was determined to attend to all who went to the school, sometimes held three sessions, teaching often from seven to nine honrs, daily; worked too hard, so that on the 25th ult. I considered it best to close the school, and Miss Holden is now here resting. I do not think it advisable to send another teacher there this season, but Ashdale is an admirable location for a school, is the central point for an attendance from six large plantations on Ladies' Island, and I hope the school there will be reopened with two teachers in September.

BeaufortThe schools of the Association in this town have been in operation four years, but have experienced so many changes that the two now in session can hardly be recognized as theoriginal one?. At present the Primary and Grammar School, Mrs. Fogg, Principal, occupies a good building, used formerly as a Female Seminary, and the High School, Miss Gilchrist, Principal, a still finer building, a college before the war. The former school averaged one hundred and twenty (120) in May, the latter one hundred (100). This is a decrease of 25 per cent, from the winter attendance, but there are still five schools, these teachers in each. The Association is fortunate in its selection of Principals for these Beaufort schools. The buildings in which these schools now are have been held as "abandoned" by the .Bureau, and assigned to us, but they will be released June 15th. Provision must be made for buildings for next year On this subject