The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-01
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We feel no disposition whatever TO bore our
readers with this subject. We are perfectly
aware that they have found out that the wea-
Their was hot, and that they would have made
the discovery without our assistance. But our
mind Involuntary ieverts TO the subject
whenever. we try TO write or to think oil
any thing else. As well TELLS man with a
blister plaster on the back Of his neck to write
an epic poem, as to tell Us to write of any
thing else but the fiery atmosphere which
blazes around US, and in which we exist upon
the same terms, and with about the same de-
, gree of enjoy ment that salanander is sup
posed TO enjoy in his native element. There
seems, at present, TO be no prospect of an anne
Iteration. No man can discover the slightest
sign of sympathy for our suferings in the bra
zen sky that spreads its hard unPitying concave
above us. There is no sign of a cloud, not
even speck SO big as mans eye. We heard
the question repeatedly asked, "Will it ever
RANT" and we are obliged continually to re-
ply, we know not Heretofore, the evil Of ex.
cessively hot weather has usually wrought its
own cure, as all other evils, both in the moral
and physical word are apt TO do when they
become excessive. A superabundance of cleo.
tricity has been wont to purge itself off in the
shape of thunder storm. But even that re
medy, severe as some persons are apt to re
gard it, seems to be no longer attainable.
We do not recollect ever to have felt such
spell of weather as this has been. II the nights
were only little cooler than the day, we
could manage to work throug h the hours with
something like resignation. But The reverse is
the fact. We were taught at school that when
ever the atmosphere became rarifed by intense
heat, currents Of air would rush in to supply
the vacuum, which nature was said to absorb
From this day forth, we distrust philosophy
and IFS teaching. The heat of the day renders
the atmosphere huge furnace, standing all
most at white heat, and the night brings no
currents Of air TO supply the void. 1t is like
an enormous vapor bath, in which man draws
his breath with difficulty, and with sensation
which closely resembles sitting.
Our readers, then, must blame the weather,
not US, if they find the Dispatch shade duler
than usual. 1t seems to US, sometimes, that
our very brains had melted, and are oozing
out through the pores of our skin. We are
confident we have not half the quantity now
we had six weeks ago. There is no help in
che bath, for the bath itself is as hot as every
thing else around it. The very ice looks as if
it were up TO fever heat, and we see not why il
may not be SO, since we heard man say once
he had seen night SO dark that one could not
see chunk of fire in it. Decided optimists
as we are, we cannot believe that this hot spell
is for the best-at least we have nothing but
an intense faith 10 make us view it in that light.
8 RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG AND POTOMAC
:. RAILROAD CoMPANY.-The proceedings of
the late annual meeting of the Stockholders of
this company--one of the most successful in
the United States-have been published for
some days. This company is now twenty
years old, and in the whols time of its opera.
ton no passenger upon it has, by accident,
ssst his life! The fact speaks volumes for the
system and order with which it is conducted.
The annual report of the President and Di.
rectors showed the road to have been doing
very fine business. The revenue for the year
reached 1854 376 4S-expenses, Including two
new locomotives and tenders, two new cars and
new depot and office at Fredericksburg,) for
the same period, $l4l 100 90: Balance on
hand $lI3 256 %. Out of this balance the
company, after meeting ell charges for int rest,
pay the usual dividend of seren per cent. to
the stockholders, and add 500, sol to the con.
ungent fund, which now amounts to S172, 6S4
Ia.
The President and Directors report the road
TO be in good order, and its business to be con.
Quoted with regularity and dispatch. In this
Statement they are borne out by the report of
the committee Of examination appointed by
the stockholders.
The President and Directors recommend i'm.
mediate measures for relaying the road (now
laid with fiat BARI with heavy rail; and the
committee Of examination seconded this in,por
tani Recommendation. The stockholders adopt
60 resolution leaving the subject to the
board, and empowering them TO take such
measures as they deemed proper for the pur
pose OF relaying the track. We are much
grained ina, the subject was brought before
"aai n,eeung, and We trust that now q.
the stockholders have left the matter with ,hsm
'ne PRESIDENT and Directors will a, onea 49,.
mence the work OF relaying the road tn.
may rely upon it, that at this day. ana -.
rounded BY existing circumstances, III. vor
ofrelayicg the road with heavy rail is indiana,
sable.
The President laid before the stockholders
communication from the President of the Ale
andria and Orange Railroad, on the subject
the construction of the road connecting III,
road with the Richmond, Frederick sburg al
Potomac read. The Alexandra and Oran.
company resolved to accept the act by whi'
this connection was authorized, and the Pre-.
dent opens the correspondence TO ascerta
upon what terms the Fredericksburg compar