The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-04

Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Staunt0n-High links in Progression the
Road-Ho! for the West-A Party OF Immi-
grants-Lexington-T New College Chapel
The Unnatural Bridge-A Long Drive, &c.
BoNsACK's DEPOT, September 2s.
Staunton, Va, the town of rough pave
ments and rugged streets, is seldom in
condition of excitement, and even the
arrival of court day fails to stimulate its
sluggish pulse. Yet great events are about
to occur within its borders. A portion OF
Augusta street is to be paved with brick,
which, in irregular piles, already stand pa.
tiently in the cutters. Thirteen marriages
are already announced to come off in the
winter, and the negroes arc about to build
them chapel. This latter work has been
commenced under the supervision of the
preacher, who, CARRIED in glossy black, and
with beaver Of immaculate smoothncss,
was wheeling barrow after barrow of dirt
with zeal worthy of the good cause and
of this prosperous era of universal black
emancipation and general idleness.
From Staunton to Goshen depot there is
but little of new and strange, and the long
ranges of mountains look much the same
as they did before the war. One family
does not make the springs very gay any
more than one swallow makes spring
time and after leaving Stanton the cars
are empty enough to prove conclusiyely
that the time for summer enjoyment is
past. Stage-riding is well enough when
there Is sufficient ballast aboard to save
the human freight from more than the alb
solutely necessary jolting; but the solitary
traveller in the heavy coach may think
himself fortunate if he reach his destina-
tion without broken neck or limb.
Poor old Virginia surely she has suffer-
ed enough; and yet her laboring citizens,
her bone and sinew, the true source Of her
strength, are leaving her by hundreds and
migrating to the West. Near Wilson's
springs were camped party Of sixty (6O)
persons-men, women, and children, and
negroes-all en- route for Missouri. They
had six wagons, an ambulance, and q
buggy, and, under the guidance Of a Pres
byterian clergyman, hoped to march safely
to the "loyal" State. Perhaps that cler-
gyman can take the oath, but in any case
he can preach to his own colony. Emigra-
ton was common enough before the war,
but it is very saddening and disheartening
to see the tide now set In anew. Surely
there 10 still work in the old State for her
people, and it 10 hard to see how they can
improve their condition by breaking up
all their old ties and starting again In
g foreign" country without cent to bless
themselves with.
Lexington, the colleges, the grave Of
Jackson, and General Lee have been so
much written about and praised during the
past twelve months that CHS modest Lam
guage OF ours could not vol express any
thing new about them. The Institute and
Washington College look much the same
a. they did 9 month ago, and their 400
students are behaving themselves with
commendAble order aud diligence.
A large chapel for the use Of the stu
dents ID about to DO erected. II Is admi-
Erabiy situated upon the slope Of the hill in
'front.' Of thu college, and 4 20 arranged
that Il will entirely obstruct al view Of
the fFont Of that venerable building. and
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