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the demand for labor, in this section, exceeding the supply.

Most of the freed-people having lived here previous to the rebellion, and their relation with the white citizens having met with comparatively slight derangement, (outside of their political status), large numbers of them are still living with and employed by their former masters, who are paying them fair wages, and between whom and the freed-people the best understanding is believed to exist. 

But little interest seems to have been taken in the temperance cause, in this Division, during the past year; but a movement in that direction has lately been commenced, which it is hoped, may yet lead to encouraging results. Mr. Nichols, Sup't. of Schools, for this section, has organized a society of adults at Onancock, numbering about forty; while the children attached to the School at Eastville have formed themselves into a cadet association, under favorable auspices. There is no reason to doubt that the freed-people will, in time, be led to organize temperance societies, generally throughout the counties of Accomac and Northampton. 
I am very respectfully
Your Obt. Ser'vt. 
Mont. S. Reed, 
A.S.A. Com.