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quarters for the remaining time, even if were possible to procure them. 

But further, this seems to be to be a favorable opportunity to make a point or two with the city government. The feeling now manifested is such as to make it very certain that any school building for the education of freedmen would be in great danger of destruction. A combination has been effected to exclude the teacher here from any respectable boarding place, and insults have been offered him without provocation by citizens. As an index of the general feeling, though in another place, I am informed that in Newbern, a Minister of the Methodist Church South, opened a freedmen's school, with the avowed purpose of taking the matter in Southern hands and thus excluding Yankees, but, even under those circumstances, threats were made to burn his house down, and baseless calumnies were put in circulation against him, and in other ways, it was made evident