The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-04-02
Are Things to Improve?

We believe there has been, and will con.
&lnue to be, gradual but steady Improvement
in The business and industry of this State.
Any body that hopes for rapid recupera.
ton will be disappointed; and we are glad
TO believe that persons who look ahead with
deSpondcut expectations will also iiud them
selves mistaken. Most wars are followed by
q period OF wild speculation, and that again
by depression. Such was the case after the
second war with Great Britain. Elderly
gentlemen can relate astonishing facts con-
corning the speculative era about 1916, when
The people Were craZad with the land bub.
bic. 1t ruined a vast number Of people, and
after it burst there was reign Of depression
and stagnation the like of which has not
been known in this country. The present
state of the country does not equal it iii this
respect Then we have social revolution,
which works its uufAyorable influences; but
otherwise we really believe the present is a
period marked by better signs OF encourage.
ment than that Of 1916. The rewards OF
labor are better, and the farmer has more
ready market.
If we take Richmond for example we may
cav that she has not had so large sn addition
to her buildings at any preceding time OF
her duration as she has had since the war,
and that, too, after rebuilding up the bust.
ness part Of the city from its ashes.
As we said day or two since, Virginia is
H,r matt Dff hon all
as south Of her. Her tobacco trade has given
hes good command of means, and the
S.eldiness and order which has SO beautl
Snly prevailed within her borders have beer
highly favorable TO Industry and enterprise
The northern cities are no more relieved
fr,m the troubles Of the day than our own
III. period that succeeded the reign Of spec
aI.ton-the great railroad "burst-up
o"cn especially hard upon the norther,
.c.ies, and the general testimony Is thai
Richmond exhibits the appearance By com
parson with them of prosperous city.
We here are, of course, affected more OF
sess by the condition Of commerce at
the North, although our trade is somewha,
peculiar. At the North they are looking
hopefully for an improvement in business
The money-famine has forced an unusual
degree OF caution upon the business com.
munity everywhere but the opening OIL
the trade In the necessaries of life that will
succeed the ice-blocksde will give grea,
stir to business independent of any specula.
tive feeling. The winter has been unusually
hard and long, and active business is late in
coming; but it will be, therefore, only little
more active when 1t does begin.
1t has been ten years since the war; We
ought to be nearly through the period OF
depression. The money famine which fell
upon the country two years ago ought by
this time, through economy and unloading,
20 be pretty well over with its effects, and
confidence amongst men ought to be toIera.
bly, welt recovered by this time. Without
becoming, then, at all excited, we may rea.
sonably expect better things near at hand.
In politics re have no prospect. OF inme-
eiiste agi,alions to disturb The quiet pursuits
OF business Industry; ADD, VIDA, Is better,
Iae course Of events in he last Congress,