The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-30

PEELED from club Of gentlemen on account
Of private letter written BY him last year
and published without his consent In this
city. We limited our doubts as to the truth
Of this tale at the time of its appearance !;
and we are now enabled by the most certain
information to give 1t an explicit contradic-
ton. Like all the preceding stories started
about this gentleman, it does not contain the
most minute atom of truth, and is equally
unjust to Mr.. Daniel and his acquaintance
in Turin. We have exposed several of the
previous charges made against our abb
sent townsman. by the people who direct
the New York Tribune, and furnish its
mares nests; and we now know that Mr..
Daniel has neither had diff culties with indis
viduals nor controversies with the govern
ment in Turin; and that all the injurious ia
bles which have been circulated to the con-
trary have had no better foundation than the
Gsshes of their inventors and narrators-
whose conduct has been equally mean and
unprincipled.
The correspondents of the n. Y. Tribune
entertain an especial malice towards Mr..
John M. Daniel, which they crafty. in very
gallant and generous manner, by peppering
him well behind has back, and manufacturing
stories about him out of the whole cloth, and
false in all their length and breadth. What
noble and heroic specimens of humanity
these creatures must be! What high order
of human nature they belong to! From the
great highwayman, Sheerjashub, down to the
most adroit of the Tribune's good name steal
ers. there is not, in the whole crowd, man
who would not despise himself for virtuous
action. We suspect that when Mr.. D. NJ
Daniel returns he will pay his respects to
some of these marauders. 1t they don't get
strychnine, we are greatly mistaken.
Mr.. BALDwIN's Observation-Disclosures
MENT AND CHANGE OF PLAcE.-lt will be
seen by reference to our advertising columns
that, in consequence of the Lectures to be
delivered at the Athenaum, by Reverend MIR.
Moore and John X. Thompson, Esq, on Tues
day and Thursday nights, the Lectures OF
Mr.. Baldwin have been postponed. The first
will be delivered on Friday night next. The
place has also been changed from the African
Church to the Metropolitan Hall.
PEAcE.-We earnestly hope, though strong
ly inclined to doubt, that peace will follow
the diplomatic movements at Vienna. If the
allies will not insist upon terms unjust
to Nicholas, it is ia their own power to re-
H. 10 Of E,,-
rope. Nicholas will not submit to any 9th
er, or, if he should, would prove himself de-
serving of disgraceful peace and of the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of his empire.
But on almost any terms we should be glad
of peace for it is war in which the govern
ments of the old world alone are interested.
The people have no concern in it, except to
bear its burthens and fight its battles. Look
at the manner in which the wounded private
soldiers of England are received by their
own countrymen when they come home. 1t
is time the war should end-that all wars
should end-in which there is no principle
valuable to humanity involved, in which the
weak and humble are made to suffer in order
that the streng may be stronger and the
proud more powerful and overbearing.
UsURY LAws.-The public in every section
of the Union--especially the commercial
public-has turned its attention to the usury
laws. Among the acts of the late CONNER
cial Convention in New Orleans was thesap-
pointment of committee to prepare re-
,bn
gratifed to see, is very generally entertained
that they are an evil and do great injury to
commerce. The States differ in their legal
rate of interest, and no law can fix a rate
that will be reasonable at all times. In New
York, within year, good paper has paid
from sic to fifteen per cent interest. Money
huctuates in value as well as other exchange.
able commodities, and nothing makes it a
standard of value but that its changes are
less frequent than any thing else which
passes from one to another in commerce.
But commercial men are bound to submit
to the consequences of its fluctuations.
whatever they be; if money becomes more
scarce and valuable, more must inevita.
bly, be paid for its use. ...s. az
Our law drives capital away from our
State-money is sent from Virginia to places
where more is paid for its use. At this time.
and for this reason, Virginia capital is in
New York. Take away restrictions on the
interest of money, and the borrower will be
greatly benefited. His paper will sell for its
true value; because there will be more COM
petitcrs in the market to buy paper. The re.
striction keeps the heaviest capitalists out of
the market, and keeps the man who cannot
get accommodation at Bank at the mercy of
few lenders, who charge exorbitant rates.
Lsngard's History of England, abridged,
with continuation from 1853 to 1864. nv
JAMES BURKE, prefxed by memoir of DIR.
Lngard, and illustrated by marginal notes.
This is a very valuable book, just issued
from the press of John Murphy & Co, Balti.
more and for sale by J. w. Randolph. The
great work OF DIR. Lngard is regarded as one
OF .ne most valuable contributions to histo.
ricai knowledge extant. 1t is wr;ttsr n WITH
sie.. ielc !. ana ciearness, and the facts en-