The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LuNDON, dsiDAY 'EVENING, DECEMBER 31,. 1860.

KIN AIIAN'IXHLIkITI‘OVV6IY. - DUBLIN

This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the
I)ublin Prize Medal.
It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole-
4orno.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ;
y the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or
,calinlasalA at
CIREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W.
Observe the Rid Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded
Kinaluin's LL Whisky."

I.EUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
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tree on applicAtion by letter to
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C°
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5, Agar-street. S:rand, W.C. and nearly opposite the
Charing Cress Railway St•ttion.

TH E 0 X F U It ,
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THE MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON.
CHRISTMAS ENTER rA INMENTS.

LES DRAGONS DE VILL thS (Opera Comique), Music
by A. Mail trt (first time in this country ), 'PHIS EVENING,
iu wh,ch Miss RUSSELL will make h,:,r Reappearance,- as-
shte i by Alis.,es Barrie and Fitz Henry; Me: srs. A. St. Albyn,
Hulls, Fox, Husk, Evan. and Bury, with ...xtra Band and
Chorus ; produced and conducted by Mr. F. JonghmAns
COMEDY. by :Messrs. fi 'rry Sydney, Brieulcy, and Eger-
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OXFORD -OPT, TWA, , ' - r
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'EVEN G.

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CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
NEW EUI [IONS. —Life-size Portraif-Models of JOHN
gRIGHT, Esq., ILP., and•the late RICHARD CODUIsIN,
iq., Al P. - •
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-AdmUtance, ls.; children, under ten, half-price ; . extra
rooms. 6d..

ARGYLL ROOMS. GRAND CASINO,
Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirely re-
decorated, are. now OPEN EVERY EVENIN,4 for Concert
and DkincincT. Conductor, Signor Luca CURTL Manager,
GRENET.
Admission to Promenade', One Sidlllll4%
Peserv,d Seats, Two Shill! gs.

FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY,.
Malt." 19s. per gallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear-
ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered
to file trade for the sale of this 2enaina old spirit, which is
coming into universal consumption through England.
For price lists apply at Ofil.es, 14, Strand. London, W.O.
Established in Qratton-street, Dublin, A.D. 17M0.

UNVIL V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY ,
BELFAST,
'lt • Ls regularly supplied to the House of Lords-

" V.R." IRISH-WHISKY.
DUNVTIJ,F, and CO.'S "V.R." OLD IRISH
IVIIISKY, BELFAST.
London Offices and Stores,
4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. •
• EstabllelAed 1808. Quotations on application.

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JAMES DALY and CO,, Distillers, John--street,
Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in 'he
mid."— .oacion Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C.,-
ne.kt the '• Times."

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Q-Cork, beg to announce that they are able to supply the
trade with their celebrated Whiskiesi in casks or case.t, and
t6lake orders in bond tad for exportation, at their (Slices, 7,
Pittilting-house-square, Londori, N.C.. the only house hi the
square not occupied by " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies
britrz the highest prices in the Australian and uthe- Colonial
markets, as may be observed by reverence to' he "Journal of
CoMmerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their
whiskies fetch Gd. per gallon and Is. per case over.the next
b:: at, and Is. 6d per gallon and ss. ad, a case over the lowest
quCtation. Always on hand a large supply of ye y old
mellow wulsky in the finest condition, matured in sherry
casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, sir plied on the
most reasonable terms. .

MANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per-
fectly pure and uncAloured. To be had of ail dealers
a.,d who►esale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand
(corner of Savoy-steps). London

VATT:DE-VlE.—Tbis Pure PAIZITTVICTVr
.11_11 [B6 per gal:on, is v. ry Fupei io to recent laportations
of Cognac, me mmended by the medical protesAon, and ex-
tensively used in hospitals. In bottles, 335. per dozen, or In
a case .39s railway carriage pal I.—,HENRY BRETT and
CO., Old Furnival's Distil'ery, Holborn, E.O , and 30, Regent-
street, S.W. Established 1829.

