The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-12
LOCAL MATTERS.

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from any connection with any Insurance Company
The petitioners claim that the engines and hose
reels are The property Of the city, snd should be
Suite aione 10 the control Of her Council They
DO not ask for Independent Compani but desire
all to be under the control Of one head; and as
further means for increasing their usefulness, ask
that negro labor may be dispensed with entirely.
and that white men may become fremen without
being compelled to purchase stock to enable them
to do so. On one Of the lists shown as there were
| about one hundred names, aud among them some
of the largest property -hoders In the city When
| the subject comes before the Council we have no
doubt ii will receive the consideration its impor
lance deserves and as many of the petitioners are
now active fremen, II Ia not at all Improbable that
| the change asked for will be made 1t. however.
the present Council rejects It, them we are inform
| ed direct appeal will be made through the ballot
| box to the people
| OFFICERS OF THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY
| OF VIRGINIA.--At the late Anniversary of this So
| ciety, In the city of Richmond. the following per-
| sons were elected officers for the present year
| President Col John Rutherford.
! Vice Presidents Scott, w McFar.
| land Henry Wise Geo w summers Judge =
| l. Moncure Andrew Stephenson, Wilams c
| Faulkner Alex Stewart, J Bruce, Tasewell Tay-
| lor, Jno s Caskie ] Mcdowell Reid, Rev DIR Nc
| Gufey, Judge NV Tyler. Ballard Preston, Judge
| G III L ee Jno III Speed, Thos Niche, Wyndham
Robertson, VIM Maxwell Jno II Cooke, John
| Janney.
| A Stsager r Whitefeld, Sam1 Putney, DR. Gwath
| new Nicholas Mills DIR Merritt, Grattan, Mi
cbsel Gxetter John Hobson DR. VIM Palmer,
Flemming James, John Howard, VIM ii Haxal,
| Jas Dunlop, Taylor, Claiborne, and John
| NJ Patton, Jr.
| Recording Seeretary-Frederick Bransford.
Corresponding Secretary-PV Daniel, Jr.
Treasurer-Thos III Ellis.
The Annual Report draws the line of distinction
between the Virginian and the American Societies
ahowipp that the former is distinct from, aud
| independent Of the latter than the state OF Vir-
njnia is from the United States of America. 1t ira
ces the influence OF the Virginia Society in keeping
the American Society within the limitations OF the
Constitution which declares 1t to be the exclusive
purpose of these Societies to remove, with their
own consent the free coored people OF this country
| TO Africa,-which is in harmony with the oft de-
cIared pnIicy of this State. Ii attlrns that no as
| ISOLATION in the Union can show more conserva-
| tive record than the Colonization Society OF Vir-
sinia, composed as it Ia OF Shareholders WHO have
| as much interest in the community as any other
citizens 1t does not ad wise emancipation, and has
no relations to slavery, except the incidental one
of aording to shareholders, spontaneously liberia
ting theirsiave, facilities for transporting them to an
| ASYLUM IN distant land, instead Of sending them
| to the North, where they would add iuel to the
| fame already raging so fercely, and become me-
\ dia of communication between the abolitionists
and our slaves thus facilitating the escape OF ugi'
| tive slaves
| The Colonization Society Of Virginia sent from
this State to Liberia in 1854, 273 emigrants at the
| cost of $4,000, exhausting all the funds IN the
treasury.
