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The affairs of the county of Elizabeth City are without material change.

I think, however, the town of Hampton is more disorderly than formerly, and cannot but attribute this change to the removal of criminal and civil jurisdiction from the Bureau.

I do not think the military authorities have succeeded nearly as well in their protectorate over the place as did this Bureau.

Drinking is a caging evil here, and in Yorktown particularly - not that drunkenness is common, but abject poverty prevails in the neighborhood of these places where liquor is sold, and men loiter about the streets and pilfer, and are always ready for a riot.

The temperance movement is progressing in Hampton but slowly; in other parts, so far as I can learn, not at all.

Political excitement, uncertainty as to