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have found, as a general thing, the colored people willing to re open their schools and establish new ones, during the coming month. In Fauquier County the obsticles encountered by them in regard to school enterprises are many. They inform me that, whenever an effort is made, which has a tendency towards establishing a school, no means, however unfair, are spared, by the late rebels, in thwarting their efforts. This influence on the part of their late masters together with their poverty and the indifference of some of their number, in too many instances, will make abortive the efforts of the few earnest ones for a time, at least. 

In this (Loudoun County) I have been able to secure, in some instances, the assistance of some of the leading citizens, some of whom were officers in the rebel army, in establishing colored schools which has had the most salutary influences upon the community in which these schools are about to go on 

At the  approach of cool weather and long evenings the Temperance cause appears to be [[?]]

(over)