The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-10
Local Matters on Third Page.
g4r,prq. A Novel. By JULIA PLEA.

~ora. hecn restricted to the magazines, and
-. ;s the first volume she has published
,;thout having originally passed through
hat medium. We venture to foretell that
twill meet with high and just favor, es-
-s,;sllv in the South, nor be altogether un-
,,neptable to such portions of the northern
rsap'c as are not deaf and blind through
-reipdice and passion. To persons of taste
rpvcry quarter of the country the skill with
yb;ch character is delineated, and the ami
--,tion with which the narrative is con-
saced will not fail to render it attractive.
The tale is thrown into the shape of an
,g;obiography, in which the heroine, re-
dent Of Callamura,-one of those delight
e, homes once so common in the South
,s,.s all that she heard and saw before and
arin- that terrible visitation which found
tie South smiling garden and left it
.,wlinr wilderness. Callamura is the seat
wealth and refnement-in the midst of
-.o,tbv and refined -neighborhood. The
,,.,;,aIity Of the owner is unbounded the
~
1 ..,.a i crowded with visitors from one
l .s,L,s end to another. The author takes
1 .irsrtage Of this circumstance to give Us
amber of portraits, executed with great
ssTl and fidelity, in which each sitter is
rs1e 10 talk, and thus betray his own cha
-srter and mode Of thought. Callamura,
1Aru first introduced TO the reader, is en-
,5anted ground, within whose precincts all
i pleasant and full of promise. But a
,esrirl! change is at hand. The war begins !;
,se society is broken up, and its members
3;srersed TO the four winds Of Heaven. The
T5gng and brave rush to the battlefield,
seyer 10 return, or to return MANNED, Grip
led, and disfgured for life. Horde sue
] .eeis horde Of barbarians, collected from
Al. countries of the earth:
A Amult!tGdc lik. which the populous North
PagrrIuevcr from her frozen loins 10 pass
Rheac or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons
Came Ike deiuge on the South, and spread
4 Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands"
Patriotism, valor, endurance, are all IN
vain. By sheer weight OF numbers, after
resistance Of four years, the most heroic,
he mos; persistent, ever offered since the
s5rll began by an invaded people, no.
$50 wnrn out, half-starvcG, ill-ciad, half
s.nci men surrender to l, ,l60, 600 enemies
rryiled with everything they could desire
4 rlser as men or soldiers. Such resist
s,sp eould not be forgiven. Every trial
through which it was conceivable that man
4 s#i pass was imposed upon the PROSTATE
.1I helpless South by those who had injured
/ serso deeply, and for that reason couldnever
trciyc The book closes with an eloquent
aul :ervcnt denunciation Of the greatest OF
,.e.e--the suhiection, namely, Of highly
a civilized white race to the domination OF
ID ignorant and emi-barbarous horde OF
lesrocs. There is Of course a love story
Z running through the book, which, for the
Z s,nt Of room, we are compelled to dismiss
+ S.ia the remark that it is full Of interest to
& 81 readers Of all ages and classes.
Il could not have been expected that
q F9.k Of this description could escape the
ensure Of the Radical press. Accordingly,
&: ienunciations have been loud and Bit
d sr, evidently showing that the arrow has
4 ,Io2k the mark and still rankles in the
y Tat.d. The New York Tribune opens the
.'y, and the whole pack join in the chase.
4 writer in that paper, under dare Of Sep
3 >Ztcr I'D, at the very time when 1t was
q l'NlDg TO impress the North with the be-
j "@! that the whole South was engaged in
. LIE delightful pastime of numbering ne
i'1gs, tells us that the morbid and aRhdppy
4 sale Of feeling prevalent in the South is
A 'esy apparent in the pages Of this book
Z Gdi stories Of the war are to be depre-
4 Gated at this time, bccaGse il is impossi-
= = t-e that they can be in anything but par
a |s"l spirit that the style Of CdlldUttr0
4 crude in the extreme" and that the au
q 'Aoress is an imitator Of Miss EVANS &c.
9 MIN regard to the first count in this in
3 .&inent we would respectfully ask what
a -as been done by our Radical rulers to
a 'aIer the state OF feeling less morbid than
q Ills alleged 10 be, Is 1.-THE disfranchisement
4 " -ai the white population. and the en-
"AAchlsement Of Nl the negroes Is II
-eTeIuction Of the whole South into pro-
''-.e', "lth satrap to each Is it negro
.--Eage ISit the law passed in one Of the
'''eS 10 encourage murder Is 1t the test
'l', that surrender all the offices into the
-'oa' OF carpetbaggers Or is it, finally,
q -' unuttcrable lies published By such
meets as the Tribune to prove that we are
q "a state Of rebellion? For which Of these
''0!s are we expected to be SO grateful that
'uorol1 state Of feeling should no longer
a Isl among uss Or is it for the whole of
q ~en taken together! I'd. The second count
7 '0r that the authoress has selected an i'm
& roper time, as being too near the time of
'' occurrences themselves. We hear no
a ''!Feaension from that quarter of the in
,'~eFaoIe hctions swarming in the Yankee
-'sal'nes the object of which is to glorify
''1Eee Yalor in war in which they stood
i o'e to one of their enemy. Perhaps it
convenient that contemporary record
-'14 exist Of the atrocities that disgraced
- INVASION. Sd. Here the authoress is
--iseI u. 4 initiating Miss EVANS. We
- '4!y gay that if there is any imitation
Ae Case the imitator is Miss EVANS her
q ' ior the authoress OF Ca!!antterG pub
>D'o twenty years ago, in southern
Z r-ss1Ae, novel, in which the style of
4 "0'''To is distinctly marked. But there