Winchester Republican

STATE LEGISLATURE.

We were repeatedly asked, during the late session of the legislature, why we did not publish a more general sketch of its proceedings. We answered that we saw but little, through the newspapers, which could be interesting to our readers in the valley, and that little we did not withhold. If our reason was not satisfactory, take the following, from the Petersburg Intelligencer of the 9th inst. one of the most orthodox prints in the union:--

The legislature of Virginia closed its session on Tuesday last, being just three months from the time of meeting. We think it would puzzle the major number of our worthy delegates to give an account of what they have been doing all this long time for their four dollars a day. On reviewing their acts, we candidly declare we cannot discover what should have detained them more than five or six weeks at farthest. But few important measures are gone through, and those in a hurried manner at the close of the session, and of course full of imperfections, affording food for litigation. The evil proceeds in a measure from sending to the lower house too many unfledged lawyers, just out of the walls of a college, who occupy that time in debating abstract questions of national politics which practical men would devote to the more necessary local business of the state. Let the electors of Virginia look to it.