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Executive Department,
STATE OF ALABAMA,
Montgomery, Ala, July 26th, 1866.

Maj. Genl Wager Swayne
New York

My Dear Sir
Conclude to write you this morning, although nothing of very much interest has transpired since you left, 
The wither [[weather]] extremely hot and and oppressive until yesterday a refreshing fall of rain cooled the air and settled the dust.
All has been quiet and dull in the City and Country the past week. I here [[hear]] of no clashing or disturbances among employers and labourers or Freedmen. Sorry however to see so many idle Freedmen loitering about the City, whilst the planting interest is so much in want of labour.
The reports which come to me from the different portions of the State, are by no menes [[means]] favourable as to the growing crops Corn, and Cotton, it is currently believed the Corn Crops will not, even in the most productive counties, yield three months supply if this should prove correct I tremble and feel, for the thousands of large and helpless families in the mountain districts who are for want of facilities and streangth. Are not making one year of corn. I am labouring to distribute the corn purchased 

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