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in Richmond to show the difference of administering justice will answer on this score.

Case No. 9. - A Jew named Cohen got into a difficulty with a Colored man James Gentry. The Jew was the aggressor, the Colored man in the fight hit the Jew on the head with a stone; for this offense the Hastings Court sent him to the Penitentiary for two years. Observe the contrast between the two cases, one tried in Manchester and the other tried in Richmond.
 
The recital of these cases show that the Bureau has not been inactive. It has done all that it can to remedy the matter, but I am compelled to report that if not sustained by the military it will fall short in redress.
 
The schools during the past three months have, the greater part of them been closed. But the Ass't Sub-Ass't Commissioner