The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-01-29

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A philosoph mot to err, we omit the
cry in the Atlaasise knocks the nebula hy-
pUthesis ON the head. Our earth was
originally little, black, cold nodule
which grew to its present size by accre
ton from falling meteors. Meteors arc
still falling and the earth still growing.
AS it gets bigger and bigger, it will get
hotter and hotter until it becomes in
candescent and turns into sun. Long
before this happens, the human race
will have persisted. But meanwhile
the growing moon viii have become hab-
liable.
A candle brought into room where
other candles are burning adds to the
general illumination. But bring in an
Argsnd lamp or a jet of gas, and all the
candles turn pale-with envy. We in-
sist that SoUrHALL shall not "write as
funny as he cam"
TURNER of Richmond is as punctual
as clock work. Subscribe to paper or
a magazine, and he sends it with infal-
lible regularity.
QulNToY WASHINGTON has grim hu-
NOR of his own. In late number of
the National InteHigencr, he advises the
hopeless carpet-baggers to dig the
ground-there is the true field for their
energy &c. Small chance of displaying
it anywhere else if the Conference sue
coed.
JOHN RUsKlN's face, in the January
number of the NeW Eclectic, disappoints
you at first, bat gains on you as you
study IT. 1t is the man himself; you
feel it. These portraits on steel, taken
from original photographs and engrav-
ed expressly for the Ne,o Eclectic add i'm
mensely to its value.
MIR. BLEDsoE, of the Southern Revie,c,
has dissolved co-partnership with Mr..
WIN. HAND BROWNE and taken Major.
Richard VENABLE in his stead. Mr..
BROWNE is a positive loss to the South
ern press.
We had the pleasure of hearing the
Rev. MIR. DUDLEY's first sermon in
Christ Church Baltimore. A very large
audience listened with profound atten-
ton from the beginning ito the close
The alluson to his predecessor, Rev. III.
A. WISE, was most touching, and drew
tears to many eyes. Mr.. DUDLEY s Iep-
utation was fully sustained. Growing
earnestness in the Masters work is the
secret of this minister's power and sue
cess.
The Whig calls it a "Grant move
ment." Necessarily so, if it is to be
successful.
SoUTHALI in the Enquirer suggests that
NERO and DomTIAN were at heart good
men, whom history maligned. Nero
did not fiddle over burning Rome but
gave concert for the benefit of those
who suffered by the fire; and DoMrIAN
did Eet impale flies for pleasure but for
the sake of studying entomology. We
are glad Mr.. s., is at the bellows again.
We shall now be able to get mad COM ,
Iortably every day in the week for he I
will make us think, and that is provok- )
ng. COLEMAN ought to publish Sun !
lay edition to contain SoUTHALL's Law 9
He is an excellent preacher, a
md not afraid to preach in newspa- b
DER. He has abandoned politics en- =
irely. =
For one, we do s'despair of the Re-
'ublic." Therefore we are for Caesar o
gainst the Senate. With us, that is IL
With this country, it is not ant Caesar :,
ut nallus but aut Cesar am nMa,-aut s
iRANT aut chaos. C
Virginia Gazette, late the Lexington p
dsette and Banner comes to us with a G,
ig :old-fashioncd head and enlarged; u
ut it is too wide for its length. Is 60
lg on the cash principle. May it sue
led so that the rest of us may follow OF
ait. til
VlCToR HUGo, in the February Ne,o til
clectic, is the image of he late DR.. Glib re
IN, Prof. of Surgery in the University b ba
Pennsylvania. He is also not unlike an
Dl. THos. s. DABNEY of Mississippi. er