The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-07-30
zTrK from PETERSBURG.
.,oonsonee Of tho Richmond Dispatch.
PETERSBURG, July u, 1867.

PETERSBURG, July n, 1861
Among the notable events OF the weeh
"a the great tumble in the price OF ~nea ~
E;cht or ten days ago, from 1910 to sZ.oo
GAS freely paid for the best samples OF
,,S;,e. The same quality has been selling
Thin day or two past at 81 40 to 81 80,
nd the price has declined l0@lZc.
esther since yesterday. 1t was hardly
.nt;c;nated that there would be so marke
. Giving way in the market thus early,
ND il can only be accounted for by the
lowing conviction that the general crop
IS The country is abundant beyond all pre-
oadent. The receipts here during the
,raak have been quite full, but not as
, m as one might have expected when
the price opened SO well, and When every
sa-mer must have known that it could not
he sustained beyond q very short period.
That the farmers, however, have not
svs;led themselves more generally Of the
asrjc market is, doubtless, because oftheir
;nab;litv to control circumstances as for
Tle tobacco market during the week
hoo bcen very active, and the prices
hitherto obtained fully sustained. There
10 sensible falling off in the receipts, the
nnmber of hogsheads this week being 29l,
aud last week 25G. The total since the lst
Of October last is $500. 1t is supposed by
those who have the best means Of forming
an accurate judgment that the total re-
ceipts for the year ending the 1st Of Octo-
her next will be about 5000 hogsheads.
For several years before the war the in
spections at our warehouses averaged
about 1880 hogsheads. These numbers
afford pretty fair data for making an esti-
mate of the crop of 1866, and indicate
abont two thirds Of crop-that is to say,
10000 hogsheads in the aggregate, the
former product being about 10000.
The reports Of the growing crop are far
from being encouraging; but the tobacco
plant is capable of bearing so many hard
rubs that it is entirely premature to make
any calculation on the subject. A few
weeks of kindly weather in August and
September are sufficient to work marvel.
lous changes both in the product and
quality.
The cotton market is quiet, the demand
being entirely for spinning purposes, and
the receipts having dwindled down to the
finest point. The stock on hand by actual
count amounts to one thousand one hun
bred and fifteen bales, which will not much
more than supply our factories until tho
incoming Of the new crop. During the
late hot weather planters have had an op
portunity Of Kidding their fields of grass
which threatened at one time to obtain the
mastery; and the plant has been enabled
to take good growth. 1t is certainly more
backward than usual, and for that reason
may fail in coming up to an average yield
but it is represented to be blooming
freely.
It having been announced by General
Brown, of the Freedmen's Bureau, thai
the distribution of rations to the poo
would be suspended after the goth of Au
gust, had the curiosity to make some in
Quiry as to the number of persons in Thu
district who are the recipients of Govern
nent charity. OF whites, there are il
Petersburg 30 women and Is children
and in other portions of the district, 27
women and GO children. Of colored per
sons, there are in the city 1876, and in
other parts Of the district $50. This state
ment, however, is not so precise numer
cally az that in regard to the whites; two
children being counted as one grown per
son, since they receive only half rations
Neither are the grown persons all women
small proportion of superanuated mel
being included in the number. 1t were t
be wished that the Government had Sc
lected rather more propitious time 70,
withdrawing these supplies, for it has been
publicly stated in some Of our pulpitS that
the desttntion this summer is greater than
was ever known at any former period.
The gentle showers which have fallen
during the last day or two have been very
refreshing, for both the fields and the gar
dens were beginning to feel the lack OF
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