The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-08-22

III kDe same States thdt our mNOuIactuTtIB una q
large market for their goods aud our importers no
inconsderable proportion of their orders Now
suppose the Union dissolved, and the porthern
states forming one republic. and the southern and
southwestern states forming another.
"Suppose, what under such a condition would inevi-
tably be the this southern republic with little
CATION Of its foster and with no msnufac-
lures to encourage, In reciprocal commercia inter
course with all the manufacturing countries o. Eu
rope, on the basis of absolute and UNQUALIFIED free
trade; suppose, what under the sentiments of ami
mostly ensendered by the disruption oud be less
likely TO occur, discrimination sgans. our ships and
goods Of the north, and where would be that pros
peTity which now gladdens manufacturing towns
and nils our sesports with life and activity disso-
property of New England fifty cents the dollar
The wheels of our manu- factories would be stopped,
the tmpieme nts Of the mechanic would be put by,
orr ships decay ct decayng wharvss and the
spring in the streets of and cities These
weuld be the material consequences. The moral
consequences may be summed up in single line
Ire destruction ct the worlds last hope"
ROMANTIC SToRY-Another Female in Male Ap
parel-Considerable excitement was created at
Rockfsh village, North Carolina, about eighteen
Insnths ago, by the mysterious disappearance of a
young lady, who it was afterwards concluded was
dead. She has since turned up in a very unex,
pected manner, the following letter in the Fay.
ettevie North CaroIinian will show. The writer
says:
A year and q half passed by. The occurrence OF
Marndas fate began to be obliterated from the mind;
those friends who mourned for her had laid aside their
weeds and had resigned her as lost forever.
Let us 90 back to the eyeDtfu night of her dis
appearance and learn the true fate of our romant c
heroine. .--
tion for cause unnecessary to DETAIL and left
her boardin house while all beneath roof we
buried in profound slumber; and for fear of being
seen by some one in the viuge, she took the path
leading up the margin of the pond, passing by the
beach it's head and thence through the woods
the me in road She found herself at daylight some
distance of, and determined, in order conceal her
indentity, 10 doF the attire Of and assume
that Of the Sternsr An opportunity offered
Tor seeing at farm house near by pair of pants-
looms and hone shirts hanging the fence she man
eyed to secure then and at once appropriated them
to her own In this disguise she travelled on to
Bepnetsville, s. c., where see procured work as a
bop and diligently applied herself for Sc yera months
without exciting the least suspicion her Sex
Her associates with the males of the village
though she frequently went with the boys to the
river to wash, she never could be induced to 90 in
Eerself, always volunteering to watch the clothes
while they wore bathing
Wtrk becoming little scarce, John (for that was
her name) left BenDesville and ent to Che.
raw, where she labored for two three months un-
til she procured funds enough to take her to Charles
ton. In that city she was taken sick with fever and
though under skiful edica attendance ahe managed
to preserve her incognitO.
John finally, like The moth to the candle venturcd
too her old range, and discovered first,
of the operatives Of factory in Fay etevie, by
some of these who had known Miranda at Ronkfish.
FINDING herself suspected she left and hired herself
TO cid bache miles from town. doing faith
full man service On the farp and about the house.
sleeping with the crusty old fellow at night without
his suspecting what kind of bedfsow he had, until
curiosity brought her to town to hear the discussion
between Bragg and Gilmer, when she was again met
by some of her old acquaintances and fully recos-
nized as Marinda the lost maiden of Rockfsh vii
lase.
Marnda has promised to assume the appropriate
costume of her though she that the men have
much more fun than the women that IL will be haId
TOR her hereafter to sit and listen to The everlasting
gossip of the girs, s'ncs sbe hiss mingled with the
men, attended the elections and tax gathe
come interested in politics heard the candidates. and
been buggtd and treated so well by them.
A YOUNG MANS CHShACTER-No young man
who has a just sense of his own value will sport
with his own character A watchfu regard to bis
value to him in all the remaining years OF his life
When tempted to deviate from strict propriety Of
department, be should ask himself, Can l afford
| this Can endure hereafter to look back on this z
1t Is OF amazing worth to young man to have q
| pure mind, for this is the foundation Of pure
| character. The mind, in order to be kept pure
| must be employed in topics of thought which are
themselves lovely, chastened and elevating. Thus
themes OF meditation. Ii youth only knew how
durable and dismal is the injury produced by the
| indulgence of degraded thought-if they only real
| lied how frightful were the moral depravites
WHICH . cncFiSiitu naDt OF loose Inauguration pro
| duees On the soul, they would shun them as the
| bite OF serpent. The power of books to excite
the imagination is fearful element of moral death
! when employed in the service of vice.
The cultivation of an aIniable, elevated and
glowing heart alive to all the beauties of nature
and all the submites Of truth inyigorates the in
| teect, gives to the will Independence of basel
passions and to the affections that power of adhe
sion to Whatever is pure, and good, and grand
which is adapted to lead out the whole nature o
man into those scenes of action and impres sion by
which Its energies may be most appropriately EN-
| ployed and by which its high destination may be
| most efectuaiiy reached
The opportunities of exciting these faculties in
benevolent aud selfdenying efforts for the welfare
of our feow.Inen are so many and great that 1t il
really worth while to live The heart that is truly
evangelically benevolent, may luxurste in an age
like this The promises offered are inexpressibly
rich, the main tendency OF things so manifesty IL
accordance with them, the extent OF moral infiu
ence is SO great and the effects of its employment
so visible that whoever aspires after benevolent
action and reaches forth for things that remain ol
u.s. to the true dignity of his nature can hnd tree
scope for his intellect and all aspiring themes foi
the heart. tt.tF
AN OvERsEER MURDERED BY SLAVES.-Tht
Woodville Miss Republican, of the 5th inst, hai
the following account of an atrocious murdel
which was committed near that town.
Mr.. Silas Rogers, overseer on the plantation o.
Thomas J. Brown, Of Buffalo, in this county. wa.
by the slaves on the plantation brutally murdered
on Friday night last. From all the evidence elicit
ed Mr.. X. was engaged In chastising some OF the
negroes Ia the quater. about nine or ten clock n
night, when he was by them knocked down and