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- ..JHUBDEBS:,Am> .OVE?. THREE IIUNOREn . . i . BOBBKBiBS-rONOLiEi 8AM. ?iOWEBIJESS., i . til ii?;era| were s? many humatr bo lhgs possessed witii devils, ?or BO few cist out' Their.name is legion who four (Othersr-two brothex-in-Jaws he haw' 'been' aU?wed W'^?nly wage Ih? most ? ^famous ? o|?^wry, |pr;: ih? past nine years, twithin a region of ?welve'o^fif^en)^ he County, State, : Confederate and United States authorities; alternate? ly! or, n^itedlyj., ! his' lown fien d iah .hand, ho, is known io have mur? der a cl: fifteen .jberoOhB'. " Ko Congres? sional ^j?iic?iitQ^ J?i^'l^??.' pe?t' ta "in? vestigate''him; i'Let us have peace." In view of the pdss?biHt??s of an ap1 - propriation , .to some mud-mason artist tai his boat to adorn the Capi? tol collection, and to afford outlines for the dialectic poets, we append a pen-picture of this piece by nature's journoynjan-'^he. imitates humanity so abominably/'i He is a concrete sp?cimen of the "Civil Jtights" dogma -a compound of lowrdo.wn white, Tuscarora Indian, and tlie *'mafe-aT?d a7br<pjbUer'j , breded, . 'twenty-six 0 years old. : A -correspondent of the New York/jficf?W,'writing from Sh?.eH?elJ ??. C., gives the rf piloting lengthy ao oount of the doings of these loyal Ku Klux: ..>?.* The bandit of North Carolina, Henry' Berry. Lowrey, standing in perfect disdain of the authorities of the State, as well as of tho Federal troops, it was deemed necessary to Send a Herold correspondent to study tho situation. I. left. Washington City Thursday night, and reported myself next day at noon in the office of GoV. Walker, of Virginia. The handsomest man in the South was seated at a tablo, signing bills, in the old Confederate Supreme Court room. His beautiful grayish black mous? tache, healthy , gray, hair, clear skin and smiling expression,- every inch a lord lieutenant in tho oldest of oui shires, grew soberer as he said: ''Lowrey? i Why, a captain of the Virginia militia ' applied to me yes? terday, to obtain permission for him? self and his men to hunt that fellow in the swamps of North Carolina Lowrey must.be'a good deal of c character." . -, . As I looked over the files of the Richmond newspapers, and . their in tim ate exchanges of the tobacco, riot and tar region, I found the buestioi of the day to be-Lowrey. He wa) at once the Nat. Turner, the Osceoli and Rob Roy Mac-Gregor of th< South. With mingled ardor anc anxiety, desire and trepidation, ! pushed on- by the Weldon road U Wilmington, the largest town of th? State, where Lowrey had once beei confined in prison. There was ther but a single question-Lowrey. Th Wilmington papers called the Robe son County people cowards, for no cleaning him out. Tho Kobesoi County paper hurled back the insinu ations, but hurled nothing else a Lowrey. The State government go its share of the blame, and the Stat Adjutant-General replied in a card that the militia and volunteers ha no pluck on the occasion when h had tried them. Five men ha mastered a commonwealth. Ans instance of the deep sense c apprehension created by these bar dits in all South eastern Carolina, i afforded by a dream which Col. "VI H. Barnard, editor of tho Wilminf. toil Star, related to me. His paper i eighty miles from tho aceno of oui lawry : "I dreamed the other night," sai he, "that I was riding up tho Ruthe: ford ?Railroad, and carno to Mos Neck Station, where tho outlaws fri ?ruently appear. I thought a yello ellow, Indian-looking, came to tl: car door and said: 'Everybody cn pass but Barnard; I want him.' Th was Henry Berry Lowrey. Then dreamed that they took mo into soir kind of torture place, and poked gin at me, and tantalized mo." Tho newspapers were, howeve making political capital out of tl Lawrey gang, instead of calling upc an Honorable and united State sent ment to suppress the scandal. Tl Democratic papers cried, "Black li Kluxl" and the Republican *pape retorted, by asking whore was tl valor of the white Ku Klux, wi