The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-06-10
[For the Dispatch.j
Southampton County.

This is better county than the world
knows it TO be. Its broad fats must have
! manure 10 make them pay but with five to
ten dollars worth OF manure TO the acre heavy
proti.s can be made out Of peanuts and cot
| tom the stable crops Of the county. 1t
frost catches immature corn the crop ls
wholly worthless, and so with Tobacco; but
cotton begins 10 perfect its bolts in August
and furnishes a succession of boll' until say
| November 1t; so that frost never destroys
| but ONLY shor,ens the cotton crop. An Oc-
tober frost may take off the profit, but no.
thing more, whereas long season makes
sure usually Of thousand pounds or more
| to the acre. which pays well.
Sometimes the land Will yield one hundred
bushels of peanuts to the acre generally less,
considerably but at $500 buShel they
Weld good profit. The trouble with the
planter is to get honestly made commercial
manures. The taxes our people have to pay
are tritle in comparison WITH the depletion
they suffer at The hands Of dishonest manure
makers. say makers rather than sellers.
because the merchants are often imposed
upon. This is one Of the great subjects OF
the future.
|. The culture of the cotton and peanut crops
| is OF necessity good. as must be the case
with tobacco, and Is often not the case with
valley corn crops; and the light horses ana
tools required make culture slight labor in
com parison with the cultivation OF heavy
clays.
i'ne negroes are said to work well in
Southampton. thanks to the absence of oys-
tiers. In the oyster region, before the farm
ers can have steady labor the laborers must
be divided into TWO classes-hshermen aud
farm. lsbOrers.
Franklin is a prosperous little village.
standing on the southern back of the Black
water where it is crossed by the Roanoke
and Seaboard railroad-a road that is full OF
business. Ii was surprising to see hne
steamer on the BIackwater-a stream so mar
row that the or u place where the steamer
can turn is at franklin. This steamer brings
freight and passengers to the railroad.
Jerusalem. The county seat, is an old town,
ten miles west of franklin, and is the birth
place of General Malone. / saw the little
tavern once kept by his father. lodged
with q gentleman who aided in quelllng the
Nat. Turner in,urrection in 1851, aod who
pointeu out the spot just outside OF Jerusa-
lem where Nat. and thirty OF his accomplIces
we're banged, after fair trial. The gentle
man referred 10 witnessed the crater-scene at
Petersburg, but says that the scenes during
the Instruction, the manSled corpses, ana
The flying women and children, effected him
mucn more powerfully. The effect in dis
turbing the sense of security was felt Tor
years all over Virginia. and out OF it grew a
movement IN the Virginia Legislature 10 1852
which was near ubolshnS slavery.
One finds about Jerusalem, as IN all OF our
low-country counties, a circle of refined,
cultivated. and charming people, which L
fear will change as time goes CD.
Upon the " hole, as my observation Widens,
think more and more OF the quality OF the
land, and the profit Of working it in this low
country and think better Of the climate.
The breezes temper the sunS heat, and the
chllls are not so common or so unotjeetion'
able as once thought. There is prodiglous
outcome in Tidewater Virginia.
A VALLEY MAN.