4 DISTRICT-Petersburg, Chesterfield and Prince George.

James H. Cox,

James Alfred Jones,

Thomas Wallace,
Timothy Rives.

5 DISTRICT-Richmond City, Henrico, Charles City and New

Kent.

Robert G. Scott,

John M. Botts,

John A. Meredith,

James Lyons,
Robert C. Stanard,
Hector Davis.

6 DISTRICT-Williamsburg, James City. Gloucester, Warwick, York and Elizabeth City.

Robert McCandlish.

Muscoe R. H. Garnett.

7 DISTRICT-Essex, King and Queen, Middlesex and Mathews.

Lemuel J. Bowden,

Muscoe Garnett,

James Smith,

8 DISTRICT-Caroline, Spotsylvania, King Wm. and Hanover.

Francis W. Scott,

Eustace Conway,

Corbin Braxton,

Beverley B. Douglass,
Edward W. Morris.

9 DISTRICT-Richmond County, Westmoreland, King George, Lancaster and Northumberland.

Richard L. T. Beale,

Addison Hall.

Samuel L. Straughan,

10 DISTRICT-Prince Wm., Alexandria, Fairfax and Stafford.

William L. Edwards,

Edgar Snowden,

Richard C. L. Moncure,

Ira Williams.

11 DISTRICT-Henry, Patrick and Franklin.

Nathaniel C. Claiborne,
William Martin,

12 DISTRICT-Halifax, William M. Tredway, John R. Edmunds,

William O. Goode,

Archibald Stuart.

Pittsylvania and Mecklenburg.

James M. Whittle,

Edward R. Chambers,
George W. Perkins.

13 DISTRICT-Prince Edward, Charlotte and Appomattox.

Willis P. Bocock,

Brauch I. Worsham,

John E. Shell,

James L. Scoggin,

Thomas H. Flood.

14 DISTRICT-Brunswick, Lunenburg, Nottoway and Dinwiddie.

Robert D. Turnbull.

15 DISTRICT-Cumberland, Amelia, Powhatan and Buckingham.

19 DISTRICT-Culpeper, Greene, Madison and Orange.

21 DISTRICT-Fauquier and Rappahannock.

22 DISTRICT-Botetourt, Roanoke, Alleghany and Bath.

23 DISTRICT-Augusta, Rockbridge and Highland.

Samuel Chilton.

William Watts.

27 DISTRICT-Frederick, Hampshire and Morgan.

28 DISTRICT-Ohio, Brooke, Hancock and Marshall.

31 DISTRICT-Lewis, Randolph, Barbour, Gilmer, Braxton,

Wirt and Jackson.

32 DISTRICT-Cabell, Mason, Putnam, Wayne, Boone, Wyoming,

and Logan.

33 DISTRICT-Greenbrier, Pocahontas, Fayette, Raleigh, Nich

olas and Kanawha.

34 DISTRICT-Carroll, Grayson, Floyd, Montgomery & Pulaski.

35 DISTRICT-Mercer, Giles, Tazewell and Monroe.

Miscellany.

CLASSIC ETYMOLOGIES.

There are some words, originally slang, but finally recognised as legitimate, which have rather queer etymologies.

For example, the word "tandem" is used to signify two horses drawing, one before the other, the same carriage, because it is rendered into English at length.

The word "BUGGY" is evidently derived from BIGA (more commonly Biga) a pair of draft-horses-also, the carriage they drew-and probably first applied in modern times by some jolly Cantab or waggish Oxonian; and "Buggy" was the agasonic approximation.

Buggy-driving seems to have been quite common in old times. Every body knows, from Ovid, that Phoebus drove "a pair." Virgil tells us that Aurora handled the ribbons:

Aurora in roseis fulgebat lutea bigis.-Æn. Lib. VII. v. 26th.

which a friend at my elbow translates,

"Aurora's Turn-out consisted of a handsome red Buggy, picked out with yellow, and pair."

From the same authority we learn, too, that on some occasions she drove four-in-hand.

"Hac vice sermonum roseis Aurora quadrigis

Jam medium aetherio cursu trajecerat axem."-Æn. VII. v. 535.

Fredericksburg.

STABULARIUS.

A THOUGHT FOR THE TIMES.

It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived. It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent,

or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation. And, lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect; and, as the Scripture saith, "that we make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about us, and discover what is the straight and right way, and so walk in it."—Lord Bacon.

IMPROMPTU.

On hearing a handsome young Lady sing "Love Not."

"Love not," she sings with sweetest grace,

But "love me still," exclaims her face;
Sing on, fair songstress, as you will,

66 'Love not❞—but I must love you still.

MARTIAL MINOR.

THE USE OF POETRY.

Power hath been given to please for higher ends
Than pleasure only; gladdening to prepare
For wholesome sadness, troubling to refine,
Calming to raise; and, by a sapient Art,
Diffused through all the mysteries of our Being,
Softening the toils and pains that have not ceased
To cast their shadows on our Mother Earth,
Since the primeval doom.-Wordsworth.

TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

At the close of our volume, we return our grateful acknowledgments to our readers, and more particularly to our correspondents for their several communications which. though fewer than we wished, have given some interest to our pages, and which we trust they will continue and increase during the ensuing year.