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Elements of Geology" and facilitate the important study of
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guineas ; also &Ingle Specimens of Minerals, Rooks, Fossils,
aed it eaent Shells, Geological wal.s. Hammers, all the recent
Publcalions, &o. of J. PENNANT, Mineralogist to Her
Majtsty, 119,'Strand, London.

Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and G3ology by
Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C.

R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
leet-‘treet, has introduced an enticely new descrlp-
tt of ARTIFICIAL I` rll, fixed without springs. wires,
or ligatures. They so perfectly re.emb e the natural teeth
as not to be distinguished fro a the originals by the closest
observer; they w,ll never change colour or decay, and will
be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This
method does not require t,ke extraction of roots, or any pain-
ful operation, and wilt support and preserve teeth that are
loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica-
tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful
in mastication.

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INNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.-
ir The medic% profession for Thirty ye rs have approved
of this pare solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for
Acidity 01 th Stomach, Headache, Heartburn, Gout, and
Indigestion ; and mi a mild aperient it is especially adapted
for ladies and children. Prepared by
DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, &a.,
172, New Bond-street, London ;

A-d sold through-_ut the world by all respectable chemists.
CAUTION.—See that " Dinnetord and Co." is on each bottle

and red label over the cork.

WINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
been recently opened and fitted with requisites for
the dare and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
BOIS It AGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab-
lishment from Birmingham to the above desirable reside-ce,
easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-half by the London and North-Western line, and fifty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, are garden, me 410 w, plantation, and recreation
grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the
proprietor.

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING RESlEDY.—Pre-
,ared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
offer from bilious end liver somplaints, inligestlon, wind.
vatims, giddiness, Itaaine..4 of the eyes, &c. For habitual
ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
A the blood, they ire truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to he stomach, they create appe C ite, pro-
-note digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Prepared only and s)ld by W. Lambert, Chemist, S, King
sharing-cross. London, and by most drug-
gists, in boxes,ls. LK, and three times the quantity in one,
2s. ifd. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilbao end Liver Pills.
The genuine a square erect. poiekkee. with " William
Lambert." mErraved the stamp.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING
SHIP. £2,n00 required.

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WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Reines 8, Great Queen-street, .

OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.--CON-
TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY ROME. 41,000 required.
WM. W1LL1.1.3L.3, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON. The
Committee are meat anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 'boys is estimated at
£i,ooo, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to pay for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothbury, and 214, LI igh llolbooi; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by

WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, (Great Queen-street, W.C.

pRoVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Pillsbury, E.O.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly. 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c.,
receives no remuneration • whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andhave
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will lie required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor tamilies
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you, help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the.RoVill. GILBERT No 22
Finebury-cirouo, E.O.
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ANSION-HOUSE
ILL of the SUFFEREE
EXPLOSIONS..

FUND for the RELIEF
3 by the scent COLLIERY

Co'3
The :tight Hon tl

R. C. L. Bevan, Esq.
Salauel Morley, Esq.
Geo. Moore, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Finnis.
J: P. Gassiot,
Christopher T. GabriA, Egg.:
Frederick Thompson, Esq.
H. A. Gray, Esq.
Colonel Stuart Wortley.

!TWEE. '
hOLOIID MAYO%

fir:Alderman and Sheriff
Watalow.
Mr: Sheriff Lycett.
Mr. Alderman Besley.
Mr. Alderman Dakiu.
James Hill, Esq.
R. N. Fowler, I,],q.
W. J. Maxwell, Esq.
Ur. Alderman Cuttop.

