Locomotive, Volume 32, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1855 — Page 1

JOHN R. ELDER, Editor. , 'The Chariots shall rage in the streets, they Bhall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.-' AV.um.tV, 4. ELDER & HARKNESS, Publishers.

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A PANTHER-HUNT IN KENTUCKY.; ' A Lexington correspondent, in the "yooj old Kentucky State,"-, sends us the following "random sketch of one of his mnny hunting adventure," which will be found replete w ith tho true fiportsmiin-spirit. We shall be pleased to .hear from the writer again. He must be one of the veritable "Hunters of Kentucky" that we used to read of (and sing of) in Woodworth's popular sonir: . , "In my winter-home in the tangled wilds of the far Arkansas, during the last months of 1U52, I was revelling amid the hardy pleasures of a hunter's life, seeking, in the exciting and invigorating chase, to recruit a constitution impaired if not shattered by the dissipation of the preceding summer. Early one bright morning in November, cheerily Wound my horn, as it summoned forth for the hunt the eager, high-bred pack, who burst from their kennels in tumultuous joy, making the old primeval woods ring with loud and deep-moutli,ed hayings. . "Old Croat" was the leader and sire of more than half the pack. It seemed ns if age had only steeled the wiry muscles of his long black form, and added a clearer and more sonorous tone to his ringing' notes. And "Beauty' too, named from her symmetrical and slender proportions, was without exception the most perfect model of the highbred stag-hound I have ever beheld. Her thin, wide legs, deep chest, short delicale miuzle,' and bright, expressive eye, at once challenged admiration and proclaimed her "Queen of the Canine Race." And "Old Wai rior," with privileged boldness, came up and rubbed his cold nose against my hand, as if to show that, although his name was nobly earned from many a hard-fought battle, and his long, tan frame was seamed with many a scar, he was still t'tliy fleetest in the chase, the foremost in the fitrht." . Impatient at the delay of my faithful bodyguard, John, who was as fine a specimen of the Kentucky slave as one would wish to see "six feet in his socks," and brave as a lion I walked aroud to the stable to ascertain the' cause of so unusual an occurrence. Reared from childhood in the arms of my "boy," I was attached to him by no common feelings, especially its he -. had twice saved my life at the risk of his own. He would have died without a murmur at my command; and it was no ordinary offence that could call forth for him an angry reproof. As I neared the stable, John slowly led forth a magnificent black stallion, who- pawed impatiently the earth, as if as eager as his master for th approaching chase. I turned toward the negro somewhat sternly, exclaiming: - ' "Where's Medora? I ordered her not Alp." .. "'Deed. Mass' Frank,", said John, . "I could not help it; but Medora's got out and gone.. I'se been hunting lier all night." The mare had escaped in the darkness, and made fpr the woods, and the poor fellow, knowing the explosion which must follow the announcement of her loss, had toiled the entire night in the vain attempt, to recover her. In a; burst of passion, I demanded: , , . "Which way did she go?"- ... r . "Up toward the clearing." . , ' "By HeaveDs! then she is gone! The panthers are as thick as . Quick! saddle your horse, and bring me ray revolvers!" , ..... . ; , ., ,: Just as the negro had disappeared on his errand, and I had mounted the impatient steed, my father, a hale old man of sixty, came to the cabin door and asked; i . ; "Where now, Frank?". ' , : , - "After Medora," I replied. "She's out, and toward the clearing. The panthers may . have her before now." , "You had better take your rifle and dogs; youmay need them." . "No; I want my dogs fresh for the big buck, and my rifle will hinder me in riding through the brush." , . ! , . ,, "Well ! have your own way but you may regret it." ,,. ....' . ... , . ' - ; But my blood was up, and John just then handing me my "Colt's," and mounting his horse, I dashed over the picket in the direction of the clearing. The clearing was a large bottom-tract, which had some years before, been swept by fire, and was now covered with low, dense underwood, here and there dotted by a hardy old tree, halfburnt and gnarled, but defying alike the influence of fire and of time. ' t "After a few moments' hard riding, hearing an exclamation from the negro, I turned and saw, close at our heels, the three dogs, Croat,' Warrior, and Beauty. Struck by so unusual a breach of their training, and remembering my father's admonition, I cried out to John: , "Let them alone; we may want them!" " On rearing the outer edge of the clearing,' Alp reared and snorted, while his glossy mane seemed to stand erect with fright. ' Straight before me lay the body of my matchless "Medora," but torn and bleeding with a wound in the neck, too plainly pointing out the perpetrator of her death. Yes, there she lay, drained of her life-blood by the hungry