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has a private class of four pupils who recite to her daily. The aggregate number of pupils in all these schools in Four Hundred and ninety-eight (498).  These schools are very small, but this is owing to the fact that many of the children of the city are sick, and many of the larger ones are at work. 

Today another school is to be opened by Miss A. Cook in the Congregational Church, under the auspices of the American Missionary Association.  This school is to be free.  Tonight the Rev. A.A. Ellsworth commences in the same building a course of lectures on the various branches of study pursued in common schools adapted to the capacity of the adult Freed people, and interesting and edifying to those engaged in instructing them.  Much is expected from this course of lectures. 

The text books used in the schools here are in the main, The National Series. The more advanced scholars are pursuing the ordinary English branches.  In Mr. Winfield's school there is a class of seven boys just commencing the study of Latin. (They enter upon this study with spirit and promise to do well in it.)

The attendance upon these schools is good; and very little tardiness is complained of by the teachers. 

The public feeling here with regard to the education of the Freedmen seems favorable. The colored men themselves are not without an intelligent and earnest appreciation of its importance and necessity.  This is shown in their efforts to aid as far as possible those who are engaged in their