Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-12-31
SONS OF "KAINTUCK."
4 Story Told by Ex-GOv. Beriab Ma
 goffin, Os Kentucky.

"I well remember" said the Gov ernoI, "an incident which occurred just before the breaking out of the war, and which afforded Us infinite amusement at the time. Breckinridge, who was then Vice President Floyd, Buchanan'e Sec retary of War; Senator Powell, of ken- lucky, and myself, met one Sunday evening at the residence of Mir. Floyd, and the conversation turned on the sporting proclivities of KentuckiAns. BFeckinridge aud myself good-humored- ly maintained that Kentuckians were an improvement upon the old Virginia stock in this particular, and that, while they had inherited dash and daring of their ancestors, they were really the better of the two. As men we are your equals, at least, said l, turning to Floyd. anr vu1nen arc She handsomest in tn. #@<< We t1Te finer and faster horses, 1.4 It 1 better chickens, than the Old 4& 1|1N tnn troduce.' To the latter ,4isls .at;tItn BioSd demurred energetical- ly, and proposed then and there to ar range main to be fought on the Vir einia border. I agreed, and then pro posed to let one fight between two picked bir,is at the close of the main cecide tie question of supremacy.
 This wus agreed to, and we wagered el, GOO each on the result. Breckinridge wanted half of my $l, ,000, and gave ii to him The dispute was to come off ID September, 1850, and we arranged all the preliminaries then nrd there. When the question had bsen all adjusted l turned upon the party, and, with moch solemnity, proceeded to read lecture. "A pretty picture we present, do W. nst?' said I. Here we are, the Vice President of the United States, her Min ister of War, n Senator from Kentucky. and the Governor of the same State d, secratiug the Lords day arranging fol cock fight, while tue greatest crisis ih American history is approaching. I'm cloud is spread over more than half th, horizon, and the storm may burst snA moment ] went on ill this strain for some time, and the company at last separated.
 ''Imaeine my astonishment and dis gust the next day to read in the New York Herald a full report of our con versation and of my lecture. The hack man had given it away. When I read the HeTGid I started for the Capitol tC tsll Brecknridge about it; but on my WAY up Pennsylvania avenue my ntten Esln uns attracted by chorus of cock growing which seemed to come from < lon1 row of coops ranged in front of al express office. stopped to see what ii meant, when saw that the coops werc all directed to the Vice President Ai first did not know what to make cf it, but suddenly light dawned upon me. l. Four or five months before Breckinridg, and myself had asked Gen. Preston, wh, was about to go abroad in the discharge of his duties as Minister, to send us coop of game chickens for a gentleman of whose kind offices We were in need snd who cuu'd not be reached iu any o.ber way.
 {" Instead of one coop he had sent { dozen or more, thinking, as 1 then sup posed, that it would be an excellent joa, on us. I hurried to the Capitol, and calling Breckinridge from his place a! presiding officer of the Senate, laid th' whole matter before him. There wa ihe consignment of game chickens il confirmation of the Herald story, and assured him that unless he did some thing promptly he was a ruined Man He laughed, but tOgc cther we made Ou way 10 the express office and paid tn charges, which were enormous, amount ing, believe, to several hundred dol ars, and, having no use for the birds sent them to a noted eoclKfghter in Lex ingtOn as present.
 ''The war breaking out soon after ward, the proposed III in was declare off. Subsequently I learned the inward mss of the chicken business from Get Preston. IL seems that in visiting Mad "a, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna an o:aer Earopcan capitals he had prose cntcd inquiries about game fowls, an that when he reached London he foun all the birds he forwarded to us awaitin ss;s bis orders. As the easiest way out ( the dilemma, he shipped them to Wasl in0fou. Those cocks afterward whippe etrrything in inc United States, an thess s;rains l understand, are yet great demand.