The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-23

'i " ~ -. ,d Dome site News down TO
1910 the Trial of Bishop Dosne:
pr*;cies on the Eastern 0uesnen tae Fisaelies 'e
K..,, aa,is with editorials upon the Danvale Raj
- unr Mr.. Norton, Pacific Railroad Garibaldi,
r.~s,-u I;fe wonan's Rights, the Navigation Of
I,e. Rixer the late Charleston Duel, &c. &c. Price
r,,rs CENTS to he had at the counter.
Tar CENTRAL AND DANvILLE RAILROADS.
In our comparison of the freight business
of these roads yesterday, by slip of the pen
we stated that that of the Danville road was
aeariy double that Of the Central; whereas the
calculation made the excess on the Danville
aearly half greater than that on the Central
read. This any reader might have under
stood who paid any attention to the premises
from which the conclusion was drawn. The
error is corrected in the country Dispatch
The last steamer from Europe brought,
among its numerous passengers, the famous
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who, after
spending several months in being stared at
and taking up collections fer various objects,
thersclf included) in England and France,
has at last returned TO hum in AndoVer'
where she viii probably again devote her
self, with faculties improved by constant ex-
ercise abroad, to the work OF detsming her
country If she writes out half the ISLANDERS
TO which she and her husband gave utterance
at Anti. Slavery dinners during her absence,
she will produce a volume as much larger
than the Key as the Key itself was
larger than the Cabin" Il was intended to
unlock We had, indeed, hoped that Mrs.
Stowe would never return to the U. States.
With the money made by her novel, and that
collected by Professor Stoves handing
round the hat at the different places they
visited, we had cherished the idea that she
would settle down for life within cry of Exc
ter Hall, and unite herself to that precious
society of hypocrites that consort thither,
the Ch&dbands and the Jellybys, with whom
Dickens has made us familiar. But our
country has not been fortunate enough thus
to get rid of one who has used her talents
only to nlalign it, and she has now come
back, branded traitress. to her natal soil, TO
claim that protection which by every law OF
nature she had forfeited.
We have long since sid1ened of Uncle
Toms Cabin" and Of the very name of
Stowe, and we had thought never to refer to
such wearisome topics again. ButWe see IN
the circumstances under which this woman
returns TO America, the teaching OF a whole
some moral upon which it may be well to
ponder moment A few months ago, and who
filed so large share of the worlds attention
as she! The guest Of Stafford House, the toast
ofthe Lord Mayor dinner, the favored recipi-
ent of silver salvers and shillings, caressed Of
countesses and dejeane-e cd of dukes, with seat
reserved at all the theatres and weekly men
ton in Punch, was Mt Aunt Harriet somebo-
dyl The world has rarely seen such tri-
umph and such reaction. 1t required but
short period to convince even those who had
engaged in the ovation, that they had made
fools Of themselves, and again was it shown,
as DR.. Maginn had asserted Of a different cha
racter, that those who go up ike the rocket,
always come down like the stick" Mrs.
Stoves tasrore died away before she reached
Paris her arrival in that gay capital, did not
even furnish the material for an evening Cos
sip in the cafes along the Italian boulevards;
she was permitted quietly to pursue her way
as well as she could, speaking bad French
with true Andover accent, to Switzerland
and back to England, where, in the mean
time, the nobility had cooled so much towards
her, that when she returned, the aforesaid
Chadbands and Jellybys were alone left, of
al that mighty realm, to do her reverence.
Such is notoriety as opposed to true fame;
the notoriety derived from pandering to the
morbid appetites of the mob as contrasted
with the fame which springs from the pursuit
of lofty ends by noble means. Mrs. Stowe
was rendered notorious by work Of only
moderate degree Of artistic ability, because
that work happened to chime in with a pop
ular fanatieism; and very many people mis-
took that for fame, and looked upon her as
one of the immortals. See the end of il all!
A proper appreciation Of the work and a
juster notion of the impure motives with
which it was written, have succeeded to cast
her forever in the shade, as one who ought to
be forgotten for the credit Of the race
GREELEY, in his elation at Mrs Stoves re-
turn, allades to the success of Uncle Tom at
the Bowery, a very proper place for such re-
presentation, and says that he expects yet to
see an Opera made out of the plot, with Mario
as George Harris, Grisi as Eliza, and some
successful debRtaate as Eva. Well operas
are generally made out of ridiculous stories,
and perhaps "Uncle Tom" may be thought
eztravagant and improbable enough to be
used as the basis of new one. But if the
music is not greatly better than the fiction
we pity the manager who brings out the
opera.
Our neighbors of the Petersburg press are
exceedingly friendly in their social relations
They have lately had some very energetic
discussions but they were conducted with
courtesy and had very happy conclusion At
the festive board. We should ike to bsv.
daguerreotype of the group. 1t would be a
fine picture. Indeed although the picture
would not have been at all improved there.
by. we should have liked to have been tbara
to see. We would have had rare eniovr,ept
with the ION mots of the fat and lean wits &c
he ncaae,.,, ob uara ~.