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I had the honor to report some time since that a ruffian named Andrew Carr living in this County had fired two pistol  balls into the head of a negro. An inoffensive man named Henry Camp No action has been taken by the civil authorities in the case; as soon as the excitement among the criminals on account of the prospect of justice overtaking them through a Bureau Court, subsides I hope to reach this man.
   I also made special report of the case of a negro named Madder Johnston assaulted and badly injured on the 30th ult. by some ruffian --one of them the Carr above named.--
   The unworthy incompetent Major of this village, learning that I had applied for troops at length gave two of them an examination Norfleet the ringleader, after being released by the deputy sherif in whose hands I placed him, escaped I am trying to find him
   The two cases examined by the mayor were discharged on the ground of