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is now boarding some gratis.
The ten dollars per month for the for and one half months will to some extent remunerate him for his actual lay out.
You ask about intemperence among the freedmen. They drink almost to a man but dont drink more than seems to be the fashion here, among both black and white for, almost all drink. I dont know as I can do any about it that will be of any practical benefit- more than to talk to them and show the foolishness and wickedness of it. And set an example of total abstinence. 
As to their desire to accumulate property: they are ampitious in this respect. Are shrewd in making contracts and are many of them going to the hiils where they can enter or buy land and are getting