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G. Brownson, on September 29. 1866. The jury found her "guilty" and sentenced her to the penitentiary for the term of two years. Freedman Frank Chamblin, husband of the former, was arraigned on Octbr. 1st 1866, for breaking into the gaol at Clinton and thereby aiding said freedwoman Mary Chamblin to escape. The jury found him "not guilty" and he was therefore acquitted. Freedmen Thomas Puckett and [[?]] Puckett were tried before Magistrate Johnson Henrys on Decbr. 29. 1866. The suit was entered against them by Charles McDonald, for damages for a horse, lost or stolen, while in their possession. The jury found them "not guilty" and they were therefore acquitted. A new trial was afterwards refused by Magistrate Johnson Henrys. Justice has been done by the Civil authorities, in my opinion, to the freedpeople, in all cases, except in the above mentioned case of Harriet Brown vs. Hamilton. I do not blame the magistrate for it, but the jury, which consisted partly of unprincipled men. The disposition and feeling of the white people, towards the freedpeople, are of a kind nature in general, and there have come a very few Cases to my knowledge, when whites had not been willing to fulfill their promises, made to freedpeople. As laborers are scarce in this section, the freedpeople have enjoyed and enjoy now, a pretty good