The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-09
SPIRIT oFTHEp PRESS.

The Wig replies to the Enquirer's article Of
"wednesday relative to the desponding spirit of
the opposition generally. and of the Richmond
Whig particularly The writer remarks that the
dsshirery 10 90 immeasursbly funny tha. II Il were
not mpertinent he would laugh right 10 his neigh
oors face. So far a. the defeat of Wise ID CON.
cerned, the Wing 10 a. happy ss lark. II has no
tears Whatever on that score, except through the
over-wrought confidence of is friends. If they
viii work as they ought, they twin beat the rene-
gade ticket" so far that the Whig will almost feel
ashamed of what will appear to be lack Of vir.
ginia generosity. The writer continues
We know the wire. workers of your party are
pulling the strings with great energy and despera-
!ion. we have good reason for suspectisg that the
Junto here have Ia their employ standing secret
committee, whose business It 10 to write letters ad
uasss ~ circulars, and stir up the Democratic forces
generally throughout the State by all sorts of reck
,rss appeal: And we admonish the Wings and
hnow Nothings every where to bear this TACT in
mind and play their cards accordingly.
The Enquirer has an editorial the design of which
Is to show that there Is a direct conflict between
the government and the Know Nothing organiza-
ton; that the Know Nothing regards fidelity to the
order as paramount to his allegiance to the country
and In proof of this position 1t introduces reports
OF certain examinations of Know Nothings In court
where resistance Is made to the judicial authority
OF the government. The Enquirer also publishes
a correspondence between one of the editors there.
of and the Rev. G. A. Davis, of this city, wherein
he reverend gentleman ia interrogated a. to whe-
ther Mr. WISE In his speech at the African church
said aught derogatory to the faith or offensive to the
ceilings of the Methodist denomination to which
Mr. Davis replies that there was nothing In that
speech which could, with any justice or propriety
be considered as assault upon the Methodist
church, its government doctrines, ministers or
usages.
The Penny Post replies to some remarks of the
Washington Sentinel, to the effect that Know Moth
,ngism Is on the decline In Virginia. The writer in
the Post declares that the Know Nothiugs have the
power, and they intend to infict upon Mr.. Wise the
most signal defeat that any candidate for any Office
ever sustained in Virginia
NEW YORK MoRALs.-On Tuesday lasttwo young
ladies appeared before the mayor of New York, and
made affidavit as fellows:
Mrs. Warren and Miss Julia B-ogan complain
that they were induced to apply at No. 90 Thomas
street, 10 consequence of an advertisement which
appeared In the N. Y Sun, for work on shirts as
the advertisement set forth, when they were In.
formed by woman at said number that she did not
want shirt hands, but wanted and boarded young
girls who walked the streets; and roughly exclam-
ed that she did not where the ID they all
as she had been there three weeks paying rent and
had not got any yet
On the same day. Mrs. Ellen Wiley complained
that her husband, Henry Wiley, had seduced her
sister, Margaret Lundrigan and that the said Mar
oar of yva c;eu