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eagerness of the freedmen for the advantages of schools has been met as far*as the resources of the bureau aud the charitable zeal of its friends abroad would allow. There are about eleven thousand five hundred pupils receiving instruction from one hundred aud ninety-five teachers. Numerous and urgent appeals come from remote and isolated localities for teach ers and books, to which it has.been impossible to respond tor want of school-rooms and suit