The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-09
CHURCH CENTENNIAL.


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INTERESTING MEMORIAL sERvICEs-PRoM
lNENT MINISTER'S PREsENT-HIsTORICAl
ADDRESS BY REV. J.. L. BURROWS, ID. ~
AFTERNOON OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES b,
i'll WATKINS. ESQ.,. AND oTHERs-JETEI
MEMORIAL SERVICES At NIGHT-A LIBE
RAJ CONTRIBUTION FROM MJAMEs THOMAS
JR., rsQ.-PRoGRAMME FOR TO DAY, &c.
The main audience-room OF the FRS
Baptist church was filed yesterday morn
ing with large congregation gathered :.
take part In the services incident to the ont
huudredtb anniversary OF the church. Tht
exercises began at 10 O'Clock. The plat
form and pulpit OF the church were appro
priately decorated with flowers, and In
front OF the organ gallery was an ever
green semi-circle, on which was the WORD
"0rganized " in gilt letters, beneath which
were the figures "l7S0." On either side
OF this circle were the portraits OF Rev
Andrew Broadus. ID. d., and Rev. j. b. Je.
ter, ID. ID. Besides the officiating ministers
of the church In the pulpit were present
Rev. DIR. Eaton, Of Petersburg; Drs
Hatcher, McDonald, Pollard, Jones, Revs.
j. ii. Eager, s. e. Clopton, DR.. j. II. Kin.
cannon, Of Bristol; Rev. Mr.. Clark. OF
Bristol; Rev. j. Il. Harrison, OF Roanoke
Rev. DR.. A. B. Brown, OF Pittsylvania
Rev. j. r. l.. Smith, OF Lynchburg; Rev.
G. +. James, OF Botetourt county; Rev. j.
II. Newbill, Of Prince Edward county.
After appropriate services and music,
Rev. DR.. Burrows delivered an historical
address, which concluded the morning ser.
vices.
DR.. BURR0ws's CENTENNIAL HISTORICAL
SKETCH.
DIR. Burrows began his discourse with a
general view OF the condition OF Virginia
and OF Richmond in 17S0 as helpful In ap.
pretending the circumstances under which
the First Baptist church was organized.
In population, said the Doctor, political in
Huence, and commercial enterprise, Vir-
ginia was the foremost colony OF the thir-
teen. Yet this most populous Of the States
had only about 500. 900 inhabitants, although
its territory extended westward and north
westward TO the Pacific ocean and to the
great lakes. A few OF the landed proprie-
tors had comfortable-sOme OF them ele-
gant--residences; the brick, flooring, aud
furniture OF which were imported from
England. The houses OF the farmers and
laborers were structures OF logs, some
times hewn, oftener in the primitive rough
roundnesS, the intervals between the logs
chiuked with loose rock and daubed with
mortar, with huge stone chlmneys and pine
log fires. The floors were often laid with
hewn puncheons or formed OF the original
soil levelled and rammed.
THE KITCHENS WERE SEPARATE STRUCTURES
out in the yard. The agricultural imple-
ments were OF the rudest KIND. The "bull-
tongue plough" with wooden mould board.
sometimes sheathed with sheet-iroD, and
sometimes with short wroughtiron
coulter, was the best until Thomas Jeffer-
son, ten years later, and after several years
OF study and experiment, invented one
more serviceable. The grain crops were
sown broadcast, reaped with sickles or
scythes, threshed with fails or by the tram
pling feet OF oxen, winnowed by tapping
a blanket to raise breeze against the up
tossed grain to drive off the cbaff. Three
men could reap, bind, and shock an acre OF
wheat day, and by extra hard work an
acre and a hall. Lumber was sawn in pits
by two men, the despotic "boss saver"
mounted on the log, Jerking the long saw
I'D, while his subordinate beneath ierked
down again. Cotton and wool were raised
in small quantities for domestic use, carded
by hand, spun on treadle-wheels, woven on
hand-looms, dyed with butternut or oak
bark, cut out and made up by the women
OF the household.
Travellers rode on horseback, few Ia
carriages, and few in stage-coaches on
main routes. The swift couriers that bore
the news Of Cornwalls's surrender in 1871
from Yorktown to the Continental Congress
in Philadelphia made the journey in the un'
precedented time OF five days October 10Th
to 23d), and in thrty-seven days October
| 18th to November 25th) the news reached
England by the way Of France.
THE MANUFACTORIEs OF VIRGINIA
were blacksmith shops, and at wide dis
tances grist- and saw-mills were slowly re-
volving over-shot wheels on some Of tht
upland streams. 1880 was one Of thu
gloomiest years OF the Revolutionary war
Washington in New Jersey was hold
| ing back the British forces concen
trated in New York city. ArnOld'
treason had create CONSERVATION and doub
in the hearts OF the people. The British
| aud Tory forces under Cornwallis had over
run Georgia and South Carolina, and were
now in North Carolina burning, plunder
ing, massacreing the people, and confsca
ting their property. Temporarily checked
at Kings Mountain October 9th, and though
harrassed by the onslaughts OF Marion
Sumter, Pickeps, and Harry Lee, wer'
driving Generals Greene and Gates befor
them and steadily advancing into Virginia
Recruits for the army were raised with Diff
tculty, provisions and clothing for tn
army in scanty supplies could only by mos
Ia fAI Cor
warded, and the Continental money wa
of even less value than Confederate none
In 1866.
WAR HISTORY.
Among the acts passed by the Legislator
In that year was one calling out $500 mil
tiamen to aid in eXpelling Cornwallis'
army, marching toward Virginla-app@l
toned among the several counties-of whlc
Heprico county was required TO furnish 81
land Hanover 1876, and Bedford 202, &C., IN
dicating the relative population OF the sevt
raj counties. An act, too, for supplyln
clothing, in which each county was assesse
for certain number OF suits. Each SUI
was TO consist Of 2 shirts, pair oyerails,
pair stockings, pair shoes, andI WOOL, iul
or felt hat, or leather cap. Each county wa
required TO furnish definite number 9
these suits, as Henrico, 55; Caroline, SO
| Amelia, 1l2, &c. They were to be colecte
by distress as taxes. AS the VIC
| men bad to spin, weave, dye, and max
them up in their homes, they must have ha
a busy time In that year. Each district wa
assessed, too, beef, 800 pounds net weigh'
| l wagon and horses and driver.
PRICE OF PROVISIONS.
Provisions seized by commissioners 10
the army were TO be paid for at the follow
ing rates: Wheat, s66.66s per bushel; corr
$50; peas, $50; oais, Sl5; picked beer, :