New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-06

the last Territorial Delegate Oh Ne'duh DeAoi0 1"
became a State, when Stewart was
made Senator. Mr. Fitch then moved
to salt Lake City, and was the personal counsel OF
Brigham Young and had all the important cases
connected with the Mormon Church. After going
to Europe he settled in California again, and then
moved to Arizona Territory, where he again became
the most distinguished lawyer as he had been IN
Nevada and Utah. Mrs. Fitch told me that she had
crossed the continent thirtysix times by stage or
railroad. besides going between New-York and San
Francisco by water seven times, anq she IS stll
young woman. Everywhere MIR. Fitch mas been ne
has been prosperous, but has been Deckoned 10
some other field by greater apparent prospects,
He has recently settled at Minneapolis, Minnesota,
where he has leading opportunity and cOnnec-
tions He WAS no mean competitor of Bob lngersoll
on the religious question: and in Congress was con-
sidered te most electrical speaker Mrs. Fitch says
she enioyed her residence at Prescott, Arizona, as
much as anywhere: although the country is very
hot the altitude relieved it, and such able ana
spirited men were constantly coming into Arizona
to prospect and practice law, or to seek opportu-
mites, that the society. isolated as 1t was. had
high refinement We send our finest geranlums
West, no doubt of that. to exhae their sweetness
on the desert air. but they can't stay away lroin
old New-York long, gentlemen!
The winter is hard on the bouquet business. and
STAY by the fire good deal of the time reading about
botany and mythology, and plying the poor
horses and admirlng the plumbers. This is the
shortest month in the year, and the last month of
winter and not leap year. God be thanked!
Bergh ought to issue his warrant for General Hazen
the new weather clerk, who is giving the horses
such Broadway. Going up Broadway yesterday
saw three down and one dead.
The spectacle of horse that neither bark, nor
howl nor speak going down dumb and only elO-
quent of nostrils, is generally intensified by the
HELPLESS idlocy of the crowd which in one moment
assemblies to see this piece of free vvseCtiOn. Yes
terday saw a horse fall and try twelve times 20
rise, and nobody knew how it conld be done till a
woman walked out from the sidewalk without n
word, and putting her hand i'll the sleigh drew out
one of the blankets there and threw 1T under the
animals fore feet he felt something he could stand
on and by that one fore foot he brought his whole
body up. and looked around glad and trembling,
like Lazarus raised from the dead.
In one Of CoOpcrs novcls-that Cooper, who in
knowledge of nature and American self-rellance,
was worth ali the Cuttings engaged in fiction
is a description of the cry Of horse, in his super
equine moments he docs sometimes speak: "'tis
the horrid shrek that horse will give in his
agony; oftener drawn from him in pain, though
sometimes in terTOr-a cry neither human nor
earthly penetrating the Utmost hearts of all who
heard it and followed by stiffness apparently as
deep" Could the agony Of the dying horses Of
New-York be collected in one great yell on any day
the occupations of this city would be deserted like
the forest cavern when that one tethcred horse
appealed to God from the wolves that were around
him.
HORSE WITH SOMETHING BESIDES OATS IL HIS
BELLY.
There was a city once of which / have seen
painting in the COrcoran Gallery at Washington.
where the ghost of the horse returned to plague it,
1t WAS the city of Troy-nOt the city of that name
familiar with such regular old horses as General
Wool Martin Townsend and john NJ. Francis. but
the Troy which preceded Europe and settled the
hash Of Asia. / dreamed this dream of Troy only
yesterday.
This great city had abused its horses hundreds OF
years and felt no regret: Mr.. BerSh was there to
arrest any man who resented being kicked by
hose; the missionary spirit had not been born; for
it was twelve hundred years before the Messiah
came, riding on an ASS foa
For unnumbercd years the silent horse had re-
ceived his stripes and died in Troy. making
ton of his SORROWS and expecting no rccompense
with Bcllero phon beyond the stars. He bent his
head Of noble carriage his neck so Rodlikc. and his
golden maue that Knocked tho l0oscned tresses Of
Queen lleen's hair; died upon the dunghcap with
out witness and left his bones for testimony with
but consideration. The aged stallion coming home
rom warfare, that tramped to music and felt the
love of country the dccOrons dam of beautiful sons
and daughters which had winnOwed in King Priam5
stables and thrown the culver of her amOrous nos
tn INTO the racing sincws of her children, received
honor respect in the time of pain. bu passed
into tho hands of cxpressmen and cO,termongers or
died blind in the traces of the Trojan hacks and
omnbuses. Then came the Greek invasion and
nine years of siege, and forthwith my ladys saddle
mare or great Ilector's Relding went
for beef, till not horse remained
to neigh beneath Mount Ida IN the
sight of Troy The stalls were vacant no horse
shoe over the doorlintels remained to presage good
luck to man the current of Scamandcr never bore
the shadow of comey iiy or q drinking colt
The bcseGcrs failed, yet kept to their task. and
after the sorrows Of famine and confinement had
sown the vices of war through all the popuace
their captain. Hector. slain and dragged by
horses around their walls. Achilles, his murderer
also drank the dust but now both sides appealed
to the gods to decide their quarrel, and the Greeks
made the easy terms: " Take in our wooden hoise
We worship through the nOstrls of a stced. 1t is a
compliment to you. whose founder. Gordus left the
plough and made the cart his altar, while Midas his
royal son. was turned into all ass and TO save YOU
from the earthquake. his grandson, Ancharns, rode
his unfaltcring cOnroer into the open chasm-the
man and the horse the noblest things in Troy! Re-
ceIve our horse, and the Gods will hear us7
So, through the Scean gate, over which the statne
OF a horse unnOticed had presided, they drew the
wooden wonder They broke the high walls down
TO let the monument pass in. In the blue night he
stood prodgiOus, like a cathedral and spro against
the stars. Pulleys and blocks rollers and tackle.
brought the dumb efgy in. The people Of the city
throngcd around 1t, and not nan in I'll the mul-
tude but felt that perhaps that image OF the sacred
horse was remembering to heaven their SEPARATE
crueies to his race; and while they gazed IN SINNER
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