The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-09
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FROM WASHINGTON.
ESPECIAL ooRRRsrosDEEoE OF THE DISPATCH.
wAsHrseTox, Jan. 7th, 1851.

| Its now a fixed fact that the Abolitionist.
| are determined TO dissolve The Union rather
| than dissolve heir party. The emasculated
| Crittenden amendment, as it came from the
| Wiilard's Hotel Committee OF Border S tate
| members, was rejected In Republican caucus
| by vote of IS 10 1. Seward, in his late speech
| in New York, said the time had come when the
| Government must be altered in its organic
| lstructure-meanIng that as the Union sue
| ceeded the Confederation, SO some other like
| change must now take pace. What that
| change may be, he did not indicate. Virginia
| has no other course left than TO go right out
After dissolution on the slave line has taken
| place, the Union may be reconstructed but
| that is the best TO be ex pected.
War does not appear imminent 1t is true
| marines have beer sent to Forl Washington
| on the Potomac, and artillery has been ordered
| from Fort Leavenworth to Fort McHenry
| but these forces are too small 10 assaiI and
| hardly large enough TO defend. II is peace
| movement. The enrolling of the District mi
litia begins to- day. The city is to be pro ec ted
| artillery; while the pubic buildings will be
| put in charge of the clerks, armed for any
emergency. So heard this morning.
| So far from Gen. Scott's being opposed to
| coercion as stated in this correspondence last
| week, now learn that he has cQucoc Led a plan
To SUBJ agate the whole Sonth. II this be true
| is ii not The duty of the Virginia Legislature
| to demand the sword presen ted him, aud offer
| compensation i'll money seif-styied Gen'i
| Darlington, a native of Virginia, has issued {,
| cali first III the Abolition paper here, The Ma
qutstlng the citizens to enroll themselves as
| volunteers under him for The defence CT Lin
| coin al the time OF ieauguratiun. He wants
TO De Marshal Of the District UNDER Lincoln.
In contrast to these Virginians, (it they de-
| serve 10 be caied.) l can but mention the
| views OF Eiwuod Fisher, Esq., whose ac-
quai ntance have formed recently. lie is
native Of LynchbuIg, Campoeil county; and
your readers have not foIgotten the immense
| sensation caused by his lecture delivel ed in
Cincinnati lsany years age, and In which he
proved concIusiSely that SO Tar from he n orth
| Deing richer and more prosperous than the
| South the truth was exactly the REVERSE
| Mr. Fisher holds that the Disfederation (as
| the N.ws, of Knoxville, Tenn, justly calls It)
now going on is right in law, right III equity,
right in every way. In conversation last
| night, he made the ablest defence of the con-
| StItutlonal right of secession that have yet
| heard from any source. He is warm hearted,
| Thorough going Southern man, who has be-
| come disgGsted al free society after seventeen
| years eff actual contact with it, ana thinks it
| the duty OF the South 10 get rid Of il al any
| price. In reply TO the question whether he
| thought the North woulu seriously at1eInpt TO
| coerce the South, he told a most amusing story
| of a Wiry little deg which he once owned, aud
| which was in the habit OF receiving the attacks
| OF big dogs by squattIng on The ground and
| showing double row OF long, sharp teeth at
them, or, in other words, carrying out Addl-
| sons idea of "grinning horribly CHASTITY
smile" So, according 10 Mr.. Fisher, it will
| be when the big dogs of the North attack the
little dog of the South, They Will smell around
| the little fellow, take good LOOK AT his long,
| sharp, white fangs, and--retire to neigh
| boring fence-and - think better OF the
| matter
| MIR. Burnett brings good news from old
| Kentucky He says cockades are plenty. and,
| 10 use his own words, The country is In sd
blaze OF IRE" Intelligence OF the same sort
| comes from East Tennessee. Andy J"hDson
has been hung repeatedly in efiigy- Even sucn
| Union men as Gen. Il 1liickofer are in despair.
| l heard little whine ago that ohm S. Pen
l iiplOp 50
| lima nas been verbal, Is OF the
| strongest secession men i'll the county OF Gull
| pepper. l have reason to know, also, that r.
| bert +. Scout, Esq, has taken decided South
ern ground. So that the Tribune, in making
| MIN memter OF Lincolns Cabinet, was rather
| premature.
| AS regards the French purchase of our ca
| nal, would it not be we'll tor our Legislature
| TO remember that the right OF ingress and OF
| egress, at aHtinaeS, pertains 10 the purchasers!
| This point IS TOO important TO be overlooked.
| The teiegray h this morning reports that the
| members are going TO work III the most calm
| and deliberate manner. l hope this may prove
| as true as the reports about the misses at Sen
| ator Bepjamiu's speech and at Chancellor
| Dickinson's address to the Legislature OF Del
| aware. In Mr. BeDjatnn's case, there were
no hisses AZ all, unul the cry OF "cear the
galleries - was raised for even his enemies
! were carried away by the fervor of his eo-
Quence. In the case of Chancellor Dickinson,
| have it from the Attorney General of Della
| ware that the Kisses came from small squad
OF Republicans in one corner OF the hail. anL
made so little impression on the speaker that
he did not hear them. The Attorney
General assures me further, that four-ffths Of
the people of Delaware are true 10 the South,
and that they Will prove it when Virginia
takes her stand.
| cannot close withou expressing my warm
est obligations to the patriotic ministers of
your city tor the brave Southern ground
which they took III their sermons on Friday
llst. When the servants of the living God
are on our side, who shall be lgaAlst us 3
There are no truer patriots in the time OF war
than the ministers of the Gospel. But really
must quit, aud hurry off to hear Toombs. W no
| speaks this morning. ZkD.
SURGICAL OPERATIoN.-The n. o. Picayune
notices remarkable surgical operation per-
formed there. 1t is in teres Ting enough TO pub
lish:
A Mr.. Wilson, Swede by birth, aged 80
years, who came here lately from ST. Thomas,
on board the Jenny Lind, was afflicted with
one Of those terrible, though happily rare dis
eases, an aneurisn Of the innomInata artery,
but a few inches remote from the heart. The
patient applied to DR.. Schuppert. who was
highly recommended TO him this physician
told him at once thai there was but one thing
which probably might prolong his life, and
that consisted in an operation, but remarkiDg &
at the same time that his chance of recovery
was small. Mr.. W., after having been eight
days at the Infirmary, and on seeing the tumor
tearfully increasing, resolved To undergo the
operation. lie was consequently operated
upon on the following day, January l, In pres
enee OF some members of the faculty, who
happened to be near: Drs. Beard, Clapp,
| Mitchell. and Aston. Dr. Sehuppert, after
having administered chloroform 10 the pa tient l.
laid bare the carotid artery and Interrupted
| circulation in 1t by placing llgature rou d
that artery-lmmediately after which, DR.
Cnoppin tied the auxiliary artery where ii
makes its exit from uader the collar bone
Yesterday morning The patient reported him
| self comfurtabl aud Is in good spirits.
ANOTHER SLAvRR-An Havana correspon.
dent Of the New Orleans Delta writes under