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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-23

FLORIDA LEGIsLATuRE-CIvn- RlGHTs.-
Tallahassee. January 21.-The ciyil-rights
bill passed the Senate today by vote Of II
to s, two Conservative senators voting with
the majority.
The first section is as follows: "That no
citizen of this State shall, by reason of race,
color, or previous condition of seryitude, be
excepted or excluded from the full and equal
enjoyment of any accommodation, advantage,
facility. or privilege furnished by inn.keeper,
by common carriers (whether by land OF
water), by licenses, owners, managers, or
Iessees OF theatres or other places Of public
amusement; by trustees, commissioners, gu
perintendents, teachers and other officers of
common schools and public institutions OF
learning, the same being supported by or de-
rived FROM general taxation or authorized by
law. s.t
"AIso of cemetery associations and beneyo-
lent associations supported or authorized in
the same WY, provided that private schools,
cemeteries, and Institutions of learning
established exclusively for white or colored
persons, and maintained respectively by yo.
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ANOTHER RAscAL.-CLAYToN, Of Arkansas,
is unquestionablv finished rascal of the
carpet-bag order. He goes TO Washington
as senator from Arkansas elected through
fraud. The Senate committee turned him
about, and what they discovered is thus
stated by the Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press:
"Ihe special committee, of which Senator
Wright, of Iowa, is chairman, to investigate
the charges of bribery and corruption pre-.
ferred against Senator Clayton, of Arkansas
will report the latter part Of this week. The
report will be very voluminous, and will
place the Arkansas senator in very bad
light. The committee have decided not to
accompany this report with resolution
but will leave the Senate to take what further
action it may see fit in the light Of the evi.
dence, which will be part of the report
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Usury-what Is It?

Under the Judiacal law 1t was anything
charged for the use Of money. Ono per
cent, or that nicer fractional charge % :,
one ard one-tenh per cent, would nave iA'u
liable the man who charged it to the ol''ei
I nsaledic.ions Of the law.
Vow, people in this country nave received
q relirious education against usury but
,ianoransly they have fallen Into the notion
that this charge for the use of money is not
uss,rious until it exceeds sic per cent.
Piously they inveigh against all who charge
more as sinners who should lie kicked out
of the temple, and, indeed, out OF the very
kitchen-no place should be left wherein
TO rest the soies of their dlabolical feet.
A disiinuished contemporary of ours has
been for long time, with imaginary feet,
"kickiDg out" innumerable and imaginary
money-cbangers. We have sometimes
thought that he fancied himself amongst the
glorious twelve, with their adorable chief,
lending. If not helping hand, at all events
helping foot in clearing the coast OF the
usurcrs.
Now, it would relieve the question OF
usury very much IL people would under
stand that, In the religious and moral view OF
the matter in our Bible, any price charged
for money Is usury, and sin agatnst-what:
Why, the Judicial law. That's all.
But the custom Of civilized nations has ex-
ploded that idea. They have permitted
noney-lenders to charge great many differ
ent rates, and the Israelites themselves, in
spite of their own legal and religious anathe-
mas against charging anything for the use OF
money, have not been behind any other peo-
rIe in the freedom with which they have
shaved the money-borrower.
So we arc compelled to look upon the laws
limiting the rate of interest rs having been
shaped with view to the necessities OF
modern commerce and the rights of men
who have property in the form of money. 1t
is conceded that they are entitled to some
compensation for granting to others the use
Of their money.
But why attempt to put limit to that
price after conceding that the biblical re-
ligious idea of the sin of usury does not suit
these times Does 1t not follow as an nd
mission inseparable from the first that money
is thing OF value the use of which must
be paid for, and that the price to be paid
must be governed by the laws which govern
all kinds of valueY Then, how can the
State rightfuly and justly put a limit
to the value Of thing which Is just
as much subject to the laws of COM
merce as any other whatever! 1t may
be worth eight per cent. this month and six
the next, and three the next to that. The
Bank OF England, so much admired by the
great apostle of usury laws, has often estab.
lshed this fact by its own rates of interest.
We repeat that if these facts were we'll I'M
derstood, and the pious professors of religion
would always bear in mind what was usury
according to the Bible, the subject would
be much relieved of confusion, and reason
and justice would encounter less opposition.
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s,s.,.,snt yailurea 81 siats bsnss, ana tne
rnonsy nanics and disasters oftbe land, wers
IN = great degree attributable % the foilies Of
.hs states in banking. It y well that we
have a national system now by which the
quantity of paper money can be properly re.
stricted. :. -. - -
One thing remaius, and that is to have
genera, law tor all the States about interest
They will never agree, and their conflicting
laws will ever keep commerce IN fretted
and obstructed condition. The States mover
could agree, and we cannot. after what mas
happened, sec how 1t could be expected that
they would not, by their family jars ano
discordant laws, fall under the power OF the
Federal Government. The astute ph''oso.
pher would say where such fate follower
such jealousy and want of concord amongst
the States, that IL was just one, and thai
they could blame none but themselves.
All we desire to say on the subject IS toa'
the Federal Government having taken the
currency into their hands they will com
plete their duty by fixing the proper basis
for regulating, or rather recognizing, tht
value of money as 1t may be affected and
changed BY circumstances. That's what the
nation wants.
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Taking in Neighbors.

