The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-30
LOCAL MATTERS,

Ashland Ha>r Cox,se-Thres Great Matehss.-
The proprietor of this Justly popular race
course has effected arrangements - 10 nave three
OF the four great matches, IN wnicn tne Msssls-
boswell are concerned. come on at Asnhnd
in October next. The first OF these matcnes u
a. three mile heats for $4,000, between Mr.
Fondrens mare Leisure and the Messrs. Dos.
Wsfs hofse f Essneq9sr and WIZ Se Se lns ach
between Daniel Boone and Planet, four mile
heats, for S35, 600, to be decided on the 12th OF
October. And the next is the match between
Laura Farris and Fanny Washington, three
mile heats, for &2u 600 TO be run on the iSth Of
Octeber-thus ensnring such sport for three
days as has never before been witnessed on
any race course IN this country.
From all we can learn, the Southern and
Southwestern parties who back "B0one, "will
be here in immense numbers. Alabama, Lou
isIana and Mississippi, as well as Tennessee
and Kentucky, will send on thousands Of dele
gates, and, as consequence, the railroads will
reap rich harvest from the swarms Of pas
sengefs that will find their way over them to
old Virginia. Indeed, the matches announced
will bring together thousands from all Sec
tions of the Union to see them, and the time
houored sport of the ancient Commonwealth
will receive an impetus that will entirely re-
juvenate it. The horses of the Messrs. Dos
well are now doing well, and If no accident
befalls them, Alabama and Tennessee will
have all they can do to beat them, If they do
not find themselves over-matched in each case.
Steam Fare Engines are being introduced into
all large cities. North and South, and thus su-
percedipg altogether the old hand eneines.-
The vast volume Of water they pour upon
burning building, the force with which they
eject their streams, the unceasiAg labor they
can perform. and the small number of men re-
quired to manage them, are recommendations
not to Re overlooked BY any community where
confiagrations are TO be apprehended. Rich.
mond needs and should have at once, one or
more of these labor and property saving ma
chimes. Our citizens have had the opportunity
of seeing one of them in operation, and they
know its superiority over hand engines, in
extinguishing fires. Messrs. Ettenger Ed
mond, of this city, are now building an engine
similar to the one they lately completed for
the Russian government, and it is to be hoped
that the City Council will authorize the Com
mittee on the Fire Department to purchase
it at once Nearly all the hand engines now in
use were man u factured at the Nerth and are
tar from being frst.class machines. They re-
quire great force TO work them, and if n fire
were to break out in certain localities in the
city and get fair headway, the Brigade would
find it almost impossible, because of their
want of men, to stop it, before great damage
was done. Let the city give them steam en- =
giue, however, and their force would be ample
To check at once almost any fire that might
occur. and to save thousands Of dollars worth
of property. Will not the appropriate COM
mittee, to whom the subject has been referred,
report in favor of purchasing the engine now
being built, and thus give our citizens assu-
rance that the Brigade is to have the necessa- =
ry machinery to render it effective at all
times