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A MILE A MINUTE. In your paper (says

 a correspondent of the New York Ira

 yeller) the question IS very gravely put whether Flying Childers ever ran "a mile ID 0 miaWte;;o and your correspondent quite as grayely answers, that although there is no

 ssauthentic record" of his having performed that feat, vel that he ran a quarter, at inc q,ate of a ssa mile as c miaiste," and Firetail

 actualyaccomplished thedistancei in "a aaia- ute and foar seconds? Now, l should like to ask your correspondent whether he beIsereS that .srecord" 10 be authentic, which ascrlbes this impossible performance to Firetail

 Whether he believes, that there was hofse ] in existence in 177l, 1772, or at any other ] time. that in running l760 yards ia mile) could beat the best English and American racers of the present day TIT yards, or l5l l yards more than a third of mlle! Gan It he that "hofse nesh'' has thus degenerated! Is it credible that Fitetail was able to rstn as fast as pigeon flies, and cover 82 l-2 feet of ground in every second of thme!--

 Ds i; remembered. that the stride of a good race horse is 1bosst 2l feet--a little more or little less. Now let me ask your cor respondent whether he beheUeS, that there

 ever was horse, since the time ot Boroh

 that carried Mahomet up to the seventh heaven and back again in ore night, that

 could "gother himseif up" four tlnles' and

 make four leaps fn a seeondf The thing IS Eimpossible, and the stories about the speed fof Flving Childers and FiretaIl are no bet Iter than ssoid wives fables" The best ol

 osg racers and the best of the Engiisfi al the present day, cannot cover more than AS feet in second, in running a slngle n;le-and I should be glad to know Ii ohll- Iders could "gathea" nearly twice to then

 oncel Ridiculous stories Ike these were ne-