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the Secretary of War had ordered the vacation of the building wrote an article for one of the Mobile papers, in which he abused the Bureau and its Agents generally and rejoiced that there was a power superior to it, that would be protect them in their rights, I have not seen the paper, but Capt. Usher tells me that such was the substance of it, I sent you yesterday the Mobile Times containing a very abusive article on Gen. Howard. It is the production of Hails who is a Maine man,
The papers generally throughout the State are becoming unusually sever on the Bureau. Their former abuse of the institution was praise compared with the style of the editorials now.
I enclose a copy of a letter received from J. Bragg with a slip from the Register and my answer to him, I tried to "draw it mild" in answering and did not give him all that I would like to because if I had got started on him I most probably should have said something that I might hereafter wish unsaid.
For my opinion he is an old scoundrel. The fact of his retaining the corn which had been set apart for the negroes under their contract for last year, and devoting it to his own use, without compensation does not speak very much for his honesty, to say nothing about the mule case. 
In the matter of [[Alozey?]], the Freedman sentenced to be hung at Tuscaloosa, I enclose you a copy of a letter from