Cost Of A Horse Race

The Brooklyn Advertíser has the fullowing estímate of the cost of the first great race between Fashion and Peytona. It is estimated that 50,000 people were on the race ground on Tuesday last, and at a fair calculation, each one, on an average drank two glasses of liquor, though some drank six or eight times that amount. That would amount to 86,250 It is not exaggeration to say that each one spent 25 ets. inedibles. That would be, 13,000 It cost 40,000 fifty cents passenger fare, 20,000 And 10,000 ono dollar each, 10,000 Half of those who attended lost each one day's wagea at $1, 25,000 Two thousand men at least got drunk and would be unablo to work the next day - loss in wages, 2,000 Five hundred pickpockets renlized f50 each, 2,500 Damages sustained by carriages, Doctors' bilis, &c. 5,000 $84,250These are all collateral items, being entirely exclusive of the money lost in betting, which the Advertiser cstimatcs at $1,000,000. From the premises, the following results are also predicted. Not lessthan one hundred clerks wil) lose good situations through attending the races. Two cases have already fallen under our own observation. F ivo hundred mercbants will be robbed to pay the losses of those in tbeir employ. One thousand families at least will be reduced from comfort to penury, through the losses of the parent. The poor houscs will be supplied with at least two thousand additional inmates, and prisons as miny. At least fifty persons wiil go to Texas, through the discovery of the means they will use to pay their dcbts of honor. - Not less than twenty men, driven to madness by their losses, will lay violent hands on themselves, or rushing headlong into vice and dissipation, speedily end their lives by miserable deaths - making at least fifteon wivesand widows and forty children orphans. Not less than one hundred valuable horses, through being over driven wHl die or be rendered worthless. Three thousand gamblers have incregsed the means of extending their baneful influence over a still deepcr sphere. "Tliey of the South did not care ono farthing whal the Constitution allowed or disollowed."- Srnator Archer of Virginia, on % Florida Bill. Mr. Archer onbtlcBS speaks the sent menta of the southern por tion of the "truc Liberty party." ET We learn that Richard Gordun, a colorcd mao, has sued tho inspectora of clcction of the "2J ward, for refuaUig his voto laBt (al]. The caee was on trial yester day before Justice Harris, and we nndcratand, is to bc taken to tlic Supicme