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"FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Febrt^ry 12, i860. 



The Saranac Lakes ave his favorite resort, and the trout 

 is his favorite ash. < lreat stories the Vice President can 

 tell of his fishing nips through the great forests of 

 Northern New York. lie has taken the beautif 



tby bo- 



1 lakes 



i II 



i.l h: 



tli, 



r Mi 



. Win 

 ,11,1.,. 



had been east. He 

 of choice pools dis- 

 ipotted beauties 

 a streams where, they 

 ■ oountless numbers. 

 iler took Mrs. Hayes 

 i from Washington bo 

 jlirondacks and gave 



fro 



has witnessed theinva 

 covered by himself, i 

 nearly exterminated f 



once 'leaped In his atti 

 .A year ago last sinm, 

 .'111(1 a parl\ Of ladies a 



one of his favorite n -■■ 



them a taste of camping out and fishing. 



Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, is an ardent sports- 

 man, lie own- uvo setters, one :; pure blooded Irish, and 

 the other of thoroughbred English breed, which, it is hia 

 boast, can be hunted day after day without speaking a 

 word to either. Thev are broken to perfection, and their 

 solely bv motions of 

 Mr. HcPhersoji has 

 a his country 

 I, nu and his 

 idsome coun- 

 ail on the es- 

 sers. Besides 

 ;, and he owns 

 nds, built eas> 

 vas-baoksand red heads. During 

 lias suffered considerably 

 nt upon Loo strict attention to his 

 ness in Jersey City. Last 

 Bummer, not feeling strong enough to endure the fatigues 

 of the , base, .Mr. AlePherson went to the Thousand 

 Islands and amused himself by taking rive pound bass 

 with a live, ounce rod from the waters of the St, Law 

 renee. In tl,is agreeable exercise the Senater quite recov- 

 ered his health. 



Senator Wade Hamilton, of South Carolina, is a true 

 sportsman, The best evidence of his devotion to the 

 dhanns of the chase ia the single leg on which with the 

 assistance of B crutch he is oompelleoVto drag himself 



movements in the 



field 



the band. Until 



the 



always kept a sufl 



cien 



place m Northon 



i Ne 



friends excellent s 



port. 



trv home was desl 





tate, it is feared, b 



ive s 



quail shooting Mr 



Mel' 



a No. 8 guage gui 



we 



pressly boslaught 



II eal 



the paal year Mr, 



Mel 



from illness const 



pien 



duties as Senator 



u.,11 



Lastspi 



I by lire. 

 u tie red fr 

 horsonhe 



ghing foi 



US bis Ik 

 ndthe.p 

 m trespa 



about the Senat 

 through the war, fighth 

 desperate battles of i 

 QUI BeriOUS injury. A J 

 is very fond of riding ai 

 chase near his residence 

 upon v* Inch he was mo' 

 General Hampton, rati 

 tempted to fide a mule. 



leg se 



. break 

 ler to stive 

 General Hampton is it 

 which took binisafely 

 for life by the back of 

 Senator I3eck, of K« 

 He follows the hound 

 dismay ofhis wife «i 



pen to him in the field. SI 

 Senator Beck was thrown fr 

 bruises which laid him up Eo 

 Senator Hamlin, of Ha' 

 Rangeley Lake 

 torWindom is 

 other Senator.. 



nai are the 



to held sports. 



•ral Hampton went 

 ; loldlv in several of the most 



■ rebellion and escaped with- 



»r ago General Hampton, who 



er hounds, participated in a Cos 



n South Carolina. The horse 



nied proving a useless animal. 



ir than abandon the sport at- 



Tbe animal kicked bin, in the 



gthe bones. Amputation was n, •<•- 



re the General's life. Jt is said that 



inclined to complain of the hard fate 



through the war only to be maimed 



i mule. 



ntucky, is also fond of the chase. 



in season after deer and fox to I h< 



that an accident may hap- 



tly before Cong 

 liis horse and 

 reral days. 