I The attention of the public is earnestly drawn to the
suffering consequent en the terrible calamity produced by
the recent colliery explosions.
SUBSCRIPTIONS aro g eatly needed to relieve the
numerous families made destitute thereby.
The amount required to meet the memorable Hartley
Colliery Accident in 1862 was £30,000 • in that case 204
men and boys lost their lives; the present instance
double that number are known to have perished, there-
fore w make a suitable provision for the families &pen-
-dent upon them about £lOO,OOO will be needed. At the
final distribution of the surplus of the Hartley Fund,
£3,140 was allotted to the districts in which the present
accidents occurred, and this sum is now available towards
the fund now being raised.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales
H.R.H. the Princess of Wales to
The Corporation of London.
Amount already advertised
Subscriptions will be received by the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house ; Messrs. Barclay,
Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Gnats and
Co., Strand; Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-
street ; MessrS. &pith, Payne, and Co., 1, Lombard-street ;
Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and. Co., Lombard-street ;
Messrs. Dimsdale, Fowler, and 50, Coruhill ; the Lon-
don.and Westminster BaPirs
,A,Shhuly; , the London Joint-
.llq.k, 5, Prinees--s,treel, linipu tank of London ,•
6TllawZfld C01111;3-
of England and all. their brailhei:; Messrs. Willis, Percival,
and Co., Lomb:ard-street; and by the 'several members of
the Committee.
JOSEPH ,GIBBS Secretary.
3fausion House, Dec. 29, 1866.
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QT. CROIX AND LAKE *SUPERIOR'. RAIL-
ROAD .COMPANY.—Issue of Seven per-Cent. First
Mortgage Sinking Fund Land Grant Bonds for £1;300,000,
secured by a Land Grant of 1,50400 acres,:- The .railroad
and all the property now owned, 45. r to be owned, by the
Company. 'The Bonds are £2OO eack due Ist January, 1900.
Principal and interest .payable at -the City Bank, in 140 n-
- Coupons, duo Ist January an'a Ist July, are attached
to the Bonds:: . ,
The price of issue of each Bond of £2OO sterling, bearing
interest from the Ist January, 1867, is £125, and accrued
ihterest payable as follows : •
on application.
. • on allotment.
£55
£6O.
The definitive bonds will be deliverid in exchaugnfOr
scrip as soon•as the whole is paid up.
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Subscribers paying in full derive the advantage of.im-
mediate interest at above 11 per cent. per annum.
BANKERS -The City Bank in London.
William 11. Swift, Esq., Hon. Salmi& J.,: Tilden, and
Hon. Andrew H. Green, are the trustees for the first mort-
gage bondholders, and all moneys received from' the lift
mortgage bonds sold are to be paid to them-in trust, to be
by them disbursed (upon such vouchers as they may deeni
sufficient, and satisfactory) for work done and materials
furnished in and about the construction and equipment Of
the road, and forsuch other expenses of the company as
the said,trustees may deem proper to be paid.
All cash 'receipts from the sales of lands are to•be--uSed
as a sinking,futtd in liquidation of the principal and inte—
rest,of the,bebt, until a sufficient amount, is absolutely in'
the hands of the trustees to provide for the entire mortgade
debt. • -
A full statement, with all the particulars of this road, as
made bythe President and Direct Ors of the Company, an.
estimate of the ultimate cost cf construction and equip-
ment of -the road, as also an estimate of earnings, with a
copy of the Acts of the Legislature of Wisconsin and of
the Congress of the United States, relative to the St. Croix
and Lake Superior Railroad Company, with a copy of the
deed of trust of mortgage, of the form of the mortgage
bonds, and of all the other documents relating to the pre-
sent issue:of bonds, are to be had.at the office of the agency-
of the company, 14, City Bank Chambers, London. -
Applications:for these Bonds will be received up to. sth
January, 1867;
In London 2 at the City Bank, as Bankers of the Com-
.
Pan.
In Amsterdam, Messrs. Wertheim and Goropertz.
In ROtterdni, the Coremanditaire•Bankvereeniging,.
From' whom prospectuses ant.:fyries of application can
be obtained. *-1
London Office : 14, City Bank Qbarabers, Threadneedle-
street, E.C.

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Y HOLB.)ItN.
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opera. Tem& ovation of the high Minstrels, with songs,
dances, and Irish anecdotes, under the direction of Pat
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Comic—Arthur Lloyd's new song " Borachio, Pestachio,
Lablachio, Moustachio, and the Roly Poly Eye,"—Jolly
Nash, Georgina Smithson, Miss Fancourt, Paddy Fannin,
Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Kattie King ; and Pio
Watkini, the Persian Juggler. Band of 30 first-class per-
formers, and large Chorus chosen from her Majesty's and
Covent Garden Opera Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P.
Coxur.

