The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-23
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE "a 1854.
spIRIT OF THE PRESS.

FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE Is 1884.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The Pesmy Post says there ls nothing 81 which a
citizen Of Richmond may more justly boast than Of
the facilities which the city affords for the acquire
ment Of an education No city north or south. Is
more richly endowed Ia this respect The Post
enumerates three institntions of the higher grade
namely, the Virginia Medical College the Rich
mond College, and Female College which will be-
gin operations during the ensuing autumn, ana OF
which Rev. B. Manly, Jr, Is President, and po'nts
out the advantages ofeach. The object of this emu
meration ID not to inform our people OF their exis
tence. but 10 call the attention of pirgnisns and
Southern people to the home facilities oil acquiring
an education Parents continually sending their
sons and daughters to Northern Institutions and the
Poet wants show them that Ii s unnecessary 1t is
with the people of Virginia and the South to build
up these fountains of learning and intelligence. If
they are wise it viii be done. The youth of the
South will no longer be committed to tender mer.
cies of antssyery professors and Instructors. but
will be educated at the South, and be fitted BY
Southern minds, to take their places in Southern
comunnities 4, s. $50. ..e4
The Wkig deyotes leader to the N. York Tn.
bune, which It pronounces the most fanatical and
reasonable sheet that a generous public forbear.
tolerated in any country In the fact that
such journal 10 sustained by everybody, every.
where, Gays the Wbig) is implied the bt,erest Of
all sarcasms upon poor human nature. 1t shows
the world to be full Of fools and Villains either rea
dy to be duped or ready to commit crime for pas.
time. The Tribune recently recommended the fir.
ing Of the Capitol and the overthrow Of the Govern.
rnent because Congress saw fit to repeal an uncon'
si,utional act by which the South had long been de-
prived Of right essential to its equality and ad
vaneement. Failing In this, 1t now recommends Q
policy less revolving to their tastes and decidedly
less dangerous to their personal safety 1t even
presses itself satisfied for the present. with keeping
up agitation upon what it says is the "only practica
BILE basis" upon which effective and thorough
union of its anatica forces can be efected-on the
basis of resistance to the Nebraska Bill and de-
mand for its repeal. and on no other" The Wing
comments with much spirit upon Greeley's "basis
OF effort" The Tribune, it says, evidently has
some msgiyings in relation to the fidelity of its al
les, as its reasons for recommending only one sob"
at time, sufficiently show. In conclusion, the
Wing hopes Greeley will rave and rant and threas
ten to bis hearts content, unless-which is not i'm
probable-the government should think it best to
intercept his amusement in this respect and accord
to him the higher and patriotic one of dangling
tor while in the cool air.
The Enquirer has an article upon the Revision
of the Tariff. The scheme of the Committee of
Ways and Means does not appear to contemplate
the depletion of the Treasury and that is enough to
condemn it in the Enqurer's Judgment without re-
gard to the details of the provisions In conclusion
the writer says: +- a.. &
1t may be that the critical condition of our To-
reign relations, Restraints the Committee from pro-
posing any greater diminution of revenue Very
well; then why propose any reduction at ap The
country will not feel the effect of the present bill
but even this ineonsiderable reduction of duty NAV
moderate the zeal OF the friends of free trade and
may afford an excuse to the protectionist for resist
ing any more substantial relief. We have not vet
examined the bill sufficiently to pronounce per-
emptory judgment on its character, but it is our
present opinion that the cause of tree trade would
be embarrassed and weakened rather than urornot-
ed, BY the equivocal reductions recommended in
the Committees report
SUIT FOR DIvoRcE.-The lovers of scandal have
now a windfall in suit for divorce now pending
in the New York Court of Common Pleas. Theci,.
cumstances are briefly as follows:
The applicant Is Catherine f. P. Walker. and her
naughty husband Mr.. Wiides r. Walker-a name
that was brought conspicuously before the public
In connection with some bank transactions at New
Brunswick, New Jersey. Walker is charged with
adultery, and ample proof OF the fact is offered to
be produced
On the other hand Walkers counsel saws he ia
prepared to prove that the boot is on the other Leg
that 1t ls the wife who is guilty and not the husband
Among other things he charges her with an impro
per intimacy with Commodore Newton, of the u
5. steamship Missouri, at Bath, Me- in is43. Also
with DR.. Harpswell, at a watering place in the
same neighborhood