The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-04-30
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HAvnE DE GRAa April oath, 1860.

HAvRE DE GRA1& April Gath, 1860.
MEssRs. EDIToRs - ourlast number save
one reached me by due course, and rs my first
small draft was duly hon lrcd, will venture to
draw again, for biicf space, on your neat
and geographically accurate columns. Shall
not be surprised, however, if in the present
case my paper be returned protested. The
. circulation of the I4ggis here, believe, is as
large as any OF the county press. Our own
PAPER, the Republican, think, is better re-
ceived than formerly, being no doubt under
more competent editorial management
have thought for several days of sending
you something on Il very practical subject,
viz, that of the shad and herring fisheries in
this vicinity; and when this subject is named,
your correspondent is apt to run away back
to the time when Mr.. Millhoof kept house
on the Point" and hundred and fifty wag
oners or more, there did congregate, to drink
strong beer and talk all kinds of Dutch-high
and low
There are no doubt many persons living
within twenty miles of the beautiful Susque-
hanna, who never saw u fishing shore and
have very crude impressions of the manner
in which the business is conducted-of the
large outlay required-of the exposure and
hardships that fishermen have to undergo,
whose usual luck it is TO have u ragged pair
of breeches and something else besides |
apprehend that very few persons in our large
cities, north or west ever saw red herring,
if we except Dutch herring, which is really
a very poor substitute for a good article of
food. A Pennsylvania on seeing seine
landed, could not tell perch from muilet,
which LED to the remark tnat he was mullet-
head. A huckster, not remarkably honest,
having waited several days without being
able to get anything better, took q load OF
carp 10 Lancaster county, ana sold mem 10
the honest Ieutons there for pcrch. his nfst
venture was decided success, but on Sec
1ld trial tney did not want any more OF that
klnd OF perch-had 100 many bones IN them.
II ID sara Dy one OF our most learned PROBES
sors tnat nsh is good 10 supply pIain waste
ana In TINS conheXion, would IL not DC wen we,
Tor some OF our radical editors.to lay In llp-
eral supply we might ne able 10 supply
them Win rev aleWlVes.
description OF one snore' Win siight va
riations, would answer Ior AL on the pay or
river, the prlnclpai uineIehce pelhS IL, inc
length oi tle seines anu 1le NUMBER Vi hauis
mace IN day OF tnrough0ut inc season.
snort seine, OF one Oh medium lenStn' perhg
quickiy hunolea' Is perhaps tAe saies.. Inc
tioes ID some places nave 10 oe e observed
Az one snore, sucn as tnat OF Candy Beach,
on the lower end OF Spesutia Island, there
may De pue tnree hauis niaue withih twenty
four hours, while at another, ten could be
got through with. In the Susquehanna the
tides do not Interfere; but the current often
prevents hauling, in the midst OF the season,
Tor several days together. 1t is certainly
true that larger quantities Of nsh come up on
falling river, and before the water has be-
come quite clear, than at any other time.
The seines used are all knit by hand-the
machine knitting thus far not having proved
at oil satisfactory. That used at the Old
Bay is about one thousand fathoms, or six
thousand feet in length, which does not in
clude the ropes. The seine used at Watson's
Island, opposite this place, is something over
four hundred iathoms, or twenty four hundred