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opening schools for them, and therefore cannot hope these schools will
be supported by other aid than yours.
**Sincerely your Friend,
(Signed), CORNELIA HANCOCK,
*¢ Box 262, Charleston, S. C.”

All the schools at and near Manasses are doing well. 8, J.
R. Witson, the teacher at Dumfries, remarks:

‘**The school is prospering finely, very little is wanting to make
it permanent, every appearance indicates success.’

Lavinia CuaAse adds to her report:

‘‘There is a gradual falling off in the number of scholars as the
season advances ; many are obliged to leave school and go to work.
We have a Sunday school—the weather has been unfavorable for it so
far this spring. But the children seem anxious to attend, and no
doubt we shall have a full attendance now that the weather is warm.”?

Dantet Stewart, also at Manasses, forwards a good re-
port, with 37 pupils on the roll; all read, and all write except
four.

Katie Nicuors, of School No. 3, has 25 scholars, all of
whom read except four.

Oxrve L. Grant continues his faithful exertions as formerly
in behalf of the school now located at Gainsville.

CauistA Baker, writes from “ Frying Pan,” Fairfax Co., Va.:

‘* The colored people here received three hundred dollars from the
Freedman’s Bureau last fall to build a school house, which was just
enough to buy the timber, the windows and door. They hewed all
the /umber themselves for the frames, and drew the lumber from
Herndon.

‘* The house is 20x30 feet, and standsin nearly the same place the
old one did, It has three large windows on each side, but yet re-
mains without plastering. The colored people havea deed for the
school-house site, which is to belong to them as long as it is used for
a school and place of worship.”

We believe the following comprehensive review of the prac-
tical workings of one of the departments of our Government,
that Friends ever looked upon as of almost inestimable value,

is well worth republication here:
From the Pall Mali Gazette.

THE “FREEDMEN’S BUREAU” IN THE UNITED STATES.

The annual report of the United States Secretary of War, dated
November 20th, 1869, contains, among other valuable papers, a re-