Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-07-28
Lester from Loudoun Co., va.


[Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
LEEsBURa, Va, July 2T.-Just in the best
time we had several fine rains during the past
week, and the corn is wonderfully tourshDg.
The showers were gentle, and at intervals OF
twenty four to thirty-six hours, and tor the
last two days we have had Scotch mist, which
now promises a soaking rain.
Cucumbcrs and such like vegetables died IN
the hill, and some early garden corn persisted
after tasselIiDg and shooting.
4 gentleman recently returned from Ohio,
says the drought thereh has been much worse than
here, and he is now more fully convinced than
eyer that Loudoun county is the most favored
region on the face of the United States.
Abundanty Watered, with fine water power
and in great plenty, its streams have so many
| branches, and run into so many different out
lets that the destructive freshets recorded else
where, are impossible here.
| Some of its waters empty into the Potomac
| mile below HaTper's Ferry, and west OF the
| Short Hill others into that river between the
Short Hill and Catoctin Mountains; others
| still into the same at many points covering
river front of 80 miles, while yet another rises
! at Aldic and runs into the OccoQuan tlVer,
J.
| Alexandria, Again Goose Creek rises in Eau
| ouier, and after receiving many afflucnts from
South to North, and running course Of forty
miles, also enters the Potomac
Three or four parallel mountain ranges give
variety to the scenery and health to its people,
while its fine schools and many churches, cdu-
cate and give excellent moral tone to its In
| habtants.
| .. MINERAL SPRINGS.
| At FarmWell Station, On the lands OF the
! late Dr. Geo. Lee, there is a fine sulphur
spring, which is attracting some attention. In
| old times its waters were much esteemed and
| some recent cases have again brought it into
notice Tarmwell is 81 miles from Alcxan
| dria. ....--..
Again, at MERCER Depot, sig miles above
| Lcosburg, and forty-thrce from Alexandria, and
| in beautiful country, there is fine spring
| possessing highly tonic qualities, and yet again
| in the Blue Ridge above Hillsborough there is
said to be a very remarkable spring Of sweet
excellent water that is wonderfully curative in
| its Qualities This is about seventy five yards
from the line Of the road, and not lar from the
Shunnondaie Springs.
| SO that when our railroad is completed to
the county line, We will probably have our
fashionable watering places and the money
together VIII tucu lUlIy auu uI1IcI OibW DdChS.
-. Just to think of having Saratoga within
thirty miles of Washington and Oh 4 railroad.
| Won't the lands in South Loudoun hop UP?
understand the Common Council has been
| raced from - to 4, and that it is impossible
| to get that number without getting 1fer Of
| the Loudoun Guard Rebel Company and some
others that were not always as purely loyal as
Mr. Sumner, in their acts and words hateVer
| their sentiments may have been. You know
some men have Opinions for the community
and sentiments OF their own; and, therefore,
when things change and the sentiment may
bring honor or profit it straightway becomes
the opinion!
We'll, the next three months will determine
this matter for good or evil TO Us, and all we
can do is $50 learn TO tabor and to 1caH.
If The Northern people can stand military
dcspotism / suppose We shall be Obliged to do
so but what would the people Of Philadelphia
say if their Common Council were removed by
military orders and new one appointed? and,
il there were rot enough Of the way OF think
ing held by the commander, he should reduce
the number fixed by law to one halt that num-
Der; and yet this is done in community in
which there has not been 1St F9ht for tro
yenlS. The situation Of the Radicals reminds
me very much Of the desperate state Of the
late C0nfedcracy in February 1865, when enc
half the army vas ready to give up and yet the
most stringent means Wcro used to brlng more
disGffected men into the ranks to be starved 10
the point at which manhood gives way!
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