The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-09-03

nAsse K1tnsAa--aad Gossip from v04spnyes.
Among che sAoster papers are: cost Of Letter
\ .Iatsuaactiou- . Prixs stlkhtkk--Dto-
erapAy Of Combs, the phrenolokiss-- The. Dick
~ D.aEculty-A PoeticAl View OF H&nptou, and
~ ussai large quantity Of intsrsstyh& Eitorial.
news and commsrcial matter
Oopiss for saie It the counter, Ia wrappefs, rea-
y * mailing. rrice 9 cent?.
Jeshua n asdAih b..
ne deesae u Joehna =. uiddinss, - nominee
Ibf Coagrsss 10 The AshtAbala l0hio) District, i
matter d natieoal oongrasuiaticn. Fer twenty
ysefs tas 0iddisgs occupiel 4 seal sxths House Of
and Tor twenty years has he been
m sanitisatsd hrvbrand and psst-poiiticAi and
psesouAl II b aid that round the entire circle Of
tie Hall his eye fails to ind single man who sat
thsre whsn hs entered the house. Some have gone
q higtsr posts; some srs Ia diplomatic positions
abroad: some have retired 70 private life; many
n stoeh The MSass and tue Senate are sleeping
their last slssp. Death has sealed the eloquent
lpe Il olays II hes turned 10 marble the massive
hres q Webster; has qusnched the light IN Cal
heAa's hrsssing eye; bus Joshua r. Giddings II
~ sArsA. The storm that has sunk the prcudsst
vSsools On tho 10 ms isft this weed to drit buoy
antly upon tbs surfacs. An abolition journalist
UDy0s FoAnYue9 1Av9 tseou ouu NottUu nto8',otue
tdraed into Rspublics and Republics into King
dous; six usw States have catered the Unioa, and
thrss nsw Territorics have been brought under
our Aag; aPresidents have gt,ue MP like srockets
and come down like sticks eompronsseg have
bssa mads and brvkes; war has followed peace and
pesesaSsin succeeded war; trade has expanded and
collapsed parties have risen ourished and decayed
platforms have been built aud torn down aasin--
a. Arol spt hn Hall n
ssatasisss" What q sublime refiectioni But
there h IN end 10 ell things human and there's
an end ct last, politically, to Giddings!
The journal 70 which xe refer, has forgotten to
mention mighty and baleful power, which began
its career about the time that Giddings came into
public life, which, 10 Fact, begat this unclean cub
and which seems to be passing away with his de-
cline. It ID now about quarter of century since
Abolitionism reared lie snaky crest In the North,
and thFeatsnsd 10 become formidable element in
AmsricAu politics. Before that period, the people
Of this country lived In confidence aud harmony
with each other; there were national parties and
national statesmen the Ashtabula district itself
was represented 10 Congress by John W. Aller,
ESQ.,, Of Cleveland, . gentleman Of elevated cha
racter, useful and unobtrusiye public servant.
free from all faint Of aboltio sectionalism
What change has since occurred By the frenzy
Of this dsmoniac faction, the Union hiss been
brought to the veQ verge OF dissolution; the North
has been arraysd sgainst the South, and the
South against the North aud q storm has swept
over the country, that even Webster and Clay,
aud the mghtiest genuses and patriots Of she land
found themselves impoteut to resist, If Giddings
has not been the master spirit of that storm, II
he never had the brains TO raise or direct II, be
has been one Of it, most active and malicious d..
mons, whose disposition to do mischief knew no
limit hat his capacity OF .ll the abolition lead
srsan the House or In the country be has been the
most foul Of tongue and venomous of heart. We
Give him credit for one virtue, the absorption OF
himself, body, soul and mind, in his bad cause 90
that he derived more pleasure from exercising
and exhibiting his sectional hatred, and his malig
nant desire and hope Of beholding the desolation
and degradation Of Southern fresides, than from
his own political advancement. We rejoice that
his baieial presence IL withdrawn from the House
Of Representatives; that the face ON which every
bod passion SCENE to have fixed its seal, will no
longer be seen ia the halls of national council
and, more than ALL that the cause with which he
Was Identified, ID, If not killed. at least scotchd
and writhing under the heel Of the returning rea-
son OF the country.
Unele Sam's Outlay for the Cable.
The N. Y. Day Book says that the U. 8. govern
msnt will have expended, by the time the Niagara
10 once more fitted for war steamer, directly and
Indirectly, for the Atlantic Cable, the sunl of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars at least.
The alteration, II 10 said demanded by the agents
OF the Telegraph Company for the purpose of lay.
ing the cable, aud the various suggestions intro
duced and 70 degree carried out by Nv. Field and
his associates during the period Of despositng the
cabts In midocsan, has transformed the craft into
anything but vesscfOtwar, and she has to be re.
stored 10 her original condition at q round cost.
So determined was Mr.. Field that nothing should
mar the chsLcs Of the success Of the undertaking,
~ far tho Niagara concerned, that il Is be-
lieyed he would have insisted on her masts being
cut awsy cooid such an operation have couducsd
70 the grand contamination so devOutiy wished
for. The commander Of the ship Was So constrnt-
~ solicited for psrmits to pull down, tear away.
build up, aud otherwise mutilate the interior OF
his W sel that he had TO firmly represent to the
fsvsfish gentlemen who were disposed TO push
matters extreme length, that 1t could not be
done, that while be would DO every thing in lis
power or the success Of the great work, be could
not chop his ship 70 pieces or turn her into q ma
ffne iron foundry, or mississippi dug out" not
even to ensure the succt 10 OF the Atlantic tels-
grspb, for his duties to the Government az COM
WANDER Of the vessel, would forbid It,.
The Warrington States remarks that, while Con.
gress stipulated subsidy Of $4,000 = year to
the Atlantic eable-te REACH which We have TO ruu
thousand miles through the British provihces-
II swAs with the understanding that the United
States should have corresponding share in its ad-
vsutagsE aud shouldthere be any evasons or shin
Ing In ths fAr perior nance If the contracts obi
gation VIII cease and the subsidy with it. 1t was
wassA And right to encourage such an enterprise
but 1t will not be lees wise and right 10 provide
telegraph 70 the Pacific and tho ssa, In d.
root lines from our own ports, and We must sci
shoot creating them 1t the earliest moment.
alSE 81 ss4zsls 5s.7.s !
0o1therners at che North.
The N. Y. EapreSs says that the Soutaerners are
% Thick In New York ~ blackberries II con sders
favorable sligo of the times that the South and
North thus miugle aud intermingie, and adds
'Whsn the Virginia and North Carolina u,ou ntAins
are open " us-with good hotel life as We have
10 the horth-ws shsil ovsrrun them. If the |
AfPrsss would come and try some Of our q hotel
me hs would nud Il good ~ any Ia the North.
1hsrs hss been avast inprovsms1h 10 that limo |
ssees tss worthy editor visited Virginia, and wrote
that noe description Of our to VA and Its celebrities
sstAa. . he PriMsiMg Press. s<s.s
The London Hssaid, ia IN article on the Atlantic
Telegraph, pronouncss il "the second greatest isat
IN ~ history Of mechanical progress connected |
wetn b. fartherance Of civilixafion.n The first |
place Y gives to "ths Invention OF printing, snd
. much ~ possible With the ssndsn.
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