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shooting otherwise than as a source of amusement and re- 

 creation, and am always ready, my business permitting, to 

 meet in friendly contest any gentleman who may wish to 

 try conclusions with me, but not for the purpose of pecuni- 

 ary gain. 



— There has been a great deal of shooting at Creedmoor 

 during this last week, and the ranges have had occu- 

 pants almost every day. No match of any importance 

 has however taken place. Members of the First, Ninth, 

 Twelfth, Twenty-second, Twenty-ninth, Seventh and 

 Fifth Regiments, have all been practicing, and the average 

 shooting for green hands, was quite creditable. 



The Fifty-fifth Regiment, 250 strong, met at Creed - 

 moor on Monday last; shooting was at 200 yards. The 

 team of the Ninth Regiment did good shooting at 200 to 

 500 yards. The Twenty-second Regiment team did well. 

 The Twenty-third Regiment team had new guns, but did 

 fair shooting. The Seventy-ninth's team, averaged 13 at 

 .500 yards; 16 at 200. 



Rangekeeper Higgs, from the Wimbledon range, made 

 18 out of possible 20 at 500 yards, using the Remington 

 sporting gun.. 



It is now a question of taking the best shots in order 

 to select teams for the October contest. The men of the 

 various regiments are commencing to take a decided interest 

 in their shooting, and seem to seize very quickly the various 

 points, which have to be studied, in order to secure success. 

 Besides practice in the field, the use of targets for aiming 

 drill which can be tried at home, will be found most useful. 

 On Saturday last there was no regular match, though gen- 

 eral firing was in order. 



— We must not be too sanguine of our skill as riflemen, 

 and may have yet a good deal to learn. A Mi. Sanders of 

 the Dublin Shooting Club, made this month the following 

 remarkable score, winning the prize. Distance eight hun- 

 dred, nine hundred, and one thousand yards, seven shots at 

 each range, Mr. Sanders winning the cup with a total of 

 eighty— at the three ranges as follows:— 800 yards, 26; 900 

 yards, 26: 1,000 yards, 28; total, 80. 



We give a short resume of the prizes to be shot for at 

 the First Annual Prize Meeting of the National Rifle As- 

 sociation, to be held at Creedmoor, on October 8th. It 

 may be a week perhaps before the whole number of con- 

 tests are decided. 



Judd Prize.— Weapon, military rifle; distance, 200 yards; five rounds; 

 entrance fee, one dollar; eight prizes, value, $205. 



Sportsman's Match.— Weapon; any kind of rifle; distance, 200 yards; 

 . five rounds; position, standing; seven prizes, value, $525; (among them a 

 pair of splendid moose antlers, handsomely gilt, presented by Forest and 

 Stream). 



First Division Match.— Open to teams of twelve from each regiment 

 or battalion of the First Division of the National Guards, S. N. Y. 

 Weapon, Remington rifle; distance 200 and 500 yards; five shots each dis- 

 tance; position, standing at 200 yards, any position at 500 yards; entrance 

 fee, one dollar each man. Twelve prizes, value, $455. 



Second Division Match.— Open to teams from regiments or battalions, 

 Second Divison National Guards, S. N. Y. Weapon, Remington rifle: 

 distance, 200 and 500 yards; five shots each distance; position 200 yards 

 standing, 500 yards any portion; entrance fee, one dollar; nine prizes; 

 value, $380. 



Army and Navy Journal Match.— Open to teams from all military 

 organizations in the United States, including regular army, navy and ma 

 rines. Weapon, any military rifle; distance, 500 yards; rounds, seven; 

 position, any; entrance fee. one dollar; ten prizes ; value, $985. 



All Comers Match.— Any rifle; distance, 500 and 900 j^ards; seven 

 shots at each distance: position, any; entrance fee, one dollar; ten prizes; 

 value, $180. 



State Prize.— Open to teams of twelve, from any regiment or bat- 

 talion of National Guards in the State; distance, 300 and 500 yards; wea- 

 pon, Remington rifle; State medal; rounds, five; entrance fee, one dollar; 

 thirty prizes; value, $3,175. 



Gatling Match.— Open to teams of twelve from each regiment or 

 battalion of the N. G., or the State. Weapon, Remington rifle; State 

 medal; distance, 500 yards; rounds, seven; position, any; entrance fee, 

 one dollar; ten prizes; value, $2,235. 



New Jersey MatcIi.— Open to teams of twelve of the National Guard 

 of New Jersey; distance, 200 and 400 yards; five rounds each distance; 

 standing at 200 yards, any way at 400 yards. Weapon, any rifle prescri- 

 bed by the Governor of New Jersey; Four prizes; value, $200. 



