The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-06-05

liamentAry measures to TAI the AWeficens."
Among the gentlemen Of high reputation in
private life, who were oficsss In TIT memo
rable battle, were Gen. Isaac SnnLBY, the
nrst Governor Of Kentucky, and Afterwards
Secretary OF War Gen. WILLIAM CAxrBsLl,
q Ooi. JOHN CAMPBxLL, heroes Of kings
Mountain and Long Island; 0eneTai EsAA
SHELBY, Afterwards . nvorits citisen . AeH
nesse> Col. WIN ELNNINo. an cnveuose."o
Of Virginia during the RevoiutlonaIy WI
Gen. ANDRxw MooR1 OF hocA0s'use' ".e
wards u. s. Senator from Virginia; Vol. JoHs
of Oreenbrter; Gen. TATE, OF
Washington Col. WV. n OF A-lncoin
county. Lentucky; Col. JOHN STEELE, aiter.
yards Governor Of Mississippi Territory ;Col.
CHARLES CAMERON, Of Bath; . BAzALEEL
WELLS, of Ohio, and Gen. GEO. MATTHEWS,
a Distinguished officer Of the Revolution, Gov
vsrnor of0eOrgia and U. S. Senator from that
State.
Gen. LxwIscommanded the Virginia troops
when Lord DUNNoRx was driven from
Gwynn's Island, in l776, and announced his
orders for attacking the enemy by putting .
match TO the first gun, an eighteen FOUNDER,
himself. He died, in Bedford county. in 1850.
Such is brief sketch of the career Of one
of the most illustrious Of Eirginia's great
men. Mr.. ROGERS is said to have entered up
on the statue Of LEWIS con anaoye, and to nave
achieved a brilliant success. Having procured
an admirable photograph of a venerable de-
scendant of JOHN LEWIS, still ~living.-Gen.
SAMUEL H. LEWIS, of Rockingham, between
whom and Gen. NDREw II. LEWIS, therei is
said to be a striking family resemb!ance,-the
likeness of the Mountain Chieftain will be
faithfully preserved in q work of art, which,
il all we learn of it be true, will be worthy OF
its subject, and will PLACE the name OF ROGERs
in the front rank Of the sculptors OF America.
The Pacific R~oilway-The Public Plum.
der.
That a railway to the Pacific will one day
be built, is beyond all doubt, yet, it is a sensi-
BILE relief TO the public mind when Congress
sional action upon the subject is postponed;
when we learn, as re do now, that the report
| OF the select com mittee of the House having
| been recommitted, the whole matter of the
| Pacific Railway, so far as the Government is
Concerned, must 60 over to the next Congress.
! And why is this feeling of reliefl 1t is be-
cause we know that, for another year at least,
q wholesale scheme of public plumber will be
deferred hat q hundred millions of dollars
will not, for one year more at least, be APP
propriateu to the purpose of filling the pock-
cts Of politicians and spectators, and build
ing mp a railroad corporation which shall rule
the country with q rod of iron. This feeling
Of relief, however, is only that Of respite,
| not of complete deliverance. The wolves will
| come back again another winter, more hun
cry, more rapacious and more clamorous.-
Where the carcass is, there the eagles are gath
cred together. So long as the United States
has a drop of blood in it, financially, the
leeches cannot, and will not. be shaken off,
1t is often said-What would our fathers say
could they rise from the dead and see the
growth of this country in wealth and popu-
lation? Better ask, what would they say il
they could behold the growth of public ras-
cality and corruption ? What would those
pure, noble, immaculate men of &c say, could
they visit the profligate Federal Metropolis,
where almost every man has his price ! Par
son BEOWNLow says that, on arriving lately
in Washington, he felt a strange inclination
to steal something coming over him, and his
travelling companions owned up to the same
novel sensation. They had all been honest
men all their lives, but it was only by fasting
and prayer that they were enabled to get out
of Washington without committing larceny.
1t is no Islander to say that Congress itself
sets q n example of laxity of principle, pecu-
niarily, not alone in the positive acts of BRIDE
ry and corruption, which have been proved
upon some Of its members, but in increasing
its own pay, and apprOpriating to itself books
newspapers and other privileges, unknown to
other legislative bodies, and which only an
assembiage of persons OF easy virtue would
countenance. The people have seen all this
they know the thousand corrupt and profit.
gate ways in which their money is squander.
ed but they also know that there is no helm
for it. No unfortunate traveller, lying on the
fiat of his back at midnight in an old field, and
over him a veteran footpad, one hand holding
a pistol at his breast, and the other rummagins
in his pockets, was ever more perfectly help.
less and hopeless than the American people,
1t is only when the robbers quarrel among
themselves that Brother JONATHAN has the
slightest chance of being left with so much as
a shirt to his back.
We believe in a Pacific Railroad, but, with q
sagacious contemporary, we also believe:
1.-The road Is to be built for the country the
It to be- the duty, Of Congress 70 make liberal sp.
prOpIlatlOns In aid vi surveys for new roads to the
Pacific; that the army , mm'ghs be proftably EN-
son Davis suggestion in favor Of ~enlIsting a corps
of young. vigorous, active mechanics to construct
teieg multiply military pests, and act as po-
lies to protect emigrants from de predations, eitnel
at the hands OF hostile Indians or rascally whites
b en- eneoSrased q III ever ss1i h + pd dese s1edss the su tIea {
ment given by Callguls to his famous steed, the
pony that made the first overland trip was the
identical animal;) that a daily overland route
should be established, and that every feasible
means should be used to les,en the time required
and San Francisco. As all these matters progress:
steadily, tho country will keep on increasing II
wealth and population. and when the time come,
for a rsiii rs x. private priv aas;e ents snS :, VII VII :. put v down thu
ascertained which is the best route. We are op
posed to the extension OF railway rule over ths
But, if the road be made by the government
let us hope that it will not be made for tn,
next quarter Ct q century. In that time, new
actors, a more conscien tious race of publ,
servants than the present, may come upon tn
stage. They cannot well be worse.
Large Cargo Sale of French Goods in Nor,
folk.
We invite the attention Of merchants an,
other citizens to the a advertisement In one o
the auction columns, OF the cargo of the bari
"Lone STAR direct from Bordeaux, France
which will be sold at the Custom House, Nor
folk, at II O'Clock, or the 9th inst. The carg'
comprises q rich and rare variety of French
liquors, crockery, drugs and chemicals, up
holstery, jewelry, cloths, shoes, hats. MILL
merry, and other elegant productions of Frencl
industry. Merchants who are in favor of di
rect Importation to Southern ports, shout,
encourage this beginning of q trade, which j
is in their power to make permanent, between
Bordeaux and other French ports and Vir
ginia.
BY reference to other adyer il viii