The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-08-05
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Tuesday aiera,ns, August ), 1856.
EnsIl.h social I.ifc by an American


| A writer ia the London STAR signing himself "A
citizen Of the North American Confederation, =
gives the English q very severe hauling over In
regard to their late expressions Of indignation with
regard to the late affair at the Queens Ieyee The
writer Is believed to be Professor Mahan. He
| says:
would now approach that most delicate of all
subjeots-a comparison of the social condition Of
hnaiana ana the United States 80 far few
weeks residenos only in the former have Civ
Gu me opportunities to make It. am aware how
taiiacfous, how wrong may be first impre ssous.
but it is only whilst they fresh tha. they seze
bold OF the imagination. A few months wear them
out. We begin to feel a. II to the manor born. !"
and pass by, as not note worthy wha. at first NAV
even have struck us with horror Do not think
that intend to charge upon the English people
what q few facts, If alone considered might lead
person to infer. On the contrary, | wish to lead
'hs people, at least so many may peruse
my letters to you. to reflect how grievous
wrong may be done to a nation by such isolated
facts, presented as representation of a whole -
wish to guard the English people, whom know
TO be gonerous brave, loyal and, above all, truth.
fu and just against adopting as correct represen.
tatons of the United States such articles AZ the
Times, the Post and the Leader think fit to put
FORTH to cater to the taste of what class of English
| society know not.
All Europe OF late has rung with the occurrence
at the Queens levee, with respect to which the
Times and its followers, and those of their readers
who swallowed as true q story SO absurd that the
appieaNon OF one grain OF Common ssnse would
have dispslled 1t, are alone the ridiculous par
tyi and taunts have been made In more than one
journal OF standing against Americans who pre.
| tend such respect and devotion to woman as wo-
man have nothing to say for the United States
on this point; this leave to your own travellers
who. certes, have not been sparinR Of abuse and
nisrepreseptafio on most others But how is IL
IN England! nave seen at public concert (the
price OF tickets being IS ed in your Crystal Pal
ace, lady, having two young persons apparentlv
her daughters at her side receive such treatm ent
and have language addressed to her. by man
with gray locks, wearing large brilliant on his
nnger, and otherwise mise comma IL faut-ose that
from his externaIs, would have been pronounced
gentieman-and in the hearing Of three or four
Englishmen who took no notice Of it-for which
conduct be would under like circumstances have
at once been thrust out of any assembly in the
United States. Here the woman was outraged
ihs mother humiliated In the sight of her children
the dignity of the lady trampled on; vet no Eng.
lish voice was raised no English hand put forth in
her defence Sfhave stood in the diningroom of
those much to.be dsplored outcasss from home
the girls at your Founding Hospital, whilst grace
was said, and they subsequently were at meat
in that entire room. which was crowded counted
but Blk hats taken off, and two of these knew to
be American. know not Ar. Star, what this
mark OF respect may stand for in England; but
This do know, that for one, should az soon have
thought OF entering the diningroom Of that most
gracious lady, whose example 10 her sex Is not the
least OF Englands glory, with my hat on my head,
as to have stood Ia the presence Of those poor,
friendlsss girls with my head ceversd, to have
humhled them by such want of ordinary courte-
sy. On that day, Sunday, may add, some duke
whose name did not learn, was expected to visit
the Institution; and the alley, between the tables in
the centre was kept clear for him 10 pass May
ask. had he appeared, where would have been all
TIE hats for suppose him too well bred to have
kept his hat on I
have stsod in the aisle OF one of your fsshiona-
BILE churches, and women, some apparently feeble
women, were standing near me- while men kent
their seats either In the asle the psws and but
one offered his TO woman, and him knew to be
an American l have stood in the alley of the It
of your Opera Houss In the Haymarkst and there
l saw one lady allowed to stand at least ten min.
utes in ths back of the pit, while another wiki .
somewhat mortified air, came slowly up the alley
from the trout, looking for SONS resting pisce vet
no man moved, although places might have
been made for her, and a woman At last beckon.
ed to her, and made room for her At her
side. But, Mr.. Star, these are but light mat
terH-hardly Inconvenience to the sex COM
pared with others. Lock at the provision
made In your second class railroad carriages and
look at your confined omuibuses with their hair
seass-look at the narrow, dangerous stairway that
leads to the gallery of the theatre in the Strand
where 1t was my misfortune one night to take hat
was called a scat for which half guinea was
paid, TO hear kistcr Look at your pit seat in the
Princess theatre, in Oxford street Are these ae-
eommcdaiions in civiiized England for women
| perhaps for pregnant women. obliged to leave
homer For shame abolish this hunkeyism of
| your railroad, omnibus and theatre proprietors
who think they are hoDoripg he higher classes by
| these debassinG distinctions. Go 10 France Go
| TO the United States, and take lesson upon the
dignity OF the masses, upon the respect due vir
tue and intelligence when forced into second class
railroad carriage. Preach, Mr.. Star preach civili
| zation to England this point Let her learn
| from you that it consists in something more than
| cooked hats and swords worn at levees
| THE OLD BLOCK HOUsE-This last monument
| of the "eary day" Of Chicago, when the great me-
tropos OF the West was mere cluster of hats up
| on the margin of the lake, was Yesterday torn
down to make way for the onward march of our
| allotted duty. The bullets and arrows of the red
| man have fallen in showers upon its firm timbers
ana The tomahawk has Numbered upon its portal
yet 1t has safely shielded Its defenders in more
than one hour Of dread and danger.
! That Old Block House. was the beginning of
this noble young city, and around it clustered the
dwellings OF those who fart w on our once wilder
ness from the grasp Of the children of the forest
who were clustered on the border Of the waves
| that wash the eastern boundary of Chicago for
nearly Ave miles kr. John s. Wright, one of the
Oldest residents of the city, purchased the Block
House at auction some weeks since, and proposed
that it should be removed suitable lot and there
remain As memento OF the first days Of Chicago.
No lot however being provided, and the condition
| Of the sale requiring Its removal, Mr. Wright has
determined 10 tc6r IL uoWn, ana use the material
for the purpose of flushing off residence to
be erected by him next year. As soon as the
work Of destruction was commenced, a large num-
Der of bats which had taken up their abode in the
loft, abandoned their quarters. By tonight the
"Old Block House" will be among the "things that
we're Chicago Tribune Ang1
AMAN'sLEG AND ARM Cur OFF BY MOVING
MACHINE Benjamin Leedom, aborer, had just
entered field OF grass and commenced cutting it
down with moving machine drawn by two
horses, when he came to a low place or gutter in
the field, the heavy, sharp knives all the while
being in active operation, arm and one leg tell
directly before the knives, which took them of at
| single cut. The arm was cut off just above the
wrist, and the leg a short distance above the ankle.
The whole was performed In the twinkling OF Al
eye. The unfortunate man, who fingered till next
day, died In great agony. He leaves wife and
FIVE children-Doyiestoson (Pa.) Democrat.
A CHANGE OF FoRTUNE-On Friday William
II. Wilder started for Baton Rouge manaeled
convict, on board of the steamboat Capitol He Is
to remain In the Penitentiary for ten years for
fraudulent dealings in bounty land warrants: 1t
Is somewhat singular fact that the last previous
yist of Wilder I'm Katon Ron W IA n Legislator.