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and cannot get him to do anything or take any interest in the matter. The Freedmen are almost destitute and not able to pay any money. Mr Williams stated in presence of your assistant, Mr Miller, that he would surely save Thomas Howells claims on the freed people. I have lost all confidence in Williams doing anything, and if collected it must be next fall through this office. My anxiety to advance the interest of education amongst the colored people have met with but little encouragement from the blacks, and a total opposition from the whites. Having expended considerable time and being out of pocket myself about $60. that I can never hope to have returned. I am again engaged in organizing a school at this place. We have a teacher employed - E.L. Bennet - (white) recently from Mobil, as he says — and a subscribtion of nearly forty dollars in the Treasury. I am holding meetings every