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KIND O SUcKED-IS LiKE.--This same town of Shreveport is decidedly business place. Transactions are daily occurring which go to prove that money can be made here at every species of trade. To eluciaa,e more fully the remark we need simply men, ton case which occurred last week. Two gentlemen of elegant leisure were indulging in private game of poker on a small scale, when their privacy was interrupted by the entrance of third individual. who claims his domicils on the Lake--a quiet. clever painter, who is unused 10 the man-traps and spring-guns which beset the path of the in- nocent and unwary. Nip dealt out the cards, and very adroi,ly managed to deal Tuck four kings, while he reserved for his individual use four aces. 4 few passes were made in a gentlemanly way. when Tuck becoming excited at the por,eniuous display of four kingss swore he would go fifty dollars bet ter. if he had the money. Our 'looker on participating in the enthusiasm of Tuck, very generously offered to advance the fifty under the full belief that the four kings would win The money was laid down. call was made and Nip raked il down to the great astonish- meni of the defeated party. IL is not known what portion of the fifty fell to the lot oi Tuck bu, looker-on' has been whistling fo, his for several days, and itis believed by some of the most respectable citizens that he will pucker until the Day of Judgment.