The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-08-17
Spirit of the Press.

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earliest period, upon the most complete and
substantial plan, and over the most favorable
route for the commercial interests of Virginia,
and it considers that individual, corporate and
municipal enterprise combined, as each case
may demand is not only equal to the accom-,
plishment of such works as the Pacific Rail
road, but OF even more stupendous underta-
kings, If any are conceivable. 1t is clearly OF
| opinion that the General Government cannot
undertake the work as its own job, own II as
its own!property, or use it as its own ma
chine military, civil or political While an
nouncing these fixed views, it also takes oc-
casion to say that it can see no reason 10
withhold cordial support from Gen. Pierces
administration, for the opposite opinions 1t is
alleged to entertain. lift was pardonable in
General Jackson to bring with him into the
Presidency avowed opinions strongly in favor
of the policy of internal Improvement by the
General Government, the Examiner thinks
II not unpardonable in General Pierce to be
tboupkk to favor the like views in regard to a
single public work
The Wig. afiirms that the news of the Afri-
ca leaves the solution of the Eastern question
in as great doubt as ever. While there are
some rumors to the effect, that Russia has sig
nifed her acquiescence in the propositions
submitted by France and England, and many
profess to believe that war is impossible; the
belief that Russia is merely temporizing and
procrastinating final settlement until win
ter, is evidently gaining ground. 1t thinks
that the Gar is achieving more by lying
quiet than he could by actual hostilities; and,
in the meantime, discord may spring up be-
tween England and France, and then he will
have the whole game in his own hands
The Enquirer expresses itself opposed to
dividingi the twenty two millions of dollars
surplus in the Treasury among the States, or
to expanding it in aid of the construction of a
Pacific Railroad, and believes that it should
be appropriated to the extinguishment of a
portion of the national debt, and to the i'm
prOvement and strengthening of our Navy
1t is in favor of taking measures by timely
revision of the revenue laws, TO prevent that
accumulation of money which leads to SC
1
from all articles from which there is any con
venience resulting by admitting free, and re
ducing Ethem ON all the rest The money
should be left with the people
| The Times discusses the results of war in
Europe, and considers it absolute folly to sup
pose that general war between crowned
heads would be likely to lead to the emanci
patton of the people
The Morning. Mall while speaking upon
the dangers of railroads, advises as a proven.
tative of the many sad accidents that are OF
daily occurrence-punishment of those whom
carelessness and recklessness in the manage.
ment of trains, show to be guilty. or the use
| altogether of slOac lines.
EFFEcTs''oF EMANCIPATION IN JAMAICA
Many years ago the British Government
emancipated the. blacks in the Island of ia
maica, and were loudly praised for the act by
mock philanthropists every where. We have
heard the magnanimity of Great Britain laud
ed to the skies by hot-headed abolitionists for
her emancipation movements in the West
Indies, and. Jour own governments, State and
National, held up in contrast as specimens of
intolerable tyranny. What will these igno-
rant and fanatieal ranters say to the following
official testimony of Sir James Gray, the pre-
| sent Governor of Jamaica? He saws:
The fertility of its soil, and fitness both for tillage
and pasturage the richness aud variety of its yegeta-
BILE products the alterations of mountain and valley
the numerous hot springs and medicinal waters, the
known existence of various and valuable minerals the
timber and ornamental woods of its forests, the album
md n4t,
reefs, indicate peculiar facilities for the promotion of
the future welfare and prosperity of its inhabitants
ana warrant the hope that low as it has now fallen, it
VIII not be permitted to relapse into utter barbaris"
From papers brought before the British
Parliament itfappears that. since the enanci-
patton over 600 estates have been abandoned,
and both the owners and laborers involved in
| one common ruin. Over so, 600 laborers were
| once employed upon these estates. The local
government have found all expedients utter
| ly insufficient ito avert the ruin which has
been caused and the people are now i'm
ploring Parliament to aid them But what
can they do? The free blacks will not work,
and the most fertile spot ON the globe remains
uncultivated.
The British traders, in spurious, copper
"eeohCu PiiAioitiiiopyJ may anu uo COulpldlL
bitterly of the fruits of their own doings and
groan in spirit that in compliance and defer
ence to an uniformed and sickly public SEN
timent, they have reduced the Queen of the
British Antilles to desert They now admit
that the blacks are daily becoming more indo-
| lent degraded and wretched; that christianity
is on the decline among them, and that they
are fast relapsing into Fetishism and Obeah
worship, and may be seen paying devotion to
toads, snakes and ragged puppets. What
else could have been expected from the eman
cipation of men wholly unprepared for liber
| ty!
These facts are pregnant with instruction to
| all, both North and South and should be
borne in memory for future guidance,
DISMAL SWAMP CANAL.-The Norfolk Bea-
con notices the sale of stock in this canal
few days since, and says that it considers that
stock very low, and capital investment at
present rates. 1t pays six per cent ON $3.50,
| the par value of the stock, and at 1874, the
price it sold at, is an eight per cent stock. 1t
| considers that if fba eoYnpaov ,a;J snx.: -