ENCOURAGE YOUR OWN MECHAN

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 The disposition cannot be too much re- buked, let it exist in any town it may, to send to distant places for products, which could be equally we'll furnished by mechan- ics of their own town. No one thing can be more positively injurious to the real interests of any town than to go over the heads of its of the place money which justly belongs ut home. It prevents them from advancing in prosperity, so as to add to the success of their own.

 There are people, who think that no arti- cle can be good for any thing, unless it be an imported one. Such persons are enemies to the towns in which they live. They do what they can to retard its progress, and dis courage its citizens. It is wholly wrong, un. just and foolish. Every real friend 10 the place in which he lives should do all that he can to encourage its mechanics, and he who hus Q correct conception of the duties ot good neighbor, and true American citizen will ever take pride in doing so, and not run away after every thing that is foreign, from the foolish idea that by doing so it renders injustice to his fellow citizens.-SaturdGy Courier.

 A ShOQL OJ Oe0tS.-1 uo pSOpio ol tnc paT- ish of Trois Pistoles, about IA miles below Quebec on the south shore, were surprised on the 22d and 23d of last month. with wis. it from shoal of seals, consisting of many hundreds or thousands, covering the ice on the river to the distance of three leagues from the banks. On the first day, l5O of these fish were killed by some of the most adventurous of the parishioners, and on the following. encouraged by this success. near ly 400 persons resolved to profit by the windfall, and about 400 seals were killed.- The sport however was not without danger and indeed for considerable time threaten. ed to render Trois Pistoles,a village ofweep. ing widows and orphans. The seals were killed by blow with bludgeon. being pursued over the ice, and so exciting was the sport that those engaged in it did no, perceive until almost too late that South wind which had sprung up had detached the ice from the banks of the river and was blowing it toward the north. The ice had drifted three or four acres before the sports. men perceived their danger. This was al 10 o'clock in the morning. The only means Y of saving 60 large number of men were two small canoes in bad condition, for it was i'm. possible to make use of boats. All however were happily saved, though it was o'clock At night before all were brought to land. kaa.t