American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-03-30
HENRY BERRY LOWERY.
The North Carolina Outlaw.
A Full Description Of the Villain.

From the n C. Correspondence of the n Y Herald ]
Henry Berry Lowery, the leader
of the most formidable band of out
laws, considering the smallness OF
it's numbers, that has been known
in this country, is of mixed TuscarO-
IA, mulatto and white blood, twenty
six years of age, five feet nine inches
high and weighing about one hund
red and fifty pounds. He has
straight black hair, like an Indian !;
dark goatee, and beard graceful
in shape. but too thin to look very
black. His face slopes from the
cheek bones to the tip of his goatee,
SO as to give him the Southern
American contour of ply siognomy !;
hut it is lighted with eyes of diff
ftrent cOloI-pyeS of n grayiSh haze
at times appearing light blue,
with drop of brown in them, but
in agitation dilating, darkening, and
although never quite losing the APP
pearance of a smile, yet in action it
is Il smile of devilish nature. His
forehead is good and his face and
expression retined-remarkabiy SO.
considering his mixed race, want o!
education and long career of law
lessness. A scar of crescent shape
and black color lies in the skin be-
low his lett eye, said to have beeu
made Inv an iron not falling upon
him when n child. His voice is
sweet and pleasant. and in his man
ner there is nothing self-important
or staggering. He is not talkative.
listens quietly, and searches our
whoever is speaking to him like Il
man iiiitcrate in all books save the
two great books of nature, iIumaI
nature above all. The color OF his
skin is of whitiSh yellow sort, will.
an an admixture of copper-sucha a
skin as, for the nature of it's cnmpO-
nents, is in color Understandable, there
being no negro blood in ir except
that Of far remote genaration OF
mulattO, and the Indian still aiI,a-
rent. 1t is enough tn say of this ski
that it seems to suffer little change
by heat or cold, exposure or sick
Hess, good housing or mild weather.
The very relatives ct white men Kill
Ell 10y Henry Berry Lowery AL
mitied to me that he is one of the
handsomest mulattoeS.youVrer saw
LOwERY PHYSICALLY.
To match this face the outlaws
body liz of mixed strength and beau
~. II is well knit, wirry, straight
III the shoulders and limbs, witi,un'
a ply steal flaw in it, and as one said
to me who had known him we'll since
'sH- is like i. trap bail
all over He has feet which.
would be noticeable anywhere,
painted and with arching inStep, 81
that he can wear a very SHAPED,
boot. aud his extremities ike his
indicate nothing of the
negro. Good chest. long bones,
proportion, make his
walk and form pleasing to see. He
in negligent about his dress, but his
clothes become him and never dis
parage him. People have told
me that he were fine clothes wher
questioned to the point of re exam
admitted that he had no
thing on but WOODEN blouse anu
trousers and black wide brimmesi, !
stiff, WOODEN hat.
HIS ARMS.
To see this trim youth as he ap
pears whenever seen on the high
roads or the piney forest by-path, Or
as often at the railway stations of
Moss Neck, Eureka Bule's Store or
Red Banks. is to see young Mars
about an arsenal. His
might appear prepos
erOus If We do not consider the
circumstances of his war
by the State of North
without reliable base of
upplies, and compelled to carry
rms and charges in them enough
o encounter a large body of men or
tand a long campaign. A belt
round his waist accommodates five
ix-barreled revolvers-lOng shoot
rs. From this belt a shoulder
trap passes up and supports behind
liDging fashion, Spencer rifle,
7hich carries eight cartridges, and
is now generally alleged that he
as replaced this with a Henry rifle,
dOnble the former number :
f cartridges, while, successfully, o
ian after man of the band, by some =
Mysterious agency, becomes pos
essed of a Spencer rifle. LOwery
aries a long bladed knife, and a Il
rye flask of whisky-the latter be-