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Feeling between the Races.
The state of feeling between the races is about as reported for last month. While a majority of both races work together harmoniously, and show a respect for each other, there are some distrustful, contrary individuals of both classes, who are continually producing more or less trouble. Such characters, among the whites tell the colored men, that the decline in the price of cotton is caused by their voting for Radicals; to which some colored men reply that "they will vote for their friends, even though it bring cotton to five cents." Thus rather a bad state of feeling is kept up between certain classes of both the races. Advice and instructions have been given to the colored people on this subject, both at this Office, and by lectures in different parts of the surrounding country.
Prospects of the Freedmen.
The prospects of the freedmen are rather gloomy. A large majority of them have contracted this year for a share of the crops, agreeing to pay for their supplies out of their share. 
Fully two-thirds of the crops raised is cotton. Cotton is very cheap, supplies have been very dear, and the freedmen have been very extravagant. Consequently, their share of the crop will fail, in many instances, to pay for their supplies and other articles consumed during the year. 
Some of those who labored for fixed wages, their rations being furnished, will realize some money, provided their employers be able to pay them, which, in some cases, is rather doubtful, unless cotton should advance very much. Under this state of circumstances, and with the lights now before them, farmers say, that they cannot afford to give laborers next year, more than six, to eight dollars