New Orleans Republican., 1873-04-06


fried chicken or coffee. In lieu OF the latter
we had cold tea, with slice OF lemon II
each goblet. After long talk on
matters OF no concern 10 Cne reader our
ing Whlch the General related a number
OF capital war anecdotes. conVrved, as Is
my Won't 10 turn Ine conversation upon
agricultural topics with the view OF impart-
ing to him moolcum OF that consummate
farming Wlsuom WhlcA aPPerlains 10 every
thoroughly concerted scrlooIeF'
"FIne country you nave Genera.
Yes; from Lugston TO the tennessee
line, two hundred good miles the country
Is as hne as the sun ever snone upon
appears 10 De thlnly SERTED:
You may wei! say so. between my
house ana the station tnere are elgnt OF nine
thousand acres, most OF it excellent land,
oeiGnglng 10 only nVe or SIX owners
indeed " hdI are sdcu .HHtuSe tracts
good for nowadays!'
Good tor grass
but they seem 20 pay 1.-THE attention 20
grass
True. i Is splendid cneeSe country
AS have proved, but our people are not up
to that as yet
They r'a grow TOBACCO. l saw some
fine timber sacrificed tor the sake OF new
ground tobacco.
''And why nOts A man gets tired of
pay th@AOo AoA SNSAiCF cA NAAAA ~ = O@sAS va
timber which yields him nothing
l smiled an invisible smile. revertinS IN
my thoughts to an assault l had made the
week before upon my klnsman IN Bucklng
ham. William" said l, why will you
Southside people continue to exhaust your
land with tobacco"
'Dick," he replied, ''vou are the dOggon
eldest fool out of jail. You, raised in Nir
ginia, and ask question like that! Wheat
tar from market fer vegetables, too poor TO
put our lands in grass, and tobacco is the
only thing that will fetch money. As for
exhausting land, plenty of tobacco is raised
IN Ohio and Connecticut, and you never
hear anybody talk OF exhausting land
there
''Yes, but there they manure heavily, Civ.
ing back to the land as much aa they take.
or more"
''Well old field pine is good enough ma
nure for a man VINO has plenty OF land and
can take his time"
Thus in two instance, my anti-tobacco
wisdom turned out to be about as profit
able as King James memorable counter
blast against the beloved weed of Virginia.
"But, General" said l. ''surely your
neighbors don't want to retain such vast
tracts of land"
Certainly not. Men do tot like 20 part
IL
their farms well in grass, so that few
hands could attend to them, they would
only sell at very high figures; but beng
unable to do this they are willing and many
of them anxious to sell on most reasonable
terms"
What is the trouble, Them
'.The trouble is about houses"
Explain
"Wealthy people seldom emigrats The
men who leave home have generally but
limited means, and coming here they find
just the soil and climate they desire, but no
place to lay their heads; but few if any of
| them can afford to buy land and build
! houses at the same time. This. I AIN salts
! fed, is the main difficulty in the way of the
| speedy filing up OF Virginia With the best
class Of yeoman settlers"
"A difficulty not easily remedied"
mo. for our people. rich in land, are
even poorer in money than the immigrants
| themselves"
"How on earth. then. did you manage TO
sell to the New Hampshire gentleman who
| came with me this evening, and who, as
| learn, bought part OF your farm!''
why, had roomy house, and just
opened my doors to him and his family,
and kept them here free o! charge till their
| own house was finished"
Well. General dropping my voice TO
! like him -
The General, known by the antique name
| Of Jones Though the Sixth Pennsy lvanla
| and other Northern cavalry were ac-
GUaintedwith him under another cOgnOmen)
| like all the strapping sons of thunder who
| went actively in the field instead OF stay
| ing al home and abusing jeff Davis, does
not regard his late enemies with that IN
tense hatred which Is so gratifying to my
self and some other people
He spoke out aloud - like him first
rate. He is an admirable neighbOr-a man
| of sense, practical sagaCiOus and indus
| triOus; and his family, wife, sons and
daughters, are in all respects worty Of him.
/ wish the county had thousand of just
such people"
This was a crusher for me. Drawing my
self up to my full height-whlch ought to
be but is not six feet seized Kerosene
with my right hand, and looking the untor-
tunate man full IN the eve, | said very re-
spectfully, " General, good night
UndiSmayed, he eyed me back, and III
tone of what took to be cOrdlailty. replied
Maybe you'd like little whisky y-and-
water before going TO bed p
thanked him "NO," mounted the lofty
staircase, divested myself of sundry sar-
tOrial cerements and plunged my earthly
tabernacle into the centre of big delicious
bed. There, while the thunder rolled
among the mountains, the rain FLASHED
upon the window-shutters and the wind
blew like the very devil, | muttered to my
self, Here Is man bearing worthily one
of the most honored names in the common
weaIth-a member. in fact, of one of the
trst-frst tam-familieS in Virginia,
actually pr-prais-pralsinE Ian-l ank-
Yankees in--n = own hou-" ! was
asleep.
On the morrow. when I returned 20
the station and saw how very lovely the
country was. how fertile-the rounded
mountains. when cleared OF their royal
forests. arabic 10 their very submits, che