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they all voted.  Last Oct. Court there was a public meeting held for the purpose of nominating candidates for the Convention, which gave evidence of terminating in a general row, owing to the amount of liquor drank, and bad feeling existing between politician.  At one time there were two men, one colored, the other white, attempted to speak at once from the same platform, and as things commenced to look some what riotous, I dispersed the assemblage, and prohibited any more speaking for the day, which I think was the only means of preventing a serious riot.

There are scarcely any paupers in this Division, and the crops for this year are better than the average, consequently the Freedmen are comfortably of, and in no fears of being in want for the ensuing year.  There are no complaints of Freedmen not working well, and workmen have been so difficult to obtain during the past month, that transient hands commanded ready