Expenses of Lunatics, Expenses of Deaf, Dumb and Blind, 15,330 39,109 98,260 15,629 With other expenditures making the amount named above. We have been interested in examining the different counties and the amount of taxable property in each. It appears that Halifax has the largest number of slaves. The number of slaves in that county is Albemarle, Mecklenburg, Caroline, Fauquier, Spotsylvania, Orange, King & Queen, King William, King George, 7196 7052 6680 .6653 5296 *5328 4112 3023 .3181 3047 1679 1858 Augusta has the largest number of horses. Rockingham the next. The first has 9030, the second 7055. Henrico-embracing we presume Richmond-has most lawyers-Campbell, including Lynchburg next-Augusta, including Staunton, next-Albemarle next-Dinwiddie including Petersburg next-Fauquier next. Physicians are most numerous in Henrico and Richmondnext in Dinwiddie and Petersburg-next in Albemarle-Augusta next-Bedford and Campbell an equal number-Fauquier next, and Caroline next. Of Carriages, Richmond and Henrica reckon the largest number, next Loudon, Chesterfield next. Spotsylvania has 278, Caroline 204, Stafford only 46, whilst King George has 119. . Our friends of Caroline are death upon Carryalls. They have 261, nearly double the number of any county in the State, whilst the next largest number, [189,] is in Accomack. Spotsylvania has 66, whilst Stafford has only 50. Orange has 3, Culpeper 12. Accomac has 487 gigs; Northampton 230 King & Queen 194; Isle of Wight and Gloucestor each 104; Essex, 104.Those comprise nearly half the gigs of the State. Many counties have not a single one. There are several which have no carriages and a proportion where the number does not exceed five. The proportion of all kinds of pleasure carriages is 20, in that portion of Virginia below the Ridge, to one beyond it The slaves, we should think, are more than 100 to 1. Many of the Western Counties have not more than 10, whilst several, we noticed, had 2, 3, 4, and upwards.—Fredericksburg News. THE STATE OF EUROPE. Almost all the great capitals of Europe, and all its finest cities, are in a state of siege; the municipalities are paralyzed, the rich are overwhelmed by ruinous fines, the patriotic are in pri son, the conductors of many of the journals, and the occupants of not a few of the University chairs, are in exile. Thus, wide Europe is under the government, not of law, but of the sword. Every end proper to government, these governments have ceased to fulfil. Is this a state of things that can last? Not a day passes that does not furnish new evidence, that in these coercive measures the absolute Powers are but heaping fresh faggots upon the burning pile. In France and Austria especially, these measures are bearing their proper fruits. In the former country almost all parties seem to be moving off the ground of the Republic. One party is bearing back towards monarchy, another party is seeking refuge in imperial absolutism, while many of the old republicans are passing over to the Socialist camp. Mr. Girardin, in the Presse, sums up his review of the President's first year of office in the following words: "Acts of severity, and not one reform; faults, and not one amelioration; expenses, and not one economy; words, and not one act; the year is concluded with credits voted to the amount of 1675 millions, and with an excess of expenditure over the receipts of 290 millions francs."-N. Y. Obs. Miscellany. LITERARY MINUTES. NIOBE. A Greek poet wrote this inscription for a statute of Niobe: Εκ ξωής με θεοι τευξαν λίθον· εκ δε λίθοιο Ζωην Πραξιτέλης εμπαλιν ειργασατο. That is, in English: Apollo turned me into stone-in vain- Voltaire has turned this pretty conceit into French metre, thus: Le fatal courroux des dieux Changea cette femme en pierre; Le sculpteur a fait bien mieux; And Bland, in his Translations from the Anthology, has turned the French, instead of the Greek, into English, thus: This female, so the poets sing, Was changed to stone by Dian's curse; The sculptor did a better thing; He did exactly the reverse. I would turn the Greek itself into English, something in this way: Latona's wrath, too sadly shown, Ausonius has imitated this trifle; but, according to custom, adds a turn of his own: Vivebam sum facta silex, quæ deinde polita I lived, was turned to stone, and then, SMILES. TO MISS "Smiles are Light."-Mrs. Radcliffe. "What are Smiles ?" (so gaily bright.) That no language can define; So ethereally they shine. "Whence do they proceed?" From thought; Out of gay emotion wrought; In the lucid font of Mirth, Passing Pleasure gives them birth; Gilt by Fancy's rosy ray;— So they come and flit away. "Whither go they ?" O, like darts, (Cupid's own,) to all our hearts: Sparkling gaily all about, Kindling joys that soon go out, When the short-lived lustre dies And they turn, alas!-to sighs.-Radiüs. WALPOLIANA. Power is an intoxicating draught; the more a man has, the more he desires. A young man of genius, expects to make a world for himself; as he gets older, he finds he must take it as it is. A little good sense is worth all the erudition in the world; 66 And, though no science, fairly worth the seven." Erudition is excellent when managed by good sense. But how often does it only increase a man's natural fund of nonsense? Easy writing is not always easy reading. HONOUR. Say, what is Honour?-'Tis the finest sense TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. We have received a sketch of the Temperance Reform in our State; but too late for insertion in the present number. It shall appear in our next. We have also received an article on the subject of Sergeant Champe, which we will publish as soon as possible. |