davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

that Ireland suffers. If, however, he will be
ut the pains to imagine that England had been
overrun, conflsca ted and conquered by Ireland :;
that the conquerors had shed as much English
blood upon the scaffold rs England had shed
Irish blood that for many years the Irish
would permit no Englishman TO hold any Office,
or even sit on jury; that any English priest
who performed divine service was punishable
with death; that every child who renounced
the Protestant religion was entitled to inherit
his fathers estate to the exclusion of all the
other heirs and that, even when these inhu
man statutes We're abolished, an Irish Parlia-
mcnt assisted English landlords to maintain
system Of land laws in opposition 10 the habits
of the English people and the requirements Of
English society, and that the Catholic Church,
embracing small minority of English people,
was made the established Church of England,
whilst Scotland was permitted TO have her
own established perhaps it would not be ne
cessary for a newspaper TO inform any Eng
lshman what the Il" wrongs of England were,
nor would he consider il proof that no such
wrongs existed because Englshmen were per
mitted 10 practice at the Irish bar and by the
force of their superior genius rose to the high
est positions.
England is the greatest of modern nations :;
but she would be greater still if she would libe-
ralize her policy towards Ireland in conform
ity with the spirit of the age, and place her on
an equality with Scotland. When she does
that we shall hear no more Of Irish wrongs"
and this island, which is now n vulnerable
spot in her power to resist invasion, will
become an imprcgnable rampant of defence.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04
s. s.IreIand's Wrongs.S

An Englishman has lately addressed letter
10 the New York Nation, demanding to know
what " Ircland's Wrongs" are, about which
80 much is said He asks: "Will you kindly
specify those wrongs? / have often heara
your countrymen talk Of the wrongs of Ire
land, and always asked them to describe
iAose wrongs TO me. never yet found one
who could point out any example OF injustice
"Of English rule. Irishmen rise 10 the highest
positions in the State there is no impedi-
"inant TO their progress at the bar or other
"profcssions-to be sure, we do not make b. sh'
"ops of them often-and in all essential points
they live under the same laws Us everybody
else In Great Britain. What are the
wrongs, Every just man would use ms
influence TO remedy them, and am sure
English statesmen would be much oDiiSeo W
you for suggestions, since the standing mys-
terry with reference TO Ireland Is, that irish-
" men are always going about the world whih-
ing about their wrongs and yet thal no
"one can point out In what they are '2
"Sreved."
Tie Nattoa refers the ingenious correspondent
10 GoDwiS SaIrH's Essay on Irish History
and Irish Character" !" and mentions two OF Inc
most prominent grievances the odious system
VI land laws and maint ntenance OF n state
church, which is not simply the Church OF q
siAaii minority. but the sign and memorial OF
conquest ,.ss.4t.s sl, ts4 a0lt
We are not surprised that this intelligent
HhshsLIaan should not be aware OF any wrongs
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

THE FIRE ALARM OF TUESDAY NIGHT.-About
half past eleven o'clock Tuesday night, a
drunken soldier, on guard at Castle Thunder,
who intended leaving for Norfolk yesterday
morning, determined TO have an " all-night
time of it," and therefore set TO work breaking
up the benches around him, which he piled up
in the fire place and set fire TO. Getting under
way, the ascending bldZe set the chimney on
fire, and the sparks therefrom nearly de-
stroyed the building itself. The alarm bells
sounded, and the firemen manned their appa-
ratus but soon after leaving their rendezvous
they ascertained the cause OF the alarm ana
forthwith retraced their steps.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

FoRgIGS SCRAPs.-The cattle plague has
wrought such rayages in England that Pari-
sian butchers are now supplying John Bull
with his beef cheaper than he can buy 1t OF his
own tradesmen.
The believers in the Suez canal are very
hopeful that il will receive the support of the
English Government, now that Lord Pal-
merston, its great opponent, is dead.
A monument is to be erected 10 Lord Pal-
merston in one of the public parks OF South
ampton .
yeyance of letters already so successfully
practiced in London, is TO be introduced into
parg i.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

