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This last is much to be regretted, and I use all exertion to induce the Freedmen to make permanent engagements, but in most cases without success. Wages offered are about as last year, $8 @ $10 per month, for good hands, with rations house and fuel. Boys are little wanted- There have been no special breaches of the peace during the month, by or against Freedmen on the part of the Whites. In the case of assault with a hatchet by John Mc Neish (cold) upon Moses Powell (cold), Mc Neish was fined $1 only by the magistrate and released, but next morning I brought the case to the notice of the Mayor, and he had Mc Neish rearrested and held to answer indictment at March court,

Political matters between white and colored are quiet, but I can report little or no change of feeling. The conservative organization is active and general, every preparation being made to defeat the Constitution, no matter what it may be, but so far no impression has been made upon the mass of colored voters, who see now quite clearly that the

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