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next fall. Forced removals have been made, but owing to the care and personal superintendence of Capt. Massey no bad feeling has existed. Freedmen are renting land for one-fourth of the crop, or paying from $2. to $3.00 per acre. Daily wages are from 50 to 75 cts : few hire by the month, and very few by the year. There will be much suffering this summer owing to the failure of last year's crop, and the unsuccessful oyster-season. There is less crime than formerly : intemperance at least holds its own. The numerous "gin mills" in this and in all the counties of my sub-district - the solicitations of rival shop-keepers who court the freedman's good-will and patronage with (bad) whiskey, and the want of a strongly aggressive influence in the direction of abstinence do not lead to cheerful conclusions with respect to the future. The leading freedmen are by no means up to the total abstinence mark : the temperance cause among them is to-day very weak.

Labor is much in excess of the demand for it, but much less so than formerly; many wretched men and ragged women and girls are "knocking about"