THE COyDITTON OF PoLICEMAN JAMES n. TY-
LER-We are glad TO hear from DIR. Dorsey
Cullen, who attended Policeman James N.
Tyler after the latter was shot by the despe-
RADIO Holt, alioS Curley, that the patient,
though still in a critical condition, is dong
we'll The wound, although dangerous, is not
necessarily mortal The ball entered the alb.
domen, just above the navel, and ranged
around, coming out at the side. The intestine
was not cut. We may hope, therefore, that'
under the skiIful treatment of DR.. Cullen,
Mr. Tyler, who is entitled to our sympathies
by reason Of the wound received in the dis
charge of his duty to Richmond, may recover
his health.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

ESCAPED PROM PRTsoS.-On Tuesday night,
during the confusion which existed at Castle
Thunder in consequence of one of the Chin
neys TO that institution taking fire, some un-
authorized party mustered all the prisoners
into the street, and before they could be gotten
back, several Of them (all negroes) made their
escape. The following are their names: John
T. Clark, Thomas Field, Henry Johnson, Reu-
ben Donald, Ned Dabney, fourth offence, Po-
land Lee, and Martha Anderson. None of
them had been recaptured up TO our latest in
formation last night.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

KEEPING SALOONS OPEN on SUNDAY.-J. j.
Rourk appeared before the Mayor yesterday,
charged with keeping his drinking saloon
open on Sunday. a policeman estfied TO the
fact, and he was fined twenty dollars
John Denzler was charged with similar
offence. y.H He was fined 10 the same amount,
the Mayor announcing his determination TO
carry out the provisions of the ordinance IN
the case of keeping houses open on Sundays
II. B. Hamburger was also charged wlth
selling liquor on Sunday. The case was ad-
journed over until Thursday to procure tes-
timOnN
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

PREsRNTATIoS.-As New Years present
TO the ten police captains of Richmond, Ma
jor John IL. Claiborne, chief of police, has
given each one a silver badge, the cost of
which was five dollars apiece. The donation
was accompanied with neat little notes, ex-
pressing briefly the best .wishes Of the Major
and the hope that they would all aid him in
promoting the efficiency and good reputa-
tion Of the department. tits needless 70 say
that he will receive their cordial support, and
that the expressive token of his regard, OF
which they have been the recipients, is duly
a tpd
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04
BOOKS, STATIONERY. Sc.

ESTABLISHED 1S37.-JOHN MUIR
II PLY CO., PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS,
PRINTERS AND STATIONERS, WHOLESALE and
BOOKS, PAPER, STATIONERY, &C., ls2 BALTI-
MORE STREET, BALTIMORE.
PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL BOOK AND JOB
PRINTING, In superior styles, at low prices:
Particular attention given to RAILROAD and
COMMERCIAL PRINTING, FINE WORK POR
BANKING and INSURANCE COMPANIES, &c; &c:
Extensive facilities, combined with upwards Of
twenty five years experience enables them to Of
fer superior advantages in the execution OF this
class Of work.
BLANK BOOKS of every description made to
order in superior styles.
Careful and prompt attention to all orders.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

TIE MAILs.-Our country subscribers who
complain of irregularity in the receipt OF
their papers must exercise little patience
awhile longer, until the arrangement in our
mail routes is remedied. The Dispatch is regu-
larly sent from its Office is always delivered at
the city post-office in good time, and from
what we know of the systematic manner in
which Doctor Sharp and his energetic assist
ants conduct the business in their office, we
are satisfied the fault is not theirs. We hope
that ere long there will be no cause of COM
plant in any quarter, and that the thousands
of families in which the Dispatch was always
welcomed will again receive its visits with Its
wonted regularity.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

The Florence correspondent of the New
York HerdI3 makes the following statement:
"By the exercise of proper sanitary pre-
cautions, the people of Sicily succeeded In es-
Gaping the scourge, and, although by its geo
graphical position much more exposed TO such
epidemics than, perhaps, any other portion
OF the world, there has not been, as yet, IL
single case of cholera reported in the island ~
And gives the following instance of neglected
precautions:
"King Victor Emanuel produced deep i'm
preston during his late visit here (FlOrence);
but, al the same time, we cannot but deplore
the ineXcusable lack of forethought OF his Go
vernment officials, who, although having all
the necessary means at command 10 protect
the Italian peninsula from the terrible pesti-
lence by the institution of eiicacious and Strin-
gent ;sanitary precautions, failed TO do So and
to whose vacillation and delay may be fairly
attributed the mourning and desolation
throughout Italy"
AS TO the ravages Of the cholera
1.-The cholera stll RACES ut Naples, and its
rayages seem TO be on the increase instead of
diminishing. Reckoning thenumber OF victims
here, together with those who have perished
by the same plague in Ancona and many other
Italian cities, in addition to the thousands
whom the cholera has swept off Ill Spain,
France and England, the aggregate shows an
appalling number OF victims 10 this dire cpl.
demic.'
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

