The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-06
TBs SOUTHERN LITERARY MEssENaEF for
spril has its usual attractive chapter of con

THs Southern LITERARY MESSENGER TOT
April has its usual attractive chapter of con
tents.
In this number. the accomplished editor,
Mr.. Thompson, feels il necessary to- appear
once more to the South to sustain its only
literary magazine. We regret that such an
appeal is necessary. II is strange passing
strange, that while at every Southern book
store, and at every Southern railroad Depot
IIarper's Magazine finds ready sale, the
Southern Literary Messenger, n Virginia pro-
duction, an old faithful and able laborer in
the cause of Southern literature should be
neglected. II it finally go down, it will be a
disgrace to the South, and disgrace which
will be loudly trumpeted over the land by its
more successful Northern competitors
If the Messenger possessed no peculiar
merit, we would be- the last to urge Southern
men to support it on the ground of its being a
Southernperiodical. We have no more partial
ty for Southern than for Northern dullness,
but the Messenger is open to no such ohjec-
ton. 1t is edited with distinguished taste,
talent and energy, and numbers among its
contributors some of the first scholars of the
land. There are few literary periodicals
which approach it in solid merit, whilst, rs q
firm yet liberal advocate of the Southern
cause, it has peculiar claims upon Southern
men. Can they permit it to fall through,
then. without giving color to the libels upon
Southern intelligence so current in some sec
tioss of the country, and without striking n
suicidal blow mt our own interests
Let the leading literary gentlemen in every
Virgins neighborhood exert themselves To
obtain subscribers for the Messenger. II
each prominent literary man would adopt the
example of n gentleman of our acquaintance.
in one of the villages of the South, and send
the Messenger the names of half Il dozen of
his neighbOrs he would render service Mt
once to the cause of literature and OF patri-
otisn, the value of which could not be too
highly estimated.
MAYOR WoOD OF NEW YoRK.-The n. y.
journal of Commerce says that q purse of
twenty Thousand dollars has been raised by
the Policy dealers gamblers, grog shops and
prostitutes of New York, TO procure the pas
sage ofsuch laws by the New York Legisla-
ture rs will drive the present Mayor of New
York from office, or at least fctter his power,
A single gambling house is mentioned whose
net anDsat profits, if unmolested, are estima-
ted at from twenty to forty thousand dollars,
but whose business, with the present Mayor
in office, will be worth nothing. 1t is said
that Mayor Wood has caused notice to be
given to landlords and others interested in
real estate, that if the tenements now hired
for gambling establishments and for houses
of prostitution are re-let on the first of May
tor the same business he will cause the
names of such owners to be published
These bold proceedings have aroused the
most intense excitement among the parties
Interested, and hence the effort to raise mo
ney and make an appeal to the Legislature.
The n. Y. Mirror thinks that the Mayor
ought to turn his attention to the male pros
ttiites, creatures far more despicable than
the unfortunate nymphs of the pave, who
are employed by the proprietors of disrepu-
table houses in New York to supply them
with new victims.