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are faithful and hardworking women. Miss Jenkins is over-worked in the house keeping; and Miss Macy the teacher in the school. Mrs Waler and daughter are daily expected; and when they arrive, they will make the labors of the present ladies more tolerable and more efficient.

Attached to this asylum, in a somewhat irregular way, are some white women and children - refugees. I understand they are very respectable, and their children not bad; but - they are of no use to the asylum, and are in the way. If they can be provided for in any other manner I recommend their removal.

There are also several colored women, for whom rations are drawn, and who agreed to work for the consideration that their children were supported and taught in the asylum. Most of them are good for nothing - work when they please, which is scarcely at all - and make trouble with the children.