The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-01

LADIES TRAyELING-A lady correspond.
ent' of the National 1ntelligencer, who is
travelling, writes to that paper in defence of
the ladies, against the charge that while trav-
cling they treat the civility of gentlemen with
coldness amounting 10 rudeness. She says:
Are not many women forced to assume a
GOODNESS Of manner approaching TO rudeness,
merely to preserve themselves from INSULT
Ii is our boast that a woman can travel from
Maine to Georgia entirely unprotected. And
so she can; but it is to her own self. f.reliance,
her own sense of propriety, and her own pro-
per care OF herself that she IN ust trust, and not
to the chivalry and respect of the lords Of
creation by whom she is surrounded. A man
sees a well-dressed, Well.behaved woman by
herself in the cars or on the boat; he offers
her some civility; if she respond courteously,
and an acq uain tince be thus commenced, how
often does it occur that this woman is shocked
before the end OF the Journey by some remark
or allusion that though she does not seem to
understand its significance, calls the blood
to her cheek, and the tear to her eye p
She hesitates to reprOye the well. veiled ap-
proach, from which in her inmOst soul she
shrinks, because modest woman is ashamed
TO confess that she understands that which,
clothe it in what hoEeyed and nattering terms
one may, is yet an insult TO her. But thank
God He has implan ted in the nature of every
woman this innate mOdesty for protection,
and if she will be true to this she need fear no
harm. Let women be well assured that men
are really prompted only by desire to serve
Them, aud remove some of the difficulties Of
travelling alone and unprotected, and there
will soon cease to be this reproach for civlli-
ties unaeknowledged. The ayerted look, the
constrained reply, and the half-uttered No,
thank you," Will be exchanged for 4 smile, a
pleased acknowledgment OF good and Il
ready Interchange OF those little courtesles
which make one OF the great pleasures OF trav-
cling, and take from it half its discomforts."
The PRODUCT OP ONE ACRE AND QUAR-
TkR-The productiveness of California is
celebrated. A San Francisco paper, noticing
the productiveness Of little garden, Of an
acre and Il quarter, near that town. gives the
following items as its produce:
Early onions, lettuce and radishes, $15; cab.
bage and tomato plants sold, &l5; green peas
and beans, $3u; ripe peas and beans, SO l0t'
lbs. ripe onions, $4; 20 lbs. dry sage and sweet
savory, So; $50 lbs. summer squash, 50; GU
cnmbers, S3; 800 dozen ears sweet corn, Sl5u;
2.OO0 los. corn fodder, $40; winter squashes,
weighing as lbs, ST. $50 quarts straw berries,
S325 25 quarts gOoseberries, currants and
raspberries, $l2.50 crops clover, 500 lbs, $40;
2OO strawberry vines, cut for hay, 81; 500 lbs.
tomatoes, SIS; melons, G35 50 lbs. citrOn, %;
$50 lbs. apple melon, SIS; 200 lbs beets, $6 $50
lbs. parsnips $l5; 125 lbs. carrots, $l.15; 2,SoO
lbs. cabbage, $il2; 3OO0 lbs. turnips, $2U; 2,UUO
lbs. cabbage and turnip leaves for cow, $aU;
100 lbs. wheat and oats, 81; straw S5; $500 lbs.
best mountain peaches, $3.50; apricoIs, necta-
plant aud horse radish, eiO; fruit trees raised.
budded and grated, $50; % lbs. grapes, s. 50;
1000 Abs. potatoes, Sl0-makinE the total pro-
duce of the garden foot up the snug sum of
Si,677.l5. In addition to the garden, the dairy
yielded a net profit Of $373, and the poultry
yard, after paying $3.50, was left larger than il
was the previous year. In all. the figures
show the handsome amount Of O., 30O.i5. MT.
Dunn, the proprietor, Is . miner, and makes
that his business, and only works in his gar.
den 1t such leisure time a. he can avail him.
self o. - E-