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Owing to the scarcity of money the price paid for labor appears trifling, but the Freedmen seem to have appreciated the circumstances of their former owners, and asked but little.

On my arrival here I found several cases in which both parties were waiting the arrival of an Agent of the Bureau before coming to any agreement as to what was due, these have all been settled to the satisfaction of both parties, but have not been noted because there was no action brought and the presence of the Asst. Supt, asked as only a guarantee of the fairness of the settlement. 

There is in the county as much labor as can be employed, but the Freedmen prefer to work by the day, to making contracts for the season with the proprietors of the large farms. The majority of Freedmen have got temporary possession of an acre or so of land which they profess to cultivate; or are cutting wood by the day; in the first case as they seldom have horses or farming implements and the land allowed them is so poor, that it cannot possibly yeild them sufficient for their maintenance, and as those engaged in cutting wood are only em-