A Desolate Historical Spot

Yorktown, whlch lias a new interest to all the people of the land, at tliis time, is ïot reachecl by ruihvay and is off tlio line f progTCM. Soiuu ilay it niiiy revive ita old time prosperity ; at least it ought to become more accesible as a point tor future ilgrimage. Uefore the revolution the owu was qulU an emporiuin, the only ut trom which the Virginia planters iMpped tlu-ir potatoet to Bngisnd. Baltinore and Norfolk gradually retluced. it by XMBpetltioO. Some two centimes ugo we first heard of it as one of the few out poets r forts in the colony. In 17." it was the center of a thriving coiinty - an Episcopal arish with sixty comnnmieant.s with u ¦Inirch. WilllamibUrir, the capital, with tl house of blirgeMM and {irowiiifi college, attracting tliither the wisdom aiui fashion of the dominion, was snirce, a dozen miles away. Uutil Cornwallis stationed blmwlf ben, Yorktown had escuped the ravages liwarini the Virginia coiisl, and aftel ils snrrcnder It IÜ11 Contalnod aboutlü hOOMS, ïot more than two or tlnee havlng been wliolly destroyeil. Fittcen years hiter it tad not extended its limit, and we tind its Hiul:Uicn oompoaed of Miiruut Dumberlng lbout i00 soul. The last war, it neeil lardly be siiid, left it in a depresséd oondition, iilmost beyoml recoyery, and to-day it ¦oniains only about SOOlnhaoltants, among whoni are to be found hut few descerníante of the andcnt proprietors. In fact t x eins to be the lot of York to wn tliat the more it ¦comes a hi.-toi iinl sioi, the l's it beonies anylhing else