Philadelphia, after struggle of twenty
years, swallowed up the several Liberties,
and learning lesson from that struggle
she closed the door to another like 1t by
extending the city limits to include the
whole territory of Philadelphia county.
Boston, suffering from the annoyance of SUI
burban towns with distinct jurisdiction occa'
sioning conflicts Of authority and interest, Is
making an effort for great extension Of her
limits. And Cincinnati has just added to her
area and population one or more suburban
towns. st. Louis and Chicago had gone
ahead of Cincinnati. And now New York,
like fat worm bitten and pestered by ants
in the form of neighboring cities, is looking
for relief by swallowing up at least one OF
them-Brooklyn. A great bridge across the
East river is IN progress, and when that is
finished we shall probably see Brooklyn a
part OF New York.
So universal is the custom of merging
suburban towns Into great cities that we
cannot but consider the policy established
and indisputabe. There is nothing in hu-
man economy more thoroughly ratified As
good than this custom of merging two or
more municipalities into one where their
contiguity is close.
We know of no instance of such cOntiguity,
indeed, where this policy has not finally pre-
vailed, and we never knew of one where the
smaller community were anxious TO be an
nexcd that the more powerful rejected their
offer save in the ease of this city OF Rich.
mond rejecting the request of Manchester to
be admitted. There never was, we believe,
another instance, and therefore Richmond
stands as the champion churl amongst cities
She had the noblest of all opportunities we
ever knew for strengthening and adjoining
herself. The river flowing through her CEN
tire would he equally mark of beauty and
strength. No other city had such chunce
for dissatisfaction and sclf-advanLage by
annexation. And her Council, on the occa-
sion of rejecting the offer Of such grand OPP
portunity, immortalized itself for doing an
act without an example and never to he i'm
itatcd.
But the policy of merging suburban towns
Into large corporations is so clearly estab-
lshed that it cannot be disputed, and sooner
or later Manchester and Richmond will be
| one. We cannot reject an irreversibe law,
| and Richmond will submit to it sooner or
later. When 1t does 1t will do so wisely,
gladly, and probably.
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THE BATTLE WITH THE IEDiANs.-It is
rather a national humiliation that the
Madoc Indians in California should whip
double their number of United States troops.
The Indians, under Captain JACK, took an
impregnabls position, scattering themselves
along mountain ridge, hiding behind great
boulders-the spaces between them covered
with lava, Or what the Spaniards call pcdre-
gal, SO rough that man passes over it with
difficulty. They were SO well sheltered that
the United States troops could not get at
them. Those troops were often compelled
to hide themselves, and SO remain hidden
until dark released them. The Indians are
cunning braves, and though they are doomed
to be conquered, the United States will pay
dearly for the victory.
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DEATHS.


Md on the 18th Of January, 1879, at South East
DEL Sox yn county, his iate residence. Mr.
10 TnupWas 3. sKIPWIrH, In the hfty-fourth yea,
OF n,s sSd bereavement falls upop loving wife
an m' ,sarm and admripg frie Dds. His loss will
ima no felt In The com munity In which he lived Ht
,yns f,rayo and truthful; generous ana unninchne
frtcr5 most devoted husbands ana an earnest an
constdeutfous follower OF his blessed saviour: un9el
Snhose banaer be had enlisted Hsiny years. AUG nIs
S.ends ore consoied by the hope OF MS 1nn0rtat3
In that bright world beyond the stars. j. IL. h.
raed. ON the 2ad instant, Of pneumonia, CHES
LEV IRWIN, youngest child Of A. w. and Lncilt
Jones, aged nineteen months ana siAteen oS1'"
Mourn not as dead
An angel fed
-f Your little Irwin lives;
THE sacred dust e.. .NsE
iorInk re the cup Sod gives. =
The flower fair
les. e-.s TIL ut scents the air
Is gathered BY bis banu; -.#
God took your gem
..-s.s To live with him ....fr-
And roam q bet ter Land.
He csnlC to tell
Us all bow we'll
We hea e on earth can love;
His misalon done
And Hea vens won, .....
Then Il ,low him above.
His funeral Will be preached ut the MANCHESTER
methodist church ut II O'Clock TO-DAY. sXtends
and acouainianccs Of the family are respectfully
invited 10 attend =
Petersburg papers piease copy.
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The "Monev-ChanperS.'

