The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-12
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The Enquirer has some remarks relative TO .
Democratic State Convention. The time and place
| of holding the Convention, the Enquirer suggests
| should be decided by the voice OF the Democratic
| press OF the State, and by any popular meetings
Fat may be held in the counties. The cath o
October it considers the most favorable time, bu'
will aequiesce any time and place that may be Sc
lected
The Uh{y says the Democratic journals will
have 1t that the National Whig party Is efectu ally
disorganized. We wonder, says the Wing, if they
| have ever taken into serious consideration what
would be the consequence of that disorganization
upon the country-the South particularly the
Democratic party. They appear to have lost sight
oil the fact that the dsorganz alton of the National
Wing party necessarily brings about similar state
OF affairs In their own partythat it at arrays
parties In sectional contest between the North
and South. The Whis then audes to the division
among the Democrats of the North and to the DEM
ocratc defeats in local aud State elections to show
that Democratic party at the Northwould be u.'
tefiy unable to cope with a combination OF the
wing and Freesoil vote We are arguing, con.
tinues the Wing, upon their assertion, that the
National Wing party is disorganized and that the
Northern Wings and Abolitionists have united
II this be as they would have it, 1t takes no Solomon
to see that Democracy is doomed in, the free
States, and furthermore, that 1t is defnct through
out the Union as we'll as Whigsery.
The Examiner has leader upon "Trade-Fo
reign and Domestic" giving avariety of important
tacts, Illustrating the national progress. Another
editorial alludes to the Southside Railroad, great
work which the Examiner regards with lively in.
terest and admiration. We quote the following
from the editorial under consideration, In nasmuch
as it isa matter in which every business man is in.
terested: so
Our object in aluding to the subject at present is
TO caution its Directory against narrow policy Of
seishness and Jealousy which, we have satisfacto-
ry reason to belive s nfusing itself into their man.
agernent the affairs Of the road. As evidences of
this unwise spirit we underiand, that very active
efforts used by its oicd 10 prevent freight and
passengers, coming from II direction of Lynch.
burg towards Richmond, &om getting upon the
Danvlle Railroad at the junction; and, indeed
hiat determination are made in violation of their
chafter against passengers who refuse to come
seventy two miles by way of Petersburg, to Rich.
mond, rather than fifty two miles, direct from the
junction. The amount of this discrimination is the
dnlerence between the Southsde Roads schedule
price from Chitons to the Junction and the maxi.
mum charge per mile allowed in their charter a
dlference, we believe, of some two or three dol
lars
The Penny Post has some remarks upon the ana
themas OF the N. Y. Tribune against the Nebraska
bill. The Tribune claims that a general organiza.
ton at the North has been formed to effect the re-
peal OF the bill So bitter and determined is the
spirit OF antagonsm which actuates this fanaticsl
press towards the South as manifested in its pre-
sent course that 1t has even gone SO far as to ar
range the whole plan of proceedings for annulliny
a statute the whole tenor and extent of which
amounts to nothing more than an equalizing of
rights among the different sections of the Union
or in other words, to an establishment of the doc
trine OF non.intervenion between the Federal gov.
ernment and the States with reference to the par.
ucuiar question involved. The Post anticipates no
such results as those which Greeley predicts 1t ia
not the first scheme of villany which the arch phi
losopher has concoctedin in his Attic Sanctum with.
out the slightest prospect of successful realza.
ton.