The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-12-12
RICHM M0ND, VA,
TUESDAY MoRNINo. DEcEMaER y ,aa


The MAILS. The ice has 90 obstructed the na,.
sage OF the mail boat on the Potomac. that vedn
common with others South Of Alexandria, have
oeen put to the most serious Inconvenience for sev
oisidays past We are glad to announce that there
no~ good prospect Of regularity IN the mail
service between this point and Washington. The
fost once Department, on Saturday arranged with
the Orange and Alexandria Railroad cemn.nv for
the transportation of the great Southern MAI, from
"s'nne.on over that road, and thence connect
WIN the Virginia Central Railroad to Richmond.
TOT .ne time then, these roads form link ia the
Southern Mail line
Inc alexandria Gazette states that over one
hundred through passengers arrived in tba, Mace
On Saturday, over the Orange and Alexandria Raj.
road, mostly from Richmond.
Kansas AND AsrI-SLAyKRY.-The over.
whelming majority by which Whitfield mon.
inferyention) has been elected over Flenn;.
ker, (anfi-slavery,) has thrown the abolition
""u iree SOIL . of the North into strong
convulsions. They gnash. snan. foam a. ,be
mouth and exhibit all the symptoms of
aog IN the last stages of hydrophobia. For
SIX months past, under the whip and spur Of
Ine press, the pulpit and the stump, they have
Deen moving heaven and earth to abolition.
ize Aansas. They have raised funds, organ.
ized emigration societies. and with terrible
nuiiabaloo, have started off huge (paper) de-
tachments OF emigrants, who were to give
the free folds of the star spangled banner Of
freedom to the free breezes of the free West,
ana save the virgin soil of Kansas from the
touch of slavery. On the
other hand, the Southern people, who are not
at all to be compared to their Northern breth
rem IN the capacity for making grand fuss
out OF small materials went quietly to W ork
and we see the result. The Anti Slavery can.
didate is no where, and Whitfield ithe non-in.
tervention mani has swept the field like
a young hurricane.
VIII Kansas be a slave State 2" A cor.
respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, from
Douglas city, Nov. ls, discusses this interest.
ing question, if question it can any longer be
considered. He says:
In July last, wrote you that Kansas woud ,ot h..
s,ave nsa.e am now Of different opinion. The
ern fanatics, the coonizng they have done NJ hrn
dreds OF the lowest class of rowdies to brow heat
lar will have brought about this result They hsvs
located themselves near the Kansas river nsmsS
Sity Lawrence, and number. am told, some hum
oreds OF voters. have seen 9ome of Them and thew
are the most unmitigated looking set of
have ever laid my eyes on.
UP to late in September there was no excitement
in the Territory on this question Evervbodv bers
and in Missouri believed chat Kansas would he free
put INC no sooner did these cooniss
Holt, Buchanan, &c-sent over thousands of their
young men to counteract their treasonabie schemes
people I 81 ths goush q
may thank the red republican, Jacobin and in6deI
In reference to the candidates for the legislature
they will-at least nine.tenths of them-be in favor
OF the principles laid down in the Douglas Nebraska
bill OF ths last session.
This is good. 1t is refreshing. Kansas is
a long ways from Boston and New York.
Rev. Theodore Parker may below till he is
hoarse, the Tribune may roar like demo
MAC, but the transportation of voters to Kan.
sas is not to be effected by wind and gas
Missouri is nearer Kansas than New York
and Massachusetts. The abolitionists must
spur up. They must listen to the exhorta.
tions of the N Y. Herald, and send off
e Lloyd Garrison, Lucy Stone, Wendell Phil
lips, Abby Kelly Foster, Rev. Theodore Par
ker, Antoinette L. Brown, Horace Greeley,
Lucretia Mott, Fred. Douglass, Madame
Rose, and others, active agitators in behalf
of free soil for Kansas
The Herald promises that if competent
company be organized to ship off to the West
ern side of the Mississippi all this ungodly
crew of abolitionists, seditionists, infidels,
socialists, Bloomers, vegetarians, women's
rights women, philosophers, Jacobin reform.
ers. Fourierites, spiritual rappers, white,
black, yellow and red, male and female, men
in petticoats and women with boards inclu
ded, it will subscribe literally to rid the East
of these nuisances, and to send them where
they will have to work, like other people, for
an honest living.
This is fair offer. Let the anti N Nebraska.
anti Kansas party take Bennett at his word.
They must be in need of subscriptions from
some source.