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most overwhelmed by applications for laborers.

The announcement of a definite policy which proposed to do every thing right and proper, not inconsistent with the freedom of the colored people to make labor reliable and profitable, has worked a revolution in the convictions, feelings and intentions of the people, white and black. To day, both races are hopeful for the future. The freed people are especially pleased that, by the direct efforts of the Bureau, their wages have been raised from the miserable pittance of from two to seven dollars per month, and from one twentieth or one tenth of the crop, to from ten to fifteen dollars per
month; and from one third the gross to one third the
net crop.

There was danger, of course, that, in interfering with the delicate subject of wages, however worthy my intentions, I might do mischief rather than good; but it has passed, and the result shows the wisdom of the