The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-10

"This is where we won the battle Of
Waterloo" said Wellington, as hc stood
looking at crowd OF Eton boys playing
cricket.
Three cheers for the Red River Republic
If this be q violation Of neutrality, charge
it in the Alabama account, Mr.. Bull.-BoS'
ton Post.
Laramie has "clear, bracing, buoyant,
atnosphere,n and the thermometer is only
thirty degrees below zero. Out there zero
is to speak of.-Bosion Advertiser.
Tie color of q certain clcrgynan's eyes
has never been decentralization lie prays
lie shuts his own, and when he prcache:
he shuts other peoples.
Or. &. \ Bourne, sixty-four years Of
age, vegetarian, and for thirty-flve years
a total abstincnt from liquors, tobacco, tea,
and coffee, started from the City Hall in San
Francisco at midnight on the 10Th instant,
and walked through TO San Jose, distance
of ifty-tiye miles, accomplishing the task
in eighteen hours and fifty minutes. lie
counted the number Of steps, and found II
to be l0l, ,7GS.
Abiding to the woman-suffrage question
the San joaquin California; Republican
SAYS: "She, Tor whose love man has dcfed
every danger, has streaked her face with
dirty paint, dug up the tomahawk, raised
the hoop, and sailed forth Oh the war-path
Woman suffrage roDs man of his dearest
privilege and his most powerful incentive
to deeds of valor and renown."
Wendell Phillips, in his lecture last night
at Steinwuy Hall, made the point thai
Americans are the most timid people in the
world in that we fear to compromise our
selves by doing what may seem to be to oul
neighbors to be odd. 1t is the dry-rot thai
eats the timbers of our ship of society
Nothing puts US SO quickly horS dt
combat as ridicule. We would rather bt
tied up by our thumbs for twenty-foui
hours than to be laughed at. English
men are free from this, and thell
freedom often seems to us like Incl
Witty but it is only the expression Of
their independence. We must follow the
mode, or become the butt of those who do.
Defiance Of the laws of fashion becomes
social treason. Most foreigners are exempt
from this sort of tyranny. They care much
less than We do for what Mrs. Grundy
says.-Neu York Commercial.
One of the last attempts to bring ridicule
upon Mrs. ii. B. Stowe on account OF her
Byron article is al elaborate paper entitled
I" The True Story of Mrs. Shakespeare E
Life" The writer. proceeds to sketch the
position Of the unhappy but devoted
wife," who has yet to be heard; then
glances at the lapse of Mr.. Shakespeare
"into the depths of secret criminal homi-
eide" and with some ingenuity culls va
riety Of passages from his plays, in which
remorse and self-accusation are expressed.
The parallel with the Byron article is
kept up. "Many women," says the sati-
riBt, "would have been utterly crushed by
such disclosure; some would have fed
from him immediately, and exposed and
denounced the crime. Mrs. Shakespeare
did neither. She would neither leave her
husband nor betray him; nor would she
for one moment justify his sin ; and hence
came tIirty-two years of conyplsiye strug-
gle, in which sometimes for q time the
good angel appeared to gain ground, and
then the evil one returned with seven-fold
vehemence. His eldest daughter Susan
nah) for whom his preference is so plainly
shown in his Will, became the partner Of
his guilt" The revelation is made by Mrs.
Harriet B. Cherstow, one of the pil@;iIa
mothers, who, before quitting her nG.i32
land, was sent for by Mrs. Shakespeare, and
entrusted with the secret.