pather; she on whom I had so often skimmed the fashionable thoroughfares of the West, envied of my "light-limbed barb;" she who, twice within a day, had borne me over the Mississippi; she with whom I would have shared my only crust, lay cold and dead. ' Alp bent down his head and snuffed the lacerated form, and then sent forth a shrill and piercing neigh, as if in sorrow for his peerless mate. . ' , Understanding at a glance the cause of her death, grief gave place to a feeling of revenge, and wildly cheering the hounds, I swept on toward the wood, knowing that there the panther had crouched until evening, when it would again come forth to banquet on its slaughtered prey. The animals seemed to tlivine my feelings, and dashed madly on upon the warm and recent trail, while "Alp," cleared with his tremendous bounds the brush and underwood with which the earth was covered. . , , We had proceeded but a short distance when I beheld the panther's back, as he sprang over the impediments in his course as lightly as if they wre only the long grass of the prairie. Twice did I attempt to wound him with my revolvers, but the distance was too great, and bitterly did I regret the absence of my rifle. Gaunt, and only rendered more savage by his taste of blood, the

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panther maintained his distance between us, although the dogs, mad with anger, t.'-ke the wild echoes of the deserted waste, tt't it ' '. i ed as if a thousand hounds were "opening" . cine trail. Eagerly I bent over "Alp's" ntck, with a cocked revolver in each hand, and drove the spurs into his reeking' sides; yet ho needed .not the incitement: the noble animal strained every nerve, and on -we sped "torrents less rapid and less rash." On. we sped for more than sin hour, while at everyxipportunity I sought to stop his mad career bv a ball in the panther's bark; yet only once had I drawn his blood, though all except one of my barrels had been fired. . At last, wearied by this severe burst, the hunted animal "treed" in stuntyj vamp oak, where the yet green leaves formed .iKover not ten feet above the root. The negro, in this reckless race, had been "doubly distanced,", and I was nlone, with a single shot, to iiieet tin most dreaded an-' tagonist of the Southern foresK As J approached, still nt full speed,' I counl distinguish, his glaring eye-balls, as, crouched for his spring, he lay along the knotted limb, lashing with his long and tufted tail his reeking flanks. .Maddened by excitement, and regardless ofj danger, I dashed within three paces of, the- inftriatcd animal, and throwing my horse upon his launches, fired. Simultaneously with my shot, the panther made his leap, and the ball inteiuied fct. his brain glanced from the Mirl'iico of L-- '-otinded skull. In an instant he was upon nu" but "Alp," true to his training, crouched., at the report, and. the baffled beast, missing his anticipated hold, seized me by the shoulder, and huni;-suspended, vainly attempting to gain secure fool ii gupon my horse's sides. Throwing aside my discharged revolvers, I drew a heavy "Bowie-knife," my constant companion, and, in the hands of a determined man, the most effective weap.-rt in the world. Rapidly shenthing its broad bhule several' times in his body, I forced the beast to loose his grip, and he fell to the ground, all hough haying as yet received ho deadly wound , ',, My brave dogs were upon-him in an instant; but the slight, symmetrical ;(orm ' of "Beauty" was, ill-suited to such a contest; and befory I could leap from my saddle, she was quivering in the agonies, of death. . Furious with pain, and at the death of my two favorite , I sprang into the midst of the struggle, and seizing the panther by the throatj buried my knife in his heart, until the last convulsive quiver told that -life had fled. With the assistance of "John," who had just arrived, I removed his tawny a spotted skin, and dressed, as well as' possible "under the circumstances, my wounds upon the1 shoulder, consisting of several deep cuts, some inches .long, laying the flesh open to the bont they having penetrated through rny bttckthiu ,1 JJ.ting-shirt. -. , Slowly and sadly I retraced my homeward way, mourning the double loss ' of both my favorite beasts, and weakened by great Joss of blood and the extreme tension of every nerve, through high excitement.; A negro was, dispatched to bring in the bodies, and 1 buried them both beneath a mighty cottpn:wood upon the banks of the "Father of Waters." The panther's skin is now my saddle-cloth; but it needs not -its fre-: quent sight to remind me of my peerless pair. I have since possessed many animals; but those at whose grave I shed a heart-felt tear, stand yet pre-eminent amid their kind.1 In the happy hunting-grounds, of the, .spirit-land I hope again to remount my . fleet "Medora," and,.oheer my matchless hound in the wild and joyous madness of the thrilling chase. Knickerbocker Mayazini for Feb. ; -'' '.''"' ' ' ;" ' ' ' ' THE FARMESS' PROSPECTS, : , . . . There is an uudeniable scarcity of Food in the country, as compared with the usual