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will be sure to congregate. Let every gallant, then, 

 come upon his steed and show his paces, in the full 

 assurance that he shall not be without his reward, 

 in a look at the ladies if not in a smile from them. 

 We cannot omit to call attention — as this plan 

 enables us to do more precisely than we otherwise 

 could — to the part Eichmond has contributed to 

 the Virginia State Agricultural Society. The noble 

 grounds she has appropriated to the Society, " as 

 long," in the words of her liberal tender, "as it 

 shall be its pleasure to use them," were laid off by 

 two of her most accomplished citizens with a beauty 

 that is nowhere excelled in any similar work of the 

 Union, and will long remain a monument of her 

 generosity and their taste. 



PAYMENTS TO THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



We hope that all subscribers to the Planter, who 

 are coming to the Fair, will bring the amount of 

 their subscriptions with them, and that those who 

 are not coming will send the same by some friend 

 that is. We know the publisher pretty well, and 

 and though he was a fat, fine looking man, of most 

 amiable temper, we assure our readers that he is 

 dwindling in his proportions and daily losing a por- 

 tion of his suavity. We can ascribe this to no 

 other thing than to the fact that he cannot live on 

 air, a diet to which the list of monthly payments 

 in this number of the Planter will show he is fast 

 coming to. 



We shall endeavor to get him to have an otnce 

 at the Fair grounds, where gentlemen can see him 

 and get the Planter thrown into the bargain at one 

 dollar, paid in advance, or at the price of their 

 present indebtedness to the paper. He is a plain 

 man, but well worth looking at, when this induce- 

 ment is considered. 



THE TWO MR. RUFFINS. 



We are so often supposed to be the son or nephew 

 of Mr. Edmund Ruffin that we take this occasion, 

 though for the second time, to state that we are so 

 distantly related that we cannot trace the exact 

 degree. 



The identity of name, the intimacy that exists 

 between us, and the fact that we have each edited 

 an agricultural paper, has created this impression. 



We do not think he would be altogother ashamed 

 of us, and we should not deny him if he was our 

 father or uncle; in fact, as a mode of settling the 

 diificulty, we once thought of adopting him as our 

 father, but when we came to look at the thing we 

 found that he had a very large family, some twenty 

 odd, we think, counting children and grandchildren, 

 and as the distril)utivc share of his estate cannot 

 be very large, we forbore to burthen him with such 



an unruly colt as we should have been. And it 

 was the more unnecessary as we had all the credit 

 of being his son without the responsibility. 



We have now made all we expect in that way, 

 and beg for the future to decline the honor. 



Those gentlemen, therefore, who visit the sins of 

 either upon both, as some are inclined to do, are 

 hereby notified that though one in sentiment upon 

 a good many subjects, which we are very happy 

 at, and though upon the very best terms, which we 

 hope may long con.inue, we are yet very remotely 

 related, and feel, each of us, very well able to 

 shoulder the responsibility of most things we do, 

 or at all events disposed to stand up to it. 



We hai43en, accidentally, so far as the name is 

 concerned, to be associates in the Executive Com- 

 mittee, of which Mr. Edmund Ruffin is a most va- 

 luable member. But we do not " hunt in couples" 

 even there. 



LITHOGRAPHIC DRAWING OF THE FAIR 

 GROUNDS OF THE VIRGINIA STATE AGRI- 

 CULTURAL SOCIETY. 



We are happy to be able to state that Mr, Dun- 

 navant, of the firm of Ritchie & Dunnavant, has 

 determined to execute a beautiful colored lithogra- 

 phic drawing in perspective of the Fair Grounds. 

 This drawing, of large size, some two feet square, 

 Mr. Dunnavant will have for sale at the gate. It 

 will be disposed of at a very moderate cost per 

 copy, but little more than enough to pay cost and 

 risk, his object being not so much to make a spe- 

 culation, for which indeed there is but little room 

 in the business, as to furnish persons with some- 

 thing which they can take home with them to those 

 of their friends who cannot come to the Fair, and 

 to show that in this branch of the arts Richmond 

 is prepared to compete with the northern cities. 



AN ADDITIONAL PREMIUM. 



Best Single Harness Horse or Marc. — From some 

 cause there is no premium offered by the Virginia 

 State Agricultural Society on this class of horses, 

 the most valuable, or certainly the most desired 

 description of light draught animals in use in the 

 country. But let the owners of such animals bring 

 them forward. We know a gentleman who will pay 

 twenty dollars for the best single harness horse or 

 mare exhibited at the Fair. And we feel at liberty 

 to state that it is hereby offered. The same judges 

 that award the premiums 0!i light draught and 

 saddle horses will decide the excellence in this case. 



He who would acquire fame must not show him- 

 self afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the 

 death of genius. 



