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The demand for schools in other places than where held last winter, are not urgent, and if organized, it is doubtful if a sufficient number of pupils would attend to warrant the experiment of employing a teacher and other expenses. 

Third Division comprising the Counties of Shenandoah & Rockingham. 

1st All the Freedpeople are employed, and as in the 2d Division they are well distributed, except at Harrisonburg, and their general condition is prosperous. At the latter place there is a good schoolhouse, the property of the colored people well attented, and showing a degree of efficiency commendable to Miss Phoebe Libby the teacher- This school also closes on the 1st July, much to the regret of parents and pupils. Reports of unprovoked assaults on Freedpeople and known union people are well founded, and the recent outrage perpetrated at Woodstock, before reported, is perhaps the best indication of popular opinion which can be cited — while the freedpeople are industrious,

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