amount left over on the 1st of March. " t The Wheat crop of 1854 Was fearfully devastated by the Weevil, Wheat Midge, and other cormorants, after having suffered severely by the open and capricious winter preceding. Making every allowance for the full harvest in Wisconsin and a few other, localities, we think the general Wheat crop was less than three-fourths'of an average' yield. : Indian Corn suffered still more severely from drouth, but its growth is so generally diffused that it may be safe to place the average'yield at three-fourths of a full crop. Potatoes were less afflicted by rot last season than in the average of several preceding years, (we are aware that there are marked local exceptions to this rule;) but the drouth was very hard upon them, and it is probably fair to estimate the yield at the average of the six preceding years. Other Roots Turnips, Carrots, Beets, Ac--were seriously shortened by the drouth probably twenty-tive per cent, at least. The Oat crop was also, a short one, owing to the lateness and wetness ,of this owing season, and the drouth and intense heat of the summer. We think twenty-five per cent: deduction from ' ah average crop would here be within the truths Of Hay, there was a rather light average yield, but the shortness -of Pasture iu. the hot months au'd of Corn Fodder, Roots, &c, in the fall, doubtless diminished the aggregate of food for cattle 'very materially. Of Cotton, ' Sugar, Tobacco, Hops, fec, we believe fair harvests were secured. Fruit was very short in this section Apples almost a failure but most other sections were more fortunate. On the whole, we estimate the American Harvest of. 1854 as falling below an average by at least one-eigth a loss which, expressed in money, must have largely exceeded One Hundred Millions of Dollars. This loss has not fallen exclusively' on the Farmers, though many of them have it most severely, while others have realized in enhanced prices as much as they have lost by deficient harvests. Wisconsin has thus done better than in ordinary seasons; Iowa no worse; California, moreover, had a very bountiful harvest, and we have heard no complaints of deficiency from any of the Territories. But while there are extensive regions, as well as many individuals, that have nO cause to complain, and while some portion of the disaster has doubtless already been repaired by inevitable economy and frugality, it is perfectly safe to estimate the Country at this moment One Hundred Millions poorer than it would eave been had the last harvest been a full average one. A nation mainly Agricultural, thus crippled in its resources, ought to evince corresponding fru

gality in its expenditures; yet our Imports in 1854 exceeded those of any former year exceeded largely our Exports of ought but promises to pay. From the time that the danger of a deficient Harvest became imminent as it did before the middle of August last our orders for foreign products should have been diminished at least. one-half; but they have not been. There has been some falling olf not one-fourth so much as there should have been but last week's Imports at this point were considerably heavier than those of the corresponding week of 1854, and the prospect now , is that, unless the bankers and

traders of Western Europe positively cut off our credits, our Imports (excluding Specie) for 1855 will exceed Two Hundred Millions in cost. For, while the power of this country to purchase and consume has. undoubtedly fallen off, it must not be forgotton that our production of Metals. Wares and Fabrics has also greatly fallen off within the last twelve months. . J ' ' '' ' .'! There will be a revival in' some branches of manufacture when the opening of Spring has revived a demandfor their products, but our depressed branches in general cannot and will not rally without a change in the Tariff. If Wool is admitted free, or substantially so, that will help the branch most disastrously affected;, if corresponding changes are made in other items, good will result, although fools will be gulled by bold assertions that these charges are made in the direction, not of , Protection, but ,of ; .Free trade. When persons want to ba cheated, love to be cheated, insist upon being cheated, they will, of course, have their wish. Uur impression is, inai the changes in the Tariff sanctioned by the House, will not, in the average, affect injuriously .the Manufacturers of this country, except, possibly, by increasing the sum total of our Importations, and thus, by draining away our Specie, agvravating bur commercial embarrassments, and diminishing our ability to purchase and consume Iron', Cloth, &.C. . If anybody considers Mr. Letcher's project a Free-trade one, lie cannot have studied it very deeply. " . . Still, the existing paralysis of Manufacturers is not likely to be wholly overcome during the current year it is, perhaps, at likely to increase and the rational hopes of better times rest rriainly on the, exertions of, our Farmers., They can double their Grain and Root crops if they will, and in so doing may relive their country from sore