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good as could be expected considering the way they have been brought up.

I do not see any need of the negroes suffering during the coming winter, but I have no doubt many will because they spend their money as fast as they get it."

A. Gossett. Supt. Humphries Co. reports. "The freedmen getting along very well all peaceable and quiet no disturbance nor no reason for any. the white people are disposed to pay them for their labor and they, I believe are all at work very well, and doing as well as could be expected, or as well as a great many of the white people etc., etc."

A serious difficulty occurred on Thursday 15th inst between Tip Carter and George Kinsilla (cold) freedmen of this place which resulted in the death of the former.  Kinsilla was immediately arrested and the Circuit Court for this county being in session, he was carried