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time allowed for appeal on the warrant case, has long since expired. In the second place, as regards the things held by his Wife, he will have first to take a White witness there with him & demand them; but that he is deterred from doing, by fear; &c, &c. I have advised him, however, to at least have his Wife indicted, by the Grand Jury which meets in March, for cohabiting unlawfully with another man; and I also sent him to another magistrate - Mr "Geo. W Fenney" to ask for a warrant to get his things - but this I have since been informed, by a Lawyer, cannot be awarded yet who can doubt that it would be granted provided only two things belonged to a white man. In the mean time, Plaintiff having hired himself out some distance from where his children are, he is to a certain extent necessarily forced to also neglect them: and there is no remidy here for this phase of the affair; in as far as the abandonment by the mother is concerned. This case will forceably illustrate both how the freedpeople are frequently led into wrong, by evil disposed whites, and how difficult it is for the former to ever obtain anything like justice, on account of injuries received of the latter.

Three apprehensions only have to my knowledge, been made during the month; to wit: First - "Flemman C. Saunders" - an afflicted, well mean freedman - herein before named -, on a charge of stealing a pig. This man runs a mill for Mr "John S. Hale" of this place. The following is [[strikethrough]]the[[/strikethrough]] all the evidence, I believe against him. On a certain day a number of pigs were known to have been about the mill which tends. On their return home that night one was found lame & another was missing. A search warrant having been taken out

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