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the case of himself, and also the old blind woman. This deranged his matters, for he was courting another ricy young widow and expected to have the matter arranged in a few days, but finding his character was following him, he was too smart to be caught in the trap, so he walked out to see after some business, walks down to the wharf and on to a steamer, and that was the last we heard of the Dr. until I saw an account of him in the New Orleans papers. Description: He is of a copper color, rather heavy set, wears a full beard, very well spoken, I suppose five feet six or eight inches high, weighs perhaps one hundred and sixty pounds. It is to be hoped that the robber will be stopped. We don't think there is a worse scoundrel now at large. I am authorized to give names. The names are all good citizens.

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has purchased two large farms from Gen. "Goch" Hardeman and his brother, amounting to 1500 or 2000 acres of land. The purchase was part in money and part on time, and to secure the delayed payments deeds of trust have been executed for the lands, enabling the trustees to sell out the lands upon any failure of payments. The deeds are executed to Dr. Parker and a few others, not as trustees, but by fee simple deeds. The names of the great body of contributors are not mentioned in the deeds at all, and they have no rights whatever to the land. Dr. Parker has never paid of his own funds a single dollar. He bought some $800 worth of goods of merchants at Prairie Lea, to be paid in a short time out of cotton he professed to own, which amounts have not been paid at all. He has borrowed of several freedman on the San Marcos river sums of money, to be shortly refunded, which have never been repaid. He has collected considerable amounts to build school-houses and churches, not one dollar of which has been so expended. There are several charges against him for adultery. For these acts the doctor has come to grief, and is now in durance vile.
To show the doctor's antecedents we publish the following letter:
MERIDIAN, MISS., July 7th, 1867.
Dear Sir: Yours of the 18th ult., is now before me, asking the character of one colored doctor who calls himself H. Parker. The fir t I heard of this man was in Mobile, in the fall of '65. He there formed an acquaintance with a blind woman, she having a husband at that time and well to do, her husband owning a house and lot and two drays. This opened a fair field for the doctor. It was not long before her husband was taken sick. This gave the Dr. an opportunity to try his hand, and she being blind and the Dr. attending to all of the business himself, of course her husband died in a few days; and she says she has every right to believe that he killed him, from the fact that while her husband was sick and her blind, he got all of her money. He told her he was going to take care of her, and she thinking it was a good offer, she makes him agent. He sold her two drays, her house and lot, and there got up such a talk among the people in Mobile that he was swindling her out of all that she had, and the Dr. seeing that he was about played out, he pulled up stakes and came up to Enterprise, 120 miles from Mobile. He partly bought a house and lot in Enterprise, and brought up the blind lady, and pretended that he was going to establish a paper in Enterprise for the benefit of the freedmen, and he soon found his way to Meridian. He made several speeches on the subject and got a number of subscribers. He was going to put up a large drug store. He hired an old colored man at Meridian to at end about his office. He found that the old man had a little money; he borrowed it from him telling him that he was going to send after his family in a few days and give them a hom [[illegible]] came to Meridian with sixty dollars wo[[illegible]] drugs, and was to return in ten days. This was all a sham to make the people believe he was all right, but soon after he was missing. The next we heard from him was at Vicksburg. He left the blind woman without anything to subsist on whatever, and the minister was in as bad a fix. All of this time the doctor's name was H. Glucister. After being gone about five weeks, and the old lady going deranged, the minister, whose name is John, goes to Vicksburg on hunt of the Dr. He went to the house he heard he was boarding at and called for Dr. Glucister, a colored doctor. The reply was that no such man is here but a Dr. by the name of H. Parker. When the old man went to see the Dr. he was almost speechless. The old man stated