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which a high-school building has been erected for teaching the children of freedmen in all the higher branches. It is expected that this institution will equal in its advantages the best schools of the same class in New England. The building was dedicated on the 9th of January last, and has now 1,100 pupils. A normal department is attached, which will prepare teachers for elementary schools throughout the whole State.

There is an orphan asylum of colored children at Nashville, with 60 inmates.

A number of teachers for refugee white children have been sent to Tennessee, and other places west and southwest. This has been done on application from the citizens of those sections. The effect of such schools is not only to benefit the children, but to produce fraternity of feeling with us among the people, especially the common classes. The wealthy and aristocratic look upon this effort with less favor.

MARYLAND.

In Maryland I made a brief inspection, though this State is not fully under your jurisdiction.

The "Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People" has sixteen flourishing schools in Baltimore, numbering, day and night, 1,957 pupils. They occupy seven buildings, and employ sixteen teachers, three of whom are colored. - These schools are crowded to their utmost capacity, and would be much larger if room could be obtained. In the several counties of the State, this Association has 18 schools, with 19 teachers and 1,110 pupils, fourteen of whom are colored. The colored people have aided these county schools the last year by paying $2,000 of the expense themselves.

The society of Friends has an evening school in Baltimore fo forty draymen and porters, taught by young men of the society, and who are making good progress.- These Friends also aid the above Association.

The American Missionary Association has five schools in Maryland, viz., two in Baltimore and three in the country, under the care of seven teachers. With their evening schools and classes of older people, they have from six to seven hundred under instruction. All their schools are doing well.

Besides these, there are seven schools in Baltimore, solely under the management of colored people - taught and paid for by their own money. These contain, in all

319 pupils, a considerable number of whom are adults, - This is an interesting effort, and shows what the colored population will do themselves, even along-side of schools both well taught and gratuitous. In the Douglas (colored) Institute, which is on a permanent foundation, the children are generally from the working classes, and their parents pay for tuition from $1 to $1 50 per month. I found two schools in Baltimore which have been going on more than ten years, supported, from a legacy given by Nelson Willis, a colored man. having seventy-five scholars, daily attendance.

The educational work in Maryland has had much opposition, such as "stoning children and teachers at Easton," "rough-handling and blackening the teacher at Cambridge," "indignation-meeting in Dorchester county, with resolution passed to drive out the teacher," and the "burning of church and school-house at Wilmington, Kent county;" "a guard had to be placed over the school-house at Annapolis," &c. Colored churches have been burned in Cecil, Queen Ann, and Somerset counties, to prevent schools being opened in them, all showing that negro hate is not by any means confined to the low south.

I have been somewhat particular in regard to Maryland, as you are without regular official reports from that State.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

In the District of Columbia there are 45 schools, 100 teachers, and 5,191 pupils; some thousands of these are good readers and also are in English grammar, geography, arithmetic, and higher branches; 1,854 are learning to write, and only 1,097 are still in the alphabet. There are nine other schools, not reported, having 500 or 600 pupils, 21 night-schools are in operation, with 1,200 pupils; and, besides Sabbath-schools attached to all the colored churches, there are 25 such schools connected with this Bureau in a flourishing condition, having 2,329 pupils. A number of industrial schools have been started in the district, one of which made during last month 162 garments; another has made one hundred articles of clothing. The last is a school of adult women.

This whole work is a vast improvement upon the state of things here, as some of us well remember, only a few months since. The Superintendent, Mr. KIMBALL, says: "all teachers seem to be earnest and hopeful." One writes, "I find the children are very much like white ones - some stupid, others bright. They are rather more eager for learning, because it has been forbidden fruit to