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District of Pass Christian.

There seems to be less cause for complaints of driving off Freedmen before expiration of contract in this district, on account of the short contracts made by the Freedmen.
Comparatively few contracts have been made for the entire year, most of them being made for each month and for the month only. - The complaints are few and present no questions of importance. - 
A remark by one of the Magistrates in this district to the effect that when they got control of matters they would undo all that had been done discovers a bad feeling yet existing, and shows that the feelings of the people have not changed materially. 
The action of the Government officers in the riot at New Orleans seems to have given their disloyalty an impetus which is ready to vent itself in something stronger than words. - The counties distant from mail facilities