Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-12-06
LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.
Special Correspondence Of The Journal and S'atsman.
CAPEvILLE, NORTHAMPTON Co., VA,
NoYemher %. 1867.

Speeldt Correspondence V fie Joufhdt ana Sdesmah
CAPEvILLE, NORTHAMPTON Co., VA,
November 80, 1867. !
DEAR JOURNAL The most noteworthy
event of'a local nature here since my last,
is the placing of the new and elegant steamer
Sue on the route from Cherrystone to Balti-
more Cia Crlsfeld once week. II Messrs.
Harlan & Hollingsworth Il Co., would only
run her three times week on that route,
the little cookie shell OF steamer Eotas
would have to look for another route. To
give YOU an idea of the trade at Oherrystone,
the agent of the BOlus told me the other day
that lie had received and shipped to Norfolk
by her this fall, six thousand barrels ot pota-
toes The Sue on her last trip took up four
hundred bushels of them TO Baltimore. II
the Railroad Company will only moderate
| their charges, large freight will go over
the road to Philadelphia. Now II goes TO
Baltimore, and then to Philadelphia oEd the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. This
round about way is far cheaper than the
direct route via the Peninsula Railroad so
that to take off the freight at Crisfield,
lower schedule for local freight must be
adopted This have no doubtwi1 be done
in time, as 1t takes time for largo companies
to sec their own interest. However, a be-
| ginning is made, and the Railroad will GER
tainly follow.
The heavy crop OF fall IRISH potatoes, at
tho present price-eighty cents-is bringing
money into this County quite literally, and
now that there IS prospect Of o way TO get
produce to market, more iarpers Will 20 TO
trucking than ever. We haye had but one
heavy frost, and a thin skim OF ice once this
fall; tho thermometer to-day indicates 55
degrees, and pleasant Indian Summer wealth
or all the time. The chillS or fever and
ague is about over for the year; still, from
what hear from your State, this County
will compare iavorably with Delaware south
; of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, az
chils and fever have been quite heavy there
80 am informed
There IS perceptble movcment here
i among the gentry to put some land IN the
, market, as for q year past it has all Deer
/ withdrawn from sale. Now, quite numbel
' of small farms, at from twenty TO thirty-hV'
: dollars per acre, can be had on liberal terms
4 Whether II is the dread of the Richmond
Q Convention or not, do not Know; but on
L thing think is quite certain, that more liant
!. will be in the market In the Spring than wa
r ever known before. The negroes all wan
ii confiscation in some shape or other, and tn
# Convention will have tough time TO recon
:. c,lc all interests. The truth is, Congres
ought TO have aeized and sold all the wealth
Rebels land--less one hundred acres--an
Y paid the war expenses with y, instead :
I, grinding the Union people OF the MORT
Will OnGIOub lhAGbs II Ahp INV WSAAN AA'
- sell, parcel it out on Military Bounty lane
rs ie that and that only would open the eyes
" these red-handed rascals TO the enormlty
their crimes. To let them go OIL scot-tre
40 only freeing the negroes, some Oh the o.
10 Ut and young ones Of whom 1t is a blessing
+, get clear Of, was no punishment for any sue
No crime as they committed.
rI n1 see everything-since the Northern ele
n. tions went against us-ls gong LOT SIal
W | 10 al rt0l,f huf Uhnu | vote ara
~. ~ / want 10 know who am voting Tor, or
=, 'rS shall do as did by Toy-stay away.
y, Grant is a straight ont Republican, am
oe him. il not, am against him. johnson
enough of his kind for generation at lea
he What the Black vote of the South will
arc On masse for Grant, no one can uenyi =
H. something else is necessary in canuiui
W now, as we have been trlcked ny lyler, ~
'rl more and johnson, all of whom, upon reat
nd inp the Presidency, thought proper to thr'
no their old professions and friends over, a
MD take up with political enemies OF the pal
bt- that eiected them. So | think 1t is NJ
for about time to know who We nominate, a
re. the convention ought not to goit Dllno
any one. -. ...,.,,,oo
lrt, Congress has the Delaware Consututloh
UNI fore them, inquiring into us rolten uoiou
nth avatem of tho minority OF Kent and Susi
is n eiectine two-thirds Of the Legislature, wi
en-. tho majority Of New Castle only elects o
nm third Of the same. doubt that any g
and can come of this; the truth is, so long as I
ned people of New Castle county love On
ypie better than principle, lust so long WIN ~
rite and Sussex keep them in sublugauon'
let tie majority of the citizens Of the Sta
We who wi we know live in New Castle Coun
rneI WI raise "a M IN tho majesty of their strength 2
rcot rno demand in trumpet tones, their just rigi
Ion' and take measures to enforce them, and u
ooia @ Kent and Sussex, seeing the people in earn,
and will give up the present system OF minor nof
and rule. Let the peopls ., Ne~ oy lam anv n
IL lax or recognize any laws passed ny
,s non nrescut or former Legislature, and that '
nav riyo Congress right to interfere, but u
%Sy n;rs there is no case made up 10 act upon. =,
Yours truly,