The “Protestant Episcopal Freedmen’s Commission” was organized October, 1865, and in a few months it opened schools in Petersburg, Va., Wilmington and Raleigh, N.C. The first year the teachers numbered 23, and the scholars, day and night, 1,600. The Committee for Domestic Missions (under whose care this work now is), reported in 1882, 2 normal schools with 8 teachers each, and 11 schools with one teacher each. The normal schools are at Raleigh, N.C., and at Petersburg, Va.
THE ROMAN CATHOLICS.
The Catholic Directory for 1882 reports for the Archdiocese of Baltimore 1 academy for colored girls, with 60 pupils, and 4 other schools with 693 pupils; total, 753; Archdiocese of New Orleans, 7 schools, 330 pupils; Archdiocese of St. Louis, 1 school, 120 pupils; Diocese of Louisville, 6 schools, 332 pupils; Diocese of Natchez, 3 schools, 80 pupils; Diocese of Natchitoches, 2 schools, 40 pupils; Diocese of Savannah, 2 schools, 75 pupils; Diocese of St. Augustine, 6 schools, number of pupils not given. Total schools, 30; pupils reported, 1,730.
THE SOUTH.
Rev. Joseph E. Roy, D.D., Field Superintendent.
Prof. Albert Salisbury, Superintendent of Education.
THE HEMENWAY FARM.
BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG.