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San Augustine, San Augustine Co, Texas
August the 14th, 1867.

Captain James C. Devine
Galveston, Texas.

Dear Sir,
Your two letters of July 22d and July 30th, 1867, have been duly received; one of them containing a draft of $17.50, for which I am very thankful to you.

Matters are going on here, as usually, people don't talk anything but politics and cotton worms. Bewley is very quiet, since I broke his meeting up, which he held shortly after your departure.

I had instructed the colored people, to leave the Court house, when I left, and every man followed me, when I did so, after he had addressed them about 10 minutes. His meeting was a total failure, but he don't mention my name any more in his paper, since I told him, I would whip him, if he did so again.

Registering is going on finely in San Augustin Co, the colored vote showing so far a great majority over the white vote (264 to 151)