The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1815-05-17
REMARKS ON HORSES.

The barbafoas custom Of docking and nick
ing the tail, and cutting the ears Of horses, is
too prevaent.-We thus deprive them of
TWO paris principally instrumen ntal, not only TO
their case and comfort, bur 10 their utility TO
us.-By taking away their ears, The tunnels
are destroyed which they always direct 10 tho
place from whence any sound is heard, end
they are thus rendered nearly deai--and in
the loss OF their tail, they find even a still
greater Inconvenience. During summer
they are perpe,ualiy leazed with swarms of
insects that ciiher a,tcmpt 10 suck their blood
or deposit their eggs in The rcctum, which
they have no means of lashing of and in
winter they are deprived Of necessary de-
lence against the cold
But Of all others, the custom of nickine
The III, is the most useless and absurd. Ii ia
an affecting sight TO go in,othe stable Of some
eminent horse dealer, spd there behold
range OF fine and beautiful steeds with their
tails cut and slasbt d--snd tied up by pullies,
suffering such torture that they sometimes
never recover the severe gashes they have re-
ceiyed and Tor what is all this done ? That
they may hold their tails som ucwhat higher
than they otherwise would, and be forever af-
ter deprived Of the power OF moving the
joints Of them a defence agains, the flies !
There is another abuse 10 notice, in those
who shoe horses. The acksm,h, in o!der
to save himself little trouble, will frequently
apply tho shoe almost red hot to the horses
foot, that i, may burn for its p,ion.--Some
punishment should be inflicted on those who
clap shoes on hot-This objectionable lazi-
ness OF farriers in making feet thus to fit
shoes, instead Of shoes 10 fit the foot, dries
up the hoofs, aud utterly destroys them. IL
sot The mos: ruinons consequence, hardening
and cracking the hoois, and bringing on tho
most fatal disorders. The joints, the wind,
and the eys, are injured by it, and the gross
humors which naturally descend TO The feet,
and ought 10 be carried off by insensible per-
spra,ion, arc detained by the hardness ef tho
u'facc they have TO penetrate.
The eargocs from Massachusetts which
have been ltteral!y hou,ing do7vn uhon Us, for
fortnight past-partake of the Boston char
acter--they are pei fec,ly nationat-unlikc tho
stones OF any other place, and useless Tor any
other human pupose, than that 10 which they
apply them--.7urora.
Ii has been remarscd within few days,
that the trade in notions which was carried on
from Boston with so much celerity, has fallen
away since the failure of the great notion OF
the Hsr,ford Convention and that this ac
counts for their lately turning their attention
TO large expectations of hard-sYare --i6.
The Inquisition in Spain appears to have
had but short triumph very little longer
than that ofthc Hartford Corvennon.-it.
The retres, of Ferdinand WI. from Spain,
must excite great deal of SYMPATHY in Bos-
ton, where his virtues and piety obtained al
most as much celebrity and admiration, as
ii be was the Bnisvark Of oar ReGSion.--i6.
1t was Tom Paine WHO said that people may
remain for ages in state of Ignorance and
supers,itulion, bu, it is impossible tor them
TO aakno-y what they know--tAis simple idea
may probably DC the rcadies, way ot accoun'-
inc for the return of the Bonoharfes and the
rctrea, OF the Boar6oaS--both without opro-
siiion. lib.
Should tho order Of the Jesaiie, which !iae
the Irquisition, was lately RESTORED by tho
deiverers OF Europe, follow the ioT'nnes os
the IrgniS;tisn Us their lsbors hSd tso
same object with regard TO mankind, woofa
il not be well IL the ;5ree commits listeners hon
Hartford we're sen, 10 eondo!e with them, ann
offer thcm an assylum among the dc'cshaAhS
of the iilsrims.--ij.