The New York herald., 1874-07-01


staten Island: on over the sversand beneath the
stately Highlands to the bold bun beach OF Long
Branch No more the yellow tides OF the shallow,
land-locked bays and inlets. We hear the ever
lasting surge of the main ocean here
O'er the dark waters Of the deep blue sea
TO where they touch the far of summer sky The
fres easterly wind curls the tops OF the incoming
waves aud sends the white caps tumbling towards
the land. Ships with their white sheeLs flowing
free sail swiftly by; gus skim over the billOws of
the swell, the osprey floats above. ready for dart
upon his prey; mile away pOrpoises roll ana
dive and come up again rejoicing on their way
towards the north. some say the sea gradu.
ally undermining the beach at Long Branch and
that the place Will soon disappedr. Such things
have been.
Its waves have rolld
Above the cities OF IA world gone byl 4
sand ham nlld up M me e, pa,aGes nat 80 ., % oa
But It will be some time before the waves have eat(
into the land SO that hotel and villa will toDpe il q
the yeasty SURF and few centuries will eapse efdI
Neptunes dark gray horses reer over tho
stretches OF Monmouth Park and rear their lo2/
crests at the pillars OF the club house and
stand. Foresight Is a good thing but "
forego not the delights oil the present
wolui antlcipations of what may happen
iuture.
Meantime john Bull, stout aud doughty q
of many precOcious and aspiring children
in chosen spots and fertile places from the
! Circle to the great Australian Blight mad n}s|
ino The coal beds Of Eng AMI would 500
out; the forests OF America were already as
| as gone; and with no fuel save ioc the boi
| beet and potatoes and the heating OF wat
grog, there would be an end to Britain. You
eat and drink and go to the races and a. gyps
! but look OUT Nemesis was ''dOwn in the
mine underneath the groundu' Plenty OF
elsewhere HloovA Mhat ,,t Of that when Il.
pr0hgate youth squandering an estate, Is
up It's stock OF uel, gases ana what not at SD
rate tnat it Will soon exhausted and he
/ hight and heat lade away few mllilons OF y
will bring about the catastrophe "0nt,
brlei cande!' Yet such is the lncredu,ty
hardwood OF human nature That people e
courting marrying and merrymaknG in spit
these as,ured certantles. Even DR.. Cumm
after having established by inlalnbe lnterpI
ton tne absolute certainty Of the end Of the wa
in eighteen months, haggled with ms landlord
a hve years. lease OF his mouse, and stipulated
new and sunury other repairs in TWO.
Between the beach and Monmouth Park
country is now very beautiful Thick aud dark
verdure; luXurlanG tue rustling ollage OF
trees. The crops are nourisnlng Green blades
corn wave IN the seaborn wind. The neavy-neat
wheat bends and sways IN the breeze, veaiif1l
the first rlcn tlnts which nper INTO the golden
harvest The air Is lAden with the scent
lowers ns" The oS cool brook as1es an" ora%yia
through the bosKy ueli between the bushes. Here
walk the race horses at shady close OF summer
grand equestrian games! Belmont, ord, Cam
eron, Withers, hunter Travers, Mo- ris, Lorllard,
other owners and breeders OF the race horses, the
country Is In your debt. on Saturday next, July
4, the races VIII begin, and, from all that we can
see and hear, there ls promise OF fine sport. the
numerous stables at the course are already nearly
al T sne
or the thirty races t. be run at Monmouth Park
. perhaps the three most ca'cu ated to arouse the
interest of the puDl; and excite the enthusiasm O
the owners trainers, jockeys, amateurs and ali
the tribes who love the race horse ana celebrate
his trlumphs in lrutage OF the vine will be the
Jersey Derby, on the nrst day, and the Monmouth
Cup and Hopeful Stakes. on the second. These may
merits OF the other greaf stakes.
certain stranger VINO saw the late races at
Jerome Park has published extracts from his
notebook, and informed The jockey Club and
everybody else OF deiects and shortcomings al
that meeting Fair and intelligent criticism IS
when man tries everyth ng py his Own very Inn
lied experiences anu narrow conceptions ms con
cluSlOns, instead OF being reasonable and useful
are often simply absurd. Our horses are denounced
as common looking, without beauiy and style
Now. mans opinion OF beauty and style depends
upon what he mas been accustomed 10 see. Thus
show the visiting CocKney such trOtters as DeX
ter. Judge Fullerton &c, in their grand action
and ne forthwith wakes eloquent over the high
steppers he has seen In the parks and drives
aoout London, being all the time unaware that
tnis high stepping Is the most forced, the most
useless, the most unnatural action that a. horse
can have. 1T Is no more ike the true
Wr,tn,nSs OF '" eontortion,st resemble the iree @
elastic movements OF well-lormed. strong and
agile man. Stranger, the planest looking no. sc
you saw at Jerome Park won the Belmont stakes
and he was the Lnglisn colt saxon. He is nc
beauty, but GOOD, true runner honest and game
to make avall OF his gifts lOr wear and tear. We
freely admit tnat there Is some difference in the
type OF English and American thoroughbred horses
and az ii is Contrary to what we might a priorf nave nave
inferred. The average American thoroughbred il
neither so tall nor 50 weedy and slim as , he Of
England and France. But the very best all oven
the worlo, approach each other closely In form,
and in nineteen cases out OF twenty these good
ones, whether English, Irish French or American
show more OF the power and bone OF the stout old
English racers than do the tall, sleek and sim
horses TO which we think cursorv observation In
England is mainly confined. It happens tnat some
oil the most famous strains OF English thorough
breds have Deen lar rom that type which is called
handsome, and that many ol the very best lndi
vldual performers have been PLAN looking. "Here
comes John scott with butchers hack" said
out Touchstone iOr the st. Leger Hark
away was strong coarse looking horse
though, upon the whole, the best mare that ever
started in England, sir Tatton Sykes was coarse
with great vulgar head and lop ears like mule.
Fisherman was quaint ana ungainly nay ugly,
compared to the handsome produce OF orlando,
&C. to whom he gave tons Of weight and hun Jun
heard OF the great tribes Of PLAIN but iast and
stout English hoI ses--rhe Blacklocks, the Mel
bournes the Beadsmans, &c.-we snail have
Eastern question with you.r said the statesman
TO the man who had never heard of the Dar
In the Jersey Derby we shall see Saxon run
again. It il likely enough that he will be beaten,
for in the Belmont 1t was q very close thing with
four OF them, and many think the FORMER won,
because ne was waited with till within less than q
furiOng of hOme A desperate race may be pre-
dicted. In the Hopeful Stakes We shall see a 0ne
lot of youngsters For the Cup, with other good
horses, we may look for Tom Bowling and Freak
ness. The former is grand looking horse,
and seems be right up to the pitch OF condition.
Many deem him invincible over the two miles and
a hall; but in Preakness we have horse OF great
sDeed and power. He Is the IanerCaSt Ol America.
He came out at three years old, and this Is his
fourth year upon the turf or all his successes his
races at Jerome Park last month were, perhaps.
the most brilliant. Carrying III pounds ne beat
SprngbOk and others two niles with ease. In
another handicap he carried l2S pounds, and beat
u field of horses with ease, giving some Of them
fifty pounds. There will lie no lack Of fine horses
at TINS meeting. Among them we shall bave Lyt
tletOn again u very last true runner, once the
henchman of IOnuleOW. and partly SACRIFICED.