The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-12-10
LOCAL MATTERS.

tuEL.-The price of this article contin.
ues isr above its value with no hope of fall unIess
Inc various railroads leading TO the city can he in
duced TO reduce their tariff of transportation 40 az tn
maple persons ving along their lines to send it to
market In large quantities. Can this be done Win
ter Is now Upon u.s. Already the poor and destitnta
are sniverng over the dying enbers in their heartbs
unable 20 procure fuel enough to make am
table. The widowed mother with her orphsns
around her dependant upon the abors of her needle
20 supply the necessares Of lfe looks out upon the
dreary prospect, and shudders at the thought that
her darling offspring are in danger of Starvation nv
cold because she finds too surely that her limited
means will not enable her to meet the exhorbitant
demands Tor fuel to warm her cherries home The
sturdy aborer shrugs his shoulders at the encroach.
fnents OF that tyrant,-wanf,-and murmurs as ba
hurries homeward, through the biting blasts of win
ter that all his tolls do not afford foo ranent and
fuel to make happy the idols of his heart Eyery
thing necessary to sustain life has bounded up to an
enormous price, and yet we see efforts making to
aid the helpless in this trying hour of need.
And if the middle classes are pressed to the verge
of want what must be the condition of the des-
ttute poor, who breathes from hour hour upon the
stnted charities of those but little better off in world
Iy goods than themselves Does any one believe
hat the poor needle woman, who delves from morn
till midnight to bare shilling, can procure
enough of earthly goods with the earnings of her in
cessant toll to prevent suffering and starvation at the
price at which provisions and fuel are selling =
Is not such a thing i'm possible? We know that the
ladies connected with the benevolent societies of the
city will spare efforts their part relieve the
misenes of the poor and supply them with comforts
with an abundance of this worlds goods, who will
gladly contribute to the relief of the suffering but
even when this is done, there will then remain hun
dreds of helpless creatures too independent to be-
the recipients of pEblic charity and yet unable
to provide for themselves whose privatiOns and wants
will be innumerable. Can no scheme be perfected
by which this unfortunate class may be furnished
with partial succor? There is way to save them
from the tortures of cold, and we trust it may be
adopted Let the city purchase few cargoes of coal
and wood and under the directions of proper per.
sons have it dealt out to the needy according to their
means Or, if not this-let a meeting of the citizens
be held, and means raised by subscription, to pur
chase fuel for those who unable to pay the exhor
bitant demands at which it is selling. Doubtless
several thousand dollars might be raised for such
purpose, and if properly expended the freezing
hearts OF many widows and orphans might be warm
ed up and they made to joice and thank God that
their lots however hard, had been cast in christian
community, where men feels for his fellow man, and
each knows that to give to the poor but to lend
to the Lord, to be repaid back three-fold.
Mrs CHARLES Howard We have no
idea of attempting puff this child of genius, for
her talents too conspicuous, and her reputation
extensive, to admit of any polish that we might
desire to add. If we say that she s one of the most
gifted ladies on the American stage; that her concep
tons of characters of the highest order that her
acting is ife-ke, more natural, than ever be-
fore and that her goodness of heart lis cock
tensive with her character an actress we say no
more than every body knows who has had the good
fortune to become acquainted with her. Before a
Richmond audience Mrs Howard has no superior
aed mania for theatre going, and the applause that
ever greets her. is the best evidence that she has
found a lodgmsnt in the hearts of the people too
deep and too enduring ever to be erased.
On Wednesday night last in the Child OF the
Regiment" we were dehs shted with her acting, tho
the beauty of the piece was somewhat marred by an
unfortunate cast of least of the Characters
Tonight she appears in favorite characters, and will
win aurels in their persouaton. Every one
should therefore her, it is nor last appearance
on the Richmond stage, unless the management can
effect encouragement with her for another week.
This must be done, if possible. The friends OF the
drama i'll this city not prepared to part company
with her soon, and we really hope they may not
be compelled from necessity to do SO.
THOMAS j. Evans, EsQ.-We have receiv-
ed communication from this gentleman in reply to
notice made by in our Wednesdays issue, of the
temperance meeting on Chnrch Hill, the Monday
night previous Not being present to hear the ad-
dress of Mr.. Evans, we relied upon friend for our
information, who unntentionally led into in
saying that he advocated the "Mane Liquor Law
MI. F. favored the Virginia Prohlbitory Law the
effect of which will be- to let each county in the State
say at the polls whether Intoxicating drinks shall be
sold in it or not Our comments were not designed 10
charge Mr.. Evans with any attempt to mix tempe
rance and politics togethe and what we said of the
temperance orders was intended only as caution
and not as an imputstion against them. Mr. Evans
will therefore excuse us tor not publishing his able
defence of himself and the great cause temperance,
which we both have much at heart. We learn
from him that the Order of the Sons of Temperance,
body, not engaged in endesvoring to get the
"Prohibitory Law passed; but that the movement Is
gotten up by 9th ers as well as Temperance men.
REMOVING THE DEPosITEs.-Dick and
Tom, two black looking imps in the service Of Mr.
Thomas Williams was brought before the Mayor
Yesterday, to to the charge of stealing nine
hundred pounds of old iron from Messrs. Pae
Sampson. Mr. G. Andrews one OF the the managers ;Il
much iron from their yard, that he Went to tbs va
rous foundres in the city and asked them to let him
know if any of the missing article should be brought
Oh far ia
note from Messrs. Bowers Snyder, and on going TO
their works discovered lot of about nine hundred
pounds which he identified Learning that it had
been Sc Mt there by Mr.. Williams servants Dick and
Tom, who are employed in his luWber yard adloin-
ing Messrs. Pae Sampson's Foundry, he put ofhcer
Tyler on the track of the thieves and the two were
soon taken into custody. Officer Tyler next got de-
scripton of the driver who brought there and then
arrested John Hill, tha slave of T. L.. w eodson.-
John proved Dicks guilt conclusively and he was or
dered thrty-nine stripes but affirmed most positive
ly that Tom had no hand in the affair He, however,
implicated Dick, slave TO Jesse Williams, IN the
transaction and warrant issued for his arrest,
as also for Henry Jones' free negro in the employ
of Messrs Pse Sampson. Jonathan Wood, " hlte
man, testified that he had purchased old iron from
Dick and Tom, the slaves OF Thom6s Wll!lans and
that they hauled it away from Mr.. Williams lumber
yard where they had it deposited: J0hn hui, the
wagon driver who carried the load to the foundry,
between 6 and o'clock Thursday morning, IS also
implicated in the affair, and the whole party Will be
tried this morning
RusYAN'L TABLEAUx of the Pilgrim Pro-
sress To the Celestial City may be canvass at
the Odd Fellows Hall, this evening by the payment
of twenty-five cents CounoisseuIs IN the hne arts
pronounce this production, the work of the greatest
of American artists as very superior in every respect
and therefore worth being seen by all who have a
taste for paintings. We have spent an hour or two
quite agreeable in witnessing this moving mirror OF
great mans dream and donbt net that our readers
will be equally gratiied by dropping in az Odd Fei-
lows Hall, during the hours of exhibition.
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