James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States.

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V. Fauquier county, etc.

• Prince William county
-- facts -- education and Theologism -- a Free colored farmer -- ignorance of people -- negro driving of horses -- in H el! -- need of white labor -- Charlottesville,

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Prince William county.

Warrenton, Fauquier county, May, 18,--I have walked, to-day, across Prince William county, on the turnpike road, from Centreville to Warrenton. Prince William county is a small one. It has a population of over 5,000 whites, 2,500 slaves, and 550 free negroes. It has a thousand dwellings. Its annual educational income is $695! Only 316 pupils attend the public schools. Seven hundred and eighty-four white adults can neither read nor write, and nearly two thousand youths, between five and twenty years of age, are in the some benighted state of ignorance. The county, however, has church accommodations for nearly five thousand souls. It is evident, therefore, that although the people's minds must be dark, their souls have a very fair chance for salvation. That's a great comfort.

The county is divided into 579 farms, valued, with improvements and implements, at $1,499,886; and containing 104,421 acres of improved, and 72,343 acres of unimproved land. It produced, when the last census was taken, 57,728 bushels of wheat, 59,549 of rye and oats, 161,248 of Indian corn; and 10,374 of Irish and sweet potatoes; 96,679 lbs. of