The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-09
RICHMOND, VA:
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 0. 1854.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Hhig processes to feel as much solicitude for the
thinks it is promoting that welfare by opposing
works that viii drain trade from it, (among which
it classes the Central Road) and supporting those
that must empty here. The second article is a com.
ment upon Senator Houston's speech on the Ne
braska BILL While the Senator harps nightly
upon the sanctity of the Missouri compromise, he
forgets that the compromise of the Constitution is
thirty years older than the Missouri compromise
and II antiquity be the test of sanctity, the former
Is twice as sacred as the latter 1t was the first,
the most formal and solemn compact made between
the States and anything in opposition to it, passed
by mere majority of Congress, is nullity. The
South therefore, insists that the outrage upon the
Constitution be abrogated, and that the original
compact be restored to its pristine vigor.
The Enquirer has rejoinder to the IThig on
the matter of the public printing The Whig, it
says, now attemptsto create the impression that it
riaigned Mr. Staples, for the numerous 'blank
pages" in his legislative duties, (and for which he
made the Commonwealth pay9 by way of 'justifi-
cation or excuse for wasting the public money on
printing" This the Enquirer emphatically dis
claims. 1t referred TO Mr.. Staples absence from
his seat merely to show the insincerity of those who
profess SO much love for the taxpayers Inits Sc.
cond article the Enquirer pitches into VIM P Fess-
enden, the new Senator from Maine and by way
OF Illustration adds the following scene in tn clos
ing struggle on the Nebraska bill from the Wash
lngton correspondence of the n Y. Herald:
Mr. Fessenden of Maine, had good deal to say;
put 1t Is understood he silenced by the rela
tion oil an anecdote. Judge Douglas declared that
ine hrst he ever heard of Fessenden he read in
Maine paper, some years ago: that on the 9Th of
JuIy-lhe DAY upon which the negroes celebrate
the r Fourth III that State--the negro chairman pro-
posed the following toast: "Our wordy brudder
William Pitt Fessenden-A white man with black
heart" After such atoast, Mr. Fessenden's course
last night was perfectly in order.
The Penny Post, after announcing that Mrs
Stowe has recently published address to the wo-
men OF the free States on the present crisis in the
affairs OF our country proceeds to descant with
severity upon the old lady's pious labors, regard
Ing her as cats paw in formidable conspiracy,
extending beyond the United States to destroy the
American Republic. In its second article the Post al
iudes to the lamentations of philosopher Greely
flndlng that his predictions of wrath to cannot
be realized He feels all the bitterness of the pro-
phet Jonah when he discovered that Ninevah was
ly is worse off even than Jonah for the South has
not trepented in sack-cloth and ashes, nor made
any other effort, far as can see, to arrest the
threatened evil In the meantime, he vents his ex-
ecratlons upon everything that crosses his path
The Malt after devoting a leader to the Coving-
ton and Ohio Railroad-opposing the New River
route and defendngit its position by argument and
satistics,-alludes to the passage of the Nebraska
bill III the Senate, the opposition to which came
principally 1.-THE aboltionists and freesoilers-
Says the Mail:
We have never supposed that the South would
gain anything practically from the passage OF the
bill. We have very little expectation that slavery
VIII ever be introduced into Nebraska. 1t was the
principle-the constitutional principle, which the
south was contending for, and which the Senate
has 20 distinctly recognised.
The bill, continues the Mail, will undoubtedly
pass the House, and in the meantime the abolition
lists, treesoilers free negroes, spirit rappers Fou
rierites and all others of that motley mass which
forms the scum of northern society, are bowling
and believing over it like herd OF inturated butfa
loes They are impotent of harm and only excite
the derision of sensible people
Music FOR THE MILLIoN.-A number of the sa-
vans OF England have recently been engaged upon
the enquiry as to the practcability of manufacture
ing an organ capable of filling the new Crystal
Palace at Sydenham The directors of this extern
sive Palace of Light came very properly to the con.
cluson, that the organ to be placed in it must be no
puny affair." but that it must TO be effective surpass
any thing fthe kind yet manufactured. They sub
mltted the whole question of description and the
capacity of an organ, suited to accomplish the OBJ
Ject they had in view to learned committee. AZ
ter patient investigation of the subject the COM
mtee came to the conclusion, that it was practica
bic to manufacture organ suited to the building
producing all the effects desired Such, however
Is the vastness OF the great morster musical ma
chine they shadow forth, that it almost takes ones
breath away to think of it!
To give idea OF the vast office this ORGAN will
have TO perform, we make one or two references
to statements by the committee The largest organs
III England at present are those in the Town Hall
at birmingham, and the Minister at York. One Of
'hese buildings has an interior capacity of about
ooo'ooo cubic feet, the other upwards OF 100000
CUBIC leet; but the transept alone of the Sydenham
oulidlng-which is $40 feet long, l7U wide and 200
feet high greatly exceeds the largest of these two
irrespective OF the other parts of the structure The
organ suggested by the committee for this great
edince would be lC8 feet wide, 80 feetdeep and I4O
fect high. Its architectural styles as explained by
Them would be in keeping with ifs gigantic proper
tions and the magnifcence of the building. 1t
would contain many improvements with reference
to reed -stops-which are considered most effective
in large buiidings-and large pipes Two of the
pipes would be 64 feet long, twice the size of the
largestye made. The feeders of the bellows would
be worked by steam engine, which, with the
feeders would be disposed of in an underground
apartment. This vast musical structure yould cost
a21000, take three years to build it, and would
constitute an additional wonder of the world. Un.
I'll it Is built, in the language Of the account before
us the lovers OF organ music may ponder on the
vast idea, and may dream OF Back and Handel, OF
Mozart and Haydn, OF Beethoven and Meldensohn.
slave belonging to Mrs. Smyth. of Jefferson
county, Miss, recently murdered German wood
cutter. The negro was arrested on suspicion, con.
fessed the deed. and showed where the body was
hid. He was committed to prison to await his