The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-17
OUR LEXINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
LEXINGTON Va. Jan. 18th 1861.

LEXINGTON VA, Jan. 18th 1867.
EDITOR NATIVE VIRGINIAN:-I fear
that at this late date anythiGsin .rela-
ton to Christmas will be considered
stale and antiqlated-but Christmas
here, | weeh, is different front Christ
mas anywhere else in our good old Com
monweaith. L viii lay / wager that
there were more fire crackers burned
and more nig8ers shot in this little
town, during that week, than III any
other in the State, not even excepting
''Big Richmond' or Gordonsville. Be-
sides those ''native here and to the man
ner born" there are about six hundred
young men at our Literary Institutions,
nearly all of whom seemed fired with
an holy enthusiasm in the cause of pop
crackers and confusion during that week
OF weeks. Woe betide the unweary
citizens who attempted to pass along
the streets during that time Crackers
to the right of them, erackerst0 the left
of them crackers to the front of them
beloved and Numbered. Crackers
DER the heads of them, crackers, meath
the feet of them, crackers to the rear of
them still threw the brave six hundred.
Two negroes were shot during the
week, one of whom has since died,
though ii is due to the whites to say
that the probability is he was shot by
one of his own race coroner's exami-
nation was held super Uisum cOrp0rtSi but
nothing was elected whereby to attach
suspicion to any one.
Such was the confusion and turbu-
lance of the times, that the town coun-
Gil had to make arrangements for a
special police in order TO deter his
highness of the Bureau from asking a
detachment of troops from Schofield, to
be permanently located here.
The ladies of the town held levees on
a small scale on New Years day and
dispensed Egg-nogg, wine, coffee and
smiles to their friends. An impromptu
Grafton was gotten up by the gentlemen
in honour of General Lee. They pro-
posed to go around in a body to his
residence, and collectively wish him
the compliments OF the season, but the
General was occupied in college that
day, there being no suspension and SO
our worthy burghers marched back-ds-
appointed and crest-fallen at not see
ing him. Your correspondent had the
pleasure, later in the day, OF calling to
pay his respects to the ladies of the
family and greeting the loved ChIeftain
of better days-as courteous, grand and
noble in his parlor as he was great and
good in the field.
j might describe the family scene that
/ witnessed there as model for all fam
lily reunions In our land, but consider
that in so doing | would violate the
confidencelof those whoreceived me as =
private gentlemen-not as a correspon-
dent Of a public newspaper. We will
all wish them many happy NewYear's
and retire. 7aHf
We ought to give your lady readers
some idea of what a Paradise Lexing-
ton is, 1 will tell them that any lady
here who is moderately good looking
has more beaux than she can count and
that they always have engagements
for church six weeks ahead. Counting
is so common that a lady sometimes
discards man before he pops the ques-
tion-and, in short, if some of your
Orange ladies were to come over they
might fondly believe that the war had
come again-that the streets would be
paved afresh, and that they were to
have, once more, as much attention as
they wanted. Alas, that they did not
take advantage of those times, and oh
for another opportunity, aided by the
lamp Of their Experience 3imt
STOWELL.