The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-01-24

mas also used every exertion to save he 80.
| Dut tne Tong distance which he had - c,ip,s rs,
made u utterly impossible for him to break s h;s
The Georgia from Baltimore. a,.o e.:,.,
yesterday, owing no doubt to the ice: canssl a.s1
quentiy we had no mail from the Norlh.
There was considerable ice IN. nm h., ,,,,,,,.
ana just below the city the river was frozer
entirely across. The New York packer sA shr4
Mary Jane after getting up as far as Crsnev
Island, was compelled 10 anchor on account
OF the Ice. This is the first time that our bar.
pour mas been at all Obstructed by ice for some
fourteen years. 1850
The Herald Of the 22nd, says: "We are
stii! deprived Of both Northern and Southern
has stopped the communication with Rain.
more and Richmond 80
we suppose the mail of the 20th from Bal
timore, which came through by way of Rail-
road from Norfolk, was placed on board the
bay boat at Annapolis.
EXCITING ScENE.-The Charleston Standard
says the most thrilling scene of the session of the
south Carolina Legislature, was that in the Houae
between Mr. Hutson and Gel. John s. Preston n
arose On the report OF the latter upon the Calhoun
and Butler monuments. Mr. Hutson opposed the
report, and remarked that this was not the tne n,
build monuments, since it remained to be settled
whether Mr.. Calhoun's doctrines were TO be truu,.
phant or dishonored He intirnated that the sun.
poseo decision at the last October elections if con.
soefed as hna had placed the State in an attitude
10 dlshonor the memory of Mr.. Calhoun and that
'ne people OF the State were unworthy to erect
monument TO him. These remarks aroused chi
Preston to an immediate and thrilling reply He
SAID tnat he regarded the of this State as
democratic republican, and his reading taught him
hat under this torin the voice of the people
| through their constituted modes" was not onlv
the rule OF the State but the honor of the State In
october last, that voice had been proclaimed over
| the land He who stigmatizes its decree is SLAM
derer OF his country; he who rejects its rule is
| traitor, and deserves traitors DOOM If there be
oshonor IN the State which there is not il is with
tnose VINO strive to give vitality to an ephemeral
clanor, which rose with the insects of May and was
slienced with the frosts of October Most of those
| VINO joined IN or were deluded by this clarnor are
vlrtoas and patriotic and yield to the sovereign de-
cree Wnicn aispelied It. But If there be those who
SUI! clDg to Its purposes, and willing to take up
the dust OF Calhoun and Sutler, TO give them new
Bic, neither virtue pa.riotism nor the honor of
the state, can be brought to sanction the effort
Thus Col r. continued to maintain that the voice Of
The people Is the power and rule and honor OF the
State He spoke with electrifyins effect his large
manly form shaking hanutteTable feeling and his
unrivalled elocudon giving power to his werds
which cannot be made apprecable. There was,
! tnere could be, no reply made to him Ii was clear
that he had carried the feelings and Judgment of the
House, and that taunts and sneers were silenced
THE WEATHER IN CHARLEsToN.-we yesterday
mentioned that there was every probability of the
weather becoming considerably colder than it was
at the hour we penned the paragraph. Nor were
| our anticpations unfounded, as at A. NJ. the mer.
curry in the Thermometer. at the rear of our Office,
stood al 20 degrees, and at 8 at ls deg. 1t then
however, little at it stood at g deg, at
noon at 80 deg., at 3P NJ at 80 deg, and at at 81
deg-ln other localities in the city, the thermome-
| ter was much lower iii one house in the western
| part it was down at A. NJ, to IA deg. and the
mill ponds in that vicinity, well as as the still
water in some OF the docks, were frozen over.
| The Wilmington boat too arrived yesterday morn
| ing, with both her wheel houses encrusted with
| ice. The cars likewise, from Hamburg, and CO.
lumba, did not arrive until half past tour yester
| day afternoon, in consequence OF scarcity of
water replenish the boiler of the engine, occa-
sioned by the tanks on the road having been fro
| zen over Charleston Courier.
RUSSIAN ARxY.-The Triester Zietung has cor.
respondent at 81. Petersburg, who says:
|, "The number of foot (Guard Corps, Grenadier
corps six Infantry corps special Caucasian corps,
Recruits, Cossack infantry on the Black Sea, Greek
| Battalion) is 6i035i. The regular active cavalry
/
cavalry Caucasian eorps,) is 10l, ,902 The ar
tillery in activity counts IL 902 men. Adding the
! engineers tpontonniers pioneers, workmen, &c)
and the staff, &C., the entire active army VIII amount
| 10 $4,000 men, A calculation made before the cam
| paien in Hungary is said 10 have shown that there
| were on paper 100000 men of all arms who could
| be employed to cross the European frontiers This
number diminished by iO per cent, wnen me
/ march actually begun. On the other hand py can
ing out the reserves and the men at all the depot
| there are 10000 additional, on paper. amer
all it may be assumed us certain ins iof ,.
war beyond the western fronuers between le DALI
ana the Dapubian Princpaltes, Russia mas not moIe
a. @ or aoo f,eo men and OF these quarter must Do
kept in Poland
p.,r,su psEss AND THE U. 8. NAgrs-The
pr;,;sb Unlted Service Journal thus speaks Oh our
Navy ., s,.t. r.os, hrave
J., mos, gsllantly have the officers and men in the
naval profession OF America held up the honor OF
their flag There is scarcely one action in wnicn
the slightest imputation can be cast on any inovE
dual They have never avoided their enemies eN
cen,ine when il would have been the height OF im-
prudence TO have faced them. They have Iougnf
with the most determined valor, They have, IN
many cases, been su .eessful over nation which
held updispured the command Of the ocean, and
this very circumstance of combating an enemy
flushed with almost universal victory, adds agseas
laurel to the navy Of the United States
IyrExcEssIoN FoR ANTOINE Lofzz-ft SAID
that the spanish munster ~ " ssnaussun ~ -. -.
dressed acommuniea ton to the State Department.
desiring that fs contents may be Forwarded 70 Gov
sYnor iiunt soliciting the pardon Of Antoine Lopez.
the Spanish sailor, now lying n the Temes under
sen,ence Of death, for the murder Of policeman
tsleyranhc dispatch giving this rumor, says that
.considerng the late set Of mercy of the Owen Of
snain toward one hundred and City As1ericsa
prisoners, his Excellency, the Governor q New
Yo.k would act bat courteously BY aticsst grant
ins the prisoner respite" We conceive tho eases
10 be entirely different and have no dea that Ne
spanishsMinster weuid base an application Tor he
pardon sof murderer, upon the gruuad g sns
has been made, II would seem more probable mas
Ii founded upon other reasons.s-sM e Co. 80 4