Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-02-22
THE GAZETTE.
an ARISToCRATIC STABLE.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FErnuAnr %, 1860

AN ARlSTOCHATlC STABLE.
The New York correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal, describes as follows an lnsti-
tuition which has intruded itself upon the
sacred precincts of uptown"
ain the wUuld-be ariStocratlc region "
Twenty-third street. which lays alongslue OF
Madison Square. the famed residence Vi .
Miss Flora McFlimsy,' on the corner oi
which is the equally famed Filth Avenue
Hotel ia an establishment not so arlstocra-
tic or so aromatic as might be. 1t is no less
than a hospital for lame and sick horses,
with stalking and all the arrangements in
tended to make it equal to the famed Horse
Colleges of London and Paris. A vacant lot
of land near Sixth Avenue was seen by the
ouick eve of Tremlet, the builder.
1.-THE spot was seized at once, and before
any one knew what the place was to be used
for. the whole building was completed 50
amid palatial residences, in one OF the wld-
est and most desirable streets for residence
in our city, amid elegant churches and
sumptuous abodes, this stable stands. The
exterior does no dscredit to its location, and
within it is one of the most elegant stables
in the land. 1t is as clean as clean can be-
The stalls and boxes in the basement are Tor
sick horses, and elegant stalls are above Tor
livery horses and those on board. Hot ana
cold water comes into all parts.
1.-The manager is divided into three apart
ments-one for water, Of which there IS a
supply constantly; one for grain, and one
for hay; and no rack is attached to the stalls.
The bedding is removed each day, dried In
a closet heated with hot air, and replaced at
night in the stall. And hundreds OF poor
mortals would be glad to have such an
abode. In the cellar is a large furnace, by
which the whole stable is heated. A room
for the treatment of horses and q dissecting
room is seen in the rear. Over the stable is
a chapel, quite elegantly fitted up, in which
lectures on horseology are to be given.
"The shoeing of the horses is among the
novelties connected with this concern. The
shoes are made in the building. They have
no heel and no toe corks, and on trial on the
pavement in Broadway are said to work IN
q superior manner; and the number OF nails
In each shoe is but seven. The name OF this
institution is The Veterinary College lnsti-
tute,' and the head of it and manager is an
English gentleman called John Campbell
Ralston, with titles enough TO cover the side
of small chapel. But John Tremlet, the
builder, has great interest in the con-
Germ"
THE FAST YOUNG MAN OF 1000 B. G., AND
THE FAST YOUNG MAN OF 1860 A. D.-Rev.
Eldridge c. Brooks, of the Twentieth street
Universalist Church, New York, preached
last Sunday afternoon the eighth of his series
of discourses on the Representatives Char
acters in the Old Testament" choosing Tor
his subject "Absalom, the Fast Young Man.
The text was from Samuel, xiv, %, and
XIV, |:
'In all Israel there was none to be so
much praised as Absalom for his beauty
< And Absolom prepared him chariots
and horses and fifty men to run before him"
After reciting the career of Absalom, as
recorded in the Scriptures, and supported by
the corroborative testimony OF ancient his
torians, and showing that his mode of extra
VACANT living, his crimes, his base ingrati-
tude to his royal father, the fact that his
death was caused by one of the personal at
fractions of which he was so proud, and that
he was buried in "a great pit in the wood, :
and covered with nameless heap OF stones,
the speaker proceeded:
"And after this review of his career, need
say why he reached this end, or that only
too graphically he represents the methods,
tendencies, and inevitable results of a Fast
Young Man? Life is ever, through oil change
of time or circumstance, essentially the same.
Names and dates differ; scenery, costumes,
and actors, change; situations and attitudes
vary; but it is essentially the same great
drama that is constantly acted over and over
again on the stage of the world. Substitute
Bloomingdale road for the riding courses of
Judea-the brown stone fronts and luxurious
appointments of modern aristocracy for the
dwellings and furniture of the Jews-or the
drinking shop, the gambling-hell, and the
house of designation or prostitution OF to-
day, for the haunts of the disSolute in the
shadow of Mount Zion-and with this differ
erence, the fast young men OF this city and
to-day, whether one of the roughs or one OF
the ton, whether on the Bowery or on Broad
way, is the same in his cardinal estimate of
life, in substantive aims and character, and
in the direction and tendency of his course,
as this fast young man of two thousand eight
hundred years ago. Absalom is dead; aud
the great heap Of stones piled above his dis
honored body, has crumbled, and his burial
place is forgotten; but never since he so igno-
miniously ended his career, have there fail
ed to be those who in some way were re-en-
acting his part; and to-day there are vast
numbers in the world who have only to look
to him, in the kind Of life he lived, the kind
of character he formed, in the kind Of death
he died, to seewhat essentially is their life
what the character towards which they are
aiming and what, unless they change them
selves betimes. will hs the kind of death they