Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1845-09-13

THERE'S perhaps no evet:that has recent
" taken place, that has been more eAtcn-
sively chronicled through the Press. than
the races between Fashion and Peytona,
over the Long Island and Camden Race
courses, At each trial Of speed, the purse
was $500 O.. Private bets to the amount
UEh1pdreds Of thousands OF dollars were
made, lost and won. It is supposed thai
not less than FIVE hundred thousand per-
sons were at each of the races. A large
number Of sportsmen were on the
grounds 49,. ~
:. The practice Of hotse- racing IS most in
human towards the animals themselves.
We haze seen it stated in an Eastern pa
per, that the rider of Peytona, fearful Of
losing the race, spurred his mare SO inces-
sanity that her lacorated sides became 50
callous, tibet he had to change has sect IN or
der to get nep flesh. n ~. Feafs
Major Noah, Editor of the Sunday
Times and Messenger, in speaking Of these
races, makes the following just remarks. =.
aHorse-racing is decidedly low amuse-
ment. 1t has, following in its train, all
the low pleasures which trasform men into
heartless demons, desolates the homes ofthe
happy, impoverish persons Of weak intel
lect, and furnish the sharper with his
means of diving. II is welded to game
ing, robbery, frauds ofall Kinds, drunken
ess and debauchery. 1t excites mans
worst passions and extinguishes their good
Ones. With all these disadvantages il has
not one commendable quality. If, as
some one remarked the other day in our
hearing, il improves the breed ofhorses II
decrades the race ofmen. Better have an
inferior race Of horses than make beasts ol
men in endeavoring to improve it. 1t il
evident to us that the, two last races were
designed 10 pluck the "pigeons." FASH
ion, before the first race, was the favorite,
and every better, out Of the initiated con.
frerie, staked his money on her qualities
She was conquered! Peytona was then the
favorite, and the green ones, to retrieve
their losses, wagered their substance on thu
merits of Peytona Then Fashion " on
1t is plain to any one who does not lool
through unnatural eyes, that these two re
i suits were arranged and determined o,
for the basest Of purposes. Why, thi
horse-racing business supports half tn
gamblers and blacklegs In the Union. A
two races like those which have recent,
Il taken place, millions Of dollars chang
J hands, and rest assured these miliors &
from the pockets Of the verdant. and unwa
nv into those Of the depraved and wicked
!. If Che people must Be excitedlet Il beib,
bull fights, public executions, anything h,'
this immoral, horrible system of horse-ra
cling, with its countless items Of attendan
wickedncss.. III. s9 n y, Y. y 81 Y /.
]. The accident that occurred on. the Cam
den Course, might have been avoided
Too many people were put on the stand
!, The Managers knew there was danger
but what cared thfSp 1hey hadthe move,
Progress of Ea4r4tadgance,- II IS mep
!. toned in the New York Mirror, that Ii
, cost Of ladies' fans in some Of the; stores :
!, Broadway is one hundred dollars. TIL
!, editor says, he saw a manageable look
! ling Young man purchase one for his N
!. Itended, and psy seventy five dollars. Sc
i twenty-five dollars for fan! This exceed
: lin extravagance fifty dollars for poke
| handkerchief. AT this rate it would CO.
4 as much for fashionable belle to rig heI
/ fself out in bean-killing style, as it woul
] Ito fit out steam frigate that would bio,
Z up d Mexican town and kill all the inhal
i litants. 1t Is not an unmeanirig phrase
J lcall some ladies ''dsay creatures"