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Societies, and there is every reason to beleive that in a Short time hundreds of this Class will be reformed, quite a large number of the leading citizens of this City favour such an organization, and will cooperate with the colored people in the work of Temperance. The Rev Mr Price of Richmond, a strong advocate of the Temperance cause, informs me that he is working to secure authority whereby the Freedmen can organize Separate Divisions, this should debar the colored man from becoming a member of a division where white persons are admitted, and some believe it will to some extent prevent them from being placed on a common level with others who are in the full enjoyment of their civil Rights, yet under all these extenuating circumstances, a majority believe it will be far better for the Freedmen to  organize Seperate Divisions than to allow the evils of intemperance to hold undisputed Sway. The Freedmen are manifesting an ardent desire to give encouragement to this work and approve of an immediate organization. 

The Riot which occurred in this City on  the 9th of the present month, between the white and colored citizens has received the attention of the Mayor, and after an investigation of nearly two weeks, in which but little colored testimony was taken, the Mayor concluded the case by centering the cause of the Riot upon two white and one colored man, remanding these parties to