The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-08
SPIRIT OFTHE PRESS.

-~, = .'''..'.'...... MAI y, 1890
SPIRIT OFTHE PRESS.
The Whis has leader on the prospect of the
present canvass. Itsays despite the loud boassins
OF the Wise press, it has never, for q moment
doubted the success Of the American Ticket. IL
could not believe that honest old Jackson Demo-
ocrats OF Virginia would 30 fer forget their self.
respect and their venerstion for the illustrious
cnie', 40 to bow the knee to Henry A. Wise, the
oiainguishlng act of whose life was his fierce de.
nunciation Of Andrew jackson. The Richmond
'unto has. It 10 true, by threats driven many, un.
wiineiy, into the support of the renegade ticket
ous mere are olhers-aud plenty of them, too
VINO viii not support or give countsnance to- the
renegade ticket of tfe Stsunton Convention. The
great body of the Whfss who are outside of the
american party, are animated by an intense de
are to break down the Richmond Junto and
while here and there may be found men like
hichie and Gholson, who have gone ovar to the
democrats for newspaper notoriety, there are
thousands OF good old gallant Whigs who. on the
osy oi election, standing out, 40 they have ever
oone' 10 hrm and uuyielding opposition to the
party which have oppressed and degraded them.
ane enquirer compares the two candidates for
tne Board OF Public Works, and, In answer to tha
wings charge against Mr.. Holiday of having
voted against the Richmond and Danvills Rail.
road and other improvements says that be gave
no vote which the warmest friend OF internal im>
provement might not have given. 1t says that to
be member of the Board OF Public Works, man
must possess an unnatural coolness of temper and
smsnty of disposition; and 1t Ia much miataksn Il
mn aftI.o Ia Ia al ~Aal
shall look for endless controversies for appeals to
to the public and to the Legislature, and for the
expenditure of vast quantities of ink, and the ex.
hibition of vast amount of feeling. In short, 1t
Is opposed to spoiinga good citiz en- for the pur-
pose of making bad public officer.
The Penny Post sounds the cry of "Press on the
Column" and says that with already 72, 900 MEM
bers the American party is daily increasing II is
satisfied of victory by not less than 20 900 majority
and is disposed to think that it win be double that
number. Nothing can exceed the terror of the
foreign party. Their eyes have just been opened,
and they see destruction all around them They
bluster-but 1t 10 with ehatterng teeth and coun.
tenances a. white as the wall. They tell us that
hundreds In this place, that and the other have quit
the order. We were told the same thing here in
Richmond. and when the election came on we saw
how true 1t was. We were told the same thing In
Alexandria. Three hundred, it was said, had left
10 Portsmouth. The election proved how true that
was. Dragging won't do now the triggers are set.
FRAUDULENT DESTRUCTION OF A STEAMKR.-
In New Orleans on the Both ult. Capt. George w.
Cheek, clerk and owner of the boat Falcon, was
arrested for destroying 1t by fire. The boat was old
and had an Insurance on her of SIS 600, which
would expire at noon of the day on which she was
burned. A Mr.. Frank Barford testified that Capt
Cheek had hired b i'm to burn the boat on the 23d
bat that he repented of bis offer and backed OUT
On the next night, however, be rowed across the
river aud saw her destroyed about five o'clock In
the morning. Mr.. Cheek was on board at the time
of the FIRE. He was committed to prison:
FEMALE HOTEL THIEF.-Rosanna Agnissee,
handsome looking woman, was arrested in New
Orleans on Monday, the 3Oh, for stealing $l7O0 in
drafts, and $1,000 In money, from the Piney Woods
House. She distracted the money from the iron
chest In the clerks' Office
To MAKE RAIN-In consequence of the severe
dYouth In Louisiana, Albert G. Blanchard has writ
ten to the papers begging the residents 10 the cities
and parishes, to unite on Thursday morning the 4tb
inst, at o'clock and set fire to large piles of fuel
He feels confident that the operation will produce
rain.
LARGE LoAp.-Mons GODDARD, the Eronaut as.
cended from New Orleans on Sunday, the 29,h,
with seven persons in the car of his balloon.
DESTRUCTION OF CorToN-The cotton DESTROYED
on the steamer Alton on the Doth ult., makes the
total Of 12 400 bales of cotton destroyed by fire on
the Mississippi river, during the month OF April.
SrRoNG BANKs.- On Tuesday, last, the Banks In
New Orleans had on hand Sc, ,l23, ,54s.
RECRUITING IN NEW ORLEANs.-Maj. Anthony
Welsh has been arrested in New Orleans for re-
cruting soldiers for the Crimea. He was arrested
on the oath of the Russian Consul.
V1Ra,N1AN DzAD.-Mr Albert g. Miller, native
of Spotsylvania, Va, died In New Orleans on the
30th ult
DEAD-Col CT. DAnnoy, formerly member
of the Louisiana Senate died on the Goth ult at New
Orleans.
BuRNRD.-Georgiana Norman, an idiot girl, was
burned In Phladslphia 20 severely. Thursdsy
night, by the bed taking fre, that she died Fri.
day.
ACCIDENTAL PorsoNISG.-Augustus McCary, q
child, killed himself In New York, Friday, By un-
Willingly drinking prussic acid.
A LouIsIANA WoNDER.-A correspondent OF the
N .. Crescent, writing from West Baton Rouge,
says:
There is . current rumor In this parish that
child was born near Baton Rouge, few days since
with full set of teeth, and that II spoke 70 those
present Immediately alter is rth, and then died.
Ihs circumstance appears to be well attested. and
generally believed The eldest inhabitants, the
nno wing ones, the wiseacres OF the land, interpret
this prodigy rs q sign of no more rain"
SurcrpE.-A young German, "a years Of age,
committed suicide In New York, Friday. by taking
10 said to have been disappointment In not mectiue
. young German lady, who was 10 have joined
him In this country, and to whom he was to have
been married. He sent money 10 the airl 10 nsx