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and Capt Ketchum of Genl Saxtons Staff have both given special encouragement to these schools. At the present time their Association is threatened with the loss of its buildings (The old Slave mart and the Medical College) granted them by Genl. Geary, a very important portion of the former having already been taken from them. (Reference to Doc's. marked (14.) & (15.) This system of Schools is destined to spread through out the south and develope unexpected self reliance. These in Savannah [[strikethrough]] Schools [[/strikethrough]] have been imitated up and down the Savannah river and out upon the plantations. - By a delegation of Colored men from Savannah to Augusta, a similar effort has been started in the latter city, already numbering several hundred pupils - Two schools of the same kind have also, from this influence, been opened across the river at Hamburg, and we learned that at other points in South Carolina and Georgia the people were commencing their own schools, Their management and teaching may not equal that of our northern instructors. But the people are ambitious to make this effort themselves - are proud of it - pay for it cheerfully according to their means, and what is more, hereby will show their northern friends that they are not long to be dependent on charity, - Normal instruction for their teachers - in the art of teaching