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We learn, on intelligent and reliable au thority, that on the Mississippi river great preparations are being made for the cultiva tion of a large breadth of the most fertile cot ton lands entirely with freedmen's labor.— Capitalist* and enterprising business men of the Northwestern States are now making ar rangements for cultivating; cotton on a large scale in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala bama, kc. They anticipate no difficulty as to obtaining labor, and have found none.