The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-21
NEW WARLIKE WEAPONS.

NEW WARLIKE WEAPONS.
We again have accounts of new, destruc-
| tive and diabolical weapons of warfare, in
| vented by the "diabolical ingenuity of
| Englishmen and Frenchmen Says the sci
| entific Journal: "a triple bored cannon pro
iects with single charge of powder, three
balls connected by chains, which NOW down
rank after rank, and even the masts OF ships
and smoke stacks of steamers. A learned
saran of Paris has discovered liquid which
spreads over the surface Of water, and spon-
taneously infiames, thereby destroying yes
sells and human life. A cunning artisan has
concocted a balloon, which by the guiding
| influence OF a cord, and the locomotive ten
denotes of a favorable wind, can be directed
| to position over city or fort and then,
| by current of electricity, be made to ex-
plode and scatter death dealing projectiles
on every side Lances and Ijavelins with
tips of fame, and shields unimpressible to
lead or steel, are also spoken of. There is
terrible meaning in this activity of what
| would seem to be a diabolical ingenuity and
is by no means suggestive of the long ex-
pected period when swords shall be beaten
into pruning hooks, and man shall learn the
arts of war no more
We have not much faith in any of these
devilments When Sir Charles Napier first
went to the Baltic, it is said that his ships
carried out great variety of new and in
| fernal machines which would follow the Rus
sian vessels into the narrowest harbors, and
never leave them till they had effected
| their utter destruction. We heard also of
those balloons, which, by this time ought to
| be sailing over Russia, and dropping death
and destruction in their path But the gas
| for those balloons has not yet been manu-.
featured, except in the newspapers. This
Eastern war, so far has been Chinese war
on the part of the allies, war of horrible
grimaces and annihilating threats, but of no
performance. They don't use the old wea-
pOns of war, let alone employing new ones.
POVERTY AND FILTH IN NORTHERN
CITIEs.-A correspondent of the New York
Times gives a horrible picture of the foul
state of tenements in the Fourth Ward of
that city. There are lanes and alleys, he
have collected and hardened into a soil of
filth. He speaks of rows of houses, crowded
| upon each other, with no means of ventila-
ton and the stairways and rooms in the last
degree of filth. He adds:
A large tenement house in the upper part of
Cherry street has herded within it tao0 hundred and
si1ty:f0 families, and in this house the Croton
sinks are used as privies, until the whole building
nolyo ,rrskh ofr Elra h,~a e
Their house, with sixtyfour families is in like con-
dition. In many courts the pools have become
clogged, and the drainage gathers and runs over
and steams abroad the sickening smell and mi8sm
Families are crowded together in dank and reek-
Ing cellars Houses are as If never cleaned The
district, especially that between Roosevelt street
and Franklin square is ripe for fearful pesti-
lence."
The Philadelphia Journal Of Prison DIS
c'pfane puts the number of regular systematic
street beggars in Philadelphia at 700, and the
| number OF Vagrant begging children at 1900.
| In striking contrast to the extremes of
poverty and wretchedness in the Northern
elt'es is picture given by the New York
ne'o'd OF the extravaganza of fashionable
people OF New York. The Herald SAYS that
e'oly evening party at fashionable house
Al NC" / ork' requires from fifty to one bun
1 d.. H.
, uieu new dresses, and at a magnificent fete
e""mpetre given lately in New jersey there
were over two hundred new and maoni6cant
oresses' costing from fifty to one thousand
dollars each ''''"
"here does all this money come from q
fashionable dress maker of New yor,,
stated to the editor Of the Herald "tbo, :,
was with the utmost difficulty and sacrifice
both of time and feeling, that she could col
lect enough to pay her workwomen and the
duties that she was then owing money in
Paris which she was unable to remit that
families, comprising from two to four grown
up daughters, besides the mother, were then
| owing her from twelve to twenty -four hun
dred dollars each, and that every application
Tor an acquittance was met by plump re-
iusai ON the part of the husband and tears
liom the wife, until at length she had posi-
uVeiy refused to furnish more dresses until
'he existing debts were cancelled"
| M-in the article on "Ths Markham
pAs., the 18th line, dbolitionsf, of mors gsnis,
chimes. shoaid have read, "inhaJitauf, of mora 90.
| NAL climsso '''' Vi more gs'
iHS JEWS IN PALEsriNK.-Ii Ia stated ,ba, l.,
consequence OF the great distress amons tba Ia.,s
10 Palestine, NJ. Rothsehild has lust rsn;,,.a =.
one OF bis employees. sum Of fifty Thousand francs