The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-25
RICHM OND, va,
sPTRITOFTHE PRFSS

Yesterdays FaaP, commenting on the elections
which take place today. notices the great falling off
In the number of candidates: which il attributes in
many cases to the discovery that the offices were
not so very profitable as had been supposed, and Ia
others to an ascertained want of popularity 1t
considers 1t fortunate however, that from one
cause and another the list is diminished that so
many who were formerly office hunting, are now
attending to their own affairs, and it hopes never to
see the scenes of scrambling for office of 1852 re-
peated. 1t regrets, however that there is an ap.
parent want of interest in the elections among the
people and fears that thus they likely to be eL
tirely within the control of demagogues.
The Whig refers TO the advertisements OF the
Railroad Companies that they will not receive
small notes, and will not be able to furnish
change after the small note law goes into effect and
calling on passengers and fregh owners to make
their own change. The Whig does not blame the
railroads. but considers this foreshadowing of the
Inconvenience the public is to be subjected to, as
fair illustration "of the beauties of the shnplaster
legislation of our late Legislature"
The Post gives analysis of the report of the U.
s. Senate committee in favor of radical reform In
the American navy, which it generally approves
The Post notices statement in Washington let.
ter to the New York Times, that advices from Cuba
render 1t extremely probable that the Island ia at
this moment in state of revolution" The Post
says that Spain has been to Cuba an unalloyed un.
mitigated curse 1t is the last grain of sand which
breaks the Camels back, and the Post remarks that
the patience of Cuba is not inexhaustible it would
have hopes that it has at last given out But as to
the rumor it concerns the United States very little
whether it be true false If Cuba secures her in.
dependence she will be too weak to stand alone
and must be annexed to the United States for pro-
lection. In any event the Post considers that Cuba
must be ours. The Posi- has an article in favor OF
an extra session.
The Enquirer has some animadyersions upon the
abolition indignation of the orth in the course OF
which it remarks that the threat of disunion may
be "simply TO drive ns from manly support of our
rights in which case it suggests that 'no expe
dent could be devised less calculated to accomplish
its end" The Enquirer says that the conviction
that the South is fully competent to the protection
of its own interests and the development of its
great destinies, without the cooperation of the
Northern aboltionsts one long ago entertained by
able statesmen, and which has been strengthened
and diffused until men of timid and conservative
dlsp0sllOn6 stanu now Wnefe STOOD the most ultra
in 1850 On the other hand it asserts that the Union
has been the chief instrument OF Northern aggran.
dizement.
The Mail. under the head more annexation" no.
tices the rumor that the Minister from Honduras
has made voluntary and unconditional offer OF
annexation Of that country to the United States
The Mail suggests that independent of this the ad-
ministration has already too many annexation irons
In the fire; and it is disposed to be little cautious
about receiving Honduras on the old maxim OF
"Timeo Dandos &c" However, it supposes the
manifest destiny" men will be hot alter it. The
Mail also alludes to the proposition to buy out the
Russian possessions in North Amerca; so that with
the programme of annexation including the Sand.
wch Islands, Cuba, Lower California, Honduras
and Russia in America, and the contingency of a
slice or two of Mexico the administration is likely
it says, to have its hands full. The Mail conesses
to little too much old fogyism to relish the imme-
diate accomplishment Of these projects; it considers
'slow and sure" better, though not popular a
motto "let her rip"