The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-02-03

which, she will trot of and carry them ali
away. When theshuntsman finds that this 10
The game she intends to play, he has no re-
source left, bu, to FIRE OF his gun, and squan-
der the whole covey second time, after which
he must again go through the process OF
yelping them up. We have known six or
seven to be killed in this manner, in days ex.
cursion.
more fatal method still, of dealing with
them, is by means of bait. The baitis laid
in trench-the huntsman lies in blind-the
turkeys come to it--and as they put their heads
down he fires. We once heard of eight being
killed in this way. at single fire. Another
way is to shoot them as they fly down from
roost, in the morning. The huntsman having
discovered where they roost, repairs to the spot
before day. A little after day they begin to
fly down, and then he lets fly also. We have
ourselves, been out, in cold frosty mornings,
upon several excursions of the kind. We
never killed anything on these occasions, and
we do not think we shall ever try it again.
Yelping for turkies is a very dangerous
pastime, when there are two Richmonds, I'M
known TO each other, in the field. They some
times answer each other, and as one will not
move, the other is apt to creep on his hands
and knees towards him. In such cases, in the
midst of thick woods, the creeper is apt to be
mistaken for a turkey, and to receive the con-
tents of his brother sportsman's gun. We have
known at least one person to be killed in this
way, and have heard of many Others that were
wounded, some of them very badly.
Turkey hunting is, to an adept, an extreme
ly exciting sport, though we confess we could
never see It's merits.
~ We copy the following from the Freder
icksburg News, though it is little tart upon
our neighbor, the Times, because of the justice
t exhibits towards the Richmond and Freder-
icksburg road. The Times some days since
made the following article:
Nesc Mail Route TO Washington.-A writer
in the National lntellgencer urges the propri-
ETY. of abandoning the Potomac river mail
route, and recommends the Stockholders of
the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad to
tdhS Steps ~ etCuIG COiiLtAlOu Will int vi
ange and Alexandria Railroad. This road ne
says, in its progress south, ill reach point
not exceeding twenty-five miles from Freder-
icksburg. The Alexandria Gazette, on the
other hand, contends that as soon as the Orange
and Alexandria Railroad shall be completed to
Gordonsville, the mail route South by railroad
will be complete, for at that point it will con-
meet with the Central Railroad. The Central
road, then, will become the connecting link
IL - IL,
Orange and Alexandra Railroad shall be COM
pleted. Over this route it is estimated, the
Washington mail could be delivered in Rich
mond in six or seven hours. There would
then, too, be no danger Of delay or stoppages.
The storms of winter might then roll over our
heads, and chain up our rivers, without inter-
ruptIng communication with the North. We
heartily join the Gazette in trusting that Con-
gress will see the necessity of this route, and
in furtherance of the object, pass The bill giving
to the Orange and Alexandria Road the claim
assigned to THY the State of Virginia.
Upon this the Fredericksburg News re-
marks as follows:
The above we take from the Richmond
Times. We acknowledge that whilst reading
it we had three times to refer to the title-page
to be assured we were reading from Rich
mond paper. The invocation to Congress, in
the last sentence, to pass speedily the bill ask
ing for Sl20,O0 with interest, and appropriate
it to the construction of this Road, is one of
the IN Jst remarkable instances of self-sacr-
fcng spirit OIL the part of Richmond we ever
recOllect TO have read.
What road is this our contemporary is seek
ing with such newborn zeal to build up! =
The geography of the country will show him
it is one destined to do more irreparable injury
to Virginia, and especially to Richmond, than
any other work in the State. Connecting with
the Central road al Gordonsville it will divert
from Richmond to Washington more than one
half of that western trade and travel which
justly belongs, and if properly managed, would
have gone to Richmond.
But the most extraordinary declaration is the
desire to see the great Southern mail carried
along this route. From Alexandria to Rich
mond, by this route, is at least los miles. By
the Fredericksburg road it is less than 100
The one is nearly semi-circle-the other is
almost straight line. The one is an old, rat
tle-trap, stage coach concern, travelling at a
gait of about 10 miles an hour. The other is
in complete order, well managed, and travel
ling at the usual rates of modern speed.
And Congress ought Immediately to give the
amount now asked for by Alexandra ? If
Congress should do it, Alexandra ought not
legitimately to claim it. The Leg islature had no
right to give it. She might subscribe, and be-
come a stakeholder to that extent. But to
give it as donation was transcending her
power. The present Legislature, and Rich
mond especially, ought to protest ago. inst it.
The editor Of the News goes little further,
and speaks of the town of Alexandria as an
incorigible and successful beggar from the