could flog a thousand peaceful me brit diired not meet fivo outlaws arms. "Tho Democrats," said ono Rob son County man, in my room, " soon as they upset tho Rep?blica in Robeson County, started in to a nihilatc Scuflietown and its voto 1 terror. Thoy have been beaten in That chap Lowroy has mado them laughing-stock; he ought to bo killc but they skulk out of his reach." . Maypi**Mi*rttnr~^ Prosidont of tho lluthjerford Railway, which" basses" ^p^,^^S^^n and the lana of the outlaws, relates an irieid?nt, pitiful at Ifenstf ttf Northern ears', c-f th? ^o^e?'pf^? robers, and th?' hWel$& fjih'^ \th.jt? ?hey aro m?>kin? ^^^v^e.linwte.of ?hat ia available to thora., Adjutant-Gen? eral Gorham, Who > directed the late ignominious campaign * against the Lowrey band-where, 'by Current re? ports^ the main' victories gui ned we're over the mulatto women) the soldiery driving tho husbands forth to insult and debauch their wives said'that Henry Berry Lowrey, when asked to withdraw' from 'tho Stato, replied: ' "Robeson County ia the only land I know. I can hardly read, and do not know where to go if I leave these woods and ewa-mps? where I was raised. If I can iget safe > cpu du ot and pardon, I will go anywhere. I will join the United States army and fight the Indians. But these people will not let me leave alive, and I do not mean to enter any jail again. I will never give up my gun." Mayor Martin's solution of the difficulty, is for'the United States to declare martial law ovor the whole Congressional , District in which Robeson County standB, and make a systematic .search.' with., regular troops for these outlaws*- ;' Ho says that when they first >tpok; io their ex? cursions they, werie* oohip?rativciy sober, but of late have taken to drink? ing, dnd' about four weeta ago they all, except their leader, got drunk at Ed: Smith's-store, Moss Neck, and lay there all night! "Ii^hiskey," said Mayor Marlin,, f'will reduce them in. time; but they aro very careful whose liquor they > drink in these, days. Henry Berry Lowrey le/t his flask hanging oh a fence a few weeks ago, and when ho returned to get it, ho made everybody at tho station drink with him." !, Early in the morning, Monday, February 26, I took tho train for Lumberton, and froi? the forward car to tho tail the freight was Low? rey. In tho second class car, escorted by the. two sheriffs, MacMillan aud Brown, of Robeson County, was Pop Oxondine-tho previous, said, to be his literal name-brother of Hender? son Oxondineythe only- o?e of the outlaws who was ever brought to trial and hanged. Ho was . chained to a Tegular army soldier, who had recently .r?urder?d a negro at Scuflle town, and he was a remarkable look? ing mulatto, with a yellowish olive skin, good features, and a handsome, appealing, unreliable, uninterpreta? ble pair of black eyes. So good look? ing a mulatto man, with such com? plexion, I had not seen. Like the rest, he had Tuscarora Indian blood in him, with tho duplicity of the mixed races where the white blood ?iredominatcs. Ho was ironed fast o the scat, and looked at me with s look inquisitive, pitiful, evasive and ingenious by turns. ?If I should dc 1 scribe the man by tho words nearesl my idea, I shoifld. call him a negro Indian gipsy. The passengers were approhensivi and inquisitive . togothcr, wanting tc know all about Lowrey nnd dreading to encounter him. Tho fullest ant often very intelligent explanation, were made to me, and overy facility was tendered to assist me to form ac curate conclusions as to the character! in the baud. Col. S. L. Fremont, General Super intendent of tho Rutherford Railway will permit no passenger to carn arms for tho purpose of shooting Lowrey to rido on his train, PS hi fears that such permission will cn danger tho safety of tho railway Lowrey could toss u train off almos any dry, but ho scorns to hold super stitiou.s respect for the United State mails. A few weeks ago, a man by tk< name of Marsden, announced that h meant to travel up and down