The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-29
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WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH a. 1854,
THE INTERMEDDLINa CLERGY.


THE INTERMEDDLING CLERGY.
The Boston Atlas makes weak attempt to
bolster up the intermeddling of New Eng
land parsons in political affairs by endeavor-
ing to made parallel case of the patriotic
proceedings Of the clergymen of New Eng
land in resisting the tyranny of Great Britain
over the Colonies. The Petersburg InteHi-
gencer justly observes that .. to make the two
cases parallel the Atlas must show that the
Nebraska bill is a Stamp Act in its principle
and intent-that it aims deadly blow at the
civil and religious liberties of the
people of the United States-thatit It is contra
ry to the Constitution and destructive to the
solemn guarantees Of that instrument" se
The truth is that the New England clergy
TOT course there are many honorable excep.
tions) have always regarded themselves as
leaders of the people in secular as well as re-
ligious affairs. The original government of
the New England Colonies was one in which
the clergy were rulers in the State as well as
the Church. and though the union has been
formally dissolved, they have never yet been
able to conquer their longings for the flesh
pots of Egypt. Whenever plausible pre-
text is afforded, the old Puritan lust of power
shows itselfa strongly as in the days of the
Blue Laws. But we object to the Jurisdiction
of these parsons. They never had any au-
thority, either by written or unwritten law,
over the Publicans and sinners of the South.
We renounee them and their works. We
have no respect for demand upon the Anne
rican Congress because they sign it. WewiIl
not consent that Uncle Sam, who is snubbed
by all the powers of the world, by England,
France and Spain, and who seems to have no
friend but old Nick shall be ridden, booted
and spurred, by the parsons of New England.
Let them mind their own business attend to
their own focks preach to them against CO.
vetousness; show them that it is not right to
cheat each other or to steal negroes from the
South, especially after they have sold them,
in the first instance, and pocketed the pro-
ceeds; exhort the manufacturers to give bet
ter wages to their poor white slaves, and in
woke their people generally not to indulge
their self conceit and sanctimonious self. com
placency to such an extent as to suppose that
when they die all wisdom and virtue will die
MARGARET, or Prejudice at Home and its Eic.
tins: Stringer & Townsend, New York. George
M West Richmond This volume come to us with
the warn1est eulogiums of the London press It il
recommended as far above the ordinary fictions of
the day. not only for the intrinsic excellence OF ts
literary merit but also for the vigor of its concep
tion the beauty Of its coloring the intensity of its
interest," the burning earnestness of its style its
great depth of feeling the skillness of its ciarac
terzation the severity of its satire the vast power
of its stirring pages upon the reader and the singu
lar purity of its moral
SERIOUS Loss OF LIFE BY DRowNING.-The VIII.
mington IN. CO. Journal, of Monday, furnishes the
following. be-. L.s.55 .s.
On Thursday last, Mr. Jas Picket, Mrs. Hines.
aged ST. Mrs. Clark, vile of Mr.. David Clark, Su.
san, aged 10, Sarah Catharne, aged 5, children OF
Mr. Picket, and child of Mr.. Jas. Parker, aged 3
years. while going from Prince George some Ia or
10 miles above this town on the North East River,
in boat, got upset, by the boat running on snag.
We regret to learn that Mrs. Hines and the three
children were drowned, Mrs. Clark very narrowly
escaped, she having clung to the boat for some
3or hours, endeavoring to save her mother-Mrs
Hines. y'a7 aa -t sa-r- as -
FIRE.-A fire broke out in Weldon on Saturday
last warehouse and wood house belonging. to
the Seaboard and Roanoke Rail Road Company
were consumed. Most of the goods in the ware.
house were saved, in a damaged condition Several
other houses caught, but were prevented from
hI1rp Tha & D.
the principal sufferers. p"
THE MARTHA WASHINGTON CAsE-The trial OF
the Martha Washington conspirators at Helena,
Ark, was to have been continued for sixty days ;
but the motion for continuance was 30 strenously
opposed by the counsel for the defence, that the
magistrates took time to consider and the result
was that they allowed continuance of only thirty
days. The trial will therefore commence on the
18th of April. 9Fa~
James Burton was shot and killed by Matthew
Grubbs, at public sale near Huntsville, Ala, on
the Goth inst Grubbs had not been arrested at last
accounts - - 2 =, y ! 80. = - sSss-f}
negro man named John Moore was run over
and killed by the cars on the Wilmington and Ra.
leigh Railroad last week. He was intoxicated, and
had lain down on the rails to take nap.
LIBERAL.-The Board Of Assistant Aldermen in
New Orleans, have passed q resolution sppropria.
ting $4,000 towards building a monument to the
memory ofD. S. Woodruff and VIM Mcleod, the
two firemen who fel in the discharge of their duty
at the fire in Magazine street, on the 18th inst.
Lieut. Jerome Napoleon Bonsparte, of the U. s.
Rifles was In New Orleans on the 2lst He ID about
resorting to the theatre of war In Europe.
1FArLusE.--A planter near Havsna, named Argu'
din, failed recently. His Indebtedness 10 said n
exceed million and a half Of dollars. = 81 Z
ExrronoN. There was an explosion of loco
motive boiler, recently, on the railway between
Mstanzas and Colieco, and several persons are sup
posed to have been killed. .ss
Busrsxss IN NEW YoRx.--The New York Ecouo
mist says that the dry goods trade In that city Il
very dull, and those houses which incurred heavy
expenses for rents and other incidentais of traffic
have not had their views justified. number have