Virginia

Virginia is cerfainly entitled to be called the mother of office-holders, shc claims to have furnished The President of the United States, The Secretary of State, The Secretary of War, The Coinmander-in-Chief of the Army, The Surgeon General, The adj. General, The Quarter Master General, Two out of four Colonels of Artillery Three out of eight Colonels of Infantry The officer of highest rank in the Navy The Comniander of the Marine Corps, The Minister Plenipotcntiary to Brasil, Three of the Justices of Supreme Court, The Second Auditor, The Treasurer of the United States, The Translator,andnumerous first and second Clerks in the Departments, Eight District Judges of the United States, The Speaker of the House of Representatives, The Consul at Liverpool, The Consul at Havre, The Charges d'Affairesto Naples, Do do to Chili,i he (jovernorand becretary oí iernory of Florida, And the following proportion of officers ntheNavy. There are: Captains, in all 68 14 from Va. Commanders, 97 8 " Lieutenants, 328 70 " assed Midshipmen, 103 12 " Midshipmen, 370 62 " 966 166 More than 17 per cent of the Navy. - The white male population of the U. S. n 1840 was 7,249.276- ofwhich Virgina had 371,223. New York has one cabinet minister, Spencer, lwo foreign ambássadors,Wheaon and Irving, and 129 Navy ofíicers of he grade specified - the white male