The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-31
Our New York Letter.
IrRoM OUR REGULAR coanzsrosprsr.

NEW YORK, May N.-An O good dessert ia bottt
IMAM an ordinary dinner, as tho latter wus roprt
scnted by tho first and second DAYS raciup q
Jerome Park, aud the former by tho races OF tl
| CLOSING any, and ns, moreover, ovcry Innn shoul
hafo Ills deserts, your correspondent attended tn
| races last Saturday, and found them worth attend
| ing and worth reporting. Before I ppoak OF th
races, it is meet that I should ACKNOWLEDGE an mr.
| OF courtesy oil tho Part of your distinguished OK
| townsmap, DIR. JOHN B. Hv1Ho Of whom AZ ropro
sentative OF THE CuAnLEsoN DAILY NEws. I wn
furnished with the tickots-for self and friond-
ahnit,ing ono-or rather two-to tho ouarte
sutcn, me cinb staiHl md all the posts OF honor
A'ich tickets which given prat iitousIy To In,
privileged few cost seven dollars and l,ulf oorI
"nem pm cilasGd by any Of the unprinlegcd many
arriving on the ground and walking III, and dow,
the qunrter-stretch in ront OF tho grand siand
NC Inc coup Foca was magnificent in tho extreme
thourb of mSTo @ a,i IN fI and it seemed
,sionapo @ n oi,ern yoors had male n raid upon Je-
rome % Park, all equipped in their bost opera uni
baaniv the te ia,r = sex both in point OF pcrso nj
st.,ishnoss OF thor twoiE-hand aud four-il,- hand
ana dslI,in,hand t,rn-outa, almost mado ono forgot
tho gallant coursers, but tho gallant courscrs
would not allow their glory 10 be eclipsed eyon by
the ladies', and 30 behold them as thoy camo forth
with their Jockeys mounted.
hB tho noble stecds nro walked out on the trnck
to Contend in moment in the great hurdle raco:
as Blnckblrd, Iiraguo and Black Ross alc.r tE.-
sevGs PaSso Pnx OF backing 2enag nau
rally enquire atter the fayorite, and much dis
appointed on being Informed, that lie is still in
mourning Tor his decoased jo:key, and will not
take part in tho raco. zigzag being Withdrawn
Backbird was tho fayorito at ten to ono, against
or g. ho roa Sees esns
on on tho wing and flying along at n stinging pace.
The horses @ n, nre Of Brague first, Black Bird
Of tho rear guard. Over tho frat hurdle Black
Bird first, then Braguo aud Bess still in the rear
Over tho second hurdle in tho Same order. AZ the
kept on his way rejoicing; Diraguo fighting hard
ging behind Here they come past tho stand. - 8t
creased tho amount Of d,ylfght between Biraguo
and himsolf, bu; at tho fiftR tho latter under an
Industrious application or whip and spur, made
While, III Tar behind. At the last hurdle the bird
had again added to tho measurement Of tho ompty
air and now for the fret time docs his jockey treat
him 10 the whip and spur, which he duly acknow-
edgca by increasing hia pace aud coming In to the
sight.
Tho second racc was q dash or throo miles. and
was won by Loadstono, Lexington colt, beating
Delaware and Flootwing in gallant style. Tho
tnId aa race, dasn Of ono milo and quarter, was
belmont. Ihe closing raco was milo heats betweon
Forbes colt DcCouIoy, and Belmont's mare. Maid
Of Honor-tho mnid winning tho first hoat, but
losing tho next two and 10 race.
We are to haYo another sensation here In tho
undress uniform semi-circus and semi-theatricnl
limo, in the shape Of Miss Leo Hudson (nnd finp
shape it is said to be), rival Of Ada Isaacs Men
ken Heonan, who distinguished heraelf last year
In America Il refer TO Monken). by doing Mazeppa
and this ycar in Franco, by having her count .rfeit
prceentment taken whilo seated in the literary Ian
OF Alexander Dumas Miss Hudson, who Is to ap-
pear tonight at Barnun's in Mazeppa, ID SAID to
DO Southern woman Of tho STRONGEST kind OF
sccesh procyities, and what iB more 10 tho point
most beautiful creature, with q combination md
form indeed whore oyery God did seem to .et his
seal to give tho world ASSURANCE of something that
ercn out-menkcn's Menken. Miss Hudson paid
five thousand dollars short time since for horse
intended to appoar as Mazeppn, but some envious
person poisoned the ANIMAL " Itch has gone to his
Inst uccount, and MisD Hudson has replaced tic
dead steed by q live steed called Black Boes which
is I'D to be ns handsome aa her mistress. I shall
go to Bnrnum's tonight 10 look at the aconery
along tho Hudson, aud report in my next
Al accident, which resulted fatally, occurred a
few dnys ago on the schooner g. ]. Waring, about
to leave this port for Charleston. The sohoonor
Tnn into a vessel lying at anchor in tho East
River, and while efforts were being msde TO eItri-
cnto her, THO nrst mate, Browster J. Conklin, Wa
struck aud killed by block which fell from tile
mastht ad. I mention the circumstance as the de-
co.ecd may havo relative or friends in your city.
Tho failure Of Fraser, Trenholm & Co. caused
great excitement here in financial oirces on ao-
count OF the large amount Of their bills on Eng.
land, which nre known to bn out; confidence has
however, beon restored by the abatement that the
assets are considerable, and tho Government has
no lien upon any OF their property.
GCld and Cotton looking up. M0ULTRIE.