The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-02-10


from Southern treason. When resistance to
the laws of the land was talked of in South
Carolina, the whole power of the General
Government was invoked to crush it. But
South Carolina is quiet and loyal now
Every Southern State stands faithfully by
the Constitution, and is submissive to the
law. Yet Treason stalks abroad in the North
with unblushing front; it practically utilities
thelaws; it elects to the Senate OF the United
States such men as Seward of New York and
Wilson of Massachusetts, who declare open
war against an institution recognized and
guaranteed by the organic law of the land,
and then with blasphemous and hypocritical
lips kiss the sacred volume and swear to sup
port the Constitution, thus adding perjury to
treason.
Let the conservative men of all sections,
for they still compose the great mass of each
section, reflect and ponder on these things
If the Union of the States is to be preserved
the laws must be equally enforced in all sec
tons, and the guarantees of the common
compact be equally respected by all the par
ties to it.
TIN CRIMEA.-Before the commencement
ofthe Eastern war, very little was known Of
the Crimea, and not one man in ten thousand
had heard of Sebastopol. The war has added
greatly to the amount of human knowledge
on those subjects, and, in that respect, has
| been highly valuable. Every one is now
r,arfooSl1 "a ,,I;or Nth he VI oil
know as much about it as Nicholas himself,
| and considerably more than Lord Raglan
| knew when he first visited the country. AS
| to Sebastopol, it is as familiar to us as our
| own houses. We walk into Sebastopol every
| morning, promenade round the town with old
| Menschikoff, and look through spy glass al
| the allied armies, which have come all the
way to the Crimea to be besieged. 1t is I'M
| deniable that the French and English have
learned a great deal of Sebastopol since their
arrival, that they did not know before. Louis
Napoleon himself has acquired some valua-
| bic information since his oracular announce
ment to his troops, soon after the battle of
Sebastopol is fallen" Wonder if
he has ever been able to forgive himself for
the sublime ignorance and folly which the
nephew of his uncle displayed on that occa-
| sion!
| The present war has certainly been thus far
conducted on the most unique and original
principles. The grand feet of the Baltic has
sailed up to Cronstadt, and, because Cron-
stadt would not sail out and fight it, has sail
ed back to England; the grand army of the
Crimea has marched up to Sebastopo and,
not daring to assault the walls, is itself in q
state of siege, and is gradually melting away
in the trenches. II the Russians were officer
ed by skilful military men, they might put q
speedy end to this peculiar mode of warfare,
but, the probability is that both parties will
continue to stand on the defensive until the
close of war, whose only valuable result
thus far has been to introduce muddy pen.
insular to the world, and to show that Eng
land and France are incapable, with their
combined energies of regulating the affairs
OF the old world, to say nothing of the new.
DAMMING FIsH.-An amusing debate &C.
| Cured on the 9Th inst, in the North Carolina
| Legislature, on a bill to repeal an act au-
| thOrlzing a DIR. Watson to erect dam across
| Neuse river. One of the members, Mr.. Nor
decai, was very hard upon the dam. He con-
sldered the fish of the Neuse river badly treat
ed by that dam, the foodgate of which had
been constructed in such manner that they
uld'nt possibly come up the river. Their
rights had been interfered with, and hun
dreds OF valiant "horny heads were now
crowded up against that dam, to be caught
by pin hooks. This horrible dam had spread
bilious fever, death and destruction from the
lower end OF Johnston to the upper end of
Wake, and the only possible use of it was, to
enable Dr. Watson, or his heirs, to stop shad
and sell them at high prices
Mr. Mordecai added that he stood I'D for
the rights OF his constituents, who wanted
the Dam torn down, and whom he was so
READY to serve, that if they called upon him
at midnight to aid them, he would rise and
nap his wings" Some of his fair constitu.
ents he saw in the gallery, and he knew that
II they had voiee on the floor, they would
endorse what he had said, and say, Go If,
AAc house ought m
pass the measure, but if the House tbouobt
differently, he did mt care dam.
1t is gratifying to know that Mr.. Mordecai
was successful and that he and the fish can
hereafter so At with a perfect looseness.
JULIEN SECOND CONcERT.-To-niebt lit.
Tie JULIEN gives his second and last concert.
lie offers very good selection of pieces and
the additional attraction of performance nv
him On one string. This will of course be
surprising; but however much such q feat
may exhibit the practice of a performer. we
never heard one string performance that
we had not much rather have heard on four.
But Julien will no doubt astonish his hearers
with it, One thing may be said. however
that his rare talents and wonderful accom-.
phshments make him entirely independent of
ehecfs to be produced by surprising feats
We shall hear the little fellow with dal;oh.
as we always can: come as often as be nav
No lover Of music can tire of LISTENING 70 tho
youthful master
signora DoRMY and CuruR1 have inter.