The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-21
SPIRIT oFTHE PRESS.

OF Saturday that It thinks the whole Democr,t,
party at the North has been hopelessly abolition
lied. This has been the Wings opinion for lon
time. and II Is glad to see its neiahbor coming !,
his senses, in regard TO the true position of hi
Noftnern brethren. The writer, in illustration O
his position. points to the election of Durkee /,
wisconsin, and TurnbulI, In Illinois, to th
United States Senate--and calls them abolition
| democrats, elected where Know Nothings wer,
| scarce and Democrats preponderant. The VIII,
takes up the Enquirer also on its statement thu
the fugitive slave law had been nulIified In Wis
consin, and that negro had been invited to preach
treason 10 the capitol of New York, and says th,
hrst honor was reserved for a Democratic STATE
with Democratic jury: and In regard to the
o'ner act, which the Enquirer pronounced one o
Greater afrocity," the writer quotes the Epqui
rer's statement that it was done by the unanimou.
vote OF the New York legislature, and says there
were thirty or forty National" Democrats among
them, some twelve of whom were go purely Ma.
.iona as to cast their votes for Daniel H. Dickinson
or Z. .. Senator. These are the men (says the
wing wnom Mr.. Wise and the Enquirer are daily
notoing up to our people, the "only wall of pro-
lection to the South against the efforts of the sbo
litionlets.
The E1a miners leader 10 a long and carefully
prepared article, designed to prove that Know
Nothingism found its paternity In Old Federalism
quotes various authorities In support of Its position
ana says every odious feature of the modern
creed seems to have been embodied iu that of the
traitors and towards, who met at Hartford TO plot
and conspire against heir country in time of war;
The same editorial was published In the Examiner
on the 18th OF September last, and lit Is now re.
produced as ring especially upon the issues OF
this important canvass. We quote the concluding
paragraph:
Taking another and, In ITSELF conclusive view of
.hls SUBJECT the last mod ern phase of Know Moth.
inglsm ls fungus growing out of the rotten con-
dition OF Northern society, Is a Northern specific
ior an aggI Iavated Northern dsease and as social
remedy belongs to the North. 1t has no business
southern soil 1t is vain to pretend that foreign
Ism has grown, can grow, into an evil and abuse
amongst US. What need have we of medicine, be
lore we are afflicted with diseaseY
The Enquirer quotes from the N Y Tribune the
announcement OF the rejection of Edward Greeley
Loting as Law Professor in the Harvard Univer-
sty, Qn consequence of his action as commissions
in the Swiss case) and the great rejoicing of free
soilism In consequence. The Erquiler traces the
~~~f~N VI to'o ooSA oso W AuOOootC ! dthCIj anu
charges its consummation upon the Know Nothings
OF Massachusetts,; headed by Governor Gardiner.
who presided at the Board of Prescription and
'lgned the warrant of execution. The writer
charges that Know Nothingism will not tolerate an
honest Judge In its presence, "It imposes penal
ty on judicial integrity, and attaches the stigma of
crime to conscientious discharge OF public duty
Let no man in Massachusetts talk of the rights of
the South, until this reign of terror is at an end"
Another editorial in the Enquirer Is designed to
show that the Democracy of the North Is the hope
of the South.
The Penny Post adopts statement of the Balti'
more Patriot that the American order In New York
has cut off those Councils which endeavored to
convert the organization to abolition purposes 10.
sing thereby 10000 members; and ventures to
say that no other party in this country would have
dared to take such step to maintain its purity -
This action the Post quotes to prove that the party
Is seeking not the spoils of office, but the preser-
walton of the Union.
SHEEP HUsBANDRY IN TENNRssEE-The atten-
ion OF the people of Tennessee begins to be attrac
ted to the subject of pasturing sheep the decli
vites of the mountains in the eastern part of the
otdtC. NC NdsuNHiC CuiOu
There can be no doubt that the raising of sheep
can be made the most profitable occupation in
which the people, at least of the mountain counties
OF Tennessee, can engage. 1t has been proved
that we can produce In Tennessee the best wool In
The world, and it is evident that we can raise it
cheaper than can be raised anywhere else In the
United States"
The mountainous country of the Southern States
will probably yet become the great wool producing
region OF the United States
LARGE HAUL OF CoUNrERFEITERs AND CoUN-
TERFRrr MoNEY.-On information given by one
of the gang of counterieiters recently arrested In
Cleveland, Ohio, arrests have been made both in
Sandusky and Columbus and others in Cincin-
natl are implicated, including three ex police off-
GERS. The Cincinnati Gazette says:
Officer Williams, of Portage county, went to an
old wooden water station house on the L. NJ Rail.
road this side Of Pokltowp, and there found boxed
up, sheets of unsigned and signed counterfeit bills
cut and uncut, OF denominations ranging from 81
to $50, on the Northern Bank of Kentucky, State
Bank of Ohio, Bank of Kentucky, State Bank of
Indiana, and banks in New York, PENNSYLVANIA,
Tennessee and Virginia. The total amount found
was not far from thirty thousand dollars There
we're also two plates to print the SIS Northern
Bank OF Kentucky and the $2's State Bank ofIndi.
ana The money is well executed, and well calcu-
lated to deceive.
MISSOURI U. 8. SENATOR The Legislature of
Missouri, In joint Convention of the two Houses,
having balloted more than forty times for U. s.
Senator, in place Of Gen. Atchisos, Nebraska DEM
ocrat. whose term Of service expires the 4th of
next month, adjourned the convention on the Sd
inst by vote of SO to 63, ''until called together
by concurrent resolution" 1t 10 doubtful If any
further proceedings will be had on the subject at
the present session
The law abolishing capital punishment In Mchi.
gan, took effect the Cd day Of March, 1877, since
which time, period Of nearly eight years, only
Is persons have been convicted OF murder, and
sentenced for life to solitary confinement at hard
labor In the Stats Prison.
Richard Troy, keeper of hotel on Bond street
Baltimore, has been arrested on charge of steal
Ing 500 from James Hughes. The wife of Troy is
under arrest for the brutal treatment of little or
phan girl.
4 trial of the steam fire engine was had 10 tie