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The Freedmen in all the three counties are well pleased with the recent legislation of Congress giving them the right to vote.  This is especially the case in Lexington and the villages, where the more intelligent reside.  But there are no boisterous exhibitions of joy.  They nurse their pleasure in secret or manifest it only among themselves, or to Northern people in whom they have confidence - a prudent and sagacious forbearance for which they deserve much credit.  As a class they are much better prepared to exercise the elective franchise discreetly than the negroes of Eastern Virginia, who are more ignorant, and grosser in their feelings and habits.

I have not heard of any criminal prosecutions against Freedmen during the month, excepting in the case of one man arrested in Lexington for stealing money and bailed for his appearance at court, and in that of three men who were caught stealing bacon in Rockbridge county and who are now in jail.

Good health prevails among adult Freedpeople, and there is little destitution among them - and thus little is provided for in most cases, by the civil authorities, in others by the benevolence of myself and my friends.  So I do not apprehend any suffering from want.  It is however to be regretted that colored mothers are too negligent with their