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To-day I am informed that I can have my present school room no longer. I can have a nice new building just suited for a school - recently built for a post office ^but disused^ - and in a suitable place, of one of the trustees who is friendly to my school.  The colored people offer to furnish it with seats &c.  It is doubtful whether the trustees will pay the rent & furnish fuel; if not, will the Bureau aid in it?  It is important to keep the school together, until the school house can be occupied.  I have just seen the Presiding Elder of the Methodist church in this region, and made a statement of facts to him.  He says he thinks he will remove Fisher at once.  The Conference meets in February.  A petition has been got up by some whites & blacks to get him back, but it will not avail.  I would further add, that the conduct of this man, with the grown up girls of my school, has been shameful.  Myself & wife have ^been^ witnesses of it.  He is a married man.  My scholars, (young ladies) have talked about these things which they have seen in the school room, and hence he refuses to allow me the house longer.  He is without question a low, base fellow.  He has kept