sold for seven hundred and fifty dollars.  So you can depend he has swindled you and I; do not trust him farther than you can see him, and recommend him in the right numbers.  This will be handed you by a brother living near the islands Sixty-two and Sixty-three, on the Mississippi; he is about to make a permanent location, and wishes to purchase six or eight blacks.  If the lot we have an interest in have not left the burgh, he is the man:  he says there are large bands of the brethren settled near him; I hope you can please him.

Yours in haste, ——­ ——.

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[This describes the bearer as follows:  BOLD, ARTFUL, TEMPERATE, LARGE and TALL, LIGHT-COMPLEXIONED, PLANTER by profession, HEAD DAPPLED GRAY; age from THIRTY to FORTY, QUICK SPOKEN.]

No. 6. 
    Indianopolis, November 5, 1825.

Friend Brown,—­I have been waiting four days for your answer to mine of the 24th, and this day have the pleasure of receiving it.  I am glad to hear that your friends in the east have not forgotten you; I had a letter forwarded me to this place, speaking of your liberality to the people in Pittsburg, when you visited there last spring, and our friends ——­ & Co., the iron traders, are very anxious for another trade.  I think they have made better use of their trade than our two Marietta merchants ——­ ——­; the latter, I believe, some of the boys got hold on, as he was going east, and he returned, one thousand minus, in clear dust, and his twelve hundred in coney.  The Steubenville merchant is here, and has contracted with me for two hundred dollars’ worth of coney, assorted; he tells me that a brother in a flat boat has been put aside for his plunder, which, sad to relate, was but little; and that he saw the wife of the deceased was trying to make up the amount at this time in Cincinnati; if she has not effected it, I think some attention had better be given her before it is too late, as she is satisfied it was done through mistake.  You had better go or send some one to see her; you will find her on Sixth street, at the widow ——­, or if you inquire at, ——­ ——­, cabinet-maker, on Sycamore.  I will give ten; you will give the same:  tell ——­ ——­, on Lower Market, he must do the same; it is a pity she should suffer through mistake.  She is a fine woman, and all of the Brotherhood should befriend her.  I hope you have, from your letter, become satisfied with the friendship of ——­ ——.  I told you they would not do—­I have known them from boys, and the day they got that bogus from you so cheap, I would sooner have thrown it in the river.  The airs they put on about that negro, satisfied me that they had forfeited all principles of honesty, which is the way with such men after they become able to live—­never think they are beholding.  I will write you again in a few days.  The bearer of this I have learned is a good brother.

Yours, ——­ ——.