The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-24
THE DAILY DISPATCH
TUESDAY MORNING. OCrOsER .. 1854.

THE DAILY DISPATCH.
TUESDAY MORNING. ocTOsER - lss4.
Tak ELLswoRTH OurRAGx.--The recent
outrage in Ellsworth. Maine, an account OF
which We pubiished yesterday. 10 without
parallel In the history of this country. An
innocent and unofsnding clergyman, whose
life was blameless. and who had given no Oh
fence to any living being, dragged from the
house Of friend and rode upon raii' fece.s'
ing such injuries ss almost to endangsr ~.
fife. IT'S said that this was the work 81
set Of drunken rowdies, but can those New
Epei.nd censors, who are always harping
upon the lawlessness and violence OF south
ern society, point US to an outrage like this
in any Southern community! The most reck
Iess and ferocious ruffians Of the Southwest
have spared clergyrnen and women, and con-
fined their deeds Of violence to men IKE
themselves. who were capable Of resistance.
1t has been reserved to . New Engiandtown
to be the scene of an outrage, the injustice
and cruelty Of which have not been parallel
ed since the day, when, in the same latitude,
they put to death Quakers and witches.
The clergyman thus inhumanly treated,
was . clergyman of the Roman Cathoiic
Church, but we are happy to believe there Is
no one 80 intolerant or bigoted as to JUSTIFY
such an act towards Protestant any more
than Catholic clergyman. 1t is not to be
supposed that the brutal atrocity was insti-
gated by religious hostility, for nothing Is
more evident than that an intelligent adyer
sary of the Roman Catholic faith would ayold
the committing of any act which would look
like persecution, inasmuch as, even II there
were no principle or conscience concerned IN
the matter, persecution in free country is the
most efficient mode of building up any creed
at which it is aimed 1t is a gun which does
much more damage in the kicking than the
shooting. Unless, however. the authorities
of the place where this abominable outrage
was committed bring the offenders to sum-
mary Justice, they will involve their whole
community in the just responsibility OF the
deed, and offer immunity to similar ontrages
hereafter. The burning down of churches
the tearing down of converts, and the riding
of priests on q rail, do not speak very favor
ably for civilization or even for common de
csncy in New England.
The Liquor QuEsr1oS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Fuller returns from Pennsylvania show that
the majority against the proposed prohibito-
~ liquor law, is not as large as was antici.
pated. The official majorities, according to
<Lo ITor171 cbnuy
balance against the law, of about three thou
sand votes But, as the Herald justly re-
marks, in an aggregate vote of nearly four
hundred thousand, q majority, either way, of
three thousand votes, amounts to no decision
at all, and the people of Pennsylvania may be
said to be nearly equally divided on the ques-
ton of prohibitory liquor law. 1t is doubt
ed whether, under such circumstances, the
Legislature recently elected, will feel dispos
ed to carry out the views of the extreme tenn
perance men, but may feel constrained to
pass laws restricting licenses, and otherwise
to adopt judicious measures for the suppress
sion of the vice of intemperance.
THE details of the votes on the liquor
question" says the Herald, from the |
various counties into which the great State
of Pennsylvania is divided, show curious re-
suits, which will interest those who know the
peculiar circumstances ofthe resident popu-
lation of the various sections of the State. To
those readers not well informed on this sub
ject, we may remark that Pennsylvania was
mainly settled by four classes of people,
representing different European races. The
English settlers, principally Quakers under
William Penn, occupied Philadelphia, Della.
ware, Chester, and part of Bucks county, on
the Delaware, and this section has given a
large aggregate majority in favor of the pro
hibitory liquor law the counties settled by
the Germans, and now occupied mainly by
their descendants, such as Berks, Lancaster
Dauphin, Lehigh, Northampton, Schuylkill,
Montgomery, Adams, Franklin, DC, have,
In nearly every instance, given heavy MAORI
ties against the proposed law. Then come
the counties on the Northern line of the
State-viz Erie, Warren, Bradford, Susque-
hanna, Tioga, &c, and including Lazurne
and other counties in the valley of Wyoming
all of which were principally settled by emf. /
grants from New England, and generally
democratic in their politics. This section /
gives heavy majorities in favor of the pro.
hibition of the sale of liquor. The region
west of the Allegheny Mountains, which was !
principally settled by people of Anglo Saxon
origin, particularly from Scotland, the North
of Ireland and Wales, has also given heavy
vote in favor of prohibition of liquor sales
We see, therefore, that the only class of coun.
ties which has decided against prohibitory /
law is that in which the people of German
descent have the preponderance, and few
counties where the emigrants from Ireland
and Germany, employed in the mines and In /
internal improvements, have turned the
scale"
CENSUS OF THE CIrY.-By reference To /
our local department it will be seen that Mr.
MILLER has completed the census of the city. |
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