The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-01
1ns Eiecfion.-F Fessipisies.
cohFEsPoFDEEcE OF THE DISPATCH.

LEXINGTON, Va, May %, 1857.
ane result Of the election in this eountv IA not
yet iuiy ascertAined; the eenar. jmnrss.ion s..ms
49, 20 ., sua. massie. Democrat and Davidson, Whie
.e eiected by small msiorites. The Accounts
.h ane precincts are too unreliable to rive Won
hss hsss ngures, but the contest Ii closer than
Tn ,hro Hno~n In this county for many years
n this place the election passed OF ouis,y tie
o seems 70 nave zone by when bioodv noaea
s, sna cracked skulls were the usual fruits Of The
with bsrrs1a ncn'ss, s Now days no wagons loaded
e.. oarse,s OF foaming beer aud boxes Of horse-
CAKES ana mint stick and whole .ections ~ ~,
seroieao, are located at the corners ~ tha .tra.
.or .ne benefit OF the sovereigns-no eronns ~
msn,;rys ,u,. can now be seen admiring and COM
nS,, on tae points of dozen neichiu1 steeds
Wnile the big belIied TASKS of "monntsn H.
PASS rom mouth to mouth; but under the nev
system Oh district precincts (aas that these in no.
auons t. and sacn ike have been made y the sturdy
mets now hasten to the nearest precinct ana
AFTER giving their votes, return onie,lv N ,ha
piougns which were left in the urrows and To their
accustomed vocations. Tempora mutantur o. mos
Hafamar IN ills. :. -. '.e'
The season Is now near at hand when our vii.
lage will be again thronged with visitora from
every part of the State, who come to attend the
commencement exercises of our admirable insti :,
tutions of learning; hence the frst four days In
the month of July always embrace . period
of peculiar interest to this community and
are look ed forward to, especially by the young of
both sexes, with pleasing anticpations and high
hopes of enjoyment. On this occasion. the attracs
| tions will be rather more than ordinary. The
able and diguifed statesmaa and accomplished
scholar, Senator Hunter, has consented to address
the Literary Societies of the NJ Institute, which
| alone will be sufficient to attract q crowd Mr..
Massie, of this place. graduate Of the Institute
in the class of 1850. and for time Assistant Pro-
| fessor of Mathematics, will, l suppose, address
the Alumni ST. Geo. Tucker, Esq of your city,
| will read poem before the Societies of Washing
| ton College, and w. s Fl Baylor, Esq of Staun-
| ton, will address the Alumni Association. These
entertainments, with the usual exercises on behalf
of the students and cadets not to mention the ball,
the proceedings of the Ugly Club, the theatrical
exhibitions by Mrs Boone and her wonderful
children &c &c, will all add to the festivities of
the brief season, which many of your readers will
not fail to enjoy.
Notwithstanding the Bank of Rockbridge has put
in circulation over egh thousand dollars of tn sr
paper there Is still great scarcity of the needful
article in this region. Why is 1t that some of the
regular banks do not locate branch at this place;
1t would certainly pay we'll if conducted on liberal
prucip'es-not after the gouging plan of the "sha.
wing shop" we have here, (requiring the notes
which they discount to be made payable Balti>
more. and then charging high rates of exchange
for taking up those notes at maturity,) but bank
of accommodation, that can afford to meet the
wants Of the people, and all demands of every de-
scription that may be made upon 1t.
Here, as In other regions of our State spirit of
emigration is rife among the people. The cry is
the taxes are too onerOus, and the crops are toe
uncer.a'n. Many OF our cltiZeps nave already
invested large sums of money in Western lands,
and as soon as the necessary arrangements can be
made fitting will be started for the fertile re-
gions of ths far West, where the visits Of the tax
gatherers are not SO much dreaded
The late rains will probably cause the growing
crop to turn out better than was at first expected
but 1t will not be average one by q good deal
Corn Is very scarce, and Is now held at sl per
bushel P.
P Slater intelligence seems to indicate the
oil ,ofD Da IT nsuf ALI
the precincts but one have been heard from, and
Davidson 10 only two votes ahead of Paxton. P.