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Many are making Contracts for the coming year with those they have lived with this. Their condition, is infinitely better than it was last year.  On all public days & whenever there is an Auction, they are well represented, & compete with the Whites in bidding  Many have bot oxen, horses, cows, & other stock, & in all cases if not able to pay Cash, have given the required security. They have bot. & paid for in Nelson Co, Hebron Church - price $450.  Besides they have two others in the course of erection.

There is nothing being done in Nelson County towards education - what teachers, [[erasure]]  were here having been withdrawn - though there is no opposition on the part of the Whites. In Amherst Co. a Mr. Sawyer has purchased land, & proposes starting three schools. He being a Northern man Considerable opposition is manifested.  The Citizens, about a week since, pulled down his school house, in the Course of erection. Mr. Sawyer called on me yesterday. I gave him papers, which he thinks will protect him from further molestation, till I can investigate the case.  

The act was committed in the night, & he is ignorant of who the parties were who committed the deed. With this exception the feeling

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