Besides the "Washington Course, near Charleston, there are other 

 places where race meetings were held annually in the State of South 

 Carolina. We will give the names of some : — St. Mathews, Pendleton, 

 Greenville, Barnwell, Newberry, Pineville, Laureftsville, Union, Dead- 

 fall, Beaufort, Strawberry, Georgetown, Fulton, Camden, Columbia, 

 Orangeburg, Cherokee Ponds, Limestone Springs and Yorkville. 



The races at many of these places have been discontinued long ago. 

 At Orangeburg, now numbered among the things that were, Argyle, the 

 competitor of "John Bascombe," in his nuitch at Augusta, made his first 

 race. 



At some of the above mentioned places, the meetings progressed 

 wonderfully in a few years from their first organization, particularly the 

 Columbia Club, established in the Spring of 1828, and which bid fair 

 in a short time, being under the countenance of such patrons as Col. 

 Hampton and Col. Singleton, and other influential supporters, to effect 

 much towards the accomplishment of the great end iu view, namely: 

 the perfection of "the thorough bred." Columbia had two meetings in 

 the year; and from the produce stakes whi<-h were instituted there, 

 owing to its proximity to a neighborhood where there are many breed- 

 ing farms, there was no reason why the old Club should not have been 

 kept up with the same spirit and eclat that for many seasons charac- 

 terized its proceedings. 



A new Club has recently been formed at Columbia, and a fresh start 

 made, under favorable auspices. A very gratif\ing meeting was held 

 there in December last. The Congaree Course has been thoroughly 

 refitted, and extensive arrangements made for the accommodation of the 

 public, under the direction of Mr. Thomas Puryear, who is now proprie- 

 tor of the Course. 



Pineville is, and always has been, a very popular meeting. It has 

 many attractive and peculiar features. It is a meeting conducted en- 

 tirely unlike any other we know of in our country. It is aristocratic in 

 its character — or, we ought rather to say, the company in attendance is 

 always of so select an order, composed of the gentry of the immediate 

 neighborhood, that it resembles a large united family party, rather than 

 the promiscuous throng of all sorts and conditions of people it is usual 

 to find congregated on a race ground in other places. 



