The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-14
Letter PROM ~ALBEMARLE.
co,r.,Dondenee Of the Richmond Dispatch.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, August II.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, August II.
You have doubtless been looking for
news from Charlottesville, but such Is the
utter stagnation of everything, ideas in
cluded, since the final celebrations at the
University, that your correspondent must
beg your %forbearance and while he gives
you q few items, he promises brighter ideas
and more interesting news in future; that
is, when Sirius" %withdraws his inhu-
ences, and we are no longer tormented by
black gnats, dog-dqys, and what is worse,
the dread of cholera, &c. Suggestive OF
this, / have not seen q watermelon thlS
season; indeed, I fear to look upon q pic
ture of the luscious fruit hanging over my
mantel, painted by loving fingers long
since Wondering into dust, lest the desire
should 80 overcome me that | will even de-
your the picture through very longing for
the reality. We insthis healthful region
are seldom visited by epidemics, but al
that terrible scourge of all Piedmont re-
gion, typhoid fever, has left its vacanciesln
our midst, its mournful hearts in many a
household. - Charlottesville has much
changed in the past few years; upon re-
turning to my home ut the close OF the
war, I scarcely met a familiar face; many
had come here as refugees, and finally have
made it their home, whom | had never
seen before ; and the little boys and girls
| once knew, and could fondlc and kiss
without bushes or jealous lover, are now
grown men and lovely blooming maidens.-
Our fees in the marriage license line have
greatly increased the past year, and II all
/" Madam RumOr" says be true, we arc
vet to reap a richer harvest of grcenbacks
the coming fall, as a number of our tairest
ladies have consented to a change OF name
and residence. Charlottesville, you Know,
suffered but little during the war, though
even here you can mark the footprints OF
the destroyer, not so much in the destruc-
ton of property, but the widows and Or
phans bear sad testimony of II "0St
cause."-We of course have a dra'rer Of
that wonderful institutions" the Freed
mems Bureau" and the f. BIS" think
their G.. A." such a wonderful man that
il has been said he made a lr0odGn nutmeg
serve as a far better condiment than those
we southern people once imported from the
tropics. As agencralthing, the OF. BIS, are
orderly, and if the Yankees would let them
alone, would work faithfully for their for
mer masters. OF course we have our
robberies, assaults, &C., but they are OF
rare occurrence, considering the number
of F.. BIS in our midst. There has been I'M
usual activity at Il quarterly court,
which has been sitting for q week past;
and though tho docket was full, both
clerks and lawyers are miserably weary Of
pett larcenieS, demonstrating, assaults and
batteries, &C., sc. The grand jury brought
in fourteen indictments and six present
ments, most of which were in cases OF
petit larceny, and nearly all Of which were
tried at the present term, resulting IN the
conviction Of eight or ten negroes and one
white man-all but two were sentenced to
receive stripes, the white individual being
allotted thirty, the larger number any one
is to receive. So rapid has been the accu-
mutation of cases of this character thanks
to that great institution, the "Burcau,)"
that the court directs that the former prac-
tice, in the county, of having four jury
terms during the year, be reSorted to in Or
der to afford some opportunity or proba-
bility of reaching the civil docket at these
courts. Heretofore we have only had two
such terms. But our jurics think it's
cloves labor lost" for as fast as they
condemn, our "so-called" Governor par
dons, and the next court is but a repetition
of the preceding. u.