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which Jackson was preparing for the killing of Hogs and was only prevented from doing so by the solicitations of an aged col'd man. The boy was so alarmed that he laid out in the sleet and snow for two days and nights, his foot was fly blown, and he picked the maggots out with his fingers and in this condition he was still compelled to work in the corn field this summer. The great numbers thrown out, or cheated out of their share of the crop will be the cause of throwing many suffering families again upon the charity of the Govt as the way in which the law is administered especially in some of the counties, is wholly against the freedmen, and will in the majority of cases be ruinous to them if they try it, it will for them be throwing good money after bad to seek redress from the courts. 

The condition of the Sub Dist is anything but good, yet everything seems to be working