, 1873-10-05
WEST VIRGINIA.
It's Politics and Finance---A
Noted Hunter.
" Gath" Among Tho Wild Animals''.Eac'l
Animal with a Beautiful Moral.
Relics of " Hanse" McNeitl, Guer--
rilfa.

From Our O1rn Correspondents !
OuEAr-NivEn COUNTRY, ". Va, Sept. 25, 1873.
"FiHk l. Hatch have feilod," Haid tho old |
N1arylandor. "Well, Wost Vlrginny haa got tho
rallroad anyway. Tho Chesapeake l. Ohio is !
done Tic Northnrn Pacific mint. Ana now
thero's another WY over tho Allegheny Moun~
tains.''
Wo were cantorlng quito party Of us, over
the Northwest Virginia turnpike. tho grcnt high
way to tho Ohio, which WIS oponcd about 1883,
mud kopt up It's toll-gates and toams, stages and
ownara of cattle, atone tayorns aud occasional
highwaynon, down to 1863, whom tho Baltimore
Il Ohio Railroad closed It's gronter carcor. Nowie
IL m infroquented, but still broad nnd beautiful
mountain-road, haunted witt, the romoulbranceB
Of itB primo, darlened with moss and vinoy
margins and tho occasional raids mud marches
oyor it during tho Rebellion hnvo nddcd to It's
careor. uoro wo arc IN tho land OF tic n1our-
tan-hear aud tho panther, still amongst tho 4
bright green gladcB; md III or party MO Aomo
huntors who hayc insiBtcd on coming along to
boguilo tho way. They oil want to provo to MO
that railroad can pay iu thoso fertile and STU
pondouB Holftudes.
"wEsT v1Ro1SNr,"
saye the Colonel, who rides at tho head Of tho
column, s'has got q career before her; but it's
| n SLOW ono till they ransack ler mines Of coal.
| Her people keep tho old mountainocr character
| OF Kenson md Boone, cat Eonison mud boar, aud
| still wear moccasinB md hunting-shirss. They
have rot only ono institution OF modern times:
q corrupt Legislature, which olectod Senator Da-
Wis to Washington City at tho instance Of Gar
rut.'s rail1oal ard they havo also b Board Of
! Public Works Which quarrols with the Governor aB
to which Of thom slall squandor tho taxes. Thoy
| have new Capitol-cdiltce ut Cbarestown, stable
cities at Wheeling aud Parliersburg, and some
immigration"
The Colonel, be II known, ia q Marylandor,
| who ownB many thousand aores Of wild land on
both sidcs Of the Fairfax 5tono. DcBidos him Is q
little, weazen old mn,, who has killed his doer
and rattlesnakes between tho "Yoch" aud tho
Cheat Rivers for eighty years. We turn to him.
and ask II tLoro ara any creator huutera than
himself in thego parts.
j" Oh, yea |" ho says. "Bnt, sonco Old Brown
ing's death, I'm as pcart as any Of om."
"Tell uh about Browning" we sny. So he
tells 1t, and wo Htraightcn it out.
! THE MARYLAND NlA1nOD.
Near the confluence Of Sang Run and the Zig
YouRhiogheny lived, untn recently, Mcshach
Browning 2 celebrated Mnryland l,untor. who
lattor part Of his days, built grist-ml mud left
name respected BY I'LL and royorod by largo
posterity. Ho WAS the son OF y suhaltorn Eng
fish soldier, who escaped from Draddock's battle,
l ~
1881. He mover saw hiR fathor, and his mother
married again. His childloss aunt, therefore,
took him to Western Maryland, nnd he kept his
dIat ronombrancaa as an innato Of old Teon
Friends cabin in Buffalo Marsh, Uo Was, thero-
fore the legitimate Buctosspr Of the tsrss pioneer
Of the country, and he lived down to tie pcriod
OF our Civil War. Two mon, inhahting tho
same cabin, bridge the way from brnddocAa Do
feat to the Var Of Secession.
aleshxch Browning never T. Ind more NC, than u: slx
months schooling. After st. Clair's doieat MS
unclo foil back with somo forty settlers to
blooming Rose, whero tue future hunter met hls
woodland wife. He married hor against the op-
% Ont Of doors. g. kftor this ho hunted constantly,
killing bcnrs 6nck-deers, an1 esen panthers, III
closo grapplo, with his hunting-knifo, Ho began
to hunt in LIDS, and killed Ills last game in 1889.
