Alexandria Gazette

Letter from Loudoun County.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

LEESBURG, VA., March 14. - Petitions signed by more than 700 voters would soon have been forwarded to the Legislature in opposition to the bill confirming the action of the Board of Supervisors in granting to the town of Leesburg the privilege of occupying with a market house and town hall a portion of the court green. However, on last night, the Council determined not to press the matter and this scheme falls to the ground.

We have had some very high winds, and yesterday the thermometer reached down to 21, but this morning there are only two inches of ice on sheltered places, the wind having agitated the waters too much to allow of its freezing.

The long hoped for and almost despaired of metaling on the Leesburg and Aldie turnpike has been commenced, and if any men want employment at fair wages in a healthy country they can get it here till Nov. 1, 1874.

The people of upper Loudoun are in high spirits at the near approach of the railroad to Purcellville station, and efforts will be made in earnest to carry it to Snickersville, com six miles further on, and 54 or 55 miles from Alexandria.

This last station will stand in the same relation to the Union, Bloomfield and Upperville region that Piedmont, on the M. & G. R. R., does now, but will be some miles nearer to Alexandria, and merchants in your city would do well to attend any celebration of the opening of the stations at Purcellville, Round Hill and Snickersville.

The region is a very fine one; the people are wealthy, thrifty or thriving, and there is profit to both sides in business transactions with them.

I understand the grangers from Clarke sent seven four-horse wagons to Hamilton in a train and under the tender of it two young men for supplies. The train is said to have reminded the people who saw it of a small army train.

This is a species of co-operation that bears hard upon that large class of people, who own teams which are employed in hauling, but who produce but little. Whether it will in the long run be better than the old system, time only can determine.

It may bring the farmers into more direct communication with the city consumers, but it will be likely to drive southward or westward the small consumers in the immediate neighborhood. But should it be followed up by a subdivision of the large farms, it may result in great good. Thorough tillage cannot be accomplished without an abundant population, and a farm which is one-half idle cannot be remunerative.

ALIQUIS.