Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1855 — Pigeon Hunt. [ARTICLE]

Pigeon Hunt.

,Oar pmcluni for sporting induced j wj due night last week to visit a piganmf 15 miles from this place j where we remained untiTmorn ing. It was our first visit to a pigeon roost, (we say nothing of other t roosts) and although we have heard ( wonderfiil accounts of the immense quantities of congregate in these places, we had but a meager conception of what we witnessed on this, occasion. r They began to collect about dark, and continued, flight after flight, to pour in till mid-night. The roost as atuas we conJJ ascertain,extended for a distance of three miles along the margin of the timber, in the vi- ■ cinity of Beaver Lake. Reports of guns were heard in ev-i erv direction —-and at every discharge immense, dense bodies would rise so as almost to obscure the light of the moon, which was shining in midsplendor. After bagging between two and three hundred of these birds, which, for this season of the year, are remarkably fat and fine flavored, we repaired to the residence of our esteemed fellow-citizen, T. Babkem, who, though inimical to the, Banner, was nevertheless disposed to j furnish us wfthahßXcellerrt break- j fast, to which we did ample justice. ! * # * * * . Here the effects —perhaps —of the editor's pigeon hunt began to manifest themselves, in the form of a severe chill, which prevented him from completing the above.—Printer. Uj’At the April Election held on Monday last, Robert Parker and Wm. Hopkins, were elected Justices of the Peace for Marion Township, r _ ’ *■’ —7 “ QTPWm. J. Burns has returned to Plymouth and again taken in charge the ‘‘Banner” the broad folds of wnich already begin to flaunt upon the breeze most gracefully, and with increased beauty. “May health and and success, attend the Banner and its indefatigable editor. i < ■' ■ ) IW> I Kansas Item. —The official returns ; show the whole number of the voters of the territory to be 3,03 G, distributed though 18 election districts. X7*By a teligram received from Washington, dated March the 22d, wo learn the President has no intentions of making any appeals to the home government in the case of the El Dorado outrage, but has demand- , ed of Gen. Concha immediate satisfaction. The dispatch containing these demands is now on its way, by •peciaiagent.to out naval commander in the South American seas, and after delivery to that officer he will proceed with it to Cuba, with all the Available American vessels-of-war that can be found on that station.— Thus much is known, and the remainder will have to remain a secret for a few days. There is to be no longer federated the trifling policy manifest ed by Spain in its relations with fee United States, and this will be clear- i !y shown in the case of the El Dorado. OCT’A Mr. Miller, pi’ Detroit, has devised a plan of working kers of Railway Pars by steam from fee locomotive, which stops the cars Very suddenly. Thia is an invention, flfeow ecess of which will benefit not ; <6nly railway managers, but all mankind who travel on these roads.— jjvery felting which contrbuteft toward promoting the safety of this species of traveling must bp hailed as a boon has been shipped to the Eait fiwiy Reloit, Wisconsin, during th© quail season just past, twelve tons ofifeW - ’ The birds, says the J<wr-j place, averaged seyjn ounce* each, making about HO.' tlrnffiandin number. '■'■77p.