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average appearance and intelligence than those of the peninsula, though large numbers of them are destitute of the proper spirit of laborers, have no pride of labor, take no pleasure in work well done, only in the return which it brings.  Slavery made pride of labor, the main spring of the whole free labor system, impossible, and it will take many years to introduce right ideas of labor.

The Eastern Shore is quite well supplied with schools, and the freedpeople willingly contribute what they can for the support of teachers; the school work here is new, was only undertaken last fall, and has been most satisfactory.  The white population views with apparently increasing complacency the education of colored people, although "nigger teachers" are and long will be a prosecuted class.  About five more schools are [[strikethrough]] needed [[/strikethrough]] required to fully supply the need of schools in the two counties.

The freedmen of Matthews Co., from the fact that no part of the county is more than two miles from tide-water, are constantly shifting from the field to the sea, to the detriment of the crops, and to their own injury.  Yet money is so scarce, wages