Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-08-18
CITY AND STATE DEPARTMENT.

CITY md STATE DEPARTMENT.
Am Fog NORFOLK AND PoarsnoUfn. We
are pleased To state thai the Committee appointed
to solicit aid fof Norfolk q Portsmouth have rais
ed $1,000 which sum has been transmitted to the
Mayor of Norfolk, to be equally divided with
Portsmouth. While this is liberal, it will net 90
lar whore five aud ten dollars have t. be paid a
night for nurse; aud we hope our citizens will
not yet suspend their kii4d Offices
Would IL not be well for collection. 10 be taken
up in the churches of the city tomorrow Such
a course was pursued IN one church in Peters
burg and over $500 we're raised. We simply make
/ the suggestion, knowing The ministers OF our va
4 rions churches will act they may deem right IN
the matter.
AIN ron TIE AFFLIcTEp.-We learn that n
meeting Of visitors at the Allegheny SPRING. was
held Thursday eyening,for the purpose OF raising
funds for the relief of the suffers in Norfolk and
Portsmouth; and about one hundred dollars were
subsorb ID.
TENDER OF HospfTALIrEs.-Ou bereayed
friends Of Norfolk and Portsmouth will perceive
from the proceedings of the Relief Meeting held
in this city, which we have already published,
that among others n resolution adopted ten
derng the inequalities Of the city 10 hem,without
quarantine regulations While other cities and
towns and counties have seen proper to establish
rigid quarantine laws against the citizens of
those afflicted places, Lynchburg, more in accord
auce with the promptings OF humanity,haS thrown
open her doors and bid all who choose so to do,
take refuge within her limits from the dangers
which surround them. Other places have acted as
suited them-we have done the same; and we
trust that Lynchburg will never be found doing
otherwise than size has, whenever emergen-
cies may arise calling Tor similar action. With
the deepest and sincerest sympathy for the strck-
cn and suffering citizens Of Norfolk and Ports
mouth both in their alll.otiou aud the cruel treat
ment they have received nj the hands of others
we assure them that our inyilatonis not merely
nominal, but that oil who may avail themselves
of il, will find hot only willing bat welcome
refuge here.
SUNDAY SCHOOL ADDRESS. We bartender
the most of this depa. 10 day to the address
of the Committee appointed by the Sunday
School Convention, which recently met in this
city; and take occasion TO invite special atten,
ton to it.
TO THE PEOPLE or SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA.
1t becomes the duty of the undersigned, as
committee appointed for the purpose, by n Con
ycntion recently held in the city of Lynchburg,
to address you, in behalf of the great cause of
Christian instruction in Southwestern Virginia.
This section Of our beloved State is specified,
not as separate III interest and character from
other portions Of the Commonwealth, bat as con.
stituting the district especially represented in
the late Sunday School Convention, and for the
sake Of definite S. :. Missionary operations. in
region TO that end committed, fora season, 10 the
advisory and executive supervision of the under
signed
There are this day IN Virginia of young per-
sons between and % years old about, 319,745
| OF whom, there are at School or Col
lege, only about. ...-.....-....- III ,f99
Leaving as attending no school of any
kind, about, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 26c,li6
Aud it we suppose, possibly taught at
home and in Sunday Schools. say. BIOS
There will still remain, totally uu
taught, Do, COS
That is for every young person in the Com
monwealth, receiving any instruction, there arc
! iIro others Who Teceire none. In other words,
two thirds of that portion of cur population who
are to be the citizens of the State, during the
next - years, are in this most precious period of
their history going totally untnught! Or, ii 1t
be imagined that this startling fact from the
Census, must be qualified, by surprising occa-
sonal lessons to be somehow snntehcd, by half of
the generally unn structod multitude, there will
still remain third of all those who are soon
II take their place as free citizens of the State,
and who are besides ON trial for a far higher cit-
zenship, who, nevertheless, now receiving
not one iota of that instruction which alone can
adequately fit them for either sphere.
But what can be done towards changing this
sad prospect How is light to be shed upon
the darkness which is thus settling around Us |!
How are the beui ,ts ofgenera aud the blessings
of christian instruction To be here dittused :
The best hope, we have no hesitation in answer
ing, is in that admirable Institution peculiarly
conformed to the spirit of Christianity, and to
the genius of our Countryside Sunday School.
This agency. whether conducted on individual
responsibility under denomlnational direction,
we cordially recommend, as in tendency eminent
ly belicent. But there is one great sunday
Sol6ol organization. of which we would especial
ly speak, as pre- emnenty adapted to the wants
of the people THE AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL
UNION.
This is great National Association of good
men, belonging to the leading evangelical denom-
nations of the country. A Board of Managers,
and certain officers of tried character and efcien-
oy constitute its vital power And, nom a
great central establishment in philadelphia TINT
power operates by means of a we'll al iusied mis-
sonary system toward establishing undenOpii.
national Sunday Schools, throughout the more
destitute portion of our territory and by means
of an extensive publishing department furnishing
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