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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 M1. 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 rangesas 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. 
Jupp PrizE.—Weapon, military rifle; distance, 200 yards; five rounds; 
entrance fee, one dollar; eight prizes, value, $205. 
SrortTsMAN’s Marcu.—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 Maton.—Open to teams of twelve from each regiment 
or battalion of the First Division of the National Guards, 8. 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. 
Srconp Division MatcH.—Open to teams from regiments or battalions, 
Second Divison National Guards, 8S. N.Y. Weapon, Remington rifle: 
distance, 200 and 500 yards; five shots each distance; position 200 yards 
standing, 500 yards any position; entrance fee, one dollar; nine prizes; 
value, $380. 
Army AND Nayy Journat Matcn.—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 Matcu.—Any rifle; distance, 500 and 900 yards; seven 
shots at each distance; position, any; entrance fee, one dollar; ten prizes; 
value, $180. 
Srate Priz~.—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 Matcn.—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 Match.—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. 
Rai~RoaD Matcu.—Open to members of Rifle Association; open to all 
save winners of the Turf Fied 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 all; any rifle; range, 800 
and 1,000 yards; seven shots at any distance; position, any; entrance fee. 
one dollar; nine prizes; value $175. 
Press Matcu.—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. 

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 3,600 francs per 
annum. Its average life being thirty-five years, the damage 
which it occasions in all is 126,000 francs. Gérard, 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- 
eria, and every year new fires are lit with the same object. 
hose. considerations have determined the sportsman just 
mentioned to have recourse to new instruments of honing 
As ameans of destruction corresponding to his views, M. 
Constant Chéret has invented what he calls the stlocage, 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 eyen 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- 
nche away to some menagerie prepared for the purpose. 
Sea and River Sishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN SEPTEMBER. 
eit) ned’ 
Coast Fisn. LaAKEs. 
Bluefish, Skipjack, Horse Mackerel, Black Bass, (Mic) oplerus nigricans 
(Temnodon  saltator.) and archigan.) (two species.) 
Spanish Mackerel, (Cero maculatum.) Maskinonge, (Hsow estor and nobil- 
Weakfish, Squetaug (Trout) Qfoli- ior.) (two species.) 
thus.) Pickerel, (Hsox reticulatus.) 
Sheepshead, (Sargus ovis,) Pike perch, Lucioperca Americana.) 
Bays AND ESTUARIES. 
Striped Bass, Rockfish. (Labrax lin- Land-locked Salmon,(Salmo Gloveri 
eatus.) 1 at 
—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 Jamaica 
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 yeteran, 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. Isaw 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 Conngaut. 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 fish that we 
take in the Ohio. Isaw 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 me 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 Lam told has great 
numbers of them init, 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 in 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 callthem, are in all the great lakes, also in 
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and weigh from half a 
pound to three pouads. The lake people call them sand 
pike. They are spotted like a rattlesnake. 
The vass 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 alarge 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 twelve pounds. 
The bait we use for pike is chubs, or smallsuckers, cight 
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. The Chip- 
pewa river empties its clear waterinto 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 strungalong the shore for several miles, and 
the cool Chippewa water 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 
‘|lalong side the rafts} where they lie when they want to catch 

a, 
the minnows. It is aboutas 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 Dow Bul- 
lard. The best fishing lies opposité 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. 
Pachting and Boating. 
HIGH WATER, FOR THE WEEK. 


DATE BOSTON. | NEW YORK. | CHARL'ST'N. 
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Sepia aie 2 40 noon 11 28 
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Sept. 2:20. ves 03) 4 2% 1 12 | 0 25 
Septs 80 tyes scence: 5 32 2 18 | 1 32 
Geta eee. 6 42 8 29 | 2 48 

—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 un- 
usually 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: Fora 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 laterthan 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 84, 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 inrounding, and return over tlie same course, keep- 
ing the Southwest Spit buoy on the starboard hand. Yachts 
must keep to the eastward of buoys Nos. 9, 11 and 138 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—W orking schooners of not less than 25 nor over 
800 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 andreturn. 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. 
Por eed 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 Addie 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 ismore 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 
