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A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Disvotbd to Field and Aquatic Spobts, Pp^actioal Natural History, 

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 ai:d the Inculcation in Men and Women of a healthy interest 

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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1875. 



To Correspondents. 



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All communications whatever, whether relating to business or literary 

 Correspondence, must be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub- 

 lishing Company. Personal or private letters of course excepted. 



All communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 

 real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 

 objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be. regarded. 



Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 



We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 



Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 

 notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 

 to become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 

 men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 

 find our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 



The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 

 patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re- 

 fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 

 s beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 

 the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 

 tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise- 

 ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 

 terms ; and nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that 

 may not be read with propriety in the home circle. 



We cannot be responsible for the dereliction of the mail service, if 

 snoney remitted to us is lost. 



Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday o* each week, if possible. 



(JHARLE8 HALLOCR, Editor, 



WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Business Manager. 



FOX AND STAG HUNTING. 



TnE Intercolonial Railway.— The recent completion 

 of the Intercolonial Railway of Canada from Moncton, 

 New Brunswick, to Campbellton, gives easy access by an 

 all rail route from Boston to one of the finest hunting and 

 fishing regions of Ameriea. Campbellton is situated on 

 famous Restigouche River, about twenty miles above its 

 mouth, where it empties into the Bay Chaleur— the latter 

 beinff the reservoir of all the splendid salmon river3 of New 

 Brunswi-jk and the southern slope of the Gaspe Peninsula. 

 The Restigouche district is in great part a wilderness, 

 abounding in fur bearing animals, ruffed grouse, and large 

 game like the caribou and moose. No doubt the facilities 

 thus afforded by the Intercolonial will induce an increased 

 number of sportsmen to go thither in coming years, especi- 

 ally when the salmon and trout are taking the fly. Camp- 

 lie] Hon is also within eighteen miles of the Matapedia, a 

 splendid salmon river, along whose bed tne railroad is to 

 run when completed next year, following its course for 

 twenty five miles, and then continuing on to connect with 

 the present northwestern terminus at St. Elavie. St. 

 Flavie is eighty-five miles east of Riziere du Loup; from 

 that point to Quebec the route is familiar to the tourist. 

 This railroad is claimed *o be the best built in America, 

 and cost about $42,000 per mile. The rails are all of 

 steel, and all bridges of iron. The two branches of the 

 Mirairrichi and the Restigouche are crossed by seventeen 



gpans of 200 feet each. 



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Weather-wise. — The Eimira Advertiser claims that frogs 

 are going down into nine feet of water this Fall, and are 

 lining their nests with cotton batting. It says you can 

 look for a Winter which w',11 bend shade trees double and 

 freeze the life out of hitching posts. We don't believe it. 

 The hornets are building their nests close to the ground, 

 and the bluefish have just doubled Cape May. If that 

 don't indicate a mild Winter we don't know what does. 

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—The third annual festival of the Staten Inland Shooting 

 Association takes place at Phenixville on the 25th inst, 

 Thanksgiving Day. A correspondent says : " We shall do 

 away with greased pigs and sack and wheelbarrow rac- 

 ing, and confine ourselves strictly to rifle and pigeon shoot- 

 ing. ** Frank Johnson, of Bond street, New York, has pre- 

 sented us with a Parlor Health I4ft, to be given as a prize 

 m ijfle shooting.*' 



A NOTICE has been going the rounds of the papers to 

 the effect that a club was about being formed in this 

 city for the purpose of fox hunting on Long Island or in 

 New Jersey. Aside from the Southern States, where 

 packs of hounds have been for many years used for hunt- 

 ing the fox, the sport in this vicinity has been confined to 

 an occasional run with a scrub pack, the unfortunate fox 

 more frequently meeting his fate at the hands of some 

 farmer armed with a gun than at the teeth of the hounds. 

