Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1879-07-29
TUESDAY MoRNING, JDLT 20, 1873.
BUILDING UP OUR NBIaHBoR-
HOODS.

entlI6 falIsy VI tHSinia, Auu VIC give ~
editorial prominence and recommend its care,
full reading:
or course. the States south of the Potomac
river want immigration. Every civilized Soc
tion does; it wants new people. new blood,
new ideas. 1t wants money, too, but it has
been a sorry lesson generally taught our peo>
pie, that if We wait awhile untold wealth in
the shape of capital will be poured in upon
Ms from the weathier sections of the Union.
Sorry, because 1t makes people lazy, and
gives them after awhile sharp pang of
despair, because while sitting on fence with
patient industry no capital has come for their
waiting. I. is time that this empty idea of
golden cloud to rise in the North or West
aud raiu its treasures on us, should be done
: away with. It is time that the men who
have interests in undeveloped resources
should take a hand themselves in developing
them. The Southern States are to be built
up by their inhabitants. Georgia, among
them, seems to have found this out. Twenty
years from now she will be far richer State
than Massachusetts. Her cotton looms will
be buzziug when Lowell is silent. Somehow
thst ship of State has gotten practical cant
about her chat Is worth copying. She will
start cotton mill in two-story house, in
fact, We believe that was the way that her
rapidly enlargiug system of cotton mills was
started. She had the cotton at her door, and
saw that she was the proper anufacturer Of
it. Here in Virginia we have the coal and
iron at our door, and We are waiting for
Northern capital, so as to make a grand be.
ginning. No two.etory furnace for US On
che contrary, we preserve our dignity and
sacritice our purse by selling our possessions
70 capitalists for a song. A small combina-
ton of neighborhood capital and muscle
would have started small business. which
would have grown and helped its locality.
We have fruit in unlimited quantity grows
Ing on our farms aud rot.ing there. 4 fruit
canning establishment would be the very
thing for the neighborhood, but not being
sble to put up largo one, and waiting for
capitalists coming along to put it up for US.
we let the fruit rot. And yet fruit canning
may be begun by the efforts Of one man, and
In the smallest and cheapest way. We sit on
our farms and see tho merchants Of our
county towns buy canned fruit By the thou
sands from the cities north Of u.s. and don't
make one effort to help ourselves. *
Give one OF Us an article about grand
railroad that is soon to penetrate our terrific
ry, aud wo read it with hearts full Of hope,
never stopping to think that all the railroads
that can be built will not bring US money if
we don't raise something or make something
to ship over them.
The Valley Of Virginia may as VOL look
the fact in the face that, whether she wishes
to or not, che will soon have to rely for much
of her profits on small neighbor hood indus
tries-but.er, cheese, canned fruit and like
industries that have made counties, districts
yes, even cities in the northern States rich.
The time is coming when it will not enrich
us to raise wheat for market, and when the
great granary of the West, which is every
day getting closer to US, will be stumbling
block IN our path to re-ncaeratiro prices for
our cereals. 1t ia timo VIC were preparing
for the change, preparing for small farms,
small industries, moro plentiful population
aud a more diversified system Of agriculture.
The day must pass away when we shall have
to. say that the man with q thousand acres
barely pays his taxes, while the man with
few sheep and several acres of tomatoes pays
his taxes and has handsome surplus left.
a statement has been issued by the
War Department giving the number of men
furnished the Union Army BY each State and
erritory and the District Of Columbia, from
April 10Th, 1861, to tho close of the war of
TIE rebellion. It shows that the total num-
Der Of volunteers was 2,678, 967, distributed
as follows Maine, 72, III; New Hampshire,
sc, 1923; Vermont, IS. 262; Massachusetts,,
l52, 04S; Rhode Island, 23, $50; Connec-
ticul, $3.50 New York, 467, OH New
Jersey, a1,0l0; Pennsylvania, 366, lot
Delaware, 13, $40; Mary land, 50,316; West
Virginia, SO, O6S; District of Columbia, 49,
S72; Ohio, 1860; Indiana, l97, O47;
Illinois, $50, l47; Michigan, s2,572; Wis
consin, sc, 424 Minnesota, 25,032 Iowa,
5000; Missouri, 100, III; Kentucky, 49,
025; Kansas, 90, ISL ; Tennessee, 81 ,092;
Arkansas, $3.50; North Carolina, 1856;
California, 1925; Nevada, 1850; Oregon,
1910; Washington Territory, 964; Nebras-
ka, ISL; Colorado Territory, ,0G3; Da>
kota Territory, EOS; New Mexico Territory,
6,55l; Alabama, 2,576; Florida, 1890;
Louisiana, 1921; Mississippi. SIS; Texas,
1865, snd the Indian Nation, So ,03G.
Tho Board of Regents Of the West Viz
GINA State University were in session at
Mor5antown on Tuesday last, with Messrs.
johnson, Allen, Morrow, Hall, Stewart,
Semmes, Lucas and Brock present. D. D.
johnson was reelected President of the
Board, and DR.. Brock Secretary. Mr.. W.
o. Ison, son of Methods. minister who
sides at Oak land, Nd, and a graduate of the
University. was elected an assistant in the
Preparatory Department, and commander Of
the Cadets in connection with the University.
The Chair Of Chemistry and Physics, lately
held by Prof. ". NJ. Fontairc, and made
vacant by tho resignation of that gentleman
to accept position 10 the faculty Of the Eir-
ginia University. was not filed but the
branches taught BY him He1e distributed to