Who are the money-cbangers We have
no such people exactly as were known in de-
rlsslem, who gathered about the Temple to
carry on their contraband trade. We have
bankers and brokers who conduct business
in very regular way but they do not by
any means answer to the description Of the
money-changers so bitterly denounced by
the pious and exemplary advocates Of usury
laws.
II they do not answer to the description OF
those whom The pious gentlemen HAVEN view,
they as little merit the blind hostility of the
regulators who nre ever charging them with
nelarous traffic in the stocks of the State,
and to be nefariously holding those stocks.
Now, the exchange bankers and brokers do
not hold stocks. 1t is not in their line. They
purchase and sell stocks on commission; but
they do not hold them. They have other,
and regular. and well understood uses for
their money. There are rascally men in the
business as there are rascally men in all the
pursuits of life but their business is as well
defined and US regular as that of any other
calling.
Therefore there is no ground for the ever
lasting hue and cry against the money
changers. They have no stocks, and they
are not pushing the State for payment; but
If they had those stocks, and did exert them
selves to get what is lawfully due them, let
us ask, Would that justify the denuncations
heaped upon them? Would they be dis
graced for presenting their claims while the
State is not dishonored in driving them with
their just demands from her doors.
The bonds are held by men in oil sorts OF
occupations. A large part Of them are held
for the benefit Of widows and orphans, and
for the want of the interest upon those bonds
children have grown up in ignorance and in
want, whilst dcmagogues have found their
way to seats and to per diem In the Legsla-
ture by opposing the payment of that inter
est.
The whole cry against money.changers y
and usurers," and imaginary "birds of
prey" is without reason-a mere clamor to
divert the public mind from tue justice and
the right of the questions concerning the
public debt. 1t Is an adroit trick to render
the side of right repusiye and to blunt the
sense of public integrity.
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BILLS THAT HAVE BECOME LAws.-Tbe fol-
lowing acts of Assembly have become laws
since Our last report:
An act to exempt citizens OF TanSicr,
SYKES, Chlngotcague, Hog, and Cobb's Islands
from jury service. In force january Il,
1878.
An act to amend and reGnact the LIST Sec
ton of an act entitled nm act passed March
Is. 1SI9 entitled an uct TO extend the limits
of and electing trustees for the town OF Ma
ron, in the county Of Smytb, investing
them with certain corporate powers. In
force January p, 1873.
An act to incorporate the town OF Poto-
mac. In force JANUARY 81, 1873.
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A DELAYED SwAP.-Judge BUSTED, Of Ala
bama, and Judge HUMPHREYS, both United
States Judges, wanted to swap places. The
former wanted to remove to Washington
where the latter was, and the latter rice versa
They sent in their designations upon condi.
ton that the Senate ratified the swap. But
to their very great annoyance the Senate re,
turned the nominations to the Attorney.
General with the remark that there were no
vacancies. So if the gentlemen insist upon
a change of places they must try it In some
other way.
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',s,nfa,v rs,fl ssIc1s, shsll remain sceerf,
IND 10 de srnaa the original estabIish,
ruent. .
The second section impos Is O penalty Tor
violation cfthe flfss section.
Tbird section s,Esi,at every discrimination
against any citizens on account Of color by
use OF the word white, or any other term in
auy law statute, ordinance, or regulation, is
hereby repealed or amended"
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BACK RATToNs 70 CENsUs-T AkERs. bill
passed the House Of Representatives of Con-
gress on Monday to pay census-takers in the
South for work upon the census of 1860.
They got only half Of the amounts due them
By reason of the outbreak of the rebellion.
This bill viii take out $4,000 from the
Treasury.
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SUFFOLK, january %, 1878.

