Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-04-10

ts dupes should be unacquainted with tho
plots OF the deceiver, for they must be poor
creatures indeed, who being put on their
guard, cannot defend themselves. No one
can say that we are ignorant of the arts of
virginia. which have been regularly set
forth, and dilatad upon with infinite cIamor
ana eloquence, any time these ten wears
past, believe. 1t certainly is not for want
OF ample warnings if we remain in igno.
rance of the arts Of Virginia to retain the
Presidency in her Dynasty as it is prettiIy
called. How in the name of wonder can
there be any danger from Virginia infIu.
ence, aohen the sole objection TO the man
lately recommended for JNr. .iudison's sue.
cessor IS that Of his being Tirgmian.-
were 1t not for this misfortune there would
nave been no competitor, at least among
the Republicans. Does this look like Wiz.
glnia infiuencel Answer me thou pupil Of
Federal quackery!
You are affected with another error as
respects Virginia. which being about ten or
dozen years older than her sister States.
Is called by way of distinction the &C An.
clent Dominion" Somebody it seems has
put 1T into your head that the peopIe there
have no Religion. This is a great mistake.
iOr do assure you that i'm Richmond nj
least, the people have as much of it as thew
can conveniently stagger under. They
nave got B--p from New-York, which
you Know furnishes Bishops for the United
states, as Virginia does Presidents and
wnat would you have more |? A friend of
mine who is there now, writes me that the
young Ladies are the prettiest little devo-
tees imaginable, and that they will go to
church in the bitterest storm of winter
ana keep. the servants and horses standing
in the pelting sleets during the whole SER
wee. 1t not this being Religious enough
AS to your enquiries about the business
OF matrlmony in this great mart, can saw
little OF my own knowledge. But | have
consulted an old Lady who knows as much
as all the heads of departments put togeth-
er, and who can tell all that is, as we'll as a
Sood deal that is not. She is sort of Mat
Chronicle, and as some grave and
useful scientifcal blockheads, not knowing
now else to get into print, keep an account
OF the state of the weather, the height of
inc thermometer, and the variations of the
i,arometer-thls good Sybel has a sort of
Annual Register of courtships, marriages.
and descriptions of amatory attachments.
ever since this place became the seat of Go.
vernment. 1t is curious catalogue. as
sure you. L remember she says, that she 1
always observed the Ladies from Virginia
cut out all the others, and in truth this is
KIND OF Virginia influence in which
myself have full faith, for was very near
submitting to it, and should certainly have
been demolished, had not LADY of Marv-
land came to my relief, and kent matters in
a sort uf equilibrium. The old LADY says
that the New-England Ladies are all senfi-
mental and get up early-that the Ladies
oi the ooutn, have an appetite for falling in
loVe' ana falling out of it--but that those of
the middle States are constituted i'm that
happy medium, which renders them lust
the natty. Medic tatissimus ibis, saws Ovid
the great master of Love-that is to saw.
you had best take these things in the mid
lle--meaning / suppose in the middle
states: The old Lady moreover affirms.
that the greatest gallants that have ever
been known here, were married gentlemen
who had LETT their wives at homeland an.
cient widowers looking out for 4th or 5tb
wife. She has known several narr;apee
that we're negotiated between Laeiies in fhe
gallery, ana Gentlemen on the floor of the
house OF Representatives, and especially
remembers singular instance of a member
who actually persuaded Lady in the GAL
lery to marry him, while declaimino most
yehemently against the Intercourse
Bill. Several matches, she SAYS, were bro
ken OIL by very singular causes-one he
cause the Gentleman wore abominabI.
creaklng .Deots--another because the Lady
iound out Just In time that she did not love
the uehtIeman-another, because people
SAID MIR. Such-a-One was goose-a fourth,
because Mr.. Such-a-One always appeared
IN the morning with his coatfull of feathers.
a very suspicious circumstance fifth, be.
cause the Lady had better offer-and the
sixth, Tor the Lord knows what of a rea-
son.
6 The good Lady furthermore saws. that
in the year 1907 there was a great endemic
which carried off several Old Batchelors
and WidOwers, who got married to a
swarm of pretty girls that came down from
the mountains. / can tell you, Jack, that
these mountain girls are famous-strait as
the trees OF their native high hills, with ewes
like the wild deer and cheeks like the wild
rose. Since that time the business has been
pretty regular but it is somewhat singular
that since the peace, fewer marriages have
taken place within a season, than in the
same period of war. l can't account for
this except by supposing, that as gloomy
times make Englishmen hang themselves,
the same cause may induce Americans TO
marry--ior the choice between hanging
and marrying IS somewhat embarrassing
The only affair of fbie lind ,.L;cl L..-I.1.S