Prices of admission Stalls and Balcony, Is.; Area, 6d. ;
Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office,
between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every
Evening at 7 o'clock.

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THE ELAND.

(From Wild Sports of the World)

This noble antelope, the largest of his tribe, is met with
in most parts of Africa, but more especially on the borders
of the Great Kalahari desert. The full-grown male mea-
sures six feet high at the shoulder, and is about twelve feet
in length. Its horns are about two feet long, with a ridge
ascending in a spiral direction about half-way up, the spiral
making two perfect turns when the male is full grown.
Its tail is between two and three feet long, and it has a
dewlap hanging to its knees. Its general colour is ashen-
grey, and in bulk it equals an adult Hereford ox ; indeed,
a troop of eland bulls in full condition is likened by an ex-
perienced African hunter to "a herd of stall-fed oxen."
The eland cow has no dewlap, she is altogether more
graceful and slenderly built than her mate, and her horns
are slighter, and without ridge.
Despite the rapid strides which civilisation has made
among us, there is one of our institutions that a Bechuana,
wild from the verge of the Great Kalahari, can afford to
laugh to scorn—our roast beef. Eland flesh, so say tra-
vellersall, is more delicious than that of any other animal
running on four legs ; and no traveller, whose experience
has extended beyond the quadrupedal, ever ventured to
dispute the eland's supremacy. The animal is fit for drebs-
ing the moment it is killed ; its lean is sweet-scented, ten-
der, and mellow, and its fat delicious. Moreover, in such
splendid condition is the eland generally found, that the
Bechuana could, if they pleased, hold a " cattle show,"
compared with which our Baker-street Bazaar would seem
a mere skin market. "At the end of a severe chase," writes
Mr. Gordon Cumming, " I have repeatedly seen an eland
drop down dead, owing to his plethoric habit."
It roams the desert plains in troops of from ten to a
hundred strong, and is, " like the gemsbok, independent
of water." The eland has less speed than any other va-
riety of antelope, and falls an easy prey to the stealthy
savage "stalker," with his assegai or poisoned arrows. On
account of this lack of speed the eland suffers much more
than any other antelope from the attacks of that terrible
fellow the " wildo honden" as he is called by the Boers, in
other words, the gaunt, mangy, ever-hungering wild dog.
This animal would seem to be a connecting link between
the wolf and the hyfera, combining the stealth and cun-
ning of the latter, with the blood-thirstiness, the untiring,
long-strided and loisutely gallop, and the disposition to
act in concert evinced by the former. The females bring
forth their whelps in holes and underground burrows.
They have three different cries, each being used on spe-
cial occasions. " One of these cries is a sharp angry bark,
usually uttered when they behold an object they cannot
exactly malce'ont ; another resembles a number of monkeys
chattering 'together, or men conversing, while their teeth
are clashing with cold. This cry is emitted at night when
large numbers of them are together, and they are excited
by any particular occurrence, such as hearing the voice of
the domestic dog. The third cry, and that most commonly
used among them, is a sort of rallying note to bring the
various members of the pack together." They hunt in
packs, fifty or sixty strong, the leading hounds when
fatigued falling to the rear, when others, who have been
"saving their wind," take their place, and the entire troop
inspired anew, utter their appalling yell and lengthen
their strides. Let the object of pursuit be what it may;
eland, or gnoo, or gemsbok, he will surely succumb to the
dogged perseverance of the " wild° honden," and being
once brought to bay the business is soon settled. Nave
you have the panting and bedraggled eland, helplessly
contending against the death that awaits him in each of
fifty pair of bloody jaws by which he is encircled, and
within ten minutes not A trace of eland is inlgo, not a

