who lives there. Mrs. Carleton has been teaching, usually at her house, since June, 1864, vacations excepted, but has never had a large school, generally twenty-five (25).

The Rhet Place.The Rhett Place is about a mile from River View, and eight (8) from Beaufort. We have there a school, which Miss Fogg established in the fall of 1864. The plantation is in good hands still, leased on shares to the colored people. There are no white people on the place, and our teachers, Miss Bacon and Miss Shoemaker, live at Mr. Carleton's, River View and walk to and from their school. They teach in what was formerly the overseer's house. It is a good school, has been well taught, but it has not, for several months, been large enoughto justify keeping two teachers there, and for that reason Miss Bacon resigned last month, and a few days ago sailed for New York.

Distant IslandOn Distant Island, a little piece of Ladies' Island, cut off by the tides, has been Miss Gay's school, the only other one under the auspices of the Association in this district. Distant Island is but a single plantation, owned by Mr. Kobinson, in whose family Miss Gay has lived. The school has never been large enough to warrant continuing it, and as Mr. Robinson needed the use of the building in which the school was tanght, I closed it on the 31st ult, and Miss Gay has gone North.

The June report will show an additional decrease in the attendance of most of the