Year: 1872

| Will and assurance and his searching eye
; Without fear, without hope. defying sc
ciety, he is the only man we have an
knowledge of down here who can play hi


part. Upon my word, believe if he ha,


lived ages ago he would have been q vii


liam the COnqueror. lie reminds me o


nobody but Rob Roy"


The three natures of white, Indian anc


negro are, however, seen at intervals t.
come forward in this outlaws nature


The negro trace is in his love of rude mu


sic. lie is banjo player. aud when the


periodical hunt for him is done he repairs


to some one of the huts in Scuffictown and


plays to the dancing of the mulatto girls


and his companions by the hour, his belt


of arms unslung and thrown at his feet,


the peaceable part of the audience taking


part, with mixed wonder, delight and ap-


prehension. Several times this banjo has


nearly betrayed him to his pursuers.


Sheriff Macmillan described himself and


posse once lying out all night in the
swamp and timber around Lowery's cabin


to wait for him to come forth at daylight.


And" said he, that banjo was just ever
| lasting thumming, and we could hear the


laughter and juba-beating nearly the


whole night long"


The RIGHTEOUSNESS of Lovery is sufi-


cient to be noticeable, but while it never


engages him to the exclusion of vigilance


and activity, it also shows what may be


traced in some degree to his Indian nature
the using of women as an auxiliary to


war and plumber. He has dcbauched
number of his prisoners with the mulatto
girls of Scufhetown, and the charms of
these yellow-tinted syrens broke up the


morale of the late campaign in force
against the outlaws, while, as some allege


the discovery of the Detective Landcrs


plan to capture Lowery was made by a
girl in Lowery's interest with whom Land
ers spent his time. Lowery has said, and
laughed over it. that he devised at criti-
cal point in truoo between the contend
ing parties that bevy of the prettiest
and frailest beauties in Scuffletown should
come up and be introduced to one of the
officers high in command. After that the
Mare Antony in question laid down his
sword, and gave practical evidence that
the hostility of races is not so great as
the slavery statesmen alleged The in
difference of the Indian to the loan of his
squaws finds some parallel in Lowcry's
tactics. He himself is the Don Juan of
Scuffictown; but he sleeps on his arms,
and will 60 into tie swamps for weeks
without repining Women have been
employed to give him up, but they either
repent or he discovers their purpose by
intuitive sagacity.


As rode down on the train from Shoe
Heel to Lumberton, on the 28th of Fcbru-
airy, the conductor, Colonel Morrison,
came to me and said IF you want to see
Henry Berry Lowery's wife you can find
her in the forward second-class car" She
had taken the train at Red Banks for
Moss Neck-points between which the
whole band of outlaws frequent ly ride on
the freight trains-and at the latter nota-
BILE station | saw her descend with her
baby and walk off down the road in the
woods and stop there among the tall pitch
pines, as if waiting for somebody. The
baby-the last heir Of outlawry-began
to cry as she left the train, and she said,
mother fashion: ''No, no, no, wouldn',
cry, when l had been SO good all day"
This woman is the sister of two Of the five
remaining outlaws and wife of the third.
The whites call her, satirically, "the queen
of Scuffietown :" but she appeared to be a
meek, pretty-eyed, rather shrinking girl.
of very light color, poorly dressed.
She wore many small brass rings, with
cheap red stones in them, on her small
hands, and dark green plaid dress of
muslin delaine, which just revealed her
new black morocco ''store" shoes. A
yellowish muslin or calico hood, with
long cape, covered her head, and there
was nothing besides hat to remember ex-
cept shawl of bright colors, much worn. 1t
was sad nough and prosaic enough to see
this small woman with her baby in her
arms, carrying it along, while the husband
and father, covered with the blood of fif-
teen murders, roamed the woods and
swampt like Seminole. Rhody Lowery
is said not to be q constant wife, but to
follow the current example of Scuffletown.
Other persons, the negroes notably, deny
this. A more Presevering newspaper
might settle the issue.


Mr.. Hayes, Republican, of Shoe Heel,
whose knowledge of the Scuffie town set
tlement is very good, and whose practical
Northern mind is not likely to be deceived,
told me that Lowery, among his nu mcrous
warning served upon people, stopped
one white man on the road and said
"You are taking advantage of my circum-
stances and absence to be familiar with
my family. Now, you had better pack up
and get out of this county" The man lost
no time in doing as requested for Henry
Berry Lowery generally warns before he
kills. In the matter of honesty, in the OBJ
servance of promise or a treaty, the peo-
pie most robbed and outraged by this
bandit acknowledge his Indian scrupulous-
ne:s. "Mr. McNair," he said to one of
his white neighbors, whom he bad robled
twenty times, Il want you to gear up and
20 to Lumberton, where they have put my
wife in Jail for no crime but because she
is my wife that amt her fault, and they
can't make it so. You people won't let
me work to get my living, and have got
to take it from you but God knows she'd
like to see me make my own bread. You
90 to Lumberton and tell the Sheriff and
County Commissioners that if they don't
let her out of that Jail I'll retaliate on
the white women of Burnt Swamp Town.
ship. Some of them shall come to the
swamp with me, if she is kept in Jail, be-
cause they can't get me"


Lowery then named point on the road
where he would meet McNair, and he
me. him instead three miles nearer to
Lumberton. The feeling of terror in the
country may be understood when, without
more delay, Rhody Lowery was set free.


While in the region several persons
urged me to 60 out and talk to Lowery.
Sheriff Macmillan and Mr.. Brown, the


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