Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-04-25


lowing from the Spirit of the Times. 1t offers an
excellent chance for aspiring turfmen:
COLUMBIA S. c., March 90, 1858.
Challenge for Fire or Ten Thousand Dollars.
i will run my colt Highlander, years old,
over the Lafayette Course, at Augusta, Georgia,
at the next annual meeting in January, 1854, on
Monday of the race week, against any horse,
mare geldng ia the United States, three or
four mile heats, for five or ten thousand dollars
one-half forfeit; the forfeit to be placed in either
OF the banks in Augusta, Georgia. The above
challenge is open until the first day of June. If
it is accepted, address r. d. Glover, Augusta,
Ca, whowill deposit the forfeit.
THOMAS PURYEAR.
MILTON AND BUNYAN-About a wear ago. an
English Clergyman, the Rev. Charles Eyre,
announced IAN improved Paradise LOST The
editor stated in his preface that sthis design was
to give more exquisite fnish' to the poetry of
Milton, "to draw off the excessive flow of learning
and remove the obscurity and heaviness with
which the poet is sometimes justly chargeable.'
Poor Mr.. Eyre We suppose his purpose was
benevolent. and therefore his miserable perform
ance would be treated lenienty; but we think
man protesting to improve Milton is not a fit OBJ
Ject OF rational censure. We Lave now another
piece of literary impiety Eefore us. The Rev.
Charles Neae has published an s.improvsd" edi-
reverend gentleman. ''the work in the state in
which John Bunyan left it caunot safely be put
into the hands of children, and as he, the editor
considers that it teaches 'sforma hefesy," .'he
cannot be called dishonest for making his author
speak what he believes with more knowledge
he would have said" We, however, regard Mr.
Neale's conduct both dishonest and foolish
Bunyan's work WILL however, outlive Mr.. Neales
charges of "vulgarity'' and s'coloquialism' aud
.0stl m IT
the latter part Of the seventeenth century there
were only two minds in Englan (Which possessed
the imaginative faculty 10 very eminent degrees:
one OF these minds produced the Paradise Lost;
the other the Pilgrims Progress"
A Centenaran Negro faniarIy known as
''Old Jacob" died near Augusta, Ga, on the 9th
inst He was purchased by Mr.. Thomas Walk
or, one of the earliest settlers of the county, in
1886, as the bill of sale declares for ESQ; being
then 20 years of age, making him at the time of
his death los years old. During the Revolu-
tionary war he was frequently taken from his
owner by marauding parties OF Wings or Tories,
as one or the other happened to be in the ascen-
dant, and was eye witness to many of the scenes
of that eventful period. He would narrate with
considerable eloquence the inglorious defeat at
Brier Creek, of the Americans under Gen. Ashe
His ideas of the merits of the glorious contest
then going on, seem never to have been very well
defined. for when asked which service he pre-
ferred Wing or Royalist, hsreply was ''wer'nt''
40 difference-all rogues, sir, all rogues.''-
Doubtless correct commentary upon this indi-
| vidual experience.
NEeRo STEALlNG.-Some weeks siuce negro
| woman and child were stolen from Col Rogers
| of Decatur, Ala. The negroes understand
were taken to Columbus Miss, in the possess
| sion of a man by the name of Richardson, form
! erly resident of Florence, but lately living in
Fulton Miss. At Columbus they took steam
boat for Mobile and nothing further was heard
from them until Richardson returned home
few days since by the way of Memphis and Hol-
ly Springs, when he was arrested and persuaded
into Alabama. We also learn that he was ex-
pected to arrive here 10 the RussevilIe stage of
last evening, and will have immediate despatch
for Sumerville, Ala. where Accommodations win
be furnished him. for the present, by the Sheriff.
| The negroes have not yet recovered, but
| Informed that Richardson owns to having taken
them to some place in Mississippi and there
left them to be sold-North A!abamiam.
DR.. Yerby. of Northampton! is spoken of as
the Wing candidate for Congress in that District.
B. ]. Barbour of Orange, gentleman of splendid
abilities, is suggested by the Warrenton Wing as
the Wing candidate for Congress from the Fred.
ericksburg District. A. Hunter, of Jefferson, has
been suggested as the Wing candidate for Con-
gress from the Loudoun Distrct-Lynch. Virg.
from the Romney (Va.) Intelligeucer that, on
the 14th instant, in the Circuit Court for that
county, Angus w. Mcdonald obtained Judgment
for $40 against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
as penalty for failing to take the plaintiff up at
Paddytown and allow him to travel in the pas.
| senger cars. Il is stated that several other suits
| OF the same character are pending in that
Court.
| Some weeks since Prince Paul, of Wurtem-
hos T,o,x~ t,.uI
| exploration of our Western territories, in the
| course of which he added largely to his coec
tions in Botany, Zoology and Mineraogy, sailed
| from this port on his was to the Straits of Ma
| gellan and Patagonia, for the purpose of explo-
ring the extremity of the South American conti-
| nent. The undertaking is bold one, but the
Prince is as much man of courage, invention
and endurance as he is savan, and if any one
can accomplish the task he has undertaken, it is
himself. The great DANCES to be apprehended
are from the sayages an want of food, and
against both these the adventurous traveller goes
as we'll provided as possible. One of the qaes-
tions may expect to have settled by the par
ty is. whether the precious metals abound in the
mountains of that inhospitable region. Nothing
is more likely than that it will turn out another
FL Dorado, and add its quota the golden flood
that is pouring upon the world. OF course, if
the Prince finds valuable mines there he will
nave the right to take possession of a reasonable
proportion of the sane for his own working, after
which the rest must be thrown open TO the
of mankind at large, like those of California and
Australia. 1t would add new feature to
the revolutions OF this revolutionary century if
Patagonia should rise into Importance, become
German colony, and suddenly come to be mighty
power in the balance OF commerce and industry
Such thing may very easily happen. but in the
meanwhile let US wait in patience for the report
OF the princey explorer-N. Y. Tribune.
CUBA AND THE SLAVE TRADE.-The New
fork Times says it learns from a credible source