The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-11-20

REPUBLICAN, RRPEr 70 Mr. SEwARb's SpEscH =
The New Hampshire stasesman, . Repubiicsn pa
per, says;
"Now let Us inquire, In the name Of common
sense OF what avail ist to prove by statistics that
we pay three -fourths Of siI the revenues Of the
dovernm6nt while Southern consumers are our
largest customers1 OF what avail IL IL 70 prove,
20 the Satisfaction Of every politician, that We
supply the South with all that they wear, from q
top knot to shoe latchet; with all that they use,
from steam engine to a friction match, when
TINS very process feeds manufacturers7 The
south u as necessary to the North a. the North
SIX miilion dollars worth Of shoes. The South is
her best customer. When the shoe business de-
chnes, gannt hunger stalks through the streets OF
her furnishing villages
New Engaud Is extensively engaged in the
manufacture OF cotton We buy the raw material
OF the South, aud pay In goods When our spin-
dies Cease to whrl, the operatives are threatened
wita starvation 1t Is the spirit OF hyena that
bites the hand that feeds it. It is high time to
cultivate frQterndl feeling between the different
ufactures nor agriculture can flourish while the
two hostile portions Of oar country endeavor TO
cripple and iDjure each other. Supposing we sue.
coed in convincing the South of their dependence
on MS for all they eat, and wear, and nse aud thus
stimulate them to establish manufactures for
themselves or divert their trade into other chan.
nels, are we gamers by the process7
Suppose we prove that they are Indebted to US
u.
thus rouse their hostility to our books and teach.
ers, are we benefited in anywises No good has
come, or ever will come, from this mutual crimia
nation and recrimination 1t neither strengthens
the party nor hasters the downfall of slavery
We hold that every State has right to determine
what institutions it will adopt.
"Why. then, hoist the banner of mo more slave
States, when the very corner stone of our politi-
cal fabric rests upon the principle tha, majority
of the people of every State. new or old, shall de-
eide that question for itseif?"
HORRIBLE -RAGEDY IN CHicoPEE, Mass -M,rder OF
a Cild.-A crime has been discovered at Chicopee,
which the Springfield Republican says, is Que of
the most horrible that has ever occurred in Mass
achusetts. The murder WAS committed on the 5th
inst but the facts net fully developed until
Sunday last. The victim, Augustine Lucas, eight
years of age, is the daughter of French parents,
aud was born iu the city of New York. A year
and half since her father and mother separated,
the father taking the daughter and committing
her to the care Of Frenchman at Cbicopee.
The murderer is Alexander Desmasteux, trav-
eiling pediar rather good looking and twenty fl ve
years of age. On the 5sh instant, he applied for
work in ChicoLee, and then appeared to be iBtox
icated. From the Dwight Mills be went to the
residence of the girl and induced her to accompany
him. 1t is supposed that he took her thence to
the abutment of the Chicopee and West Spring.
field bridge, violated her person, murdered her,
and then threw her body into the water. When
the body was recovered, the throat showed marks
of strangulasion. and the skull was broken by two
heavy blows. The murderer was arrested on the
verdict of the corouers jury, and has been com
mitted for trial. He exhibited no sign of emotion
but the people of Chicopee are terribly excited -
Previous to the discovery of the murderer, he had
been sentenced to the house of correction for one
year for theft.