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FOREST AND STREAM 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1875. 
horse flesh, the poorest household shall no longer want its 
horses longue with sowed piquante or mule filet a la gelee. 
But before our philanthropists catch the idea from their 
brethern of France and gallop off with bits between their 
teeth, let us put a bridle on their zeal, and with the spur 
of criticism, ask them whence the supply aud wherefore 
the slaughter? As a Parisian asks, are our horses to be 
knocked on the head to supply the hippophagi with consom- 
me a la A. B. Ct Is 2.14 to give place to a saucisson do 
c/teval aux pistachesT Forbid it, Doble. Fancy eating a 
steak off Goldsmith Maid or a rib from Lexington; and 
how should he be steeled with ingratitude and indiffer- 
ence who would sacrifice to the cuisine the steed that but 
yesterday was the pride of Central Park? It remains then, 
that wo should have to look for a supply from the horses 
whiclt had met their death by accident, or whose slaughter 
was rendered necessary by disease or disability; and here 
let us remark thut the advocates of horse flesh claim that 
the flesh of a diseased horse is perfectly innocuous to hu- 
man beings. M. Decroix claims to have experimented on 
himself with the meat of horses which had died of disease, 
and on uo occasion had he felt the slightest ill effect. 
We can understand that under certain circumstances 
horse flesh could be readily used as an article of diet, and 
being granivorous their flesh should be equal, if not su- 
perior to that of the less cleanly and omnivorous hog. But 
it appears to be the association connected with the horse as 
the most familiar and useful of our domestic animals, that 
renders the idea of eating him so repugnant. The French 
plea is that of economy, which will never hold with us as 
long as our beef supply is brought within the reach of the 
laboring classes. 
To Correspondents. 
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CHARLES II ALLOCK, Editor. 
WILLI A.M C. HARRIS, Business Manager. 
HIPPOPHAGY. 
T HAT “(hey do things better in France,” ba9 not only 
passed into a proverb, but the excellence with which 
certain things are accomplished has led to their adoption 
od our tran9- Atlantic shores. The charms of Opera bouffe 
have taken so firm a hold as to be regarded as an "institu- 
tion;" the graceful costumes which brighten the avenue 
are the results of French inspiration, and young New York 
has reached a point where his palate requires to be tickled 
by French cookery, and his mind likewise exercised by an 
unintelligible menu. But the question presents itself, where 
are we to draw the line? We read that a grand Franco- 
Anglo- American Horse, Mulo and Donkey Banquet has 
recently been held at Paris, when some sixty or seventy 
gentlemen sat down to a dinner where the viands were 
composed exclusively of the meat of the above named ani- 
mals, commencing with a consomme de ckeval aux croules 
grilles, and winding up with filets de mulcts. At the close 
of the dinner it was announced that the Society Hippophagic 
would give a medal and 500 francs to the first person who 
opened a horse butcher’s shop in London or New York! 
Gentlemen Francais, keep your medals and your horse 
meat at home; we need none of it. Shall the Texas steer 
be consigned to oblivion, and the delicate "bob” veal no 
longer grace our butcher stells? Shall seasoned horse sau. 
sages take tho place of the succulent bologna, and our mn! 
tutinal bacon be served with asses' liver? Tho advocates 
of hippopbagy quote Hippocrates, Herodotus and Pliny, and 
declare that horse flesh eating is only an obsolete custom, 
but it is to Isidore Geoffrey, Saint-Hilairc, and later to M. 
Decroix that the success of establishiug bouohen'es de cheval 
throughout Fiance is to be attributed, backed, no doubt, 
by the necessities of the Prussian siege. But to us the idea 
is scarcely less novel than repulsive. Eat our fillies’ feet? 
feed our damsels on piebalds instead of pigeons? elongate 
the earn of our youths by a diet of asses’ milk and brains 
braisif 
And from whence is to come the supply? Paris has 
been’.able to procure in 1872, 5,732, and in 1874, 7,184 animals 
to be devoured by hungry hippophagi, and the society 
promises to supply if necessary two or three hundred thou- 
sand more unfortunate quadrupeds. Its prospectus asks, 
is not the entire world interested that so healthy and nour- 
ishing a food should not be lost while so many mou, wo- 
men and children are deprived of food? This is philan- 
thropy of the highest close, and thanks to this hetacomb of 
A N enterprising gentleman, connected with the great 
firm of Russell & Co., once had a schooner yacht, 
named (lie Halcyon, sent to China by the way of the Cape 
of Good Hope. The schooner arrived safely and was subse- 
quently sold to the Imperial Government for a revenue cut- 
ler. To all Americans living in Shanghae the sight of the 
saucy Halcyon riding at her ancher in front of the noble 
bund, or promenade, was one of tho sweetest reminiscences 
of his home life. Quite a number of well built yachts of 
small tonnage now compose the Shanghae Yacht Club, 
nnd at Hong Kong several English schooners and cutters 
annually compete for prizes. In the latter races centre- 
boards are usually barred, but, on one occasion Mr. A. S. 
