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exulted over it to such an extent, that it has frightened the Freedmen thereby almost paralizing the labor of this section; this however will be temporary, I have attended to several cases for Freedmen, where their rights were denied by their employers, and have noticed as heretofore a general disposition on the part of the whites to take the last cent from the Freedmen there are however honorable exceptions to this rule. 
But little or nothing touching the apprenticeship of minors has come to my notice since my last report. 
I am in receipt of Bills of Lading for Corn and Bacon shipped from Cincinnati by River to Tuscumbia, and look for its arrival by the 3rd of this month, and in this connection I will say, that the shipment of said supplies by River to Tuscumbia Landing will involve much trouble and a heavy expenses in transferring said supplies from the River to the Railroad at Tuscumbia, which is a distance of two miles, and much necessarily be hauled by teams which I fear will be hard to obtain, and as there is no warehouse at the Landing any delay in the immediate removal of supplies, might involve damage and loss, I will however use my utmost endeavors to avoid such results. 
I am Genl, very respectfully 
Your obedient servant
Jno B. Callis
Bvt. Col. U.S.V. and Sub Asst Comr.
B.R.F. and A.L. Dist Nor. Ala.