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two or three prominent text-books by Northern authors, with works of the same character and equal merit, the product of Southern intellect and industry. The publishers of Smith's Grammar send annually to the Southern States 60,000 copies of that work; Barton's, a work written by an Alabamian, does not reach one-third that circulation; Butler's, a Kentucky book, scarcely one-third; and that of McRoberts, one of the best ever published, sells at the rate of perhaps 2,509 per annum. Brown's, Wells', Weld's, Frost's, Kirk, ham's and Fowler's, all written and published by Northern men, circulate extensively in the South, to the exclusion of those Southern books we have named. Nor is this difference between the circulation of Northern and Southern books confined to Grammars.--The talented Caroline Lee Heintz, whose labors in the field of literature have rendered her name a household word in every village, North as well as South, published a Reader second to none ever issued from the pre
correspondence of the Richmond Dispatchthe oil region — Polics --Fine country — Need of enterprise, &c., &c., Parkersburg, Va. March 21, 1861. I wrote you, some days ago, from "Three Forks," in Roane county; gave you some account of the "Oil Wells," the improvement in the country since my visit, three years ago, and some information in regard to the political sentiments of the people. Since then, I have ridden about 200 miles, throughout Wirt, Roane, Wood, Ritchie and Jackson counties, and have not failed, I think, in any instance, when occasion offered, to follow up these investigations. Almost every stranger in the country is regarded as an "oil man," "prospecting," as they call it; and when I tell you that I, too, have taken a "lease," and might have been seen, more than once, examining the banks of creeks, and discussing, from house to house the "oil fever," you might think the charge a true one; yet, that was not the object of my visit altogether.