Longfellow's Break-down

The correspondent of tho Troy Timm wroti; as follows about Longfellow's recent dnfoat at Snratoga : " The hoi ees run a good way across the üno before they uro brought up. The; ;;r brought back to tho ïudges' Hhinri where the jockeys are weighod off. Ar LongtYllow camo back towards tho stand it was sc-en tliat ho was vcvy luine and limping. Hu went on throe feet almost. It h;is broken his hoart, said tho sporting men, to be bcotun. If it had douu so, he had a better hoart in him thao half the men who boast their manhood. Btraightwaj' a orowd gathered about tho gallan t animal, to eee him and iind out the nature of his great mishap. His nigh foro anklö was 8wollon and swolling. There whs tho outward sign of his injury. His rider, a colored boy f rom Kcntucky, wus sadly dojected, and said that a good pieoe back lio feit horse givo way or fail inderhim ; rlicu hu stuiub]-;l and aliuost fi'll ; v.lnn ho camo in the shoo on the lamed foot was btoken. Ihie luiued horse had run on his nerve and pluck, in this maimod ondition, nigh a half inile, and torced the otln.T switt PompAtitor all the way. Suruly his blixiil told in that terrible imergency and during that dreadful torment. It was un act of patiënt, almost intelligent endúrame, which ia greatiex than gaining a race. The disaster w s something liko a favorito man stñokan by groat misfortuno. The "belief among tho veterirmry i'olks is that the tendón near the auklo is pulled ironi its fastening, nnd Longfellow's racing days aro ov"r. Others maintain that the broken shou cut the leg aud did tho harm. That Í3 the worst featuro of tho race; the only druw back. It was a splendid con test, from fíwt to last ; i nock and neok race oa you may say all tho way, and was won, perhaps, by tho uipairment of Longfollow's strongth."