Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-06-26
ARABIAN HORSE BREAKER,
NOW IN RICHMOND!

mat there mas long existed IN vari-
Gus countries ofthe world, class ofper-
sons who professed to possess the pow
er Of tanning the widest horse by Sc
cfet only known to themselves, we
presume to be fact known 10 most OF
our readers. II is referred TO by ma
ny authors, travellers and others: On
the continent OF Europe they are called,
we think, 'Whisperers.' The SUBJ
iect has not been thought of dignity
enough, that we are aware, to excite
The curiosity or attract the investiga-
ton of the learned: Probably ii has
generally beenregartled as an imposture
ofknavery to extort from the credu-
ious.
And yet we believe very differently.
We witnessed yesterday the experiment
of tanning turbulent mare by the gen.
tIeman above styled, which satisfied US
that the power is real and not Fictitious,
and that the effect for the time at least,
| is perfect, and we are assured by Mr..
Fancher, the Horse Breaker, that it is
permanent too. The experiment was
performed at the Circus. The exhi-
! bition to the public eye, consisted of
throwing the mare upon her side, by
the machinery OF a leather strap carri-
ed over her shoulders and buckled at
each end to her ANGLES, which being
gradually contracted, she, per force,
came down after while, first upon her
knees then her side. The experiment
ter the 'MesmeriseI' wag called him
then gently manipulated her face, and
patted her neck, and after half min
ute or SO applied powder to her nos
trlls. The fastenlngs We're then loos-
ed and she was permitted to rise
I We should have stated that she exhlb-
tied during the manipulation indications
of pleasure instead of fright. When
up, Mr.. Fancher took hold of her tail
and suspended his weight upon it.
She was then led off by his assistant,
he still suspended by her tail and suf-
tering himself to be dragged along
During these fea.s she exhibited
10 alarm or disposition to kick. A
sheep skin mot very agreeable to a
horse) was then tied to her tail which
she dragged about the Circus without
any sign Of repugnance. Mr.. Fancher
then snapped his fingers, when she
turned and followed him.
Snch was the result of the experiment,
and yet we did not regard it as doing
justice to Mr.. F. or his secret, for the
mare had been broken, and it was not
IN the power Of the spectators to know
what degree of wildness he had to sub
due. He would have preferred, he
says, the widest mustang just caught
in the Prairies, or the widest and most
unbroken colt in the vicinity of Rich
mond, on the principle that it is easier
to teach the untaught than 6rst to un-
learn and then to teach the mistaught!
Perhaps some of our friends in the
neighborhood have particular vicious
and unmanageable daredevil of a
colt which they wish subdued-and
that without whip or the least cruelty
TO the bit. Ifso we entreat them to
bring him in.
Mr.. O. H. P. Fancher is a Kentuck-
ian and man of courteous department
and pleasing address. He attained
this singular secret, he says, in Yucatan,
one of the Mexican Province, whittier
it was carried, as he understood, by an
Arab: That is probably, however, a
fiction (not of his) since we, know of
no intercourse between Arabia and
Mexico, and the Arabs do not 60 down
to the sea in ships. Nor is it necessary
to enhance the value of the secret to
trace its orr gin to the Deserts of Ara
bia. Some of the Mexicans are as
good horsemen as the Arabs of the de-
sert.
Mr.. Fancher will undertake to make
the most refractory carriage horses,
we understand, draw Bufaloe Robe
quietly and submissively, which, next
to a dead horse, is of all things the
most offensive of them. Richmond
Wig.
IssssssSss@
The Monster Telescope. -Great as
tronomial discoveries are looked for
from the great telescope of Lord Rose.
Sir James South made the first obser-
vaion from it. The Telescope is
Newtonian, but it is intended 10 give
it lie .Maireau form, by which, it is
believed its power will be increased
materially. 1t weighs fifteen tons-is
mounted between two stone walls fifteen
feet high, twenty-three wide, and sew
enty-one long. II rests on an univer-
sal Joint, placed in masonry, and is
worked by chain and windlass. So
admirably is it balanced, that it may
be raised from its lowest point to the
zenith by two men. in six minutes. -