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the Commonwealths Attorney, to whom he 
went, that the warrant might be in due form it being highway robbery- did not issue the process until the third day, and then only for one of the parties for assault, ignoring the robbery entirely, the second party is still at large,
the warrant for his arrest not being renewed until the fifth day after the outrage, thereby giving him time to escape, if this crime had been committed by a colored man he would have been hunted down by the whole strength of the county.

During my stay in Rockingham County
report was made to me that a gang of  that organization known as the Ku Klux Klan had visited the abode of a known Union man- who is also Post Master- and warned him to "leave the county before the first moon of the fifth month. Also on the 13th inst a party of men and boys of this place "en masque" passed under the flag at these Hd; Qrs; and fired blank pistol shots there at, this harmless sport (?) evinces the spirit and feeling of the people especially as said party carried the semblance of a rebel flag at their head.

The schools have fallen off this month partly for the reason that spring work has commenced, but more especially because