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taken. A school house is being repaired at Bristol which will soon be completed and a school opened there. A school is called for at Marion where a room would be furnished and the teacher boarded. The Freedmen in other places are urgently calling for teachers to open schools.

Much interest is taken in the cause of Temperance in some Counties. Large and flourishing Societies have been organized at Christiansburg, Dublin and Wytheville.

The Whites have manifest a more bitter and intense opposition to the Blacks since the late election than before. They seem to be determined to opppose in every way admitting them to an equality before the law and the enjoyment of any right tending to elevate or improve them. Knowing that schools aford to them the means of acquiring knowledge and power they oppose their organization and the procurement of Teachers, Land and houses for school purposes are refused. Teachers are traduced and socially proscribed and treated with every indignity for they sole purpose of driving them from instructing these Freedmen. Cases have come to my knowledge where business men have lost nearly their entire custom in consequence of their wives visiting a colored school and expressing an interest