The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1870-03-02
Worn-our Horses.

Not only is good man kind to his beast, but your
true phaDthropst taketh an interest in the fate of
his humber fellow Creatures. Especially is the
faithful and much enduring horse worthy OF mo-
mentary notice when he passes from The hill of his
pride to tue valley Of his humiliation. The I" noble
animal " should not be wholly forgotten when his
beauty s gone, his spirits broken and his strength
decayed. Meekly be bows to the strokes of fate,
and takes his changed fortune with becoming hui
mility, and cold world taketh little heed OF his
sorrows and his sufferings. His heartless master
passeth him off for lucre, and the cunning jockey
maketh his gain of the poor old carcass.
At Sixtyffth street and Sixth avenue in this city,
there is held, every Wednesday and Saturday, a
horse market, where the fallen ones Of the equine
family Of New Work and its Immediate vicinity are
brought to be sold. Some of these are .woeful
specimens of horse-fesh who have evidently seen
better days. and now they share the general degrade
zion from force of CIRCUMSTANCES rather than from
individual shortcomings. At these markets are
found horses Of all ages and of many inferior classes
There You may for SIS purchase the remnant of
what was once snowy singleharness horse. True,
he is now neither sound in wind nor limb, yet he is
equal TO some work and while he drag on in the
daily mill be must 90. little further back in the
crowd We have just caught glimpse of two chest
nutmares; they look far too spruce for their
roundlngs What has brought them here? Well,
they are pair of two-year ODDS, and having some
action and no promise Of strength their owner who
is wise in his generation, has determined TO dispose
Of them, and simultaneously to sell the luckless
wight who purchases them. Public auction appears
TO be the vorite nlodus opedndi for getting these
sorry jades off their owners hands, There they go
lone dollar, two dollars-come, gentlemen ten
dollars and so on, till they struck down at
$780, Fortunate mani Emphatically, We congrau-
late the seller. Next lot, gray saddle-horse,
branded U. So trooper! Sad fate for warrior
who has nObly served his country TO end his career
the hack of costermonger, whose highest aspira
tions in life are TO peddle bad fish id the drtirst
tboroughfares Of the city. WE'LL such is glory, aud
our hero has to submit. Here he comes, making
show of himself and spectacle of his owner, who,
by the way, is newly-imported son of the Emerald
Isle, who having purchased the brute last Wednes
day for next to nothing, sells him to-day for trife
less. All, Patrick, my son, you are not now wan
dering " frank and free through the fairy grounds
of good St. Bartlemy." No, my good friend, you
have cheated many yerdant countryman, but your
turn has come now. Make way with yourself and
your sorry bargain; we have no more time to be-
stow you. lanky black comes forward. His
owner saws he is blooded animal, and so his thin
tail and silky name attest. What piece of i'll luck
has brought him to this pass? On examination, we
changes hands at $50 and the sale goes to the
end. The horses here bring from S25 10 $3.50 per
head. The classes are all low, and the buyers and
sellers rank in the same category. Now and then a
neighboring farmer buys lot, but such are rare
occurrences The blind, the lame the crippled
and the broken winded here find their final owners
Would not the knockers yard be mercifu fate for
In no place in the world does horse-fesh suffer as
it does in the good city of New York, and fruit
full of all this suffering is found in the TACT
tuat TUE HOFcec arc NiOltl uheulleu tutlf NOfk.
They are, as class long sided narrow carcassed,
fddle-headed, weak backed brutes, willing, it is
true, but unable TO do the work assigned to them.
Every American breeder hopes to get fast trotter.
He would be a richer man and better member of
society II ha would put such nonsense out of bis
head and turn his abilities TO improving his stock in
a general way.
In 1850, there were in the State of New York
Az Ola horses of all classes. In 1860 there were
503 72 and 10 1865 $50 $50 horses and s. 1863 mules
These figures, taken from reliable sources,vshow
steady increase in the numbers, and soon as the
census for the coming decade has been made, one
may be certain that it will show still further adj
vance. 1t rests with breeders to display a cor
responding Improvement in good qualities. Speed
does well enough, but strength and endurance are
also needed, also is suitability to the work to be
performed. When American hOrsemen open their
eyes to the truth OF fact that their horses are
not what they should be, then a better regime may
be looked for, and not until then. Arab stations
fresh from the desert, are wanted to improve the
blood; cleanbred English sres to keep up the bone
and muscle, with Cydesdabs TO improve the ordinary
draft horse. These, together with better care aud
better stables and improved stable management,
are all that is wanted TO change the present aspect
of affairs.-N T. Times