The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-09 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

CITY BETTING—THIS DAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
20 to 1 ag.t Satellite (taken free'y)
TV 0 THOUSAND.
4 to lon the field (offered)
11 to 1 agst Michael Scott (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Stradella (offend)
25 to 1 agat Anfield (offered)
33 to 1 agst Bleck Deer (offered)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-SATURDAY•
LINCOLN HANDICAP.
10 to 1 agst Lopcatcher (taken)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
18 to 1 agst Master Bagot (offered)
22 to 1 agst Avalanche (taken)
30 to 1 agst Medora (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
25 to 1 agst Queen of Spain (offered)
100 to 3 agst Misfortune (taken)
40 to 1 agst Polynesia (taken)
50 to 1 agst Colleen Rhue (taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
4to 1 agst Hospodar (taken)
4to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken)
12 to 1 agst Michael Scott (taken freely)
100 to 8 agst Brick (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Straddle (taken)
25 to 1 agst Anfield (taken)
100 to 3 agst Amelia (taken)
40 to 1 agst Ben Webster (taken freely)
50 to 1 agst Cowley (taken)
50 to 1 agst The Knave (taken)
DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Lord Clifden (taken)
10 to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken)
100 to 8 agst Hospodar (taken)
28 to 1 agst National Guard (taken to money)
30 t o 1 agst Automaton (taken)

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863.

FEBN

rARY.

Lincoln

25

MA:
Nottingham Spring 3
Derby Spring
Liverpool Spring lO
12 Shrewsbury

Doncaster Spring l6
Warwick Spring 18
Northampton .. 24
Croxton Park 27

AP
Newmarket Craven 6
Durham . 6
Knighton
Llanboidy
Catterick Bridge.. 8
Abergavenny 9

Liverpool Hunt C1ub....10
Thirsk
Epsom Spring 16
Newmarket F. S 20
York Spring ...28
Salisbury

Chester . 5
Bath
Marlborough l4
Harpenden l5

Epeom l9
Radcliffe
➢ianchester 27

Ju
Ascot
Newton 10
Hampton
Odiham 16
Beverley. l7

Bibury Club l7
Stockbridge lB
Chelmsford 23
Newcastle 23
Carlisle
SLY.

Worcester
Newmarket July.. 7
Liverpool 13
Abingdon 14
Hungerford l6

Pontefract 16
Nottingham 21
Winchester 2l
Southampton. 22
Goodwood 28
UST.

Au
Brightcn
Brighton Club 6
Lewes
Reading
York August l3

Egham 25
Stockton 25
Oxford 27
Lichfield

SEPTE
Devon and Exeter
Derby Summer
Leicester lO
Doncaster 15

OCT,
Newmarket S. 0 ..12
Lincoln Autumn 20

WOVE:
Worcester
IRIS
Ar

Athlone

SPEEPLECHASING
FEBR"

Brecon
Monmouth 24
Manckester Autumn 25
Newmarket Ist Oct. 29

IBER.
1 Newmarket Houghton ..26

I Shrewsbury Autumn....l7
SH.

21

FIXTURES FOR 1863.
VARY.

Cftrmarihenshire Hunt .. 2 Aberystwith Hunt 16
Scarborough 11 Birmingham . , .23
Reading

MA
Grand National Hunt (b

:arket Harborough ...26

THE ABOLITION JUBILEE.