SELLING LIQUOR WITHOUT LIoENsE.-Mrs
Harriet Elizabeth Goodwin, the lady of large
proportions, was before the Mayor yesterday,
charged with selling liquor without license.
Dabney Miller, Esq, the City Assessor, testi-
fled that he saw in the Dispatch OF Thursday
last that Mrs. Goodwin estifed IN the case OF
Knucklcs that she kept 4 barroom in Baker $
alley: whereupon he went there 10 see II she
was selling liquor without license. She pro-
tested that she was only selling porter and
ale, but, nevertheless, the Mayor imposed upon
her fine Of ten dollars.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

CASE OF SuFFooATIoS IN New YoRK.-The
corroner's jury which held an inquest on the
dead in their house, have; discovered that
death resulted from gas generated by a stove
in the room 1t is stated that Mr.. Hunt,
brother of the agent of the house, had inserted
a fiat stone across the chimney OF the room OF
the deceased, thus cutting off the draught, IN
order TO force them to yacate the premises
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

CHARGED WITH HSTEALISG.-Captain William
). Jenkins, of the civil police, arrested yester-
day afternoon negro, named William Smith,
charged with stealing three pairs OF pants,
coat one pair of shoes, and several other arti-
cles of gentlemen's wearing apparel; also, one
single barrel pistol all of the value Of thirty
dollars, tho property of Charles Lindsay. The
prisoner was committed To the lower station
house TO await examination before Judge
MgEntpe.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

BEATING HIS WIFE.-T. J. Gormley was
arraigned before the Mayor yesterday, charged
with being drunk and assaulting and beating
his wife. Policeman Heckler testified that, on
Saturday evening last, he was on Main street,
between Twenty first and Twenty second,
and heard loud noise and a female rushed
fiown and said n man was up there killing his
wife. He went up and found the prisoner
drunk. He smashed u lamp against the stove.
The Mayor required the prisoner TO give Sc
curity TO keep the peace and be OF good beha-
yor for twelve months.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

An IHvITATIoN.-We are requested to say TO
some of the parties who assemble near the
cage every morning to witness the egresS OF
prisoners who are being carried before tho
different courts, that they are of the classes
excepted by the Committee OF Invitation,
and that they will hereafter cease to attend
this select gathering. II is not the intention
matter, or to exclude, unnecessarily, persons
who would crafty pardonable curiosity to
see the illustrious men of the country, but all
will see at once that they are forced to act
thus when they consider the following
In the first place, the associates OF these re-
nowned men should have the priority OF inVi-
tation.
Secondly These number five hundred of
themselves, and the classes invited will ave-
rage thousand every morning.
Thirdly and lastly: The authorities wishing
only small and select assembly, the Commit
tee of Invitation deem the above ntioned
number sufficient to be thus qualified
The Committee also request us TO publish
the following classification. The associates OF
the distinguished characters are only pre-
sumed to be as follows: Professional garroters
who have served not less than two years in
the profession. Professional burglars who
have broken into not less than ten houses and
made not less than ten thousand dollars at
their profession. Smoke house thieves who
have stolen ut least ten hams, fifteen shoulders
and twenty middlngs; and horse thieves who
have stolen at least five horses.
/ The invited classes are as follows: Pick
pockets, petty thieves, all men who nave
! been arrested for being drunk at leasetwice,
and disorderiy and those who have been
drunk on the streets over one hundred times.
1t is hoped that the classes not specified Will
! not hereafter appear at the cage, or tney VIII
| certainly be ruled out.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

PETERSBURG Ispgx We have hitherto failed
to mention the enlargement OF this excellent
journal. We are glad TO chronicle such evi-
dences Of prosperity among our contempora-
ries Petersburg has reason 10 pride hersei
upon the industry, energy and editorial ability
displayed by the papers OF that city.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

CHEAP PASSENGER AND FREIGHT Ro@B TO
WAsHINGToN. N.-Superintendent Ruth makes an
important announcement TO our business men
and 10 travellers, in our columns this morning.
Everybody can go 70 Washington now LOT nso W
dollars. and freighslis carried through daily
with promptness and dispatch by the hicn'
mond and Fredericksburg and Potomac rail-
road and the steamer Wilson Small.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04
PORT OF RICHMOND, JANUARY 3, 1855.

