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coal-wharves in Alexandria, the haying and harvest in the country, and the improvements generally going on, furnish all able-bodied persons with as much work as they can well do, and at fair wages, the colored men get from $12 to $15 per month and board, working regularly, from $2 to $2.50 per day and board for harvest hands, and $1.50 per day for hands laboring at the wharves, and, if the people would only learn the usual lessons of economy and frugality, there is no impediment in the way of their soon becoming an independent and self-reliant race.

The Schools are all closed and the children at their examinations showed great proficiency in the ordinary branches of a common school education, and when the present scholars arrive at maturity and form part of the active population, the education they are now receiving will tend materially to elevate the race, and do away with present prejudices.

No marked increase in the numbers of the temperance organizations has occurred with the exception of the organization of a society at Warrenton Fauquier Co. during the past month, numbering