Year: 1859

and enabled him to work greater revolu-
tion in society than any man that has lived.
What a great and noble woman must have
been that Pharaoh's daughter, who, not
from her royal descent, but through her a
,,dopted son, has won for herself an immor-
tality. Historians have delighted to dwell
upon the beautiful and eloquent traits of the
noble mother of our own great Alfred OF
England. The great, the divine Newton,
when an infant was left solely to the kind
love and watchful providence of a strong
minded and pure-hearted mother; and our
own beloved and glorious country furnishes
illustrious example of the force and eficien-
,cy of this lnO of maternal training. Even
the Supreme Being affords us his evidence
to the existence and force of this law, in Sc
lecting the mother as the sole agency of
sending Redeemer into the world and, in
conclusion upon this point, you will find this
low, by Divine arrangement, to prevail with
beast, bird, fish and insect. Woman, in her
virtuous and domestic retreat, is the spiritual
ruler Of this world. Now, venerable sir,
what must have been the character of our
venerable mother, if she could have sent
out from her retreat such sons and daugh-
ters as you have imputed-cap of, and
addicted to, the grossest crimes and requir-
ing to be vigilantly watched to prevent their
commission of criminal offences against the
older members of the family. Every evil
and degraded mother sends out evil and de-
graded sons and daughters, and is the first
and the most vehement in imputing to them
those infamous traits she herself has indeli-
bly, infxed on them. Your language in re-
ference to what you are pleased to call the
-''fouP' challenge is only in keeping with
that criminal character which you have i'm
iputed to the younger members of the fami-
Ily. You partially accepted this ''fouP'
slightly altered, of humorous Poet may not
be inappropriate here


ssHe that brstles and runs away


May bristle and fight another day."


Time and space demand I should proceed no
further with this and I will, in conclusion,
suggest, thatif by your persuasive eloquence
and influence you can restore fraternal
feeling, and due concord and generous and
manly execution of the challenge, you may
be able to both instruct and interest us by
some neat and eloquent articles on field
sports, and for this purpose you will find
abundant material in the splendid work Of
Henry w. Herbert on field sports. Here,
venerable sir, we part as we met-friends.
JUvENIs.


P. St is we'll perhaps to notice the
little efusion of Twedledum lest he may
think himself slighted. There is no disput,
ing about tastes. What is often agreeable to
one is offensive to another; and we should
therefore not measure and adjust the pleas
ures of others by our own. When I first
read PARTLY this article, I thought it original
ed from some reverend, staid gentleman, but
upon more careful reading, it strikes me
its authorship is rather more purile. This
author has his sympathies peculiarly enlist
ed in favor of pigeons, but is willing you
should lacerate oysters at your will and
pleasure. Who informed him the oyster is
not endowed with as intense sensitiveness as
the pigeon; and does he not devour the
oyster most ravenously-raw, stewed, roast
ed, fried, boiled; and does not this little
non-locomotive confer on him greater benz
eft than the pigeon. He bumps and thumps
his OK from youth to hoary age, until by a
long life of painful labors, he is unfit for
service and he then kills and eats him. He
strips the clothes off the body Of his sheep
and then kills and eats him. Are all
his sympathies aerial and none terrestrial,
careth he alone for the bird and not for the
beast? If the pigeons are shot, they will be
eaten, and the experienced tell us death by
gunshot wounds is the easiest of all deaths


Some refined, squealing ladies would scream
or faint at seeing the throat Of lamb or a
hog cut, and yet when the beast is cooked
and on the table she can eat of it most vo-
raciously. Let us away with this mawkish
sentimentality which can thus strain at a
gnat and gulp down camel or is this au-
thor one of those who think in door sports
are harmless while the out door are great
sin Perhaps he is one of that class, who,
while cursing field sports, can play cards.
swear Justify, drink copiously and then,
mounting his horse, can, by the use of a
natural spur, with which God has gifted
some, thump and bump the poor beast until
he is legless; CT perhaps he is one of that
class, which. shutting their eyes to the solid
realities around them, travel, with moping
long faces through life, and swear by ali the
powers of infnity the career is sinless.
This author thinks, ornithologically, that
columbia means either pigeon or dove,
and by thus shooting at pigeons we might
be guilty of the sacrilege of shooting at the
divine bird which was first sent out from his
humping and humping ark to find land.