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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-11

RICHMOND, YORK RIVER AND 1HxsAPFAKEl
a@ RAMROkD COMPANY,
RlGSsMcSp< Jnly 81, S73. }
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE PAS
W SENGER and FREIGHT TRAINS on this
road viii run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAIN for West Point leaves
Richmond at 3 P. NJ. AND train from West Point
viii arrive ut Richmond 1T 1880 A. NJ. G. lily tSun-
The splendid steamerSUE, Captain A. I. NIcKLE.
has been placed on the rate between West Point and
Baltimore to run in connection with this road, and
will make three trips week, leaving West Point
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS. and SATURDAYS
on the arrival of the arain which leaves Richmond
at 3 ?. NJ, arriving at Baltimore next morning IN
ample time to connect with trains for the North
and West and leave Baltimore MONDAYS, WE'D
NESDAYS. and FRIDAYS at T. NJ, connecting
ut West Point with the train due at Richmond at
1890 next morning.
Fare to Baltimore, IS: colored people, -.
FREIGHT TRAIN, with passenger car attached,
for through freight only, leaves Richmond Tues
DAYS, Thursdays, and Saturdays at a. III. Through
freight received daily TIL & p. NJ.
FREIGHT TRAIN, with passenger car attached,
for freight between Richmond and West Point.
leaves Richmond on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
FRIDAYS ut a. n Local freight received Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays till 8 2. NJ.
EDW. F. FOLGER,
General Freight and Ticket Agent.
". n BRAGG, Master Transportation. jy2l
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NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH,AN AND REGG-
LAR LANDINGS ON JAMES RIVER.
ALSO,
yUE DE L'EAU AND OLD POINT HOTELS.
CARRYING UNITED STATES MAIL AND
ADAMS EXPRESS.
On and after May sth, 1919, this company Will run
DAILY LINE Sundays excepked), consisting OK
their fast and elegant steamers Is. $500 st
JOHN SYLVESTER. CAPTAIN j. A. POST;
ELIZA HANCOCK. CAPTAIN q. u CLIFFORD:
leaving Richmond at 81 A. 81. and arriving here ns
passengers make sure connection ut Norfolk with
Bay Line for Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New
York.
rare 10 NOrIOIh. = "
Fare TO Norfolk and resrrn.. go
Fare 70 Battlmore. w
Fare TO Philadelphia. s....i.....s % 80
Fare TO New york.. II %
Fare to yue de lEan or Old Pollt.... 50
Fare to Vue de l'Ean or Old Point and
roturn...: Z 90
Tickets ON sale OH steamers and at CARRIER q 20. q
Ticket Agency, s26 Main street. Baggage checked
through. freight received daily for Boston, Nor
folk and Portsmouth, and regular landings on
James river, from A. NJ. 10 P. 81.
Freight for way-landings must be prepaid.
/. b. TATUM. General Agent.
Office: Company's wharf, Rockets; branch Of
fee, Ninth and Main streets. 1e5
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OF TRAINS.

RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG AND POToMAC)
RAILROAD COMPANY, OFFICE OF
GENERAL TICKET AND FREIGHT AGENT,
~. RICHMOND. June 16, 1878. J
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A NCHoR LINE STEAMERS. <AHKf&
SAILING FROM NEW YIN
EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. Az

CABIN PASSAEE-PAYABLE IN GUILD. ~
To Liverpool, Glasgow, Londonderry, or.
Queenstown OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. S7s and $es
TOT ontOn so and 10
TO Paris 20 aud 80
To Hevre Hamburg, Antwerp .......... 80 and so
Sc Professionalism, ........,.. s5 and IS
d n B.-Cabn rates for Wednesdays steamers pay
sTEERAGE-pAYABLE IN CURRENCY.
Glasgow, Liverpool, Queenstown, or.
Londonderry sSg l lron, ssz
Hamburg. IIavre, Antwerp, t0......,.. IS fromo "a
Bremen, Gothenburg, &C., TO-. :. 331rOn 20
Passengers booked TO and from railway stations
or seaports in England, Ireland Scotland Norway
Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Holland, Bel
GUM, and the United States.
Passengers booked DIRECT from Palermo; GeEoss
Messna, and Trieste TO New York.
For further information applyto
HENDERSON BROTHERS,
Bowling Green, n. Y, or
GEORGE w. ALLEN & CO., Agents.
OLD Dominion steamship Company, Rockets
mn +. .
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Irsnrcs aaainst LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE
ON BUILDINGS. MERCHANDISE. HOUSE
HOL,E FURNITURE, and other insnrable property.
ASA SNYDER, President.
on am T.. &. MEADE, Secretary.
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In view of the concession won from the
Khan of Khiva by Russian arms, wealthy
Persians have made arrangements for pro-
yidng their countrymen, once held in sla'
very in the khanate, but now liberated by
the Khan's proclamation, with means of re-
turning to their native land.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-11

