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We ttink the name of this interesting meeting ought to be changed 

 from " Pineville Races " to " Goodwood Races," after the most fashionable, 

 and, perhaps, delightful place of meeting at present in England. The 

 Course at Pineville not only resembles that famous and popular locale 

 (we have alluded to) in situation, being surrounded by a fine park or 

 wood^ but the company is likewise always so good, that we cannot but 

 come to the conclusion that the name of " Good-Wood " very appropri- 

 ately applies to it. 



At Goodwood (being private property), " the sacred precincts" are 

 guarded with th^ utmost vigilance by the Duke of Richmond, part of 

 whose domain it is, and who suffers no gambling booth or tent, or any 

 thimble or^'^migg. tables, of any description, to be erected ; and con- 

 stables, employed specially for the purpose, have strict instructions to 

 apprehend all persons so offending,^r gaming in any other way what- 

 ever. At Pineville the "^me rule^ and surveillance are observed. In 

 fact, everything is conducted with the strictest decorum and refinement ; 

 indeed, so much so, that if it were not for the name of the thing, the 

 most pious and rigid moralist could attend the races without being 

 offended in the slightest particular, or being able to take exception to 

 any of the proceedings going on around them. 



The Pineville meeting, therefore, is purely one of pleasure, divested 

 of every attraction for the mere business men t)f the Turf — for those, I 

 mean, who only follow it professionally — but it is pleasanter to many 

 other persons on that very account; and many worthy old gentlemen, 

 " good men and true," all of the olden time, surrounded by their <lescen- 

 dants of the second generation, come out to have a day's enjoyment at 

 it who never bet a cent — and, perhaps, do not know of, at all events 

 take no thought of, tlie thousand other events that are " coming off" 

 from time to time during the residue of the year in other parts of the 

 country ; they, probably, have never seen a race at any other place. 



During race week, the most jovial conviviality abounds in the neigh- 

 borhood. To write on this subject, however, to persons who know 

 society only as it exists in other parts of the United States, is like point- 

 ing out the beauties of nature to a blind man ; he may hear, but cannot 

 comprehend your meaning. Here you see a people — a primitive people 

 standing by themselves — a type of the feudal past — living upon the 

 lands of their fathers, marrying and intermarrying, continuing to j)rac- 

 tise that hospitality, &nd those polite attentions to strangers, which their 

 fathers practised " in the good old times before them." The venerable 

 Major Samuel Porcher, long regarded by his neighbors with an affection 

 little short of idolatry — the kind-hearted Stephen G. Deveaux, and his 



