Gen. Washington's Horses

Fond of horses, the stables of the President were ahvays in th finest order, and his equipage excellent both in taste nnd quality. Indeed so long ngo as the days of the vico regal court of Lord Botetourt at Williamsburg, in Virginia we find that there existeii a rival ry between the equipnges of Col. Byrd, a magnate of t'-,e old regime, and Col. Washington, the grays ngainst the bnys. Bishop, the celebrated body servant of Braddock, was the mnsler of Washington's stables. - And there were what was termed musHn horses in those old days. At cock-crow the stable boys were at work ; al sunrise ! the bishop stalked into the slables, a muslin handherchief in his hand, which lie applied to the coats of the animáis, and, if the slightest stain was perceplib'.e upon the muslin, up went the Iuckless wiglits of the stable boys, and punishment was administercd inslanter ; for to the veteran bishop, brod amid llie iron disoiple of European armies, mercy for onything like a breach of duly was allogether out of the quostion. 'f he Prcsident's stables in Philadelphia were under the direction of Germen John, and the grooming of the whiie charge rs will rather surprise the modems. The night before the horses were expecled to be rode, they were covered entirely over with a pasle of which whiting was the principal component part ; then the animáis were swathed in body-cloths, and left to sleep upon clean straw. In the morriing ihe composition had becorne havd, was well rubbed in, and curried and brushed, which process gave to the coats a beautiful, glossy, and satin-like appearanee. The hoofs were then blacked and polished, themouths washed, teeth picked nnd cleaned ; and, the leopard skin housings being properly ndjusierf, the white chargers were led out for service. Such was the grooming of ancient timos.