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Hospitality of Virginia.

--A member of the South Carolina cavalry writes home a letter, which we find in the Charleston Courtier, and of which the following is an extracts

I have heard a great deal of the hospitality of the Virginians, but never experienced it before. They surpass any people that I ever met with in kindness and generosity. They will divide the last piece of bread with a soldier. I believe they are the most patriotic people in the Confederacy.--Their patriotism is genuine. I noticed along the road through which a raiding party of the enemy had passed: I have seen persons who were stripped of everything they were worth by the enemy, and yet they hire all their sufferings without complaining, and even without a murmurs. I am very much pleased with Virginia, and would much prefer being hare then to be stationed on the coast.

The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 3, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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