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There are no freedmen in this Sub-Dist. unable to obtain employment work is very plenty and wages good, and there is no cause for destitution among those able to work, Justice in matters of litigation and the protection of their rights is accorded to them by all the courts and justice, no cases to the contrary coming to my knowledge, the state of feeling between them and the whites appears to be friendly, some little trouble arises in cases where questions of law come up which they do not understand, there was one case of assault and battery with wounding occurred in Fairfax Co. during the month, attention called to special report of Lt Wm Shields on the case forwarded Aug. 19th 1867. The issue of Rations to the destitute was stopped Aug. 30 1867. in accordance with orders, the Hospital for freedmen is still kept in operation, the sick generally average about 58 as is shown by the ration returns on file in this office, There has been held in this town two meetings on the subject of education of which John M. Langston esq. addressed the colored people, some Sixty dollars was raised towards a fund for educational purposes, The cause of temperance is very much agitated among the colored people but the political excitement runs so high that they seem to have no time or attention to devote to anything else, the clergymen of the churches in the city are working in this matter strongly and some other gentlemen connected with the Temperance Associations are striving to effect a reformation among the freedmen in this particular, I enclose report of I.C. O'Neal on the subject.
There are about Two hundred or more aged and indigent