The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-02-25
SKETCH OF A TOUR IN VIRGINIA.

}. making tour in his native State, the Old DE-
: mirion, within the month past, and from on
of his letters we extract the following graph
J. description of things as he witnessed them:
REIsTERTowN, (Md.,) Feb. 4. 1869.
1 have just returned from tour through
: Virginia. went first to Richmond. There
you can see the practical workings of the car
pet-baggers, and all of their damnable acts
There is not one local officer, however humble
the position, from Constable up, who has beer
a resident of the city longer than twelve months
It appears that all they are there for is to See
the negroes have what they call their rights y
When say the negroes generally are much
better provided for and have far more liberty
and license than the poor white people, their
style of :" rights can be readily imagined. AS
regular as the dry comes about one thousand
big, grown, hearty negroes walk up to the
=" Soup Houses with their buckets and bas-
kets to draw their rations for three square
meals each day. After getting the buckets
and baskets filled, they repair to their houses
and eat, drink and lounge the whole day
through, without doing stroke of work, and
apparently without caring for anything, except
it be to stand by for the next days rations
They have this good thing all to themselves,
and it looks as if the Government was run only
to support them.in idleness.
The farmers complain very sorey of the ne
groes One will hire negro to work for him;
Mr.. Mig will. likely, work for Il few days, and
then, without Il word of warning or without
consent, leave his employer, 60 to Richmond,
get Radical lawyer to sue the farmer. An
attachment is thereupon served the farmer
has to appear in the Radical carpetbag Court
al Richmond, where the negroes word goes for
everything and the white mans oath for
norhing. and the mockery ends by the farmer
having to pay whatever the negro claims as
wages, together with all the costs To carry
,ut these loyal measures there is stationed III
u regiment of soldiers, who staRd BY
he carpet baggers in all things.
After visiting the grounds held BY Gen. Lee
rlor to his surrender took Il view Of the
esidence occupied BY jeff Davis as the Con-
.derate Presidential mansion 1t is now the
eadquarters of some military tunctlOuary /
Ut from the number of yelled faces saw i
eadiy passing in and out, it seemed more like I
The Burnt District" in Richmond is nearly I
i rebuilt, and in style which any city in the II
nd might be proud of-large, handsome six b
DRY bricks, with marble fronts As yet d
'eat many buildings are unoccupicd, but the &
lly cause which seriously lmpedrs the pro- f
'ess OF business and general trade prosperity il
the unsettled state of affairs, growing out of z
c bad and destructive form of government E.
lposcd by the powers that be-. The people, :"
wever, look forward 10 the day when they c;
i'll be again blessed with local laws and local y,
lers Of their own choice, aud in this impcr- n,
lable hope they continue to nobly struggle 9,
ainst all the vile disabilities which they now m
fer under. When that shall come. Rich =
md, with her grand natural water power, v
II be one of the most Furnishing manufacture
marts of the enlightened world or
From sightseeing of Richmond went to the 81
Vallcy,-frst to Stanton. To get of
that place you have to pass in the cars to
'ough tunnel of the Blue Ridge Mountains qr
: mile long, and we were just three minutes -
nv, . to
ne through That's the place for Jake to mr.
: his Sallie without being told to, " Oh, quit. hi,
Nobody will see u.s." Three minutes isn't de-
Y long for hug of the girl you love; but W. wv
sill do, on 4 squeeze. h,
Stanton is flourishing little town of about sta
90 inhabitants Having learned that the WI
hotel (the Nirglula) was kept by gentle '"s
n named Schetler, and knowing that our
no Delegate elect-the Judgo-haied from Ra
county, thought perhaps might scare for
4 klnshp between mine host" and the fro
.. J. X. But l discovered the hotel Schef ed
to be more on the Teutonic order than our sav
icr, ana ne refused TO admit any relation dis.
with any person who had not served as 9Th
ldier in the Confederacy ple;
he people in that section are better off than rem
my other part of Virginia visited The ia
roes work well and earn their own living in c
having any soldiers stationed there to teach Gee
to live in idleness at the expense of the H tha,
te residents. Staunton is noted for its
superior Institution for the deaf and /