Daniel Webster is not the only bright boy
born in New Hampshire. The Boston Globe
has heard of another-a youth residing in
Dover, who refused to take pill. His crafty
mother thereupon secretly placed the pill i'll
preserved pear, and gave it to him. Pre-
sently she asked, tom, have you eaten the
pear" He said, "Yes, mother, all but the
seed"
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INSURANCE COMPANIES.

rITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
" OF RICHMOND. VA.
OFFICE. 1I13 MAIN STREET, 4
fllnder the clearinghouse OF Lancaster Col
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-14
INSANE ASYLUlMS.

The recent investigation into the condition
of the Vermont Insane Asylum at Brattleboro
has revealed some very ugly facts. This in
stitution was founded nearly forty years ago
by a bequest of $4,000 from Mrs. Anna Marsh.
Subsequently the State granted it, by various
acts of the Legislature, the aggregate sum of
$4,000. The fund thus obtained has grown
so enormously that the property of the insti-
tuition is now worth considerably more than
100000. 1t is under private management, and
the State has no direct control over it. An
establishment with such abundant means
might naturally be expected to devote all
possible pains to the comfort and welfare of
its inmates. 1t appears, however, from the
report of the Legislative Committee, that with
accommodations for about 800 patients the
Asylum actually contained, 1885, Nor was
this shameful overcrowding the worst abuse.
Seventy-fve of the unfortunate people were
confined in damp underground cells, venti-
lated only by augur holes in the doors, and
constantly infected by foul exhalations from
sinks which received all the filth from the
wards above. Some of these cells were only
four feet wide and nine feet long. All the
wards were insufficiently warmed and i'll
ventilated. There was no attempt to disguise
the repulsive features of the place. The bare
walls were unrelieved by pictures. The close
yards were destitute of trees, of flowers, and
even of grass. Food, fortunately, was abundant
and wholesome; but there were no amuse-
ments, and of course there was no comfort
A modification of the brutal punishment of
the shower-bath, which we have found too
Con vioto -, r.. m
force. The patient was thrown into q tub Of
tepid water, with his hands tied behind him,
and cold water was allowed to run from
faucet over his head and face.
This, however, was only half the story. The
Committee were satisfied that persons had
been admitted to the Asylum who were not
insane, and the account they gave of the
manner in which commitments to the institu-
ton were obtained is absolutely astonishing.
law of the State, in 1855, provided that
medical examiner, whose certificate was to be
conclusive, should be appointed by the Court
of Chancery of Windham County. The Court
actually appointed as examiner DR.. Rockwell,
the Superintendent of the Asylum Thus
there was no precaution whatever against the
incarceration of sane person at the instiga-
ton of interested relatives, for the Superin-
tendent of the Asylum, in admitting patient,
must of course be governed principally by the
statements of the patients family. That
scandals resulted from this system We can
easily believe, and indeed case came before
one of tho Vermont courts, last Summer,
which shows that anybody could be con-
fined in the Brattleboro Asylum without
any legal process whatever. Joseph A. Stock
ton having escaped from the institution, was
recaptured and brought before the court on o
writ of habeas corpus. The Judge held that
a paper purporting TO be the certificate Of DR..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-14

Rockwell IA to Stockton's insanity, dated al
the time of his original commitment was con-
elusive evidence under the law that be was
not at TO DO at large, and accordingly re-
handed him to the institution without any
examination az to his mental condition. otock
ton. being q citizen of another State, apphea
to the United States Courts and was discharReu'
n now turns out that the paper upon whlcn
the State Court remanded him was fraudulent
Dr. Rockwell, jr., the superintendent son.
admitted that he dated the certificate pacK
"that it was a copy; that the original was
not in his possession, and that in fact he had
"neyer to his knowledge seen the original, and
"that this paper upon which Stockton was re-
COMMITTED was made after he (StOcktOn) had
Escaped from the asylum"
Here we have striking confirmation OF all
THE TRIBUNE has so often alleged against
the laxity of our laws for the treatment of the
insane. There has been change of late IN
the management at Brattleboro, and the inter-
nal arrangements of that particular establish
ment have already been improved. But IN
Vermont, as elsewhere, sane people can stlil
be shut up with lunatics, and once in can
hardly get release. Nothing is more difficult
than to get sane and inoffensive man out
of an asylum against the wishes of his family
except, perhaps, to get crazy one In, alter
he has unfortunately killed somebody.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-14
FREE-TRADR TROUBLE.