To the Editors Of the Dispatch:
The present oyster bill before the Lesisla-
ture is destructive of the interests of thou
sands of the native people of Virginia. The
business of packing and shipping oysters is
an clement Of very considerable Importance
to the people of Underwater Virginia. We
ask no protection, but we do beg that our
own Legislature will not SO discriminate
against us as to drive the business out of the
State. The tax proposed will do it most
etfectually.
lam your obedent servant, s..-
w, w. WING.
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STATE HoNoR.-A contemporary labors in
column and half, and promises more, to
prove that Virginia cannot be sued, and CAM
not be made to pay-and that " honor" alone
can impel her to pay back money she has bor-
rowed and appropriated to her own uses and
advantage. Well, "honor" ought to lie suf-
ficent, as that principle prevails, it is said,
even amongst "thieuss."
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We have from Mr.. G. f. JOHNSTON, dealer
~ music, musical instruments, &C., the fol-
lowing new songs: :. Recollcetions Of My
Childhood "Vhe Day you will Forget
De" and my True Love las my Heart"
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A bill passed the lower House of Congress
on Tuesday to authorize the employment of
letter-carriers in towns of 10000 inhabitants,
involving an expenditure Of 100000 per
annum.
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prARnTAaES.

Married. on the t4th instant, at the Grace-stree,
Az ~ GSE0RGE Ellis BEDFORD to Miss BENA
q. 1KARR; ali OF Richmond. NO cards.
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REMOVALS.
6 c. TARDY s. CO.,
No. 1als CORNER THIRTEENTH AND CARY
STREETS.
REMOVAL.

We have this day changed cur business location
from Seventeenth and Dock streets to No. 1916,
CORNER THIRTEENTu and CARY STREETS.
Thankful for tho liberal patronage bestowed in
the past, We ask continuance in tho future.
in few days we will be prepared with well Sc
lee,ed stock Of GROCERIES, LIQUORS, &C., 10
Ill oraers and sollei. a call from our friends and
the public generally
ia ia.an .. G. TARDY d co,
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MILITARY NOTICES

A RM0RY COMPANY G, Fr,S.c, =,
IA REGIMENT Virginia Vol, i,sTraKSls
SPECIAL ORDERS, No. -: The Officers ,nd Frs
hers Of company g will assemble At ia n"a me n
Hall THuRsDAY. January 2sd, at o'eIc daf <
stoned officers and drill. BY command o1
kELLAM. w ! nn>aPha
ia 2:-2ts CrIIcr,1 SoAs,
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EDUCATIONAL.

INSTRUCTION IN THE NJ ODE IN
l. LANGUAGES.-Arra for lNSTRUC-
TON IN THE MODERN LANGUAGES for the
half session ending with the month Of June may
Bates bookseller and stationer, or to me, 100 Leigh
street, between Seventh and Eighth.
WILLIAM W. VALENTINE.
late Professor Of Modern Languages
ia 23-4t* at Randolph Macon College.
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OGFIcE OLD DOMINION SUGAR Ppy,v,----.---
RICHMOND, VA, January i - &c. Go,
'EHE ANNUAL MEETING or n ~, !
y STOCKHOLDERS OF the ON n Ut lliR
| sUGaR REFIEING COMPANY viii ISS ~ mo
the once OF the company In this civ Is oa he'd at
and Dock sfreetsG on THURSDAY ~ s,s eitesufh
at II O'Clock III. JOHN Y Nc e ga inaan,
ja ltd "VsaBLE.
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as1slsTrF1la

ofFICE VIRGINIA STATE INsURAscr -
RIcHHosp, January D. 10,
THE ANNUAL MEETING ns =, )
stockholders of the yTRGTCTl CT ct IHE
SCRASCE COMPANY win be held en- 'prhIE IL.
the 27th Instant, at II o'clock, at The 7
company. WILLIAM ii. CHRJSssTTSss. q hs
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FINANCIAL.