tin road as a detective and kill Lowie; on sight. To put him to tho tesl Lowrey and his band appeared wit] cocked shot-guns at Moss Neck sta tion, and stood at a rospoctablo ye furtive "present arms," whilo th braggart, for such ho was, crawlei under the car seat. Lowrey, oiYerei $100 reward to anybody wno worth tell him whether Mardon or Marsdo: was on tho train, as he meant to fol low tho follow up tho road, but woul not cross tho platform himself. Th conductors and engineers say there i perfect safety on tho trains, although none know when tho outlaw lowie may take, offence against tho com pany or its officers. Tho Rutherford Railway traverse the Counties of the Southern tier c North Carolina, passing few towns r. magnitude, but - built generali through tho pitch-pine woods, WIIOH white bolos, stripped a few fed froi the ground and notched to provok the flow of tho sa}? and to catch i rcscmblo the iutormiiiablo tomi stones of a woodland burial grouin Swamps intorscet tho woods, and tl) resinous-looking waters of man sprtpd rice fi elds,, tho, .skoletons of pld turpentine (distilleries, tho.iBtubblo. ?f rugged cotton! plantation's, BO rae ?oo t?aeional tieatlfcbia?k?mea shantis ?nd nbW' and toen a' saW-toM 'orH pil? .fifMjwVji^ tin^?rV . #%,,buT mid, idmu.st uninhabited,. is ' tilo traveler; s. first irnpxQf?i'?h Q? . tho country. But thor o ia a speck . of light and lifo at Abbott a vi Ile,' tho hobie of ox^United Statos S?flntor Abbott, \vhb 'has built 'up the "Capo Fear Building Company," to supply roady-mado' houses to the peopje pf his adopted State, and whoso private residence, of yellow frame, is next bp tho large nai^l and-branch railway of the enterprise. ' r' Aftor liv? i hours' ride wo carno to the Weather-blackened, unpainted town of, Lumbcrton, on tho flowing Luinbor river, a branch of tho Pedoo. Lumbj?rto? is tho scat, of Robeson County, tho stamping ground of Lowroy's band. With ono exception -and that disputable as tho net of tho band-no murder has been com? mitted by tho Lowreys beyond the lines of tbis County. It contains, by tho census of 1870, 3,042 men above tho age of twenty-one. By tho cou? sus pf 1850, the last preceding cen? sus ayailable at this poiut of .view, it contained 639 whites uuablo to read, and bad nt that timo 1,171 free negroes,-or more than even the popu? lous' County in which Wilmington stands, enid quintuple tho free negro population of tho adjacent Counties. Scuffletown, ii few miles distant from Luinberton, wus ono of tho largest freo negro settlements tn the United States before tho 'war against slave? ry, hnd it was, besides, an almost im? memorial free negro settlement. This being court week, the town of Lum? bcrton was full of Scufllotuwners, and I saw and talked with Sinclair Lowroy and Patrick Lowrey, elder brothers of the outlnws, and also with "Dick" Oxcndino, who married the only sister of Henry Berry Lowrey, and who keeps a bar room in tho court house village. Besides, I visited the scene of the latest exploits of the Lowreys, the capture of thc most val? uable safe in the town, as well as tho County official safe, which they con? temptuously rejected on tho road. I also visited tho jail where Hender? son Oxemline's gallows stood, and the court room; whero a noisy crier made proclamation from an open windpw, and , the , garrulous Judge Clarke was delivering n charge upon tho enormities of those banditti, cry? ing meantime into his pocket handker? chief. Besides^ I talked with a great number of tho leading citizens, who, to a man, w?re of Scotch descent; and at noon next day, resuming tho train, I visited Scuffletown and slept with courteous entertainers at Shoo Heel, in tho heart of tho pine forest. The incidents of theso excursione will appear hereafter. Let me now address .myself to describe tho out? laws. Henry Berry Lowrey, tho leadei of the most formidable band of out laws, considering tho smallness of it.' numbers, that has been known ir this country, is of mixed Tuscarora mulatto