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that country, particularly between New Orleans and Vicksburg, or between New Orleans and Jackson. 
  Wm. F. Downs made a trip down the Mississippi, and across the country to Atlanta in December, as revenue agent of the Treasury.  He found the people generally bitter in their apposition to the Government.  
Brevet Brig. Gen. Jno. Torbett, after being mustered out of the army, purchased a plantation in Scott county, Mississippi, and travelled thought the state generally.  He thinks the planters and the [[end of newspaper clipping]]