Virginia is indebted to Mr. Minor--indebted for the seasonable application of his remarks, and doubly indebted for the brilliant eloquence, and impressive energy with which he has enforced them. We sincerely wish--nay, we even confidently hope, that words so full of warning, and at the same time so pregnant with truth, may succeed in stirring up something akin to action in the legislative halls of the land. Indeed there is no time to squander in speculation. The most lukewarm friend of the State must perceive--if he perceives any thing--that the glory of the Ancient Dominion is in a fainting--is in a dying condition. Her once great name is becoming, in the North, a bye-word for imbecility--all over the South, a type for "the things that _have_ {67} _been_." And tamely to ponder upon times gone by is not to meet the exigencies of times present or to come. Memory will not help us. The recollection of our former high estate will not benefit us. Let us act. While we have a resource let us make it of avail. Let us proceed, at once, to the establishment throughout the country, of _district schools_, upon a plan of organization similar to that of our New England friends. If then, in time, Virginia shall be regenerated--if she shall, hereafter, assume, as is just, that proud station from which her own supine and over-weening self-esteem has been the means of precipitating her, "it will all be owing," (we take pleasure in repeating the noble and prophetic words of Mr. Minor,) "it will all be owing, under Providence, to the hearkening to that voice--not loud, but solemn and earnest--which from the shrine of Reason and the tombs of buried commonwealths, reiterates and enforces the momentous precept--'ENLIGHTEN THE PEOPLE.'" LEGENDS OF A LOG CABIN. _Legends of a Log Cabin. By a Western Man. New York: George Dearborn, Publisher._ We have been much interested in this book in spite of some very glaring faults and absurdities with which it is besprinkled. The work is dedicated to Charles F. Hoffman, Esq. the author of _A Winter in the West_, (why will our writers persist in this piece of starched and antique affectation?) and consists of seven Tales, viz. _The Hunter's Vow_, _The Heiress of Brandsby_, _The Frenchman's Story_, _The Englishman's Story_, _The Yankee's Story_, _The Wyandot's Story_, and the _Minute Men_. The plot will be readily conceived. A heterogeneous company are assembled by accident, on a snowy night, in the Log Cabin of a Western hunter, and, _pour passer le temps_, amuse themselves in telling Stories.