
ern mon, defeated at Bladensburg by Genera
Crook with an array Of only fifty thousand south
ern ditto, with loss of thirty thousand slain ant
led captive. 1t also describes said General Crool
| taking Jersey city, and levying contribution o
four millions of dollars on the CITY of New York
how he defeated BIZ the northern Gen. Hud
son, and other sundry and divers acts of war; low
and poiicy-endng with the restoration of peace
! the establishment Of the bred Scott decision, thu
return of President Randolph to the east room, thu
marriage of Gen. Blount to his daughter Alice
who, during the difficulties, had commanded, Will
great credit, a company of horse called the ''Blu
| Caps"-and the performance of the tunes of thu
| Star Spoagled Bomer-Had, Columbia! Hoppy Land
''and finally, Yonkee DOODLE" We think on tn
whole this niagnum opus of Jones must have hap
Ply influence for the idea of the bare possibility
such fancies ever becoming facts would be enough
to arrest the career of even such heroes as Johl
| Brown and General Quattlebum. The author i'm
putes the publication to the advice of his wife
He saw it all in vision, and his better-haf per
suaded him to constitute book of his dream w
dissent from Mrs. }. B. Us Judgment assur;n!
her that such the dreams that sh,T is made of
HISTORY OF THE Four GEoRGEs KINGS OF ENGLAND, &c
| By SAMUEL VI. SMUcKEn, IL. d. New York. ID Annleto
! &Co. For sale by James :. Waters
This is a rather imperfect sketch of the lives 0
these monarchs and the leading events of thei
reigns but has small claim to- rank as a history
The author skps from fact to fact, and Of these HI
| gives us only the most meagre details, and ncye
| attempts to investigate their causes nor to show
| their connection with each other. The incidents o
the private lives of the Georges are not more fully
or satisfactorily narrated than are their politca
acts; and the relations in which they stood towards
the other rulers of Europe are scarcely touched on
The book is in many instances, inaccurate. thouci
we would do the author the justice to suppose thai
the statement that Lord George Gordon presented
to Parliament petition in favor of the repeal O
the laws against Catholics, was inserted accident
ally rather than ignorantly. The STYLE is often IA
bored, and, not intrequently, pretentious. As q
compilation, however, it is Of average merit and
will doubtless be found interesting and useful BY
those who wish to acquire some information about
the period of which it treats, and are not patient
| or laborious enough to study more elaborate
works.
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