The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-09

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THx COLLINS LiEE.-THE NAvr.---One OF
NE most false, preposterous and audacious
tfetences ever put forth from the pen OF
mau, y tie attempt made by the fri ends OF
the Colling Msse Of steamers, to cast dn'cred's
upon the ships Il The U. s. Navy. ana 70
show that the ships ostse Collins hne N'ou'o
be the only dependence o this country IN fne
event Of war! Any man, With pair OF or,
diuarv ewes and thimble full Of brains. c an
! satisfy himself upon this subjec1 beyond . IL
doubt and peradventure, by visit.cg the U
S. Navy Yard. where our vessels Of war are
constructed, and then visiting the private
yards where the Collins steamers are built
We were lately at the great Naval station of
the United States, Ut Portsmouth. and saw
the two immense steam frigates now building
the.e for the q. 8. Government. 1t is utterly
impossible for any one. who does not see
them. to form an idea of the prodigious
strength of these vessels. Why. Collins
might be glad. if he could build ships of that
portion Of theiive oak which the authorities
of the yard refuse as not sound enough for
their purposes. The cost of building these
! two ships Is greater than the whole appraised
/. value of every house and lot in the town of
Portsmouth, a place of ten thousand inhabi-
fants Will any man. with grain of COM
mon sense, pretend that the private capital
of Collins, o. q any other man, can build
such ships? 49,.
It is true that we s6tetimes hear of deten-
tions to the steamships o. the government;
but they have uniformly arisen from acct
dents to the machinery, which has never
been constructed at the government yards,
hut by private contractors. The ships, them
salves, are regarded throughout the world as
models of their kind In materials and IN
strength, they are superior to the strongest
ships in the British service, for the kings
forests no longer produce such live oak as
that Of which Uncle Sam has the pick and
choice. s-
The Collins steamers, indeed, for war YES
sells! You make us laugh, friend! Why, il
by possibility, they could keep afoat under
tfe armament of an ordinary steam frigate,
the first discharge OF their own broadsides
would sink them to the bottom. Look at the
5 poor Arctic! She is specimen of these
war yessels-annihilated by collision with
4 little French steamer!
Let the Collins line confne its aspirations
to the transportation of men of peace. Ii
its own sphere it is useful. But for war
Alas for the country that depends on thes'
Arctic steamers! .......E a--g ID
VS. THE WELDON TRAGEDY.-The Petersbur,
Intelligencer, has some just comments OF
this horrid affair, in which peaceable an,
unoffending citizen, whilst engaged in tn
discharge of his official duties, was, in broa
daylight, in public street of a village, delhi
& erately shot down in cold blood by gang c
desperadoes. The Intelligencer says:
%. THIS shocking affair should lead the vrtuous an
scn:svsfivs portion , Of society to enquire wheths
some measures should be taken to protect humal
@ the Ts s Of
fhings exists which renders every mans existence
insecure from the concealed dagger pistol and poi.
son, we have abundant evidence in the columns OF
the newspapers, which from every direction come
to Us teemng with accounts of individuals aad
times v hole families falling victims to the
other of these murderous appliances 1t is dreadful
think how vciousness and dePravity spreading
g their baietul Influences through every community
Crime in Its most revolving and cruel shapes 10 an
nually increasing in our land. Life is becoming
stantly Of less and less value and unless something
be done to check this fearful and horrible demon
alizatisn-uniess efforts made correct OF
resist the sad tendency of the lawess spirit hich ID
abroad in the country society, at present organ
bulwarts will be oyerthrown-its foundation swept
away and there will be lapse of race to bar
bsr.sm and hesthe nism. 1t IT, we know. an extreme
y difficult ii not an almost impractcable thing, to
suggest any particular mode of redress for the evil
of which We speak Every body will admit its aw
full magnitude. but few perhaps. will be sanguine
enough to expect to see efectusl couuteractive
agency sxerted Yet, certainly the subject is worthy
tofrpist and moraiist.
No one can wonder at the bad name which
our country has abroad, who reflects upon
the manner in which men are permitted to
kill each other here with impunity Pa
rents, wives and children are in a momen,
made desolste, and justice has no arm te
avenge the deed. Murders which in ever,
other civilized nation of the earth would b.
inevitably visited with the hangman's rope
here set the law at defiance, and murderer
who, in other lands, even if they escaped thu
extreme penalty of the law, would be loathet
and execrated as assassins, and would cal
upon the rocks and mountains to hide then
from the universal storm of public hatred
and contempt, here strut about and display
Themselves as if they had performed some
virtuous deed. ss.-e p sss-a
We blush to say such things of our coun.
Try, but no man can question their truth
What il the remedy The laws are rigid
enough. But the laws are not executed
Why should human life be less secure in the
United States than in England?
IS IMPROVED MORALS OF CoEGREss.-The
Washington correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Ledger naively remarks that the last
hours Of the last Congress we're not disgraced
BY those scenes and exhibitions of drunken
ei0uunnce vhich have an of4oc h.a,, ~...