The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-17

PRoakass o. WasHrxGTox.--1fie National
Intelligencer, in an article onsthes Progress
of Washington, makes the following anus.
ing extract from humorous picture, "by
some unknown foreigner printed more
than forty years ago, under the title OF "In-
chiquin, the Jesuit's Letters containing
sketches Of the aspect of Washington in
1909, about nine years after the seat of gov
eminent was transferred from Philadelphia
to that city:
| "0fa fine morning three day ago. sailed out
for rarnbie before breakfast. thinking. perhaps to
see something worthy of observation and A. nd !.
ventures were my object, LETT the highway or ay-
enue, as Il is called and struck into the moor that
compeses great part OF the city. had not walk
ed q mile when heard a gun go of, and saw the
smoke rising at little distance Not caring TO en-
counter firearms in so wild place was turning
| back when saw adog hunting about among the
bushes, and close after him young man. who came
running towards me, not to plumber, as for an in
| slant spprehended, but merely to inquire II had
seen covey OF quails fpartridgesl flying that way
| He had apowder horn and shot-bae over his shout
derf,a liquor.fask hanging one side, and pouch
full oil dead quails on the other altogether rath-
er coarsely caparisoned, and seemed to be intent
onhis game just after he accosted me an officer.
| In rich habit and laced hat but unarmed, came
riding very fast over the he th, leading horse
ready saddled and bridied, ard, drawing ND close
to where we Stood pulled off mis- hat ard said to the
| hunter:
| Sir, there despatcnes just arrived sWhepf'
| cried the hunter Within this half hour by ex
! press, sir. Give me the horse and take my gun,
added the hunter, hastily, and disencumbering him
sell from his shooting accoutrements. he vaulted
into the saddle of the led horse and gaoped out of
| sight in minute All amazed at this mysterious
meeting, pray, SIR said I, respectfully to the eff
GER as he was gathering up the things the huater
had threwn of, who is that That s the envoy
answered the officer with an air of dignity. But
| who is the envoyf replied /; What is envoy
That's not the President, s it, The President,
retorted the officer, with sneer, q believe not;
that's another guess sort of person; that's the en-
vov extraordinary But why is he extraordinary
said |. why. because said be- Because whyF
saidI. why because he is the British ambassador,
nv master and the King his masters servant, and
AM bis servant, and neither he nor cares adn
for the President for the matter of that, said the
officer; and Insunting his beast he trotted away"
! 1t would be difficult thing for resident
| or visitor of Washington at this time to inn
| agine foreign ambassadors amusing them
selves in shooting cartridges or hunting rab-
| bits between the Presidents House and the
Capitol. The population of the city, which,
| in 1909, Irchiquin rather overrated at seven
thousand, the Intelligencer says, is now more
| than seven times that number. The forests
| and morasses have given place to well i'm
proved streets, exhibiting display of hand
some edifces, and the public buildings,
| squares and parks, would make Inchiquin
open his eyes, if he could rise from the dead
THE CRIMEA CAMPAIGE.-THE LONDON
TIMEs.-GEN. SCoTT.--The London Times,
clean breast of the condition of affairs in the
Crimea. 1t speaks in the strongest terms of
the manner in which affairs are mis- managed
there. The British army is in the hands of a
set of aristocrsts, who care no more for
the rank and file than for dogs. There is no
remedy but to promote men according to
merit, and that is just what Great Britain
will not do. If that obscure young English
man, Butler, who defended Silstria so gal
lantly against the Russians, had been at the
head of the British army, he would have
put a different complexion on the campaign
of the East But with titled incapables in
command, nothing better can be expected
than the results which the Times graphically
describes.
The opinion of Gen. Scott on the opera
tions in the Crimea is of interest. A Wash.
ington correspondent of the Charleston Mer
curry says
had recently the pleasure of hearing the criti
| cism of Gen. Scott on the War in the Crimea 7
look upon Scott one of the great Captains of the
age, and listened with great interest TO his ideas
| He says the Allies committed great blunder in
| delaying the attack upon Sebastopol, as long as
they did; that Immediately after the raising of the
siege OF SiEstria, they should have attacked Sebas
| topo at which time there was comparatyely
small force In the C, Inca that the Allies cannot
take Sebasopol unless they receive achievements
giving them superiority of force to the extent of
from thirty to fifty per cent; that the Russian reg.
ular soldiers are the best troops In the world for
deenceE they never fly, but persh, unless ordered
TO retreat He thinks the Allies labor under great
disadvantage In having two commanding Generals;
that the road to victory is through unity of design
| The inference would draw from General SCOTS
ideas, is that Sebastopol will not be taken for
doubt whether the Allies can throw such prenon.
derance of force there as is necessary The Cen
raj further said that the Allies could not re embark
| now without immense loss of men, and all the ma
terias OF war in camp, except the weapons in their
| hands.
HE MASSACHUSETTS KNOW NoTHINGs.-
The Know Nothing party in the Massachu.