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The Sub Asst. Comr. reports that he has advised the freedmen to work faithfully if they would avert the starvation which must necessarily follow idleness. 

Sub District of Pass Christian.

The condition of the freed people is improving, they are sought for and receive employment more readily than the laboring class of the white people; the consequence is that as they ascertain the fact they proportion their demand for remuneration for service accordingly.

Several instances of refusal to employ the widows of white union soldiers have been reported, in cases too, where the labor