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taken steps to bring the subject of temperance before the freedpeople and that he has held two meetings for that purpose. Thirty persons have signed the pledge and as soon as they are organized into a society he believes that many more will join it. He is of the opinion that a good lecturer upon the subject of Temperance would do a great amount of good

Mr. Hollway reports that but one outrage by whites upon blacks have been brought to this notice as follows:

Mr. P.C. Howell who resides about four miles from Sommerville, shot and killed a freedman by the name of Albert Taylor on the 4th inst. Taylor was in Howells employ. The case was referred to the Grand Jury and Mr. Holloway states that they found a true bill against him for murder. At last accounts Mr. Howell had not been arrested.

I have at last succeeded in having the case of Thomas I Johnson of Fayette Co. charged with the murder of a colored woman by the name of Polly Good on the 10th day of July last brought before the Grand Jury. Our Agent thinks that a bill was also found against Johnson, but the facts have not yet been made public. I have pressed this case steadily for the last