The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-08
VIRGINIA.

The Charlottesville Jeffsrsonian states that
baud OF gypsies sre prowl ling about that town, and
cautions Its people aganst them There are macy
OF these wanderers about the sprpgs Some OF
the females travel much faster than the stage, and
q visitor o item meets at each of the springs fe
male who had presented her paper and solicited
aims at the hrst watering place at which he ar
rived
LoTTKsvrLLE.-The Advocate of Charlottesville
says:
Our population has bad for several weeks large
accessions from Norfolk and Portsmouth of many
agreeable and charming families who have Left
tnose cities IN consequence of the yellow fever -
Our fhres large and well kept Hotels are crowded
OF the Norfolk and Portsmouth visitors their health
mas been lne, aud no. the slightest apprehension
need be felt that they could bring the fever into
this healthful valley of ours.
The Lerisburg HistrioDic Society have been
giving theatrical performances at the Court
House In that town. my Lord the players are
come"
Corn AND THE Conn CRop-The editor of ftbe
winchester Virginian gives an interesting farns"
ceous chapter from which we extract the follow.
Ing:
In the greater part of this State twenty years are
believed TO have passed since anything like 1t Qhe
corn crop was seen On upland and lowland, In
thio snd 10 deep soil, this noble American cereal
may now be seen 10 unbroken perfection, without
irregularify and without dsproportionste develop
ment OF stalk or ear. From every hill may be
scanned, In broad array the fields of n1aize those
Dense square phalanxes OF Ceres, marshalled inn
pregnabIy against famine, aud inspiring the be-
holder with sense OF perfect security during that
bitter season when the forces of nature slumber
and we are supported by the legacies of departed
summer. Ripening several months later than
wheat and casting Its golden treasures far Into the
autumn, this beautiful grain contributes more,
when iuxuriant to gladden. the approach of winter.
Its es'ening blades often the last verdure and
Its ciusterng ears always the last fruit to dissp.
pear from the land. The food alike of man and
beast IN every quarter of the U0ion, It is nwoven
with the substance of the nation. In itsi various
forms Of preparation, 1t furnishes large propor-
tion OF the viands which peculiar to the coun.-
try; and negro husking songs really the type of
the only national nlnstrelsy be said to have
As the Greeks adopted the acanthus, and the Ro-
mans the olive leaf for the eoumnscapitsls of
their favorite orders of architecture 1t is not In
appropriate that the graceful leaf of the maize
should be similarly employed In this country Aad
It is pleasant to find that In the adornment of ths
new extension of the Capitol 1t is to be so intro
duced
Few have accustomed themselves to realize the
imposing figure Indian makes Ia the lst of our
yearly products. This year, there are estimates
from trustworthy sources, that Its yield 10 the u
States will reach eight hundred thousand bushels
six times the wheat crop, and lprobably the most
enormous mass of one description of farinaceous
food ever produced by any country.