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of the authorities is the cause of refusing aid give up all hopes of assistance from that source and at once and seek an acquaintance or friend on whom they become a charge.  Few colored people are able to help each other in this way and their own families suffer more or less from it.  The authorities aware of this, shirk their duties, make no new levies, nor has preparation yet been made to accommodate the poor Houses to the new order of things. There will be want and suffering in the city the approaching winter.
The conduct of the Freedmen has been good for a race as ignorant and as destitute as they are and work also being scarce at very low wages Their condition in the districts where work is more plentiful is gradually improving