The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-20

Wasksagtone
The political cauidron never seems to be
entirely quiet One President is scarcely In
stalled before speculation is aioat. and in
trigue at work az to his successor; VI course
the President makers $50 already busy IN
proyidine a successor for Gen. PIerce One
eel;nne is in favor OF re- nominating the pres
ant Incumbent "Dallas and Davis, is the
favorite ticket of others; Douglas, Hunter,
Wise. and others, too numerous to mention,
have ALSO their friends. It may be that all
viii he passed by for some obscure and mex.
perienced man, it being the fashion OF late
wears with both parties to offer official pre-.
miums to dullness and mediOcrity, On the
other side, the following names are spoken
of: Willard Fillmore, j. j. Crittenden, w
c. Rives This last named gentleman, IN the
opinion of good judges, would make mag
nificent run, and if elected, the ablest Presi.
dent since the days of Madison. l trust l do
not intrude on your neutral domain in poll
tics. in expressing the opinion that Wm. c.
Rives is the first living statesman of Ameri
ca, and having long withdrawn from the field
of politics, would probably be more accept
able to all sections of bis own party, and have
fewer prejudices, sectional and personal, to
contend against, than any other eminent man
who could be named
l strolled through the Washington market
few days ago, and found SIS great an abun
dance of vegetables as in the Richmond
market and q far greater quantity and vari-
ETY., and superior quality of fruit. The prices
of excellent Irish potatoes in this market is
~ cts. a half peck sweet potatoes same
price; cabbages, of the largest size, from 4
to cents; snaps, - 1-2 cents per half peck;
okra 40 cents peck, &c. Delicious peaches
sell for twenty-five cents peck, and pretty
good ones, quite as good l venture to say
as sell in the Richmond market for two dol
lars bushell for fifty cents bushel. This
| is the great peach year. On a recent visit to
a friend in the neigh boring county of Prince
George, Maryland, saw more peaches, and
eat more, l verify believe, than ever saw
or ate before. The branches of the trees
were broken down with their luscious load,
and the ground in all directions covered with
splendid peaches, which were left to rot on
the earth. These peach trees were surround
ed by corn, some of the stalks thirteen feet
high; and all loaded down with the golden
grain; at short distance, was splendid
apple orchard, bearing fine apples in vast
profusion little farther off, field of cab
bages, some of them big enough to fill half
bushel basket, and cucumbers, nearly the
| size of cantelopes, with which they were
| feeding the pigs. This scene of plenty, so
common now over the whole of this vast
q
dismal picture which our imaginations paint
ed last spring, during the protracted drought
when so many apprehended famine. | hate
cant, but really he who can look upon the
plenty with which the earth is teeming, and
think of what it might have been, without q
thought of gratitudeto the Giver of all Good,
must be something less than man.
The Rev. Mr.. Cummings, formerly Of
Richmond, breaches in the largest and hand
IF fba Enicoonol ohnrchau Of fbic
city. 1t is indeed splendid building, out
side and in. The congregation is a wealthy
one. Mr.. Cummings is great favorite
among them, and is quite as popular here as
in Richmond. His Pensioners, among other
marks of their esteem have lately presented
him with handsome carriage and horse
The reverend gentleman, who was formerly
stationed in Norfolk, lately preached a ser
mon on behalf of the Norfolk sufferers,
which is considered one of the finest speci-
mems of bis eloquence. 1t has since been
published in pamphlet form.
The society of Washington, Il mean the
resident, not floating pOpulation,) strikes me
as among the best in this country. Intelli-
gence and refinement are here the passports
to the best circles. The disgusting aristoc-
racy of money appears to have less foothold
here than in most communities. snob,
who has made great deal of money, will
find that he has to change the leopard spots
and wash away the Ethiopian skin of his
innate vulgsrity, before he can make any
Roadway here. SO it ought to be every
where. OF all shams, save US from the
pinchbeck, mushroom aristocracy of wealth
that aristocracy from which all the cologne
on earth cannot take out the strong Goldfish
smell. YATToN.
CLERICAL CHARGES IN THE GENERAL LAND
OFFIcE.-Messrs. I. M. Martin, VIM. Hogan, and
w. A. Harris have been promoted from first csss
to second class clerkships Salaries 81 400 per
Annum. Meaars Iamea w WALTON and L Ii r unard