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have a good white teacher  They are well able to support one. At Corinth a School Building will be completed this month (Oct). The people desire to have a teacher. I am happy to be able to report the arrival at Jackson of a corps of teachers, under charge of Mr & Mrs Watson sent out under the auspices of the Friends Freedmens Aid Society of Ohio  One school has already been organized. The beginning was small but the number of Scholars is daily increasing. Much difficulty is experienced in procuring buildings in which to teach, or lots on which to erect buildings. The colored educational enterprise meets with no favor from the white citizens of Jackson. Whatever is accomplished at present must be done by the patient and persevering efforts of the colored people and their friends from the North