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prevent less violent outrages being reported.

The report that the army worm has appeared in the cotton, does not change the opinion of the Sub Commissioner in charge that there will yet be a fair crop.

The Freedmen are doing well;-no complaints are made that they have not complied with their contracts during the making of the crops.

District of Columbus.

Freedmen's affairs have been remarkably different from any preceeding month. A degree of quiet hitherto unknown has obtained, and the better class of Planters are well satisfied with the manner in which Freedmen are acting,- No complaints have been made against the Freedmen, but on the contrary the complaints of the Freedpeople against the whites have continued though in less number than in July last;- the Freedman is