and white blood, twenty-si: years of age, five feet ten inches higl and weighing about lfiO pounds Ho has straight black hair, like ai Indian, a dark goatee and 'beard graceful in shape, but too thin t< look very black. His face slope from the cheek bones to tho tip o his goatee, so as to give him tin Southern American contour of physi ognoiny; but it is lighted with eye of a different color-eyes of a gray ish hazel-at times appearing a ligh blue, with a drop of brown in them but in agitation dilating, darkening and, although never quite losiiij tho appearance of a smile, yet ii action it is a smile of devilish nature His forehead is good and his faa and expression refined-romarkabl; so, considering his mixed raee, wan of education and long career of law lessness. A scar of crescent sha]) and black color lies below his Inf oye, said to have been made by a iron pot falling upon him when child. His voico is sweet and pleti saut, and in his manner (hero i nothing solf-important or swaggei ing. Ho is not talkative, lisien quietly, and searches out whoever i speaking to him like a man illiterat in all books save tho two great book of nature, and human nature ubov all. The color of his skin is of whitish yellow sort, with an admix turo of copper-'-such a skin as, fi; tho nature of its components, is i color indescribable, thoro being n negro blood in it except of a far rc moto generation of mulatto, and th Indian still apparent. It is enoug to say of this skin, that it seems t suffer little change by boat or cob exposure or sickness, good housin or wild weather. Tho very relative of white men killed Ivy Henry Ben Lowroy admitted to mo that "he ono ol* tho handsomest mulattoes yu ever uaw." To match this faco tho outlaw bi dy is of mixed strength and beat tyt*-It*,^?h"kTiit?'wti,y;,Btraight te' tho shoulders and lirnbsj.' without a physical di owip it, and a a-o ne finid to me who had^ known* < him1 ' well ?in?e ch?dhd?di' ''He ie; like ? tra? balli elastic ah oye**' Ho'ht? feef^i?H would be, notmeaplo/?ny^i?re, point? ed and with arching ?nstop, so j that be can wear ft very shapely, boot, and his extremities, liko his features, in? dicate nothing of the negro. A good cheat, long 'bones,'suppleness, pto portion, mako his walk/ and form pleabirijg to s??. Hq iq. negligent about) his dress, but his clothes bo? cearle kim and'.never disparage him: People have told me that ho wore lino clothes; but, when questioned to thc -point of re-examination, ad? mitted that ho had nothing on but a Woolen blouse and trousers and a black, wide-brimmed, stilt woolen hat. To seo this trim youth, ns bu ap? pears whenever Been on the high roads or the piney forost by-path, or ns'often at railway stations of Moss Neck, Eureka, Bole's store or Ked Hank, is to seo young?Mars bearing about an arsenal. His equipment might ap? pear preposterous, if wo do not con? sider tho peculiar circumstances of his Warfare-outlawed by the State of North Carolina, without a reliable base of supplies, compelled to carry arms' and charges in them enough to encounter a large body of men, or stand a long campaign. A belt around his waist accommodates fivo six-barreled revolvers-long shoot? ers. From thiR belt a shoulder strap pusses \ip and supports behind, sling, ing fashion, a Spencer rifle, which carries eight cartridges, and it is now goherajly alleged that he lias replaced this with a Henry rifle, carrying double the former number of car? tridges, while, successively,man after man of tho band, by some mysteri? ous agency, becomes possessed of a Spencer rifle. In addition to these forty or forty-eight charges, Lowrey carries a l'ong-bladed knife and a large flask of whiskey-tho latter be cause he fears to bo poisoned by pro? miscuous neighborhood drinking. He can run like a deer, swim, stands weeks of exposure in the swamps and forest, walk day and night,:'nud take sleep by little snatches, which, in a few days, would tiro out white or ne? gro. Although a tippler, ho was never known