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Brazil Colonists
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Major Hastings la pushing forward his arrangements to coloniue Brazil. One set of emigrants have already sailed from New Orleans.
The vessel could not accommodate all that were ready to go.
Major Hastings is now making preparations for taking out the remainder of the colony, with whom he expects to embark in person early in the month of	February.	The colonists are mostly from	the
interior of Alabama.	They propose to make a	settlement on one	of
the tributaries of the Amazon.
Negroes And The Law
The Provost Court has authority to try all civil cases of a criminal character as do come within the scope of the civil magistrate The great number of negroes congregating here at present makes the duties of Judge Yarrington very onerous, and his energies are taxed from early morn till late at night, in settling cases of every shade of difficulty between the shades.
The number of cases coming	before Judge	Yarrington number	from
50 to 75 per day, and	many have	to be passed	over in a summary
manner.
Cotton stealing is as prevalent among the negroes as the small pox. They are very fond of going to law, even upon the most trivial case among themselves.
Small Pox
The small pox is increasing very rapidly, as you will see by an editorial in the (Kobile) "Tribune" of today, and it is causing a great deal of alarm among the white citizens.
labor Needed For Cotton
The planters regard the labor of the negroes as entirely unreliable now, though kExksBH high hopes were entertained about the first of January that their services could be secured for the year. A large number refuse to contract at all.
We must have cotton. The manufacturing and commercial interests of the country depend on it. The success of the financial system of the government depends upon it.
To have it. white labor must be introduced. The German, Swiss, Irish, Swede, etc., can make cotton and other services can be secured.