The New York herald., 1868-06-03
THE HORSE MARKET.


A Half Hours Notes at the BULBS Head.
A ride of half an hour from City Hall square, by
way Of Third avenue sets the tourist down in front
of low wooden building with the white paint half
washed or 1t, and presenting spotty appearance
like that Of patient just recovering from the small
pox. The edice in question occupies the northwest
corner OF street and Third avenue and
hight with sort Of curious felicity Of metaphor to
sense, the Hull's Head Hotel. One is now In the
midst OF the horse mart OF the city-a thoroughfare
extending from Fourth avenue to the East river.
On oil sides OF you it is nothing but horse
one sees, smells, hears and understands
dialect which draws all Its Illustrations
from horse. Men promenade up and down and
gabbe nothing but horse. Bottles OF medicinal pre-
parations stare from every nook and cranny-all
marked "horse in large black letters and al labelled
horse" with the yellow picture OF horse very care
panaceas; all doctors are horse doctors; all the
quacks in the vicinity are horse quacks Everybody
talks horse and, perhaps, in accordance with the
advice OF Mr.. Bergh, eats horse TO parody Tenny.
soma hackneyed procedure In these days Of
Horse to the right of you,
Horse all sides OF you,
spawned and foundered.
Here are fifty firms all engaged Ia the horse bust.
ness; enter the oce OF any one OF which and you VIII
find some curious pictorial decorations, all lambent
with horsey and all from the pencils OF mute, IN
glorious Rosa Bonheurs, whose lame aud greenbacks
tarry long and are tardy.
The oldest OF these firms is that OF Chamberlin& 4
Co.; the most etensive In business Is that or Post
Nichols whose stables extent from Third 10 Fourth
avenue on the south side, and constitute sort OF
large horse ardng house and tperAaps INTO
which patients received, or boarderS Tor the sum
and consideration Of 81 per day This Is the regular
price OF a horses board-the different boarding
houses along the line Of this great horse thorough
fare accommodating from $50 TO 800 horses at al sea-
sons OF the year. .,
carriage horses, which range from $500 to $1,000
per span. The colors nowtpreferred and decidedly
In fashion are dapple gray and black otner colors
bringing an inferior price. owing TO the weatncr
which mas been unfavorabe for their exhibition
trade this spring has been duh in carriage stock.
The usual method Of exhibition IL 10 permit tne
10 be taken 10 gentlemans residence, harnessed 10
his carriage and tried IN the PARK or IN some osner
favorable spot. These horses are mostly rom vs,.
mont. In railroad and stage horses the trade
is always more or less brisk, prices ranging rom
Si60 to $3.50. Farm horses command about tne same
! price aud are In greatest demand In the
spring. Truck and dray horses range from
az all seasons OF the year. OF large Liver;
| pool drays no stock ts kept on hand. ana
most OF the horses sold under the last three catego-
rtes are OF American blood and breeding being sup
piled mostly from the four states Of Pennsylvania,
Sa u1V rrpcipay from Vermont though OF the latter
New York and the Northwest furnish limited sup
ply Canadian horses, small and tough, are always
in some demand. Saddle horses sell for from $3.50 70
$500, but are not Kept on sale 20 any great Extent
two thousand horses per month, or even three tn0u
sand. BY a single nrm. though the year round the
whole fty firms average not more than one hundred
transfers per day. All horses OF any value are war
| sumed magnitude which precudes the exercise Of
| The tricks OF small dckering and iockeyism, and
most Of the rather usgtinate business transacted
| by outside parties. y.