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The expectations of having garden vegetables shortly such as potatoes and other produce will doubtless soon relieve their present urgent necessities and the prospect of a bountiful harvest, will have a tendency to encourage them, though the short interval that will elapse before it is gathered. We have done all we could to relieve immediate distress, and received in several instances the kind co-operation of friends. As slated in my last report many of the freedmen are doing well, and from month to month purchases are being made, of small quanties of land, on which they are building little houses and cabins of their own. One Gentleman in this county is selling out all his property (a small farm) at a fair price to the colored people - feeling it is his duty to assist them all in his power.
Throughout these divisions, most of the schools have been closed for the summer vacation, and teachers from abroad, in several instances have returned to their homes. Others may perhaps re-open after harvest, and by the first of October it is anticipated there will be a general resumption of the schoolwork. At that time one or more teachers from the north are expected to take charge of important localities 

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