The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-12
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Land Bill-its aim and Teffects." 1t quotes from
Cobbs Graduation Bill, which passed during the
last hours of Congress, and alleges that contains
the principles of the 4" unadulterated Homestead
Bill, with all its odious features, stimulating an ar.
tifcial and excessiv: immigration by bounties to
aliens and subectng the territory to the control OF
free soil population. If Mr.. Hunters bill had not
been ocerslanghed, to borrowa expressive but in
elegant word, peculiar to American legislation,
neither Cobb's graduation scheme, nor the Home
stead provision for the territory of New Mexico
would have been possible" Grant, if you please,
Gays the Enquirer, in conclusion) that Mr.. Hun
ter's bill is a compound OF good and evil yet the
good infinitely preponderates. Nor is this all. The
evil is inevitable while the good can be attained
only by this particular measure.
The Examiner also has leading editorial on the
subject Of Mr.. Hunters bill. 1t complains in the
name of the Democracy of Virginia, that Mr.. Hun
ters bill was not introduced into the Senate in JAN
uary or February last. Had this been done (con-
tinues the Examiner) the Democracy would have
had ample time to throttle it. The Legislature,
well the people in their primary meetings, would
have shown that there was still in Virginia some of
the oldfashioned republican principles, little in
vogue in Washington at this time We have not
| space to analyze the Examiners article, and can
only present the following appeal to the Democracy
of Virginia:
WE MUST EITHER REPUDIATE ADOPT THE
| HUNTER COMPROMISE. We must either at our ncrt
/ Conuention renew allegiance to the anti.land-
| plmnder resolutions Of our last C0nrention
| dorse Mr. HUNTERS bill This exciting and tenn
pestuous subject must come up at the Gubernatoral
| Convention. There are thousands of State Rights
| Democrats who will insist upon the Democracy of
| Virginia reafirming their timehonored resolutions
| against the spirit of the Homestead bill We
should show nothing like noncommittaliem upon
thie question: 1t il due to the honor and integri
ty OF the Democracy of Virginia, that their posi-.
ton upon the Homestead question should be known
The Penny Post has an article on "Our Glorious
Confederacy." 1t says it takes jaundiced eye or
a biased judgment not to admit the undoubted su.
periority. the unprecedented greatness of the mod
ell Republic What objection can there be then, to
telling this truth and proclamipg it from the house.
topsy Although Americans may notfnd every one
agreeing with them ON the subject of their own
transcendant excellence they too fully convin.
ced of it themselves to their honest habit Of
saying so:
| Beyond compare.
| The late article in Blackwood which was so hiph
ly complimentary to the United States, Continues
the Pest) proves that this sentiment is gaining
foothold where prejudice appeared to be firmly
rooted before.
The Whig states that many of the truest and ablest
Democratic papers in the State out 10 violent op
position to Hunters Homestead Bill. Quoting
from the language embodied by them, the Whig
asks who it is that has vilely betrayed the Demo-
cratic party bartered away its principles and sold
it OUT soul and body, for thirty pieces OF silver p
And replies
Mr. Hunter is the traitor IN their camp-has been
duly tried, found guilty, and convicted Nothing re-
mains but TO execute upon him the Just sentence of
the law 1t Is, therefore, incumbent upon the "aith.
full" whom he has go ruthessly betrayed and sold,
to see that he be hanged until he ts dead-dead-
we believe it will that he has already committed
suicide-an act, by the way, that would save his
friends good deal of trouble, and his country the
aggregate price OF great many acres of land at
his valuation.
The IcAnrAN ASSOCIATION AT NAuvoo.-A cor.
respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, who re-
Gently visited the Icarian Association at Nauvoo,
H., writes
had the pleasure of conversing with the apostle
ofthis new creed He fs an old man Of about sixty
two He has left his family In Paris, or rather they
lleft him, since Mrs. and Misses Cabot have no sym
pathy with communism.
The Nauvoo colony comprises about one hundred
Parisans and biarseilles girls, who. shipped from
Havre TO New Orleans, and from New Orleans 10
this place, without ever coming 10 contact with
Americans inst live ON tho shores Of the Mississippi
as they would on fhe shores ofthe Seine or Rhone,
laughing life away, and generally bent upon getting
married before they are sixteen. They have no
churches. Their religion, they say, & in their
heart ss5a
Besides other curiositics. found amongst the
| members the widow Of Syrian member Of the
Frankfort Parliament The widow Of Joe Smith,
the Mormon prophet, and bis youngest son, Joeeph,
stiIl reside Il Nsuyoo. The widow II emarriod 70
: man who keeps public house.
..GxTrISc up eMoKH.*-A wagon freiehted
with gunpowder, the wheels q Ehish a wers tyred T
from sperks thst might Be produced b the cortact
Of an iron DIRE With the payemcnk was secn passing
over Creeiss bridge tsw days snce, ON the top ol
which wss ssased de driver. apparsntiy n Iri.h
man. Win pipe and soma matches IN his banda
| which be MS endsavoring % .est up smoke. = =
He uas rubbing awsy quite lastily upon oneof hi
, explosive packages, without appeafingto compre
hsod ths fact tkata singIs rnluchy spark mistl
sspd him % paradise or pnrsat0ry r. tuinklins
besides endsnsssins ths lives of othen-
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