PORT OF RICHMOND, JANUARY 3, 1885.
ARRIVED.
Steamer III. Martin, Livingston, Norfolk, United
States mail, merchandise and passengers, Haskins
(, Bridgford.
SAILED.
Steamer City of Richmond, Stranahan, Norfolk,
United States mail, merchandise and passengers,
Haskins Il Bridgford.
Steamer G. b. Hutchins, Guy, City Point,
barges and schooners in tow, Virginia Towing Com
pany.
Brig Troubador, 0gilby, Halifax, -four from Hax-
all & Crenshaw by Caskie Il Brothers.
Schooner William Kennedy, Guy, Norfolk, iron
castings, Briscoe 4 Stanard.
Schooner Harriet Harker, Roughton, Norfolk,
LIGHT
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

THE CooLIEs.-A correspondent of the Bal
timore Guzette writing from the pedee region
in South Carolina, states that white labor is
increasing in the middle country and the high
lands that white immigration will be en-
couraged by legislation as soon as the State
government is fairly organized, and that from
the cotton lands it will find its way TO the
rice districts, if the climate does not kill it.
III view of the fact that the malaria of the
rice fields is fatal 10 the Caucasian race, we
observe recommendation that Coolies should
be imported. They can stand the climate and
will work cheaper.
There are serious objections 10 this PROPOSE
;ion The importation Of Coolies TO Euro.
pean colonies, has been thus far little else than
the slave trade under another name, and we
apprehend that the American system Of Coolie
immigration, so called, would be little else.
These men would be, as they now are, deluded
or forced from their homes consisting only of
men, the process would be very demoralizing
if contracted with only for term of years,
they would have none of those motives TO stl-
mulate their labor Which arise from perma-
nent domestication if settled for life, they
would be political and social nuisance They
may be, seemingly, quiet and docile rs cats,
but they are, in reality, as treachcrous ana
cruel as tigers We hope to see none OF these
heather barbarians planted upon American
soil If it is possible to induce Africans to
cultivate the rice plantations, they are inf
nitely preferable to Coolies, whose addition TO
our population, we are inclined to thlnk,
would be a greater injury to the public than
even the entire abandonment of the rice fields.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

In Japan you can buy n first class house for
thirty dollars, and live comfortably IN IL LOT
two cents n day Servants charge fifty cents
month. and horse and groom may be had for
the same time for one dollar and nifty cents.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

THE CARME AND PHELAS BILLIARD MATCH,
PLAYED at the opening of the new Billiard TEN
pie of Jones & GriSwold, came off last night.
1t was a carrOm game of five hundred points,
PLAYED on table without pockets. Mr.. Phe-
ian made no run larger than twenty one
Doints Mr.. .Carme made one of one hundred and
forty-f four points, and when his score reached
three hundred and nineteen points, ran the
game out, and then continued his run, at the
request of the spectators, until he had maze
three hundred and nineteen points.
Mr.. Carme, in exhibiting his fancy strokes,
did not execute them with so much neatness
and precision as at the game on Monday night,
Still il was q wonderful billiard.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

