VIRGINIA FARMING.
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Leaving the river, and travelling nearly south, l passed through extensive timber for ests oM bottom lands, which when cleared, prove of the best quality. On my way lay u plantation belonging to nephew ot Col Taliaferro, the present member of Congress, but now occupied by a Mir. Brown. On this plantation seven thousand bushels of corn, and fifteen hundred bushels of wheat, have been raised this season. A few miles far ther south tarried two or three days on one of the plantations of Dr. Murphy, a gentle man of much agricultural us we'll as medi- cal skill, possessing vast landed estates, and who has set an example which is already working a revolution in ihe modes of hus- bandry in the section of country in which he resides. As the land is generally fiat, and consequently wet, he is ditching round large tracts of "old fields." fencing, manuring and ploughing, and endeavoring to bring them back to vegetable life, and is determined no longer to act upon the principle which al- ways takes but never gires. What is uncom- mon. he has fine barn and granary, gar den handsomely laid out and well tended and thrifty orchard. The house, n neat cottage. overshadowed by lofty locusts, and standing nearly in the centre of a field oi corn containing one hundred and fifty acres has most quiet and inviting appearance From this point. fields beyond fields rise to the sight.

 "Fa. as the circling eye can shoot around,

 Unbounded tossing in flood of corn"

 Every planter conversed with in this re- zion stated 10 me his conviction that their system of farming Is wrong; that they at. tempt to cultivate too much that their lands are rapidly becoming, or have already be- come. impoverished. and that they do not un- derstand the method of frenovating them. and that each succeeding year brings less and less, under their present practice. Melnn. sholy as is this picture. the whole aspect of things, as you travel through much of Vir. ginia. Maryland. and probably all the South. ern States, proves tt 10 be true. Thousands upon thousands of acres lie in told fields, ' lands worn out by successive crops of corn and tobacco, with scarcely the appearance