The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-08-04
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Yesterdays Times applauds the Enquirer
and South Side Democrat for their course on
the subject of the Pacific Railroad. Abiding
to the remark of the Democrat that the "rights
of the States were never in greater danger than
at this time," the Times says that 1t "tederal-
ism is rampant in the councils OF our rulers
in Washington, the selfstyled Democracy OF
the South have nobody to blame for il but
themselves" They cannot, it says, shake their
CORY locks at the Wings, and say that they did
il. The Times wishes the Enquirer and DEM
ocrat all success in their effort to bring back
their backsiding friends in Washington TO the
fold of "strct construction" and adds that
while it has no sympathy with them in their
constitutional seruples, it is none the less OPP
posed 10 the great Pacific Railway scheme,
because of its dangerous and corrupting cha
racter."
The Mail in an article headed "Identity of
Interests" sfter speaking of the dissimilarity
of interest, and motive of different parts of our
country which strikes the stranger as remark
able, SAYS that there are times and occasions
when the great body of the people are united
IN n common cause" in which "the interest
and honor of all are alike identified" 1t then
declares that in its opinion the "Pacifc Rail
road' is a scheme which should silence sec"
tionalism and party s,rife-that it is "com
mon cause'' which should unite the whole
country. The Mail anticipates great results
from the improvement.
ifSaIf tho opficiDof
ed difficulties to be encountered by several
Democratic papers, which it is reported are to
be started at Washington. The first of these
new papers will be Mr.. Beverly fuckers, and
the Wing jeers the jolly protector of that sheet
upon the embarrassing question he will have
to encounter upon the very threshold of his
enterprise-the Pacific Railway. This qses.
ton, the Wing thinks, will severely test his
strict constr ctionism-and between that and
his young Americansm, place him in diem
ma that will make his first step not only per.
picking, but it thinks decisive of the fate of his
project.
The Enquirer has a notice of Mr.. Choate's
Grafton, and an extract from it. 1t thinks the
effort highly finished, but Of rather ambitious
and stlted style. The Eng uirer, in an article
on the subject, thinks there will be no war in
Europe; that it will be avoided by diplomacy.
u The Petersburg Express notices the
bold and generous &C of an intrepid lad named
Henry Gill;, in saving from drowning man
named Tatum, who had fallen from Camp.
BELLS bridge into the Appomatox river, where
the water, the Express says, is one hundred
feet deep. The lad, who was in the bellfry of
cotton factory, ringing the bell, saw the man
fall, and ran down stairs and leaped in and res
cued him. Gill is only seventeen years of age.
and the feat is thought TO be a surprising one.
FIsH.-A Mr.. Shriver, of Wheeling, has
just attempted the experiment of transporting
| fish from the western waters TO Cumberland
and there putting them into the Potomac. The
experiment was first made upon bass caught
IN the Monongahela. They were secured ia a
bucket and sunk in tank attached to the ten
der. Only one Of nine died. Mr.. s. designs
carrying his experiment further, by transport
ing other species of western fish, such as the
cat, pike, buffalo, &C., TO the Potomac. We
don't think the Potomac will gain much by
this. The pike and bass it has, and cats too;
of the latter more than the angler wants.
Those fish which are peculiar to western wa
ters are, we believe, very Indifferent, and not
at all to be desired in the eastern.
NEW PAPER In RICHMOND We see it
stated, on what authority we do not know,
that Mr.. Roger A. Pryor, late a writer in the
Washington Union, and who left that paper
because of the dissatisfaction occasioned by
ah article upon Russia, intends establishing a
"e'hoerstIc paper IN this city.
d nv WIN. II. Mcclure, proprietor of the Civ
iio'ei' tst. Louis, died on the 22d ult.