and take it out in cooperage; if so, your contracts must be for your own private benefit, not mine; he has gulled me enough, and I cannot stand his slabbering discourse any more.  I am satisfied he has no moral honesty.  Our friend, the grocery-keeper, must pay for his last, as he has bartered it all off.  I met an intimate friend of his from Burlington, Kentucky, on Clifty, in company with our light-complexioned friend, who lives not far in the county back of the burgh.  Two who accompany this are crossed (+) 9’s, immediately from Tennessee, and have been travelling fifteen nights.  They are accompanied by a brother from Charleston, Virginia, another from Parkersburg, Virginia, and a third from Marietta, Ohio; all wealthy, the bearer and all, worthy brethren.  The bearer is a Grand.

Yours, ——­ ——.

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[This describes the bearer as being BOLD, ARTFUL, ACTIVE, TEMPERATE, LOW, and HEAVY, SANDY-COMPLEXIONED, by profession a MERCHANT; age from THIRTY to FORTY, QUICK-SPOKEN.]

No. 5. 
    Sugar Creek, October 24, 1825.

Esteemed Brown,—­After two nights’ hard travelling, I find myself well provided for, in company with our old “Bogus Friend,” who informs me he has just returned from Toronto, Canada; and has brought some of the most splendid bogus I ever have seen, and sells it, in trade at 33-1/3, 28 in cash.  I purchased two thousand of him, part trade, part cash; and he is to deliver it to you.  He has sent a large quantity to Brookville, Indiana, and he will send your two thousand from Brookville.  I let him have four horses, which I purchased from our Rising-sun Brethren.  He sent them immediately to his lawyer, in or near Sandusky, who will forward them immediately to Michigan.  I believe the horse trade is better, and a great deal more safe than the slave.  There are many brethren living here, and of the best order, and live up to the principles of the Brotherhood; and of the many which live here, and in fact all through these parts, very few are considered other than men of the highest respectability.  But I hear many making inquiry about our Lawrenceburgh Aurora, and Rising-sun brethren, and say the brethren have acted in many respects badly, and our friend ——­ ——­, in the burgh, who purchased the pork he shipped from some of them; they say that he has deceived them.  I feel mortified to think he has no more principle:  I want you to call and tell him he must settle, and I think he ought to know the same without advice.  They are the wrong men for him to try to gull; I have every right to suspect him of dishonesty, when I think how much the Brotherhood has done for him, you and I in particular, and know how he treated us; and though we have given him all of the start he has, he would sacrifice us both, with our families, for a hundred dollars.  I have found out that Sulivan did not make his escape, as he assured us he did, but was