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Schools, of which the Philadelphia Friends are taught in two frame buildings of which they are the owners.  One of these buildings is very small and ill arranged for  school purposes  The other is a large building with one large room, and poorly arranged as possible, for the conduction of the branches of a school at one and the same time, under two teachers.  This is the exact situation of the School.  These buildings are in great need of repairs.  They are open and cold.  Miss Collins teaches her school in the Methodist Church a building belonging to the Freedmen.  This is also a poor building.  The Baptist people (colored) own  very respectable little church building, but no school is taught in it.  The general moral and material condition of the Freedmen here bears the marks of improvement.  Thursday near the Baptist Church already refered to, I  counted over fifty little dwelling some furnished and occupied other in process of erection soon to be completed, belonging to the Freedmen, and build upon foundation resting upon lands which they