The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-03
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH s 1854.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.


sPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The Mad consinues its remarks on the Indspen.
dence Of the Soath. 10 be independent Of the
North we must pursue the proper course The
South must manufacture for itself and import Tor It.
sell; and BY doing these things a cheaply a. the
North, make to the nferest Of the Southern Mer.
chant to buy at home. The Mail concludes:
This idea then--of establishing the independence
Of the South-depends upon ourselves. We may
Just as well ut once settle down into the belief that
Hercules will not assist unless we put our own
shoulders to the wheel. II will not do to look on
and say that such and such things ought to be done
but We should determine at once that they shall
be done 1.-THE proposed Convention ut Charleston
will tend to excite the dormant energies of the
South, will lead to one single practical result
will be the best spent day we have had since the
fourth Of July, l776
The Enquirer aliudes to the feeling in the South
on the Nebraska question. An absence of popular
demonstrations Of excitement must not be taken as
evidence ofa want of interest apathy OF feeling.
The dignity and gravity of the Southern character
do not consist with the wild excuses of passion
into which the Northern people rush on the most
trivial cause Throughout the South there prevails
arepugnance to agitation; but, Gays the Ensnirer)
of this calm and quiet temper of the public mind
1t is absurd to say that the South feels concern
about the issue of the Nebraska controversy. in
face of the fact that the Southern people are unani
NOUS in support Of the measure. On no former
occasion of sectional controversy was this the case
1t has been the misfortune of the South that it, own
people have been divided in every crisis of nerI tn
its Institutions but now, for the first time, they are
thoroughly and cordially united
The Penny Post continues its sketch of the debate
on Brodnaxs resolutions. The second article mr..
ges the formation of Board of Trade. similar N
that of Norfolk. We want among us a board oftbis
Sort to give the start to all great public measures
ofcommercial Importance, or OF Importance to the
interests of the city in any way. Manufactures and
internal improvements fall equally within its coz.
nizance.
The Wing devotes leader to the declaration of
neutrality made by Sweden, Denmark and Norway
which was at first received with great satisfaction
by the English press; but which the sagacious cor
respondent of the London Times at Berlin explains
that the neutrality the terms proposed is in eff
feet tantamount to siding with Russia-and he saws
that such was the object The second article of
the Whig aludes to the presence at Washington of
John Van Buren, and a host of Freesoil officers
from New York. What can the matter bes The
friends ofthe Nebraska bill (says the Wzig,) should
put guard over the President to protect him from
the witchery of the Prince. One of the Virginia
members, who has had his eye upon the Brigadier
for twenty years, would discharge that duty admi
rably.
THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER AT SYRACUSE.
The recent horrible murder, at Syracuse, New
Il RE D,~sl,
interest throughout the country. Most of the
developments in regard to it have been laid before
our readers, but every mail brings us something
new putting more terrible face upon the affair."
The Syracuse Republican of Monday, says:
CONFESSION OF THE G1RL!-The servant girl,
Mary Cummings, now under arrest, has confessed
that she knows that Alfred Filler murdered his wife!
That criminal intercourse had existed between
him and her for some time past; and that she knew
previously that he was going to kill his wife but did
not know when.
That some months ago he attempted to poison his
wife by nfusing poison into the coffee but finding
he could not poison his wife without affecting all
the family, he threw the coffee away and she Mary
Cummings, washed out the coffee pot. She is sup
posed to be Sf,ente
him kill bis wife, and afterwards he and she ar.
ranged things and preparations to conform with the
idea attempted to be conveyed by the testimony of
a robbery.
A later edition of the Republican says that since
the foregoing was prepared some very important
facts have been CLEANED, which will be made pub.
lie in due time that Notwithstanding popular
opinion is very much against Filler, it should be
curbed until farther investigations have been made
Filler declares he is innocent and is very calm and
composed.
1t appears that two brothers of the girl Mary
Cummings who were in Filer's employ, gave con.
Trajectory testimony in the case, and that one of
them has large black wbiskers and curly hair, and
is as tall as Filer The little boy, Henry Filler it
will be remembered, testified that the murderer
was not any taller than his father, and had wbis.
kers like his father. Notwithstanding these cir
cumstances the telegraph has informed us that the
corners jury returned verdict of murder against
the husband.
The murdered woman was buried by the side of
Filters first wife, who died in 1e45 at the age of
Is, and whose tombstone is inscribed as follows
'Lo where this silent marble weeps
A friend, wife, a mother sleeps;
A heart whose warm affections won
The love of all-the old, the ysungn