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an intelligent colored man, - states that, although they may be able, if discharged, to obtain employment from other parties, it will be allmost impossible to get Houses, and predicts hard times for them in that county during the coming winter. It is to be hoped, however, that self-interest, if nothing else, will prevent these threats from being carried out to any great extent.

Reports from other parts of the District are favorable, and would indicate that the prospects of the Colored people becoming self sustaining, and obtaining all their rights before the law, are better than ever before.

The School Houses at Strawbery Plains Knox Co., New Market Jefferson Co., Gibbs Washington Co. and Elizabeth Carter Co., have been finished; and several others are expected to be during the next ten days. Teachers will be needed at the Strawberry Plains, and New Market, but, it is thought the U. P. Mission, which has now several