Ithas colonized altogether from this State, 1908
emigrants being more than six times as many as
all the Notwithstanding States together have sent
| There are now II applicants from this State for
| passage in the ship TO sail from Norfolk in May
| next
| The Lecture before the Young Mems
| Christian Association, advertised to be delivered
| by the Rev. NJ. ID. HoGE, did not take place, owing
| TO the unexpected detention of this gentleman in
| the country, whittier he went few days ago.
large and highly respectable audience of ladies
1 and gentlemen assembled at the Second Baptist
| Church at the appointed hour Friday evening, with
promptness which did credit 10 the Committee of
the Association and the gentlemen who at their
lictaon, came forward without previous notice to
| prevent total disappointment. Such entertain
ment was provided for the audience as made the
occasion one of much interest and prodt-a clear
gain perhaps, as there is still In reserve the pre-
| pared address Of Mr.. Hoge. The exercises were
| commenced by the Rev. DR.. Doggett, who gave out
| the hymn commencing
| Blessed be the sacred tie that binds
| In sweet communion kindred minds;
| which was sung with spirit by the AUDIENCE; after
| prayer by the same gentleman, and the singing of
| another hymn, Rev Mr.. Moore rose and stated that
| Mr. Hoge had probably been detained by the freez
| ing OF the canal. He said that he had but short
| time ago been solicited to take his place. He had
| brought to the meeting an old manuscript pre-
pared for another occasion, not altogether foreign
| to this. Craving the indulgence OF the audience,
| for he had not examined the production for long
time he would read it, with the hope that 1t might
| not prove altogether inappropriate. His theme
was the 'abuses and OF leisure by young men, )"
AS the first abuse they warned against i!le-
| ness and waste OF time in mere dreaming Next
against the abuse of time in the reading of PERM
cious books-the silly stuff that deserves not the
name of respectable nonsense and the viler books
which arouse the most brutal passions.
He next warned young men against Improbable
society," first the attractive yet uDprlncipled whom
he pronounced to be the decoy ducks OF hell, the
| nj VI n labor
| master and have their reward. Secondly, the So
| ciety which though not decidedly bad, yet con-
sumes precious time without profit. He then spoke
of the waste of time In hurtful amusements. First
| in the catalogue he named the theatre. one of
whose doors appropriately written ito the pit"
/ Would you take you mother or sister to look on
| the scenes which you have Witnessed theref Do
/ you net know that without these the play house
| could not be supported Is the theatre a place
| where you would be willing to def He next en-.
| larged upon the waste of time in various immoral
practices, Sabbath breaking, the gaming table, and
| others From this hasty enumeration of the abuses
of time he said he would pass to the consideration
| of some of the uses of time. He showed by the
| example Of many eminent men what wonderful
| results had been achieved by the right of lei
| sure hours and perseverance In the pursuit OF
| knowledge. under difficulties. By appropriating
your evenings to study you mic in the course of
| few months master every branch of literature OF
| science, From how much waste of time how
| much temptation, how much sorrow, would you
| thus be savedi
Much turgid defamation, he said had been uttered
about the achievements and the prospects of the age
and country in which live but he said, the werld
| was never in such condition as now-never near
| the coming of Jesus Christ. No imagination could
| comprehend the future of our country. With a
population of hundred million, what field will
be presented for the aborers, it may be, of those
| who now the young men. And how will the
drones and the dreameIs be swept away by the tide
| Of mighty events.
Young man. he laid, you called upon to live for
your country you may be called upon to die for ber
Live then, well your time, in forming those habits,
In obtaining those preparations which shall enable
you to meet tn. high calls upon you. Finally,
| Minister of the Gospel he warned young men, in
view of eternity, to make proper use of time.
Said the learned Grotius, who had passed his time
in the pursuits OF Literature. without reference
eternity ~ have spent my life in laboreusy doing
nothing" In Jesus Christ we have way of saliva
tion to which, urged to make of our
time Even in the mfdst of his Dreams the ider may
hear the awful words 'thou fool this night thy soul
shall be required of thee" The sybil who presented
her mystic leaves to the monarch every time he
| fused to purchase them went away and destroy cd
| portion of them returning. demanded the same
price for the remainder So If time 10 thrown away,
the great work of life remains to be done 10 the por
ton that is LEFT Ssiemnly, he warned his auditors
against that sad postponement of serious considera
ton hich gives rise TO the wall Of the ruined soul
THE harvest 10 past the suumeris ended, and am
not saved - and urged his hearers to seek, through
l Christ he laasin of