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The older ones are the former laves Of the Sous--all now entitled to life and lberty. The weather from their first advent m this northern city has been unusually cold. attended with ice and snow. so that their sufferings have been greatly increased. and if there was in their hearts a single lnd remembrance of their sunny southern homes they weeld naturally give it expression now. We have taken olcasien to yamine ino the causes they themaselves assign for their extraordinary and unexpected transit. and beg leave to submit herewith the written statements of a number of individuas of the refugees. which were taken without any effort to have one thing said more than another. and to express the sense of the witnes in his own langoage as nearly as possible. The story is about the same in each instanegreat privation and want from excessive rent exacted for land. connected with murder of colored neighbors and threats of personal violence to themselves. The tone of eaeh statement is that of saffering and terror.