Post of this city carried off a cup and astonished the natives 
by the performances of a regular American model yacht. 
The boat in most general use, however, and the one best 
adapted for either exploration or pleasure, is the craft com- 
monly called the Woosung pilot boat. Woosung is a little 
village eight or ten miles below Shanghae at the junction 
of the Whang-po River with the great Yang Tsze Kiang, 
aud the point from which pilots start to intercept vessels 
bound for the great commercial mart of China. The pilot 
boats are rigged in the usual native fashion with sails kept 
in position by bamboos stretched across them, very light 
and handy to reef; light draught, with lee-board, excellent 
cabin accommodation, and all capital sea boats. The model 
is similar to that used by all celestial shipbuilders with the 
exception of the bow, which is carried forward until it is 
quite sharp. All Chinese vessels are built with water tight 
compartments, and tho wood nicely varnished and oiled 
with a kind of wood oil, which not only preserves the wood 
but gives a very neat finish to the boat. The universal eye 
with which the junks arc adorned is usually omitted on boats 
intended for the use of foreigners, much to the disgust of 
the crews, who stand in holy awe of the dread Fung-shoey, 
that mysterious spirit of wind and water. A low-ta, or cap- 
tain, once appealed pathetically to the writer on the subject 
of eyes. Said he, "suppose no got eye how can see, sup- 
pose no can see, how can walkee?" 
There is just sufficient possibility of running across a 
pirate in one’s trip to make yachting in China highly inter- 
esting. Indeed in certain localities on the Yang Tsze and 
among the islands of the Chusan Archipelago which dot 
the coast between Shanghae and Ningpo, a boat would not 
be safo unless heavily armed, and tho house boats and 
yachts, used in the opium traffic before the general intro- 
duction of steamers, carried crews and batteries entirely 
disproporlioned to their tonnage. The recent advices regard- 
ing the increase of piracy on the coast in the neighborhood 
of the Yang Tsze reminds of an adventure of Mr. Thomas 
Meddows, II. B. M. Consul at Shanghae in 1801 or ’2. 
While ascending the Yang Tsze in his yacht on a shooting 
excursion he was attacked by pirates, who followed and 
opened fire on him with the bow chasers of their junk. The 
wind unfortunately was light, and by tho aid of sweeps 
they were rapidly over-hauling him, but by capital rifle 
practice and the good behavior of his own crew the plucky 
Englishmen managed to clear their decks and escape. 
Aside from the excitement of a possible encounter with 
pirates the yachtsman finds also excellent shooting in almost 
nny direction. The debatable ground between Shanghae 
and the citiesof Sung-kong and Kahding, which were for so 
many years in possession of the Taepings before the ex- 
tinction of the rebellion, became an immense pheasant pre- 
serve, and a hundred brace was no uncommon bag for two 
guns in a day’s shooting. It may not be known to many ot 
our readers that China is the original home of the English 
pheasant, as well as of all tho other beautiful varieties of 
the same bird. In fact the whole avi-fauna of Asia is so 
allied to that of Europe as to render a tracing of the con- 
genital lines a most interesting subject of study, and one 
to which we propose to devote a paper on some other occa- 
sion. 
To return to the yachts, almost the whole of that portion 
of China visited by foreigners is so cut up by canals or in- 
tersected by small streams as to render boat travel the only 
mode of locomotion, aud the traveler is forced to this 
meaus of carriage. Seawaid there is not much to invito 
the yachtmeu. Tho Chusau group possesses many beauti- 
ful islands in which are old temples and many, to the native 
mind, classic resorts, but the sport is indifferent, and as 
the Chinese confine their- fishing to that done by nets, re- 
sources which may exist in this way are unexplored and 
unknown. 
