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cool weather of a Virginia autumn comes on are more than ordinarily busy in the pursuit of pleasure by excursions &c A rather discouraging feature in their career is this improvidence; a determination to save nothing for the future, but to trust to luck and the Freedmens Bureau for a subsistence when they are out of employment and money

Our schools are opening with good promise, and this is the only cheering feature in the furtune of the colored race

Crops are coming in encouragingly, and if Grant the only peace candidate is elected, quiet will soon follow and prosperity in the South will so advance as to astonish even the suicidal conductons of the public press here

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