to bo drunk, a fact not to bc justly assented bf hts confede? rates. Brought suddenly, at bay, ho is observed to wear that light, fiend? ish, enjoyable smile, which shows a nature to it? depth a savage, preda? tory and fond of blood. The war he has waged for the past nine years, within a "region of twelve or fifteen miles sqtiare, against County, State, Confederate and United States authorities, alternately or unitedly, ip justification for tho terror apparent in tho faces of all the white poople within thoso limits. Lowroy's band gives moro concern to tho Carolinae than did Carlton's Legion ninetj yoars ago. "What is the meaning of that?" said I to "Parson" Sinelair-tho fighting parson of Lumberton; "how can thil fellow, with a handful of boys anc illiterate men, put to flight a society only recently used to warfare ant full of accomplished soldiers? Ex plain it." "Lowrey," answered Sinclair, "i? really one of those remarkable oxeen tivo spirits that arise now and tbei in a raw community, without advan tages other than naturo give him Ho has passions, but no weaknesses and his ?yo is on every point at once He has impressed tho whole negr< ! society with his power and influence They fear and admiro him. He as j serta his superiority over all thesi whites just as well. No mau win stands face to face with him can re sist his quiet will and assurance am his searching eye. Without fear without hope, defying society, bo i tho only man we have an}' knowledg of down here who can piny bis part Upon my word, I believe if ho ha< lived ages ago, ho would have been ? William the Conquerer. He remind me of nobody but Hob Boy." Thc three natures of white, Indiai and negro are, however, seen at in tervals to come forward in this ont law's nature. The negro trace is ii Ins lo ve of rudo music. Ho is banjo player, and when the periodic!1 hunt for bim is done, ho repairs t some ono of tho huts in Scuuletow and plays to the dancing of the mu kitto girls and his companions by lb hour, his belt of arms unslung an ? thrown at bis feet, tho peaceable pai of the audienco taking part wit ? mixed wonder, delight and approhei I sion. Several times his banjo ba [ nearly betrayed him to his pursuer: Sheriff MacMillan described bimse and posse once lying out all night i ' tho swamp and timber around Lou rey's cabin, to wait for him lo com forth at daylight. "And," said In I "that banjo was just everlasting] I thrumming, ami we could hear iii laughter and Juba-beatiug nearly Hi I whole night long." The licentiousness o? Lowrey suflicient to bo noticeable, but whi it-TOver ongugeirhim to the ?r?tatreltm af Vigilancei and activity, it ids? shown what may !be traced an some 'degrey tr>hi?! 'Indian riat?r?^the l&nf?'?f Wcrn^r?'jls ari nrii?liary' td w?t /.ah# tiluiyd?}r! Ho biak debauched a hum? per ?ft his prisoners with the mulatto girla/oi.ScufSetpwn, and the charma of these yellow-tinted syrens broke up tho moraie Of tho late campaign in force against tho outlaws; while, os some allege, tlie discovery of the De? tect! yV landers' plan to cant?re Low?ey was made by a girl in Low rey's '.interost, with whom LanderB spent hia time. Low roy bas said, and laughed over it, that he devised, at a critical point in a truco between tho contending parties, that a bevy of tho prettiest and frailest beauties in Scuflletown should como up and bo introduced to ono of the officers high in command. After that the Marc Antony in question had laid down his sword and gave practical evidence that thc hostility of races is not so groat as thc slavery statesmen alleged. Tho indifference of tho Indian to the loan of his squaws finds some paral? lel in Lowrey's tactics. Ho himself is tho Don Juan of Scuflletown; but be sloops on his arms, and will go into tho swamps for weeks Vithout repining. Women have been em? ployed to give bini up, but they either repent, or ho discovors their purpose by intuitivo sagacity. Tho white society around him gave Henry Berry Lowrey a lesson in self-schooling and