Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-02-01
OUR EDUCATIONAL WANrs.-We publish to-


OUR EpUcATioNAI WANrs.-we publish to-
dav. an article from one of our neighboring CO.
temporaries, illustrative of the deplorable
want of a general educational system in our
vicinity and throughout the State. Persons
living here, in the city, and having access to the
advantages of our city school system, can
scarcely realize the purport of such an articlea
this, intended, as it is to arouse attention to the
ignorance, which, of necessity, prevails in tho
rural districts throughout our State. We say,
of necessity, because it is easy to see where
schools are wanting, there can be no method of
instruction available to the popular reach.
When VIC think of what mighty reform
must be made in even our best regulated and
most thickly settled counties in Western Vir-
ginia, we almost despair of ever living to see
the day when we can boast of free school sys
TEN, by which our youths are all provided with
the means of education. Let our readers just
think of eighty=eight thousand young persons,
OUer t,eonty years old, who can not even read
and, worse, that only one out of every thirteen
in this State -reckoning in the cities and towns,
recollect, too, attend schools. We suppose that
we do not cxaggerate when we say that not ono
person in t,esnty, tout of the cities and towns)
in the State, attend schools. Why, even Brooke,
above us-thickly sprinkled as it is with ''well
to do" people, rejected school system couple
of years ago. 1t is said that ''when ignorance
is bliss, It's folly to be wise, what then must
be the measure of the enjoyment of the rural
population of our State. It ssickening and dis
heartening to think of such hordes and swarms
of ignorunts-the raw material upon which all
sorts of humbuggery and demagogueism will
thrive and fatten for generation to come.
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HARRISON County CoHINe TO HERSELF AGAiN.
I'VE, on Saturday last, received visit and a
subscription from Mr. w. P. Hall, one of the
famous Yirginians who figured so largely in the
Presidential Campaign of 1856. Mr.. Hall is
citizen of Shinston, Harrison county, in the Con-
gressional district adjoining our own, and in ac-
cordance with the constitutional privilege (the-
oretical at least) of overy American citizen, nn-
dertook to exercise the elective franchise in ac-
cordance with the dictates of his own judgment
Mr.. Hall was also a subscriber for one Of the
New York papers-the Tribune, We believe
and come nsar having to pay considerably more
than the subscription price of that paper for the
reading of it. He was regularly indicted-just
as if he had been base thief-a forger or any
other sort of nIscrcant-anti a bench warrant
was issued for his arrest, to the end that grim
Justice-the blind-folded figure that presides in
picture books with balances in her hand, might
be satisfied-somewhat after the style of ancient
Molloch or Juggernaut, ne suppose. Mr.. Hall
found sufficient cause TO be absent from home
when the bearer of the judicial despatch, to-
gether with other strong arms of the law arrived;
and there being no victim found, of course there
was no sacrifce-in other words, the Indictment
against Mr.. Hall was quashed. Mr.. Hall isas
usual at his place of residence-does a thriving
business portion Of it with this city-and
reports that Harrison county is pretty much all
that his heart could desire. He and his neigh
bors now take just such papers as they
desire and as many of them as they can pay for.
All this certainly Is very clover. decent and re-
spectacle on the part of the authorities of back
woods Harrison.
NlScoIPooPs AT oun US1vERsIrr-1fr. II.
Daois before The Facu1ty.-In another column
will be found a recital of the workman-like,
high.mipded and Independent manner in which
he controlling nlncompoops of our University
manage that institution. Mr. Winter Davis, of
Baltimore, not on account of his political, but
his literary ability, is invited to deliver an ad.
Sjro.. To tho .fudapts Ar noyis occhrES IT,,