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are low- ranging from five to ten dollars, and too much comsumed by exorbitant rents, and various oppressive charges in many cases. Complaints of petty outrages, such as brow-beating an threatening, and delay and refusal to pay wages, are frequent. It seems to give more offense for a freedmen to make a complaint, or assert a claim against a white man in this County than I have noticed in Orange or elsewhere. "Nigger impudence" of this kind strikes a "high-toned" horror to the soul. The "driving off" remedy prevails to extent. The "respectable" citizens of the Southern part of the county, among whom was Judge Nelson, a former Representative of the County, last month treated themselves to delicate entertainment of this kind upon the person and family of Thomas Jefferson, a freedmen whom they suspected of burning a tobacco factory, which affair has been reported in full by Maj. Morse. This is a most high-handed transaction that has occurred. Affairs seem