4 Fish .Sto,y.-A bold Floridian, who would have thought ita trihe to take an alligator, being out fishing recently, discovered a shoal of porpoises, and e. quipped hmselfwith a harpoon. the line of which he fastened around his person.

 Presently stout one came near, and he alet drive"--the porpoise darted off like

 a shot, whirling tic poor harpooner through the waves, and he was only sav- ed by the rope breaking. He should

 read .sThe Pilot," and take few ideas from Long Tom Coffin

 The above reminds usof the exploits

 of two of our acquaintances, in Savan- 1 nah river: One of them was a great trout catcher, generally sittingand fish iDg on rock in the river with half a dozen rods at a time. One day he fas- tened his hand-line ia long strong line, whose hook is thrown go or 40 yards in

 the river,) to his leg, finding the multi piicity of his tackle inconvenient to man.

 age. A large fish, weighing 4s pounds, seized the bait, and before our fisher

 man, was wellawar ofthe fact, he was

 posting down the river faster than tow

 boat astern of q steamer. Luckily the catfish as much alarmed as its follower, did not keep the deep channel, but at- tempted to pass sand-bar, which near- ! " crossed the stream. Here our almost breathles, acquaintance caught hold oi something which brought the fish to a

 sudden halt, and the fisherman was en-

 abled 10 ayenge himself for his tempora- I " discontinue. The other case occur

 red only few miles above this city,

 The sturgion in the heat of summer is

 very sluggish, and willie panfing like 1 1 a hog in the coolest parts Of tie stream,

 regardless almost of the approach of

 danger. Our friend found one of these

 animals 7a feet long in a shallow part

 ofthe river, and being "mech ofa man.