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came out of the ground, heavy rains came on deluging the country, in many bottomlands, destroying the entire prospects of raising either corn or cotton, and throughout the county so unfitting the lands for working and rendering helpless all efforts of the Freedmen to keep their work under their control.  You will readily see General that these causes opperated very discouragingly upon the Planter and Freedmen.  This has caused some trouble, and many complaints have been made, that would not have been but for this.  These difficulties are easily met and overcome, there are others that not so easy to overcome, and without assistance I cannot reach.  It is generally understood in the remote parts of the county that troops have been removed, this with those that have an interest at stake, that are working Freedman and have their whole capital in the present crop, it has but little or no influence but there is a large class of population which it has had a very unhappy effect.  I refer to a class of unreliable men (or Roughs) who are