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with him & etc. I learn that he has been running after the wenches & etc And in fact the Negros are anxious to tell a great deal about him since they encouraged to do so- I therefore desire that he may be discharged at the end of this month- Miss Skinner can continue the summer school and by fall I can get another teacher here - I know our schools will improve - I will make a tour through the District in a few days & expect we can establish two or three more schools_ Most of the counties of this district have but very few Freedmen in them.
Lathrops Company has gone. I am really glad of it. gs will make this post infinitely more agreeable. Somehow he has the faculty of making a great many enemies amongst officers. Why I do not know. Now that he is gone I think it would be well to return the charges without trial.
We are having a great deal of rain. Much more than is needed, I fear we will have sickness as soon as the hot suns begins to dry the ground. I hear there is some fever in Grinola but do not know