The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-04-06
THF DAILY DISPATCH
IAs a. CoWARDIN, Proprietor.
uucBR, PLEASANTS Editor.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

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.,rg. in the Senate, On the Congressional Dis
,-;.t Aepoftionment bill. These gentlemen
,alony 70 that fraction of the Democratic party
called "the few by the Enquirer, who op-
nased with uncompromising hostility, the bill
f,ar, the House of Delegates. The Times
ssvs ihey pretty fully explain their position.
TIE EVhig says the people have not re.
s~oDJe5 TO the "edict Of the Democratic Legis-
I,tge caucus calling District Conventions to
,o~,ina,e party hacks as candidates for Com.
,,;.sioneTs of the Board of Public Works, and
fronl present appearance, it thinks they have
r, intention Of doing so. 1.-The common sense
ffhs community" it says,"revolts at the idea
of converting the Improvements of the State
into political machines"
The Wig notices the severe article of the
Er0uirer upon those Democrats who oppose
eStoyalTs bill,' and expresses itself curious
to see how far the gentlemen thus denounced
will succumb.
The Examiner is of opinion that the Ad-
nnisualon, in appointing to distinguished
oai.es the two great leaders (Messrs. Dickin-
son and Dix of the rival Democratic factions
efNew York. has done wise thing, and closed
,he meulh of every objector.
The Examiner has an article on Mrs. Har-
riet Beecher Stotce, and the propensity abroad
10 assaii this country, and especially its South
ern social Institutions. No,ising her departure
to England, it says;
Her friends, the Duchesses, and the eighty thou
,Laa Ur-fzs kar,
Stafford House, will find their goddess a coarse
pedautIc, ugly, vain old school mistress, and she
viii hrd them to be a parcel OF pecpl- who sbet
her no;oTety only TO share it among themselves -
Taey will patronise, and she will try TO do the
same, and TWO parties can never play that game at
oEce The eEd Of tie visit will be, that Mrs. Stowe
will lesve England tu ! of modification and spite.
while her noble patrons will awaken from their
dsliTium in time 10 discover that they have made
themselves more absurdly silly over very ordI-
rary Old woman than the Yankees have ever done
before over the men of tbs best genius this age
Las produced
The Examiner, alluding to the custom OF
tie scapc goat of ancient times, concludes that
tie old nations laboring under an oppressive
sense Of their manifold sins and corruptions,
are endeavoring to evade the divine wrath in
preparation for them by making a scape-goat
IF this country. They are therefore essaying
10 heap up all their sins on our devoted heads,
and send Us away in the wilderness, as pro-
ptiation Of divine anger. Dut can they do
this?
The Examiner aIludes to the action Of the
Democratic opponents ofthe House apportion-
ment bill as forcing the Legislature TO remain
here aud frame new bill, or have an e4ta
session. II expresses its modification at the
embarrassment brought upon the Democratic
party by "a few eIfoliating gentlemen" and
declares that il is necessary to have better
Democrats elected in the counties they repre-
sent.
The Nail has an article on Mrs. II. b.
STOWE, deprecating the mad schemes of the
abolitonsls, and it has another, expressing its
qualification at the passage OF bill advocated
by Mr.. Speed for establishing a colonization
board and reviving the appropriation OF $50
600 by the State to the purposes of colonial
ton.
The Enquirer has continuation ofits caus-
tic comments on tie Senators who oppose the
famous "Stoyali's Bill" Its article winds up
with a F. S, to which is appended q short
statement of the denounced Democrats. They
declare that, originally, Democratic commit
tees of the two Houses prepared bills, adopt
ing for the East, MIR. AGBLER's project-that,
subsequently,, a grand caucus OF the party was
held, al which SToyALL's was adopted but
that none Of the friends of AaBLER's were pre-
sent or represented in that caucus. They fur
thsr declare, that the caucus plan was altered
in the House of Delegates, and thus altered, il
was sent TO the Senate.
The Enquirer has an article appealing to
its friends TO organise, and it gives, at length,
the STA ement of the Auditors of the public
debt; much more favorable than MIR. GooDE's.
EY@ The murder of Melville by De Corn, in
New York, on Thursday last, (already stated
il the Dispatch is one that excites more than
ordinary attention in the great Gotham. Eu-
gene Melville was young Frenchman, about
% years old. He had not been long in this
country, and had lived in New York, Cincn-
naii and New Orleans. In the last named city
he met with Emma Eugenia Woods, native
sfConnectcut, Of who had started to California
20 Eleet her uncle there but being taken sick
al Chagfes, she returned 10 New Orleans
Melville travelled with Miss Woods to New
York, and there married her in October last
His wife, in her testimony at the Coroner's in.
quest, briefly tells these particulars, aud fur
Iishes hint at the incidents of the drama
which terminated in her husbands DEATH
She stated that De Corn, the murderer, and his
partner, Giraud, were at the wedding; that she
and her husband had lived together since their
marriage ill about eight days before the muir
der; that she had an income of 5000, which her
husband had exhausted in his own expend-
cures, leaving their board unpaid; that she had
supported him. thai he had grown jealous of
Dir. De Corn, and frequently threatened to take
his life she added "Mr. De Corn has been
good friend both to Melville and myself; he
has loaned me money 10 enable me TO pay my
board" Quite q remarkable statement for a
wife
Melville called to see De Corn on the morn