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the Freedmen. These schools appeared to be for the most part composed of scholars from the other schools.
Many of the Day-schools are very large, well classified, thoroughly disciplined, and the children making rapid progress in their studies, and all that pertains to a well-ordered school life. I may mention, in this connection, the school taught by Miss S. J. Woodson and U. S. Williams, colored ladies, at Hillsboro, - the are taught by Messrs Robert and Cicero Harris, colored gentlemen, at Fayetteville, - the "Williston school" at Wilmington, taught by Miss Laura J. Noble in the Primary Department, assisted by several ladies, and Miss H. W. Goodman, in the Grammar Department, also, assisted by several ladies, - the Episcopal school at New Berne, taught by Mr B. Winfield, assisted by Miss H. Chapin and Miss H. Castie (colored), - the one taught by John Lewis Esq, assisted by the Misses Bailey of Ohio at Charlotte, - the one at Greensboro taught by Miss M. B. Bownrard, assisted by Miss S. J. Dixon and Miss E. Swinburn, - the one at Raliegh taught by Miss Graves, assisted by Miss Kalrad ad Miss Blard, and the "Washburn school", at Beaufort, taught by John Scott, as principal, assisted by Miss Mary Williams and Mis S. A. Beals. There are