Litchfield enquirer., 1840-11-19
From tke Nesv York Express


 We have just received the following has tv sketch of the For Chase, from our frient Major Downing. The numerous incident. attending such a chase would require, nc doubt, more time and space than he couo give it, especially as he has other occupa. tions, and has not yet the franking power.-- The first report of victory is generally brief-the details are left for more quit moments :-
 FROM THE LOG CABIN, NORTH BEND 10 my feiloSc-citizens from NeU Orleans 1O
 DoaDningrille, and from SGIt WGnr tO the
 Lake Water, up and do,on the country Gnd
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 FelloaO- Citizens-Ever since the world be- gun all the hunts and chaSes telpd on m all creation hain't been only mere fteG h~nt to the rale For Chase that has just been com pleted in these United States, by the grace of God free and independent at last.
 It has been known to every body that for the last ten years it has been impossible to hatch eggs, or raise poultry, or to trust any thing af large of that natur---night arter might and day arter day-nest arter nest and chicken arter chicken was destroyed 5y foxes, and they got so bold and braZen at last they would come into the poultry yard in open day, or any where else, and kept the hull feathered tribe kackllng pretty much all the while. At first the folks got traps and dogs, but it got so at last, that the foxes got so numerous, it was jlst as much as dogs life was worth to attack 'em-and folks began to despair-especlai- 1y as it was found out that all the younger foxes got their directions from one raLe sty for, who as vet had never been track'd, or trap'd, or driven to his hole he was eue'y sOlere, in euery StGte almost at the same lme. And wherever he was reported Co 0e, there II was found all the other foxes was most knowing and most impudent. So 1t was concluded that it was no use to try and trap the common run of foxes. but Ii possible, make a general rally in all the States, and give chase to this old for especially-and not give up till he was run to his hole, and ffen dig him Out-for it was thought ii z he was only caught, all the rest would be pretty scarce. Well, this matter being agreed upon, the first thing next to be done was to select a good long aOlnded leader ol the chase-one who would not give out, and .svhose horn could be heard furthest. And so we all agreed upon Old Tfp-and we got him pretty we'll mounted, and he sound- ed his horn, and it's echoes went up and down rivers, and across valleys, and over mountains, till folks all about creation got we'll acquainted with the sound-and on given day, they assembled at all their stations, and put in practice hs Je~ general rules of the chase, capering little round, and having few sham chases Jest to git nimble-and then on signal from Old Tips h0rn they all started, and slch a chase as I said afore as then began, the hull created world has never before seen for it was an everlasting wide and long country to chase over, and no one knowing vet where the tor would first break kiver, all hands at first went to work beating the bush. The first track was struck in LouisiGn0, and about 5000 give chase there and run him out of that State-and he streaked it away North as hard as he could clip it, and know ing all the secret by-ways, escaped till he reached the State of Maine. The Maine boys were wide awake, and as soon as they struck his track there, they raised an al- mighty shout and headed him off. He then sheared off to New Hampshire, where they are pretty much au for-and there for spell took breath. But hearing the coming shout he struck for Vermont, in hopes the screen Mountings'' would furnish kirer- but they were all awake there, and about 5000 folks .iined in the chase, and he re- mained no longer in Vermont than he could get out ont. "Well," thinks he, "this is pritty tite work, and I'm off South agin, for they must be friendly to me there, seeing as how tell'd all the foxes to be civil to the Southern Chickens,''-and so he slipt along ito Georgia. The Georgia folks, however, not liking tho natur of the breed, had al- ready called their fox hunters together, and on the first show of track they all opened and about 5000 give chase there in most noble stile, and he turned tail and run tow ards the middle States. In passing through the old North State of Carolina, he finds $Ninuc xon1 lo o~ Yeat thnrc <r cto o and jist SO it continued all the way through Maryland, Delaware and Pennsyl- vania-though he bothered the hunters pla- giiy in Pennsylvania, for they don't under stand JOS hunting much in that State-ex- cept in a few counties, especially in Bucks county, and that is the reason why in that county they always have good poultry and plenty ont. So he continued North. In Connecticut and Rhode Island they gave him an amazing close run-and no time to stop or double, and eenamost caught him. As for Massachusetts he knew pretty we'll he stood no chance there, and so you see but one strait chase across-and taking a bite in New Hampshire, he tried for New York, and run considerable well and com fortably along the Hudson-but such a howl as met him in the west was shiverer for him and he sheered off for Ohio, but that was out of the frying pan into the hot ashes and looking around him and seeing all ready in the States-some 10000, some ;S,Q0O, some more and some less-scouring .the country and prepared to track--thinks he "its no use-'to the pictor belongs the spiles' was the doctrine of my party, and may as we'll go for it to the last," and he made a dead track to the Log Cabin at the Norh Bend-with about 36,OOO Buckeyes artel him and Old Tip at the head on 'em. was standing near the door and seed him