Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Affairs in Rockingham.
Our Home Guard will parade on Friday.--The corps is large, and the appearance of a large body of men, armed with home rifles (the best, too, by the way,) and shot guns, will present an odd appearance.
We have but one paper now in Rockingham. The Register has the field, and is alone in its full blaze of glory. But it is only a weekly, and, of course, is too slow to satisfy the "fast." Our mails are irregular — the papers get here behind time — and all these things contribute to general impatience.
Our corporate authorities are making a good disposition of the free colored population. They place them to do the work of those farm hands gone to war. A very good idea, for several reasons. It furnishes food for them and their families, makes them work, and keeps them from theft and other mischief, and makes them producers instead of idle consumers. If done throughout the State generally, it will materially increase the working force of the State. A negro won't work unless made to.
Some of our merchants have raised the price of sugar, coffee, calicoes, &c.
A recruiting station should be established at this point at once. Two or three hundred would enlist here in a few days. Many are coming to this point every day for the purpose of volunteering, declaring they will fight somewhere. Had not these men better be secured, so when needed they will be on hand?
Our people are glad of the issue of small notes ordered by the Convention. No very special news.
Hastily,
