The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-20

q Fairfield 70 witeess the race for the Jockey Club
Purse Of ESQ, four mile heats, between the famous
and succesEful old racers, Red Eye and Lew
son." These rivals having met several times be-
fore, and every body having their speed and bot
tom at their fingers end, but very little betting
took place, and Of course very little money was
lost Occasionally banter Of FIVE or ten TO one
was accepted. the odds being temptation to those
who took all chances Of falling, boiling and stud
ing, but even these enticing bats enfrapped few
suckers, only
At o'clock the rivals were led down the quarter
stretch, each looking In fair condition. but neither
OF them appearing perfect. Some short time after
this, the horn soundedto saddle, and Red Eye
having the inside the two came up, and at the tap
Of the drum dashed OIL. Lawson getting some feet
start soon drew clear of his opponent and took the
inside, when Red Eye made run at and locked
him, before they had gone quarter OF a mile
Side by side the two moved along Parker, the joe
key Of Red Eye occasionally throwing out " feel
err" merely to ascertain whether his gallant charg
er was ready to answer when called upon FIND
ing that he had the heels and was moving on kind
w. Parker took a strong pull on the ''old horse,
and laying in wait for any brush of his opponent
led him off length or two only, by way OF add
ing more interest to the sport until the quarter
stretch of the fourth mile entered, when the
pace of each quickened, and very pretty brush
for home was made, Red Eye winning the heat
by three lengths in SOB.
The race was now looked upon as closed, and
those who had backed the horse, felt just happy
as If they had their bets in their pockets. Indeed
we did not hear bet made from this time to the
end of the race.
Second Heat.-Forty- five minutes haviag elapsed,
and the contestants having cooled off finely, they
were again called to the stand, received the word
and let go. Lawson took up the running from the
jump and though unable to catch and pass Red
Eye kept up succession of brushes from the begin
ming to the end never giving his competitor, VINO
is much the aeetest, the slightest opportunity tor
slackenipg his speed, or going easily. Reo Eye
of course won the heat by length or two, IN s
minutes being three seconds faster than the hrst
heat, every foot oil which was run by Lawson un'
der heavy press
The track was quite heavy, the day very warm
and the weights carried by each sufficiently great
to tell on small horse in long race. Lawson,
though beaten, has proved his game ana enou
rance and if a little more speed could be infused
into him. it would take OF the best gets OF " OLD
white nose, to prevent his winning every purse
for which he might be entered.
Below we place and time the entries
Jockey Club Purse $500 mile heats, free for
all ages.
John Belcher b h. Red Eyeby Boston, dam Lucy
Long, aged; 124 lbs. l
A. M. Payne b. h. Lawson, by Wagner, dam Min'
strel's dam years DID, lis lbs. 2 2
Time S:03-8:00.
Club Dinner-After the race was ended and the
purse paid Capt. Belcher the members of the
Club repaired to the residence of Mr.. JAS. TALLY,
where an excellent dinner, got up under the super
vision of Messrs Belcher, Eggleston and Others
with every substantial and luxury that sea and earth
could produce, and ali served in style that did great
credit to the management. The aiming room was
handsomely decorated with eyergreens, the handy.
work of Mrs. JAS TALLY, who displayed much taste
in preparing her festoons aad arches beneath of
which the first Vice President took his seat to dine
When left, about O'Clock, plates and knives and
forks were giving place to silver headed bottles,
whose efervescing qualities were producing quite
cannopading of corks and wires. The Notification
was Ike pit up to late hour in the afternoon and we
grated to learn that the best feeling prevailed
among all who were present.
ATufnh d., In hsgy Iz.k
has been reserved for the last at Fairfield. To-day
there to be three races over the course the first
OF which is ioT purse OF S5ooo two mile heats be-
Singletonss 6. John hopkins. Joe is known to be
bruiser" one very hard to beat, but the gentleman
who has matched John Hopkins against him. has
seen his runs at Broad Rock and New Market, knows
precisely what he can do and if he has not made
good thing of it, then he has displayed very little
judgment in making matches. On the other hand.
the friends and hackers of oe know little nothing
of John Hopkins as he has never run a race in Vir.
that he has made fine races in the Southland that
he is in the hands of of the best trainers in tho
country. All these circumstances combined, tend
to make the race exciting one, and should draw
crowd to see it.
The second race is for fine saddle and bride, to
be run for by saddle horses. As five six
pected to start this will be an interesting race.
And the last race is between trstting horses, mile
heats, best three in five, two or more to make race,
If this programme fails to draw crowd, then the
people of Richmond have but little taste for racing
An AFFAIR OF hoNoR.-A few nights
since John Cavanaugh and Michael Mckinley met
in house in Rockets, where, after few social
glasses of fighting toddy," Mike became pupna.
cious, and pulling off his coat and rolling up his
sleeves, showed strong inclination to pitch into
John and give him the benefit of his hardened mus
cles and powerful ARM by way OF showing him that
ome things could be done as well as others John
not feeling disposed to participate in pitched bat.
tie in the presence of ladies, invited Mike into the
street, and leading the way, armed himself with
q good sized ground biscuit, which he speedily
brought into forcible contact with Mikes pericra.
MUM, soon as he stepped out of the door LAYING
him on mother earth as stiff crutch Find.
ing himself go easily victorious in the rst round
but fearing the arrival of hostile recruits John at
once yam0sed the rancho and was not again heard of
until Thursday, when officer johnson fell in with
him and took him to the cage. Yesterday morn
ing John was brought before the Mayor, but Mike
being absent, the examination was adjourned un
til today.
The Cow CAsE.-John Bowles, BUTCH
er in the first market against whom the Grand jury
recently found true bill for receiving stolen cow
from Granville Montelle on the Sd inst, was arrest
ed by officer Johnson yesterday morning, and
brought before the Mayor to answer the charge
Montelle who was butcher called on Bowles and
informing him that he knew where he could pur.
chase COW, obtained 1872 to pay for it, promising
at the same time to butcher the beef and have it
ready for Market Bowles telling him that he had to
go into the country and would DE unable to attend
to it. Promising to do this, Montelle left the mar
ket about o'clock, and returned in two or three
hours thereafter telling Bowes that he had bought
the COW from gentleman in the city, who had
farm in the country, that he had butchered 1t, sold
the head and skin to the gentleman OF whom he had
made the purchase and delivered them at the pack.
ct boat to be sent to his farm Bowles as far as we
know, has always borne good character in this
community for honesty, and as the butchers were
not in the habit of complying with the ordinance
requiring them to exhibit the skin of all animals
killed by Them he may have been entirely innocent
OF all criminal design in giving the money to Mon
telle in this instance, and receiving the beef from
him. under the circumstances. If he believed Mon
telle to be honest, he might readily have been mis-
lead by his statement and without designing to do
30, been the cause of Mr.. Kerr's losing his cow IT,
however it can be shown that the prisoner had good
reason to believe that the beef he received OF Mon
telle was stolen then he guilty under the law and
will be made to suffer for it. Owing to the absence
of witnesses, the examination contnue until
this morning and the accused admitted to bail for his
appearance in the sum OF $500
COMPLAINING VIE James G. Patrick,
formerly OF Chester county, Penn, but now deni
zen of Rockets old field, was captured by officer