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great annoyance of the Teachers. This Institution is permanently located, nine miles N.West from the city of Helena on 80 acres of good land, held by the missionary Board of Indiana Yearly meeting of Friends." for the said purpose, and will celebrate its sixth (6) anniversary on the 14th of this month. We are in the center of a large scope of fine cotton lands cultivated by the Freedmen and their families, who patronize our school and sabbath school. Meetings for Divine worship, Tract Readings, and Temperance meetings. These last we hold twice a month and nearly 200 names are enrolled on the Pledge, much of their prosperity depends upon a persistent temperance movement which we are endeavoring to inaugurate through-out the country. We have two other organizations one 6, and the other 12 miles off. We hold frequent council meetings with them, instructing them as to their duties in regard to schools, as voters, citizens, husbands, wives and parents, and general missionary services, among them on the plantations, social & domestic, and in their church organizations- and for want of a suitable building our efforts in all these things are greatly cripples.