The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-06
tns subject atne gals are ali alike IN scunletown.

and believe they told the truth.
as your sister Caroline marriedS" asked Rhody
Lowery.
"No but she has four Children" as il that were
the same thing.
Al The house OF one OF the mulattoes, where LOOK
dinner with the outlaws day, a man who has a
well stocked plantation OF dity or sixty acres the
guest whom
MOST ATTENTION WAS BESTOWED
was very dark mulatto woman OF about thirty
years OF age. she was addressed .'maam, y and TO
her all the conversation was directed Upon suDse.
quent inquiry asceralneu she had Just come from
Wilmington. where she had not been a paragon OF
virtue. She had five Legitimate children, two OF
were then with ner
The morals OF the outlaws themselves were not,
If common report meant anything. any better than
ihey might be, their reputed offspring beng scat
tered lar and wide. Rhody Lowery said that her
husband Henry Berry, was very jealous about her.
l was informed that there were lllegClmate
children IN almost every house, ana that nobody
thought very much about 1t. Sometimes the parents
OF the seduced Z, would be powerful discouraged"
ouL III u week or two II ceased TO trouble them 1t
appears TO be the law here to arrest q female who
has given birlh ilegitimate child. and TO re-
lease her upon her swearing to the paternity; the
reputed father Is then arrested, but released II the
injured female refuses 10 appear against him, which
they generally refuse, for CONSIDERATION SIS being
the usual sum though often a. 10" III $40 IL taken
when the culprt Is very poor. wherever the out
laws went while l was with them they were hailed
with denght by the dusky beauties OF ScuihetOwn.
who received their oitentimes very coarse jokes and
rough caresses with every manifestation of pleasure.
believe tbe female inmates or Old Mrs. Lowery's
household TO be strictly vrtuous. and saw nothing
| III Rnody's c0nuuct that would induce me TO doubt
her CHASTITY. But the muatoes OF both sexes are
| bad, the
WHITE MEN IN THE SBIGHBORHooD
| are far Without taxing into consideration
the OF the people here as To the associations
| between white men and coored women, the color
| OF the muattoes themselves shows the result or
| much mscegenation The general name mulatto
Is applied to all persons OF mixed negro and While
blood but the TACT that quadrcons aud octaroons
abound here But In my wanuerlnss To ana lr0 III
and about Sculllelown and Shoe Heel found
many cases OF white men living openly with females
OF African blood; and 1t Is a most significant TACT
that while these white not all OF the class
known as .spoor whites" they are almost univer-
sally active members oil the political party That
opposes negro suffrage.
When on thls afternoon refused the pro1ered
services the mu.atto girl who offered to guide me
TO the outlaws,
MADE A MISTAKE
that might have given me some trouble. But being
told by her that would find them point half
| mile distant from Moss Neck station, where two
| roads, one from Inman's and one from the New
| Bridge meet, started alone, and falling to meet
them at that point pursued my way 10 Henry Berry
Lowery's cabin via lnman's Bridge. Here l told
Rnody of the suspicious expressed and apparently
entertained by the outlaws and OF my own mis-.
givings, and
REMINDED HER OF A PROMISE
maze before, that she would give Information or
tnt Tim cia mo nj
the HERALD who would be sent up the road by
your correspondent at Wilmington, II 1t were I'm
possible for me to convey 1t myself.
ABOUT two hours after nv arrival at her cabin,
and when nattering myself that the work OF
the day was over for the Twelve miles walk to and
from Moss Neck calculated to fatigue a much
more muscular person than your correspondent,
Steve Lowery and Andrew Strong entered the house
with an abrupt:-"Here, You must 60 with US now,
but
WE'LL BLIND YOUR EYES,
and urged me 70 hurry up, for 1t was getting late
Immediately after leaving the house, within the
yard, taking my handkerchief, they blndfolded me
completely, and with the simple remark OF steve to
Rhody,
"wE'vE PROVED HE'S A SPY,n
| they led me OF, Steve taking my hand. The sltua-
ton was unpleasant. The questions OF the outlaws
as 10 my taking the cars III the morning, and their
| remarks on my failure to meet them where | had
been directed, Ill calculated TO assure me that
| no harm was intended as they led me on. The
fact that was blndiolded assisted more than any
thing else in keeping up my hopes for II struck me
| that II was to be killed they would have no rea
| son to whether knew where they were taking
me or not
| But, Notwithstanding this, there was fearful
dread creeping over me; strange underlined fear
that my life would be penalty Tor what now (for
the first timel
SEEMED RAsHSEss.
And as was led along, shut ont from the light Of
day, all the horrible stories | had heard OF the
murderous deeds OF the men who were taking me
, knew not wnitner, passed In quick succession
through my mind, and | regretted, how earnestly
no one not similarly situated can imagine that
had ever undertaken this dangerous WORK.
How long we walked had no means OF deter
mining exactly, though 1t seemed 10 me to be about
| two hours. My fears may have doubled the actual
| time we were on our journey.
/ A JOURNEY OF HORROR.
Weir every kind OF ground that il to be found
| I'm that regon-over sand, mould, swamp and
| creek; through cleared fields, thickets ana open
| pine woods now doaging overhanging branch
| at the word from Steve, now switched IN the face
by the bushes and then slap into water ankle Deep
we went on and on, II we would never reach the
| end An attempt by Sieve to guide my steps across
! a foot-log, while he waded In the water beside
/ failed once, and after that waded with him. We
| mad walked some distance on the dry land when
| we stopped and the bandage was taken from my
| eyes.
WE WERE IN PERFECT DARKNESS
! but in few minutes Andrew mad q bright fire on
| The hearth. whether 1t was night or day was
| unable to tell, for there were no windows in the
habitation In which found myself, and the door
fitted SO nicely that light was admitted II 1t were
still day. Before had time to observe all my sur
roundings Steve again asked me If were not really
and truly In the
EMPLOY OF THE UNITED STATES,
|, telling me he had been positively assured by all
his friends that meant nothing but evil towards
them that he began to think ne had been mistaken
in his opinion OF my motives and that might be