We print this morning an extract from q
leading article in The London Times, and o
letter from an English Free-Trader, criticising
unfavorably Mr.. David A. Wells's recent after
dinner speech before the Golden Club OF
England. The editor of The Times, while dis
posed to believe that the Protective policy has
been injurious to every interest of the United
States, mOdestly confesses his inability to
swallow the arguments and asseverat1ons used
by Mr.. Wells to demonstrate that momentous
fact. Our correspondent Manchester has
exactly the same difficulty. The truth is, Mr..
Wells makes statements some of which are at
war with realities, and others hostile to the
principles of the science which he processes to
expound An instance of the first is his assertion
that "there has never been time when the
"peOple of the United States were consuming
" so much of the products of the labor of other
"countries and exporting so little OF their
Gown" as at the present moment, the fact be-
ing that our domestic exports in their quantity
and value for the fiscal year just ended sur
pass those of any previous twelve months in
our history. An instance of the other sort OF
misstatement is the astonishing discovery that
breadstuffs, provisions, and lumber owe their
value in exchange, not to the labor which
cultivates them and brings them to market,
but to "the gift of God" or, more exactly,
three fourths represent the gifts of God,
% and the other one-fourth labor of the most
unskilled and poorest paid description"
The fifth and sixth chapters of Book |. OF
Adam Smiths "Wealth of Nations" will teach
Mr.. Wells that corn and potatoes do not derive
their market value from the rain and sun
shine, from the air or from the earth, but from
the labor of man.
The Free Traders, under the lead of Mr..
Wells, have for long time past been trying
to convince the American laborer that the
purchasing power" of his wages is so Feeble
that he would be much better off in Europe.
The purchasing power of the wages OF any
salai1ed person is seldom as great as the
recipient of the wages wishes it to be, yet
labor in America is not ill-paid. Half the
necessary expenses of every laborer who has
a family are incurred for food. In the Old
World the proportion is considerably greater
than one-half In this lies the secret of that
steady and swelling tide Of immigration
which still rolls in on our shores, unchecked by
the modern Canute. The English or German
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-14

II seems strange that there should ever be liti-
cation about the metrcal nonsense which is made
TO order for the use Of musical composers; but suit
interesting to the lovers Of the melodous art has
lust been heard in London. The plaintiff was Mr..
Littloton of the firm of Messrs Novello and the de-
PENDANT NJ. Gounod, the composer. This gentleman
had engaged to write duet entitled LA Siesta, {"
for which the plaintiff was to provide English
words, which were to be adapted to the music of
the song said TO be Of Spanish origin. In order TO
get good English song from q Spanish original.
Mr. Litteton employed DR.. Quicken, German gen.
tleman. NJ. Gounod did MT like what came Of this
odd arrangement, and asked Mr.. +. Turner Pslgrave
TO try his hand He did so to the satisfaction of NJ.
Gounod but not to the satisfaction OF Mr. Lttleton
Then arose great controversy, such as rage
only among harmonious people; and in tho course
of it NJ. Gounod was moved to write the letter to
Tho Sunday Times which is complained Of as libel
ous After saying that the words written for LA
siostaD were beautiful, whereas Mr.. Littleton said
that they were ugly and nonsensical, NJ. Gounod
charged Mr. Littleton with trying to cheat him and
this was the gst of the action As for the song itself
which stirred up this tremendous bother. we have
sinQe verse, as follows: "When the leaves murmur
twining, Zephyrs creeping; There in dark shade
reclining While lie sleeping" This provoked from
Mr. Justice Denman. who is q fusty old lawyer and
doesn't know pretty poetry when he sees il, the re-
mark, "There seems 10 be deal of allusion to
shades and flowers and breezes, and all that sort of
thing, in both adaptations; !" upon which Mr..
Brand. the lawyer for the defendant, sarcasticaly
said Kisses and blisses. bees and trees, and all
sorts Of things, my Lord. The old old story p Thus
il is that the poor MUSES. fare when they get into
court. Tho jury ordered NJ. Gounod 10 pay Mr.. Lit
Teton forty shllings But tho irascible composer in
stead Of acquiesoing in this verdict. has written
furious letter 10 the newspapers. in which he says
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-14
THE ALDERMEN AND THE MAYOR