As regards the seagoing qualities of the native boat, it is 
only necessary for the traveler to make one trip between 
Hong Kong and Shanghae during the northeast monsoon 
to be convinced. In the comparatively narrow passage be- 
tween the island of Formosa and the main land, a tremend- 
ous sea is kicked up during the gales which usually accom- 
pany the Winter monsoon. Here a whole fleet of fishing 
boats can usually be seen anchored to drags to keep them 
head to wind and riding out the gale like ducks, the whole 
crew snugly stowed below. 

Recolonization of Florida.— The emigration to Florida 
and settlement there within the past five years has been so 
considerable as to command attention. The most exten- 
sive settlement has been in the vicinity of Lake Monroe, at 
Sandford, Mellonville, Orlando, and other adjacent towns, 
where a population of 2,000 and more has gathered, tho 
land being high and rolling, well adapted to the culture of 
fruits and cane, beautifully dotted with lakes, and delight- 
ful in all respects as a place of residence; aud there are 
smaller settlements all along the St. John River. But col- 
onists have not confined themselves to any single locality; 
in prospecting they have scattered all over the State, even 
to the remote and little known regions of southwest Flori- 
da, penetrating to the jealously guarded precincts of the 
few Seminoles that remain. There our correspondent, 
"A1 Fresco," who is writing a series of letters upon that 
section from material altogether new, met little compauie 9 
from New Jersey and other Northern Stutes, nnd found 
sparkling waters teeming with fish, and lands with na- 
tive products; lauds that were richer aud localities that 
were far more desirable thau those better known and usu- 
ally sought after. A century ago, wheu Florida wa9 pos- 
sessed by the English, a noble aristocracy had princely 
domains along the const, aud these are to day being re 
occupied aud replanted by scores of hardy settlers from 
the Northern States, who find abundant truces of a former 
high stnte of improvement which it will take years to 
realize again. These little germs of colonies are planted 
all along the Halifax, Hillsborough, and Indian rivers, nnd 
so important have their local iutere9ts already become that 
the land owners— they canuot be called speculators in Lite 
odious sense of the word— have begun tho publication of a 
journal, called the Halifax Settle)', to aid their promol ion. 
At Daytona, on tho Halifax River, is a hamlet of twenty 
frame houses, including two stores, with a population of 
seventy-five souls, and at the present rate of progress it 
will not be more than five years before this magnificent 
coast Is lined with pleasant residences and fashionable 
hotels, to which comfortable communication will be had 
by boat and rail. 
The State Sportsmen’s Convention.— The Jefferson 
Sportsmen's Club, whose headquarters are at Watertown, 
have been particularly active of late in their endeavors to 
prevent the wanton destruction of game, and more particu- 
larly that of deer, in the Adirondack region. It is uuder 
the auspices of this energetic club that tho Seventeenth 
Annual Convention of the New York 8tate Sportsmen’s As- 
sociation is to be held this year, at Watertown, some time 
in the latter part of May or early in June. Col. Geo. W. 
Flower, of Watertown, is President of the State Associa- 
tion, and Dr. E. L. Sargent holds the same office in the 
local club. The fields sports connected with the meeting 
will consist of competitions in trap, rifle and pistol shooting, 
fly casting, etc., for which prizes amounting to $2,000 have 
already been offered. We are glad to learn that more at- 
tention will pe paid this year than ever to the subject of 
rifle shooting, and that a long range “Creedmoor" contest 
is in contemplation. Some half dozen new clubs have ex- 
pressed their determination of joining tho State Associa- 
tion, and the fact of the Convention being hold in the 
northern part of tho State, near the great game districts, 
will do much to stimulate the action of sportsmen towards 
a more rigid enforcement of the game laws of tho State. 
We shall print the full programme as soon as published. 
Art. — When lovers of the 6ports of forest and stream 
are deprived of the actual enjoyment of their favorite pas- 
times, the next best thing is the representation of them and 
of their favorite haunts on canvas. At tho exhibition of 
the|National Academy of Design, now open, there are many 
pictures which will recall vividly the scenes of past 
pleasures, among them ono entitled "Sports at Blooming 
Grove Park, painted from studies on the spot by Mr. J. 
B. Stearnes, N. A. The scene is laid on the shores of Lake 
Giles, near the Club House grounds. The principal 
figures are portraits of Messrs. Edward R. Wilbur and John 
Avery, members of the Blooming Grove Association. 
Trophies of the rod and gun surround them, and their 
guide is evidently preparing the canoe for another foray. 
An interesting letter from Mr. Bishop describing tho 
termination of his canoe voyage is unavoidably laid over 
URtil next week. 