s fond of fishing, the 

 me; his favorite resort for sport. Sena- 

 i something of a sportsman. There are 

 ad of gun and rod, I mt those I have 

 j ones who may be considered devoted 



j the gentlemen in the House, who are 

 sportsmen of repute, i-* Air. .A, klin, of Louisiana. 1 visited 

 l.iui at ins handsome residence on Capitol Hill recently 



to examine bis I Eta rdinary collection of fire-arms, all 



made for him to order by a London firm . The barrels 

 of his pistols and guns are of finest Damascus steel, and 

 . used in their construction is English walnut, 

 Mr, Acklin is one of the very few gentlemen in Washing- 

 ton who now owns regulation duelling pistols. The 

 be loaded either from the breech or the muzzle, so asfully 

 to comply with ail the regulations of the code. The bar- 



the world than in West Feliciana Parish. In 1875. Mr. 

 Acklin kept a record of his shoot ings. On March 1 7th of 

 thai vctr be bailed ."'J--' snipe, and on the dav following, 

 241, making a total in two days of 548 snipe killed "by a 

 iglegun. Mr Acklin is ,,r the opinion that this record 

 has never bofin beaten. Mr. Acklin has two gold medals 



i in championship pigeon matches. One bai 

 the inscription, •' J. H. Acklin. Champion Pigeon-Shot 

 f the South." The other medal styles him " ( lhampion 

 Pigeon-Shot of Louisiana." Both medals were earned in 

 New- Orleans. Mr. acklin believes thai be din his hesi 

 pigeon shooting in Memphis, whore he killed t,.m eighl 

 out of fifty, double birds. Mr. Acklin's duties in Congress 

 ocenpv his time fully and he has no opportunity to in- 

 dulge 'in bis favorite sports. He has shol in a few sweep- 

 stake matches with friends here in Washington and al- 

 most uniformly came off 



Another al- 

 lium I'illleV o 



bypn 

 find during ft 



dent 1 



■ tl 



t'es 



llev's bom 



three wee! 



i Iowa, win 

 rt's delight 



3 trap-shooter is Congress- 

 Eighth Ohio District, Mr. Finlev is a 

 in, and .very spare d ; ,v llial he can 

 son is spent by him in the held. There 



I ohioken shooting in the vicinity of 



. but when he can take a vacation of 

 3 be starts for Spirit Lakes in North- 

 re he slaughters ducks and chickens to 

 There is good fishing in the laki - too, 

 id line are always companions with the gun 

 o Congressman starts out for sport, llr 

 ixpert at shooting glass balls. He uses a 



Mr. Li 

 two or 

 westeri 

 his hea 

 and th. 



hen the 01 



Kiuley is an 



■tt gun, 



km. Anson 0. McCook of the Eighth New York I )is- 

 :t also has a reputation here as a good shot before the 

 trap at pigeons or glass balls. Of Mr. McCook's perform- 

 ihe ii,id 1 know nothing, but he possesses all the 

 physical requirements of a good shot, and bis ability at 

 the trap was learned, I believe, from previous experi- 

 ence in the field. 



Congressman Poehler of the Second Minnesota Dis- 

 trict holds prizes won at the trap. He is a member of 



the local shooting club at Henders, 

 member of the Siate Sportsman's a.t 

 ted grouse are found in abundance 

 boiue, and he is a constant hunter duri 

 Poehler was bom in Germany and a 

 States in 1848. All thai he knows a) 

 has been learned by him on the pr 



Minnesota, and e 

 iooiation. Pinna 



i,ar Mr l\>ehler's 

 ig the season. Mr. 

 the United 



IUI v 



ng shooth 



Mr. Poehler 



Join 

 the Tl 



gliest sense of the word. The Daly is 



. Kenini.oj Kanawha. AVest Va., has represented 

 is Stale in Congress two term--. 

 astio deer and fox hunter. Every 

 en from Kanawha go out for a 

 ,ls and have a royal good 



d District of 

 Conna is an enlhu 

 a party of gcntlei 

 ek pr two with hou 



There are few birds in the mountainous region in which 

 he resides excepting ruffed grouse, and that lordly bird 

 is seldom found in great numbers. The fox hunting near 

 Kanawha is done on foot. The members of the Long 

 Island Club may be inclined to laugh at the idea of fol- 

 lowing hounds OB loot, but a single visit toll 

 country of West Virginia would at once dispel th' 

 that h, ".mills there could'be followed 

 hunting field is a succession of high i 

 leading down t< 



s lb, 



ell i 



rels are about 



pull of trigger. 

