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men are now attending the schools, and if they are diligent and persevering, it will not be long before many of these will be able to give instruction, with ease to themselves and profit to others, in the Common Branches. The attendance in several of these schools is small - in no one of them is it as large as it ought to be, and as it will be in a short time, if all things work well. In the school established by the Friends, although they employ two teachers, the attendance reaches only fifty pupils, and in the school supported by the American Missionary Association, there being two teachers in that school, also, a gentleman and lady, (and this school was opened as early as the first of September last) the attendance amounts to only sixty pupils. In the other schools the attendance is larger and more satisfactory, but in some of these there is room for a much larger number. It is to be hoped, however, that as the term of the schools advances, and the teachers become more generally acquainted with the people, and the Fall work is finished, so that the larger children may be spared from home, and the new School Houses now in process of erection are completed, there will be not less than Nine Hundred pupils, men, women, and children, found in the Freedmens day-schools of this city; and this good result may be confidently expected. The schools other than the one opened on the first day of last month were all opened on the first Monday of this month. At 9 o'clock A.M. the schools are opened each day, and at 2 o'clock P.M. all of them are closed, except the school of the Friends, which is closed at 1 o'clock. Thus it will be perceived, that these schools have but one session each day of five hours, in the case of all.