The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-28
RESTORED VIRGINIA.
Reeuperatiye Power Displayed by 70.
Mother of States Since the War
Baltimore Sco

The efforts of the people OF Virginia since
the war to retrieve the terrible losses en-
tailed by that destructive co aouest have
been as remarkable and persist ent as the he
roic energy they displayed in battle. A sum-
mary OF these victories of 'Jeace appears in
the Richmond State. tt ,e fences barns,
mills, factories, farming. utensils and in
thousands OF instaue .es the dwellings
ana even colleges a'nd churches them.
mond was half bur hed down in the pit
less war which had swept over the state.
Every county In rginia had been trampled
ana wasted Dy ne invading armies. The
INJURIES anu norS yes were all gone, the cattle,
sneep ana nc >gs and poultry had all been
consumed: fhe railroads were worn out be-
yonu repair. All means of water transport
auoh we le destroyed. Fifty able bodied
men out of every hundred had been killed
or oiSa Sled by wounds and disease in the
~ wa .ud mourning and desolation were in
All Virginia homes. Now FARMS fences
M lis, factories barns and dwellings in Vir-
,I,sia are generally restored and are
IA better condition than they were
before the war New railroads have opened
4 new avenues for the increased production of
the farms, mines and factories. In Norfolk,
Lynchburg, Danville and Stanton popula-
| ton aud trade have greatly increased, in
| other towns and villages. Richmond has
increased %, 600 people. The whole OF the
burnt district in that city has been rebuilt
on larger and finer plans, and the dwellings,
increased in size and styles, have spread far
beyond the former city limits The develop
ment of trade and manufactures and COM
| merce is commensurate with all this. Six or
seven years after the war end one iron estab-
lishment in Richmondwas employing / 800 to
| 800 hands, and giving support to 5000 peo-
pie of their families. The -four pills turn
out thousands of barrels per day, and 100 to-
| bacco factories, sumac. mills, planning mills,
hat factories, paper mills, nail works and
| other large manufactures of iron farming
| utensils evince the energy and business ca
| pacity of Virginas capital city. Only q
few years ago the annual shipment of cotton
| from Norfolk did not reach so 600 bales and
| five years ago there was not a cotton press in
that town. Norfolk has now become the
| second cotton port in the south, and three
cotton presses work day and night to load
the ships. In Petersburg there are 40 or 50
tobacco factories and nine cotton factories at
| work. In Danville there over so go to-
bacco factories. But it has not been merely
to materia Interests Virginians have directed
| their energies. The education of all classes
has been fOstered; schools and colleges are
restored on much larger scale; new ones
| have grown up; the fine military college,
which was burned by Hunter, has been re-
built. and stands to-day better school, with
a broader policy of instruction and an ADLER
faculty than has ever been at West Point.
Insanity, once unknown among the negroes,
has become great and increasing affliction.
To relieve it Virginia has established an in
sane asylum for negroes-the only one in
the world-where more than 800 or them
are cared for, and which may be commended
| To- the authorities in this era of reform as
model of cleauiness, humanity and econom
zeal and faithful administration worthy to
be followed by some other more pretenuous
| institutions.