. Jat country, particularly betweenTNew 6 "leans and 

 IVickeburg, or between New Orleans and Jackson. 



Wm. F. Downs made a trip down the Mississippi, 

 and aeross the country ^to Atlanta in December, as 

 revenue agent of the Treasury. He fouim the people 

 generally bitter in their anoosition to theTiovernment. 



Brevet Brig. Gen. Jno. Tbrbett, after being mustered 

 out of the army, purchased a plantation iri Scott 

 county, Mississippi, and travelled through* the 



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