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be increased disposition to move, and, by availing itself of this tendency, the Bureau can accomplish an excellent work here this fall.
Demand for labor is reduced owing to scarcity of money and distress of trade; this owing to the indifference of crops, which will, this year, little more than suffice for home consumption. 
The schools already established are excellent and will reopen next month. There is prospect of an active intellectual campaign this coming school year. There is a large demand for schools in places now destitute of them, which I am endeavoring to meet, so far as possible, and, in my recent quarterly report I hope to be able to give an account of at least twelve new schools in the rural portion of my Sub-district. Owing to the illness of agents this work has been much delayed
It is very difficult to get the colored people to move with energy in establishing schools; they have no faculty for continued effort