New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-06

The CROPS IN MISUNDERSTANDING how much
Virginia was overrun and injured during the war
it is gratifying to read such favorable account OF
the crops there as is given in the following from
the Richmond Times
A visit to the Valley of Virginia. or to Fauquer,
or to the Peninsula, between the James and York |
rivers, will convince the most dismal croaktT that
there is a vast deal of life in the old land yet God
has blessed US with proptous seasons, and the
growing crops of corn, tobacco, ETC., are of un-
precedented promise and !uXuriance. The breadth
and promise of that great staple-lndian corn-is
really without precedent in those sections OF the
State which we have recently visited. The tobacco
on the south side looks as healthy, luXurant
and well cultivated as in the days before the deluge
of radicalism swept the happy and contented ne
gro from his ancient mornings
After much observation we can venture the as.
sertion that wherever the country negroes have
not been demorazed by knavish agents of the
| freedmen's bureau, or by the raVennus Northern
| jackas who are preying upon them like gulls upon
| shoal Of behring's, they are doing well and be-
4 having well.
The vagabonds and miserable wretohes who are
| bringing reproaCh and certain ruin upon the Viz
| ginia negro are the unfortunate blacks who crowd
our cities and are contaminated by contact with
the outcasts from the ranks of the whites.
Two of the principal crops of this State have
been cultivated and placed beyond the possibility
of failure by the freedmen since the LIST of January
1866. The oat crop, which is one of unprecedented
excellence has already been cut and either housed
or threshed and stacked. The corn crop, use
the language OF the farmer, mas Deen WOTheu anu
9 laid by" So far as our own observation eN-
tends, where the freedmen have been paid good
wages or allowed liberal share in the crops
they have done fully as well as when they were
slaves. In one instance, in which we felt deeply
interested in the result, they have done twice as
well as they did before the war. When uncon
taminaed by the villanous white men who infes
Cities the relations of the country negroes will
! their employers kind, pleasant and respectful
A New TEST OF GENIUs.-The New Yorl
y Times, recording that Congress had voted $1,000
, to Miss Winnie Ream, who, we presume, is
J sculptor, for a statue of Abraham Lacnln, yer,
navely puts his money-grant on the ground tina
she is young and fascinating artist.n If sc
lie we are a very gallant nation. Genius and skill
,e two essentials in tuemaking-are not to be 9
- much considered, in future, as youth and fasCinf
Nv tos. They manage differently in France, wher
s. Rosa Bonheur though she is over forty.six yeal
old, and can scarcely be considered well-lookiuI
obtains her own prices for whatever she paint
II It can scarcely be said that she is fascinating
X for her manners brltsque and her ordinary a
10 tire is rather that of maa than woman. Tout
m and fascination make a standard of genius whiC
a would not be acknowledged on the banks of tt
a Seine the Arno, or the Tiber, nor yet the famol
r: elbows of the Mincio," of which a certain jon
er nalist made well-remembered mention some SIEVE
ot years ago. By the way, the New YORK Time
en- which is so gallant to the fair sculptor, decar
a that her forthcoming and well-paidfor wol
ID. is "a statute in Marble ~ Phia. Press.