The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-12

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she natural advantages .of yisEinsa.
whether Id regard 10 soil climate, or mine
rnl seeeurccs, never fail 10 strike an obser-
want stranger with force, while to the ma
! tssesh born they are not estimated at their
true vaiue on account sof our Familiarity
with them. The stranger sees here much
TO recoume nd IL as q new country--lands
,thst no plowthare has ever turned, and
forests Of primeval growth, with. the addi-
tionAlS recommended Of proximity to the
best markets. And even where the soil has
been PARTIAL worked down, the means are
at hand, under an improved system Of cui-
4 tnres OF net only restoring it TO it's original
fertility. but Of aading to sit indefinitely.
We have, moreover, the advantages Of d
neWcountry In the chcapnese Of the 1ands--
4 If not so cheap norninafiy, yet vastly more
8 SO relatively than my others open TO large
settlements. And. what is true of Virginia
is for the most part true Of ali the southern
States but this being a border State, may
be expected, like sill countries inviting I'M
nigration, 20 receive for o time the largest
! accession of settlers.
From all the information which can be
obtained, the number Of persons who have
B bought farms, with chose who may be- con-
Z fidentiy expected to buy, will make in the
I course Of the year quite q respectable be-
ginning. a much greater difficulty at the
first has TO be overcome in moving IN this
direction than in going westward. PreJu-
iices founded on social conside rasions de-
Ter many for avn iief but in time they give.
way to the progress Of intelligence For:
every emigrant who comes amongst us, and
{ is pleased with the change, we may expect
him to exercise saiataTy influence in In.
ducing his friends to try their fortune also,
and the stream Of immigration will be re-
inforced from year to year until the most
& important results are achieved. After
{ awhile people will begin to come in colonies.
"A number of persons have visited these
parts with the professed design of Purcha s
ing farms, but who have returned home IN
state of indecision. This may be easily
accounted for. The land agent takes them
s round. and shows them farm after farm, UNI
til their minds become utterly confused,
and they are unable to make choice. The
object Of both seller and purchaser is thus
defeated. If the purchasers predictions
had been ascertained, and two or three.
places corresponding Herewith had been
submitted to his inspection, he might have
d
satisfactory. . This is the plan adopted by
4 the most successful agent we have among
!. US, and he has scarcely ever failed to effect
a sale that was agreeable to both parties.
It is important to know beforehand what
the buyer wants, and then to meet his re-
quirements in candid and jndicious man
ner, doing equal justice to both parties.
We have case to-dayof a councilman
one of the new appointments-being brought
up before the Mayor charged with viola
ton of the license laws. The name of the
party is Eek Steere. According to his own
statement, it appears that the firm of which
he is member keeps two houses--one near
the market-house, as receiving store for
junk, and the other on Old street, where
the books are kept and money received and
paid, the business at both places being
transacted under one license. The Mayor
adiudged it to be clear infraction of the
law, but fOrebore to impose any penalty on
condition that the firm would take out two
licenses; and with this understanding the
case was dismissed. We have no fault to
find with the Mayors decision, but we
regret that one of the City Fathers should
have been implicated in matter Of such
questionable propriety. 5.