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except the last named, which has a session daily of only four hours. This plan is adopted, because the teachers engaged in the day-schools are expected to teach night Schools and any other plan would prove too laborious and wearing upon them. 
As yet only one night school has been commenced. It numbers eighty scholars now, and the prospect is, that it will number very soon over a hundred. Other schools of this character are to be opened soon. The older freed persons, men, and women, exhibit a goodly degree of earnestness, in the matter of educating themselves, in these schools, and as the winter comes on, and the evenings grow long, they will crowd them.
I find in this city five Sabbath Schools for Freedmen. The aggregate attendance of these schools is not less than Eight Hundred composed largely of adults. In two of the Schools the Superintendents are colored men, and in all of them many of the teachers are colored persons, men and women; and the teachers of the day schools are all to be found at work, each Sabbath, in these schools. It is certainly highly proper. They are conducted in the Methodist Church, (colored), basement of the Baptist Church (white) the Dining Hall of an Old Hotel, near the Capitol, the new School House in which the Episcopal school for Freedmen is taught, and the Baptist Church (colored). With regard to the attendance of all the schools, it is true that while it is quite regular, it is by no means prompt. There is altogether too much tardiness. Nor are the schools well classified, and the children making that rapid and thorough progress always consequent upon judicious classification.
Nor do I find in these Schools any thing like uniformity as to Text Books. It is to be hoped, however, that in all these particulars great improvement will be made and that without very great delay. Ever since I came here, I have, I have by the