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have erected cheap houses, and others are preparing to do so. Most of us have been raised to farming, but a large majority of us were unable to engage in this business, from the fact that we neither had horses nor mules, nor the means to buy or feed them, and the country having been stripped during the war of most of the stock that was in it, what could be purchased were high, and could not be bought by us on credit. There are no public works, nor any large factories being carried on near us at which we could procure regular employment, and consequently we have been dependent for the means of support upon such jobs as we could get to do from time to time, but have not been able to get any thing like constant employment, and the consequence has been that it has been with difficulty that we have been able to clothe and feed ourselves at the high rates that have prevailed for every thing, in fact many of us have not been able to clothe and feed ourselves comfortably. Some of