scrapof flesh, nor a strip of skin, not a smear of blood
i upon the ground even—nothing but a reclining posse of
blinking, weary, pot-bellied "wild° honden." Should the
huntsman approach a horde of wild dogs, nothing of the
fear displayed under such circumstances by other carni-
vorousanimals is apparent. They. will merely emerge from
their holes or rise from the ground on which they are reclin-
ing, yawn, shake themselves, and slowly moveoff, stopping at
every few steps to look back. as though not quite sure that
the intruder is an -enemy, and inclined to corns to an ex-
.plartation with him. But against the hunter's dogs, th,y
bear. the deadliest animosity, seeming to regard then as
renegades and voluntary slaves, deserving the hatred of
every free cur in the country. Singly, however, the
" wilde honden" would be no watch against the domestic
hound ; and with this fact the former seems well acquainted
and to specially bear-in mind. Should the hunter, or the
Boer, Whose defenceless sheep-flock has been ravaged by
tt
oh eo
omurderoush ptthicok,.„
wloosendo hhios
owd tot toehs;:dtehgess,ealnadtteurrg:iltlhenonti
budge an inch, lest cUthe-flight one of Their weak members,
falling in the roar, might be surrounded and come to grief.
Steadily they keep their ground, and when the avenging
farm dogs approach, open on either side to admit, and then
as suddenly closing up again, tear thorn limb from limb,
eat up every scrap of their carcases, and then trot off
triumphant.
The speed of the eland is only slow as compared with
that of antelopes generally—seventeen miles an hour can
scarcely be called a jog-trot pace, and that is the rate, we.
aao assured by Captain Drayson, at which the eland rushes
down the steepest hills pausing not 'Should it encounter
rocks and boulders impossible to the 'tleverest
chaser, but clearing them with ease, and-.without in thn,
least diminishing its speed. "No idea can be formed,"
says DM:kJ-Son, "" of the activity Of the eland .from 'the ap-
`pettra-11:1.3 spcciraentrtxniblied in the Regent's -Park
-Zool.og,ical Gardetis. Give thekimatgood run, and they j
would nearly leap over the palings that there surround
them."
Captain Drayson, lehii'lltpont a considerable time in
Kaffirland, hunting ever-kitting worth hunting, furnishes
the.followit*graphic ins Wp of an eland chase. Being out
with, a jolly company of t- oers, he.had the misfortune-to be
thrown front his horse ; but with n 1 worse result than a
few bruises, and the breakage of the stock of big gun. This,
however, was bad enough, as it involved the necessity either
of retracing many miles back to the camp to procure a
fresh piece, eiof accompanying the hunting party for the
cold satisfaction of seeing.tlamn bring down the game. Of
the two evils, the former seemed the least, and so back to
camp galloped, 'the captain. Too much 'granite!, however,
had been lost to admit ore,- chance of his overt king his
party, so, alone. in the wilderness, he • resolved to essay a
little eland hunting on his own account.
‘.‘ After diligent search I suddenly noticed'somo animals.
nearly a mile distant, that looked .eitreinely like elands,
'therefore I turned in their direction, which was nearly op-
posite to that which I had first pursued. As I approached
them I made out a couple of bulls and four cow elands,
with five or six half-grown calves. They were away as
soon as they noticed me, and crossed a little muddy hollow
that seemed soft enough to hold them fast ; they got over,
however,ltit sunk to their bellies in the attempt, and came
out on theother side with black mud-stockings. 1 know
that their instinct had shown them the best place for a
crossing, anefthat if I tried.iitany other I might get pounded
completely ; I therefore went dowii to the spot and tried
my horse at, it. He would not stir a step into the bog, but
smolt at it in a suspicious manner ; spurs and whip had no ,
effect on hini, he would not face ff.
"I saw that the quiet plan Was nagood with my nervous
brute, so turning round, I gave him a little:canter and
brought him down again to the muddy crossing with a rush.
When he found what I purposed, he tried to refuse; but
I let drop bah .kopties -into licsAank with a vigorous dig,
and at the awe tinie applied the jantbok behind with such
good effeet,lhat ho floundered into the 'bog, sinking to the
girths. He Ortiggleddesperately, and could scarcely rhove.
j There were'little round hard tufts of grass in places that
afforded hba a slight footing. I therefore dismounted, and
byshouting and lifting with the bridle, managed to get
him across 'the score of yards, the breadth of this horrid
place. Thl struggle took a good deal out of him, and ha
was none of thelresitest when I remounted and followed
the elands, which I saw steadily trotting along a mile in
advance.
"I at length closed with them,• end turned a bull from
the hoard.- benind, and obliged him to keep at a
gallop, as this pace was more distressing to him than the
trot. Seeing another muddy place a short distance in
front :r -,11,-1 up, and as the bull *ls il,,undering through.

