The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-29
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

| . 20 si,es summary OF the particulars q
the San Juan affair, and ssys: "From the discIo
sure oiiacs thus far, tho course Of this
Y very justly condemned by large and respect.
Bile portion of the American press"
The Enqnfrr says that though the question O
the acquisition of Cuba has been temporarily with
drawn from the discussions OF the publicspres. i
has lost nothing of its popular interest or of its i'm
poHance as measure Of national policy. In re
esfo TO the reported preparations of the Fibusters
'ne Enquirer says: Whether the story of the for.
n'daoie preparations and desperate designs OF the
fabusters be fact or fiction, there is unoues,iona
o'y much truth in the rumor that Diplomacy is dill
sen.,y STRIVING after solution of this perplexing
problem OF Cuban annexation.
me Examiner has an article upon the cholera
sAImisn. 1t does not deny that cholera exists in
nicnmond, but rather than pursue profitless dis.
cussion, lays before them few facts, viz:
In the FIRST place. 1t is reasonable TO supno.e that
Ine choleraic masna is by ne means cohiined to
richmond or its vicinity nor to the vicinity of ofber
towns where we learn, deaths are attributed to
ss uisease. Ihe intervening country gets lis full
s sralo: he simple, sober, temperate habits and
constitutions OF the people yielding however
on all powerful protection. %
oscondiy, cholera is not contagious disease
Sontact with cholera patient will not hurt the
neaisny: Stiii less will mere proximity determine
Lastly. there is nothing in the character of the
interviews or in any of the relations which
a. necessary to ordinary intercourse of people in
10 ~ ou with our merchants, hotels &c, which
Is az all calculated to deveope cholera Hthe saroe
naolts are maintained here as at home fnrovided
nc. .nsy are good) peoele may enter our city and re-
Turn Turn 70 their homes as happy and as healthy as
ne Femny Post comments upon the recent de-
clsion OF the Supreme Court of Wisconsin against
tne consttutionay of the fugitive slave law, under
which decision, s. M. Booth, charged with aiding
and abetting in the escape of slave from ST. Louis
was discharged from jail. Booth has been again
committed to Jail, but writ of habeas corpus was
to be sued out on the 21s secure his discharge
second time. The case will, no doubt be taken up
to the Supreme Court of the United States for the
hnai adjudication of the important question nvolv-
ed: To suppose" says the Post, /" that that su-
gust tribunal will hesitate for moment in pronoun.
cling the decision Of the Wisconsin courts as utterly
unwarranted and without precedent, is, we think.
doing it but the simplest Justice"
BRITISH BARBARIsM.-We copy the following
statement from an apparently authentic letter in
the N. York Tribune If the Gear and his soldiers
are greater barbarians than the sailors of Napier.
God help them!
At the taking of Bomersund by detachment of
the English fleet, circumstance occurred which
the world at large should know. The Russian wo.
men were violated by the English sailors, their
houses laid waste, and thelts committed. The Lon
don Daily News admits the fact with an air of cool
depravity that must disgust every human being who
reads it. 1t says that when the marines first landed
In the village the women tied frightened 10 all d.
rections; but when they found that British tars
were not beings to befrghtened at the color of the
rose soon succeeded to the palor which had over
spread their fair cheeks, and they submitted to the
kisses o the brave tars with evident delight This
was but adding insult to the worst crime known to
law Instead of peaceable submission on the part
OF the Russian women, they were taken out by the
drunken sailors to the public common and there
violated en- nasse In the midst of orgies that would
have done honor to South Sea Cannibals! The
commander of the English forces, ashamed of this
conduct, afterwards attempted to apologize to the
governor OF the place; in reply he was told that
there were some crimes for which men could apollo
gize, but for such an this there could be no
apology, and he was surprised to hear one offered
by nation understanding so well the obligations of
civilized life.