The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-23

c,-,,. ons,,,ed q the name Of the "strauger
n',as+er though this title has never 0een
~ snrsarred unor, It. IF about the Filth A .,,.
,,,a Hotel Won describe circle with o radlus
" fcyv hundred yards it will inciuae hoiess
than fiItecn or eighteen hotels, besides "''s
number of clearinghouse. III, oe Now
Tive r,nid and continued growth oil view .s
yori 10 dino to the fact that 1t Is mol only lne
no,n,narcaI but il also the financial cei'tle y,
tho country. All the money that enters W.
leaves fine county In the course OF tl'iue III III
rasS through the hands of Ne" III
hsnLer. All foreign investments III hll p,,a
o.'n onternrises are made through tue SAM ~.
o,,n,nal and it will doubtless mainEiln i.s
GnonriaI supremacy long after the ae'e e;,;as
ment OF this vast country iI,' ,;v,lS
"c cna,t.;nr or finance reminds me that Que VI
49, rroatast drawbacks to the commercial
orn or Richmond is the deticlehcs y.
Hi,a,,,,;,,,r c,nita|. have been told li'aL :ue
t';i,ro n rel; ;tablish the coffee trade WHICH
, ".as 90 successfully carried on Ivy kicn!lioiu
IS, m|s tho war is due solely TO THIS WALTZ
INV e,;,nnors of tiom to South America are
aa ~" to realize on their shipments pe-
cs, .ho ,asscs could deliver their return car
io.e w. nF coffee and are therefore Obliged 10
81, tbair hills of lading to Baltimore, fhiia-
delpha aud New York. Ihe llero p;n and ID
i Hr"u south American products .prohtaD,e
.'.;iR,n,,t the advantage of cXchangeaDle
m,.nu Mobile imports coffee large
IL for the southern and western I Sa,.S
though it exports nothing 10 oou .;.h
America and pays for its coIee wiz
bills of exchange purchased III NeM CIV lolN.
Richmond, in its flour, has an uhiai'lls s
clangable commodity for south A.iict .no,,.
and thus enjoys great advantage o'ei o ..i
cities which have none; besides, her posltloil
riyes her a monopoly, if she CHOOSES 10 ,iSe
f of this trade with North Carolina, VIZ LI,
rinia. and West Virginia, and prohabiy VIII,
Soutl, Carolina, Georgia, hcntuckI. anu
Ohio. Could not little enterprise III Tue
right direction give Richmond ner CONE
trade again? Itwould SEEM so. am ny no
means well posted upon the condition ol th,'
Richmond banks, but it has often occurred
TO methat if some of your bankers OF Drohcis
could form partnerships with, or secure tle
agency for, some of the London or New
York bankinc-houses, by which an adequate
snmly of money could be hid for all sac
and legitimate commercial undertakings. II
would do much for the prosperity OF hicN-
mond. 49,.
We have had some weather here tnat re-
minded me very much of that Whlcn tnes
have at this season in the lar South,
where, in horseback ride of four miles Oh
an Anril morning, you may get your Jacket
wetted and dried some fourteen times, WINE
Won are kept in the most exciting state OF UNI
misunderstanding rapidly forward us the
shower begins to fall, and Stacking pace be-
fore YOU have gotten fairly under way as the
SIN comes out again. \ few nights ago l
heard Il sudden gush Of rain upon the roofs,
and from the vigor with which it came down
T honed for a moment that these dirty streets
of Gotham would get well washed of their
accumulationS.
Fifteen minutes Of such sprlnkllnS would
have done the business, but it only lasted
for about as many seconds--a sudden guSh,
like that from well-filled sponge vigorously
squeezed, which comes down freely enough
fora moment, but is straightway exhausted.
The New Workers. however, see but little
genuine April weather. April rain they
have in abundance, but titful, coquettlsh
April day--ouc of the rGriam ct nautddiE
SORTS Il rare occurrence in this latitude.
ACToN.