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

fSA9 noePSif('. sASsUAaY !. 4ass.s {
"a Nm NxAR.--ws have bid fafcwellte
In M ~ long train Of calamities and
:. ~ - h1vs entered upon q new and vi
ceea hrietkH ysar. 1t ID customary to in
1Haks nm ~ mcfslizing on this occasion
~ Nebee - ~ excused. Most cordially
:. 5 = rssders an the happiness and
& ~ rod that their own most arden
- md anticipate. A new yea
u 1ms fsv beginping life anew; fo'
= 5wxeoolut forming new plans
asw hopes. Let the extrava
a y ~ resolve to learn economy; tn
nifty, the ambitious. contentment
til xed, smisbility; the churlish, eour
tesys - he. industry; the vicious, virtue
snd 1895 viii be . new year indeed to then
and to The world, and bring along with j
such b,essipgs and peace Of mind as tn
world has !, aver seen before.
N,r.oras AxB KsseLEos.-Fhe Engiisf
,.nars have lately ,::scovered that Nicholas
Is. great tyrant, and his "A"ie reign marked
~ nuh,ic and private c,,rsstion. Ii is as
toui.hing that their indignsssoa was nese'
aroused by this despot's characs'' an'. -
A., hstore the war. Until thep ae was
s-.t rate fellow, and hand and glow 's'" '"o
leaders of the British government.
I,ouis Napoleon, few years ago. ac'os'u !,
-. 81 tbe same English papers, was one Oh
the greatest monsters to whom the worid e'','
,sve birth. His bloody butchery OF uho|
Ssnd;no citizens of Paris filled all Europe
With horror. The papers teemed WIN INC
revolving particulars. and he was denounced
IN everv column as q wholesale murderer ana
an incarnate fiend, whose existence was !"
blot upon the fair face of creation anu WHOSE
death would be relief and blessing 10 hu
mainly. ,;.,st-
The same papers gave US the most disgust
mo acccrnts of his private character'
,cr;,,t;ons of his orgies were given WHICH
fairly nauseate6 the public mind. lie was q
h;deous wretch, WITH more than the vices
and none of the compessating talents Oh Tue
first Napoleon.
Now Nicholas is devil and Napoleon a
so;n,t Which account shall We beiie'e
What faith is to be put in any stateaeh' MAUI
by such journals For our own paf'' mhen
they tell us of Russian crueities pFaeuce''
unon British soldiers, we don't believe one
word of them. It is more likely tnat 'he
boo, is on the other leg. They nave 'ausH'
rs before not to believe their statements
Most likely they manufacture those hass,ah
cr,~fes asexcuses for their own atroei.ieS
inc sllows to talk of Russian oarnari.,eS
Echolas began the war by treating the Ens
ish prisoners with the greatest KINDNESS
providing them with comfortable ciothihs'
4 with healthful quarters, and with wagons ior
the transportation Of their luggage when IRA
yelling. They returned his civilifies by raw,
;sbing HELPLESS women in Bomersund, Whilst
abandon journal chuckled over the vile and
brp,a, deed At Sebastopol, one OF ther
shells destroyed the hospital, in which 2ooo
,oor wounded persisted. The Russians may
have naturally supposed that the act was IN
territorial. as they had placed slgnai upon
The building to indicate that 1t was hospi-
tai, signal which the allies choseto believe
WAS deception. When Menschikoff asked
a few hours of Lord Raglan to bnry his dead,
Raglan would not grant his request, and the
Russians were forced to throw their dead
into the sea, which washed them up again on
the shore, breeding disease and death. 1t IS
not very wonderful if the Russians, an inva-
ded people, too, were provoked by these
atrocities to retaliate, but we have no EVIL
dence that they did. except from sources
which have so often proved themselves unre-
49,, that no faith is to be put in them.
= \pals of nation whose troops at
Ba,adoz Violated every woman OF the cap
tured eity-a nation which in its contests
with this country instisated Indian warfare
and negro instruction, should not affect su-
psrior humanity even to the Russians.
The UNITED STATES AND ST DOMINGO
Port au Prince correspondent NOV. H.
of the National Democrat states that the En-
peror Souloque has received an autograph
letter from Louis Napoleon, looking to the
rennion of the whole island of Hayti under