The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-22
Returning Prosperity to the
Shenandoah Valley.
Attempted Suicide of an Elk Rebel
VirginIan.
AFFAIRS In LOUISIANA AND TEXAS.
&c. Nc. dc.
vIR Gs sA.
spf,sl CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HtaAlu.


sAs~sndeah Valley Picking Up Bravery
Splendid Prospect for she Wheat Crop and
krwit-How They MANAGE Without Fences
The People Here helping ike Suffering
eeuth-Farms at tss0d Prircs-rhe PcnnsyI-
vnnin Gcrnans Drifting Indifferent East
Of abe Biue RidGe-Thc Soldiers, Cemele ries,
Issse~ and Rebei-A Look About the Town
The Women In RIack-E1ress Of Widows
nnd NOnnE Damscls- Markets, &c.
WINcHEsrfr, Va, May IL, 1867.
~ wonderful, truly wonderful, how the people OF
Ah,e beautiful Shenandoah valley have rallied from the
prostration OF The Between Harpes's Ferry and
siAunton, Assistance Of one hundred aud thirty miles they
bad been devastated almost thoroughly the valley OF
Mo Elbo from the thirty years Of Germany But
without fences TO their fields 10 cases these
vHginans have raised their annual crops aud without
scnees si To great extent, there good prospect
hat they will have the finest and largest wheat crop this
that known here the whole length OF tho
vAliey, and indeed throughout the State The season
sackward but has boom very favorable TO wheat
and fruit and the farmers putting good crop
81 corn.
The way they manage without fences IL by the sub
WAae OF herdssaen trusty man OF boy ,sassigned
tho Of tho stock tand they troubled now
with great deal in particular field during the day,
md al night the ANNALS put into pom. Thus
old farmer observed, with fields left all
ssors from the burning OF by the soldiers
N spare SO We have little or no desisution ID this
valley, and II th,s keeps its promises shah
oy November be strong upon our feet again In this
Down, which was held alternately by Union and rebel
troops each dozen times during the war. and which
has been the scene OF frequent bloody collisions, and
which sill In its ruins bears the OF fire.
Vonng iades holding fair for 'the relief Of
ME suffering people Of the south" This for locality
which suffered more from the war, perhaps than any
int hA Grpfh Uiv of
i've forces Of this fertile valley.
In the colonial times under George the Third, when
lOrA Fairfax and few other rich English proprieors
owned these lower Counties the Pennsylvania Germans
attracted 70 this valley had pass to the unappro
pEiated lands Of Shenandoah NJ and they
did in drovss Hence the population OF those
b mainly German Now the Peinsyw Germans
Anding these lower counties and negro
Of the way, drifting into thon. They quietly
picking up farms for sale all around here and even
Ands with ecanty fences held twenty, thirty, forty
any and up TO ssventy-nve dollars an acre Fewer
farms now advertised In this valley for sale than be-
lore the war; because parties having estates to sell
good Che climate is W holesome and Baltimore George
towu Washington aud Alexandria convenient
10y within year or two will be much larger than
On the eastern side or tho Blue Ridge from the neigh
tovhood OF Bull Run down to North Carolina, farms
may be had for one-haf onethird their real value
and on easy payments The PENNSYLVANIA Germans have
not yet been drawn in that drecsoD and New Workers
and New Enesnden are letting slip the finest opportu
nes in the world for good farms, buildings aud all Of
from two to ave hundred Of productive lands
delightful climate. in low IS
The loss of slavery there and their other loses tho
wsr seem to have upset those Eastern Virginans
pefey, and they anxious to sell and 20 North in
some instances get away from their cmanclpated |
Sion the blacks have s-nsiby diminished rs in the I
eastern counties convenient TO Washington, and the in
crease OF the African element in Washington since tho
second year OF the war tells the story.
