New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-03

unkr the Kind protection OF cone gentle and i'Vlhs
.ouI n, soe,,r does tie sun shine on the LIST Of
Sep.ember than great, burly, bearded men come
out and PURGE to determination the pretty crea-
lures, blowing 10 atoms, with an eNultiton and
delight which it is 5ificIt to understand h'l'e
bird hardly bigger than the great brutes teumo'
So the topg birds have disappeared, and the game
has Jared no better.
The quail, the partridge and tie grouse have IN
many places gone altogether, and where they are
still 10 be found they are wild and scarce. Tbs
is true, also, of tie deer and no less so of the
trout Bu. the deer and the birds found, til with
in few years, safe home on the pr.ires OF the
West. One could not, twenty years ago, cross
prairie of half dozen miles In Illinois without
starting herd of deer, who would gsllop OIL, with
their white tails erect ike flags of truce TO safe
distance and then turn 10 gsze the leader shaking
his aDtlered head at the intruder. No biz OF tnber
then bat wss alive with the @hlr OF the quail ana
10 corn-held that was not black with the Prsirle-
hen or grouse. But railroads have changed ell
this. New.YoTk wants yeni.on anu birds, and So
without regsrd to seasons without regard 70
sportsmen's rules Of killing, the demand Is sup
Piled. We eat grouse whose flesh is poisoned with
the beat of sexual feser; bucks whose necks are
swollen for the rutting season, aud trou! Killed
with the eggs of the young FISH, which we're 70
enven the brooks Of the coming Summer. so
game is disappearing, and now that new markets
are created BY ease of transportation, and new
demand, by that very fact, created, 1t Will take
few years only TO eXterpate everything that tiles or
runs or swims, except those no1ious or yenomous
creatures which we are cultiyatiDg so rapidly, oy
destroying their natural enemies. The game laws
Of countries and of States, are Of little use even
in the few places where they exist 40 long IS the
selling of game in the great markets is not penal
offense. The deer aud the grouse viii roam ana
hy at peace at the West for eight months OF the
year. as they should if the sale of their flesh were
prohibited BY law in this CITY. Such an act, we I'M
derstand about 70 be introduced to the Legislature
of this Stste, and trust it will become law
We may rely upon ite Sportsman's Club OF this
city TO see TO It's execution.
But this is not enough. We should protect the
game hot only for the sake of those who est it, snd
for the sake of the game ITSELF but we must
protect the smaller birds also; the roboln which
Is such perpetual rebuke to sill cruel uncles; the
thrush whose delicious music, when the dawn
first puppies the East, sometimes teWpts the LATEST
to verify the ancient tradition of a sunrise; the
cat bird, so sy and so charming; the song
sparrow that dreams of music, and bursts into
song in the nighttime and the scores of others OF
which We may make companions, ii We Will, at our
door steps: al these We should protect from hard
hearted boys, and from harder hearted men, not
merely for the pleasure of country homes, but Tor
the profit also of farmers. The insect pest is
growing yearly more serious, and the cultivation
of certain fruits are already, in certain localities,
abandoned and one of the beat farmers in this
State proposes that, IN certain district OF the
country, wheat should no longer be cultivated till
the nudge is starved out Who can tell how much
the increase of oil this pesterOus insect life IS due
to the ruthless war waged with shotguns upon the
little BIRDS And who would complain if thought
less boys, or men who are only not thoughtless be-
cause they are cruel, were compelled to forego
pastime so destructive of some Of the most bean
tiful of Cod creatures and which, may be sure,
have their place in creation, which 1t will not do
for man 10 make empty.