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in the erection of the latter without charging for their labor as the Freedpeople are exceedingly anxious that their children should receive schooling. A colored woman from the north is already in the neighborhood endeavoring to start a school, and I would recommend that she be employed as the teacher as she appears to be a well-disposed woman, is well-liked by the colored community, and is sufficiently intelligent to at least inaugurate the school. 

There are no local white friends on whom any dependance could be placed for aid, but the parents of the children would board the teacher and pay her something besides, and I presume $7. or $8. per month from the [[strikethrough]]Government[[/strikethrough]] F. A. Society would satisfy her as compensation.

There are no Government land or buildings in Cluny, and I cannot give the name of any white man - respectable or otherwise who would feel enough of interest in the school to encounter the obloquy that would attend such interest when openly manifested in action. A colored man named Ben Brown, who lived in that section is a person of propriety and good character and takes much interest in the undertaking.

The above remarks are applicable to the school at Bacons Castle, excepting that here a teacher would have to be procured to form a board. Boarding can be procured