The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-15

ney General
This Ticket gave very great satisfaction to
the party, and those outsiders sympathising
with them in this city. the enthusiasm excl
ted by it was increased by the news from
New Hampshire.
HENRY d. BIRD.-The intelligence from
Petersburg, under the Geographic head, con-
corning this gentleman, is astonishing and
distressing to his many friends. The esti-
mable characterize had uniformly borne as
kind, courteous, and accomplished gentle
man, had placed him as much above suspi
cion as any other man in the community
He enjoyed alike the confidence and respect
of all. When such a man falls it is warn
ing to all men to beware of temptation.
IMPORTANT SOUTHERN MovEMENT-The
Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald says that from most of the Southern
States agents have been dispatched to the
principal continental courts to importune
each sovereign to take the duties off the i'm
portation of cotton in the raw material with
III ehOA AOopCCtAtO AuC
of this movement" remarks the correspon-
dent, Sin its consequences, especially to Eng
land, is very clear. For a long time Black
wood has been demonstrating the value of
the American cotton trade to England, esti-
mating the amount of the imports from the
United States each year, in the raw state, to
be in value about one hundred and twenty
millions of dollars per annum. Upon this
capital, directly and indirectly, she employs
more than half of her working population,
engaged on the seas, in her manufactures, at
her cotton LOOMS in her stores and ware
houses, spinning her cotton yarn, exporting
it to the continent, and back to the United
States. To rob England of her monopoly OF
this trade would reduce her to great distress,
even if it would not make her bankrupt
within short time. Dickens. in his cogita-
| tions upon the importance and magnitude OF
the American cotton trade to Europe, has
wisely said that she was dependent upon this
trade for her very existence, or, to use his
own language The perpetuity of England
hangs upon a thread of cotton A blow is
dDOul ~ Uc- SlTuCk at llOiil bhO
Southern States of this confederacy, through
this very interest, which Dickens and Black
wood and all the wise heads of the present
day of England, estimate SO highly. Be-
cretly this work of preparation to rob Eng
land of this trade has been going on in the
South, and now the organizations against her
are already completed. The programme of
the Southern men is, first to have cotton
received upon the continent free of duty
With this view, agents, while write, are be
fore the Emperor of Russia, France and the
Germanic nations. The Gear, particularly
is expected to look with favor upon this
movement, and to favor it with all his ability
and influence, as measure inimical to Eng
land. The other nations are expected to
favor it from motives of selfinterest, grow
ing out of the trade given them. These
agents are to all meet in May next, at
AK la Chapelle, and report and consult
among themselves upon their course of &C.
ton, a la Soule, Buchanan, and Mason, but
with greater chances of success in their
scheme than attended the congress of the last
mentioned gentlemen. AS soon as the pro-
mise is obtained from the various sovereigns
that the continent is open for the Importation
of our cotton, then Immediately a continent
al depot for cotton is to be established upon
the continent, in opposition to Liverpool. To
establish this depot heretofore has been the
great difficulty, but those who have this mat
ter in hand have at last gone the right way
to work about it, and canvassed the South
and had subscribed from the principal plant
ers in the States bales enough to build up
depot as soon as opened upon the continent,
with the advantages 1 have spoken Of With
in fortnight from this time an agent of the
South will start for Europe, to meet the con-
gress at AK la Chpaele in May next, to re-,
ceive their report and views, and bring
them back to a convention of planters which
is to assemble at Cooper's Springs, in Mis-
sissippi, On the 4th of July next, to go imme-
diately to work upon this matter, by putting
their cotton on board of direct line of
Southern packets, if all the anticipations of
the agents abroad in the meantime are re.
allied. This is the programme exactly as il
stands at present"
The Herald, in its comments upon this
communication, remarks that the laws of
traderegulate themselves, and until the trans
portation of exports and imports between
Europe and the United States can be done at
less cost and in less time between our South.
sern ports and those of England and France
than it can be done between New York and
Liverpool and Havre, all these Southern con.
Ventions and all this Southern diplomacy will
amount to nothing.
misIsrERIAL.-It is stated that Rev. Henry
ward Beecher, of New York, has received cal,
70 go TO San Francisco which, however he Uni
not accept. 1t appears that the abolitioni.,. ou,
there are alarmed at the popularity Of Rev. Dr..
Scott preacher from New Orleans and u,.b -
engage the services of Beecher to countersc, IT.
efforts.
ROBBERY IN WARRINGTON lodping roor,
OF j. 8. Gsllaher, jr., in Washington, was broks
into last Tuesday evening and robbed of s276. and
two articles OF jewslry.