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instruction, and as far as they themselves have ability to assist educating their children. Yesterday I attended the Sabbath School held in Andrews Chapel. This school has a colored Superintendent and sixteen colored teachers. It numbers two hundred and fifty children in its regular attendance. Misses Roper and Adams also teach in this school. There is also a large Sabbath School numbering about one hundred and fifty pupils taught by Mr. Winfield and Miss Chapin assisted by several colored persons in the Episcopal Chapel. Mr. Berghduff is about commencing a Sabbath School, too, at Trent Camp, which will be largely attended. I will venture to predict that on next Sabbath there will be in the Sabbath Schools of this city not less than a thousand colored children. Of the buildings used here for school purposes, I need only say in this connection, that they are generally good. Mr. Berghduff is in need of a building at Trent Camp, but I have learned from Lt. Col. Moore that he will be able to supply him. With regard to the site of the school house, built by the Bureau, now occupied by Miss Hicks, under the Episcopal Association, and the site of the one being built now by the Bureau, and to be occupied by the Misses Rue, under the American Missionary Association.  I have to say, that Rev. Forbes of New Berne owns the first, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church owns the second. I would respectfully suggest, that these buildings, located upon land owned in the one case, by an individual, and in the other by a church organization may as the matter