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a great extent of land planted in provisions, and very little in cotton. The crops will not be seriously injured of the slaved, though doubtless they will suffer somewhat. There is no money in the country. Men who four years ago were worth their hundred thousand dollars, now cannot buy a rail road ticket. Families that have been entirely dependent upon the wages of slaves hired out, consequently have made no crops, are now brought down from wealth to absolute poverty - maybe we regard regular cash payments as better calculated to promote the industry of the freedmen, as they will by that measure see an immediate result from their labor, still the planters have done the best thing they can, and generally have contracted to give the negroes a part of the crops, which in most cases has been a very liberal share.  By this plan the freedmen will be supported till the end of the year, and will then have six months' to a year's provisions to start on.

From all that we have seen, we are convinced that with proper management, the whole question of labor in this state can be settled in a few years, and free labor be found more profitable for both employer and employee, than slave labor ever has been.  It must be remembered that just now almost the whole state is in a condition of anarchy - the civil law has been suspended and military law has taken its place only in the larger towns and their vicinity. Considering