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little tardiness. The Freedmen, one and all, hereabouts are deeply and intelligently interested in educational matters. Nor do the whites exhibit any other than a spirit favorable to their education and elevation. They certainly exhibit no opposition to either.

The Agent of the Bureau of the R.F.&A.L of Greensboro so far has shown no interest whatever in the education of the Freedmen hereabouts. Mr George Dickson, who is the Superintendent of the Schools, as employed by the Friends of Philadelphia, and who is, also, in some sense an agent of the Bureau, visits them every two weeks. But as yet Capt. H. Willebrandt has given them no attention, by visiting or by calling the people together and explaining to them, the importance, the duty and necessity of attending them. He has been here, however, but a short time - some three