sacrifice, so far os women aro concerned. After thc murders of Barnes and Harris-of? fences which some think ought tc have bron included in tho proclama? tion of oblivion for offences commit? ted by both sides befoiro tho wnr-r Lowroy stood up by tho side oi Rhody Strong, the most beautiful mulatto of Scuflletown, to be married Aware of tho engagement and th( occasion, the sheriff's posse, wit! cruel deliberation, surrounded th< house till the ceremony was over, anc then rushed in and took the outlawec husband from the side of his wife He was removed to Luraberton jail and then scut still further away t< Columbus County jail; but he brok through tho bars, escaped to th< woods with the irons on bis wrists and made his way to bis bride They havo throe children, the frui of their stolen and rudely-interrupte? interviews. As I rode down on the train fron Shoe Heel to Lumboi t-on, on tho 28tl of Februar}', tho conductor, Colone Morrison, came to mo and said: **i you want to see Henry Berry Low rey's wife, you can find her in th forward second class car." She ha* taken tho train at Bed Banks fo Moss Neck-points between whic the whole band of outlaws frequent! ride on tho freight* trains-and ? tho latter notable station I saw he descend with her baby and walk o down tho road in tho woods and sto among tho tall pitch-piiies, as if wait ing for somebody. The baby-th last heir of outlawry-began to cr as sho left tho train, and. sho sai< mother-fashion: "No, no, no, wouldn't cry, when I had been ? Rood all day." This woman is tl] sister of two of the iivo remainir outlaws, and wife of tho third. Tl whites call hor, satirically, "tho quee of Scuflletown ;'' but sho appeared 1 bo a meek, pretty-eyed, rather shrin! ing girl, of a light color, poorl dressed. Sho wore many small bra rings, with cheap red stones in thor on her small hand, and a dark gre? plain dress of delaine, which just r vealed her now black morocco "stor shoop. A yellowish muslin or cali hood, with ft long cape, covered h bead, and thero was nothing bcsii that I remember, except a shawl bright colors, much worn. It w sad enough and prosaic enough to s this ?imill woman, with her baby bor arma, currying it along, while t husband and father, covered with t blood of fifteen murders, roamed tl woods and swamps like a Semino Rhody Lowrey is said to be a co staut wife, but to follow tho curre example of Scuflletown. Other p< sons, thc negroes notably, deny th A more persevering newspaper cc respondent might settle the issue. Mr. Hayes, a Republican, of Sh Heel, whose knowledge of the Scull town settlement is very good, a whoso practical Northern mind is i likely to bc deceived, told mo tl Lowrey, among his numerous wai ings served upon people, stopped o white man upon the road and sa "You aro taking advantage of i circumstances and absence lo familiar with my family. Now, y better pack np and get out of t County." Thc man lost no limo doing as requested, for Henry Bc: Lowrey generally warns boforo kills. In tho mutter of honesty tho observance of a promiso 01 treaty, tho people most robbed fi outraged by thin bandit acknowlet his indian scrupulousness. "I MncNnir," he said to ono of white neighbors, whom ho hadrobl Iwonty time;?, "I waut you to gear tf?t<T g?" 'to^tir?r???r'^S?r? they have put my wifjfij J5ai* forno crime btit behanae she ie'-^fv Wife; tlMt ain't her1 fault, and they Jctfii't Mfee ?i'??? You people won't WM wWW^S toy ??ying) abd I h?ke i jgot, Jp:faka it frora .you; bul) Godfknowft sjie'djike to soe mo make my :oWn- bread: 'Yon ! go to Lunib?rt on ami tell tbo i sheriff and County Com^Missioners ?that if I they don't lot her/ out of that, jail; JU I retaliate on tho wrtut?, vpmen, of ? Burnt .