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Virginia.
Major-General Howard has just received the official report of Colonel Brown, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for the State of Virginia, relative to the opera tions of the system In that State. The report Is prefaced by a reference to the condition of society In the State when he assumed charge' of his office:
The problem to be solved was how to pro vide for the protection, elevation and govern