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Number reading in easy [[?]]. 8173 Number in Advanced Readers. 7512 Number in Geography 6249 Number in Arithmetic 8031 Number in Higher Branches 1475 Number in Writing 8460 Number of Teachers in Sabbath Schools 750 Number of Pupils in Sabbath Schools 10625 Number of Normal Schools 6 Number of Pupils in Normal Schools 363 Number of school houses owned by the freedmen. 121 - which is an increase of 50 during the year. Number of school houses now in process of construction, some with and some without the assistance of the Bureau. 40. * A comparison of the averages (schools teachers and pupils) for the six months ending June 30 1869., given in the table above, with those of the corresponding period last year shows an increase of 60 schools 47 teachers and 600 scholars. The closing month of the year shows 1869 more pupils in school than the same month last year. A still more gratifying and significant fact is the increase in the percentage of attendance. Last year seventy two percent of the total enrolment was in daily attendance during the session; this year it has been over