Virginia

- Bv sfatlstics gien in theAmerican Almanac, it appenrs that ihere are, at tho present lime, m Virginia, 30, 000 adult white persons who can neither read nor write! The sum of 15,000 s annually appropriated for common schools, and it is made llie duty of particular individuáis lo seek out ihose chiidren whose parents cannot pay a teacher, and enter them in one of ihose schools, where thcy can begratuitously educated. Butitseerns iliat much more than half of these poor chiidren disdain lo avail themselves of' this fund, tlieir pride revoltiug at ihe receipt