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where he shall obtain his next meal.

Freedmen are not willing to go back into the country without some definite offer of employment.  Distrust seems to be enkindled in every heart.  So often deceived by the white land owners, they are not willing to entrust themselves, their wives and children to their word of honor.

The mere announcement of the fact that employ-ment can be obtained at this, or that place, does not move them unless they can see the parties who desire their labor and learn on what terms employ ment will be given them.

Many of those who have regular employ ment, have provided themselves with homesteads, on which neat and substantial houses are being erected.

Little is being done to forward the temperance cause. A Crusade against the use of tobacco would be more effectual, and its results, pecuniarily, would be far more marked and striking The use of the "weed" is almost universal.

In the absence of the Sub-Asst. Comr.

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