 field, although 

 time Senator:- I 

 culty on the 11, 

 USedbv these 



th< 

 As soon 

 will tab 

 the top of a ridge ai 



the ridge in full vie 

 tilt after him. Be: 

 over to another ridf 

 other view of th, 

 chase ends. Th 

 grand mountain 

 during the chase fc 

 gmedby one who to 

 it must not be tl 

 Congress delight in 

 the most famous be 

 the Fourth Dist 



closely i 



the hunt, 



inspiriting p 



iehghts Of tl 



1 the 



tun 



healthful 



jpp 



dea 

 ik, The 

 iky ridges or spurs 

 ihe creek bottoms. 

 •ourse that the fox 

 iters. The 



•s "around 

 he hounds in lull 

 1 reynard crosses 

 ibtaining an- 

 on until the 

 sxercise, the 

 ties afforded 



id E 



E il„ 



jot long, .38 calibre, and two-pounds 

 tstolS have never been usee! in the 

 re spoken for last winter at the 

 ind Lamar had their wordy diffi- 

 Se'nate. The insulting language 

 was afterward recalled, satisfac- 

 torily to both gentlnmen. Air. Acklin is an expert shot 

 with" the pistol. The two duelling pistols cost Mr. Acklin 

 in England $815. First, in the collection of shot guns 

 shown the correspondent, was a 13-guage-weapon christ- 

 ened the "snipe gun " by Air. Acklin. This gun weighs 

 eight and a half pounds, and has the Purely top-action. 

 An invention of Mr. Acklin's is attached to thus, and to all 

 of his guns, it consists of two small steel projections 

 from each side of the standing bridge, so that the barrels 

 when snapped down ready for bring lit. closely on each 

 side between these projections. The design of the in- 

 vention is to prevent lateral action, as from continuous 

 tiring of one barrel the tendency of the shock is to force 

 the barrels to one side. Mr. Acklin's duck-and-pigoon 

 gun weighs eleven and a half pounds. The single breech 

 is provided with four sets of barrels, and it really answers 

 ihe purpose of four distinct guns. Two sets of barrels are 

 12-guage, built to consume six drachms of powder. Two 

 sets of barrels are 10-guage, in which the customary 

 charge is ight drachms of powder. The 



' choked to suit all distances at the trap, 

 One set of barrels is full-choked : on another set the left 

 barrel is full-choked, and the right ban-el is a modified 

 choke-bore; ou another set the left barrel is modified 

 choke, and the right barrel smooth J and the fourth set 

 are smooth and "bell-mouth muzzles. The "Express" 

 double-rifle built by Purdy for Air. Acklin, is a model 

 weapon for large game. Four drachms of powder and 

 an explosive bullet is the customary load. Recently Mr. 

 Acklin gave t: a frkni a regular ducking -gun, 8-»ore 

 which, owing to the time he is engaged in his profes- 

 sional and legislative duties, he had no opportunity to 

 use. Mr. Acklin's fire-arms, bought from Purdy, cost 

 hiui. including custom's duties, over $3,500, The repre- 

 sentative from Louisiana when he came to Congress 

 abandoned bis kennel, and gave thirteen blooded setters 

 to bis friends. 



The plantations belonging to the Acklin estate are on 



the Bayou Teehe opposite the mouth of the Red River. 



.... . 1 country for game birds and wild fowl. 



Snipe, woodcock, quail, ducks, geese, etc,, are always 



plentiful in season, There is no finer snipe eho ting in 



irtheuseof the gun cannot be hna- 

 is not participated in the sport, 

 lought that all of the sportsmen in 

 the pursuit of small game. One of 

 ar hunters in California represents 

 at State in the House. Rom- 

 is the gei 



often do von hear of anybody being lined or punished? 

 What is the reason? Because nobody takes the trouble 

 to complain, and everybodj has not the time to do it. 



