Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-05-04

jumped round just as he started her off again, and fell out of the ring. Jones rushed up to her like demon, beat her over the head and neck with the butt end of his whip, and afterwards with an iron bar as thick as your two thu1abs, till she got down on her knees, and whined for mercy. the blood all the while bursting out of her ears. eyes and nostrils"
 " Good God!", we cried, "did nobody try to stop the wretch?"
 Stop him! Why, his father-in-law stood by, applauding him; bounding him on with, give it her, Bill give it her.! ;" "His fatherin
 "Well, not his father-in-l law then: but since that time, Bill married the daughter An! you should have that poor child train ed. l have been told, by those who tra veled with the family, that she was natu- rally timid. She is considered o-dav one of the most daring horsewomen in the world. Her courage was hogged into her She was whipped up to the balancng-point dashed through every position of classic gracefulneSs she now assumes with so much apparent ease. She was pretty little girl, and occasionally there would be remon- strances against her fathers cruelty. All the worse for her, poor child, for then her mother would snatch up the whip, and cut her to pieces, out of sheer spite, I being lntertered with. l often wonder whether Bill Jones keeps up the system of disci- pllne resorted to by her father and mother, rom her cradle upward She must have become so accustomed to it, one would think, as to feel quite uncomfortable under any other sort of treatment
 And do you mean to sav," we asked !" that all children are taught to be acrobats and equestrlans in such revolting way?'
 "No," our friend replied " oh, no!- Some like 'it-have good nerves, naturally emulate each other-and would become excellent performers, almost without tui- tlon. But they are the exceptions Take Signor Smitherini, for instance, and his sons.' Did you ever see them do the double trapezc, or go thorugh series ofgymnastic evolutlonS, ala Risley' Ifvou know how their poor little bodies ached and smarted with the hoggings they had in the morning. at rehearsal, you wouldn't enjoy their ex- traordinary feats of agility and youthful strength half So much as you do his pupils. He wouldn't even let them practice on mattrass. Thsy had to do it in the ring: sometimes in country plares, where we couldn't get saw-dust enough to put layer of three inches of 1t on the hard ground.- And leavenhelp those luckless boys. when Bill took 1t into his head to come and watch them do their lessons in physical develop .ment, 1 lseed only tell you that he was muscular, singularly skilIful in the manage ment of a whip, and that his pupils were customed in the thinest of shirts and draw ers'
 But, perhaps" we suggested, these were exceptions with which you met''
 No" said our friend; I" they changed portions of our company. over and over again, during the summer; we were engag- ing and discharging people all the while, but never saw much difference amongst them''
 "And the Talking Horse?'" "
 Has scars on him now, to testify to the brutality of his training.'
 And the Intelligent Mastodon?' !"
 W hose size, compared to that of the horse, is not equal to the greater proportion of torture that he has endured.''
 And little Angelina, the fairy child?"
 Why, the last time you saw her she was riding balky horse. Every time the horse changed it's gait, it was as much as she could 'lo to keep her balance. Her father was ring master, and, as he saw the danger she was in produce an expression of pain upon her face, he-''
 "Took her away, of course," said we.
 He growled at her, between his teeth, Smilen (with an oath) smile, or I'll cut your (another oath) leg off?' Av, and the next time she involuntarily looked sacred again, he did cut her, too The audience didn't notice 1t, but membef of the com pany did, and heard him relate the story as good joke"
 Horrible." cried we. sBut the edu- cated ponies, that we see go through their tricks with such seeming good humor.''
 " Do you recollect,' reioined our friend, s'how enraged you told me you felt, one night, at the Broadway Theatre, when you saw one of the clowns there make pony kneel down, by fairly hammering it's shins from under it?''
 We did recollect.
 And the audience appluded, eh?'
 We nodded.
 And they laughed like mad when the elephant shrieked?"
 Certainly"
 "Do you think" said our friend, "thev would have laughed so heartily, had they seen the keeper goad him in a raw would, under the ear, to make him produce that comical sound?''
 We were horribly disgusted with the revelations, we had heard, and beseeched our friend to postpone the subject
 "I will" he assented; !" but first tell me. dld you stop tonight to see Van Amburgh's Menagerie?''
 "No," I answered, :" always did object to that part of the circus business, since read the Wandering Jew, and how Morok. used to tame his lions and tigers. and his famous black panther, with red and white hot irons. Surely such barbarity as that. must have had its being only in the diseas- ed imagination of d Eugene Sue"
 :" An! you think that, en? We'll. let me tell you that beasts of such kind can be tanned with red-hot iron-and with noth- ing eser'
 :" But you don't mean" We were about to exclaim.
 '" You asked he to change the subject" said our friend; "I will feel hungry.- Let us have some supper"
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 The Rev. MT. Moore Again.
 MR EDITOR: Your correspondent. Elder