The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-08

Chief among the disastrous results OF the
late war, in a material point Of view, IS The
destruction Of our system of agriculture.
Previous TO the struggle, Virginia was one OF
the largest wheat producing States Of III,
Union nearly half OF the tobacco grown IL
the United States was the product Of her soil !.
while i'll the tide water region a larg" surplus
Of corn was annually shipped TO the northern
ports Now, however, her mills are for Tho
most part idle, her tobacco factories are closed,
her fields are lying waste. Her system o!
labor was d>organizrd, and paralysis seemed
al least for while TO rest upon all her indus
rial pursuits To recover from this deprcs
sion every exertion should be made, and ihr
people exhibit Il noble determination with MS
object Time for the work will be wanted
according TO the earncsness and intelligence
with which the farmers OF Virginia adj
dress themselves 10 the work Of rccup"ra-
ton. Ii is weakness now 10 indulge in vain
regrets over their PROSTATE condition. The
dead past should b. left to bury its dead, that
the exisencies OF the present hour may be met
rs becomes men whom no adversely can daunt,
and no misfortunes conquer.
Our; paper rapidly resains lis former cir
culatlon In the country, rs the mail routes are
re-opened, and we purpose from time 10 time
TO commune with our agricultural friends.
and 10 offer such suggestions as may seem
practical and ludicious. On the present occa-
sion, as being most appropriate 10 the season,
We commend 10 their earliest attention the
fence law recently passed by the Legislature.
According TO the terms Of that law it is com
petent for the county courts 90 give validity
to its provisions within their respective juris
dictions. There may be some districts that do
not stand in need of such an enactment any
more than formerly, though many intelligent
farmers have for the last fifty years con
tended that Il stringent fence law, applicable
10 the whole State, would conducc more than
any other measure 10 lis agricultural pros
perity. That every man who keeps stock
should confine them within his own enclosures,
and withhold them from committing deprcda-
tons his neighbors is a proposition so
obvious in the abstract that few would
venture TO controycrt il. And yet IL is one
that has never met with support in any
representative assembly until the present
time and even now the ultimate response
bility is shifted 10 the county courts. What
we recommend is that the farmers or each
county should, at the earliest day-at their
courts in this month OF February, wherever
they are yet TO be held-insist upon the lmme-
date adoption Of the law. II IS demanded by
their every interest. If they. show any luke.
warmness, it can hardly be expected that the
magistrates will take any action and the
consequence Will be loss and inconvenience on
the one hand, and n plentiful crop Of Earring
and discord, If nothing else, among neigh bors
during the whole current year. According 10
our experience, bad fences, and mlschieyous
stock rs a necessary consequence, have always
been the most fruitful source of heart burn
ings and alterations among those between
whom nothing but harmony would otherwise
prevail