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summer vacation. The Sabbath schools are still kept up with increased numbers. 

The Freedmen are generally peaceable and law abiding citizens. But one complaint of violation of law has been reported. A party consisting of Three or Four Colored men and one or more white men were detected in breaking, entering and stealing. The White man escaped. The Colored men were arrested and examined and two committed to jail. One was permitted to give bail and has since absconded. This case is to come before the Grand Jury at the August term of Court.

The bitterness of feeling between the Conservative and Union parties has manifest itself in the burning of a House at Speedwell Wythe Co. used as a School House for Colored Children and as a Church for both white and Colored people. This was reported on the 22nd inst. and will be investigated by the Mil Court. The neighborhood has quite a number of Union people in it all of whom are much alarmed at the threats reported to have

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