The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-05


A TOUR OF sCUFFLETOwN.
The stranger VINO expects to see in Scufietown
any approach to municipal settlement Will be dis
appointed. II Is the name OF a tract OF several
miles, covered at wide intervals with nuts and log
sometimes a half dozen OF these nuts being proxi
mate. Two or three places to sell low character
OF spirits exist where the dwellings are densest
The people have few or no horses, but often keep
kind Of stunted to haul their short, rickey carts
and man with sucn bovine nubbln and a pair
land and for SO manly years. the mulattoes OF Scunie
town would have esteemed themselves well to 90
mad they enjoyed any security from tnelr white
great offence to violate their asyums and court
aTterward began with Brant Harris keeping in a
sort OF servie csncubinage some girls courted by
To visit scufretown shanty, representative of
the whole. Is 10 pass by COW lane or foot track
up through 9 tncket and suddenly come upon q
hdl-ceared Held OF Old pine and post oak, enclosed
by worm fence without a gate. A little old lever.
well of the crudest mechanlsm-seldom Of the
dignity and proportions OF a.pole well-stands In
this lot, the male proprietor OF which Is sitting en-
the worm fence, and ne replies to your neghborly
sanitation without changing his position. Xdvanc.
hewn logs. moriiced at the ends. the s" csnk IS
san w On 1ns ns chimney butt against
| with sticks and clay ABOVE, where 1t narrows TO
tue smoke hole There is, beside the large chimney
place, haf barrel, sawed of to make I've IRON the
wood ashes ana the other half OF the barrel Is seen
TO serve the uses OF a washtub mongrel dog Is
three acres oi the lot are generally plOughed and
planted III potatoes or maize, both Of whicn come
| up sickly. The yellow woman commonly has
baby at the Breast and from half dozen TO dozen
| playing outside on the edges OF the swamp. The
bed Is made on the floor; there are two or three
stools only one apartment comprising the whole es-
tabshmenL
LowERY's CABIN.
Just such place the above The house OF Henry
Berry Lowery, the outlaw Chief except that, being
carpenter, lie has nailed weather strips over the
inierstices between the logs and maze himself a
sort OF bedsead and some chairs. HIS cabin has
two doors, opposite each other IN The sides, and it
has been so many times shot through and TIL ough
with rife pals that ms wife can now stand fire as
well as her husband. The Scufietowners go out To
work az ditchers for the neiglborng farmers, who
paw them the magnanlm0us wages of So month
AS many OF them are Incorporate neighborng
trader with barrel Of molassesand barrel OF rum
speedily gets the So from the whole party. =.
The above picture, while true oil the majority OF
the Scuifletowners Is not Justly descriptive OF all
The Oxendnes are all well to do. or were before
this bloody eud began, and the Lowerys were IN,
dustrious carpenters, whose handiw0rk Is seen az
Lumberton, shoe Heel ana all round that region.
Great crimes I'm Scufet0wn were rare before Tue
war. Petty stealing and plferlng OF chickens anu
an occasional pig were not unknown. The whites
| hated the settlement because II was bad example
tothe negroes But most vi the people we're baptlsS