Horse-Racing--Gambling

We regrei to fiad tnat our most respectable papers are pulilishing accounts of recent races in New York, where 50,000 persons aseembled t witness the decisión of the important quesiion - which of tvvo horses could run the fastest. They contain detaüed accounts oí the various bets. as ofiered and taken on the different animáis, apparenlly with approbation. Such things are to be looked for as a matter of course anionga certain clas of papers But we hope our rcspectnble Editois will th'mk well ot it, bel'ore they créate a taste in the community for bucIi an amusement. One editor says: fíWe are no sportsman - we have never secn any thing better thnn a scrub race. and yet our blood dances in reading the lifè liko descripiioi of the scène on the Union course." Are we to have the whole series of Souther customs introituced among us - horse-racing - cock-fighting - duelling - gambling- betting o elections. and the other nameless wnysofvitiating public moral? which prevail tliere? Hereis one large step towards it - or rathcr here are two - for horse-racing includes gambling And if ii is glorious to but on the running of a horse, how much more so on the running of a maníor office? The bull-fights of Spain would be quite as rational as these races. If our citizens are taught to believe that the running of horses in New York is a glorious affair, then the introdu ction cf "sorub" races into all our villages must be pío portionately glorious, and a crowd of aspiran tt alter fame will spring up in every grog shop and bar-room. Would the condition of society be improved b the general prevnlence of such a custom? Wh would be benefitted by it - or we might rathei ask, wbo would not be injured by it.