The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-24
SPIRIT OFTHE PRESS.

iAonhetn hayner, at the African Church Monday
night 1t says 1t told with tremendous effect. and
IN the name of the freemen of Virginia. the Whfr
returns thanks to Mr.. Rayner, for shis mastery
and triumphant vindication of the character. prin
ciples. purposes and objects of a party which has
been assailed with grosser vituperation and abuse
than sny other that ever existed" 1t earnestly
calls upon the voters of Richmond to give Mr..
Flournoy 500 majority In this City. The Whig
has another article upon the "Portsmouth Out.
rage" and quotes from the Norfolk papers to con-
firm the fact, that four boss workmen had been
discharged on account of their principles, by the
Federal Government, and 1t inyokes mechanics
and laboring men in Richmond and elsewhere, to
go to thepolis on Thursday and rebuke this at
empt of the Federal Government to intimida,e
he voters of Virginia into voting against their
Judgment and will. 1t also learns that sixty four
| Of the workmen have been discharged since the
above mentioned dismissal.
The Penny Post expresses the belief that the
report of the intended removals at the navy yard
rue and that directly alter the votes are cast at
the election, the voters will be beheaded 1t saws
the charge that certain dismissed men in the navy
yard had attempted to coerce those under them
into voting the Know Nothing ticket, 10 unfounded
the men wanted no coercion The Enquirer
| seems to be great enemy to Office holders med.
ding in political affairs. and the Post wonders how
Stoval Munford, and Jackson stand that fire from
their own battery The Post asks If Il Ii not little
hard that the pampered Office holder with his
princely salary, can meddle with politics as he
pleases, and that poor mechanic cannot even vote
according to his own conscience, without incur
ring the penalty of starvation
The Enquirer has leader on an antissavery
speech delivered by Senator Wilson, a few days
since. In which he declares tina. the anti-savery
power not long since trampled in the dust, now
holds every political organization in the hollow of
its right hand, and looks down with conscious
power upon the wrecked political power which
Hes wrecked at s feet and has only to be true to
| ITSELF to grasp the helm and guide the ship Of
State. The present administration has been de-
feated In the North where anti slavery prevails
and will, he said, be defeated in the South and
| then demand will be made on anti.slavery men
| to keep quiet IGNORE slavery-and go into
| power In 1856, to which he never would consent
| Any party opposed to antisiavery principles
| would surely die. He did not wish to interfere
with slavery in the slave States but 1t must, and
will be abolished 10 the territories Speaking of
| these assertions, the Enquirer says:
"May God In his mercy protect our beloved
country from the contamination of such terrible
measures.
| The Enquirer says that the four removals at the
Navy Yard were on account of unwarranable in
reference with the votes of men under the control
| of those removed.
Witch at Montevidso March 25 The sloop
| of war Germantown sailed from Mouteyideo on
March Goth, for Buenos Ayres. =
| The Empress EugeDie has just presented to her
| mother, the Countess de Montijo. magnificent
palace In Paris near the Champs Elysees. for her
occupation during the exhibition.
The contractors on the Allegheny Valley pa
| Railroad have recommended operations for the
season, and considerable progress viii be made
this summer. u-
M. Isabey, the we'll known miniature painter to
Napoleon l. and Louis XVIII, died In Paris on the
25th ult. ~, all &f
Mr.. Pratt one of the proprietors of the st. Paul
min Democrat died on the sih inst, OF cholera
morbus = ...,-s...s $500
Mr.. R. C.. Mccormick, jr, writer of the letters
from an American In the Crimea, came passen-
ger 10 the steamship Baltic.
Gen Richard Collins, one of the mos. prominent
citizens of northern Kentucky. died at Clermont
Ohio, ON the 18th Inst.
Samuel Feemster. an old gentleman, residing
near Maysville. KY. died on the l2th while In the
act of lifting biscuit to his mouth at the table.
Henry C. Burnett, Democrat has been nominated
for Congress from the 18th district of Kentucky.
Joseph Garnean, divorced few days before,
Was married to new wife ct ST. Louis on the 18th
Inst.
HEAVY ATTRACTIONS Mr. and Mrs. w.
Wallack's In New York. weigh the aggregate avoir
dnpois of 900 poundsi
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