New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-04-07
True Hunting.

Our hunters-and there are not u few of them
cannot get beyond the primer and rudmens of their
learning. Little birds are the chief objects of their
and wandering squirrels are remorseessly
sacrificed to satisfy their ambition. 1t is not so every
where within the bounds Of this almighty confedera-
on. Larger game is pointed at over the muzzle of
tsse death-dealing rifles which made Gibralters of
evW coton-bae at Chalmette; and the bisons of the
piafes have no greater security in their broad pas
tur t than the deer of our own little prairies
a lie number of the st. Paul (NIinnesota) Pioneer
orlnssN an account Of a great buffalo hunt, which
was stafed at, and proceeded from that quarter In
stead OF single Sundays sport, and return to
peaceful Abors on the Monday ensuing, the hunters
departed, With all the accompaniment requisite for
SIX months Nmpaign. They laid their course before
hahd' u continuity with the known habits of their
quarry ana pepared to carry out their schedule to
the le1ter. Leaers and guides were chosen or ap-
pointed as wheiAn army goes to battle and, for the
sake OF amusement they undertook this mimic war
much more credlte, and far less injurious than the
Crimean slaughter heroes.
The buffalo, which are to our continent what the
elephant is to Africa, 4nge from one hundred to one
hundred and fifty milesNorthwest of St. Cloud, and
their route lies throug1the most beautiful part of
Minnesota. The hunters,in pursuing them, intend
after the American mamie, to combine utility with
recreation, and make even heir sport an investment
for future profit To this en the great salt region of
the Northwest will be carefully surveyed, and closely
mapped out. BY and bye sat pans will be carried
over the path of the hunter, aid Turks Island re-
born in our own midst.
As an outfit for this crusade andevn1orino Journey
each man is required to furnish ring horse, rifle,
revolver and bowie knife; also one blanket, which
reads something like the harmony of Ealstas feast
of which sack, mprmis; sack, seeunEus; and still
sack, in fms, made the chief CONSTITUENT. Villain
oussaltpeter nInnesotan parance supplies the place
Of sack. As matters of minor moment, tent is or
dered for each club of four one pack hos. and suf
fieent eommissary supplies, which be construed
into -four, whisky handy, redeye and run.-Salt
they are seeking, and accordingly will not carry and
the spice of the enterprise will render cayenne or
common pepper needless. In order to make the trip
desirable" party of fifty was considered requisite
AS the territory could only supply five and twenty,
the plan was published and the Congressional delegate
at Washington, appointed sort of semi-oicia agent
to enlist such amateurs might desire to behold and
enjoy the wonders of one of Cooper's novels written
out in actual experience and practically enoyed--
When this enterprisng band shall have returned from
the Salt Lakes west of the Minnesota river, by the
way of the Red river of the North will endcavor
to give the history of their enterprse-f they deem
itworthy of chroniclng for We are full sure that its
biography would be better worth reading than the
learned volume which details Professor researches
in Chateaugway, or, even the pages of marvel that
occurred to party seeming about Katahdin, Umba.
bagog and Moosehead. The English Lord who ex.
plored the Great West-peace to his ashes Wrote
well of his adventures and described some things
graphically. ButWhat are the experiences of single
traveller journeying on an old route compared to the
wild adventures of half score of young Quixotes
boiling over with the inspiration of Boone and Crock
cit? We await their progress, return and report.