Virginia

Here is a clever, góod-humored 'sarcasm upon ihe old Dominion, by Col. Stonk of the Commercial Aüvcriiser: "The inuh is. the Virginians are the vcry Cliinese of America, regarding all the world besidesas 'outside barbarians.' Virginia isbehind the age - a State without progresa. Tin ir libraries contist ot a lew odd volumes of Itollin. Lempriere's Classical Dictionary. Adam Smith. and nówand 'then n ntimber of the Genlleman's M;ig.(Kne. brought ever liy the '-c'hivalry" in the days ef Sir William Be.rkelcy. As the war 01 the Rcvolution found them. so it Jeft thenv - standing still. The planters, being is.tlated in t'ieir ancient halls, like su many ternipins snugly ensconsced iu thcir sheils, sddom move unless in the Spnng. when they strttch fonh 'hen neclis (o sec if the itiin1: is beginning tó spruui. and thrice n week oesides, when -Sanibo bfirfgt ■ilong the Richmond Eiiquiier. to refresh ibeu minds nbout tbc Greeks nnd Roinnns. and lec ture iipon rights and pclincal tconomy. lifter the mnnnerof Fe-fb fum and Confucius. - Such in good sooth are the Virginians- we mean, of course. those belonging to tlie suliool of Mr Riteliit - the airy abstractionisie - men uid minds in a continued rêverie - who liave no con ception of a loeoinotive that can outrun a NpgVó. orof a more intnunte picce of inachinery than ; wheel-barrow - who'dream uil the live-long dn of Jolm laylor of Caroline, nnd all niht oI'iIm nncient glories oí Virginia - of Pocahontas, Sii William Berkelev md Baeoii's rebelliou! JVoth' ing oflaier date, of course.