The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-21

PROSTATE.
-Four years Of war had stripped her; he
labor was metemorphased into an incubus
\ her institutions were overthrown; her debt
and burdens were increased; her property
and taxable values were annihilated hel
energies were paralyzed; her very existence
was suspended.
THIS was twenty-three years ago. During
a large part of this period the problem Of
existence. the paramount question Of simple
being engrossed all her powers. Misunder
stood and Stunned by all without, threat
ened and burdened by many within. sh' had
TO devote all her facilities to the imperative
demand Of the hour, the preservation OF her
being as State and people.
At last she stands upright again in the
vigor Of renewed strength, in the JOY OF re-
stored health, in the full power of q sovereign
State and the pride Of q hale and prosperous
people.
As such her Capital City, her beautiful
Richmond on the James now sets her
house IN order, prepares her feasts, sets out
her wares and stretching out her hands unto
her sister cities, rays TO them
CONE AND SEE ME-"
Richmond, the Capital of Virginia, is the
Queen ofthe South enthroned upon her tree
clad hills. and crowned with the diadem of
beauty and health.
Situated on the elevated plateau at the
r..-.1o Ds,-o, ~, IN Tho pomlatap she
stands at the gateway between the uplands
of the Piedmond and the lowlands OF the
Tidewater. The breath Of the mountain
fans her brow, the tides Of the Ocean wash
her feet.
Old William Byrd of Westoyer, whose
historic mansion not many miles fellow IS
one of the landmarks Of the continent, and
one of the heirlooms Of American history, |
gentleman Of Virginia member Of the Kings |
Council Representative Of the Colony, Bur
CESS of his County. was entrusted to run the
much questioned line between Virginia and
her sister North Carolina. Thus occupied,
living awake one night in the juniper recesses
of the Dismal Swamp came to him thoughts
Of his home. and with them one OF those in
SEPARATIONS which may be the whisper OF
passing angel, and may be the emanation OF
genius. He would found city, nay he
would found two; one should be on the APP
pomattox. but the other should be on yet
farer spot on queeDlier river, his own
majestic james.
He knew the spot for it. There Nature
herself had laid the siie-a more skillful en-
ineer than he had drawn the plaza diyiner
architect had laid the foundations.
II was already city and wanted but the
buildings and the people. These must in
vitably come in time. Indeed that Most
ash but most brilliant and farseeing young ,
nan who had been once his fathers neigh
,or, had chosen the spot with his rare wis
ON and had there plantation or quarter, ,
nd when the Indians had come down and
illed his oyerseer and cattle, had he not
lamored for revenge until he had started
which came deuced near up citing
lis Majestys Government, and played the
evil generally. II would be the chief city u
Virginia, the largest in the Southern
,lonies if not on the continent, if the peo- u
e would but recognize its advantages and d
uld it up. What a spot it was u
An elevated plateau right at the falls Of -
lie river, above malaria and ague with
e fresh air Of the mountains, keeping It =
ol in summer, and incompatible climate q,
I'd purest water from unpopulated
rings; view of the foaming ~
aters, glancing and dashing over =,
,mense bou.ders for nearly two miles, ~
ade a landscape whose beauty was I'M n
,aled as a place ofresidence for a beauty-lOy-
2 people. this side Of the oak clad reaches Of N,
e Thames. The river front was easily ac- vi
,sible, and evenly distributed and at the az
ne time 50 immense that it would grind 'io
E grain Of continent, and run the factor
of a nation. Behind it was the rich Pied -
mt running up t, the Blue Ridge and yet mn
-ther back behind the azure mountains an By
explored region which stretches to the be,
ench territory, Louisiana. Before it was yo
wi
HEAD OF DEEP WAFER NAVIGATION FIR
n its diurnal tides which could float any 'a'
sci that His Majesty's marine could send res
oss the seas. tina
low could it be otherwise than city, :
'hus must lave thought Colonel VIM. cm
I'd lying under the stars reading the future he
b prophetic vision, for on the completion hay
his mission, he laid out the streets and gra
.ares Of CITY! on the farspot at the Falls cui
the James. nd the head of deep water "'e
ich had haunted his dreams III that then oS''
distant shore Of the Dismal Swamp and ,,,,
here was no place this side the sea whose Goa
uty was comparable, he named it after feel
t Incompatible spot upon the loved and nea
lding Thames, pla
RICHMOND. /
bis was IN 1877 and from that day to the b.
sent Richmond has been the Gem City Of DIN
South. lgh
or beauty for salnbrty. for convenience, the
all hecharms and advantages which can the
se a home delightful, or place Of bust sea
desirable Richmond stands supreme. VOC
nee it was founded the most momentous oU'
hts of the nation have clustered around 1t; 49,.
lsng it rs il were in the focus of a sun has