The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-05-04
Wlnchester.
Correspondence Of the Herald.J

WINCHESTER, Va, April II, 1872.
State Of Things ~ VTginia- Business Crops
Temperance Literature Reiigioa-P PHILOSOPHER
JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Esq @
DEAR SIR,
Yesterday it rained all day here, and every thing
around was gloomy and cherries, but to-day the
weather s delightful, and the genial rays of the sun
add new life and beauty to every thing around.
The fair bellies and gallant beaux, az they pass along
our Streets to partake largely of the animation
which prevails; they are all Smiles and their looks
Indicate that the remembrance of the gloom which
prevailed yesterday only enables them to appreciate
the more the loneliness of this charming day.
Business here is at stand stll--news of import
ance we have none. All is gloom, and you hear no
thing but the cry "hard times" and the query, in
heavens namc when will there be a change for the
better p and echo answers "when?" In ooknQ
INTO the future however, we have few hopes to
cheer us and which fill us with the belief that our
day of deverance may not be as far distant as we
might imagine. One is, the promising appearance
OF the growing crop hereabouts, and the information
that the prospect all the Union is not less fiat
tcring The valley of Virginia, certainly, never pre-
sented more faterng prospect Of an abundant
harvest the fields Of wheat look luxuriant far be-
yond what they have heretofore at this season of the
year and isexpeced that the harvest will be at
two or three weeks earlier than it was twelve
month ago. and whenever such has been the Gaze
in former years we have rarely failed to have good
crop.
Another hope is, in the speedy resumption of oul
banks II they do not resume Immediately after the
Maryland banks do, they must toe the mark on the
first OF November next. An abundant harvest and
specie paying banks greatest hopes OF relief
and should we be blessed with those in due course
OF ime business Of all kinds will undoubtedly revive
the country will very be restored to her for
mer prosperity-he blighted hopes of thousands who
now despair will once more revive and many whose
energies have been paralyzed will receive new
vigor, and then may we look for the enjoyment OF
all the prosperity and happiness OF by-gonc days.
No excitement here IN rehNon-a our dcnoInlna-
tons are getting in the good old quiet way. The
temperance cause some short time ago was prosper
ing at a rapid rate, but its advocates seem To have
tired, and have become quite inkewarn. ms IL all
them upf
On Monday evening last, the seventh lecture be-
fore the Manchester Lyceum came oil. The leo
turer H. A. L., Esq, is a lawyer by profession !:
one Of no ordinary talents and who posrcrcs a vivid
n,snnation as the character Of his lecture fully
proves. twas upon the tendency Of thipgs;" and
how far he correct in his fancy sketch" as he
chose to call it, time can only prove. He carried
his hearers 200 years into the future vz to the wear
1Dt2 He imagined this Union to be dissolved about
the year 1862 new constitution formed, and the
seat Of government removed to St. LOUIS Missouri
the men OF those days in possession of the means and
knowledge necessary to explore the hidden secrets
Of old oceans depths, and there, like the monsters
Of the deep, amid mountains Of coral, hold sweet
commune with mermaids reclining upon their beds
Pacific ocean, is densely populated, and towns and
cities have sprung up az If by magic, containing
millions OF souls. St Louis, then the capital
Of the country, is a place OF vast importance.
Astoria, a place which, in 1872, scarcely
known, IL now a city of the fird magnitude.
The arts and sciences flourish education is ma
tional affair. Politics Just what they should be IN
republic. Religion merged into one great whole