Education In The Slave States

The Superintendent of Public Schools ' I inn speech at Bowl■ ing Green, iu that State, that, in iwo counties not fap ilitant from ihat ]lace,ii was oscertained, by nn cxnminatioiT in the clcrk's office, thnt more than one-half of the males who had married in those counties, within the Vear 1&43, and had executedtheir marriage bonds, had made their mark.insleadofsignin" thcir names; and that also one-half of their sccurities in Ihosc fwnds were unable to tcrite. -