The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-26

shRr w. uoocH, VINO died about O'Clock yester-
day morning after an iness Of one hours duration.
10 his 45th year. Mr.. Gooch had been Ia feeble
health for several years, but bad rarely laid by II
DAY Tor II. While passing up Main street some ten
days since he WAS run against and Knocked down
by dog and 70 the fall bad one Of bi. ankles dis
located. His physicians then thought the shock too
severe for his strength but hudiug that he
rallied under Il, and, apparently, was doing we'll,
they looked upon him ~ out OF danger, and ex
pected to see him at business In short time Even
a. late a. ii o'clock ON Saturday night, he seemed
to be rapidly improving, and judging from his I'M
usual flow of spirits, his friends believed him TO be
in better health than they had ever seen him. About
IL O'clock however, he was taken suddenly sick
at the stomach vomiting severely for several MINI
utes, after which he gradually sunk, and despite
the continued efforts of his physicians to produce
reaction, gently fell into that sleep that knows no
waking, apparently dying without struggle.
Mr. Gooch has been in the service OF the Rich
mond and Petersburg Railroad Company for many
years. His acquaintance ls an unlimited one, and
his friends, the public. We know OF no man so
universally beloved, among bis Immediate acquain
tainces and none whose death could have spread a
| darker gloom over them His epitaph may justly
be-"An honest man hath been gathered to his ia
TIERS and the poor and helpless have lost sub
| stantial friend by his untimely end" He leaves
| large number OF relatives to mourn bis demise.
PICKpocKETs. ON Saturday morning
last lady had her pocket picked of $50 in the new
| vegetable market on 18th street. The thief has
not been detected
At night, at the Union Fsir, in Corinthian Hall,
| a gentleman relieved Of a watch by an expert
| in light fingered operations and escaped with his
| treasure. A boy was arrested and searched, but
not finding the watch in his possession, he was re-
| leased.
| LECTURE OF Rev. J +. EDWARDS BE-
FORE THE YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN AssoCIA-
| TON This was the seventh lecture of the
course 1t was delivered In the First Presby
| | Ii
to Rev. Mr.. Woodbridge, who delivered the
| fifth Lecture and to Rev. Mr.. Read, who de-
livered the SIXTH to state that sickness pre-
| vented our reporting them a circumstance which
we regret as we have reason to believe the public
were sers thereby We understand that the au-
diences were on both occasions considering the
iuclemency of the weather, very good, presenting
no exception to the remark, generally we believe
made that no Course of Lectures of this class In
our city was ever so well attended.
| The evening selected for Mr.. Edwards lecture
proved more propitious. The south wind blew
| softly and the moon dispersed cheering light
The unique and comfortable church was occupied
by large and intelligent auditory 1t was crafty.
ing to behold 80 many young men, as well as the
| poodly number OF "sOid citizens :" and reverend
clergy and that brighter aspect presented in the
fair faces of those steadas friends of every bene.
| violent enterprize-the ladies'
| We give below O mere skeleton Of the lecture -
We pretend to have gathered but few Of the flow.
ers OF the speakers rhetoric, and to have recorded
but small portion OF the expletives, antitheSls
| and other figures Of speech with which he is wont
| to crowd arnost every sentence. Though this kind
embracing at times symbols and phrases that jar
| rather harshly amid the sacred melody OF bis
Christian eoquence, tends to enlist and enliyen the
attention of his hearers in the pursuit OF the In
| sructive thoughts which he thus embodies, while
his exceedingly rapid and somewhat buried enun'
citation enables him in brief space of time to utter
such multitude of words as would at an ordinary
| rate of delivery make long lecture.
| Mr. Edwards commenced by saving that the in
terest excited in the community by these lectures
| had been to him source of high personal gratfi
| cation. There was no means OF estimating the
good accomplished by them; the developments of
future time and the annals OF eternity could alone
exhibit that Thus far they have differed from any
previous course In our city-in this that the reli
| gous feature had been prominent in them ALL
They had been more than merely moral lectures
| a vein of pure evangelism had run through them
Some indeed had partaken of the nature of earnest
sermons, and had been too strongly marked in this
| respect tor the popular TASTE The demand on the
outside was for the light and airy, wit and poetry,
something that requires no thought In the hearing.
Purely scientific lectures may answer for the Ly-
| ceum, the Atheneum and the College Hall but not
for the sentimental, lack a-daisieal class. Nor do
they favor the moral lecture more than the ntellec
tual They dislike the latter because 1t taxes the
mind and the former because It exposes the heart.
| They are equally averse to htnktnS and feetiRg.-
| Lectures on amusements and travels set off with
the ornaments of rhetoric, with an occasional side
| thrust at Christianity and sprnkling of delicate
| indelicaces give satisfaction. Hence, said Mr.. Ed
wards the high gratic alton he felt that lectures SO
| widely differing from those he had Just described
| had given so general satisfaction.
| Departing somewhat from the course pursued by
| his predecessors he should choose for his theme
| this evening
''7he Young Men for the Times"
Every Age has its peculiar characteristics There
Is it is true, striking similarly In all ages. Time
has alwsys been measured by the revolutions OF the
earth and other planets since Con said, Let there
be light and there was light" And since the murky
clouds of the great deluge melted away and the
rainbow appeared in the heavens, seed time and
| harry cold and heat, summer and winter and day
and night had not ceased. During the whole hsto.
| nv Of man from Adam, men have married and
! given in marriage, bought and sold, and sought
knowledge. They have built cities and engaged in
wars. After many other enumerations Of this sort
the lecturer stated that another feature common to
all ages was found in their moral aspects All ages
had produced good and bad men, wise and foolish
men, irritable and amiable men, and women too,
heartless tvrants and pure patriots. designing dem
agogues and honest statesmen Vice encased In
gold and poverty in rags, were peculiar not to one
but all ages In these respects there Is nothing
under the sun. Still every age is peculiar In some
respects.
The moral aspect of society in our time and coun-
| try had been ably shown in former Lecture
Want of parental discipline, presumption of youth,
| superfciality OF learning, immoral tendency of
public amusements, the lust of wealth. the rage for
fashion, the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF the press reckless
| in the path of that excellent Lecture, though it
might be well to succeed able leader Dr.
Doggett had spoken of the times. He proposed to
speak of the young men for the times" He then
alluded to the passing away of the great men of
the present generation and commended that as
the world is now higher advanced in inn
Eoyement than ever, the responsibilities of
those who are called to take the places of the men
that are leaving the earth are greater than were
| ever imposed upon any previous generation. I'm
provement must go on widening and widening like
mighty stream, until 1t spreads out into the vast
ocean of the millennium Twould be burning
shame, were the young men of this day to permit
decline from the position reached by their prede-
cessors. Those who are passing away demand
| that FROM the point where they resign the sacred
trust they held there should be continued progress
As the work increases 10 importance then an in-
crease OF virtue is required. To think of moving
areater weight than others have moved with less
force than they used, is unphilosophcal and absurd
Hence, commended Mr.. E., the young men for the
times must be strong In every Intellectual and mo.
| raj quality ..... -
The progress of our country in the last so years
Is without parallel AT the same rate of increase
we shall have in the next fifty years one hundred
millions of people, and one hundred States. Think
of the representatives of one hundred States as
sembled at our National Metropolis, and of one