The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-27
Sesc, Of o Tour Tarough virginia.

Soscs of q Tour Through Virginia.
ri. y.R. {Dr. Redficld), of the Cineinnst'
rinia last week, and wrote four COLUMNS o.
facis aud crude opinions TO his paper. We
make the following extracts:
RICHMOND.
Cold and cross and hungry, we reached
Richmond at IN the afternoon. Inc pas
Sen9ers were not numerous, but miSht come
under the head Of select. There was the
usuaj bridal couple on board, from Lower
Virginia, who had been North on TOUR.
IIoneymooning it In the North Is not as
Fashionable as II used to be, for 1t costs too
much. The young southerner who has I'VE
. hundred dollars to spend on bridal tour Is
fortunate creature, for not one IN thou
sand are so we'll situated. You Of the popu-
lous and wealthy North may smile ut this,
but it is a fact. The young southerDer VINO
has ANYTHING at all has it in land, which Is
lust now the hardest 10 cash OF any species
of property. The poor young men Of the
South are such as have inherited inter-
e,ts in plantations. They have TO pay taxes,
and provide for the estates debts, or the
whole will slip out from under Them ut the
thud Of the auctionecr's BANNER. But am
getting into q subject that will take column
To- sc. out, and cut it. Others OF our car
load were inyalids, of whom great numbers
are win"ing their way southwark, now that
the winters snow and chilling blast have
swept over the land. The irrepresSible New
York dr,i,nmers were, Of course, represented.
Tncy said trade was dull, and some Oh them
were so blue about 1t as to set resoiutely
aoout consuming their own samples. W befe
the samples are liquid (unless the drummer
* = drlI-ois,l this is not considered diSa-
prcea.,e feature Of the business. Then there
were southerners coming home from the
North, and wondering as they shook ana
sh,yered how "the Yankees" could live and
prosper rs they do in such cold, cold coun-
try As The far North. 1t is q little strange,
bpt tric. that the richest States are the cold
est, while the further South you come and
the more "ceuial" the climate, proportion
ate!y there is falling of of material prosper
ity. We all know this is true. but 10 not
see the cause alike, SO let every fellow reason
il out TO suit himself.
Richmond boasts Of her rapidly -ncreasing
population, and if all other branches OF In
dustry are swelling out like her swarm OF
hotel lrlmmers the boast is not without
basis. To-day there were three to each pas.
scngcr. Such bowling, and jostling, and
grabbing for carpct-bags ii would lie lard for
Que of cold imagination to picture. was
sorry for the sick men. If their nervous sys-
tens survive the ordeal l think they are not
built upon the sand, and will last long time.
Outside of Louisville there is not in the
South more busy, busting city than Rich
mond. The roar and rumpuS Of its iron
boundaries, nail works, and Touring mills on
the tumbling James give it business air,
IN bfa Of and
city bonds.
cuEsAFEAKE AND CHIC RAILROAD.
This road, which is to bind Richmond and
Cincinnati in the bonds Of close commercial
communion, approaches completion. 1t will
be open for business in February-sOmc say
before, but ! think not The road will be OF
IS much importance to Cincinnati as to Rich
mond, but they seem to be paying more at
1cl:ton TO it here than there. The road was
written up in magnificent length in the Com
mcrciai last spring, and the articles copied
here, where they seemed to impress the
people as being-well, true.
understand that one man III Cincinnati
has contracted for three cars per day during
next year, from the time the road is opened
t. carry freight from That city to this. With
ont becoming excited and Stopping over atte1
safe to say that Cincinnati will reap benefit
from this road second only to that Of the Gin
ciunlti Southern; and this, too, without cost
10 herself, unless she advances OH the con.
t.mIlatCd line east OF the city direct to Hunt
ington. But without this SDc has the river
un! boats To navigate il. If the river did not
iloyc iii ugly haoit Of getting out Of Walcl
o. freezing UP, or both. the lilil$boro' anG
. i'ikcton railroad. or whatever the name ct II
j. would not he oi pressing importance.
from Richmond to Cincinnati by the pre-
svnI route is not less than seven hundred and
ii.ty miles. By the new railroad cla Hunt.
iEgton il will not be over six hundred.
TIE vlRGlSIASs AND THEIR GOVERNOR.
The most popular carpct-bagSer now
reigniDg in any southern State is Gilbert
Walker, Governor of Virginia. He is 4 New
Yorker, and came South about the time the
Nar closed. His administration has been a
pronounced success, and to-day he is per.
maps as popular rs any public man iii Viz
:,!n!a.
IN nothing has he been contrary to the
l,lic will sufficiently to raise ripple OF
discomfort. Perhaps his message came as
near it rs anything, wherein he took grounds
against the policy OF turning the James River
canal over to the General Government for
completion. He thought private capital
could be induced to do the work. For this
he has been criticised by the papers, but not
severely, for he had some argument and
suund logic on his side.
lis course in the West Virginia debt diyi-
sion has met with opposition, though not in
all quarters, for who could take Il position
Oh gigantic debt middle satisfactory to
everybody this side Of paymentl And even
payment is not popular with the Firginans
on this side Of the mountains. They insiS,
tIat West Virginia shall pay her part, which
West Virginia declines to do, on the ground
that the Mother State rcaped the benefit for
Which the debt was contracted. | think the
result will be that about sixteen millions OF
dollars will be lost to the creditors. 1t is
one OF the settlements that will never he
made.
TIE CRATE BROWN TAG-[Mack, in st.
Louis Democrat THAT very expressive tag
in the Harper cartoons was the result of an
accident Of omission on the part OF
Mast in preparing his first cartoon after
the Cincinnati Convention. He had
sketched, as ne thought, all the prin
cipal figures, and was ready to hand his
drawing over to the engravers, when friend
called his attention TO the fact that he had
omitted B. GratZ, who, Of course, should have
been one Of the principal figures. Mast wa.
greatly troubled he could not deny the iu
perfection 10 which his attention had beer
called, and yet it was too late to remedy it
for his time was up and the workmen were
waiting on him. He hadn't in his studio
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