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are sprightly diligent and well behaved.  They are making too, commendable progress in their studies The more advanced are pursuing the common branches usualy pursued in our District Schools.  Connected with this here is a Sabbath Schools numbering three hundred pupils, children and adult.

The Freedmen in and about this place seem really alive to the necessity and advantage of educating and thus elevating themselves.  Some five hundred of them have as it is stated in Competent authority learned to read quite intelligently during the past three years nor does their interest in this matter seem to abate in the least.  Nor is there apparently any opposition on the part of the white people to their education. 
 
This school is taught in the new building known here as the "Washburn Seminary"   This is a very good building and well arranged for school purposes.  It was erected about a year ago at an expense of about four thousand dollars of which the Freedmen contributed Eight