Railroad Match.— Open to members of Rifle Association; open to all 

 save winners of the Turf Field and Farm, amateur club badges; dis- 

 tance, 500 yards; Weapon, any military rifle; position any; rounds seven: 

 nine prizes; value, $343. 



Sharpshooters' Championship.— Open to ail; any rifle; range, 800 

 and 1,000 yards; seven shots at any distance: position, any; entrance fee. 

 one dollar; nine prizes; value $175. 



Press Match.— Open to representatives of the press; distance, 400 

 and 500 yards; position, any; five rounds at each distance; five prizes: 

 value, $140. 



Aggregate of prizes, $8,298, 128 in number. The regu- 

 lations governing the match will be in accordance with the 

 rules laid down by the National Rifle Association. 



Sm mi Biver 



Cafe 



Lions in Algeria.— The Tell, a province in Algeria, is 

 ravaged by between 700 and 800 lions. Each costs in oxen, 

 horses, mules, camels, sheep, and goats 8,600 francs per 

 annum. Its average life being thirty five years, the damage 

 which it occasions in all is 126,000 francs. Gerard, the 

 great lion hunter, put the figures higher, as he took the an- 

 nual sum at 6,000 francs, and the total at 210,000 francs. 

 The Arabs, with a view to driving away those dangerous 

 beasts, have already destroyed a great many woods in- Al- 

 geria, and every year new fires are lit with the same object. 

 Those considerations have determined the sportsman just 

 mentioned to have recourse to new instruments of hunting. 

 As a means of destruction corresponding to his views, M. 

 Constant Cheret has invented what he calls the tijocage, and 

 of which the following is a short description : The frame 

 and bars are of iron. It is about ten feet long, two feet 

 six inches wide, and the same in height. Mounted on three 

 cast-iron wheels of small diameter, it can be moved even on 

 difficult ground. The upper part opens with folding doors, 

 like a wardrobe, and they close of themselves at the slight- 

 est shock given to springs of steel. Catches retain the lids 

 as they fall, and imprison the animal as soon as he touches 

 the bottom of the trap. The plan is to place this trap, 

 properly baited, on the ground frequented by the wild ani- 

 mals, and then, when the game is caught, to wheel the ma- 

 tt che away to some menagerie prepared for the purpose, 



FISH IN SEASON IN SEPTEMBER. 



Coast Fish. Lakes. 



Bluefish, Skipjack, Horse Mackerel. Black Bass, {Mia optenis nigncam 



{Temnodon saltator.) and archigan.) (two species.) 



Spanish Mackerel, {Cero maculatum.) Maskinona;e, (Fsox estor and nobil- 

 Weakfish, Squetaug (Trout) Otoli- ior.) (two species.) 



thus.) Pickerel, (Esox reliculalw.) 



Sheepshead, (Sargusovu,) Pike percb, Lucioperca Americana.) 



Bats and Estuaries. 

 Striped Bass, Rockfish. {Labrax hn- Land-locked Salmon, (Salmo Gloved 

 eatvs.) 



♦ 



— The Fish Commissioners of Pennsylvania have placed 

 one thousand black bass in the North Branch of the Sus- 

 quehanna and the Lehigh river, and care has been taken to 

 give them a fair chance for propagation. In the dam at 

 Williamsport one hundred of the same kind of fish have 

 been planted, and in a short time most of the waters of the 

 State suitable for raising bass will be stocked with this ex- 

 cellent game fish. Two million and three-quarters of shad 

 were hatched at Newport, on the Juniata during the month 

 of July, and the process is still continued. The rearing of 

 trout and salmon has been a decided success, and scaly 

 plants of this kind will soon be introduced into all the 

 waters of the State adapted for their growth. A fish way 

 for shad will soon be located in the dam upon the Susque- 

 hanna river at Columbia, and others ordered by the Legis- 

 tature will be constructed as soon as practicable. 



— The sport of catching weak fish and king fish in Jama ica 

 Bay has been sadly impaired this season by the netters 

 who sweep away "at every tide thousands of fine fish. 



— The upper waters of Northern New Brunswick rivers 

 are now so low as to be impracticable for birch canoes. 



— The following valuable information respecting the fish 

 of the Western waters, including the great lakes and the 

 Mississippi, has been given to. us by an old veteran, and we 

 doubt not will prove as new to most of our Eastern read- 

 ers, as the latest sensation novel. He says: — 



" The fish we call pike is the same fish that is called mas- 

 kelonge. I saw one at Cleveland that would weigh about 

 thirty pounds. They called it a maskelonge, and I could 

 see no difference in it from our pike. The largest one I 

 have seen taken weighed thirty-two pounds, and was caught 

 in lake Conneaut. He was taken by Mr. Gormby ; his head 

 was sent to Philadelphia and exposed in a shop window for 

 the natives to gaze at. The largest I have taken weighed 

 twenty-eight pounds, and I have taken two of that weight, 

 and quite a number that would weigh over twenty pounds. 

