The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-08-12
The weekly Dispatch,


The Weekly Dispatch, g..
For Friday, August IL, is now ready anu ~
sale at this Office. Its contents e.llO'a "a AZ
: torials, general miscellany. iore,s" saa..
nestle intelligence items ETC. .sa,.sa.a
!. per single copy 81 per annun'' IN a'' "'ee
!. In the busy whirl of national events, !, ~ :
astonishing how soon men ana tnihss ase ~
800 cont of sight, out of mind'--fhe pithy
/ ga srovarb Of decaying friendships--has
. ,,,a,a,cbolv appropriateness TO popular favo-
- ,,bo have passed from daily observa-
.;a,,-wbe,her into obseurer life or within the
nortals of the tomb. We could not dismiss
This reflection when we read the other day
thot curt announcement that Colonel Bliss
General TAYIoR,s son-in-law, died at Pasca
uoula. August 5th, of yellow fever" This
ssa ;n,a,,;genee is all we have heard of Col
.gr,ss for many months. No longer promi
nentlv before the public in his official station
he had been quite forgotten by those who
were once eloquent with his praises. -Four
wears ago, and no journalist in the land would
have published the news of the death of Col
Bliss without accompanying il with the ex.
preston of his individual sorrow and his
sense of the great loss the country had sus'
tanned. Now, the mournful tidings are pub
lished mostly in the briefest phrase-we can
not stop to write obituaries of men no longer
great in the public eye!
One of these days when the history of our
own times comes to be written, the career OF
Col. Bliss, short as it has been, will make as
respectable figure in it as that of any of his
contemporaries. Beyond his shining military
distinction, his lofty bearing and manly vir
tues, the historian will find in his high literary
attachments material for lasting fame. 1t il
due to truth and justice that the credit O.
General TAYLoR's dispatches should at las
be assigned to the man who wrote them, anG
these wonderful campaign papers were from
the pen of Col Bliss. The evidences are
abundant, and we presume the warmest ad
mirer of General TAYLOR will not now ques
ton the propriety of assigning to Col. Bills:
all due honor for their composition. At once
remarkable for their fulness and their perspi
Snity, they challenge comparison with the des
patches of Napoleon or Wellington.
The writer of this never saw Colonel BLISS
but once, but on that occasion the modesty Of
the gallant soldier was signally displayed. II
was during General TAYLoR's occupation Of
the Executive mansion, and Colonel BLISS
had come from Washington to join his wife
who was sojourning at the Sweet Springs
At Callaghan's, where the road branches of
to the latter place, Colonel BLISS could find
no conveyance, and tried in vain to procure
a horse. The landlord did not know him, and
he would not discover himself as the son-in-
law of the President of the United States,
preferring to walk eighteen miles mostly at:
ter nightfan, which he did, leaving his bag
gage to be forwarded by the next coach
Imagine the surprise of the landlord when
he afterwards learned that the gentleman to
whom he had refused his horse was Colonel
Bliss, the distinguished hero of the Mexican
war!
Col. Bliss fell victim to that malignant
epidemic, now so fatally raging at New Or
leans, which respects neither rank nor SEX
The last severe visitation of the fever carried
off the gifted Judge WILDE, aud now we
mourn man of the first promise in another
branch of the public service. Death when
he strikes singly, or by battalions, loves a
shining mark