The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-04-30
GREAT RACE.

5 80 -
Riding a Horse Fifty Miles:in Two
.gJ y Hours. '
The evening News, IF Gold Hill,
Nevada, contains the subjuined account
of q great race against time; on the
Carson City Course, by Johnny Fay
lor, for a stake of 81 900, or $500 to
5000 that he could ride City miles in
two hours:
cat Just IL O'Clock Faylor made his
appearance, mounted, and ready for the
fray. He is light-built, dark com
plexioned young man, ard weighs llo
pounds. After a few minutes prclim'
iuary arranging of details, away he
dashed on the first heat. We have
never seen a better rider. Perfectly
erect and steady, he rode firmly in his
stirrups, and seemed no impeding
weight for a horse to GARY, but on the
contrary, Hight lively. and anything
but a deadly weight. johnny knows
Just how to ride horse, that's certain.
We did not time all the heats sepa-
rately, as that would be too lengthy
asmafter for publishment, but the short
est was made in two minutes and two
seconds; the average was about two
minutes. and eight seconds. Some of
the horses he rode twice round, at a
single heat, and one three times; most
of them, however. he rode only once
rouna. At the farther side of the
track, in the vicinity of the half-mile
d pole, he had fresh horses also waiting,
and Had to.clange at that point on two
or three occasions. When coming in
on the home stretch, if the horse he
rode was observed to be failing, fresh
horse was taken out to meet him, and
cxchanged; this. was done also two or
three times. Ono very interesting fea'
ture to notice was the extreme rapid
~ and facility with which he changed
horses at the stand. A fresh one ready
saddled and bridled was held there,
and when he rode -upstwo or three men
would seize his horse and assist him to
leap downgand into the saddle of the
other horse, these changes thus occupy
ing far less time than it takes for US to
write about them Indeed, the last
dozen Or twenty heats he was not al
lowed to touch the ground at all but
was simply picked off one saddle and
Placed into the other, with slap be
slowed upon his horses rump in order
to start him off in hurry. 1t was
little the liveliest horse navigation
most people ever saw. About the
twenty third mile round, blood was
observed coming from Faylor's mouth
and one ear, being subject to bleeding
at the lungs on such occasions, under
theafearfully severe exercise, but as he
kept "stiF upper lip" and about that
time also shouted for some one to get
his watch and bet that on the race, we
felt assured that he would live through
it-and he did. About 2 o'clock, p.
m, he finished the race; time, one hour,
fifty eight minutes and thirty three
seconds-within the two hours. Ashe
rode id from that concluding heat,
looking still quite vigorous, and any
thing but exhausted, he was taken from
the saddle amid loud cheers Of triumph,
and bi]ariously carried on the shoul-
ders Of his friends to the front of the
judges stand, from which the result
was announced Immediately. Taylor
being called upon for speech, replied,
thanking his friends for their efforts in
his behalf, and expressing the hope
that he would be as successful in the
great race he is to rufssof 200 miles in
ten hours at Jerome Park, New York.
in May next. Taylor had procured
fifteen horses for his race of yesterday,
but-he had to use three more on account
ofsome of them getting lame.
GRANT AMI THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
- No observer could have mingled
with Washington society this winter
without becoming painfully aware that
the administration is fast drifting to-
ward breakers, which if encountered,
will prove fatal to the unity of the Re
publican party. say this with regret.
Gen. Grant's mistakes have been many :;
but his greatest mistake was in at
tempting toadrninister the government
as he had directed and governed the
army. Behas been surrounded from
the first by weak, inexperienced and
incompetent men. He did not seek no r
would he listen to the advice of lead ing
Republican statesmen. His Cabinet
as first organized would never have
been selected by any statesman. quail