 They abound in the Mississippi, and weigh from three 

 pounds up to forty pounds, and are the same fislrthat we 

 take in the Ohio. I saw the head of a pike nailed on a 

 barrel at Lowell, on the Muskingnum river, Ohio. The 

 merchant at whose door I saw it told mc he had weighed it 

 himself and it weighed forty-three ponnds. We have taken 

 a great number of pike in the Muskingnum that weighed 

 from fifteen to twenty-six pounds. 



White salmon weigh from twelve to eighteen pounds. 

 These fish are the same that are called wall eyed pike on 

 the great lakes, from lake Ontario to lake Superior. I 

 have seen three or four of them in the latter lake when 

 fishing for speckled trout. Lake Huron I am told has great 

 numbers of them in it, and numbers of large salmon are 

 brought to the Pittsburgh market from lake Huron, and are 

 the same fish that is in the Ohio. 



Prof. Agassiz ii classifying the fish of the Western 

 rivers, calls them the salmon of the Ohio, and I think he 

 ought to have placed them at the head of the perch family, 

 as "they are neither pike or salmon. The black or jack 

 salmon, as we call them, are in all the great lakes, also in 

 the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and weigh from half a 

 pound to three pounds. The lake people call them sand 

 pike. They are spotted like a rattlesnake. 



The bass in the Ohio, Mississippi, and lakes are the same 

 fish. The small lakes in the West have the Oswego bass, 

 but they are not considered as good a fish for the table as 

 the black bass. Have never seen a bass exceed five pounds 

 weight. 



The buffalo is a different fish from the red horse. The 

 fish tbat I have heard called red horse is a large red-finned 

 sucker; the largest will weigh six pounds. The buffalo of 

 the Mississippi river, is a large heavy-shouldered fish; 

 with large scales of a bluish color, and sucker mouth, 

 weighs from five to ^velve pounds. 



The bait we use for pike is chubs, or small suckers, eight 

 or ten inches in length, but any small fish will do. 



I have had good sport trout fishing in Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota. The trout were from a pound to four ounces 

 in weight. Some streams were covered with timber, others 

 were on the open prairie, lined with black alder, and so 

 dense as to exclude the sun's rays, and cut into the soil 

 about six feet deep, and the angler had to hunt places here 

 and there, and poke in his rod wherever he had space to 

 make a jerk to hook the fish. There are no mosquitoes 

 or gnats to trouble you on these streams. The fishing is 

 pleasant, and it was my good fortune to find pleasant houses 

 to stop at where there were no bugs, and the lady of the house 

 knew how to cook the trout. I have had some fine fishing 

 in the Mississippi. I have a son who resides at Dubuque, 

 Iowa, and we pay them a visit each spring in April. Pike, 

 black bass, and white salmon are quite plenty. We _ stay 

 with them five or six weeks, and then go up the Missis- 

 sippi river to the neighborhood of lake Pepin. t The_ Chip- 

 pewa river empties its clear Water into the Mississippi river 

 one mile below the foot of lake Pipin. All its branches 

 are trout streams, and its water is much cooler than the 

 Mississippi. It is a great lumber stream, and a great many 

 rafts descend it to the Mississippi, and to the cities below. 

 These rafts are strung along the shore for several -miles, and 

 the cool Chippewa w T ater passes under them, and the white 

 salmon collect in vast numbers under the rafts where they 

 are sheltered from the sun, and enjoy the cool water of the 

 Chippewa. The minnows pass up the river in vast num- 

 ers just along side of the rafts, and the fisherman has a 

 scoop net with a handle nine feet in length, and he makes 

 a drive at the minnows down the stream, and an expert will 

 sometimes take a quart of minnows at one drive; enough 

 to do a party for a day's fishing. You fish for salmon close 

 along side the rafts, where they lie when they want to catch 



the minnows. It is about as pleasant a place to fish at as I 

 ever visited, the rafts are so clean and such an extreme 

 range of them to fish off. from. The town called Reed's 

 Landing on the opposite side of the river, in Minnesota, is 

 a pleasant village of one street, and all the houses front the 

 river. 



The house that I stopped at is kept by Lorenzo How Bul- 

 lard, The best fishing lies opposite to his house, and I 

 used to leave his house at eight o'clock in the morning and 

 fish until he sounded the gong for dinner, by which time I 

 would have taken from twenty to fifty white salmon, weigh- 

 ing from two to six pounds each, or, in other words, as 

 many as two persons could carry on a pole up to the hotel, 

 where they were distributed among the citizens, so that 

 none were lost or wasted, as I never catch more fish than 

 can be used or given away. 



