The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-06-30
CONGRESS-MoEDAY.

SEEATE.-Mr. Walker presented petitions
from citizens of Washington, praying the re-
moval of the ailanlhus tree from the public
grounds.
Dir. Mason presented petitions praying an
appropriation for the repair and construction
Of the Long Bridge on its present site.
Dir. Shields reported bill extending the
provisions of the act allowing the department
10 sell and dispose of unused and abandoned
military sites; and the same was considered
and ordered TO be engrossed.
The Chair laid before the Senate message
from the President, enclosing copies of the
letter by Nj. Huisemann on Withdrawing from
his position near the United States, and the
reply thereto.
Mr.. Weller Submitted a resolution referring
the charges on file against the Commissioner
To run the Mexican boundary TO a select COM
nittee Of five. Laid over.
The Senate then proceeded to the consider
alton OF Executive business.
HOUSE or EPREsENTATIvEs.-Mr. Odds
asked but did not obtain leave to introduce q
preamble and resolution asking for the appoint
ment of q select Committee to investigate
charge, founded on public rumor," as TO the
connexion of Secretary Corwin. as an attor
ney, with the Gardiner claim.
After further proceedings, the House resum
ed the consideration OF the Pennsylvania con
tested election case.
RuFFLEs ps. RAGs.-What blessing it il
for a rogue to have some" standing" in socie
tvi We have seen man sentenced 10 three
years Imprisonment for stealing half barrel o
sugur. True il was a second offence, and was
law. But then he wore ragged coat, and hi
face wore a rougher hue til IN the lily fingered
gentry around him and who cared for him =
Nobody, of course. "Shut up the loafer; wht
cares for him." is tie language and feeling O
all " respectable people," We have seen care
worn faces confined to prison for an equa
length of time, for offences scarcely greater
and where we kaeso that rant had dricea Il
madness and desperation. Society especial
adays, you know,) said, 'served 'um ight, ,
and pieiy and philanthropy slept easy.
short time since, man stole some $780,
900 from the Suffolk Bank in Boston-stoe 4
genteelly; and he was called defaulter."-
He was not thief; oh no, not he. He was
defauitiag bank officer. Able counsel aided
him in his defence. He was tried amidst q
group of sympathising friends, and hundred.
prayed, as does the mockery of an old indict
ment: May the good Lord send you saft
deliyerance." He wore fine clothes. Then h,
had done up the thing on magnificent scale
too. This is why he had friends around him
and was not called thief This gigantic de
fault made his sin white as snow in the eyes o
his friends.
Well, this man-Mr. Brewer was his name
was tried the other day in Boston, found guilty
and sentenced to one day S solitary c0ntine
maent and three gears IN the State Prison.
The humane Judge expressed much sympath,
and regret at being obliged to sentence him St
long. II be has made his whole property safe
he gets 900 year for his services to tn
State Whether he has done this or not, h
will be respected when he comes out, and pei
haps be pardoned before his time is out.
Is Suppose man had stolen horse worth
hundred dollars: would he have been sentence
TO less than three years? The probability il
he would have received six years, if he was
poor man, and was not able to wear fine Goa,
What encouragement there is for honest
among the children of ignorance aud wan
when they see men who get good salaries steal
ing their 1000 at time, aad receiving les
sentence than those who steal 500 to saw
themselves from starvation? But there is ars
tocracy of thieves, as well as other professions
Providence Mirror.