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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 235, 2 May 1868, Page 3

The Expected Eecoveey of a hundred millions of treasure by the '• Cocos Island Guano and Piroot Treasure Expedition" is stimulating would-be millionaires to like ventures. Parties are now in San Eraneisco enj deavouring to get up an expedition to godown to the Peruvian coast and raise an entire frigate load of gold and silver bars, doubloons, &c, sunk there nine hundred years ago. It is reported that the treasures lie in only fifteen feet of water —[how came the vessel to sink if that is the case ?] —and it can be taken out with a common dredging machine. It is thought that the dredging will pay 50,000 dol to the bucketfull, with the bed-rock pitching and the pay-dirt growing richer ao they go down. Hope it will turn out as represented. But we don't see it yet, and we fear that San Eraneisco capitalists will bite very charily at the bait after all. Of course there are always green ones to bite at any bait, but the number is getting smaller in this community daily. Sabdines.—Sprats, young pilchards and other fish of the herring family are put up in oil and sold as sardines in England. Mr Couch, a Cornish ichthyologist, says the sardine appears to be the only fish of this family except the pilchard that has the dorsal fin at the centre of gravity. Cuvier found no difference in the structure of these fish, the sardine being distinguished only by its inferior size.— American paper.

The following rather novel advertisement appeared lately in a Chicago paper. It must have been written by a very eccentric character:—" "Wanted

—A Purchaser for a Printing Office.— A reformed editor, having quit debasing himself by dabbling in Bmall politics and the like, wishes further to purge himself of all remnants of stains upon his character. Therefore, he wishes to sell his press, his types, his stone, his roller-mould, his lead-cutter, his quoins, his brass rule, and all and singular every other utensil, tool, implement, or dingus, # appertaining, or in any wise belonging to, with, around, or a complete little print shop. Press in perfect running order; many of the founts of type are nearly new ; and, altogether, the office is, practically nearly as good as though right shining bright from the foundry. It is at present hung up in a rural place where any white printer would hunger and go seedy, if he wouldn't die outright of starvatoin and nudity. But to remove to some Christian land, there is no better country printing office lying around loose."