The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-22
COOL AND CoMroRTABLE.

We extract the following from theN Y.
Times, journal which is conspicuous in the
anti slavery crusade. 1--WE hear from very
creditable source, that some Southerners are
already looking out for Northern summer re-
sidences. II the thing is once started, it
mus. become popular. A house on the Hud
son or Connecticut, in the Highlands, or on
the sea shore, will be preferable for families
to soiourn at any of the fashionable springs
A great many people would buy home for
summer life at the North, and transfer all
their families, if it could be done within the
bounds of reasonable economy. Our opin-
ion is, that it can be so done, and that South
erners will find it to their interest to make
this annual migration. The difficulty hith-
crto has been the enormous expense of the
travel. That can now be removed Four
horse coaches are done with. Steam will do
all the work very much cheaper and better
of course, the fashionable people will go to
the Springs. But large class of the most
cultivated and wealthy members of Southern
society are not fashionable, at least in the
New York sense. They win want comfort
quiet and health, and they will find it in snug
cottages of their own among our hills and
beside our rivers =
OF course But have Southerners no hills,
no rivers. no healthful breezes Of their own?
Does not the same ocean heave its mighty
waves upon their shores that dashes against
the rock bound North! Have they not majes-
tic mountains and lovely valleys. in which the
air breathes only health and fragrance, while
from the ground gush thousand medicinal
springs? We ask them, why not build their
cabins at their own watering places, and
spend their money within their own bor-
ders, instead of lavishing it among those who
use it to despoil them of their property, who
laugh at their complaints, insult them by the
most odious and degrading epithets, and
while they denounce the peculiar institu-
ton as robbery, are willing and anxious to
secure the lions share of the spoils?
Of course, every Southern man has a per.
feet right to spend his money and his time
where he chooses. No one disputes the right,
but We may well question the expediency-
At any rate, we like to see consistency
What consistency is there in professions of
State pride, and patronage of everything,
both in the way of business and pleasure,
outside the limits, for which so much devo-
ton is expressed? If the South is really in
no danger of aggression from Northern IA
naticisn, let us cease to say so. If she is,
let us refrain from furnishing our enemies
with the sinews of war.
The Times, in the same number which
contains the above pressing invitation to
Southerners to spend their money in the
North, publishes a contribution headed
sketches in Washington, No B." which
thus compliments the Virginia delegation in
the House of Representatives. These gen.
tlemen and their constituents cannot, "of
course" after such delicate flattery, fail to
repair at once to Saratoga, to Newport, to the
banks of the Hudson River. and to other Nor
thern places of recreation, and shell out their
money literally:
Beneath US, to the right of the Chair, YOU NAV
see group OF Old Virglnny's sons-doubtIess ali
OF the hrst iamllles"-and they are pretty fair
sample OF the style of public men furnished to the
nation, in these latter days, by that degenerate mo-
ther of States and statesmen. The woolly- in
significant little man is Gen. Mson, of the Norfolk
District, tremendous hair sptter and propounder
OF distractions who votes against nine out of ten
of all the bills introduced into the House. on the
ground that they are unconstitutional" The tall,
thin, dark young man is Paulus Powell, who was
sent here originally, because he was the only Demo
crat in his Dictrict who was not too unpopular to
command full vote of the party. Nobody knew
anything OF him good or bad, except that he came
OF one OF the F. F. VS., and so he was elected He
came here with no reputation, and he has made
none He is only remarkable for never having ut
tered word in public in his life-on the stump or
in Congress. Standing in front of him is perhaps
the oldest looking man here-Letcher-he with
spectacles and yellow hair, cut extremely close
over the entire surface of an usually long head
He Is very economcal-the terror of claimants and
claim agents, and the bitter foe OF the lobby"
The stout vulgar farmer near him is Col McMul
lin, OF Tom Hyer notoriety-a first rate pugilist,
but an Indifferent legislator. And completing the
group of Virginians, last although not least, the
lsht-hared busting, actiyelooking man is ex. Gov
ernor William Smith-better known in these dig
gings as Extra Billy" why, cannot say. He is
said to be the best stump speaker in the Union but
his manner ia the House smacks too much of the
plantation and the negro driver, and consequently
he is far from popular"