Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-03-06

more another, and it was filled !; and as rapidly
as we found buildings we found pupils to fill
them until we bad eleven in op ration, with over
three thousand black and nearly one thousand
white children. Not all children either. For
our schools were unlike any northern academic g.
Nine tenths OF all the black pupils a-b cd
ari4us, they called but In the same
classes we mad all heights and ages, from less
than three feet high up to nearly SIX. Strong,
stGlWart girls of sixteen and eighteen, and here
and there women no wers mothers, sat in the
same forms with little bits of brats who were
really to young 10 come, but who begged ear
nestly to stay.
: had d school in the vestry Of St Michael
Church. There q woman brought her little chill
dren daily, and taught IN the class
with them, although she, too, always had in
fant / her
ODD COSTUMES.
| For the first two months the costumes of these
schools detied description. They were the ra &
gedest Of ragged schools. At that time every
boty in Charleston, white or black, poorly
dressed. Here and there tidy suit of
- rebel gray, but they were the rare excep-
tons to the general rule. Such patched and
faded dresses such old-fashIoned clothes; such
shocking bad hats; such grand-mammaIan bon
nets-.hey were q perpetual marvel 70 persons
v 10 mad lust arrived from the Nor,h But as
the larger portion OF our negro scholars at that
time tugItI'es from the lAnta tons, they
were almost wholly IL r - and sucA rents as
took OFT halt the leg of d pantaloOB, or dresses
SO Yatchel that il utterly impossible to dis
tin zuish original cloth, were 50 common IN
| our school that Thoughts of comment
ing II. In the - primary department OF
the Morris street school zen It was first op ned
"a sister-iE-iaw oi MIS-. Harriet Beecleg otO@e
was tbsn voluntarily 4c-Ing Is the princlp4i),
she only untorn dresses that | can remember
were worn by two little boys, whom no ona could
fail to notice, Tor they We're altogether to plctur-
esquo to csc lpe attention helr caps, jAckeJs
anu pantaleJns were made out Of o.d Brus-
sels carpet of ne most Il .ning pattern There
" re 10 SHOES ID any oi the schools excepting
in the class oI tae children OF he waAlthIer
coiJred pea PIE ol the city
DE.TIUrIoN RELIEVED.
As soon rs .le intelligence OF TINS de-tItutiOn
reached the NORTH. the NV York ana Boston
Freedme = Al1 Societies sent Us arg. supplies
oi clothing and We rapidly clad AT- or SIX
thousand chIl lrl1, and at least Ten q 'ls mi OF
the freedmen sAO pere located tn islands
d9ab Il ever Sd mucl good was IN So
81 rt q time O.. so varied an ass0rtm .. ~ old
clotae- Our schools ch4uge- asleo- al On5e.
Inev ulllJ-,=5 with faded musIIns they grew
gorgeous 81 calIcoes resplendent wlcn ali the
colors OF the r-iu55w-and macy others too
numerous To mention Ihty became eryositions
ticqub of deiuueJ fashions anu obsolete tcIm-
u-lnzs: and b.unets Of generations that have
vanished away. d y Oi luDilee mad come,
and no mist. ke about il. l. took me some tlme
to recozuIze my lI.te rasmutfu pets in their
nesF Yankee eavelopmeuts Inelr beamIng eyes
shovel now proud they were and how grateful
to their unkn0wu blue4ctO.s. BY and by boxes
II shoes c4rua. and t1e ,x.ite1ue..t yr-w ;4yatD.
Tber- were bug q. f. y of Chem aud We gave ihen
q tlIe 4Irls only AI.er rainy day w could
hardly keep sen 9oi. Cyugh-cough
Cough o5a-a.ugh But 4fser We di=t7i-
busel tne shoes taese distressing s1unds almost
wholly ceased ihev saved many Young
woa an f.enl death III con.u5rptlyn. Tney paia
th.ir donors tliDx. j Dividend worthy II the
generous Investment Iue-e caIIren learue
With wonderful r4p.dity
,y..rt \ .,. rt,s >z.s,rs
ky.y..s ,,-.. .,.-..',.--.- r.,.,is-l.r,is. rI.,-
,.+,,a h.rl--,yt-.- tt4 ,bt.,.i,f-Iv never seem
rIr aur..d,. ~ fa b.., before theg esc4rej IL
f,..-l...,,. ana t,,,,4r..- ,.l,--4s N +b.n mas
..-'., +b = .T1 ma Rssd.ys hef1ra rhe
- - 49,, - N,,r- NJ W ,
,y,-e7I..~-s,t ,,,,,'.I, 49,,
- ,p.,l ,,h,-r .chi.sr.r 90 not attribute
10 f,c- i, anv faaer-nt -ur+rlorttv Ia was
no.. b...u-e the .s9lss sa- lo-e leTt thtn the
hs4.t tr,.t 4, .xsn t1e rlc. But ths poor whites
ar ~ ,neota hare. by nl,x "a ans rn.r
-.r...- ,,, ,r--. arose fr,n tneir ,r.ater ..,,rr
- -, -, ana ..ct,,-. tl..v bti ,over he.r
l,u,b5. a. sue o.Aers had been t4ueh ht. that the
mere color of their skin ensured their superiority
oyer tbe.r rivals Ii VS. o,ylny. also. tg their
!. .,rpe-t ;..ir. III rla.se u- aa. Ia become one "a
rs w t,u,bt tben that If they wished n, ne
emo y,ns.e. t1ev ,n,at -,udy nard and b,
- ,l,I4r., N..f,n, t..,,I,ra1 rhe,,, -, ,n,.h
- to H.. l,k4f..d r, tb4 Yark3e. Tell a bow or
glri sbo wa. re-ti.-- ar Nybisoerjng. that no
9ar'<4a nuril vo,,d ace IN n, II ,yay. and in
s-.r,I, III v..,r,,- r-.,.r,,re wouls become i.
sII a. statue. one day WIS beginning to
Inculc.te this IaudIble an .itlon, when was re-