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in this section than any previous one."

Mr. Abin Allen formerly Agent of the Bureau at Jackson Tenn, in reply to my communication to him in regard to affairs pertaining to the freedmen states that "The Colored people of Madison County are doing very well as far as their religious and educational intrest are concerned. They have a day and night school, Sabbath school and Church. They have also organized a flourishing Temperance Society and that so far in their settlements with their employers they have generally been fairly dealt with, although in some sections it is utterly impossible for them to obtain anything like justice when they have to appeal to the local magistrates. 

Mr. J. E. Wood clerk of the Court at Trenton Gibson Co, Tenn informs me that the Colored people generally are doing well. The crops in that county this year are very good. 

Mr. Fielding Hurst, Agent &c at Purdy McNairy Co., reports that in the latter part of September he visited the Counties of Henderson, Hardin and Decatur and addressed the colored people at several points. In Hardin Co he found one Colored school taught by