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as the negroes about there are cowed and afraid to report against white men, in this case very little was known of the crime. The man was not found for some days after he was shot, tho the shots that killed him were evidently heard by a number. 

Col. Pope sent an ambulance and gaurd with us, (Lt Clark accompanying,) but we were unable to find any decisive clue to the criminals. 

We stopped at Mrs Sharps 3 miles east of Benton, over night. Here we found the only plantation on our entire route, where nearly all the people had remained. They seemed anxious to stay and cultivate the plantation on wages, but wanted a new overseer. This one had been with them 14 years, and though apparently a clever man, yet they "had known him to long in