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of Old School Presbyterian General Assembly is located at this place, and is doing a good work, religiously, and educationally among the Freedmen.
Here, at Charlotte, I find Mr. John Lewis of Iowa, assisted by Messrs R. S. and H. L. Bailey of Ohio, teaching a school for Freedmen under the auspices of the Philadelphia Friends Freedmens Association, numbering one hundred and eighty pupils, with a daily average attendance of ninety five. The attendance is somewhat irregular, but no tardiness is allowed in the school. This is the only school among the Freedmen, in which I have found this rule as to tardiness  Mr. Lewis reports that it works well. Of this I have no doubt. It would be far better if there was no tardiness allowed in any of the schools. The Text Books used in this school are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Readers of the National Series, and Greenleaf's