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hundred dollars, and it is said to be the fact that the colored carpenters and masons did the entire work at half-days wages.

This building is 70 feet long by 35 feet wide and is two stories high.  The South end is finished off into  a beautiful home for teachers containing nine commodious rooms.  This property is held by a board of Trustees elected by the colored people.  The American Missionary Association patronizes the school here and aided in the erecting of the building in the sum of Nineteen Hundred dollars.  The Freedman here are for the most part earnest, industrious, and loving.  Many of them, however are very poor, and must suffer terribly during the coming winter if not supplied with the necessities of life from some  Governmental or Charitable Source.  The Freed People of Onslow County adjacent to to Corteret and under the immediate care of Captain Richard Dillon of the Bureau, are anxious to have established among them free Schools; and I take pleasure in reporting that Mr H.L. Beul, the earnest and laboring Superintendent of Educational Affairs, for the American Missionary Association here has already taken initiative  steps towards building a school house and establishing a school for them at Swansborough.  The association