The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-25
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ne Uh1g drops ITS political stylus in The
ast number, so far as its leader il concerned.
and discusses some difficulties now exis,;ng
With regard to the Richmond Medical College.
Il takes sides with the institution. and av.;..,
the city physicians, who hare recently memo.
Tlalized the Trustees of Hampden Sidney Col.
lege as to the right OF the Faculty of the Med.
cal College to the power of self perpe,ua,;on.
The question to be decided seems to be vh..
ther the college is joint stock corporation
owned by its professors, the shares of which
may be assigned by legal instruments and
whether the professors have the power 10 mai.
their own independent appointments. and "a.
nerally exercise control over the ins,i,u,;on :.
a quasi private enterprise. The matter !. on.
in which the public at large are somevb., ;,-
terested. The State has loaned the COLES.
S25, ,OOO, and the City of Richmond $4,000 more.
on security, but the Whig claims that these
loans do not render the College State insti,u.
lion.
The Enqairer has only short ed,o,;a, in
reply TO the Wigs article on the " Brir..
dier and the Virginia Grumblsrs."
The Mail has an article upon aBreads,ufy. u
and discusses the probable effects Of va, ana
short crops upon our agricultural interests
and upon prices. While great impulse would
be given to farming operations, and to our er.
poration Of -four and grain, the Mail re-.
grets that great suffering would ensue in Eu.
rope, and the effects of high prices be seriously
felt by the poor in this country. The spirit of
speculation, always rife in times of terrible
calamity, is deprecated, and fear expressed
that sudden rise of prices would arouse il,
10 the serious injury of the permanent in,e.
rests of the community. 3
The RIGHT OF WAY Across THE "PAs
HANDLE.'-A serious obstacle TO the CON.
structiun of the Pittsburgh and Steubenville
railroad has been the want of right of way
through that narrow strip of the soil of Virgil
MIA intervening between Pennsylvania and
Ohio, and called the " Pan Handle" The
Legislature, at its last session, having refused
the right of way, Jesse EdgiDgtoni and Natha.
MEL Wells, the owners OF the tract of ground
over which the liberty to construct the road
has been denied, have invited sealed propose Ia
for grading, bridging and completing about
sixty miles of railway on their land, with
view TO aupply the link of connection necessa-
ry to carry the Pittsburgh and Steubenville
line across territory Of Virginia.
AWFUL TO CeNT EMPLATE.-AF French irsec.
tiyorous mathematician furnishes some exfraor.
dinsry figures upon the rapidity with which
certain species of bugs multiply, and the SER
vice rendered 10 mankind by the swallows,
which feed upon them. A bag he is acquaint-
ed with, produces nine generations in season,
and he remembers pair that in one summer
were the happy ancestors OF $50 489 ,000, ,0e0,.
coo descendants! What, he asks. would be-
come OF US, were il not for swallows, each one
of which consumes 900 bugs day? @
How many swallows would be required to
devour the entire family the writer does not
state. little figuring will show that there
are probably not sufficient number on the
globe. We have great faith in the existence of
bugs, and form our opinions not altogether
spon faith, but sight-for we ha, lived many
years in boarding houses, and hardly ever bluu-
dered on board second.rate steamer or canal.
packet, without finding the berths preoccupied
by scores of passengers whose names are not
on the way-bill. But we stand astounded
at the Frenchman's computation. What will
become OF US if we live to be old t, and hox will
existence be possible to future generations.--
Bugs will choke up the strests, fill up the chdn-
nels Of rivers, and drive our race from the faee
OF the Earth. The different governments would
do we'll to encourage the propagation of swal-
lows, and expend one half of their revenu es
in "Lyon's magnetic POWDER" to stave of the
catastrophe as long as possible. Bat we
hope the entomoIogists will prove to be mis-
taken. There is a great deal of humbug that
passes in these days under the name Of science.
A SLAVE EscAPED.-From letter pub
lished by Capt. Hopkins, of the brig Florence,
in the Boston papers of the 2Oih, we learn that
he sailed June 22d from Wilmin gion, N. c..
for Boston, and laid inside the bar at Smith
vile till July l. When of Nantucket, July
10, he discovered negro on board, who gave
his name as Pomfrey Williams. On the I7ih
he arrived at Boston and anchored in the
stream, and the next morning went on shore,
leaving the negro 10 the custody of the mate.
Capt. H. telegraphed to Wilmington, and csn-
suited with the U. 5. District Attorney. and
while absent, a mob. mostly colored, boarded
the Florence, and took the negro away by
force. We believe Captain Hopkins 10 have
been blameless in the affair. Thus an ACT lit
lie better than piracy has been committed in
Boston harbor, without exciting the least at
tention. We trust that the laws may yet be
yindicated by the punishment ofthe abdactors.
and the restoration ofthe negro to his owners.
An insect called the borer. has attacked the
locust trees in Cleveland, Ohio.
Then the Cleveland people may bid aaieu
o their beautiful trees. We know a town in
yew Esgland, which contained hundreds Of
ine Iocusts, and in two years the borer utterly
destroyed them. They will out down; and
i'll trees 6 inches in diameter, 10 a very short
in.e. -, - ..s.ss !: ~ as,
E1 The trial of q woman was held before
ia stce .n Washine. m. D. C.. an phGvsdav