The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-12-17

until ii should have rolled itself dry, was
| sensible nan, compared to him who should
| make any calculations upon the willingness OF
| Dryasdust to make one step in advance. We
have been too long accustomed TO observe the
small motives which govern the actions OF the
tribe, to hope that they will ever become more
enlg htened, more liberal, or less disposed to
sacrifice any, the greatest public measure, to
| their own interest, real or imag mary. The oil
and tallow interest has been known, in more
than one city, to oppose successfully, for
time, the introduction of gas. A stallion
clique was found, in a certain quarter Of this
very State, TO be most formidable obstacle in
the way OF projected improvement. We re-
peat it; there is no hope in them or from them.
Bring TO this single point tomorrow, all the TO-
bacco inspected in N. Orleans, added to all that
Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and
| Ohio, stimulated by high prices and constant
demand, can produce-pile it up in our ware
| houses, in our streets, on our commons, until
the accumulated mound make Ossa but q
mart'-there let il lie, until the very hoops
and slaves rot from around it-still, for them,
the time will not have come. For two hundred
and forty years, the interests of this State have
| been in the hands of the Dryasdust family
For two hundred and forty years, with every
thing that q boun,iful Providence could lavish
upon them, they have been striving TO build up
| q town on James river. AT the end ottwo hun
dred and forty years, they tell US that the time
| is not come. When will ii come? A lille
common sense, we should think, would teach
US that when we expect an enormous trade, it
would be proper to provide some means Tor
disposing oft. But Dryasdusi thinks differ
emily. He wishes it all to come down upon
US and then to get rid of it as best we may, by
means of his precious charter parties, or other
ingenious contriyances for keeping up ancient
and obsolete usages. What, indeed, is the
use of any other method? The astounding de-
claration has been made in the House of Dele
| gates, that time is an elemsnt Of no cOnse.
quence in the affairs Of commerce, so far, at
! least, as tobacco is cOncerned-that the differ
ence of a fortnight in the arrival Of the COM
modify at its destination, will not justify the
slightest increase OF freight and this opinion,
so gravey altered, is but the echo of senti-
|
those who have the interest and prosperity Of
| the State most at heart have spent years in en-.
deayoring TO modify, if not TO eradicate. A far
mer will tell you that he does not care for 4
railroad, because il costs him nothing to get
his crop 20 market. When you ask him how
| il happens that he is SO much uckier than the
rest ofhis countrymen, he explains to you that
! he carries it 10 market himself, with his own
team driven by his own driver, who carries
| provisions for himself and for his horse along
with him. His own time, worth, if he himself
| be worth button, at least as much as an Irish
canal laborer's, that is TO say, one dollar a
day, the time of his driver, worth on his plaI-
| tation at least as much more, the time Of his
four horses and wagon. worth at least five dol
lars day, aud altogether amounting to quad
ripple the sum transportation by railroad would
| cost him, are all set down at zero, simply be-
cause he does not put his hand in his pocket
| and take out the money. Ask the same man
why he has not put up his fence, and prevent
| ed the cattle from coming in upon his CROP
The answer is, 81 have not had time - Ask
him why he has not weeded his corn, or
cockled his wheat, or pulled his fouder, 81
have not had time" Ask him why he has not dit
ched his sreek lands, to preserve his crops from
overflow, the cry is STILL Il have not had time"
| Yet he has had time to send his driver, his
gon and his horses probably one hundred miles
10 market, and he has time also to poke on
at the tail of the wagon on horseback. This
idea, so false ia conception, so disastrous i'll
action, so antagonistic to all advancement, so
Characteristic of the people Of Firg mia. SO
baleful in it's influence upon Virginia's fol-
tunes, we never expected to see preached in
high places, where Intelligence is supposed to
be the guide, and progress The end Of delbera-
ton. In all human affairs time is Of incalcu
| liable importance. 1t is wealth, it is power, il
is reputation, il is the state of probation, it is
the threshold OF eternity. That the tobacco
trade, Of ali things existing beneath the heav
ems, is thar alone on which it can exert Use no
influence, is proposition so monsrous, that
we are prepared for almost anything that may
hereafter be said during the discussio ion OF this
subject.
- A new Coal Stock was introduced at
the New York Stock Board on Tuesday,
called the New York coal mining Company
-. George II. Draper, Esq, bearer of
Dispatches from the American Minister in
| London came over in the Arctic.
~" The work on the Orange and Alexan-
dria Rail road is progressing, we learn, with
fine spiit, and under the most favorable au
spices.
| SEVERE PUNISHMENT OF A HIGHWAY
RoBBER-Benjamin Getchell was tried and
convicted at Portland, Me-, on Tuesday, for
highway robbery, and an attempt to kill David
Moore by poison, and sentenced to the pen-
Tertiary for life.