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Causes of trouble.

--In settling a dispute yesterday between two belligerent females, the Mayer remarked that quarreling women and intoxicated soldiers were the most prolific sources of disturbance at present in Richmond. One might naturally expect the men to become disagreeable when fired up by such liquor as some of them get hold of and use with so much freedom. But what must we think of the females, in view of the rather disparaging (but we fear too true) remark of his Honor relative to their aptness for and love of disputation. His Honor, however, could only have alluded to the class who seek his court as the tribunal for the adjustment of their real or imaginary wrongs. They generally are unpromising representatives of the female sex; just as the drunken soldier is the bad representative of the brave volunteers whose glorious achievements we wonder at and praise in the same breath.

The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. August 6, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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