, 1868-06-26

TRorrINe HoRsEs.-The May number of
the Atlantic has an article on The Turf and
the Trotting Horse in America, which is
written by John Elderkin, and condensed
into small compass large amount of IN
formation, presented without any unnecessary
admixture of the peculiar dialect of the turf.
The writer says nearly all the great trotting
horses of America have come of one blood
that of Messenger, an English horse, import
ed in 1888, whose value in the improvement
of the horses of the country is estimated at
the enormous figure of sI00, 100000 The
writer then goes on to mention the most fa-
nous American trotting horses, and gives
brief summary of all the more important
trotting matches. He says: Trotting horses
have increased in value even more rapidly
then in numbers or.speed. Since 1880 the
increase has been about one hundred per
cent. every ten years. The amount paid by
Mcdonald, of Baltimore, for Flora Temple, in
1858, $4,000, represents the value of the
best trotting horse bred in the country up
to that date. In 1862. Sprague of Rhode
lSiduu pdlu V1l,OOOJ IOE OdlilOIuta Oambel.
Bonner paid Sl3, 500 for the Auburn Horse
in 1864 $685. 900 for Young Pocahontas in
1866, and $4,000 for Dexter in 1867. The
great stock horse of Orange country, New
York, Hambletonian, was valued in 1866 at
500, 900. 1t is now no unusual thing for
fast trotting horses, and fine stock horses of
the best trotting blood, to sell for amounts
varying from ten to twenty thousand dollars.
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FRAUDULENT TREASURY IssUEs.-The
New York Globe still continues to publish
extracts from the suppressed report of the
minority of a Committee appointed by the
Thirty>ninth Congress to examine into the
matter of printing United States bonds and
Treasury notes. The evidence, as published,
continues to bear out the oft-repeated asN
sertions that duplicate bonds and notes have
been issued that no one knows the amount
of either of which has been issued that in
fact, it is quite possible for the public debt
to be twice as much as is officially reported.
1t is conclusiVely shown that there was no
check upon the printers of currency and
bonds, and that any one cauld take away
whatever he saw 6t. The truth appears to
be that there is large amount of bonds and
notes aAost, of which there are no account,
and being printed on genuine paper, from
genuine plates, and on the Government
presses, these extra issues are, to all iutents
and purposes, as genuine as those which
found their way to the public through the
hands OF the Treasurer.-S. +. CdM
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LARGEST CITY IN THE WoRLD.-A very
erroneous idea is INDUCED in by many people
in relation to the lagest city in the world,
many confidently asserting that London,
or as 1t is frequently termed, the great me-
tropolis, is far superior, both in size and
number of its inhabitants. But such is not
the case. Jeddo, the capital of Japan, is the
largest and most populous city in the world
1t contains the vast number of 100000
dwellings, and some 100000 of human
souls. Many of the streets are 19 japan
series in length, which is equivalent to %
English miles. The commerce of Jeddo far
exceeds that of any other city in the world,
and the sea along the coast is constantly
white with the sails of their ships. Their
vessels sail to the southern portion of the EN-.
pirc, where they load with rice, tea sea coal,
tobacco, silk, cotton and tropical fruits,
"AiSh Jul Huu d lSduJ mdIkeL III tue uOFLn,
and then return, freighted with salt, corn,
isinglass and various other products of the
north, which have market in the south,
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AN ANCIENT GRAVE YARD.-The Nash
vile Times says there are many indications
that the capital of Tennessee is built where
there was once populous city of an ancient
people. The early settlers there found many
vestiges of Notifications, buildings, etc, Of
which the Indians knew nothing. When
Nashville was besieged, and the suburbs
were cut up with long lines of works, many
deeply interesting relics were exhumed. 1t
was then discovered that in North Nashville
there had been an ancient cemetery, where
thousands had been buried But none ex>
cept the remains of adults we're found there
Six miles from the city, toward the mouth
OF Stone river, is another vast cemetery,
where none but pigmy remains are found,
the graves being from Is to 25 and 80 inches
in length.
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