 Or a k 'bagman" or half tamed fox has been turned loose 

 to fall an easy prey after a short run. It is a question 

 whether our country, at least this portion of it, affords pro- 

 per facilities for the prosecution of fox hunting. Admitting 

 the presence of foxes, the gathering together of a suitable 

 pack of dogs, and the still more difficult question of dis- 

 covering horsemen capable of following them, the greatest 

 stumbling block would be in finding a line of country suit- 

 able for riding across without unpleasant contact with 

 owners of the soil. The relations between landlord and 

 tenant are so different in England from anything which ob 

 tains with us, the sympathies of the rural population are 

 so strongly with their betters in the prosecution of the 

 national sport, that what would otherwise be looked upon 

 as a serious grievance is easily condoned by a mild appli- 

 cation of the hunt funds. Fancy a party of horsemen and 

 pack of hounds riding over a Jersey farmer's land, tramp- 

 ling in his Winter wheat and breaking down his fences; 

 hounds, horses and riders would be in limbo in as short 

 time as it would take to get out a warrant. 



Some idea of the magnitude of the sport as carried out 

 in England may be obtained from, the fact that there are 

 one hundred and thirty-six packs of foxhounds in England 

 and Wales alone, besides those of Scotland and Ireland. 

 If we average the dogs at thirty couples for each pack— 

 the Pytchley and the Quorn have sixty- four and fifty- five 

 respectively — we find over eight thousand dogs used for fox 

 hunting, which number of course does not include all the 

 young or not entered hounds. Besides these there are 

 ninety-four packs of harriers and innumerable beagles 

 used for hunting hares. The studs for mounting the 

 masters, huntsmen and whippers-in require about as many 

 houses as there are hounds. The number of packs of 

 hounds this year exceeds that of any previous season, 

 and the increase of late years is remarkable. It is a start- 

 ling fact to consider that on every hunting day of the sea- 

 son, at least twenty thousand men, mounted for the most 

 part on valuable horses, will take part in the chase in 

 Great Britain. This wonderful out-turn is the actual 

 growth of but a century and a half, but in reality is the 

 outcome of the peculiar social system of the country, the 

 law of entail and a large standing army. Officers of every 

 branch of the British service are hunting men, and their 

 skill in the saddle is proverbial. 



It is the prosecution of this and kindred manly and athle- 

 tic sports that has given to England her sturdy, healthful 

 sons; has given them the backbone to stand tropic heats 

 and arctic winters, and has been the main cause, and one 

 in all time recognized by her statesmen, which has enabled 

 her, with only a little island as a point d'appui, to extend 

 her arms and her civilization over a large portion of the 

 globe. It is gratifying to know that we are on the same 

 highway, and if this fox hunting scheme should be the 

 nucleus of a larger interest in and expansion of athletic 

 pastimes in this country, it will be a matter for national re- 

 joicing. Gibbon says that the decline of Rome's greatness 

 as a nation commenced from the day when her sons aban- 

 doned the sports of the field for the more sensational and 

 vicarious pleasures of the circus and its games. 



Apropos of the new fox hunting club, a correspondent 

 writes us suggesting paper hunting as a substitute for the 

 fox until profieiency in the saddle is attained, an idea 

 well worthy of notice. His letter is as follows: — 



New York, November 15th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



From your late issne I learn, a fox hunt is to take place at an early day, 

 after the most approved English fashion. I feur, Mr. Editor, it will 

 prove a hunt withoat hunters; for I doubt if it is possible to muster a 

 i-coreof respectable cross conntrv riders at a meet near New York. Our 

 young bloods are more accustomed to a gentle canter down Fifth avenue 

 or throuph the park on a quiet h ck, thau scurrying acros fields, leaping 

 di ches, fences and the like; besides very few horses here are trained for 

 such work, evtn if riders could be found. I v\ouH lead onr inexperi- 

 enced youth by an easier method at first, to acquire the necessary amount 

 of stamina and dash to become a follower of hounds. 



