The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-05

hold OF her hand under the rug 10 Keep he7
from being Sea-sick. AS Hamlet remarked
to Ophelia, 'Look to it. p
| BEVERLY TUCKER. 80
TRAIN tells of a dinner given by "BEv,'
ashe is familiarly and affectionately called,
when Consul at Liverpool, at which dinner
mutual toasts were given by Virginia and
South Carolina, and repeated, when man
Jumped tip and expressed doubt whether
Virginia and South Carolina were the
whole Union, and asked to be heard as from
| the Nutmeg State!" OF course he was
heard, and socially no man would be more
hospitable and kind to him than BEv, yet
be would just as soon have seen man
from anywhere else! EStory doubtful Z;
TRAIN publishes letter to the Presi-
dent, written before he left New York,
asking the President to allow Mr.. TUCKER
to come from Canada to New York there
to take passage for Mexico. Kind, but
whether successful or not, we do not
know.] -
L IhC cOOla AMI 1hhOH oGAEnaLL3s
"On board I find one very intelligent gen.
tleman who has Just visited all the south
ern cities. He gives q fearful picture OF
southern destitution. Two years ago there
was kind feeling, forget-and-forgive
spirit in the South, but now the recon-
struction bill forces whites to take back
seats. Maledictions are loud and frequent.
Planters overdraw factors. Factors over
draw bank account. Banks have to sell
every bale of cotton TO meet notes, and
nothing left for seed or labor. Cotton
shipped at once to New York, drawn
against at sight, where Greeks ship to
Liverpool, selling to arrive by cable. The
crop ending September, 1867, only sums
up 100000 bales. Costs twenty cents to
raise; nets only eight to ten cents. Loss
on crop, one hundred millions.
Liverpool is full of Overend- -Gurneys.
SO is Birmingham, Manchester, London.
The older the houses the more rotten. The
WIS fell in 1887. The BPS shook, but
survived. In proportion to the magnitude
of the business is the magnitude of the
losses.
The India houses are all rotten. The
Bombay cotton houses worse than in 1S47.
The China houses are we'll represented by
Dents compromise OFFS. Cd. in three years
or nothing. Pay our debt in greenbacks,
and America will rise like a giantrefreshed
with rest. We are on the eve of great
speculation and fourishiDg times. Wait a
little longer. There is good time coming.
All is bright ahead. No breakers; no
storm. But 1OO,OOO,0O0 in one generation
more-New York, Omaha, and San Fran
cisco. Westward ever Westwardp'
What a medley is GEORGE FRANCIS
How he talks about everything. We copy
the above, not because we believe in his
deductions from his premises, but it con-
tains little prophecy of good which all
suffering people like to see, even if they
don't fully believe.
In concluding his string of letters from
the sea he gives number of letters to per-
sons in England: The Duchess Of Suther-
land, on abolition-the Speaker Of the
House of Commons, begging the use of
that house to deliver lecture on the sem
timents of America towards England, by
way Of reciprocity for like favor ex-
tended to Rev. NEWMAN HALL to lecture
in the hall of the House of Representa-
tives()-and one to Sir FREDERICK MURcHI-
soN-and another to the President of the
Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, asking
to be allowed to address the Royal Geo.
graphical Society and the Liverpool Cham
Der of Commerce upon the Union Pacific
railroad and the new route to the East In
dies. He also gives one to the British au-
thorities, asking to be allowed to visit the
prisons in which Fentans are confined, etc.
We conclude by the following extract
from the ironical letter TO the Duchess
about ...-----~--.
THE NEGRO ENFRANCHIsED.
"Slavery, thanks to Exeter Hall, is era
dicated forever from American soil. We
have kiled Slavery By nearly killing the
SLAVE. But REVOLUTION is the result-revo-
luton in work, thought, action. 1ntelli-
gent English travellers on board our
steamer say gaunt famine stares the freed
men in the face. No hats, no shoes, clothes
worn out; no chickens to steal, hogs eaten
| up, COlu dll SouO uo AASS, LIZ PoeOooS''
shanties roohess no fire, no coal or wood {;
furniture sold, children half naked, women
starving; no chance to work, plantations
running to waste. Every little railway
station is filed with the half-starved
wretches, waiting for some passing pas
senger to throw them bone or crust OF
bread. Another West Indian picture.
Planters, having no capital, overdraw their
accounts with factors, and cotton which
cost twenty cents to produce only netting
eight cents, it has failed the factors. So
that as January is the month to plough,
February to sew, and nobody having
money or seed, they cannot employ labor !;
hence ruin and disaster has wrecked the
once happy South. Black and white alike
involved in the general ruin.
And Train begs her ladyship and the
British aristocratic abolitionists to con-
tribute something for the relief of these
poor people
Amusement
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