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operate with me. The conversation was desultory and they expressed a willingness to set on foot a legalized system of care for the poor and a degree of favor toward the cause of eduction which was gratifying to me and which I hope to see advanced to law within a week or two.

A good deal of spite and pandering to how public sentiment will have to find vent in the legislature before there is much beneficial action, yet I am hopeful of the ultimate result.
Aside from the Legislative matters of permanent value the question of food has great and pressing [strikethrough]] on lese [[/strikethrough]] interest. I telegraphed you this week in reference to a proposed enlargement of your Circular to Eight (8) and am obliged by your reply. To avoid a possible difficulty I telegraphed a further request that the Commissary General might advise the Department Commissary at Mobile to increase his estimates as necessity might require*. I trust this effort may be a means of good, not only directly but as incorporating with the Bureau throughout the State, who can be made to take an active interest in all its operations. There is urgent, painful need that this should be so.
*I expect to go to Mobile early next week to confer with that officer as I understand he is too ill to come here. The supplies at present in the State, I understand to be very small.
I think we are now in a position to promote educational interests, and partly to that end are entering on a vigorous correspondence into Northern Benevolent Societies. My recent trip gave me some opportunity for personal acquaintance among them which will perhaps be

of service. I shall treat this subject hereafter more in detail.
I presume copies of the orders by the President and Secretary of War and sent me per Gov Parsons, were at the same time transmitted to you directly. To remove all doubt, I enclose copies to you. The one referring to animals was the result of an arrangement between Gov Parsons and the Secretary of War and had not direct references to the Bureau. It will have no [[?]] my results. The other transferring rebel property I trust you may find useful as a precedent I have not yet learned what it will produce here as the Collector at Mobile who has had charge of captured property for the entire State could not furnish even an estimate until his agents should report which would require a week or two. I have learned enough however to feel hopeful of a supply of funds ample for necessary expenses, and to enable us to replace the ($5000) five thousand dollars for which we are already in a double since indebted to you. Some transfers will also be made under the order by the U.S. District Court some estimate of which I shall be able to form next week.
I am compelled to say in frankness that the results of committing civil justice to the Courts are not such as I hoped for. Yet I cannot positively say that there is denial of justice. or any thing more than results from such opportunities for oppressions and wrong as a poor down-trodden race afford. They have neither means nor knowledge to avail themselves of common agencies of redress and they are in the presence of bad men who have both. Yet I do not