In Quebec there is a club cillel tne Stadaeotu U int. which follows— 

 not the hounds— but paper droppings. The day being; appointed, a man 

 is sent out some time in advance of the meet to lay the trail and secure 

 the const m » f the farmers through whose land it passes; taking care to 

 avoid too t-ying places, he fo.lows a circuiuoas route of some miles in 

 extent. The finish is a largs pid of paper, which does duty as a brush, 

 and the first to arrive at it is declared the best man of the day, and car- 

 ries home with him the paper as trophy of his victory. All then return 

 to town, and a eood time follows. There is sufficient excitement in the 

 above for the novice, until he could take a five barred fence without a 

 tremor; and then, and not nuiil then, bring out the hounds. We must 

 creep before we w alk, is peculiarly appiopnate to foxhunting in this 

 case . Very truly yours, G. M. Faiuchild. 



We have been rather surprised that paper hunting, 

 on foot, has never been taken up by our colleges. It is a 

 sport productive of much amusement, and n:> healthier ex- 

 ercise could be found. 



In addition to fox hunting, we have had a narrow escape 

 from having a stag hunt. The sporting community of 

 Staten Island had a treat in store of this nature, having re- 

 ceived a fine deer from Virginia. Unfortunately it died, 

 but they are endeavoring to procure another. The follow- 

 ing letter explains the circumstances:— 



Port Richmond, Nflyekibef J ifch, 1875, 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



We have just met with a misfortune in the death of a three year old 

 buck, which was presented to the association by my old friend, Captain 



Samuel Greenwood, of the schooner Anthony Kelly, belonging to the 

 well known oyster dealers, Van Name Bros. He was captured in th» 

 James River by Captain G. and two of his men aft"r an exciting chase 

 and considerable trouble. It appears that in coming down the river ono 

 of the men sang out to the man at the wheel to keep her off, that there 

 was a buck ahead, when Captain G. ran forward and discovered a deer 

 making for the lee shore. He immediately put the helm up, launched 

 the yawl, and away they went, overtaking him just before he reached the 

 shore. Had he swam to the windward he could not ha e been over- 

 taken, as it was blowing a gale at the time. They rolled the fellow in 

 the boat, and in getting him on his back one of their sweeps was lest 

 overboard, and as they saw no way of reaching the schooner that nieht 

 against a strong current, they made for a sloop that was at anchor sora« 

 distance below, and after securing their boat, and while tying their prize 

 their oar drifted by them and was secured, when they pulled back for the 

 schooner, which had dropped anchor. They put him in the hold, arid 

 thought they had properly secured him, but the second day he got loose 

 and one of the men, who has had considerable experience with these fill 

 lows, got down in the hold to secnre him, when he made a rush for him 

 and had the Captain not come to his assistance with a ladder, would 

 no doubt have killed him. In the tussle he injured himself, but this was 

 not known until after his death, when he was opened, and they foui.d 

 that an abscess bad formed in the upper part of his bowels. It is a great 

 disappointment to us, as we had anticipated giving Staten Island one of 

 the greatest days it has seen for years. We had made arrangements to 

 have Mr. Joseph Donohne's dogs take part in it, and were about comin» 

 up to see you, to have yon try and get the subscription pack from Long 

 Island. Mr. Tranter, an old sportsman from the ''other side,'" had not 

 been able to sleep thinking what a time was in store for us, and he never 

 left the buck a minute from the time he first showed symptoms of distress 

 until his death. He thought he cculd save him, but it was ail in vain, 

 and the poor fellow died licking his hand. We have written to that 

 prince of sportsmen, Captain Peter Van Name, of Gloucester, Va , to see 

 if he cannot get us another, but I fear there is little hope. We shall, 

 however, have a couple of bag foxes to let go this Winter, and trugt you 

 will be on hand this time. Mr. Robert B. Mint urn carried off the brush 

 last year, and if he gets it this year from Mr. Stokes he has cot to get up 

 lively, as Mr. S. seems determined to be tne first in at the death. 