embarrassments. And they have every in ducement to attempt this seasonably, vigorously, persistently, In the first place, the stock of food is short, not only in our own , country; ' but throughout the world. While our railroads have been actively forwarding, through the winter, Grain, &c, which have usually remained in the interior till spring, .the vast armies and military preparations, of Europe have been devouring the harvests of that continent, until it is probable that the supply there is as meager as with us. Even if peace should be made this spring, a new and ample harvest will be required to restore an equilibrium and reduce prices to a reasonable stand ard; while, in the case (which now seems the more probable ) or a continuance of the great war, on the immense scale' now .threatened, the exorbitant prices now ruling are as likely to be increased as to be diminished, ;' The depression of. Manufactures and the suspension of Railroad and kindred enterprises, insure a large supply of Cheap Labor, of which we trust our Farmers will thoroughly avail them selves. Tens of thousands of able-bodied though unskilled men may yet be hired in the cities at prices ranging from $80 to 120 per annum, according to their presumed efficiency respectively; with Women at about half price the employers, as usual, to furnish board, lodging and washing. These men of course require leading and teaching; few of thein can even make a good-fence or take first-rate care of a team without oversight; but they have the muscle, and are willing to ex-i ert it under proper guidance for moderate recompense. Will not our farmers generally resolve to double their crops or at least their surplus left for sale after abstracting what is needed for their own use in 1855 as compared with 1854? But when Labor is needed beyond what, the neighborhood can supply, there is but one fit mode as'yet practicable of supplying the need. That is, by all who need help in a township or other locality uniting to send down one. of their own number to this or some other seaport to select and hire so many and such as are required a man for this farmer, a woman for the next household, a boy or girl for another, one of each for the next, and so on. Let the agent be supplied with money to pay the charge for transportation, and he need never go home unsupplied.' We think no great number of men could, even now, be hired so low as they could have been One or two months ago; and the labor of such will be still scarcer and dearer a month hence; but let those who want help act promptly and vigorously, and they will yet be supplied as cheaply as any man of conscience can desire. New Fork Tribune. :-i .. Politics and the . Clergy. . The Boston Recorder, one of the oldest and best religious papers in the United States, is taking strong ground against clergymen . leaving their pulpits to become legislators or politicians. We wish (says the New York Journal of Commerce) it would also write an article against ministers becoming politicians in the pulpit, Of the two, the latter appears to us -the greater evil. Indeed, if ministers are determined to be politicians, should they not be encouraged to leave their pulpits, and to leave them permanently, rather than convert them into rostrums for political harangues? If they were away, the places which they occupy, might be filled by men who would feel the power of the Gospel in - their own hearts,. and preach it to the perishing.- The Recorder says: " ' I "On ordinary occasions, we think that the minister who enjoys his ' health and retains a good standing in the ministry, and before whom lies an open field for his labors, cannot be justified in leaving the Word of God, for such an employment, so foreign, not to say inferior, to that which he has been called. Our first reason for this conviction is, that the whole habit of mind which the minister of the Gospel ought to form and cherish, the habit of devoting his energies of

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thought and feeling mainly to the objects of h's ministry, must tend to unfit him to do himself justice, or to do justice to his position, as a legislator. If he gives himself wholly to his ministry, he cannot, unless he be a very rare exception among men, become a skillful Ktid well informed politician. There are very few 6uch universal geniuses as can be completely fitted for occupations so diverse. As a generul rule, it may be aflirmed that a good minister, remaining such, cannot be a good and competent legislator. , "But we have, in the converse of this statement, a still more serious objection to adduce, viz: that active legislators, or politicians, cannot ordinarily be good ministers. To succeed as a politician, one must give his heart and energies to the business. His zeal must kindle upon it. It must occupy his public and his private hours. But if a minister thus devotes himself to politics or legislation, his mind is by necessity in a great measure withdrawn from that sacred work which he stands pledged to be wholly devoted to.1 No man can serve two masters. No man can fill properly two