, 1873-09-07
Talk with ID Man Who Carried the
News Of Nat Turner's In
Burreotion.
Tho Great Racers Of Our Country: Sir
Archy, American Eclipse, Fashion,
Lexington, Kentucky +, Etc.
The Great Trotters Dutchman, Trustee,
Lady Suffolk, Tacony, Ethnn Allen,
Flora Tomple, Dexter, Gold
smith Mail, Etc.

sitting ontsido tho asabloa Mt Monmouth Park
Thore IL Mcdaniel quiet and obsorvant sayiug
little. Thcre is N1ctrn:h, tlllck-sot, offiah po-
culiar, ns II ho would rather not, but might, II
allowed to hAvo bis own way. Thoro is Tracy,
tall, bloodod-looking, rs 1t he lad horse-blood
in him, and could ta'l only with stan1mor, and
would mulch rashor neigh. Thcro aro good
many more, from nj parts: Mobile, Charleston,
the JorseyH, md all tho stock-farnls But 1hoar
an old man with a rod noao say:
II rode from Richmond to Washington In lit
tic above ton houra with the nows OF
NAT TURNER'S REnELL1oN1"
"Why, how old mny you bo ?"
"Well, that was In 1851, and T was no chicken
tlon."
We express desire to hoar all about it. It
seemH long while ago. They say his n4mo Ia
Allison NAilor.
"Well," ho said, THAT Turner broke out In
August, 1881, away down In Southampton Coun-
ty. The whole black population was supposed
to be ready for o risc-up. Tho Governor and
folks wanted man to go to Washington City
with diBpatchos, aud I made the contract. was
to got $500, and forfeit 1t II didn't mako II in
tho required time. Nobody would ride with me.
The scare was univorsa and I had littlo Of 1t on
mo, too. had authority to mako uso OF horses
private property-on the way, and had ouly two
colts nyae1f. ! loft Richmond about o'clock
in tho ovoutug, ard changed si1 timos on tho
road. That night my stable WIS aot on
fro by somebody In Richmond, but went along,
gnlop aud fast trot, and changed first at IIano-
ver. Fifty-nvo people had boon murdered; how
many moro wo did not know. It grow blnck as
pitch after that. and aeomed to nleet more no.
groes than / ever saw before. At Judge -'e,,
on the streams Of the Mattapony, broko in his
elablo-doora, hardly able to nce, and took out hts
best colt Then it waa gallop aud splaal, and
tho roads md the woods worso than each othor
till touched at Bowling Groen. Therc, you
see, WAS with tho nows Of Nat Turner's riang,
thirty-four years bstore Wilkes Booth
ssor Of e'eaPsE ssck5rc .S tug oaaa assn t9Sn
aud took horse as oroascd tho bridge at Fal-
mouth. People wondered o little. but We had 4
good dcal Of wild posting in those days. and it
vhs til % dssa g gsea fsu nsS'1s aef snS
man and beast but, creeping along in the folds
and wood-patchos, rally and spur oil tho while,
7 was thrown nigh Dnmfrics, and thonght had
again III minute, fording the streams; and at
Colchester took my last horse, about 2
o'clock. Then: il was into rohick Greek and
ing my money Wien passed tho woods and fires
ut hit. Vernon. Light struck mo at Alexandria,
aud saw That was safe. forgot to say tint
at Que place met lot Of negroes in tho road,
but went down a high bank, and gropod along
in tho thichot like benz, seldom losing my
pace. It was good $500 to mo- equal to $1,000
in thoso times. And now, sir, do you want to
tnese niggora2"
IL No. Wo'd ra.hor hear you on tho horse
question |"
!" Oh I run opposition hscks and stages
lonE after that Two driven from Washington
to Baltimore many time over slush roads, Sc
mics iii two houra. We trottod the hills and
galoped the lorolB. Six horaos. and man
rendy with every horse in each relay to pull nut
In a jifry, Wo changed at Bladeusburg, at
nosbLnrg, at Vanvillc. and ut Patusont. and
whip al tho whilo. yea air; and after thoy
started tho steam.cars, I ran my haeks in oppo-
uiton to 'em for several wooks. Wo made tho
old stoam-horso 8woat, Staging made the best
horses for road-uscs in this country"
ON AMERICAN 8TocK.
It ia queer how accidental cnuHeB make COM
mcrcc. Concord stagos and Vermont stago-
horses are, in part, tho outgrowth Of the great
The trotting horse in Amcrica Is Of no dis
tinctive breed Or family, or mode Of getting,
though the blood engraftod uupon. our composite.
stock often appears III ~, a,ignsl victories ,t Of
rior tTotting-trainers, tho good. driving on all
the employment Of the best partiay-b horses
10 10 d combination Of tho Yorkshire Cleveland
bay, thu London dray-horae, which Is Of F!em-
tsl origin, and tue Suffolk PUNCH, which II Of
orgin-tho whole touched with Canadian
aui ittlo thoroughbred. Aud tie
so-callod Morgan stock owes it's nnmo to
5nstin MGrga Tho 1o y; vas arso Of sqmo
singing g-mastor aud Bchool-tcachor,--a aort of
Ichaboa Crane Of Vermont. He has descended
to fame in q controversy between Lord Pcdigreo
and Bully Bottom md III Tho trottcr EtLan Al |
Ion, winch maue mile III 2:8G at 4years old, aud
got down TO 2:32S4.
Tic Conestoga horse is thought to bo Of Han
overian or Flomish cart-horBe stock mixed ri i,
London dray and intouod by somo Of tho l.alf-
bred country BiroB which Rtood az long nso as |
1775 IN the village between the susquclanna mud
schuylkili.
Bpnuiard With tho Norman war-llorse aud tho
Iuliou pony to tho Southern Mustang, aud tho
smallest typo OF tho Canadian. On tho Spanish
and French blood mixed. our frontier cavalry llas
generally monnted.-the beBt Atock in tho world
for long, dry marches.
EIho ilrat stock In tho 1Yost was that OF Ohio,
1ich took its blood from Mai yland and Virginia,
and its franc from Penubyly lyanaa., The best
horses In the State were long found IN the Joraoy
settlo,nent Of Warron County, willie tho Connee-
ticut Reserve had the poorest. In 1926 the first
imported horse and the first track wore brought
into the State, In laao the atsllion Boil Founder
enltvened the breed there, aud Morgan Tiger. In
1847, furthor rol;eslcd it. About 184d the Logs-
laturc lnteriorel with raeiug aud the traokR won't
down. But in 1870 Ohio had already 100000
horses, and they ware valued at $a2, ,000, GOO. |
lMrOHTED BLOOD.
We go In Ignorance uf much that ia tho source |
Of our public wealth. How fow are aware of tho
e1tent of tho droct inporlalionso Of bloodedlorses
into Anldtjna TAolo llaro been upwards of ae0 |
imported thoroughbred stallions brought from |
England to AnaDIica, beforo and since Tho noso. /
iutiouary War. up to tho year 1879. Eyen more
mnrcs have boon Imported and, in Que casa, 81 |
krfp 1in3, rt,a Ut at,4,tt