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this office has been amicably settled, and by affording time to get grain to Market no doubt all will be -

The wheat crop, though not so large as was expected, is still believed to be a fair average crop. The very dry season however will seriously reduce the crop of corn, which forms the principal article of food for the freedpeople -

Intemperance is happily not the Freedmen's vice to any perceptible extent. The few exceptional inebriates are so far ignored as to make drunkenness not quite so respectable as it seems to be among the more favored race, hence many of the colored people by industry and economy have and still are, buying small lots of land, according therein comfortable homes for themselves & families -

But few cases of litigation have occurred among the colored people, and those have been settled satisfactorily - The summer vacation still continues, and therefore no schools are in session.

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
John A. McDonnell
Sub Asst Comr