The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-22

taDor1nE c1oeeeB. noJ0ufDat OF COg1mefee
says: 1T q easy 10 see that the measures
adopted for relieving our destitute popula-
tion sre only temporary, --they are not a
remedy. The city Itself would soon be bank
rupt, lift should undertake TO support an army
ofunemployed men, women and children
The same result would be realised, though
not so soon, il il should give them employ.
ment upon works not demanded by the pub.
lie good. Neither can individuals, without
damage to themselves, give them employ.
ment at prices which they are willing to &C
cept. 1--WE want work, they say--but they
went it at their own prices, and these SO high
that nobody can afford to pay them"
The Journal says that the working men
@organize themselves into public meetings,
aud make affecting displays of their poverty,
in long professions, representing that neither
work nor money can be had, and intimating
that nothing short Of the contents ofth pro-
vision stores and division among them of
the public property, can effectually relieve
their distresses. AT the same time, the piers
surrounding the city are without laborers,
| and merchants sit idle in their stores, vainly
offering one dollar and a half day for the
| services Of the most ordinary workmen -
Yesterday, large merchant, aware that a
| meeting of laborers was to be held, instruct
ed a person to attend the same and announce
that 500 men were wanted at so per day.
| As none afterwards presented themselves for
/ Qrnptaynnont n 70 Cd fbou fno
busy holding meetings and making speeches,
to attend to any actual work. One of the
| officers connected with the Commissioners of
| Emigration, volunteered to furnish the ser
vices of considerable number of newly ar
rived laborers, and the offer was accepted
Should these or any others determine to &C.
ceptt the liberal wages offered, and go to work.
they would doubtless receive ample protec-
ton from the authorities.
| The long shoremen say they can live for
nothing on the soup houses, and viii content
themselves with that description of fare, soon
er than work for $3.50 per day,-which is the
rate of wages agreed On by the merchants
Some of them proceeded through the streets
on Tuesday, armed with bludgeons."
| The Journal proposes as remedy-l, re
duction of wages, and 2, scattering off into
the country. 1t thinks New York would be
benefited by the clearing out of $4,000 or
| 100000 immigrants and other laboring people
to the West and that if the city were to help
off few thousand poor families, it would be
true economy. In connection with this, it
i rao dc ofro g.
off future emigrants who may arrive into the
country.
| The New York Tribune, an incendiary
sheet, which has caused more mischief among
the whites than the blacks, has much to say
upon the state of things, but it is smarter at
getting people into trouble than leading them
| out of it.
| LORD RAGLAN.-All accounts gree that
this officer is incompetent for his post, and
has sacrificed the finest army England ever
sent to the field. Nothing but the splendid
intrepidity of the English troops at mixer
mann saved the whole command from total
destruction. Raglan will in all probability
soon be superseded by man of efficiency.
If SIR Colin Campbell has head equal to
his hand, he would be the very man for the
post. But NO courage and skill can now &C
complish much against Sebastopol. The n
Y. Herald says that, "from the best informa
ton it can obtain, it appears that the south
east side, or city, of Sebastopol was never in
SO strong a condition as at present. The al
lied batteries have done it no harm, and the
Russian garrison has wrought night and day
at the defences. The array of artillery that
hes been mounted on the inner Russian bat
teries is immense, the garrison strong, the
leaders confident. Well, suppose an assault
is made in spite of these obstacles The mo.
| ment the assault begins, Liprand, who with
his army is completing the investment of Ba-
laklava ON the North, attacks the allies On
that side, drives in the Turks, and takes the
| assaultlng troops in flank. Meanwhile, the
mines which underlie all the Russian works
are sprung, hundreds of pieces of artillery
never ceasing the while to rain shot and shell
on the stormers. Suppose they succeed,
| however lose some ten thousand men, burst
into the town, and engage in hand to hand
| conflict with forces at least equal in numbers.
Suppose victory still remains with them, and
the courage and strength which served them
Sd well at Inkermann enable them to drive the
Russians from battery to battery, from street
to street. The garrison flies across the river.
leaving the town in flames and ruins. On
the north side, the great fort-the strongest
in the Crimea-opens fire on the CITY: and
in the midst of the crashing mines and bla-
zlng houses, the allies, weakened by their
losses and overcome by fatigue, are exposed
to fiereer fire than they have yet encoun-
tered-Liprandi all the while pressing ON
their rear. Who can say whether the issue
OF such victory as this would not be far
more disastrous than any defeat? Moscow
would be slight reverse in comparison
Yet it is of all things the most natural and
likely to occur"
HE EARL OF DALHoUsIE.-The Earl of
Dalhousie, to whom it is predicted the most
of Secretary of War in the British Cabinet
will shortly be offered, is at present Govern
or General of India He is said RI st,o 49,