Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
stay Law — gone to Philadelphia — Ladies' fair--
wise Choice &c.
Fluvanna Co., Va., Jan. 1, 1861.
The times are so hard in this county that at the last Court day a meeting was held to consider the propriety of recommending the Legislature to pass a "stay law." After some remarks, the matter was deferred for the present.
Rev. P. S. Henson, who has for some years been the Principal of a large Female Institute in this county, has just left, to become the pastor of a Baptist Church in Philadelphia. --Mr. Henson has been greatly admired throughout this region as an instructor and as a preacher, and much regret is felt at his removal.
The good ladies in and around Fork Union have been holding a Fair, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to benevolent purposes.
All the religious denominations participated in it, and the best feeling prevailed.
According to previous arrangement, Rev. A. E Dickenson and B. W. Snead, Esq. delivered addresses.
About four hundred dollars will be realized.
Here, as in every other portion of the State, a deep and solemn feeling pervades the people in reference to the great issues now before the country.
Cockades are frequently to be seen, and the feeling of resistance seems to be gaining favor hourly.
I was told recently of a clergyman, residing in an adjoining county, whose servants had in some way gotten the impression that the 4th of March next they were all to be set free by Lincoln; their master thought it best to call them together and to explain the whole matter to them.
He told them how mean the Abolitionists are, and how they treat the negroes after they carry them to the North, and closed by saying that as many as were willing to be free, might have their liberty, and that, after taking a day to reflect on the subject, all who wished to go North should have permission to do so. At the time appointed, one came to let the master know that they all wanted to stay with him "We haint gwine to let dem dar people fool us — dey jest want come here and take our place and leave us to starve," was the wise remark of the servant.
Gen. J. H. Cocke has just left for his farm in Georgia.
The General's health has been rather feeble for sometime, and it is hoped that a milder climate may be of service to him.* 