The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-09-07
LyScURURG. September 5, 1868.


There is but little of interest stirring in
"the Hill City," Some of the business
houses are doing we'll. A great deal Of to-
bacco has been sold in this market, and
still the tobacco horn is heardday by day
summoning the buyers to the breahs. But
little has been done in the way of manu-
featuring the weed, and most of the facto-
ries are now closed. But few new build
iugs are going up in the city, and there
are but few signs of growth and pros
perity that present themselves to the
eye of the casual observer as he ira
verses the rough thoroughfares that lie
along the sides and over the SUBMITS
of these hills ON which Lynchburg is built.
There is, nevertheless, great deal OF wealth
this city, and there ought to be, as 1t
strikes looker-on, q larger amount of the
city revenue expended in the improvement
of the streets and in the construction OF new
public buildings. The old market-house,
in the very heart of the business part OF the
city, is an eye-sore, and standing re-
proach to the public spirit of the wealthy
real estate owners Of this enterprising cen
tire of trade and of social refinement and
taste. The railroad consolidation, which
occupied so much Of the attention of the
public in this community some time ago,
may be doing something for the commercial
prosperity of Memphis and Norfolk, but
il confers no benefits on Lynchburg
Through frcights that roll over the whole
line of consolidated roads are cheap enough,
but way freights, for short distance, and
such as are intended to stop at Lynchburg
are complained of as being proportionately
very high. Lynchburg, as corporation,
has large interest in the Virginia and
Tennessee railroad, and the citizens are
yearly paying burdensome tax on the city
bonds, and yet the road is making but small
returns for this large outlay. A reduction
of way freights destined to Lynchburg
would prove compensation for the rail
/ road tax levied on the citizens to pay the
interest on the city railroad bonds. The
y evil complained of will in time correct
itself. But enough of this.
The latter rains" have been abundant,
and, rs a result, the corn crops were never
better in the surrounding country. The
farmers have had fine season for fallow-
ing, and already the scotsman is scattering
the wheat over these fertile hills and valleys
for another crop. Vegetables of all kinds
are abundant, and the prices are reasonable.
We have some peaches, and plenty Of fine
apples in this market. The gardeners and
truckmen, ! should think, were doing q
good business, and yet there is great deal
Of cant among the poor in and around the
city.
Politics create but little concern, merely
for the reason thst our people can do no.
thing. A Conservative club of a consider
able number Of highly respectable colored
men has been formed in this city. There
is manifestly q healthful reaction going on
among the colored population Of this COM
munity. l....
The removal Of Randolph Macon College
from Boydton to Ashland meets with uni
versal approval among the people of Lynch
burg and its vicinity. A common senti-
ment of satisfaction is expressed in favor
of the faculty recently appointed in Rich
mond by the Committee Of Election. It is
believed that wise discretion governed the
committee in the selection Of the professors
to fill the several chairs. The president