Mortimbr. 

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FLORIDA EXPLORATION. 



OKEFENOKEE SWAMP, is to be explored the com- 

 ing Winter by an expedition fitted out at the 

 expense of the Atlanta (G-a.) Constitution. No doubt 

 much important information will be elicited. We are 

 glad to find others able and disposed to follow the ex- 

 ample set by the Forest and Stream. What Government 

 accomplishes in this respect with its ample resources the 

 individual can do in his humble way. The smallest iota of 

 geographical knowledge contributed to the general fund of 

 information has its value; it may be inappreciable, and yet 

 most important in its relation to the future of the country. 

 Forest and Stream, from the earliest date of its publica- 

 tion, has signalized itself by its efforts in this direction. 

 Anticosti, Newfoundland, the northern shore of Lake Su- 

 perior, the great Northwest, including both the United 

 States and British territory, have in turn been the subjects 

 of voluminous articles relating to their geography, climat- 

 ology, and natural history. This Winter we propose to 

 continue our researches in Florida, under the joint labors 

 of "Al Fresco" and u Fred. Beverly," both of whom are now 

 busily fitting out. They will ascend the St. John River, 

 descend the Kissimee, crossing Lake Okechobee; then 

 ascend the Fish Eating Creek, cross the prairie to Fort 

 Thompson, and thence follow the Caloosahatchie down to 

 the Gulf of Mexico, On five occasions parties have at 

 tempted to force their way out of the Lake to the Caloosa- 

 hatchie, and have failed. As Dr. Kenworthy, we believe, 

 is tie only one acquainted with the route, we feel sure that; 

 the programme will be fully filled up. 



Meanwhile, our readera will be content in the perusal of 

 our new book entitled "Camp Life in Florida, which in- 

 cludes all the results of the two expeditions sent out by the 

 editors of this journal at considerable expense, boats hav- 

 ing been constructed at the North for special service on the 

 coast and in the interior and transported to the South. This 

 volume contains, as advertised, full information concern- 

 ing the same and fish of the Southern Peninsula, routes of 

 interior and coastwise travel, the agricultural resources of 

 the country, and sites for settlement, hints for camping 

 out, resorts for game, hotels, and such other information 

 as will be of great benefit to visitors seeking Florida for 

 health, pleasure, exploration, or permanent settlement. 



^T The publication of "Camp Life in Floiuda" is now 

 promised by the binder on Monday next, November 22a. 

 Orders have already been received for nearly the eniire edi- 

 tion printed, and we feel mortified at the unavoidable de- 

 lay in delivering the book. We shall immediately follow 

 our first edition by one much larger. 



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"The Dear Old Woods."— Last week we receiver!, 

 through Dr. J. R. Romeyn, of KeesevP.le, N. Y M a pack- 

 age of stereoscopic views of Adirondack scenery, from tne 

 artist, Mr. G. W. Baldwin, of Keeseville. There are eome 

 two dozen of these views in all, giving the most interesting 

 points on the Upper Saranac and St. Regis Lakes. ^W 

 are beyond question the most perfectly-executed specimens 

 of Photographic art that have emanated from the rece ^ e 

 of the old North Woods, and any one familiar with no 

 scenes which they delineate, and desirous of reviving 

 experiences through which he has passed, will find a m ^ 

 gratifying reward in the possession of the series w n 

 Mr. Baldwin has so satisfactorily secured. One moon l,, 

 scene on Saranuc is simply superb. Paul Smith's Marling 

 Bartlett's, Ampersand Mountain, and other familiar pom 

 are reproduced with vivid effect. 



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— Capt. T. Benton Reed, TJ- S. A., now engaged to AM 

 Revenue service among the mountains of the Blue ft! a > 

 always wears a Holabird water-proof suit when on se 

 official duty. He says he would not be without one. 

 say we all of us." Holabird, the Valparaiso manufacture , 

 has his hands full filling orders for these garments. 



