The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-07-01
THE DAILY DISPATCH
Correspondence Of the Dispatch.
FRgpERt cKsDURc. June %.

FREpERi cKs1URc, June %.
H. MgesRs. EpIToRs THE people Of this
Mace are voting. to-day. upon the proposition
% appropriate els, 600 for the extension Of the
Tsede,icksturg and Valley Plank Road, from
iss present terminus this side OF Orange Court
House to Liberty Mills, and upon the propo'
si,ion, also, to risk $500 10 keeping open the
Rsppahannock Canal. From present appear.
ances, the appropriations will esucceed oy
large majority. The fact is, Fredericksburg
has Just opened her eyes, and now sees tha'
something must be done or she ~ lost a
psoper spirit now seems TO pervade tne coni
suunity, and much of the prejudice heretofore
exsa,inr against these improvements-paHic
uisrIy the cauaI-has been entirely removed
b. The able expose made in pubic meeting py
the Presidents of the two companies. ue
PLANK Road succeeds admirably. ana aier IL
shall have been completed TO Liberty Mills,
!. ,ronceed TO extend il to Stanardsville, and to
h.re branches TO CuIpeper c. H., and Racoon
Ford. which will undoubtedly succeed, as the
gsrme,s are very much ia favor Of these "Far-
uers' Rail Roads" upon which they can drive
their own cars and take the same load with
half the number of horses, as they can upon a
common turnpike.
Our Court House will be entirely completed
10 about month, and If you want to see the
psettiest building 10 the State, come up ard
take view Of IL; and, at the same time. look
ct our pretty girls-of which we have any
quantity. Mayor Sempie will, no doubt, take
pleasure in pointing them out, as he is con-
noiseur in those subjects.
The Fredericksburg Guards have revived,
with all their pristine spirit, and from this time
viii become, no doubt, one of the best voiun-
tceY corps in the State. At late meeting a
number of accessions to the ranks took place,
and Captain Barton, the former gentlemaniy
and popular Captain, having resigned his Of
fee, mir. ID. Lee Powell was unanimously
elected to Gil the post. Captain Powell is a
graduate of the Lexington Institute, and be.
aides ,being one of the best officers and one oil
the finest looking men in the State, possesses
all the other qualities necessary for the sta
ton. The 6ue Band attached to the Company,
led BY Adams, started few days since for a
weeks engagement at the University, at Char
lottesville. They will return on Thursday.
hope the LIST Regiment of Volunteers, OF
your city, will conclude to have an encamp-
ment, as has been suggested by some of its
officers. have, for some time, been on the
point Of proposing it. and believe it will be a
great thing for the Volunteers of the State
Let there be Prize Banner offered for the
beet drilled corps on The ground, and let all
Volunteer Companies in the State be invited to
attend, and no doubt it would be a spirited af
fair. The military spirit has been aroused
here, and while the Guards have about fifty
muskets, understand that about forty names
have been obtained to a new corps to bt
drilled with rifles. So much the better. EN-
alation will keep both in existence, and Their.
is material enough to furnish each Company
with 100 men.
The Guards have changed their heavy
leather caps for the army regulation style
with po,npon, and have adopted changes il
their uniform which make it much cheaper
than formerly. No further news.
Yours &c,