The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-26
girhuoud lispatfh.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1871.
Letter from North Carolina.
f,oyreanondcace or the Richmond tNapst'

Correspondence OF the h'cnin""1 - ,o-,
OXFORD, N. c.. October ~. ION M
AL have not written letter TO tDs III III,
.,eah &, snr,e two months. it is proeania
htoh time that should send sno' meets
Liter which is the only kind tha' hi's''
your wants. =. .,,s greatest OF all
tobacco counties (Gransine} onr planters
average. al ncry SUPERIOR sS crops. The fine
nase u nT this county * par e1cete'Ne
sonanco I'd brighter than that mace IN any
~, nc this vast country, anu uuu's Nv,
n,r most successful raiseisv. tiiu ~, s,,.;n
ou ,, h ho a,Ie TO send TO market next spring
WI, =. cTcry way equal to those shipped to
Edmond. Petersburg, and Dauvlile nero
800 one OF our farmers, Mr.. Denis
,ri,Icv. sold his best leaf Of the crop OF 1863
for SJ31 nrr hundred, and Of the crop Of
1870 for SIP. he is capital farmer, and
owns n very fine farm. His tobacco crop
Of 1859 averaged him to the hand quite
$1,000, besides raising his own pork, corn
wheat, oats, &c. Pretty good farming tels.
Can Texas, Louisiana. MISSISSIPPI, OF T T,s
other State, beat this? trow not; Inc
wheat crop was quite interior, ana as
rsS,,It wc have to nay $40 a barrel Tor very
moor f,our. $50 called" Our corn crop 90 70
fine, and No. corn can be pouSh' ioi W
Der barrel ns.
70 :, dnubt not. better than that Of any
cn,,ulv in this State. There hayc been lew
failures since the war, and comparatively
but few baukrup;s. Our people have never
been "fast" or eXtrava"ant; hence theY
did not owe very much when the negroes
were freed. Our merchants have been al"
most invariably successful. Know large
firm that in a seven years business did not
lose over $3.50, although doing general
credit business.
The lands of this county are desirable. l
was recently travelling in Maryland, and
am satisfied that our Granville lands are
every way equal to any i saw. Manure as
highly as the Maryland farmers do, and
cultivate as judiciously, and l am certain
our planters would make as much to the
acre or TO the hand. In Maryland YOU
must pay from so to 500 per acre, whilst
in Granville you can purchase good lana
near the railroad at from $40 to Sl5, and "a
few miles distant at from So to 49,.
The gentleman from Virginia who spoke
of publishing paper here has abandoned
the project, presume. We need paper,
and | know in the State no better point
that is unoccupied for the publication al a
well.edited, we'll printed weekly or semi
weekly. We have another tobacco factory
lust started. 1t is owned by Dir. Caleb
Osborn. This makes our sixth.
MIR. S. r. Hunt, Of this county, planted
five acres in strawberries and grapes, from
which he realized last summer the hand
some sum of 81 $50. This will do.
The Radicals had meeting here last
Saturday. There was quite crowd Of
negroes, and the usual amount of drum
ming and talking was gone through with.
| have not been able to learn what Is IN the
wind.
The Legislature of our State will meet in
q few weeks, and it has very serious work
before them. The finances are In very
bad condition, the people are ground down
with taxation, and there IS dlScohtent as Il
result. The whole subject of taxation is
to be considered, and possibly in conncc-
ton with it the question of paying the inte-
rest on old and new bonds will have to be
discussed and acted upon. There will be
no Reputation, hut | do not think the new
bonds that have been st Glen and sold by the
thieves will he paid in full. Probably they
will be redeemed at what they were worth
in market at the time Of the sale.
| attended the state Fair ut Raleigh on
the first day. Judging from what l saw,
tho Fair was failure.
Raleigh is steadily improving, and one OF
these days it will have ten thousand people.
Two new papers have just been started
the North CarOiim0n, Il Democratic daily,
edited ny Major w. A. Iicarnc. and the
temperance banner, II very handsome
weekly, edited hy Thco. N. Ramsay.
On my return l tarricd Il few hours at
Henderson, and WAS pleased to note that
many new buildings hal hcrn erected in
the burnt district. No additional clue has
been found rs to the inccndiary who set lire
to this once pretty place and Laid in ruins
tnirty-siX buildings.
The Central Fair, lately held at Hcndcr-
son, was thought to be Il successful cXpel-
mcnt. GRANVILLE.