The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-02-27
RICHMOND VA
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY q, 1884,
spIRIT on THE PRESS.

Saturdays IFhig has a leader upon European
affairs and noticing the effects of the war upon this
country. 1t will create a demand for our bread
stuffs, but have very bad effect upon cotton.
general war may endanger our pacific relations
England and France may envy US the rich profits of
the carrying trade and be disposed to subject our
merchantmen to search. If Russian privateer
issues from our ports they will readily seize upon
that pretext, for subjecting our commercial ma.
rine TO annoyances, which we may not be inclined
to submit to very quietly. The Wing also hints at
the possibility of combination between the Amer.
ican Republic and the Russian Gear. 1t would be
strange combination, but, it says, American De-
mocracy does not differ 80 much in reality as in
appearance from the absolution of Russia Both
are despotisms The article concludes with the
remark that if we would maintain ourselves in
peace and thereby reap all the benefits of war
among other nations, our Government should en-
ploy great vigilance to prevent the slightest infrac
ton of neutrality, either by our own citizens
or those of the belgerents.
The Enquirer has leader On Hanging, an
Educational Institution The writer sets out with
the remark that as life is with most men. the thing
of greatest value. and death the evil most to be
Stunned and avoided, it is evident that no other
penalty than the death penalty. would exert such
restraining influence over those who are prone to
disobey the law. 1t is matter of doubt however,
whether public executions are equally worthy of
approval In this State their impolicy has been
fully demonstrated, and the Enquirer relates in
stances where their effect has been directly oppo-
site to that which they were designed to produce
For many reasons which are torcibly given In the
article, the Enquirer is opposed to public execu'
| tions by hanging or otherwise, and would have
| them abolished in the State of Virginia.
The Penny Post has severe criticism upon J. 7
| Headley's new book, 1.-THE Second War with Eng.
| land In the second article, the Rev. Theodore
Parker is handled without gloves and the relations
| of the North and South ably considered.
| The Mail aludes to the doings of the present
| Legislature; says nothing has yet been done for
| those improvements which are regarded as the
great living arteries which to lend life and vigo1
to the existence of the old Commonwealth, and does
not anticipate that anything will be done during the
session advises an extra session. but not an exten
sion of the present one The Mail in another articles
congratulaes the friends iof medical education up
on the passage OF the Medical College Eli by the
| Senate.
| The Erening Bulletin has leader on Mrs
| Stoves address to the women of the Free States
on slavery in general and the Nebraska bill in par
ticular. The Bulletin is glad to see that the lead
ers in the anti-Nebraska movement at the North
are the notorious fanatics to whom the great body
of the Northern people have listened for twenty
years with contemptuous Indifference. and says i,
is hardly probable that at this late day. their rant
will PASS for inspiration, that they will now be
taken up as political teachers and guides by the
masses to whom they have so long been objects ol
contempt and aversion.