JOHN MARSHALL, _President_; PROFESSOR CUSHING, _first Vice President_; JUDGE CLOPTON, _second Vice President_; JAMES E. HEATH, _Corresponding Secretary and Librarian_; GUSTAVUS A. MYERS, _Recording Secretary_; WM. P. SHEPPARD, _Treasurer_; and Judge Francis T. Brooke, Dr. Robert Briggs, Conway Robinson, Robert C. Nicholas, Charles B. Shaw, John S. Myers, Dr. Richard A. Carrington and Rowland Reynolds, _Members of the Standing Committee_. VIRGINIA GAZETTEER. Our readers are probably most of them aware, that a work bearing the above title, has been for some time in the Charlottesville press, and will soon make its appearance before the public. We have been favored by the very deserving and enterprising publisher, Mr. JOSEPH MARTIN, with 240 pages of the volume, and have given them a cursory reading; not sufficient, indeed, to pronounce decidedly upon the character of the work, but enough to convince us of its great utility, and of the general ability and industry with which it has been compiled. We shall take occasion when the work is published, to examine its contents more particularly;--for the present, we remark, that the editor in his preliminary and General Description of Virginia, has borrowed very copiously, and without acknowledgement, that we have seen, from an article bearing the title "Virginia," in the Americana Encyclopædia. Whilst it is not expected, that in a work like the Gazetteer, its whole contents should be original; it is but an act of literary justice, we conceive, that the sources from which material aid has been derived, should be acknowledged. Of course, we confine ourselves to such matter as is not original. We have taken the liberty to transfer to our pages, the account contained in the Gazetteer, of "_the City of Richmond_"--subjoining in the form of notes, a few observations rendered necessary by the change of circumstances, since that account was written.