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or four weeks, I believe, and it may be that other matters of pressing importance have demanded his attention. Tonight I addressed a large audience of the white and colored people of this place, in the School House, with regard to education, sound moral, and the value of industrious and economical habits, receiving from all, the most attentive and respectful hearing. This settlement is called Warnerseville in honer of Yardly Warner, a Friend of Philadelphia, who, on behalf of the Friends Freedmens Association of that city organized the school here two years ago, and in the name of the same association, bought and sold to the Freedmen, composing the settlement, the small pieces of land, on which they now live in their small but comfortable sound homes. Standing upon the elevated ground about the School House one can count not less than forty of these houses already furnished and several