Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-05-17

NAL kept on his legs. Indeed with his
sinewy frame and iron muscles, he had such
tenacious grip wi,lehis knees, that horse
might as easily throw Oil his saddle as such
rider. His favorite animal for the chase
was horse called Blueskin, of dark iron
gray color approaching to a blue. This was
a fine but fiery steed and of great endur-
ance in long run. The huntsman viii,
better known in Revolutionary lore as Billy,
rode horse called Chinkling e, wonderful
leaper, and very much like it's rider, low,
but sturdy, and of great bone and muscle.
The only duty of Will was to keep with the
hounds. Calamity did he perform his task.
Mounted on Chinkling, throwing himself
almost full length on the animal, with a
French horn at his back, and his spur in
flank, this bold rider would rush, at full
speed, through brake or tangle wood, in a
style at which modern huntsmen would
stand aghast. There were roads cut through
the woods in various directions, by which
timid hunters and even ladies could enjoy
the exhilerating cry, without risk of life or
limb; but Washington rode gaily up to his
dogs nor spared his impetuous steed, as the
distented nostrils of Blueskin would often
show. He was always in at the death, and
yielded to no man the honor of the brush.
After the chase the party would return to
the mansion-hous where at the we'll spread
board and with the flowing glass, the Incl
dents of the field were discussed, while
Washington, never deviating from his or
derly habits for the sake Of convivial plea
sures, would, after few glasses of MADEIRA,
retire supperless to bed at nine o'clock.
How washington's Horses were Groomed
when he was President.
During the whole Of his Presidency,
Washington preserved the habit of rising at
four o'clock and retiring to bed at nine
On Saturdays, he rested somewhat from his
labors, by either riding into the country, at
tended by groom or with his family in his
coach drawn by six horses. His stables
were always in the finest order, and his
equippage excellent both in taste and quail
ty. Washington's master of horse was an
old fellow named Bishop, who had formerly
been the body servant of Gen. Braddock.
At cock crow the stable boys were at work;
at sunrise Bishop stalked into the stable,
with. a muslin handkerchief in his hand,
which he applied to the coats of the animals;
if the slightest stain was perceptible on the
n.uslin, the luekless stable boys were at once
subjected to due punishment by the veteran
disci plinarian. In Philadelphia the stables
were under the care of German John, whose
grooming Of the white chargers was study.
The night before the horses were to be rid
den, they were covered over with a paste
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in body cloths, and left to sleep upon clean
straw; in the morning the composition had
become hard was we'll rubbed in, and curri-
ed and brushed, which process gave to the
coats beautiful satin like gloss. The hoofs
were then BACKED and polished, the mouths
washed and the teeth picked and cleaned.
The Leopard-skin housings were then pro-
perly adjusted, and the chargers led out for
service.
Clay and Calhoun.
From the Grafton of MIR. B. |. Barbour, de-
livered at Richmond Virginia, on the 18th ult.
on the occasion of the Inauguration of the Cay
Statue we take the following passage:
''Divested of its personal features, the antago
nism between the Senators of South Caroline
land Kentucky was as marked as in the Other
instances. The one gloried in the contempla
ton of the vastness Of his country-the othel
thought it necessary to watch with closest scru
tiny, if not suspicion, the delicate relations o
the different members. Mr.. Clay, as the native
OF one State and the adopted child of another
considered the divisions between the States az
lines which policy drew, but which affection
should not regard. Mr.. Calhoun watched then
as jealously as the founder of Rome guarded hi
H.,
leap over with impunity. One expended hi
time and talents in curious dissection of tht
body polite, tracing its wonderful, and to hin
too often, its fearful anatomy; the other sough
to endue it with health and strength, make i
instinct with life and radiant with beauty Or
if may add another illustration, the South
Carolinian, in his more hopeful moments re-
garded the Union Constellation, deriving
its lustre and grandeur from the brightness O
each particular star; the Kentuckian found the
image of his country in some grand river, like
our giant Mississippi each valley sending it
rill, and lofty mountains speeding their torrents
to swell its rapid tide. On its banks he saw
fertile fields and happy homesteads-the blend
ed sounds of manifold industry went up from
pleasant villages and stately cities, on its bosom
was countless vessels laden with the product
and fabrics of a land framed in the prodgalty
OF nature-and thus crowned with the trOphle
Of Agriculture and of Art, he saw it rushing tt
the sea, and delivering to white winged Com
merce the bread to feed and the raiment to cloth
world.
Posterity will do justice to both of these grea
men-to the political specuations of the one
and the remarkable executive ability of th,
other-for therein was the difference which
made their paths more and more widely diver
gent. One was statesman, grasping with pre-
sent difficulties the other dreaming phioso
pher, following principles as the prince of Eas
tern fable followed his arrow beyond the habta
tions of man, beyond the bounds of probability
In their temperaments this antagonism wa
equally manifest. One was the oracle of bound
ing hope
"And his eye kindled
With the prophecy of glorious years.
The other became the prophet of woe, and trem
bled, like the ancient Pythoness, under the agon,
of his own forbodings-
''There was listening fear in his regard,
As if calamity had but begun;
!, As if the vanward cloud Of evil days
Had spent their malice, and the sulcn rear
Was with it's CIR l,l,,