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and for the colored people. The placing of the ballot in the hands of the colored people has done more to secure them good and just treatment in this city than anything else that could have been accomplished in any other method. 

Our schools are prospering and doing a good work. Too much praise cannot be given the Superintendent and teachers for the thorough and successfull [[successful]] manner in which they are being conducted — and especially is this praise due Mr. J.H. Barnum Superintendent of the Phoenix and Lincoln Schools, the latter of which will compare favorably with any free white school in the city. 

In the City of Memphis there are 10 day & 3 night schools. No. male scholars 1021. No. female ditto 1054. Total 2066. Gain over report for March 34. No. who pay tuition 758. No. free scholars 1308. Average attendance 1497. No. Sabbath Schools 11. No. Sabbath school scholars 1459. 

In the county there is a day school at Bartletts Station, numbering 45 scholars and a day and night school at Pleasant Ridge, six miles from Bartletts, numbering 68 scholars. Efforts