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ISSo, when it was ITa*J2B. The Bomber of free negroes is V.i,11-, an inciea.se of 4,785 siuce 1-58. r rom all this it ks reasonable to expect thai theceneaaol 1889 will show a total pop. ulatioain Virginia oi nearly l,7„ii.nto. The registered number of marriages in the Siat,., for 1857, was 6,997—0f birtlis 38,764— of d vh« 18,575—excess of births over deaths ■J-',! B '-. These returns are not perfect, some of