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If the proper construction of Gen. Order No 4 is, that either partie when the amount in controversy is more than Ten dollars, is intitled to a jury to try the case.  Then all the technicalities, vexations and delays so comon in the courts of the county, will be opened up befor the Sub. Ast Commissioners.  Poor and peniless freedmen not being able to imploy Attorneys at law to represent them, will stand but little chance of obtaining justice from the more opulent whites; reparsented by Attorneys learned in the arts of delay, special pleading and defeating the ends of justice.  The present crops are soon to be divided between the proprietor and the laboring freedman and the proprietors will have possession of the produce by some means either fair, or foul. The freedmen not being able to imploy counsel without hypothecating his interest in the crop, and then submitting to a delay of 6 or 12 months and in the mean