I was up at Marquette last summer. The large brook trout 

 are all caught out of the lake, within fifty miles of that 

 place. We caught a few, but not worth talking about, in 

 comparison to what they used to be. 



fachting mul ^ohUhq, 



HIGH WATER. FOR THE WEEK. 



DATE. 



Sept. 25 



Sept. 26 



Sept. 27 



Sept. 28 



Sept. 29 



Sept. 30 



Oct. 31 



BOSTON. 



h. m. 



3 38 



4 25 



5 32 



6 43 



NEW YORK. 



h. m. 



10 40 



11 22 

 lioon 



14 



1 12 



2 18 



3 29 



CHARL'ST'N. 



h. m. 

 9 58 



10 40 



11 28 

 noon 



25 



1 32 



2 43 



— The New York Yacht Squadron will hold their autumn 

 regatta on October 2d. It promises to be a great success as 

 the number of prizes and purses offered for all classes is urn 

 usualty large. The ocean races for the Commodore's gifts 

 will be sailed one week later — October 9th. The regatta 

 proper will be sailed over the usual regulation course, sub- 

 ject to the time allowances, and under the sailing regula- 

 tions of the squadron. No entrance money will be re- 

 quired. All yachts must carry their private signals at the 

 main peak. The start will be a flying one, and the time of 

 each yacht will be taken as she crosses a line between a 

 stakeboat, which will be anchored in the Narrows, near 

 Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, and the judge's steamer. 

 The signals for starting will be given from the Judge's boat 

 as follows : For a preparatory signal, one gun and lower- 

 ing the yacht club flag on the steamboat, and ten minutes 

 later, for the start, one gun, and the flag will again be low - 

 ered. No yacht's time will be taken later than fifteen min- 

 utes after the second gun, unless instructions to the contra- 

 ry are given by the judges on the morning of the regatta. 

 The course will be from the starting-point, as above, to and 

 around a stakeboat, at buoy 8|, on the Southwest Spit, 

 keeping it on the port hand in turning, thence to and around 

 the Sandy Hook Lightship/ keeping it on the starboard 

 hand in rounding, and return over the same course, keep- 

 ing the Southwest Spit buoy on the starboard hand. Yachts 

 must keep to the eastward of buoys Nos. 0, 11 and 13 on 

 the west bank, going and returning, and will pass between 

 the judge's boat and the stakeboat on arriving home. 



The ocean course will be from an anchorage off Owl's 

 Head, New York Harbor, to and around the Lightship on 

 Five Flathorn, off Cape May, N. J. . and return to Sandy 

 Hook Lightship. 



Three purses of the value of $1,000, $250 and $250 re- 

 spectively, also presented by the Commodore, to be sailed 

 for over the same course upon the same day, and open to 

 the following classes of vessels hailing from any port in the 

 United States : 



First— Pilot boats. 



Second — Working schooners of not less than 25 nor over 

 300 tons, old measurement. 



Third — Schooner smacks. 



In this race the first vessel arriving at the winning post 

 will take the purse of $1,000, the first vessel arriving of 

 each of the other two classes to take a purse of $250 ; no 

 class, however, to win more than one prize. 



All of the above races will be sailed under the rules and 

 regulations of the New York Yacht Squadron. 



—The two racing yachts— Mr. Fleet's W. T. Lee, and Mr. 

 Ira Smith's Brooklyn— both of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, 

 have made a match for $500 a side, to sail from Gowanus 

 Creek ten miles to windward and return. A steamboat will 

 accompany the yachts. This race will be sailed on the 29th 

 September. 



— The sloop yacht Psyche, owned by Mr. Dickinson, 

 went ashore on the west bar of Rockaway inlet, and has 

 gone to pieces, being previously stripped of her valuable 

 spar. 



— The match between the sloop yachts Meta, Mr. George 

 A Beling, and Vision, Mr. J. Alexandre, for a cup valued 

 at $1,000, has been set down for the second week in Octo- 

 ber. The race will be twenty miles to windward and re- 

 turn, from the point of Sandy Hook. 



—The schooner Tidal Wave and sloop Addle V. , N. Y. 

 Y. C, have gone out of commission. The owners are 

 going to Europe. 



— Mr. David Kirby, of Rye, is building a sloop yacht for 

 Mr. Daniel Edgar, of New Rochelle. She will be 70 feet on 

 deck, 20 feet beam, and 5 feet 6 inches hold. Her frame is 

 nearly up, but the boat will not be completed until next 

 year. 



— It is more than probable that the celebrated schooner 

 Madeleine, N. Y. Y. C, Mr. Jacob Voorhies, Jr., will enter 

 for the club race on the 2d prox., as well as for the ocean 

 race on the 9th of October. 



— The Harlem Yacht Club sent out invitations to their 

 friends, to participate in a Rhode Island clam bake last 



