MAcoN. (Geo.) March qs
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WACuN' lUeO.I March 28.

 Raf Hsniing.-YesteTday in clearing out and taking up the floor of the smoke-house at the Washington Hall. no less than eighty Epe Rats. mostly grown. were destroyed-aIl of the wharf species. Rat catching in the West-Indies. We are told. is . source of com siderable revenue tO the negroes. O. ac- count Of the depredatiOns of these animals on the sugar plantations. . small premium is ot' tered Tor the head of each one destroyed sn addition to which. the skins bring something from the iirrleF the bodies are neatly dress cd and baEbacued, and carried to the market place. where they sell readily at the rate of iw0 Og three feg . bit. or Ie I.e cents of ouF money. A fat, eane.led rat. nicely baEbaeu. ed. is said to be pretty good venisOD.