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light, and there is no real difficulty in [[strikethrough]] its [[/strikethrough]] funding for the suffering. Its colored population is settled, but in a state of almost hopeless ignorance; they have a narrow idea of their political rights and duties, (confined, usually, to voting for the man who addresses them) and very little at all of their mental and moral needs. The County needs free schools, just taxes, sub division of its immense estates, and not until these shall be compassed, will it be on a high road to prosperity.

Capt Massey A.S.A.C. reports the condition of freedmen in the third division as improving; the last crop yielded fairly, most have a stock of corn sufficient for the winter. The settlements in the vicinity of Yorktown are in a much more healthy condition than formerly; the division of crops was satisfactory