The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-30
PITTsYLvasIA. June 26. 1857,

coRREsPoNDEsc Of THE DIsPATcH
PITTsYLvANIA, June &c, 1851.
The elections being over. the calui which eDsued
has only been broken in upon by repeated show
ers, halls, Thunder and lightning, whilst il has
thrown the farmers back, has carpeted the fields
with iuxuriant crops nfhay and grass to toe great
relief OF the horse, the COW ard the sheep The
tobacco crop is not yet planted-the multitude of
grass hoppers and ground worms requiring one,
two and three repiant;n gs-this has caused such
heavy drafts upon the plant beds, that the fragile
little fellows that have to be used to supply the
plants destroyed that 1t will be almost impossible
TO secure crop before the frost sweeps the wh hole
The crop of tobacco in this county has almost
iirely gone to market. This was caused by the
scarcity of provisions the season being early to
order and send off tobacco, the planters avai.ed
Themselves of.heir own teams in the wet weather,
when they could not piow, to send to some depot
or 20 miles of. rather than TO supply the prov.
eRder to send 10 their old markets by road wag.
ons. This course saved much corn for bread, and
has IN the end given great relief. They were
moreover, induced to pass by their own enter
prising manufacturers at home, who always give
good prices alured by the circulars of your Com
mission Merchants, to go to Big Richmond. What
has been the consequence of this change of mar
ketsl Simply to have their tobacco piled up in
the depot sheds in your city, awaiting the dog
days, when many Of the spectators will be absent
seeking health or pleasure 10 the mountains, then
slut will be thrown in the market and those that
had happened beyond Mason 81 Dixons line we
would cry Yankee; but as it is perpetrated in the
Old Dominion, we say it is the legitimate result
Of the trade
The invitations to send our tobacco to your mar
ket, were thick blackberries. "Quick sales,
and prompt renittances," was the motto; and
those who had taxes to pay or other demands to
meet hurried off their crops; bu. want of room
iu big Richmond has forced them to meet those
demands from other sources. Those invitations,
not like those given at tie marriage feast that
when all come there was room to spare; but
more like the man spoken of in the same book
that sat down to build without counin the cost
Now, Mr. Editor, we think we have right TO specu.
late on your traders as they have to speculate on
our tobacco. only we don't plan to leave as large
margin as they do The factis notorious that our
home manufacturers being passed by the planters
| under the alluring hope of such bright expecta-
tions in your city that the home manufacturers had
to follow on to Richmond and strange to saw
reshipped home, at fsrer prices to them than the y
they had offered for the article at the barn in sight
of their factories
The wheat crops are waving their golden heads
in ample folds over the fields, nearly ready for the
| siekes I his sight has spoiled the hopes of many,
who. strange TO say have just found that their
corn houses and stack yards have abundantly more
in them than is necessary for their own consump
ton, and that they now spare a HftL2 from
each, at the prices formerly refused; but ia turn
how they are refused by the consumer. ASK a man
he is likely to go through the sunmer, and be will
till you he has plenty, but his neighbors have
not. Ask a half dozen OF these neighbors, and al
will make the same reply, only that each can now
spare little corn, few barrels of -four or few
stacks of oats. The fact is, there is, and never
has been, this year, any danger of starving To
be sure, we have some among US that won prc .
vide or take care; something like the lazy man.
spoken Of think, sometine ago in the Dispatch
1t you have forgotten it, will repeat it: "a man
named Bill Smith, too lazy to work, and almost 10
eat when given to him, became so annoying that
his neghbors concluded TO bury him alive Hay-
Ing placed him in coffin, and started off to the
graveyard, they met benevolent man, who ask ed
them what they were UP TO answered that they
were going to bury Bill Smith who had nothing to
eat and was too lazy to work for it. Stop, says
the benevolent man. will give him a sack of corn
rather than he shall be buried All says Bill, is IL
5helledl No, but you shell it. Unph SAYS
Bill Go on, gentlemen"
The idea which has been broached of Railroad
from Lynchburg through the rich and fertile North
west OF this county, to North Carolina would GER
tainly be of immense benefit to that city, but the
cost would be immense. TIE most feasible plan
would be for the Richmond aud Danville Railroad
Company TO avail itself of the privileges of Ea char
ter. to construct branch, not exceeding twenty
miles, to such points. as they may deem proper
Now, srs to secure IL is immensely rich and shut
up part Of our country TO Richmond would be TO
construct q Railroad from some point (say Dan
vil!e,) to PittsylVania Court House, distance OF
eighteen miles; this would at draw the whole Of
the immense products from the West and North
west of this county to your market, then indeed,
would you have TO build warehouse or ride your
tobacco in your title warehouses as high as Pei
ion upon Ossa' This branch would be of more
profit to the company than any fJrty miles of its
road as there would only be two small bridges 10
be built and one depot at the Court house the
same officers and the same equip pments of the pres
ent road would answer for the branch. and the
same bridge and depot ct Dauviile This subject
has been much mo0ted at, and around the thriving
M q n V n bnIlsn ppJt
its seven Store tobacco msnufsc.orie5 and large
Hotels One thing is beyond doubt, some means
of facilitating trade between the court house and
either Richmond or Lynchburg, will in time and
perhaps before long time, be forced. The most
Iuterprsing of the two cities for this trade will be
met at once, by the gallant people OF Pttsyvana
Yours respectfully,
ONE OF The JOHN SMITHS.