The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-02-24
Correspondence Of the Dispatch.


fKw foaK February soth, Is53.
Hsssrs. Editors: arrived here last uisht s.a
ioand this city visited with sudden spell Of ysrv
eoaa weather. I. who have been cnjoying vonr
Thgntui and mid weather for some days. fslt !.
.nuasn ..' stood constantly under showsr barn
"nen entered Broadway, it seemed / shoald b~
cnlied through The boats in the bev h.d ,bsir
siass ses With ice, and long cicles hung from, ,s
lore chains When came to wa.b;rs,o. -
dsy morning, found ii showing: but .hon, h.ls
away between Philadelphia and R,,,,,,o-. -
snow ceased altogether. II grew too co,d -.
Tar southern merchants In IN. h,,.,
preached New York, complained mo-, h,,,.-,- -.
said they nsver meant 10 coms :, 49,, 80.
winter again. :.
This weather has prevailed here fok
lnois' ano me last weeks report Of the nsorta,sv
OF the city shews It's Effects The uumbe- ,,f -
was iouf oundred and three, an increase Of sixtv-
sx on the preceding week. Sixty i've of the death.
were from consumption The prevailing diseases.
were OF an inaammasory and conges,ive tyne.
As passed along, could very well discern tho
movements OF the politicians. who are pu, in s....
OF considerable com motion, by the approschiao in.
auguration The Office seekers-those ravenon.
vultures who live, or hope to live of the BODY NO.
ltic-are gathering from all quarters of the Union
They have been fasting for four years. and now thew
come to Washington to prey upon the bodies of .he
defanct Wing Office holders, which are Ia he,
pItshed out to them. However, if the Whss ara
vindctives they viii have ample opportunities for
the qualification Of their spite; for thsre ara mot
cmces enough for one tithe of the expectants who
are hurFyIag to the Capitol. Thousands. after
spending all they have and all their friends will
| lend them, will turn away sad and disappointed
from Washington, after having remained Mere for
months, begging for any thing from foreign mia
| sion to pair of breeches.
General PIERCE was in Philadelphia as passed
through. wish him happy time with the horde
OF once seekers who are getting ready to beseige
him. He will do well to escape with his life. They
killed old Gems. Harrison and Taylor.
| The Times of this city contains a naragr.nh
stating that the police are on the track of parties
who have contrived, by Spiritual Rappises, a.d
Manifestations to defraud man named Richard
Dorgaerty' out OF $4,000. Poor Dougherty be-
came deranged and is in the lunstic asylum.
| correspondent of the Times, writing from
Richmond, gives pretty fair account of IT, and
speaks in the highest terms of its Manufacturing
advantages. Referring to the coal mines so CON-
venient-the mean temperature, 80 degrees in sum-
mer, 40 in winter its mortality only one In seven
/ ty, while in Philadelphia it 10 one Ia forty.iye
Boston one in forty, Charleston onein ,hirty.six.
| and Liverpool one in nineteen; and to the water
| power, the supply of water for city use, &c, he
gees on to infer that excepting New York, he does
not know situation in the Northern States having
| natural advantages for Misunderstanding, equal to-
| those of Richmond. He says. '.Richmond has .
hundred times the advantages OF New York, or Of
| Glasgow, or of any Northern or European city, for
| manufacturing; and much greater than some of
the largest in the world for inland and domestic
commerce. Glasgow has none to compare with
| her, and yet Glasgow is running neck and neck
| with New York in population and wealth, and
beating her in the ratio OF her inc,e ease"
| The views of intelligent strangers are always
worthy the consideration of our citizens ard take
pleasure in bringing to their notice what must be
| 80 agreeable to them as the above extract
| Yours, truly. p