positions, so far remote as the pulpit and the political rostrum. The minister, who has a good standing in his profession, will be unwilling to become a politician unless he can achieve success also in that line.. But this success is not to be gained by a , mere nominal or official connection with political affairs, lie must carrry his heart and soul into them. He must ply a busy mind, not only in studying the sub- . jects of legislation, but in working the more com-' plex machinery of politics. Offices are to be gained and given. Elections are to be provided for and given. And, however upright the man himself may be, he is almost necessarily brought into contact with much that is questionable, and even base, in the arts of political intrigue and management. His mind, so to speak, is made to breathe in an atmosphere that benumbs the spiritual sensibilities, and hardens the heart. After one has spent the six days of the week in the midst of such an atmospheiV and in such employment, he is but poorly prepared, we must believe, to come forth to his people on the Sabbath, and unfold to them the , unsearchable riches of ; Christ, whose kingdom is not of this world. I'll is sad for the interest of the Church, and is adapted to arrest the progress of religion, when the impression obtains with any respectable , portion of the public that the ministry are a set of ambitious schemers, seeking more for the honors or emoluments of office than securing the ' eternal interests of theij hearts. And yet what. ' else would be likely to be thought of the ministry, if clerical legislators were to abound? When the greatly exaggerated' report went out, after our State election last fall, that some sixty or: ; seventy clergymen had been elocteJ to the Legis- : lature of this State, we felt mortified and ashamed; : yea, and sad, and solicitous for the interests of j religion. When we afterwards learned that the I greater part of this number were Methodist and 1 Universalist ministers, we felt somewhat relieved, i But we were more relieved, when we found that j tlie story itself was a great exaggeration; there ! being but abou twenty-four, all told, and not more than five or six of these from our own de-i ! nomination."-., . : , , ... ; v, . . MISTAKEN , PHILANTHROPY. , . I v There are, no, doubt, many cases of mistaken.; ; philanthropy in the market, although very little . of the "real stuff," which' is in great demand, can be found. The following can be relied on:' A few years ago, on the day before Thanksgiving, i an excellent friend of ours, now no more, i went to market to make provision , for his own:' ; family, and a number of guests who were exI pecjted at his hospitable board. He purchased, j as was usual at that season, a noble turkey, whose j weight' almost defied lifting.' Casting his eye about, he discovered a small boy with apparently t nothing to do: ,., , ,. . I "My lad," said he,: "I will give you a shilling , ; to carry this bird home." ; "Thank you sir," replied the boy; "I am the one to do it. "My mother '11 thank you too." The worthy gentleman paid the money on the spot, but called the receiver back to add a bunch of crisp celery and some vegetables to the basket, , 'after which he went on his way, and thought no more of the morrow. He that provideth not for . his own household has-denied the faith, and is ' worse than an infidel. And it came to pass on the day after, that is to say, on Thanksgiving morning, the host took his hat and cane for a; ; walk, when he was inquired of in bis own house what provision he had made for dinner. : ' i ' "Why," said he, "we will have that turkey, to 'be sure. Did you ever see a finer?" : 1 " What turkey?" was asked, with marked emphasis. ! , "Why,- that turkey which I sent yesterday. I told a little boy to carry it home, and gave him j a shilling for his trouble." ,, ; . - . I "He has never brought it." ,,. , , V "I see how it is," replied the host, laughing, . "he has carried it home indeed. The markets are closed now. We must fast upon Thanksgiving Day." ' ' ' I will mention, however, that the boy's mother t was thankful for the fowl; that the poor family feasted well; that their dinner was not dressed with any herbs of suspicion; while matters were so managed that the worthy giver and his friends -never fared better than they did on that day, and lost nothing." . . ' Couldn't Come it. The Jeffersonville Railroad Company, or rather the Louisville interest of t the company, have for a long time been anxious to have the depot at Jeffersonville moved to the : river bank, and they have used every means, this ' winter, in order to get the consent of the Indiana Legislature to such removal. They issued free passes to the members, (violating thereby a sacred agreement,) and "letyed" to the best of their ability, but we are happy to say that their efforts 1 were entirely unsuccessful. The Legislature ' showed no disposition to legislate for the benefit of Louisville to the injury of cities within her ., own limits, and we hope the same spirit may al- , ways be manifested.in our General Assemblies. New Albany Tribune. '