Your correspondent IN indebted 10 Mr. X r Brown,
superintendent OF the Soldiers Burial corps OF This
military pos, held by Colonel Franklin with the Twenty
nrs Regular Infantry for some interesting facts
nected with the national cemetery bere II Is situated
on . commanding elevation on the east side /
e The town on the edge OF sherdans great battle field
'whIriiug through Winchester The cemetery is IN
the form Of square, OF i've acres neatly enclosed with
whdewashed pangs II = laid out IN squares separated
by walks. which will he graveled, and proteet with
cutters OF brick the sides The barred soldiers |
divided into groups by states Each soldier has grav.
with mound, which will be covered with grass
and which Is marked by nest beadbosrd painted |
white with the name, state and company OF the
excepting the unknown OF which the number y less
than one would suppose The country CLEANED OF the
Union dead for this graveyard stretches from Hspers
Very up the Valley 10 New Market and from the Blue
Ridge the leghanies including twenty battle fields
less The Union dead already gathered into
tbs cemetery from this section number 3d. and still
~ S4s
stanton they have another cemetery for the M.
section OF the valley another at Grafton IVES, VIZ
rinia which, with all the other cemeteries OF the Union
Colonel NJ Moore =. wsshngsop Alongside this Win.
chester Union cemetery is the "sonewali Cemetery
and apparently a. well SIed as i.s nelshSor sl,housh
the dead OF tho enemy here buried gathered only
-sihor counties Ten states are repressned each by
monnment 10 this ''jionewa Csmetay," but the sol.
die are buried in squares instead Of separate graves.
accepting officers. aud the rough implanted head.
boards are rapidly falling into decav The only State
,.onumen, IN the Union cemetery that Of New Hsnp-
shire. which ~ OF New Hampshire granac New York
vtth the larges proportion OF graves nsl ought TO
have one OF New York marble. |
In ~A1UIR 10 tsrsnr xtnr arA
town 10 the valley y looking up and all CONTRIBUTING
something for the suffering SOUTH pop ulaon here
osoccupied; but the Old time gayey Of he place is
gone. There IN show Of fashions the toan street
fearful proportion somhre black tn. ,umber OF
widows In this and all the other towns mp auutop
.s .hs hs 1850 =, sr -.
~ the Union, to good looking aud desrahie Yam
fee add not few Of these widows are handsome and
romplshed women The young, marraseaols women
here and through the valley also largely cess Of
the young men, the village Of Newtown for ,mple
Does not tis call FOR another Northern INVASION
Flour hcre soils from al SIS the barrel b, tier
cents dozen. &c satisfactory evidence that ,peo
pae We issve them satisfied tia. hey
arc on the hgh road 20 prosperity.
Attempted suicide Of Ex-Reeei Omces-
The Cause Pecunlary En,bnrrnssmept and
Fs'1ical Prosrri ption--He 10 Rescued BY Mo-
acni Aid-bopcs of His Rccovery--Poiiticsi
reaction Among the Biscks-Psrties in vir-
s'ns and their rsders-Prcscnt uenfs and
sseA@en'es Tndcrwocd.s Conrts. &c.
RoSoSn, Va. MAY rs, 1867
Se'S oemmotor aud eIcitement vas occasoned this
nern nc among The elsssns here by the
efhe a"emp'ed suicide o. Colonel Brscoe a. baldwin
81 momAer Of General Lees STAFF and late chief o. ord
nance Of the Amy o. Northern vrani. Tho as.ound-
'ne intelligence spread rapSy and vas ths ,uh,e, of
anxious discussion and deep regret ~ ali Who knew The
colonel but upon the arrival Of some friends The f,c,s
we're sndeavorsd 60 be suppressed With view 10 save
ihe feelings Of the famy-sbe newspapers here being
particularly requested 70 make no u.n,,on a,
ibe sad affair The orcsmsiances AZ az :.
learn, are thai oolot. BALDWIN, las,
ngbt returned the Ballard HOWE hls hotel At late
heor He did not make bis appearance hh morning