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The planters are making arrangements to cultivate more land this year than they did last.

The freedpeople are moving slowly but surely in the subject of education. They have raised a subscription amounting to $800, some $637 of which has been already paid in. In some cases the whites have subscribed quite liberally. The principle cause of delay in commencing the building is the scarcity of lumber. The contract for the building will be given out immediately. Mr. Blakemore our Agent is taking a lively intrest in the matter and is endeavoring to push the building along as rapidly as possible by keeping up an intrest among the freedpeople upon the subject. The building when completed will be used for both school and church purposes.

Capt. Kendrick has carefully inspected the condition of affairs in Haywood County. He was instructed to inquire into the official acts and conduct of our Agent at Brownsville. R. C. Scott Esq. His report is anything but flattering to Mr. Scott, on the contrary he gives it as his opinion that Mr. Scott is worse than no Agent at all- that he has