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They are truly a helpless, suffering and dependent people, whose condition is not only to be deplored by the whole country but necessarily a public burden from which there seems no escape so long as disloyalty stands between northern capital and the undeveloped resources of the State. The freedpeople as a class are doing well in fact much better than the poor whites who are found to be less persevering and more easily discouraged than the colored people. Notwithstanding the hard times the colored people of this city have succeeded in starting two manufacturies of tobacco; each establishment turning out several hundred pounds daily. This effort of theirs to protect colored labor and promote their interests generally is a praiseworthy undertaking. 

The City alms-house recently established for indigent freedpeople contains about ninty (90) inmates all of whom are either aged or infirm. In visiting the place I found the inmates contented and receiving satisfactory treatment. The capacity of the