New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-10
Letter from Culpepper, Virginia
EErom the Memphis Axalanehe.

Il From the Memphis Avaanche,l ..
KELLY's FoED, Aug, 80, 1666.-From the sacred
War-Worn breast OF the mother of Washington and
Lee, permit me to collect some observations fol
fellow Memphians, while looking on the spotWh
freedom shrieked when gallant Pelham FELL" /
write from Kelly's Ford, over the once crimson
threaded Rappahann0 tx famous from thS cross
| ing of Meade's army and winter byouacng of
| Haneock's corps. In sightof my window is the
dark and bloody ground Of Stuart's recounter
with the. doughty Fitzpatrick, when victory fled
| from the breast of the mailed eagle to grace the
crest of the prince of cayaliers-hence the celeb
rity of Brandy station, on the 0rangs and Alex-
andria railroad. The destroying angel Pope,
whose other nan1e#i Azrae, gave tosthis and Eau
anieri counties the distinction Of Unprecedented
suffering, and now here for himself, the notofiety
of military Orlando Furioso and civic leper.
As eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so
eternal infany is the hemlock wreath that binds
his unripe brow. But the desert is again learning
to blossom as the rose. and this, the most devas-
tated part of Virginia, is at least supporting
From Maryland and Pennsylvania herds Of blood
cattle and Flemish horses are being imported, and
labor has rallied beneath the influx OF white men
and the truly admirable conduct of thebureau Of
refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands. None
but one-armed United States officers control these
affairs, whose suiferings have taught them to re-
speet yanquished foe, and their force is single
orderly. To the honor of our quondam enemies,
be it said, no troop of negroes has garrisoned the
valley of Virginia. and the Federals confess they
are forever shut out from becoming Double F.
Virginias, replete with " r. 3. Lees, iunior.n and
the cry u.s. g still they come ~
Speaking Of the iIlustrious, Gen. Ewell,is rusti-
eating at Capon Springs also Col. Harry Gilmore,
who is still unpardoned. Mosby is practicing law
at Warrenton Junction, near Manassas and the
member of ]. E. 3. Stuarts staff who wrote
Surry," is residingin Fauquier. 1t is the gen
eral opinion that the elite reading world is soon
to be RECALLED by continuation of this rare work,
from the diamond-pointed pen of Mr.. John Esten
Cook. II will interest his admirers to know he
has published book called "GreenWay Court;
or, The Bloody Ground the scene of which is
laid at the residence of Lord Fairfax and the
young Washington, whose survey office of stone
l inspected some days since, in Clarke county,
valley of the Shenandoah The grain crop of
that section is fine this year. The wheat crop
mere IS failure, but corn is excellent One of
the largest planters in Culpepper is the once Hon.
John Minor Bolts, who purchased superb Beck
ham farm for Confederate money, and holds the
even tenor Of his way near Brandy.
The Vrginians look on him as leal and true to
the United States, but false to his own people.
And it may import somewhat to the Hon. F. P.
Blair to know his double.glassed silver spectaces
were taken from the ruins of Montgomery Blair's
house BY soldier who honored the inscription, in
the raid on Washington; and await his order on
DR.. William a. Bickers, Gulpepper Court House.
The inscription is, I" Andrew jackson to F. P.
Blair" Prestine prosperity attends the University
of Virginia, under Professor s. Maupin, and en-
tries for session Of '66-67 are estimated at seven
hundred. 1t is source of great congratulation to
Virginia, that her system of education is becoming
mechanical looking especially to engineering;
whereas, it has been for political influence and to
Slave labor f
This promises well, with her immense water
power; and the University is acclaimed the Hell
delberg of America, MyFiads of our most stall.
wart Westerners are Virginjans whose hearts are
nurtured to manhood beneath the fair Diana who
presides in her Egis; and manya the inmitable
" Mariesn and fair and sweet Elaines," who pro.
claim Virginia garden and the ladies are its
flowers. With us, on Memorial Day, y they beau
tify the graves of the unreturning braves with
tear.wet garlands linking eternal honor to eternal
love, Este per petUa ARTHUR.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A RESPECTED CErIzEN-We
are deeply panied to have to record the death Of
AR. JosephJ. I. Wilson, the efficient, popular and
highly esteemed clerk of the circuit court
About thirty minutes after P. ~, Mr.. Wilson
whose family was spending the summer at Mon
Louis Island, entered the store of hIr. Geibke,
gunsmith, on Dauphln street, to make some pur.
chase OF sporting ammunition, when he was sud
denly seized with fainting fit, aud fell down in
sensible.
Medical aid being at once sought, Drs Hernden
and Ross were soon by his side, and having had
him removed to the store of Messrs w. B. Sea
well u Co., on Water, between Dauphin and St.
Francis Streets they attempted to revive him. but
without success, and in less than haitian hour from
the time he was struck, Mr.. Wilson had ceased 10
exist, without having fora moment recovered his
consciousness.
The fatal blow which put an end to the life of |
that truly good man was pronounced to be sud. |
den congestion OF the lungs, to which the de. |
ceased had some predisposition from being subject
to chronic asthma.
His unfortunate son was present when he |
breathed his last, and soon followed the body of |
his venerated parent to the home of friend, to |
which it was soon after removed, and the family |
has been sent for, to whom the breaking of such |
terrible news will be most narrowing Trial.
1t is but seldom that q community exhibits such
universal regret at the death of private citizen |
as that which pervades our city on this occasion
but the secret is found in the simple fact that, in
Capt. Wilson, we recognized the highest type Of |
Gods noblest Work-an honest man.
Mobile Times
The new Academy of Music, now being erected
n New York city, will have, among other i'm
1royements, some sly little private boxes (ca led
dezzoinel, where you can see everybody and not
)e seen.