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impracticability of collecting rent from the freedmen. Every effort is made, and inducement offered to secure prompt payments, but without success; and the crop, even had it been a full one, is so divided and cut up into small patches, as to render just seizure of the rent proportion impossible. Many who are now really unable to pay, have expressed, apparently sincere, regret and give assurance of payment before January; but a large proportion of the freed people appear determined to refuse all payment; which determination is, beyond doubt, induced by the ill feeling engendered by their anticipated removal from the lands, now occupied by them, on expiration of current year.

The feeling of dissatisfaction, on this subject of removal, is growing stronger and more bitter every day, and although open intimations of intended resistance to any attempt to move them from the land's, (which they have already been notified to leave Jan.1.67.) are not so frequent as heretofore, yet there are undoubtedly a considerable number of freedmen, who are resolved to remain on their present tracts, at all hazards, during the coming year.

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