Alexandria Gazette

The last Richmond papers contain a table showing the apportionment of the literary fund among the different Counties of the State for the purposes of education. The fund is, we are pleased to observe, larger than we had supposed, amounting to nearly $63,000 for the year 1843. Loudoun's quota for that year will amount to nearly $1200. Our object in referring to this subject, one of the most important which can engross the attention of any people, is to draw the attention of the School Commissioners of Loudoun to it. However much we may regret the insufficiency of the fund to confer upon all the poor children of the State the rudiments of an English education, it is highly gratifying to know that it is sufficiently large to accomplish much, very much, in the way of disseminating knowledge among the large number of indigent children within her bounds, provided those empowered to superintend its distribution discharge their duties in a judicious manner.

Our primary school system, we are fully aware, is a most imperfect one, and tends much doubtless to impair the efforts of those Commissioners whose zeal may prompt them to disseminate as large an amount of knowledge as possible for the limited means placed at their disposal. Still it appears to us that $1200 annually expended in educating the poor of a single county, could not fail, if judiciously used, to produce apparent and striking beneficial results; and we would respectfully invite the attention of the Commissioners of Loudoun to this view of the subject, feeling assured that the deep interest which they take in the extension of knowledge, constituting in fact the only permanent basis of our form of government, will prompt them to do all that lies in their power towards educating the destitute children of our county.

Leesburg Washingtonian.