The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-10-09

From "Canpaign Sketches of the War with Mex.
ico" now in the press of the Harpers the Laerar,
World makes some interesting extracts We quot.
the following: -,.
A party of five officers left the camp for three
days hunt on the Nucccs. The second day we had
all returned for some grub except d., when we saw
him coming on horseback with las we supposedly q
deer behind him. TO our Joy, instead of deer, he
threw down an enormous panther
swell done, DIP was the involuntary exclamation
"Wheree did you kill himl Under what circum,
stnnces!" Easy, my boys, just hold your horses
I'll tell you; but Just tip me some grog, for am
rather used up. We'll, shot busting big buck and
il fall about hundred yards from me, in n mot
Knowing when old King Death (nan,e Of his rille)
sends ball that il is all up with anything 1t hits [
gave myself no uncasiness about the buck, and was
crawling upon another when | heard the greatest
fuss and growing where the buck fell and concluded
the wolves must nave gotit. ran up and got with
in six feet before the cause of all this conlil-
sion; when, simultaneously with my sight with a
sharp, cat-growl and desperate leap panther sprnp
at me. had barely time TO fall back few feet when
he brushed past Inc in full leap, just missing my per
son, lighting the ground about twenty feet from
me. He instantly turned towards ME- and prepared
with his teeth shown, tail on his back, and death in
his eye, to make another spring at Inc. drew up
King DEATH saying, III is you or /, old fellow,
cracked away and shot him through the centre OF the
forehead, little lower than the eyes. He fell and
with some desperate struggles died, relieving me from
rather an unpleasant predicament. Good, old fel-
fow bring out that bottle of Cozzens old brandy:
none but the best TO drink to the panher-kiler,' Ii
certainly was dangerous, most icarully dangerous
situation. DIS coolness daring and ready command
Of nerve saved his life. The animal weighed one
hundred and sixty pounds, was seven feet eight inches
from tip TO tip, and four feet high. The spotted
tigers terrible animals and the iierces hunting
dogs cover at their approach. Colonel c., Of Texas,
told me that on Bernard river, while hunting coons
with friend the dogs trccd in an immense iveoak,
something over which they made an usual commo.
ton Being the youngest it was his fate to climb
the tree, and get, rs they thought, the coon down.
The tree was directly the river bank and its hor-
zontu branches reached nearly across The trees are
no sapplings In that section Of the country the live
oaks especially for they do say that under the shade
Of some five hundred persons could dine. II they
could have had these trees In the sylvan times OF
merry England, what dances the good people could
have had under thcm' But TO return. He climbed
the tree and crawling out on ono Of these horizontal
limbs, expecting every moment to the CON- what
should present itself, upon rising up to look round
but an immense spotted tiger with eyes like balls OF
fire. What to do was the question He could not
bnck OUT he dared not drop into the river for Il was
full Of algators lie fell upon this plan: swung him
self below the limb and hung on by his hands, Tho
tiger walked over him, descended the tree and went
ihpugh crowd Of nine Dogs az fierce ONES as there
were IN Tesas, who never even growled at him.