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Finding the business of the Bureau interfered too much with my School duties,- I tendered my resignation to T. M. Goodfelllow (Huntsville Agent of Fr. Bureau);who accepted my resignation on condition on my naming a suitable successor for this place. I accordingly sent him the name of a gentleman highly recommended by the Union Officers stationed here (Wm. C. Webb from Wisconsin): but before my letter reached him (I suppose), he had appointed John McCauley as my successor,- This gentleman was and still is, agent for J. T. Anderson (a wealthy planter of an adjoining County, who owns most of the land in this town, upon which the colored people are located ; and who threatened-through a former agent  of his- to send all the "niggers" away from here, who did not pay him $.2.50 per month for a