Daily national Democrat., 1859-01-25
Atlantic Items.
We find the following in the New York
Tribune of December 23d:

We find the following in the New York
Tribune of December 23d
TUCKER CALLING Our SICKLEs.-The sub
joined letters have been sent us for publica-
tion, as n sequence to those of similar char
aeter, which have already appeared in print.
The following note, we are informed, was
placed in the hands of Mr.. Sickles before 8
o'clock, p. NJ, of yesterday.
From Mr.. Tucker to Mr.. Sickles
AMBoY, N. j., Dec. %, 1853.
DANIEL Z. SIoKLEs, Eso.-Sir: An unmis-
taxable letter from me to you will appear in
TO morrow's New York newspapers, a copy
of which | cannot send you without, perhaps,
embarrassing the bearer of it. You will un-
derstand from this the necessity of reading
to morrow mornings papers in another State
unless you desire legal detention in this.
Yours, j. G. TUCKER.
Wednesday, It o'clock P. NJ.
Letter referred to in the above.
DAILY News BUILDINGS,
No. 1873, Nassau st., New York,
December %, 1883.
DANIEL L. SlcKLEs, Eso-Sir: On the 4th
inst. l sent you mote" and memoranda" of
charge" by my friend DIR Ogden, who YER
baly explained to you what l required
Mr.. Butterworth, your appointed friend,
sought to diplomatize upon the guarded and
covert phraseology necessarily employed to
avoid rendering ourselves amenable to the
law but, subsequently,, in his letter of Dec.
8, says: "Mr Sickles considers land believe
JUSTIFY that Mr. fuckers letter to him a
mounts to challenge" You were long
time arriving at plain conclusion, and were.
even then, desirous of making satisfactory
explanations" for insulting dlluSiOnS to the
dead Most men would have fought first,
and xplained-afterward
My mote" of Dec. 4, was withdrawn by my
friend, to admit of such "expla ations," con-
trary to my wishes. You have placed before
the public, through the medium of the press,
our differences and correspondence; | am,
therefore, compelled to adopt the same chan
mel of communication in irrevocably renew
ing my mote" or challenge" to you, subject,
in the full st sense, to the "hostie" construc-
tion which you place upon it. | shall expect
to hear from you before the 25th inst.
J. c. TUCKER.
We learn that copy of the above was
subsequently forwarded through the Post
Office TO Mr.. Sickles, care of =. f. Butter
worth, Esq.
HUNTING WITH ARTILLERY.-Albert Pike
went out, recently, with Major Rector. Ind-
an Superintendent, to assist in the payment
of the Indian annuities among the tribes west
of Arkansas. A correspondent of the Fort
Smith Herald, writing from the Greek Agen.
cy, describes Col Pixies method of hunting
the grouse, or prairie hen:
Knowing how wild they are, he came pre-
pared to outwit them. He hunts with piece
of artillery, six-pounder This he hauls
out on the prairie, and when he discovers "A
flock, he unlimbers, sights the gun, and then
touches her off He rarely misses 1t is very
exciting to see dozen grouse fluttering with
broken wings among twice as many dead
ones, and the Col chasing them around and
catching them. His usual charge is a pound
of powder and a quarter of bag of turkey
or swan shot lie generally shoots at about
400 yards. He killed in John Sells field, be
low here, the other day, Ss grouse at sin.
gle fire. Major rector, who accompanied
him, thinks he must have crippled 1000, that
got off among the corn stocks and cookie
burrs.