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10th inst.

Of the colored men, two, as previously narrated, were beaten on Monday evening, and five others were struck, and more, or less hurt, on Tuesday morning. Also, one or two white citizens were struck by the soldiers, but not much hurt.

The whole immediate fault of creating the disturbance on each occasion, rests with members of the Company of the 21st Regt. stationed at the Post. After these had started it, the negroes were ready to keep it up, were incited so to do, and it is most fortunate, that the riot was by the exertions of the officer above referred to, prevented from actually acquiring headway.

The negroes in the neighborhood are represented by the most respectable white citizens as orderly and industrious, also, it seems that no collision between the races, or other disturbance had occurred, before the arrival of the company above mentioned.

A number of slight collisions had already taken place between those soldiers and the negroes, and it is believed that some of that command have inimical feelings toward the freedmen, while the latter