Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-05-03
LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.

Special Correspondence Of he Journal and Sdistaan.
OAPEvILLE, NORTHAMPTON CounTY, Va,
April "a, 1867. I |
DEAR JOURNAL Long before this reaches
YOU, corn planting for this season will be over |
in this county, and the farmers engaged in plant
ing King Cotton. From oil see and hear
a good deal of land will this year be planted iu |
cotton, Notwithstanding the cutlery about the |
tax. They know it pays them TO raise cotton |
at % cents per lb., and no one puts the coming !
crop Mt less figure There is a large quantity |
Of cotton in the seed now contracted for at 81 |
cents, to he delivered by Christmas; the cotton |
ginned in Norfolk BY selling in the seed the
farmer avoids all trouble about the tax, as
il only applies to the article in its marketable
order. Cotton in the seed is taken in all guam
Titles by the country merchants and sent TO the
gins to he cleaned and hailed up for them.
The sweet pc ato crop here fear will be a
short on", on account Of the rains in March rot.
ting So much seed in the hot beds very few
will have more than half what they ekpec'ad,
anl the same is the with the far .ners around
Norfolk and Nansemond counties. Early Irish
potatoes are up, and heavy crop was planted
here of thom they will be 10 market last of
May anil FIRST OF June. Garden peas are in bios
son. Cattle al turned out on the grass, which
il making them look better ALREADY. Water
MELONS aud cantelopes are oil planted and most
ly up growing. A frost here after this time is
u very rare ihlnR, not once IN u unLeu years; HU
youcan form some idea Of the susceplibiities Of
this county for early truck and vegetables. We
can beat the Jerseymen at least two weeks, and
that you know is everything. In marketing
with Rail Road TO Cape Charles we could keep
one train day running up early vegetables to
| Philadelphia and New York before they would
l think of such thing il Delaware or jersey
A Ril Road down this Peninsula would open
! mp one of tho best market countries to be found
/. 10 a.ttn Va hau - lLa
sterile sand banks that you see all the way from
i Seaford 10 Princess Ann. There ia more worth
c leg y land around Salisbury than in this and Ac-
comnc counties combined. 20 or 80 bushels Of
, white Wheat per acre eau be raised here, and |
u was TOLD the other day by az old resident that
G the average Of the county before the rebellion,
; Or war, as he politely termed It, WAS 20 bushels
G per acre. The crop Of 1881 was the heaviest
= ever known here, and that, owing to the block.
C ndt of that year, rotted in the stack. This dis.
. Outraged the farmers from sowing any when
:; until this season; now 1t is beginning again tC
d m'lo its appearance as o crop Shell Lime col
be got here in any quantity aud at low rate, ai
thtreare shela enough in the Sound around Mock
IS horn & Smiths Island to cover these two oouu
A. ties foot deep in them. Millions Of bushels arr
bare at low tide and easily taken up any OF thu
L. small cr4eks. A little enterprise and some cap
G. ital il all that is required to make this wha
nature designed il to be, garden and trucl
lr country. t.a.4 ..|-.rs9
see by tho papers that the political pot be
gius to boil in Richmond and that Convention
III is now 10 session there with delegates from al
parts Of the State. This, 30 far as these tw
81 counties are coucerned, is not so II any dele
y, gates ara there from them they sent themselves
~ no meeting in either Of them has been held 70
p any such PURPOSE and don't believe any vii
~ be held for any purpose until General SchOhel
= registers the voters. The people here, no,
that they realize the fact that they are conquer
~ ed wait patiently TO see what Ia wanted Of theE
w and they will try and do it with as good erac
Ic1 ns possibe. They now manifest no uueasnes
Oh about negro Suffrage, for they very we'll know
O. will do them no harm, as told yoa in formJ
ny Letter The negroes Of the cities and towns an
~ those that went into our army will more or les
~ allnte with Northern men, but the great bull
?. Of the negroes, the plantation hands are wit
W their former masters, and look up TO them Jul
all the same as before the rebellion they know 4
other home or any other place they have new,
od beOn allowed 10 travel, have no education, al
Ia for that matter. they are not so far behind son
,r;I o. their masters. They take no papers and oou
ID not read them II sent to them everything the
~ hear is told them by their folner master or
tnt children, and they take il as Gospel. Whenev
"a tue negro vote OF Virginia is polled it will
~ found pollel for their former masters. Ma
III that prediction. II the negroes we're 10 TOW
aud cities where Union men and soldiers wer
r ~ ii might and would be different but take il
~ il is now, not what it ought to be, all the III
Ysp odcs Of Sumner to the contrary. This Fall "
settle the matter and you will sec who is rigl
m lie or your correspondent, % ~ @en' q
cnt My peurest neigbbor, Mr. Jarvis, and by
WI why graduate of Delaware College, owned |
the fore the rebellion several negroes, men WON
thc aud children. They wore freed and be told tn
ID bo, and that they could go about their busine
h is lhey stald ana nov all she9 Can MoIh 40 80,
odd lqartrfs; the young niggers. as they call the
ruil about the grass as happy as pigsi when II