Provost JUDGG's CoURT-BREvETC COLONEL
J. MCESTEE PREsIDTSG.-The following cases
were disposed of at this Court yesterday:
Chilsey Johnson, negro, was fined fifteen
dollars for disorderly conduct and fighting
John James, negro, convicted Of petit larce-
ny, Stealing bacon was sent to Castle Thun-
der for sixty days.
Mingle Goodson, negro, convicted of stealing
railroad iron, was sent TO Castle Thunder for
thirty days.
Henry Green, negro, convicted of vagrancy,
was sent to Castle Thunder for ten days.
John H. Turner, negro, was sent TO Castle
Thunder for thirty days for attempting to steal
chickens.
Ann Christian, alias Jackson, convicted of
petit larceny, was sentenced to sixty days in
Castle Thunder.
Lucy Ann Goode, negro, convicted of steal
ing wood and. contempt of court, was SEN
fenced to thirty days in Castle Thunder.
Carrie McGruder, negro, convicted of petit
larceny, (stealinga 4 hat,) was sentenced to sixty
days in Castle Thunder.
Dabney Minor, negro, convicted of STERLING
coal, was sentenced TO fifteen days in Castle
Thunder.
Ed NJ. Fisk, Eleventh United States In
fantry, convicted of being drunk and disor-
derly, sent to Castle Thunder for twenty days.
James O'Brian, Eleventh United States In
fantry, convicted of being drunk, disorderly
and assaulting the police, was sentenced to
twenty days in Castle Thunder.
+. Cummins Twenty fourth Massachusetts,
drunk and disorderly, was sentenced TO ten
days in Castle Thunder.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

STEALING RAGs.-.James Smith, a boy Of ole.
stealing @ rags frem Cook 1 60. Mr.. J. NJ. q.
Smith, of the firm Of Cook l. Co., testified
that the boy was corning 20 their store and
stealing all the time. The Mayor regretted
that ne had not the power Of sending smail
boys to work,honse, and discharged him' h.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

Do bv a. nothsng. We may add that the next
thing below nothing is some men.-Freastce.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04
Sources of English Cotton Supplies.

In the year 1854 England obtained 2,js7 1886
bales of cotton, and in 1865 this amount was
increased 10 3, loo, 900 bales. The sources from
which she procured the cotton were India,
China, Egypt, Brazil, United States, West In
dies, SMYRNA and Mediterranean. India
furnished the largest quantity, l,3s7,5l4 in
lS6i and 500, 900 in 1866. China comes next,
800 074 in 1864, and 6oo,o 900 in lSej. The United
States was fifth on the list furnishing 49,, 776
in 1861 and 200, 900 in 1863. 1t will be observed
that India, the chief source of supply, did not
exhibit any very remarkable increase in lo6j
over 1864, Notwithstanding the extraordinary
efforts made by Great Britain TO develop the
culture of this plant in her own province, and
the construction of internal improvements TO
enlarge the facilities of transportation.
The apprehension is expressed that England
will apply herself more vigorously TO the pro-
duction of the staple in India and Egypt, and
will be very likely 10 go to Brazil for her
American cotton. There is no ground for any
such anticipationS. If England can obtain
the quality Of cotton ed to her manuiac-
turing purposes in any other country, she will
20 there, in preference to the United States,
for her supplies. But that is what she cannot
do, though she has long explored the whole
habitable globe for that purpose. Cotton can
be raised on almost every portion of the earth s
surface, but the peculiar kind that Is required
for her manufactures can only be found here,
In view Of the increasing competition of man
ufacturing enterprise in France, and all over
the continent, England will find it a losing
business to dispense with the use OF American
cotton.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

STATE TAXES IN RrCHMoND.-Mr: {. Z.
Johnson, the Commissioner of the Revenue
for this city, has just completed the assess
mcnt of the State taxes on real and personal
estate for the year 1865. As he did not com
mcncc the work until late in the autumn, he
must have labored most industriously TO get
through with il so soon The taxes of the
State are very small, as compared with l!60-
amounting now in the aggregate TO only S3s,-
2G6 20 for the whole city; whereas before the
war they were nearly $4,000. The amount
TO be paid by our citizens is divided between
the wards as follows Jefferson, Sl2, ,jl2.7 10 !;
Madison, aIl ,232 IL : Monroe, l4,52l.4j.
Sheriff John w Wright will proceed ut once
to make out his tax bills, and in few weeks
he will be ready 10 invite us all 10 c2ii NJ ms
office. on Ross steeet, next TO the Richmond
House, and settle up.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

MINIATURE ALMANAC-AyUARY 4, 1885.
Sun rises............ I Is Moon rises. ~
Sun sets. s........... 45l High water. ......... ~
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-04

We RETURN THANKS To MIR. George Bell OF
the National Express, for late washington
papers.