The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-09

have never seen anything but ordinary i'd
vance in line, or marching past at sIo.y time,
or at the double In columns of companies or
of sub6i visions, and such common movement ts
This generally results from the ignorance of
the officers rs much as from the ineompefency
of the rank and file.
EUROPEAN SENTIMENT
The United States army and navy will be
made worthy of the young Republic, and in
their hearts men rejoice ct the prospects of a
s'stroug government which must come,
though they eannot see how, out OF the pre-
sent conflict. ana not quite certain that
the silence which has obtained in Eurone
in reference to the conflict Will not soon be
resented rs an impeftinenee and an insulting
afIee tation OF intfiereuce TO that which
Americans regard as the greatest contest that
the world has ever seen. No one can be hon
estly indifferent to the results, for they must
affect Europe Just as any great disturbance in
any State must produce an impression on the
rest OF the world. 1t is useless to say tilat we
are not jealous Of the grandeur ana glory OF
the United States, for the national vanity
would regard the things impossible 1t is,
indeed, ilnpossi Bile to regard with indifference
the h2 ut which has such enormous interests
and great principles involved in the issue, but
it IS unfortunate for She United States that ii
has by turns affronted nearly every Govern
ment in Europe, and left to itself only that
natural sympathies of the people of those who
appear before them the friends Of liberty
There is one thing to be said about civil wars
they do not last long. 1t is probable that
tNttptAJusAiiSiu IA Out uaS kllt NOIuJ
which the Americans rather pride them
selves viii not prevail in the case OF the strug>
gle between the North and the South. Zach
of the eontending parties, however, believes 1t
is sure to win The voices OF the South are,
to be sure, rather deadened, and those of the
North are swollen and blown through penny
trumpets and brass whistles, but there is still
reason to think that both are bent upon ''hay-
ing it out" And, indeed, the North must do
SO, even il separation comes for there would
not and could not be an honorable peace if it
followed an avenged defeat in Il contest where
in the victors had announced beforehand that
their opponents Were destitute of courage and
manhood 1t would not be possible for the
North to live on terms of decent amity with
the South if the leaders on both sides Were to
agree to Il peace tomorrow The violent ami
trium phant jubilation of the conquerors would
render it Il mere armisticc OF short duration.
Those who can see the reconstruction OF the
great Republic in the warning elements O. this
great c0nvulsion must believe III some new
atomic theory, and in some novel chemistry Of
political tsiiinitios.
THE SENTIMENT OF RUISE.
As passed the State Department fhe other
day, observed on the ground great columns of
marble in wooden coffin ike eases iying by the
road Side near The White Uonse there was
similar food for ruins. Above the unfinished
dome of the capitol rises q great machinery OF
scatfoldage and beverage, motionless and life
less and arOuud the very building i'll which
Senator and Represent ta tiVes keep high debat
lie the vast fragments which at some future
day are meant to supplement arch and dome
the ideas OF conception not yet brought into
being, There are, then. two sorts OF ruins
those of the thing which las been. and those of
the thing which Is not yer, and may never he
at all. It was strange to see that ali the effect
of the work Of years could be produced by the
materials OF work unaccomplished. The pub
lie buildings Of Washington are surrounded be-
fore they are completed BY the evidences of
what thcy must be when they shall have been
destroyed. Before the republic has finished It's
temples the worship of the deities TO whom
they are erected is assaised by terrible hereSeS.
The capitol can never see withinits dome the
Senators and deputies OF the Union, of which
ii seems no inapt type in It's aspiring incom =
pleteness. Can any even Of the powers most
nlenaced and alEt0uted by the republic rejoice
in its researches among the fragmUntS? Ger
tainly England hes not by q word or deed
within her borders exhibited trace OF TIE pas
sioGs attributed 10 her by many DItter enemies
GREAT HnITAtN.
The reports inGustriously Cireula ted in
some American journals that Great Britain
has demanded or solicited the establishment
81 q free port for the exit OfCOtton are untrue.
There is no foundation whatever fof such
statements, which are prepared by the same
people who originate the stories Of Admiral
Milne's disnatchcs and views in reference TO
the blockade. The indifference to foreign
politics which has marked the proceedings OF
the Congress has been u suite be pNrlIGeYtta-
ry on the mode il which t4-. affairs
have been treI Ted in Easopy. Air. SaGIne :
was severely rebuked lof ailutins ID he pro
babie effects OF the increase ct the Merrill
tariff on the sentiments OF France and Eng
land as if the Senate regarded such an ailu-
sion as Il confession OF weakness or an intje-
cent introduction OF an unsuI. able element OF
consideration.