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is very generally and promptly paid.]  Upon the same plantation Mr Parrott has built a schoolhouse in which white children are taught.  [The utmost good feeling is said to exist among the white and colored people, on this plantation.]  As a further illustration of the same spirit on the part of the same class [[strikethrough]]what certain white men of this State are [[?disfeored]] to do for the Freedmen [[/strikethrough]], I would mention the fact, that [ Col. W.R. Meyers,of Charlotte has given eight acres of good land located about one mile from the centre of the town, said to be worth $600., as a site upon which to erect the "Riddle Memorial Institute," and the dwellings of the teachers connected therewith.] Messrs Alexander and Miller, missionaries under the auspices of the Old School Presbyterian General Assembly Freedman's Committee, spoke of Col Myers in deservedly high and cordial terms, and of his gift of this land as being opportune and valuable. In this connection I may report to you that no where in the State where I have travelled, from Weldon to Raleigh, from Salisbury to Morgantown, from Goldeboro to Beaufort, from Meorehead City to Wilmington and from the latter place to Fayetteville, have I found any bold outspoken opposition, on the part of the