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which our crops have been ruined. The consequence is that no provisions have been made in the country, and want and suffering will most certainly afford a fearful field for disease among them during the coming Winter. It is to this point that I desire to attract your notice. They cannot afford to employ Medical assistance or to purchase necessary drugs, and without these the diseases to which in our climate they are peculiarly liable during the Winter months must produce a terrible mortality. The kindly relations which have ever held between us and them under the old regime still exist, and we are willing to do cheerfully all we can for them. But we are a deeply