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to report, & a night school in Charleston of seventy (70) scholars, taught by Mrs. Sharp.  There is but little public money to start the schools on at Brooks Hollow & Camel's Creek.
   It is impossible to hurry the school houses in such a region as this.  Nobody expects a contractor to keep his promises as to [[underlined]] time [/underlined]], in this county, so I have learned.
   The past week they have ^been^ drawing the frame timber for this school house, & everything seems ready now to put it up.
   I wrote to you in my last about the 21st or 22d January, that my school was probably at an end for the present, on account of want of a room.  I can now write positively, that Mr. Hawkins, who seems to be the only active trustee, is determined to break up my school, & to put it under the control of Fisher, if he remains here, or of some other colored brother Methodist.  He is plausible to me, but openly avows on the street his purpose to exclude me from the new school house; and in various ways, both among whites & blacks, he is strenuously endeavoring to bring myself & wife into disrepute, & to destroy our usefulness here.