TO INVESTORS 49,.
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD
FIRST MORTGAGE SIX PER CENT. GOLD
BONDS,
interest payable May and November In New York,
FREE OF ALL TAXES.
~ MORTGAGE, sI5,ooo,0 600.
VALUE OF ROAD UPWARDS OF $4,000, coo.
Price for the present,
e6 AND ACCRUED INTEREST.
COUPON OR REGISTERED BONDS
m DENOMINATIONS OF 800, 500, OR $1,000
WILL BE
FURNISHED ON APPLICATION,
WITH PAMPHLETS AND SUCH OTHER
INFORMATION AS MAY BE DESIRED.
THE ROAD IL ABOUT COMPLETED, AND In
FEW DAYS
TRAINS WILL BE RUNNING
FROM RICHMOND TO HUNTINGTON,
On TIE OHIO RIVER.
Its immediate pronise of business is very large.
It's earnings on the disconnected porous will reach
this wear nearly 100000, without mineral or
through business, from which it's revenues a COM
pleted road will I've largely derived. Coal-mining
iron furnaces, rolling mills, and manufactures of
ell kinds will soon crowd Its whole line, while the
ri, pact
awaiting the opening of this trunk line, which
Is destined to have SO important an influence upon
the transportation of their products.
The CITY or CINCINNATI having just subscribed
II $50, 900 to the " CINCINNATI AND CIIEsA-
PEAKE RAILROAD" ins,lrcs at un early day u
most valuable western connection, and thus adds
greatly TO the value Of the BONDS.
VIII buy ana sell Quiet boa I'D anu SAOIho VI
COMMISSIONS; AMI Wien bonds are to be ex-
Changed for CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAIL
ROAD" SKIES will sell them WITHOUT COMMITS
SION. DAVENPORT & CO.,
Stock Brokers, First National Bank Bull ding.
iaIlm I1O4 Main street.
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AMUsEnENTs,
A SIS Z NJ BLY, HALL.

A SIS E NJ BLY, HALL.
MONDAY, TUESDAY. AND WEDNESDAY
AND WEDNESDAY MATINEE,
January nth, 18th, and c9th
the wonderful troupe Of Juvenile artists known :,
Great Britain "a the
MINIATURE MINSrRELS;
mot negro minstrels)
OR, LIVING MARIONETTFS.
consisting Of the Shakspearian Cleo Singers rom,
posed entirely CT boys.
MISS LIZZIE COOTE. aged seven years with ne,
songs expressly written for her.
MASTER CORRI, aged niue years, the yourg,,,
ballad singer before the public.
The COOTE BROTHERS, the pleasing dur,
singers.
MASTER OMAN, the wonderful boy soprsna.
Miss ALICE MOLTtNO, aged thirteen year.
the brilliant harpist. '
Miss ADA MOLTENO, uged nine years, SOLO
yiolinist "
PROFESSOR MDLTENO and CHARLES n
WAND, solo piaDist ard accompanied.
Admission, 50c.: reserved seats, 75c Tickets FIR
sale OF secured seats at Ambolds Musical Exch,n-o
and 1t the door on the evenings Of the concert.
The piano used Is from the celebrated manuCl-
tory Of knabe, Baltimore. kindly loaned by Mcs,r.
NoodnOuse e Parham. ..-st
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HARDWARE.


IRON NUTS.-Twenty-f kegs SQUARE
4 NUTS Jail siEes) for sale at low prices.
Il 23-.t# SIMPSON & BROTHER.
T AG OR COACH-SCREWS.-W keep in
IL stock full line OF these gOods. by the key we
off special inducements To purchasers.
IN e3-r* SIMPSON 4 BROTHER.
IRON AXLES.-Fiye thousand pounds
lIRON AXLES, from TO q inches, al reduced
|. 2s.a. SIMPSON BROTHER.
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INTEREST TO COLLEGES.

House joint resolution providing for the
payment of one years interest on the bonds
of the State held by the Virginia Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical College and the Hampton
Normal College was taken up, the question
being upon the adoption of the resolution as
it came from the House The resolution was
then read a third time and passed by the fol-
lowing vote.
AYEs.-Mcssrs. Anderson of Rockbr1dge, Beazley.
Cochran, Fitzpatrick. French, Graham, Greene,
Lewis, Martin, Massey, Mecm, Norton, Nutting.
Penn, Pridemore; hi2ey, kobinson, kuo' Stevens
NoEs.-Messrs. Connally, Holiday, Quesenberry,
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The PRESIDENT laid before the Senate q
communication from the Superintendent of
Public Instruction in response to reSolu-
ton of the Senate requesting to be furnished
with q statement of the number of add.
tional teachers and schools for each county
necessary to carry into successful operation
the free-school system in the State; which,
on motion of Mr.. MEM, was referred to
the Committee on Public Institutions; and,
on motion of Mr.. FRENCH, was ordered to
be printed. s.