It is intimated that no action will be taken
to-day by the Aldermen on the Mayors nomi-
nations for Police Justices, and " the Alder
"manic combination" is declared to be " too
&" strong to be readily broken" These refrac-
tory officials are behaving unwisely in this
matter. They assume by their inactiOn the
responsibility for delay and for the obstruc-
ton of the law which was to have relieved the
city of its present Police Justices. They play
the coward in refusing to take upon themselves
the responsibility of rejecting men whom they
declare to be unfit for the positions for which
they have been named. We.do not now urge
that the nominees of the Mayor ought to be
confirmed or rejected, but we do say that the
Aldermen have no right to refuse some sort
of action upon them.
Thus far their dalliance has not seriously
clogged the wheels of the City Government,
but longer delay threatens to retard. enter
prises of importance, The worst that it has
done thus far is to obstruct that thorough
reform of the Courts which was o chief aim
of the reform movement that brought the
Aldermen into power. But there are also
material enterprises which will soon require
the authorization of the Common Council before
they can be begun. While the Aldermen hes
itate over the Mayors nominations they prac-
tically neglect other important business; and
public interests demand that they put a stop
TO every absurd and needless quarrel. If they
think the Police Justices unfit, let them be
rejected. If they think them fit, let them be
confirmed. Either course will find defenders.
Timid inaction will find none.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-14

mechanic can afford to consume ten pounus vi
butter, beef, sugar, eggs, tea and conee In .nis
country for one that would be within DIS reach az
home. Knowing this to be supreme trush'
what does he care for the information that tne
wages of years work will buy less pig iron,
nerfumery. broadcloth, Cashmere shawls, anu
fancy soap in Illinois than in Manchester ne
does not subsist on pig iron and fancy soap
hut on f,od , and he constantly sees on his
,obIo orticles of food which in England are
well nigh banished from the iaporers hi'onon,
Readers of Free-Trade Journals naVo o0oa
delueed of late with foolish comparisons "a, u
the percentages of growth OF the wealth. nanu
features. and agriculture OF the country uei, n
the last decade in contrast WIN 'na' VI w
ton wears preceding. 1t seems 10 10 resaiuo
"a of little consequence by those VIM oipno'
o. nicely mon these questions, that LOT four
.0aro the country was desolated by war; that
go 80 the war we have had taxation
srob "a we never experienced before
that the census returns upon which
their elaborate calculations are founded
are of very questionable value, owing to
defects in the law under which they were col
lected that those Of 1850 and 1860 are almost
totally worthless for purposes OF comparison !;
and that the currencies in which the values OF
the different years are stated are essentially
different, there having been great deprecia-
ton in the value of the dollar between 1850
and $780, due to the production of S7OO,OO0OOO
in gold by the California mines, and another
great depreciation from 1850 to 1870 arising
from the suspension of specie payments
and the issue Of $700,00O,OOO OF ire
deemable paper. With such air balloons
as those we have mentioned Mr.. Wells and
his little coterie of doctrinaires fiatter them
selves that they are on the eve of revolution
ling the views of millions of voters on ques-
lions which they have heard discussed since
their childhood, and in which their material
interests are involved. The London Times fully
recognizes and plainly expresses its opinion
that the policy which has prevailed in the
United States so long, and under which we
have seemed to attain some prosperity, is not
to be reversed by mere rarefed air.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-14
INDEPENDENCE DAY At THE SOUTH

INDEPENDENCE DAY At THE SOUTH.
We have seen very few references In the
press to the recent celebration OF the Fourth
of July in Atlanta, Georgia, and yet the
event was one of no little interest and I'M
portance 1t was nearly half generation
since the anniversary of American Independence
had been observed with genuine heartiness IN
the Southern States Even before the war
the increasing spirit of disunion robbed the
day of all significance south of Mason and
Dixon's line; and the young men Of that
part of the country grew up with feeling
that it was a Yankee festival In which they
had no share and no interest. They lost all
pride in the achievements of our forefathers
in creating the American nation, and learned
TO boast only of the bravery of faction
which fought to destroy it. With the conclu-
sion of peace the old glow of patriotism did
not revive. 1t seemed to be inevitable that
the South must get along as well as 1t could
hereafter without any national anniversary.
OF course this was a great misfortune. The
Fourth of July is not merely day OF noise
and bunkum speeches. There is something
eleyating in its associations, and 1t really has
q tendency to lift the people for little while
out of the mire of political j0bbery. money
getting, theft, and sectional dislike. Ii IL 90
this only for one day, it is surely worth while
But it's influence is not to be regulated Dy
corporation ordinances and acts of the Legis-
latllre. 1t is the result of youthful impressions
more than anything else; and if the youth OF
anv mart of the country should once wholly
forget it, we could hardly hope to renew IL
for them in later years. 1t is gratifying,
therefore, to find that the old Secessionists
have resumed tho celebration before it is too
late to do any good. The addresses at Atlanta
were delivered by Col. Capers and Col. Aston
both of whom had been officers in the Con-
federate army. In another year we shall look
for similar proceedings in all the State capt.
tails, and the Centennial of 1876 will doubtless
be a genuine festival of union and recohcilla-
ton in which North and South will heartily
ioin