^womp Towrj^?'p. Scim^- ojt 'thom'shall como lo t?ie swamp with mo if she is kept in the jail.'becauso j they can't get mfy" i' xdi L?wrey then named a point on tho ?rood where he ifould'meet'. MacNair, and he met him/ instead three miles nearer Lumber on. Tho feeling, of terror in tho O mn ty may be under? stood when, 1 ithout more delay. Rhody Low rey was set free. While in th( region sovcr?l per? sons urged mejto go ottt nnd talk to Lowrey. Sherrff MacMillan nnd Mr. Brown, tho soil-in-Iaw of tho mur? dered Sheriff King-strange as it may appear for County officers, and 1 mention it to show tho superstition inspired by thfs brigand-offered to obtain an interview for me with tho whole gang, liy sending ont some member of the Lowrey family to no gotiate willi .0icm. ' My .' faith' . was, not equal to theirB, and i declined.... "Do you suppose that fellow would give ruo a talk?'?' I ?aid ' to Calvin Black, ? merchant of Shoe Heel.1 " "Yes, if h? rtmld ^?nltt^ io ?hder stauct that J#nt. i^teViti?h^:' W<?ro EAcific; the l?rgt? reward no jv out'fpif im amounting, for himsolf andipa^y, tb ,44^?O0O, .taken dead or alive, makos him apprehensive of assassins-: tion.i But iffiowerot? promise hot to injure you, *rou could1 go anywhere . to seo him -iith perfect impunity';*' This was g?rerai testimony. Rev. Mr. MncDiermid, editor of tho Rote?oman, tho County organ? who does ilia duty by ubintimidated denunciation of this outlaw, said: "Henry Berry Lowrey lins sent mo word that'I had better be cautious how I write about him, but I beliovo that I could go and see him to-day, for he appr?ci?tes his consequence in the role bo has assumed." I noticed; however) that nobody did go to see him, and I followed that high and general example.' Sincie Jefferson Davis' flight and tho reward put upon his head, there has $cen no American-probably none 'previously in all the history of tho country for Offences at common hvw-i-who ?has been dignified with the amount of money offered for Lowrey'a overtaking. If it should appear in tho North that this sketch is too strong, I point to this reward, and to thje fact that this outlaw has already m ade a personal and bloody campaign against society longer than the whole Revolutionary war. Osceola, or Pow? ell, (who was an irhmediato mixture of ?Indian and negfo blood, and who '/fought over a large region,) gave out after a much shorter space of resist? ance. Two things are to bo chronicled in this man's favor, nnd I make them on the universal testimony of everybody in this region. Ho has never com? mitted arsen or mpe, or offered in? sults to femalei While entering private houses nearly every day, his worst act is to drive tho family into some one apartment and bar them there, while the house is coolly and leisurely ransacked. A few weeks ago an aged lady, Mrs. MacNeill, and her daughter, weie shot with duck shot by somebody taking tho name of Lowrey's band, doubtless the party accused; but tho wounding of the women was not foreseen by tho bri? gands, and they fired at old MacNeill, whose family of sins and sons-in-law had become particularly offensive to thora. MacNeill ..old rae the circum? stance?" asfollowi: Ho had been re? peatedly robbed, his son-in-law, Tay? lor, killed, his sons ordered to leavo the country, and now, almost entirely alone, ho was compelled to do a good deal of his own catching and to wait upon himself. Standing by his smoke-house ono moonlight night, he saw two men ester tho yard, and one of them walked straight up to tho sraokc-houso ebor and bogan to pry ii open. Parfiy concealed in the shadow of tho fence, MacNeill cried: "Who is tba:?" No answer. Ho repeated tho in? terrogation, aid the reply was: "What in tte hell is that of your business?" Thc Scotch blood of tho old mon mounted to Lis face, notwithstanding his long and not wholly undeserved misfortunes, and ho went into his dwelling for his gun. His wife and daughter besought him not to ven? turo out, and, on his refusal, followed him to tho doer. Ho called again: "Who's that at my smoke-house?" the answer wai: "Lowroy's bind, Clod damn you!" And in ai minite a ehargo of bucjsji i shot poured h nt tho door, pntti'bg, as NncN??.l soh, sixteen buckshot in a place Mo Vigjer than his hat from tho spcS vlioi! ho was expected to