The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-21
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
[FRoM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

The ong-looked for day had at last arrived-th'
day which was to inaugurate the Fall meeting o
the Fordham races. Yesterdays sun rose brieh
and clear, seemingly brighter and clearer thar
usual, as morn, in russet mantle clad, walked ove
the dew in general, and over the dews OF New
York in particular. Long lines of magniicen
equipages rolled onward to the Jerome course
bearing the ete and fashion Of the vast metropolis
Here d moving line of double teams, here tandem
team, now four-in-hand turnout, and anon six
finland arrangement-a joyous sight to behold
gorgeous equipases filled with handsome fail
ones, handsomely attired-a clear smooth road
no clouds overhead, nor clouds of dust around
Onward they go, these sons and daughters o.
wealth and ristocracy-onward toward the field
of sport. The day is fine, the gallant coursers the
best in the country. The first race is about to
commence, and who shall say that aught car
happen now to mar the pleasure already enjoyed
IN anticipation Of the coming sport? But Dhornnt
propose ct D,ea dispose and even here, in this at
mosphe1e of gaiety and happiness, the angel Of
death hovereth unseen; for fate has decreed that
the sport shall be ,marred in most unexpected
manner. '-''' '''h
During the hurdle race. Negrita was ridden by
an English jockey, one Martin Cassidy, recently
imported by Leonard Jerome. The well-trained
steed had jumped the first hurdle in fine style,
but in attempting to clear the second her unfortu-
nate rider threw his body too heavily forward,
causing the mare to miss the leap, and throw and
fall upon tho Jockey, who was -instantaneousy
killed. The mangled and bleeding corpse of the
poor fellow, clad as he was in his gaudy jockey at
tire and with the flush of excitement still linger-
ing in his cheek and battling as ii were with the
death pallor now chasing it away, was indeed the
saddest of sights. Let me not dwell unon the me-
mory Of the scene, nor tire your readers with the
lilosophic reelection which naturally arises there
from; Let mo rather describe the race,
For the racsof one and 'tlfee-quarter miles over
six hurdles there we're six entries. and at the call
the gallant coprsers made their appearance In
front of tho grand stand-Tycoon, Leatherlungs,
Red Bird, Zara, Negrita and last, though not
least, julius, the game young Lexington colt. The
drum taps and off they go, like six arrows, each
shot from a trusty bow. Tycoon shows them Inc
way over the first hurdle, which they all clear in
fine style almost simultaneously. At hurdle num-
Der two Zara politely takes the lead and the rest
follow closely, as though to be near enough to ad-
mire her leap, but cannot bear to revert to what
happened there to Negrta and her unfortunate
rider. At the third hurdle, julius awoke from his
Rip HaIfNfnkle sleep and took q front IAsceS and
then baing entirely awake also to the necessity OF
putting on steam. AS Zara's nose was In rather
close proximity to the formers narrative he bade
them all ar ,evotr and went over the fourth, Six
lengths ahead of Tycoon, who had meanwhile
taken Zara's dress circle seat. The fifth hurdle
wasrnot jumped at all, as it, had fallen and lay
quietly sub Lrram, to be run over instead. Julius
took the sixth hurdle FIRST but not neatly, striking
it with all-fours, but yet not falling. Then came
the tug of var on even grounds beautiful rum
and the Lexington colt comes in winner OF the
race and worthy scion of tae noble stock.
The second race, handicap for all ages, one
mile and quarter dash, showeds even entries,
and was won by the pretty little flly EnchantresS,
by Lexington ont of Ellen Bateman. The third
race mile heats with;four entries was also won by
a four year old who, if he could speaks and why
not horseitalk, when we hear OF horse laugh
would also call Lexington papa" III.
1t had been4 hoped sinat theinvncible Kentucky
would toZdayran her great four milo dash against
time that is to say against 7:20 but Jerome fears
that the track at present is not in proper condi-
ton for the performance Of such q task. -GA
AS the registration; Of voters began yesterday
md cputnues to-day and the newspapers in
general (and the Ta6une in particularly are call
ng the attention of the masses to the fact,
small number of the unregistered
tr11t
he workgoes not on briskly, as tho newspaper
nen and q few. political wire pullers take much
more interestin such matters than any ne-slse,
md the. Jact .is so generally conceded thatsthe
Democrats ore to hold all the honors and make
several odd tricks: besides that, there is but Little
in the sided game. An incident that
,appeded last night at Banvards Opera House is a
title straw that shows how tho big political wind
iere is blowing. There is speech made by one
if the characters in the DEVILS Auction, in which
here is a graphic description OF the imaginary
land of the Ell Dorado. After dwelling upon the
beauties of the golden rcam ssJack" in:
orms his master That in the Ell l:Dorado there Is
model government, and one that can never be
broken up; and when questioned as to the cause,
the respect due to their Chief Magistrate" This
point is always loudly applauded, but last night
ana envious hiss was heard to issue
from half dozen Radical throats, whereupun the
applause was deafening, and the cheers and 6rao0S
Of the Democrats rnight have been heard at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. Moultrie, who was in an Or
chestra chair, whence the forms of the fair ones
of the ballet stars can best be seen and admired,
shouted long, loud and feelingly.
The new Harlem bridge--a bridge of size-the
of which was begun six years ago, is
finished and will be thrown open to the public to-
day. The bridge is eight hundred and seventy
six feet long, fftytwo feet wide, one hundred feet
high, and Is composed OF three thousand tons of
cast iron and five Thousand cubic yards of mason
ry. The cost of the CT . structure s a round
million of dollars.
The inquest held over the remains of one of the
victims of the Dean Richmond disaster, has re-
suited in throwing no new light upon tho subject,
but only renders the darkness more visible. Some
of the witnesses lay the blame upon the officers Of
the Richmond, others on those OF the Vanderbilt,
and between the two sides of the question we only
learn what we were previously aware of, that the
Richmond went down, and that some one was to
blame.
The Grand Jury report the Park Bank encroach-
Inent nuisance, wherefore Bennett rejoiceth and
gives vent to his joyful emotions in an editorial
paragraph in to-day's Herald.
Gold looked up yesterday to 144b, but looked
down again at the close to 143s. The precious
metal opened this morning at 143i, seeming to
have slept off an eighth, and at the time writo
has gone down to 1I3l.
Money is plentiful to "best borrowers" at seven
per cent. on call. but to worst borrowers none
can be had at any per centase-lest, when called,
it might refuse to come.
Cotton is smiling and in good deniand-like eli
giblc young bachelors to young old maidens
M0ULTRIE.
Martin Cassidy, the jockey, who met such q
sudden death in the hurdle race at jerome Park,
on Tuesday, wa, an Englishman, lately imported