I have be.-ud of quail having i n brought to New 



York lasi month through the Long Island Railroad, by 

 ■men and baggagemen of that road. Why. as 

 a sportsman, did 1 not make any complaints? Because 

 I had no! the time to do it, and, besides, very likely I 

 should have hail to light the w bole railroad company, 

 with very little prospects of having ihe scoundrels 

 punished. Every sporisnian knows that on the Blsl day 



of la 



th. 



'pot-hunters, 



while this la; 



Why. then 



all for the he 



Id 



at whole , 

 ig Island \ 



i more gam 



r. at least f< 



left over than 

 c the Last three 

 ihot by 

 . three weeks, 



pan 



pc.nal 



hunte 

 haves 



if li, 



..tl. -go, 



many i 

 a-kei 



r.ha 



lod , 



rketnian 

 ■ birds to 



ring to 



■ the 



un the 1 

 ..round. 

 ,1 we have this prohibitory law passed, 

 ,f those pot hunters - For my own 

 not care whether this law is passed or not. I 

 have all the shooting i want,ifnot in ibis state, in 

 some other. Inn as a sportsman I protest against the 



neb prohibitory law. Fvoryhody has let the 

 time or the money to go AV est or South, and 1 am nol 

 selii-h enough to see those that cannot, go elsewhere de- 

 prived of their sport. If such a law should he passed, 

 whal i i man living in the eitv to do with bis dog, es- 

 ' I have talked this matter 

 crs, and thev are all of tin- 

 will only benefit the pot 

 the pot-hunter will 

 shoot at. and the niarketnian 

 I Hiemon bhe sly, will charge 

 .•for them. 

 idone to save the birds? Theanswer 



VS that we have- got now. 

 of Cruelty to Animals has 

 should V ■'■ not have ours? The 

 the Prevention of < Iruelty bo Animals pays n, 

 : why should we no1 pay our own? What 

 ne. i think it could be done easily, 

 in our own bands, and do not let the 

 :,-r bold of it. First, let there, he put yeariya 

 from three to five dollars, on every shot gun 

 ■k. 1 only say shot gun : 1 not not include the 

 wonldnot interfen with nor infringe on any 

 laliights or liberties. Our patriotic young men 

 could keep up llnii pin, lice w iih the rille. and the sports- 

 men— the only one interested -would have to pay for 

 theirgun. Secondly, let each shooting club in the State 

 ■ yearly from fifty to one hundred dollars, ■•,<• 



..' the i in,, 1 " ■ Of H" ir members. I'.y these 



■ . 1 1 _■ 1 1 raised to get, all 



State, efficient men, paid well enough to protect 



ihe game an,, to have tl ! game laws enforced. Lei such 



n beappointed boss to h.ivo lower all over the State, 



and not in one single countv, and thereby yen will soon 

 Stop all Mia ring and trapping, all shooting and selling out 



of season, and we shall have no needof am prohibitory 

 law, The pot-huntere will disappear, and whoever will 

 carry a gun will be more or less the ideal of a true g,nl le- 



AYhat say my sportsmen friends about this r .Any- 

 how. Lei them raise theirvoices against any prohibitory 

 l aW s a Teue Lover of tmi: SpOrt, 



ul, 



Tbi 

 ititutio 



'Iation. — The fifth annual 

 ■ ■ iation at Bay 



_j.checo, of San Luis Ohisl 

 name, and be estimates the number of bears lie has killed 

 himself, or has helped to kill, at LOO. Air. PachecO was 

 theBonof wealthy parents who owned immense grazing 

 lands and flocks in the neighborhood of Santa Barbara. 

 Kb Boon as be was able to sit astride a horse he learned bo 

 •ide, and at the age of twenty-one he was an expert horse- 

 nan, Mr. Paoheco also became unusually proficient in 

 the art of throwing I he lasso, an implement which was 

 used by all herders. Bears were plentiful near his home, 

 and Mr. Pacheco learned to hunt them as follows . — Four 

 men, experts in the use of the lasso, would ride to the 

 place where bears could be found. Getting upon the trail 

 ih,\ would ride after bruin and bring him to bay. While 

 t be bear was standing upon his haunches each of the four 

 ild almost simultaneously throw their lassoes over 

 his head, and riding in opposite directions strangle the 

 animal or fasten his legs so he could not run 

 would speedily be dispatched An unusually. -,■ 

 inalion is not required to perceive if one of the four 

 lassoes failed to encircle the bear, or the horses ridden by 

 the hunters were not perfectly trained, that the conse- 

 quences might be extremely unpleasant. Mr. Facheco 

 tells a number of blood-curdling stories of accidents which 

 have happened in the pursuit of hears with the lasso. 



