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0061 Office U.S. Military Telegraph, WAR DEPARTMENT. The following Telegram received at Washington, 315 AM, July 7 1865. From New Orleans July 5 1865. Gen Howard The number of teachers now employed in Freedman's Schools is two hundred & thirty 230, the number of Scholars is nearly thirteen thousand 13000, Will send a detailed statement of the want of the educational Dept as soon as can be safely fixed- Will my disbursing officer pay the salaries of these teachers from funds embraced in Presidents order- I see no way of educating these Scholars at present except by such funds & to discontinue them when they are