The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-21
RICHMOND, VA:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE q. 1854
THE CHOLERA.

Fifty seven deaths from Cholera were r..
ported by the Inspector of New York during
the last week, larger number than died in
that city during the same time, of any other
disease. The New York papers justly con-
denim the authorities of that city for their
criminal neglect in preparing to meet and
avert the pestilence, or at least to mitigate its
violence. They speak of the filthy streets
and reeking alleys, the garbage and decaying
matter both vegetable and animal. and which
are enough, they observe, to breed plague,
II 1t were not already made to their hands.
Our own city should learn lesson in time
from the example thus set before it. 1t is
true that Richmond is the healthiest city on
the Atlantic coast, and that its natural advan-
fages for draining, are almost unequalled
anywhere. But we can't say much for its
cleanliness at present. We earnestly invoke
the attention of the authorities to this sub
Ject. By timely, systematic and thorough
measures of prevention, we may escape alto.
gether the seourge with which almost every
Atlantic city is visited, to a greater or less
extent, during the hot weather Fidelity on
the part of the authorities, and prudence in
living on the part of individuals, and we are
secure, as far as human means can make us
secure from the cholera.
FREE NEGRO TAcTIcs.-The correspon.
dent of the n. Y. Journal of Commerce gives
the following specimens of free negro tac-
tics:
Some years agoa colored sailor landlord had taken
q West Indian darkey to board whom he ksnt ON ac-
count ofill health and ncapacty for employment
until bis bill for board and medical treatment amount
ed to near $40 which the landlord by no means
able TO iose Some 6ne advised him to raise the cry
of runaway slave.
No sooner this done, than committee of
oitionsts dispatched to the domocile of the
landlord, The refugees bill paid, and he with
great secre cy was smuggled of to place of suppos
ed safety to the small qualification of both laud
lord and bis late customer
Soon after the Acts of Congress, known the
compromise measure. were in operation, very
shrswd colored man who saw that be could make
speculation by the excitement, procured report to
be circulated that he and his wife, with several chill
dren, We're refugees from bondage: Accordingly he
was waited upon, and the facts of his pretended
cape from slavery with his wife and children, were
duly re gstered and ample means turnis shed him to
pay all their passages TO England and with all secre-
cy and soiemnlty, they were uohered In the night
season on board of the ship.
Multtudes Of such misapplied Abolitionist benevo-
lence could be authenticated and recently, in places
where AboGtionism is the most rife, some of the
darkies have taken occasion to put their feonious
propensities in practice, and when arrests were
soon they got smuggled off beyond the reach OF jus
tse.
The free negroes of the North, who are
out of occupation, fully understand that
there is no chance to obtain aid from the abo-
litionists unless under the pretence that they
are runaway slaves. The violation of the
laws of the country is the only road to the
hearts of those moral and virtuous persons.
A sober and honest negro of orderly and cor
rect behavior has no chance at all for their
sympathies. Hence they go to work and
obtain money under false pretences, in which
they are abundantly justified by the moral
lesson which Beecher and Parker so often
inculcate that the end .justifes the means.