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sion to exhibit their handiwork or the products of their farms at this exhibition. France is described as being one great workshop, forging armor for the peaceful contest of mechanical skill. That country exported last year five hundred and eighty-one million of dollars worth of manufactures, being an increase of fifty one per cent, in five years. Let the South catch the inspiration of this age of progress. Let Virginia revive her Mechanics* Institute, and let similar institutions be established in each of the Southern States.

The Stay Law.