The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-02-05
4mllulond 1ispattll.
s, 1868,
THE CIRCULATION OF THE "DIS
PATCH" Is LARGER THAN THE COM,
BINED CIRCULATION OF ALL THt
OTHER DAILY NEWSPAPERS OF THIS
CITY. .--.
More Train.

PSI More Train.
The immortal GEoRGE FRANCIS ap-
pears in the New York World of Satur-
day in number of letters; occupying six
columns Of that paper. He btidged the
ocean with his letters, for they were writ
ten at sea. GEoReE is always at sea, and
his belly is full of the east wind. Never
was there such an endless talker-such
an inexhaustible gas-bag. Yet he says
some things striking-as who shouldn't,
whc talks so muchS
In these letters we have commerce,
shipping, finance, stocks, politics, person
alities, Fenianism, railroads, music, wo-
men-nay, everything, and TRAIN be-
sides-or, rather, besides TRAIN for he is
the "through train" of the correspond
ence! We propose to use few-only a
few-drops out of this ocean of TRAIN oil !:
"NAT1oNAL BONDS AND THE PRESIDENCY.
"Already we, the people, are far in ad-
vance of the politicians. Four hundred
thousand bondholders demand gold:
Forty millions of people demand green
backs. My object is to emancipate Ame-
ricans, tear off their bonds, force honesty
in man."
IYes, to relieve them Of the "Bonds ~
And how like FALsTAFF talks GEORGE
Read FALsTArF, and put "honesty in
place of "manhood." Old JACK said :
" Go thy ways, old JACK die when thou
"wilt: if manhood, good manhood, be not
" forgotten on the face of the earth, then I
cam shotten herring" And to con-
tinue: Old JACK said he had "school
of tongues" in his belly, every one of
which called out his name. TRAINS one
tongue does as much for him as did the
whole school for the Fat Knight. The
Knight would none of "honor." Not one
whit more would TRAIN. He thinks honor
won't do. Who hath it? Was it him who
failed O. Wednesday "Lct's repudi-
ate," says TRAIN: literal copy from old
JACKS proposition to "rob the exchequer."
The Knight couldn't beat the man of
" credit Foncier" in exaggeration, and
for old JACKS sweet Mrs. PAGE and Mrs.
FORD, has not the gay and rollicking GEORGE
his sweet Miss ANTHONY and that bright
Mrs. STANTON, who talks like canary, or
is it magpie? If there were not few
centuries between them we could be swcra
how this resemblance came about
"You have seen good many men who
don't want to be President, haven't you
Yes. Well, you see man now who does
wish to be President! lin O speech l
should insert here the word SenSation.)
You can always shock humanity by telling
the truth. [Certainly it will be amazing,
coming from George.] My object, how
ever, in going to the White House is not to
elevate myself, but to elevate the White
House. One thing is certain shall not
forget having been born ola woman. What
community Of sentiment have the Ameri-
can people, the real voters, with the Ever
etts, Win:hrops, AdamSes, of America !
Douglas was more come-at-able. But how
few could reach Calhoun, Webster, Clay.
In this age we must move with the people.
Every native.born citizen has the natural
right to be President. Why give the monop-
oily, then, to half-dozen old party hacks?
Why must the American people be swim
died every time with James 4. Polk, or
Frank Pierce, or an Abraham Lincoln ?"
[Ecce homo, "When q man talks
twenty minutes and puts stocks up three
per cent. it indicates power. That's
Train.l After several years of successful
ha
believe in destiny. Have not fore
shadowed every great event, political and
financial, for years? What | know, l
know positively. I want no compliments,
no commendation. When man says l am
smart, reply, yes, great deal smarter
than you think I am. Have l not heard
twenty thousand men rise and cheer for
ten minutes
"But there is good time coming. With
a million of Irish voters at my back, some
day I will build up grand nation. Ameri-
ca has splendid future"
AMERICAN COMMERCE.
TRAIN laments the decline in American
shipping. Nearly all business on the ocean
is under foreign flags. America has
no ocean steamers" he says, and "no
" wonder. Our commerce everywhere de-
" stroyed, while our politicians-we have
" no statesmen-are quarrelling over the
" negro and the spoils of office"
BosToN-How 1T DIED.
"Once Boston was power. But Harvard
University killed it-old men crowded out
the young men-and Boston settles down
into the Salem of New York. Where
Salem was, Boston is. Their politics de-
stroyed their commerce. Their politicians
dine off their merchants. English ships
now carry the freights English merchants
now do the business. The wharves are
silent, and the negro jackall still hoWls
over the grave of departed greatness.
Even the tombstone is corroded. But one
can read this epitaph:
"BOSToN PROSPERITY
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