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winter months; the most industrious find it difficult to make both ends meet-

Such even as have constant employment experience so much difficulty in the settlement of accounts, and are charged such exhorbitant prices for goods obtained from employers, that at the close of the year they know not whether they are in debt to employers or the contrary.

The case of injustice reported last month as having been tried before the County Court at Winchester, in which Edward White, (cold) was charged by - Jackson, (white) with an assault, and a new trial obtained on the ground of a prejudiced and exhorbitant judgment did not come up for hearing at the December session of the Court-

The jubilant disposition of the conservative party on the closing up of the Bureau, and the consequent dependence of the Freedpeople on their former masters, is viewed as a word of advice to dishonest men to take such advantages of the colored laborer and reduce him as nearly as practicable to his former condition as