Of the oilier members of the House who are good shots 

 and fond of hunting I will name General Joe Hawley, ^< 

 Connecticut ; Air. Robertson, of Louisiana, and .Mr. Gun- 

 fcer, of Arkansas. O. 



Washington, D. C. 



GAME PROTECTION. 



T\x IHE Gcns.— Ave invite the fullest expression of 

 opinion upon the question of taxing shot guns. A New 

 York correspondent writes as follows : — 



New York, Feb. 2d. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : — 



I notice that there is a movement in Albany toward a 

 two-years' prohibitory game law. There is only one class 

 of sportsmen that can profit by such a law — that is, the 

 pot-hunters. Laws or no laws, the pot-hunter will be 

 bound to shoot, and a certain class of market! I tl and 

 hotel-keeperswil] be found re__ . 



me to ask you, Ha Hune laws enough? I shall 



have too many, and they ar 

 The game laws are broken every day, but how 



Michigan SportsMEU 3 Ai 

 in, i ting of the Michigan Sp 

 City. Mich . last week, was attended by a large and en- 

 tfausiasttC delegation of sportsmen from the various clubs 

 of the Siate. and was in every way a grand success. 

 I. laboraie essays upon various subjects of interest were 

 read, and the Association well sustained its reputation as 

 an earnest body of men, 



Exporting Quail From North Cabdeisa. — Monroe. 



V '(.' to. 2d.— Editor Forest{and Stream >-l Beebj 



your last issue thafa gentlemannow a1 il.gb Tomt. N. 



ises to make arrangements for the shipment of 



quail from that town. He. perhaps, is not aware that 



there is a law to prevent bhe shipment of quail out of the 



Si.de. and il was owing to the fact ol so many birds 



. . ,; from there and Greensboro, a town a few 



.,. thai such a law was passed I learn that 



nearly two hundred birds were at Greensboro not long 



ago -"'he party attempted to smuggle them through*, but 



unluckily for him, one of old "Bob White's" feathers 



wasseen sticking out of the box a Littlptoo far, which 



■man trying to ship them got 



wind of news and" was seen no more. That agent no 



:..d bird pie for, lavs. H. Smith, 



Deer in Vbrmo*ke,— Bennington, Ft., Feb, Sth.— The 



■er placed on the mountains ai Manchester have reached 



is place. One has been on the East Mountains for 66v- 



:..,. some hounds started one 



the Other day and it ran through the upper part of the 



village. The farmers and lumbermen hi the vicinity of 



Woodford claim that thay have seen three or tour ;l t 



that they are very tamfl, coming ofl noun- 

 tains and feeding with their cattle. G. F. O. 



MAl-m— Bangor, Feb. r >th.— The. Norombega Shooting 

 Club, for tjie protect ion of game and lisb and improve- 

 ment in wing shooting, was organized last even, 

 John P. Tucker. President! T. White, Vice-President; 



AV F. Seavev. Secretary; Fred T, Hall, Treasurer. The 



Secretary and Treasurer. 

 Messrs. Durgau and Abbott, constitute the Executive 

 Committee, The Bogardns rules of shooting, with a con- 

 md by-laws were adopted. The organization 

 starts dfl with eleven members and will receive many 

 others. 



NEW JERSEY QUAIL Season,— Toms River, N.J., Feb. 

 5ffo._ -Pen benefitof your readers tomake a 



i mar, article appearing in your Game and Fish 

 Directory, issue of Jan. -'.lib, dated Riverside House, 

 Forked River. Ocean Co. . N, J„ wherein it is stated that 

 the open season for q nail is from Nov. 1st ro Feb. 1st. 

 It should read from Nov. 1st to Jan 1st., lor the latter 

 date is that on whic' i.i - inthis State. 



H. C. Glover, 

 President Ocean Co. Game .Pt-otective Association. 