In that period io titled from 800 to ooo doer
between 800 aud 400 bears, 50 pauthcrB and cata-
mounts, mud scoros Of wolves aud wildcats. ao
also bcgot l! uostarty ut tho tinlo Of his death,
J Of honu. "A g,aaasons, and II groat-granlsots,
and dnugiters ~ gfandIaE1tcrst 1S5 4 and t,, H.
} Of the second war With England, this simple OLD
+ mountaineer was bcgui!ed by rival partaans te
abandon following tho almy,-a subject Of great
terrible battlo with tho laburers Oh tho Nationa
, Road at Solbyaport, in the samo war, whom he
: undertook to muster them as military Captain
About 1914 he bogan to carry poltriea and veni
! son to Georgetown and baltimore and in 1872!
ho put up Lis mill In 1926 Le visited Annapo
: lis, and, although n Maryaudor all his days
tasted thoro the first crnhs md oysters ho had evo
y Boon,-whicl hg heartily aiHlikeA. On thia occa
8 eion he won't aboard q steamboat, nnl, beInt
! caught aftor tho gang-plank vas cut loose
y jumped 25 foot.
{ Browning lived with his first wife 10 years
end With he second 10 years. He YES much ,i' e
bore traees of groat frame, aud retained all Iii
o kindly nature. Francis =. Blair, Sr., though
o his hfo as hunter fully US notable as Dauic
r Doone'B. .......
o There is nothing 30 compatible to these noun
: taiu-eaunterugs aa the Hunters tales; 10 vi
l. listen to thom by tho hour, and construct
= NATURAL history Of our own. First III cur esti
u mato Ia
ID Tho bear appears iu life scarcely as big as rn'
!, and blind aud naked. february ia his fayort
d ti,ne for comiug into existence, mud lo
1t aucked In tho don. by bis 1-nrano mother, loa
IL than throa montha, whou hn promenades III tn
+ glade, no bigger than cat, and Is taught by til
O. Old dame to cut everything in order, from bug
2 and berries up to hogs md cattle. When y !
1t gets to maturity, md Gnu drop tho scale ut dU
u pounds. Ao in capable Of walking of on his hin
< foot carrying big hog in Lia arms. Nuta a.
N his delight but ho cail also cat hand and resi-
n from tie pino-tree and these ]atter substance
bind I'M his bowels so III to make AibornRtion
J, nero bottling up Of BEARS grease. Thus bottle
ia aud corkou, like Con. Butler Mt Bermuda HUI
,g drcd, tho Ursc sloops without food or dril'
it, real Nip Van Wlnka staggors out, and talkos hi
n Boitllitz powder III the form OF weels md grag
H. and In soon rondy again to climb troc, rob boz
" hive, or bito hiB ,way out Of log-trap. "noi'
u uudauuted, and mover quarrolaonio. withor
ho cause, / love and admire tho bear, says OF
W who l,as killed his hundreds Of them in Mar
ho laud, because it desires to insult noither mi
o. nor beast, nor will 1t aufYer my to insult It,.
OF ouEAT-r1vEn PANTHER.
liz Loss noble than tho boar il tho moro dreadt
at panther, which, with strength equal to the hea
IL runs even from dog, eho0ses the dark for b
ne OCCASION, uId kills hls victim with spring, a,
;sa almost without struggle. lIo cap broak Il
lfo ,nck mud tho heck-ho1lo ct a COW. Tho lust ma
Cd ther was killed in Maryland Is years. ago:
os bought tue skin Of ono in Wost Virginia, tn
over the Maryland line, for SO. however, III 1B7
THE youau1onuENY WOLF.
Tho mountain aud glulo wolf, also Bcarco, Is
,ry anoak OF conscience aud memory, who Heldo
ho visits tho hama burn-yard Of monaco twice III
utt month"; kills chiefly sheep, and liyos IN tho INC
ho hidden place In tho Wilderness, busrowiug fro