The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-25
IA WORD FOR THE SOUTH.


The New York Express deems it nccessa-
~ to nut in good word for the South. III
j. very fashionable, just now" says the Ea-
,r... .ro ABUSE THE WHOLE SoUTH indis-
cr,minstely, and we confess to having had
more i'll feeling than we have ever before ex
rer;enced on account Of the want OF faith
growing out Of the act Of Congress which re-
healed the Missouri Compromise. But we are
neither bigots nor sectionalists, and can see
NO good in the torrents of abuse every day
poured out, like water. against the South Tor
acts which few here approve. and thousands
secretly or openly condemn. One OF our
city contemporaries makes it point OF In
,ulting the South, by calling its citizens
slave drivers negro drivers and other OF
fensive epithets, suited to its own taste. II
is a 50 ecies of blackguardism, in which, We
believe, but very few persons in the Nor!n
sympathize, but nevertheless, it sounds harsh
" here. and most offensive, no doubt, at the
point where it is aimed" The Express pro-
badly alludes to the Tribune, but II so' II
NAV rest assured that few at the South know
what Greeley says, and fewer still care. The
abuse of drunkard or the rawlings OF iu-
matte would as soon disturb Southern men as
the gross epithets of the besotted ana crazy
fanatic of the Tribune. Moreover, right OF
wrong. there is in the South so high an ap'
preciation of what the Tribune would call
"brute courage" that a man who, without
proyocation, abuses others in the newspapers
and refuses to hold himself personally respon-
sible, cannot possibly rise above contempt.
It is a matter of some interest to learn that
abuse of the South has become common
We do not like to see so conservative Jour-
nal as the Express, in reproving this abuse
concede a want of faith" on the part OF the
Sonth,-a charge which we utterly deny
While thankful for the vindication, in the ar
ticle from which we have quoted, of the be-
nevoience of Southern masters, and for the
generally friendly spirit of the Express, we
confess that we are not anxious to propitiate
communities who do not desire to be propi-
tiated. Let them believe what they please
of the South, and abuse it to their hearts
content. We are content that they shall SOW
this wind-and reap the whirlwind.
THE CHOLERA AND THE NORTHERN
SPRINGS.
The prevalence Of the cholera in some OF
the Northern watering places, has very
diminished the gaiety of the sa-
loon and the profits of the landlord. People
WHO fed from the plague-stricken streets of
New York to refuge at its sulphurous
hsunts of pleasure and dissipation, found the
dreaded enemy upon their track, and were
forced to decamp to parts unknown. Dow
ayers and damsels, sharpers and flats, fat
men and lean men, gentlemen and snobs,
have very generally taken to their heels in
breathless run for life, looking over their
shoulders in momentary expectation Of see-
ing the grisly king, with bow drawn, about to
smile them between the joints of the har-
ness. A grim contrast, this dance of death,
to the bewildering waltz and the voluptuous
polka, wherewith heads, heels and morality
are whirled away ut the Springs.
The winter season in the great cities is ex
pected to open with redoubled brilliancy on
account Of the disappointments of the sum-
mer. The marble-veneered palaces of the
great Babylon on Manhattan Island, will be
one blaze of gas-lights and jewelry. The
cholera will be forgotten, or only remem
bered to add new zest to returning sense
of security. Routs and ruin, extravaganza
and madness, will be the order Of the day,
or rather of the night, next winter, in New
York. Heaven save us from great cities
Jefferson was right, when he described them
as sores-and big, ugly alterations they
moral and social.
"FAsHIoN AND FAMINE.''-The New York
Express tells the following good story of a
novel of Mrs. Stephens, which it says has ex-
cited much attention at home and abroad:
1t seems that certain Divine, who shall be name.
less found the volume in his daughters hand one
8sbbsih morning; and after lecturins her severely
for pstusing such book the sabbath day. took it
away With him to his study. The daughter, quite
crest fallen, went away to her Sunday school; nor
aid she recover from the effects of tho grievous sin
she had committed, until, entering the church
with her scholars after the organ had ceased sound.
Ing, she perceived that her father had not yet ar.
rived; all snxety to know what detained him. she was
y, wilips the psrspiration on his bald forehead -
Well he vsnt through ths service very iupressiv
y, - usual; bat what the dsughtsrs surprise to
nesf MIN oonciude mastefy discourse with the