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the land, if the did lease it, at one hundred dollars per acre, and not for over ten years and so the matter stands, they spoke very freely of taking possession of the buildings, as encroaching on county land.

Mr Gallagher is desirous of giving employment to an immense number of Freedmen, and of developing the resources of the country but by this better hostility shown towards him, merely because he is a "Northern man" he will be compelled to abandon the idea. In conversation with him but a short time since, I asked him how long he could do business after the Bureau and Military authorities were removed? he quickly replied "not a day". The business which he proposed to enter into would give great employment to the "Freedmen" and remove them from the support of the government but the predominant feeling of the citizens will not allow a "Yankee" to settle and prosper among them.

An apology is not doubt due for the length of this report, but it is almost impossible to