1 AN ANGLER'S REMINISCENCES. 



During these nine years of his editorial life Mr. Hallock did not confine himself 

 to office duties. He was constantly on the move, taking trips of several months' 

 duration at sundry times first to the Rocky Mountains (a different journey then 

 than now), then to the Red River country in British North America, next to Labra- 

 dor, in 1860, when he headed an expedition to view the total eclipse and collect birds 

 for the Smithsonian Institution, in connection with Elliott Coues, and at other times 

 to Newfoundland, Cape Breton, and remote parts of Canada, accounts of which 

 trips appeared from time to time in Harper's Magazine, illustrated by his own 

 pencil, and which of course earned for him the right to be classed with the magazine, 

 writers of the period. Of those contributions of his which are annonated in the 

 Harper index, we find : "The Siege of Fort Atkinson (a story of Indian strategy 

 on the plains), "The Red River Trail," ''Life Among the Loggers," "Aroostook and 

 the Madawaska," "Three Months in Labrador," "Wild Cattle Hunting on Green 

 Island," "The Racket Club," and "Secrets of Sable Island." He also wrote numer- 

 ous novelettes for the weeklies and a series of western border sketches for the 

 Spirit of the Times over the signature of "Lariat," exhibiting no especial mark of 

 genius, perhaps, but sufficiently creditable for a young man of his age. 



During a period of the war, in 1863, Mr. Hallock edited the Augusta (Ga.) 

 Chronicle and Sentinel, in conjunction with N. B. Morse, Esq., afterwards of the 

 New York Daily News, running the blockade overland into the Confederacy, and 

 out again from Wilmington, N. C, to Bermuda by steamer, a graphic account of 

 the trip and of the Enchanted Isles, afterward appearing in the Galaxy Magazine. 

 While in the south he published a biographical sketch of General Stonewall Jackson, 

 fifty-eight pages octavo, issued eighteen days after his death, which was afterward 

 printed in Nova Scotia, in the fall of the same year, both editions aggregating 

 10,000 copies. At Bermuda Mr. Hallock edited the Royal Gazette for several weeks 

 at the request of the queen's printer, Donald McFee Lee, Esq., who was prostrated 

 with fever. Then he took steamer to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and resided in that province 

 and New Brunswick some three years or more, contributing to the papers there, 

 and editing at different times the St. John Courier, the Telegraph and the Humorist, 

 the latter a small weekly satir.ical journal which he started in St. John. The 

 Courier was the confederation organ of the Province of New Brunswick, and 

 contributed much to the consummation of the Dominion, being prompted by Sir 

 Samuel L. Tiley, Peter Mitchell., R. D. Wilmot, Esq., and other leading politicians 

 who wrote for it. The Humorist, edited coincidentally by Mr. Hallock, and printed 

 in the Courier office, was anti-confederation in politics. The year previously he 

 had published in the Halifax Citizen a series of thirty-seven politico-satirical papers 

 entitled "Joel Penman's Observations ; or, the Provinces Through Yankee Spec- 

 tacles," a very successful brochure, whose perspicacity subsequent events have almost 

 verified to the letter, not only as respects political changes, but internal improve- 

 ments and commercial relations. 



That Mr. Hallock has capacity for other avocations than journalism is indicated 

 by the fact that he established the first exchange and money office in New Bruns- 

 wick, subsequently extending the business to Halifax, through a branch office, where 

 he also became one-fourth owner in the shipping house of Wilkinson, Wood & Co.* 

 It was his accidental residence in Canada that has enabled him to gain much general 

 information, which he was able to turn to such good account in his books and in 

 the Forest and Stream. 



