Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-01-25
CITY AND STAIE DEPARTMENT.

John Mitchell in his University speech and
by Burke before him, that all change IS
not improvement. Yet in this go-ahead age
These Young America times, we must have
change, whether it brings with il improvement or
not. To tread the paths that others have trod,
10 sing the song that others have sung, to work
and to play as others have DONE don't suit the
genius of the age. The people of this genera
ton aspire to bo orignators and not limitations
excelsior is their motto, change and progress,
their watch words, and away they dash in a man
ner that makes ld-fogyism hold up It's hands in
holy horror. and with heightened yisago belnoan
the sad times that have come upon US Asfor Us,
We have no quarrel with any one for all this-we
Ike it, There is too much Young America about
IL to oiIer any resistance to these fast procIyi
Ties of the times. Yet, at the same time, we are
not ''nfnte radicals" but have conservatism
enough left to induce US not to regard all change
as Improvement, and not to accept every change
simply because it is born of these progressive
times. We have Il ease in point-a proposed
change in soca ahairs--a female progression
born Of womaIl-cxamncd, endorsed and pro
n,ulged by adios-Nirginia ladies' at TINT. In
WOW of lis maternity we had every disposition to
pronounccit good, and recommend it to the ia
vornble consideration of the ladies Of this city
but at the risk of being charged with breach of
gullantry, we venture 10 suggest that this change
II not improvement. believing our Judy readers
will unanimously bear out in this opinion,
submit the to their acute and enlightened
Judgment. as to such matters 1t is this The
good Indies of the good old town of Fredericks
uft rail- nj
sidoration and prolonged discussion have come
nre trying to come to the strange determination
that from now, hcnoeforth and forever, no more
visiting shall be done in that place except on two
days in the week Monday and Thursday. These
are 10 be the visiting days, devoted specially to
that purpose, and all the other days of the week,
men, women and children are to confne them.
selves strictly to their own domlciles, and not
dare tn trcspass ON tho scelusion of their neigh.
bors, ON the PAIN, we suppose, OF ex communlca-
ton from the social circle. But then that pun
ishment could not be well executed, because the
practical effect of this change is to er communi-
cate The social circie itseiE There could be no
social circle; there could in fact beno visiting.
There would no doubt bc any an. unt of calling,
but unfortunately nobody would be at home. In
obedience to this regulations, on the arrival Of
visiting day all would alike start out with the
purpose of seeing their aegnainanccs, and all
would alike be disappointed. Mrs. \, would
call ON Mrs. H., who had just stepped over
to Mrs. C.s and found that she had left for Mrs.
DIS, she having gone some time since to see
Mrs. A. whom we left in ftuitless search for
Mrs. Il. And so it would go. Every body would
-. 1
Noghbur- and friends would become strangers.
and live in total ignorance of each other. 1t
might be that in the long course of years
they would occasionally stumble each other
but such occurrences would necessarily be like
nHgeis' ysits-frw and far between. Aud rs for
lovers, poor things, we don't know what they
mouid do. The effect Of this system would be
more torturing To them than the inquisition. For
the inpatient lover to sit and wall, like u martyr
for visiting day to come, aud then tindh his lady
love out and gone would be too cruel. Or what
would be- worse 10 find. rs would be the ease if
she Was at home, his willy rival there "Sghng
like n furnace" beside the fair iaamorata-we
leave tho effect to be imagined. Tho whole par
ty would be cruelty Ronpiuscd, and would look
foolish and feel toolishcr.
Now we have given some of the reasons why
we have no sympathy with the movement of the
Fredericksburg Indies; and we submit that they
valid and worthy of being taken under res
pectiul consideration by our Lynehburg ladies'
when the question Of adopting or rejecting this
new tangled rule in social economy shall come
before them.
GAS IN WINCuEsrER.-The Gas Company Of
Winchester, Va, have resolved to proceed, with
out further delay in the erection of buildings
to supply that town with gas,light.
It's announced in the South Side Democrat
that Thomas Wallace, Esq, declines being a
candidate for reelection 10 the House of Dele.
gates Of Virginia, from Petersburg.
BRlSroI.-Ihe rapid advance of this new
town, the western terminus of the Va & Tenn
Railroad, is says the Abingdon Democrat, one of
the maryeis of the age. Buildingsare going np
rapidly, and sixty five lots have been sold ON the
South side of the town alone.
NEW Court lIousEs.-Three new oonrt hon
ses in Judge Summers circuit are to be built
this year-Waync, Mason and Jackson
DEATH oFA N1RGINIAN.-Alexander L. Ca
ruthers, native of Rockbrdge county, Va, died
at Holly Springs, Miss, on the 3lst of Decem-
Der. He held the office of the Clerk of the Cir
cult Court of Mississippi for fourteen years, when
he was compelled 10y falling health to decline u
reelection.
REWARD The Governor has offered reward