The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-02
SPIRIT Or THE PRESS.

SPIRIT or THE PRESS.
The Moraimg Mail. usually brisk and IL.
bofious a. hes, has been obliged. like some
or 10 peighbors, to succumb to the intense
heat Of the season. II has however an article
on acotton In India.'' sympathy with for-
eign countries" and the "New Orleans negro
plot" all readable and considering the sea.
| son possessing some merit.
Tho Examiner has an unusual amount of
original ENTHUSIASTICALLY written articles upon
divers political iopics-among which we no
lice a very clever Mandatory piece upon Gen.
Pierce's Administration, Georgia politics, and
relative to the change in the tone of the Bril-
fish press and politicians as to this country
We doubt not that still greaterprorusion of orr
ginal articles would appear, ereit not for the
late severe illness Of Mr.. Daniel, the editor, Of
whose approaching recovery we rejoice to
hear.
The Wig has an article upon the Chinese
Mission, in which MIR. r. ]. Walker, the ap.
pointee, is found fault with, of course. The
balance of the paper is made up OF eloquent
extracts, clippings and stealings from all quar-
tiers, and editorials concocted by process in
which the scissors have greater share than
the quill. But in the Dead Sea calm of poli-
| tics, when all goes smoothly, 'as idle as
painted ship upon a painted ocean," who
could do better, especially with the thermome-
ter at 1907 as, a1
| The Enquirer-the political antipodes OF
the Whg-has strong article in support OF
| the President against the denunciations which
some of the Southern press have heaped upon
him for supposed Stree soil tendencies" 'More
Disorganization of Whiggery," is the title of
another article. AID excellent variety of seec.
tiohs fills the balance of the reading columns.
| The Times has an article on Cuban Eman-
cipation, which, of course, finds fault with
Gen. Pierce's supposed views upon that sub
| ject. 1t also has several minor articles upon
topics of general interest, and goodly variety
of selections.
NEW PROFESSORS OF THE UNlVER.
SITY.
The Charlottesville Jeffersonian has the
| following on the subject of new appoint
ments in the University:
eve understand that the Board of Visitors
| of the University of Virginia have made the
following appointments of Professors to fill
vacanc les, caused by the designations of Pro-
fessors William B. Rogers and J. Lawrence
| Smith. Frank Smith of Loudoun, and late
assistant to the Professor of Mathematics,
| has been appointed Professor of Natural PHI
losophy; and DR.. Socrates Maupin OF Rich
mond City, Professor of Oh emstry. We hear
| it said that Alexander L. Nelson, of Augusta,
who received the degree of Master of Arts,
| on yesterday, is to become assistant to DR..
| Courtney, the Professor of Mathematics. r.
T. w. Duke, Esq, of Charlottesville, is Sc
cretary to the Beaid, in place of st. George
| Tucker, resigned. N. H Massie, has been
appointed Commissioner of Accounts.
We heard it spoken of yesterday that Col.
| VIM. S. kemper was removed from the office
of Proctor, and MIR. George w. Spooner,
temporarily appointed to fill his place"
The editor of the Circlevile Herald says
that he has successfully tried, in his office,
| the experiment of setting type by female.
| He says:
"a lady friend of ours, last week, "learned
| the boxes" did a small ironing. and set 500
| ems in four days!
The Geauga Republic has also tried it.
That paper says:
| A COOP BEGINNlNG.-A young lady yes
terday commenced type setting in this office.
| She learned the boxes and set 1900 ems of
bourgeois before O'Clock, P. M. 1t was
swell justified, and gave clean proof"
The above are fair samples, of what the
gentle sex can do when they set about it.
They are certainly more ingenious and apt to
learn than the rougher sex. The mere work
of setting type is light and suited to their
strength, and were this all, we should be glad
to see them employed not only in that, but
many other pursuits now followed only by
men. But it may be doubted whether their
constitutions would bear up against the con-
tnuul drudgery of composition even in
book Office, as business is now conducted.
But on daily paper, where thousands of
strong men faint and die, crucifed between the
two thieves, late hours and gas light, who
would wish TO see our gentle sisters, toll and
fade, and fall victims to consumption? Then
too, the whole vocabulary of an Office would
have TO be changed. 1t wouldn't 90 to say
"devil;" and she-devil, or deviless would be
still worse. Then the cold shoe" would have
to be re christened by another name, and vari.
GUS matters undergo radical change. We
Mrs. Switzholm, Fanny Fern, Mrs. Caudle,
Fanny Wright, Miss Martineau and "Uncle
Tom" Stowe shall have accomplished their
several missions" and then follow the future
public sentimen;-or our nose-as may seem
expedient.
Near Barnwell C. HI. on the 2lst ult., a ne
gro girl about IL years old murdered the child
of Mr.. James Kirkland, overseer for Col. B.
H. Brown. The child was about three years
old, and was beaten to death. The girl had
been chastised by Mr.. kirkland few hours
previously for some offence.
| THE DEARTH OF NEws-The awful heat of the
weather, which causes such desrth in all other
matters has extended at last to the article of
news Our collectors are most diligent we know
| our exchan ges are before US in scores and mas