(From the New York Journal of Commerce)

Sometimes a scene of exultation and rejoicing becomes,
by reason of its surroundings, or its ascertained folly, a
comedy, or even a farce, and sometimes a scene of sorrow,
by the same or similar influences, is changed into a tempest
of joy. But when exultation is changed to silence because
a supposed cause of joy ie in reality a cause of grief, then
the scene is not famical, but mournful, and there is no
provocation to laughter. It is thus impossible to laugh at
the exhibition which the Abolitionists have been making
over the issue of the President's proclamation; for,
while they made the air ring with their shouts of ap-
parent delight, and filled the country with the rejoicings
they have been making in what they call a jubilee, their
rejoicings have already become forced and unnatural; they
give sad evidence that they have no confidence in the result
they profess to accept as accomplished, and all the while
there is going up above their shouts a moan of anguish that
drowns the voice of exultation. All the land mourns over
the brave dead, all the land mourns over the bathe-field,
and over the fields of blood yet to be fought, so that there is
no joy in the country. The freed men, or those who have
by the actual presence of tho army obtained their nominal
freedom, are starving and dying on the shores of our great
rivers, while the millions of slaves, if they had any feel-
ing on the subject whatever, would but lament that the
labours of the Northern Abolitionists have in all probability
postponed their actual freedom for nearly a hundred
years. Alas I for the poor slave who has been the subject
of polit:cal brokerage, the passive instrument of demagogues
in gaining votes and power, but who himself is freed only
for starvation, or condemned to more hopeless bondage I
For us, and for all who sincerely desire the good of the
black race, it is impossible to find any hope of such good in
the present condition of things. On the contrary, the doom
of the black man, whether slave or freeman, seems to be
made darker than ever and the jubilee which fanatics are
celebrating is too horribly mournful to be laughed at. From
all parts of the land we hear that the blackmen who have
been freed are perishing. Government is dealing out its
clothing and rations to keep them from actual death, but
still they die, in the prime of life, in the strength of their
years, actually frozen or starved in this land of abundance.
Accounts from Cairo say that no one can imagine what
they are collected there for, unless it be to fill up the
low lands with their bodies, as they are now doing by hun-
dreds, week after week. The reports from the Virginian
frontier are of the same character; and as to the slaves
wilhin the lines of the rebellion, the entire radical press,
without an exception, we believe, publishes the confession
that the proclamation of freedom has failed, and has fallen
from the character of a weapon to the mere value of a policy
on paper, which must be carried out if possible by force of
arms in a long war. Instead of freeing slaves, the procla-
mation is but another vast work superadded to the former
work of suppressing the rebellion, and rendering the latter
more difficult than ever. No one that we now hear argue
on the subject pretends that the proclamation has the force
of law or can outlast the time of existing hostilities.
The sincere and misguided Abolitionists, who were so weak
as to have faith in the measure, are now lamenting their
disappointment, while the insincere and malevolent, who, as
if enemies of the human race, desire the destruction of both
black and white teen, North and South, so they can only
accomplish the designs of vengeance against Southern slave-
holders, are now madly crying for servile war and the hor-
rors of slave insurrection. They still have a lingering hope
that they may hear the!wails of Southern mothers and daugh-
ters in the grasp of the black men, and no sound would so
rejoice their hearts. Surely all this is a picture of too ghastly
a character to be long permitted! We are not given to pro-
phesying the vengeance of God, for He deals His own ven-
geance, consulting no man. But that this state of affairs
provokes His curse instead of His blessing who can doubt ?
Whether He will turn the hearts of these people, and restore
mercy, and justice, and civilization, and humanity to their
souls, or whether Ho will permit them to continue the work
of ruin to themselves and their country, no man tan tell.
Enough for us that we labour to reform those our erring
countrymen who are relapsing into barbarism, while the
truest cause for rejoicing that the hour affordsis in the mea-
sure of success that has attended our efforts and the good
prospect that the crisis is past and the nation is becoming
wiser and better. In the future of wisdom and sound sense
there is hope that we may yet do something for the Hack
man which will save him from the hopeless slaveryor
ex-
termination to which the Abolitionists would doom him.

The two men, Gigax and Ruf, recently condemned
to death for the murder of Mile. R.....ibe1l and her
servant atßenfeld, hava just undergone the extreme penalty
of the law at that town. The third, Wolff, has,
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Ruf suffered first and r4scaffold with a firm step.
I Gigax saw the •
comrade without manifesting fatal knife fall on his
spectators were present. any emotion. Nearly 20,000