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than in the city has been gradually improving.
In this city there must necessarily be much want the coming winter. The factories gave so little employment during the summer months, that none were more than able to supply their present wants.
The colored people get but little support from the County Poor Houses; they are filled with whites, and any applicant is turned off with the remark that "they have no room" - and that the Poor Levies will not more than keep those now in. The fact is quite clear to my mind that they do not intend to increase the Poor Levy to include the colored People or to increase the capacity of their Poor Houses. In the City Poor House there is not more than one or two colored Paupers and the population of the city is about equal. The cry is "full can't take any more". It probably is true that they are full, but full admitting but few colored, One of these was admitted before the war. In each of the counties of this Division where the population is nearly equal, the proportion of the whites, to the colored, in the Poor Houses is as ten to three And this not that there are really more white Poor than colored Poor, but from the fact, that preference is shown the whites in admitting, not to say anything of the treatment after being admitted. There will be