The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-02

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WAsHlNGT0Ns Dec. 5l-
A few hours more will close one of the most
eyensful years the world has es or seen. At the
beginning of this year the world appeared
battered with the conviction that in all things
il was making real progress But, how de
Society to end wars forever by the iutgoduc-
ton OF arbitration clauses into treaties, have
apparently ceased, and the world is at war
The progress of invention to promote the arts
OF peace has been eclipsed by the greater pro-
gress in the arts of war. The Wanted I'M
provements in the means of travel lover the
mountain and over the wave" have been
exposed to derision by the most lamantable
and persistent series OF disasters on record.
The triumphs of the cause OF religion and
morality have ceased, and crime and irreli-
gion, and injustice and wrong have caused a
wall of desoiation from every region of the
earth; with, prominent among the exceptions,
a region of orr own country, where morality
il derided and eoncubinage is protected and
encouraged by the legal statutes of the land
l believe IN an over ruling Providence,
| whose ways are Just, though ins crutable and
| believe that He is able to eliminate good
| from mans folly and perverseness. While,
therefore, / depiOre the aspect now presented
| by the world, look with confidence 10 the
dawn of fairer day in the not distant future.
| in greetings and festivity. 1t is the general
| rule-a goodly usage, though at times abused;
| Hall doors will be opened wide and cheerful
| welcomes viii be given. Thus Is many a
| quarrel often ended, and arrangement heal
| ed, while those who wouldS not otherwise
| know each other, though jewellers in the same
| limited city, are brought together under CIR
| cumstauces of good will and kindness.
| Congress will assemble in working order
1 tbEre will he fIfiI hOus6S
| Wednesday, Badgers bill TO increase the
| pay of Supreme Court Judges and members
| of Congress, think will pass; but wish II
| were 30 that the latter might be paid by the
| wear. and thus induced TO shorten the sessions,
| for | am one of those who think 'the world
| is governed too much The country would
| gain much in doubling the pay Of members,
| if it could at the same time abridgethe length
| of the sessions.
| Deans opinion on the subject of the Natu
| ralzation Laws, in the Supreme Court OF
| New York is attracting mach attention
1 here He has taken the bull by the horns
| and will throw him. 1t is a shame that the
| existing abuses have been 50 long submitted
| To. Had the laws, as they are, been well
| enforced, the demands now made by large
| body Of the American people, would have
| been long deferred. Parties are at fault III
| these matters but the States are not without
/
| They delegated to the United States the pow
| err to make uniform laws of naturalization,
and then set them at naught by breaking up
the uniformity and wholly disregarding
| their requirements.
| A great evil in orr legislation, of late, has
been very summarily got rid of. The fraud
attempted to be perpetrated in the Minnesota
Railroad Land bill, proved the last featherin
the balance and put an effectual check upon
the bestowment of lands for these purposes.
| Were money appropriated for these objects.
we might know the uses of its application;
but the huggermugger modes of disposing of
lands are often past our finding out; and l
have never been able to comprehend how it
is, that under the constitution, money may
be paid for lands, and the lands may be Civ
en- away tor certain purposes, for which the
money might not be given away. But refus-
ing to see with other peoples eyes, am of
ten blind to things that are regarded by the
many as exceedingly plain. A. b. &.