The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-10-22
VIRGINIA INTELLIGENCE.

HALIFAX AND TIE DANvILLE RAILRoAp-A
statement having appeared in the Danville Repub-
can that there such i'll feeling in Halifax TO-
wards the Danville Railroad, that the hands were
unable to procure board along the route, the Peo-
pies Advocate, published at Halifax G. H., says
that the statement is news in Halifax 1t acknow-
lodges that there was a considerable opposition to
the road at time but that is nearly finish
ell the Advocate does not think there is any active
hostility in the country towards it.
LAND IN MEcKLENBuRG.-We learn from the
Tobacco Plant that Mr.. Henry +. Watkins of
Prince Edward county, recently sold his estate of
1900 acres i'll Roanoke for $2 900, to WIN. Townes;
and that Mr.. Edmund TONNES sold 454 acres also
on the Roanoke, for $1,000 Lands the Roam
oke have advanced forty and fifty per cent
ATTORNEY IN PIrTsYLvANIA.
VIM. NJ. Tredway, Esq, Of Danville has been
elected Commemorative Attorney of Pittsylvania,
over Mr.. ]. H. Darlington by 260 or go votes.
NINETEENTH OF OCTOBER AT NoRFoLK.-Thc
anniversary of the surrender of the British at York
town, passed off gloomily at Norfolk. There was
hut one flag flying in the town, and that from
| the Herald office.
| TOBACCO CRoP IN MEckLENBURG, &C-Thc
| Tobacco Plant says there have been killing frosts
but it has every reason to believe that the entire
| crop of tobacco in Mecklcnburg, Charlotte and
| Halifax in Virginia, and of Person, Granville and
Warrenton, \. G., the scaffold or in the barn
before the frosts came The crops, that paper
| thinks, is scarcely an average.
| BUILDING IN DASvILLE-Tho Republican says
| the enterprise OF building Is going ahcad-seyen
new houses were begun there last week.
| INCENDIARIEs--An attempt was made few
days since to fire the residence of DR.. Thomas p
| Atkinson, of Danville, bus the flames were extn.
| guished before much damage was done.
| THE CHINCH BUG.-This insect is extending its
| ravages in the Valley. The Harrisonburg Repub
lican states that it is quite destructive Smiths
| Creek, in that county.
| TOBACCO IN ALBEMARLE.-The Charlottesville
Advocate states that all the tobacco in that county
| was housed before the recent frosts. 1t add that
| Albemarle never made a better crop.
| WHEAT IN AIBEMARLE-The farmers of Abe
marie, under the impression that the joint worm
has permanently disappeared, are making effort:
to putt an unusually large crop of wheat.
TELLER-P L. Bacon has been appointed tel
| Ter in the Farmers bank of Charlottesville
| LAND IN FREDERICK-A farm bought by Mr.
| Glaize, near Winchester, cost him $3.50 per acre
and he has been offered 1000 advance
LAND IN WARREN.-The farm of the late Benz
| Elliott, in Warren, sold a few days since t.
| Morgan Johnson, for S47.0l! per acre.
THE MESILLA VALLEY.-Thc New Orleans mai
of Thursday the 18th inst, sSreceived
| The San Antonio Texan reports that the survey
of the Mesilla Valley secures to the United State
both passes to the Pacific and that the new terrtor,
is rich in gold and silver.
Major Emory and the other members of thu
boundary surveying party, arrived at San Anton
on the oath ut