The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-07-29
MIDpLEBURG, July u, 1861.

MlDbLEbciSu, July -, A|"''
This is one of the prettiest, healthicst,
pleasantest villages in Virginia. Why
don't some of you low.country people
come here to spend the summer? We
have delightful society, and you can get
hoard at an excellent boarding house or at
the hotel IA good one) for twenty dollars q
month. Teething children are peculiarly
safe here.
The Piedmont Convocation has been in
session hero for two days. Rev. Messrs'
Perkins, Dudley, Aldrich, and McGill, are
assisting Mr.. Kinsolving. The session will
close on Sunday. Mr.. kinsolving has re-
ceived call to Halifax Courthouse, but
has not as yet accepted or declined. His
decision will be made known at the vestry
meeting to-day.
Rev. T. q. Dudley leaves in day or
two on temporary visit to Harrisonburg,
and will, after September, reside there
permanently.
Bishop Wilmer is expected here shortly
to spend few days with bis friends. We
are also promised visit from the great
Methodist pulpit orator Rev. Mr.. Munsey
Hon. j. R. Tucker returned home on
Tuesday last, after protracted sojourn III
Philadelphia and at various courts. lie is
looking unusually we'll, having gained
many pounds avoirdupois during his alb
sence. 1t is believed now that when sing
ing cold Skewball" his voice could be
heard distinctly at distance Of ten miles.
A fine wheat crop has been harvested =:
oats promise we'll, and so does the corn ;
while the yield Of grass is unprecedented.
How the wheat will turn ont is not yet
known, as only one crop has been threshed
in this neighborhood up to the present
time. Nature is SO. bouutiful hereabouts,
and the farmers so thrifty, that with the
exception of the burnt barns I'LL traces Of
the war have been obliterated.
A few years hence the grape crop will
be one Of the most important in this i'm
mediate vicinity. Quite Il number Of gen.
tlemen are going largely into the business,
and Captain OFT, formerly of the Bavarian
service, who is thoroughly versed in the
manufacture of wine, will make Middle
burg his home, and have general superin
tendence of the peighboring vineyards.
Much attention is now paid to sheep
raising, and with good reason. At the
close Of the war q gentleman here bought
1000 Merino sheep on credit. At the end
of the first year his sales Of wool and
sheep paid not only for the original outlay,
but left him $50 sheep In hand-equiya-
lent to $4,000 in money. Sheep have to be
fed here only few weeks-seldom more
than month during the winter; whereas
in the North they have to be fed four or
five months. Previous to the war our
farmers raised only enough sheep to satisfy
thelr own wants.
While the whites are in the majority, it
is conceded, l believe, that the Quakcrs
and the negroes will carry the county. I
am not familiar with the opinions of the
people, but gentleman who is, tells me
that he does not know man who is in favor
OF cooperation" Apparently, our peo-
pie care little about politics. They are
neither "PassiYists nor "Peskyyists,"
ne-nothings" nor "Do-bads," but in
eIs.'.aous, patient growers Of grass,
LIS. - ssems 70 me, the game had as we'll be
I out now as later. Let all the 20.
litical offices. State as well as Fed l I'm in
the South be filed by negroes The nro
blem will then be solyed-the craze p per