it•-4--gtereArinv-tht- -fell- contents.,ef.„
stern. He did not fall, althouz;li I could s_.e that ho was
very badly wounded. I managed to get over this difficulty
with greater ease than the first, as the mud was not so
deep, and commenced loading as I rode. Upon taking
out my bullets I discovered that they were for my
broken-stocked gun, the bore of which was nearly two
sizes larger than the one 1 now had with me, and this
difference I had forgotten in my hurry of changing. I
put the bullet in my mouth, and kept biting it to reduce
its size, and at last managed just to put it into the barrel.
With the aid of a flint on the ramrod I hammered the
bullet about half-way down, but farther it seemed
determined not to go.

"The eland had trotted down to some water that flowed
from a rocky ravine near, and formed a sort of court or
semicircle, the back of which was high, and like a steno
wall. Ho stood in the water, and as I approached could
not retreat, as ho was in a sort of cul de sac, and did not
like coming past me. I felt inclined to go in at the bull
with my clasp-knife, but a threatening kind of pawing,
and a shake of the head when I came near, ma de me
think it more prudent to keep off.
"I now remembered a Dutchman's plan for a ' sticks
bullet' as they call it—viz., dropping a little water in the
barrel, I soon found the good result, for the ball began to
move, and at each blow from the ramrod went lower and
lower, until the clear ring and springing of the ramrod
showed it to be home, I then laid my impatient prisoner
low with a shot behind the shoulder. Ho was a fine
young bull, about fifteen hands in hoight."

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE UtTION
LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA.

The annual meeting of the Union League was
held in their building on Broad-street ; a large
number of members were in attendance. The Board
of Directors presented their fourth annual report,
which, after referring to the late war and regarding
the coming history of the country as fixed for a
term of years, says :
" But in the inscrutable wisdom of God our na-
tion was doomed to suffer from another, and, if pos-
sible, more detestable treachery than that which
had inspired the recent rebellion. The maA whom
our votes had elevated to the second place in the
gift of the nation, and whom the hand of the assas-
sin raised to the first, almost from the day that he
assumed supreme power, set himself about proving
that he was worthy of the manner of his succession.
Not only did he betray every trust that we had re-
posed in him, but he became false to his own re-
cord, his own pledges and protestations, and in the
very words which we had applauded in his first
message to Congress."
Referring to the recent Convention of Southern
Unionists in that city the Board say—
,c we are grateful to the loyal Southern men,
whom we welcomed to their Convention, for the
wise and temperate resolutions which expressed the
sense of their meeting, and proved how little gall
was in their nature, even after they had suffered
through years of persecution, and were well aware
that, on returning to their homes, they would be
subjected, both in their persons and their families,
to a worse renewal of their trials. The effects of
their visit to our Institution have also been produc-
tive of good to their cause in the South. Taking
copy by our association, and recognising the strength
and capabilities of organisation, since their return
they have instituted Union Leagues amongst them-
selves."
Speaking of the fire at the League• house, they
say that, notwithstanding the loss and the incon-
venience occasioned by the fire, no work in which
the League was then engaged was in any way pre-
vented or even postponed for a single day.
To guard against another fire
The Board say :—"
they have made the building as nearly fire-proof as
possible. The brick partition walls were run up
above the roof and lormed into battlements, thus
dividing the roof into separated sections, and the
whole was covered with metal. The changes could
not be accomplished without a large outlay of
money, and the Board of Directors has therefore
increased the annual tax for the year 1867 by the
sum of ten dollars.
"At a special meeting of the League, held on the
22d August in this year, a committee of seventy-six
members of the League was appointed for the pur-
pose of employing the energies and resources of our
MACPciatio4 in the approaching political campaign. I