Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-05-13
Correspondence. Of the Richmond wAir.

} WAsuIseros, May 10, lssI.
virginia Loco Focos must be we'll informed a. te
Jaeff, often think. when one takes into conside
ration The sources whence the Richnonj Enquire,
o''en' u not always. draws them. Its New York
Jaeas' Tor example. come from tho New York He.
RAID paper hawked about tho streets Of New
York, in which the moro falsehoods and caricature,
the better sale, and which 10 Of such character thai
agentIeman in New York will not permit il to sol
his table. Virginia Loco Focos, then, have their
hght from the scavenger concern of a great civ
""o what calls itself the leading paper in Virginia
On inc Loco Foco side, passes of such stuff a, truth
upon the farmers Of Virginia. SO in Philadel phia-
tue Enquirer prefers sources of information thu
penny affairs that in all great cities can flourish hes,
on garbage, to the regular organs of It's political
| friends.
IL the farmers OF Virginia do not all know IN.
iact quite time TO publish it, that in New York
anu Philadelphia, large numbers OF men get their
,ehhood oy inventing and printing trash and carl.
Gnturcs OF all kinds. Thus, in New York and
Fhiadephia there issued already for the public
appetite SIX or eight different land all horrible and
pSny interesting confessions OF the murderer
nooinson' Of New Brunswick, N. J., not one of
winch has the least foundation in fact but all pure
invention. There is, in New York, a sheet called
inc Poiyanthus" which hourishes by publishing
.eenes OF me begnios there-and there is another
paper, which lives by publishing pretended scenes
Vi young ladies' visiting young men for the purpose
OF reforming their immoral habits. Now the He
au winch the Enquirer quotes COR facts, is only of
another school, but of the same category.
Newspapers, thus the readers of the Enour,r
should see, are like c'ergymen, lawyers, ply sicans
OF any other class OF profess onal men TO be heard
ana esteemed, as they are OF character and honor
Is II not disgrace, them thata Virgnan should at
tempt TO instruct Virginians by a class of Northern
publications which Northern gentlemen will hardly
permit even in their kitchens1
The Enquirer, remark, makes a great ds,inc-
tfon between originating and publishing a false.
hood, when there is difference in the crminality
OF the act, particularly when fIlsehood is publish
ed which the Editor has reason TO discredit but
winch, 10y republication, the Editor, it WERE en-.
uorses. IL pretends TO respect the decencies and
charities OF life in its editorial columns hut ii re.
publishes the grossest calumnes and attacks upon
private character, from the lowest and rashiest of
the Northern papers!
Another thing IN the Enquirer is almost peculiar
10 That paper. IL strives to keep up preudces and
Old lines oil Distinction between the different Sec
lions OF the Union, and 10 sustain itself by attack
ing every body not OF its party that lives else
Whe'e' IL IS not only paruZtn, but q sectional |
newspaper, oil a very mSchieyous order The Ed. |
tor has forgotten that since he came upon the STAGE
New fork and PHILADELPHIA nre not Us then, seven
and ten days from Richmond, but now not forty- !
esht hours, If even Ihirtysix. The constant COM
mumcation that would break down preiudices ia |
~hieh, though, he strives in vain, as long as a |
steamboat runs upon the Potomac, or james River.
or a locomotive runs Railrozj.
lhere Is no news of Importance in the city-but
'he heaus OF departments are busy at work. pre- |
pairing Tor the Extra session of Congress They all
work hard, and are unremttngly engaged IN the |
duties OF their respective Offices.
mere is no sort OF doubt that the Sub Treasury
Will Oe repealed among the earliest acts of Con. |
gress IL has been in operation a wear, and i, in |
operation now, and 1t has sort of effect in equal
lZing exchanges, or IN giving the People a curren-
cy The vote IN the Senate W i'll be large on the re-
peal, for the two Locofoco Senators from Pennsyl
wanna are instructed 10 vote for repeal and will
OBEY The question will then come up between |
The old State Bank system and National Bank
as 10 which, however men may differ about Ma |
uonaI Bank, II seems 10 me there cannot be much |
difference IN choice Of the two "evs" then 10 be
left.
remark, that it is proposed TO asitate in Virgil
ma abou: "a Tariff for Protection" and "In'ernal
Improvement" by the National Government. IL |
would be quite as reasonable to agitate about the
Arundeian Marbles and the iriuiIrm and ousaTi- |
pinrn OF the good old days of Aquinus and Scoius
lnasmuch as Of these last subjects is as likely TO
come up as the other.
The Governor Of the State of New York has Ask !
co the FEDERAL Executive here TO make reauisi- |
Ioh ior Mitchell, an absconding torger and EI. NJ |
(Which the Federal Government declines doing
upon me ground that there is treaty 10 that Ell
iect The British Minister, however has been
called upon TO interpose his good Offices.
ihe Secretary Of the Treasury has instituted
and dispatched Commission TO New York TO look
INTO the affairs of the New York Custom House
ne commission consists OF three gentlemen. viz
Ex-Gov. PoindeXter, Mr.. Kelley of Ohio ic,nal
commissioner and Mr. Russell, late a Member of
Congress from New York.
The President has been talking OF short visit 10
Virginia, before the Extra Session of Congress.