The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-14
The Late Con sntipns.

| scustonaed modes of Thought or actiUHi WhiAss
over l. extravagant or Startling, there finds
place for utterance. The sickly hypochon-
driac of some distant village who has nursed
| his soul into the belief that the world IL
coming to an end, or that spirits from the
other world, or from the q Vastly deep ARE are
in nightly habit of sending him messages
| /. hot from Tartaras'' or rose.tinged, and
breathing of Ambrosis, from the other side
of the Styx, comes to New York ana vents
his new-fangied lunacy in the form OF a the.
ory.o Prohablyhe gets up paper 70 back
it, and Ii not, there is the man IN the "oid
white coat, ready,to swear to it. at least so
long rs it preserves the sembiancc OF novel
| ty. If a woman all at once discovers, like
| Lucy stone or the apostolically christened
| ..Reyp. Antoinette Brown, that she has a
| large quantity of rights 'up goes the plat
forrn--Go.hsm furnishes timber, and forth
will, new system of ethics and politics sets
! the world staring. Womm's rights, indeed!
| When was there time in this age when she
had not the enjoyment of every one of her
rights, and about one half of ours? The best
half of the sidewalk, the best state-room in
| the steamer the beast seat in the coach, the
brightest and best things we can command,
are given to her. not only with alacrity, but
pleasure All these and more, she commands
by the sacred right of Wemanhood. But if
the REV" Antoinette and her followers
should rudely push us from our stools and
insist upon giving to the noble and beautiful
women of America, the right to open oysters,
and makeilaws. and forge horse-shoes, and
fight battles, and dig canals, and talk politics
at the street corners, we shall be forced into
rebellion
But the New York Market is large enough
for thousand other innovations. J" Land
Reform Equality" Abolition, Spirit Rap
pings, Native Americanism, Mesmerism, all
find here their outlet and their advocates.
1t is astonishing that in such place, where
there is such an overwhelming amount of
talent, energy, knowledge and practical good
sense upon every subject, such humbugs
should be fostered. New York is the focus
and great radiating point for the mind of
America; and yet seems to electromagnetic
the apparent paradox-the centre of all ia
naticism and delusion. She enjoys an ocean
of Lumbug, which the country sips by spoons
full The recent conventions in that city,
exhibit in high degree the moral fermenta
ton that is going forward in our times, and
prove, beyond cavil, at once the energy and
| the imbecility of the human intellect, when
undertakes tograpple with problems, whose
solution is beyond the resch of man. They
prove also another fact, as strange as it is
true, to wit that a mob may sometimes hold
g conserratire'' attitude. This is a fact
worthy of note, as being of very unfrequent
occurrence in the history of the world
Even the Bowery Bho'ys-the "great un-
washed" of the Metropolis, had sense enough
to frown down the artfully dished humbugs
which were presented by the various fana-
tics who seeked to glorify themselves in the
late conventions The New York Legisla-
| ture ought in gratitude to vote them an UNI
| limited supply of soap and water for the next
| twelve months, cleantshirt weekly, and a
liberal allowance of pork and beans on
| Christmas day! r Il
Tribute OF REsPEcT.-The Savannah News of
Saturday last states that as mark of Prospect to the
memory of H. T. Watkins, late chief operator at
/ New Orleans. the several offices of the New Or
| leans and Washington line will be closed next Sum
day by order OF President Mowry. We are among
tae lastto say WORD against the paying due honors
4 to the dead in all appropriate modes. But we can
not approve the closing up of Telegraph offices as
one OF these modes. Clothe the offices in mourn
ing, hang about them all the badges of woe Won NAV
invent; but do notstop the operations of the Tele-
graph; for that is medium too important to the
public to be closed Itmay be that it only intend
| ed to DO what IS done every Sunday-close the of
hces Tor greater part of the day. limo more than
| that there is no honor in the act II more-if no
| messages are allowed on the line next Sunday-it
isdecidedly wrong, and we hope this instance win
| not be allowed to become precedent for future
honors to the dead in this manner There are Ger.
tainly enough modes of doing honor to departed
worth without stopping the Telegraph
| THE Dock CoNNEcTIoN.-The Lynchhurg Re.
publican, by way of offset TO the complaints about
the transhiPment of goods in Lynchburg, calls our
attention to the Dock Connection here and its slow
| progress. The Dock Connection with the Basin
has been completed; but the Ship Lock is not. and
the Dock viii be useless until that is finished. That
work has encountered obstacles of which the Edi
tor of the Republican can have no conception if he
has not seen the work ITSELF The whole improve
ment has been greatly delayed for the want of mo-
ney as the Republican, we suppose, is aware. The
State has doled it out very Reluctantly. But we as
sure the Republican that Richmond has ever been
DESTROYS OF seeing the work promptly done. Her
Representatives have always given their influence
in its BEHALF and for the delay that has occurred,
the people of Richmond are in nowise responsible
We have the satisfaction of being able to saw. that
the difieuliesin the way of the Ship Lock. have
| allbeen surmounted, and the work has been potten
to point from which it will go on steadily to com.
pletion. We suppose it will be done some time in
Spring. ssa SSH ys5a SO q s.s
THE WORLDS TEMPERANCE CossvENrroN Tb;a
body, before it adjourned appointed committee of
which Neal Dow is chairman, who shall have now
er to call general Convention least once in two
years, to promote the general of the prohibit
ton oftiie sale of Intoxicating liquors. They adopt
| cd the following resolution;
Il Ress1sed That ms members of the vast family of
| - and