Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-09-29

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L is asserted thaiR over half dozen Bssbav
lions can Be found iathe eor1ot-vr-.seb ~ nj :.
maly-ano cniy one or two Of them thorouv hra5
N ne sac OF the dam. Tt IS
- ne ltsaseendans natrit % this bfs al orses
--o--lo ~ L0ls haEe escaped observaliou-
seaeiaily are iothto seka0Rled7s - -r-.,it ~ 4
breed OF horses il which they ars ~ ;,...s.,
lnteresiea' and always eEdeaTor 10 pl,es ~ -
ting horse 10 secondary position toltIs l5s
the score OF imPurity Of blood, II nathihg - r.
ms connection, however, ne nag -obssrTsthat ~
haTe trotters whose blood Is as pure As thst ~ -
raeekorse, and whose gate Is the very poetry a. ~
uon. Stations Of this class are deserVsaFy tslua
/ Die, a1d command high prices. gI GA so a.
Inc public we're occasionally startled bF.ihs "a
cord q some astonishing Psrformaacs on tie road
OF lrottng track; but beyond the fact that he in
msulate actors were Pennsylvauis of elsQank
form and bloodlike appearance no olr tus-u sd
race OF breed they belonged 10. Sven The sportiur
journals were silsnt- The mist vas Al len1fb dis
PEELED when inquiry showed that these horses
belonged to breed Of recent origin. spfdhs' from
The Arabian horse Grand BashsE, Who asinport-
ed into Bucks county, Pennsylgauis, 10 1870, By
gen lsman named M0rgan- Further inquiry deTel-
0Pea the Tact that tbey were q trottinF breed and
Included IN their category o. stations suoh names a
Andrew jackson, kembie jackson. Saladisng Black
BashaE; Long Island Black Hawk Iightri1r e.
SO little vas known Of this breed b7 nanls- uptiI
attention vas directed to il recently. that even
the pedigree Of Lantern, (s0n Of Black BSshswl
who is reported 10 have recently zone To- a. bsf
mile POLE in double harness, in The Enpresessnted
time Of one minute and tWeys seconds. Fss entirely
unknown.
As allusion has been several times mads n the
course Of these remarks % tbs Darlsyland Godol-
phin Arabians, It may not be inapprOpriate % OBJ
serve that the barley Arabian is reported 10 have
been bred somewhere in the neighborhood Oh Pal
myria, and brought or sent g Bngiand 81 the gen
teman whose name he bears Dcuhf6siur l5seounss
prevail regarding the GodolPhin Arabian; add Eu-
gene sue wrote quite rOmantiC account az his his
tory aud adventures, which has found its Wav info
magazines and Journals. Probably the true story
IS the tTaditonary one; aseribing 70 Cab1il Raker
the credit Of introducing tais oesbraisd herse into
Great Britain in 1881. BY thisit appears that Cap
tain Baker vas engaged iR smuggling on be English
coast. Smuggling az thai time was q very ssrious
offence, abd visited By severe IubishmSuE The
governments we're Eigilsntin their eoris % sppress
it, and Captain Baker found Rftsr Tine. t6st the
water was getting too hot for him. BE accordingly
ded With his vessel into The Mediterran sah where
he is said to have pursued legitimals tfads Hag-
ing accumulated large sum Of money, he became
anxious 70 return home Aware Of bisdanesr II he .
returned ppolley' he had reseoprse % staisgem.
de knew that Lord GodoIphin, The owner Of the IS
nous stallOn Hobgoblin, was passioaa5siy devoted
80 horses, and resolved 10 take advanfaEa of il to
procure his intercessioR villa the goysrnment Hav-
ing learned through the Arabs that 3 tribe in the
interior possessed ,eYsral horses Of great vaae and
determined 70 procure lin &C every hSzardasa pre-
sent for his l0rdship Through an Arab comic derats
the horse stolen from the entrance 10 the tent
where be confined, and reached ne coast n safe
ty. when be was Immediately pas Oh boafdnihe YES
sci. The theft appears to have been attended BY
considerable danger The tribe resided some dis
lance in the interior sad The Arab Ebo stole the
horse had barely tine % mount him and tx The
pursuit vas confinuad al night sud throughput Uas
next day, when the GodolPhin, being. The festest
and most enduring horse distaRced bis pursuers,
who gave up the chase, Eapian Baker arrived safe
ly in France, where be sold his vessel and succeed
ed in smuggling the horse INTO England He had
him conveyed privately 10 the neighborho6d5f Lord
GodOlphin's estate, from whence he could obiain in
telligeHoe Of his loraship's m0vements- He soon
aseersined that his lordship vas in the habit Of rid
ing out in The evening, AID laid bis plans aceordng
~ 10 intercept him. Mounted on his uaEaifcent
Arabian, he crossed the psth Of ttla1EaEl eaho was
startled st the sight Of the splendid animal and i'm
mediately iDquireahis price HeVa4 infsrmed that
he vas not for sale. The same thing occurred for
several succeeding days each time his lordship be-
becoming more enamOred Of the horse The stran-
ger at length told his IordshD be would preent the
horse 90 him, but that no money could buy him. To
this the Earl would not consent but insisted on
Baker naming his price. So the matter stood, IN
il one day be vas Informed that stranger ha plae-
ID an elegant horse in his stables as ; present to
his lOFdshiP. The Earl recognized the horse, and
ls the donor vas then unknown he was obliged to
accept the animal This was the horse which in sf-
er years beesme celebrated as the 6od6lphih Ara
1ian. Some time after lie presentation. IL became
Known TO the government that The notorious Captain
Baker had arrived in the country and vas then con-
esled somewhere in The neighborhood Of Earl Co.
lolphin's estates. Inquiry in that dire6fI6n was
non checked, aDd ct suitable moneat tho par
10 NOT Captain Baker was Prooured By Lord GOdol-
hin.
II is generally conceded that The speed OF the Ara
ain horse in q race Of 20 logger duration of lime
han i've or ten minutes, is not up 70 that OF the
modern race horse-but where the latter would be
D days journey with man on his back, and
without either food water, the intelligent reader
nay well COME ture- The Arab, as a race has not
egenerated one iota since the days Of Ishmael, as
satisfactorily shown by the extraordinary psrfor-
lsee Of horse the Of Add Ell Kadir, who carried his
master two hundred and forty miles intWenty- four
ours when pursued By the enemy. Such is the
estim0uy Of Abd-el- Kadir and such are the horses
1e want in this country. The Emir rslateslHhat is
within his own knoWlsdge, and his statements are
niitleo to greater weight than the crude specnls-
ions Of travelled theorists. &