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from her position as the place required the services of a male teacher. She is a teacher of experience, excellent character, and an earnest worker. He promised her, when leaving Cairo a few days since, that he would if possible, secure her a position as teacher in an school. I am well acquainted with the Chaplain, and from his representation I am well satisfied she is a lady and teacher with whom we would be greatly pleased. She is just such an earnest worker as we should like to have connected with us in our labors. If the Board consent to employ her, the Chaplain will write immediately, and she can be here in a few days. Please Telegraph whether to employ her.
Miss Hoffman, Mr. Greene's colored assistant has never been a very earnest or successful teacher. She has very little life in the schoolrooms. But as she is far from home and friends, we have felt it a duty to continue her services as long as we could. Of late her conduct has given us much pain and sorrow. About the 1st of October, a colored minister from Natchez came here, (Houston Beedy by name) to persuade the Colored M. E. Church to join the African Conference which he represents. In his first service he advised the colored people to "separate from the white preachers and white teachers." The church here were not pleased with the man and refused to join his conference. Incensed at this he has tried every means to distract and divide the church. In the Christian Recorder (published at Philadelphia) of Dec 17th he published a very abusive, scandalous and falsifying letter in reference to the colored ministers and others here. This letter Miss Hoffman wrote by his dictation. He was not sufficient scholar to write it himself.