'A day or two afterward, B---- passed here on his way to Georgetown. I had been riding out, and happened to be at the head of my avenue when he was going by. He stopped, and asked if I knew you. Not knowing then the circumstances, I said that I had met you casually at Bucksville, but had no particular acquaintance with you. He rode on, saying nothing further. The next morning I had occasion to go to Georgetown, and at Mr. Fraser's office accidentally heard that Scip--who is well known and universally liked there--was to have a public whipping that evening. Something prompted me to inquire into it, and I was told that he had been charged by B---- with shielding a well-known abolitionist at Conwayboro--a man who was going through the up-country distributing such damnable publications as the New-York _Independent_ and _Tribune_. I knew, of course, it referred to you, and that it wasn't true. I went to Scip and got the facts, and by stretching the truth a little, finally got him off. There was a slight discrepancy between my two accounts of you,' (and here he laughed heartily,) 'and B----, when we were before the Justice, remarked on it, and came d----d near calling me a liar. It was lucky he didn't, for if he had he'd gone to h----l before the place was hot enough for him.' 'I can not tell you, my dear sir, how grateful I am to you for this. It would have pained me more than I can express, if Scip had suffered for doing a disinterested kindness to me.' Early in the morning we were again on our way, and twelve o'clock found us seated at a dinner of bacon, corn-bread, and waffles, in the 'first hotel' of Georgetown. The Charleston boat was to leave at three o'clock; and, as soon as dinner was over, I sallied out to find Scip. After a half-hour's search I found him on 'Shackelford's wharf,' engaged in loading a schooner bound for New-York with a cargo of cotton and turpentine. He was delighted to see me, and after I told him I was going home, and might never see him again, I took his hand warmly in mine, and said: 'Scip, I have heard of the disgrace that was near being put upon you on my account, and I feel deeply the disinterested service you did to me; now, I _can not_ go away without doing _something_ for you--showing you in _some_ way that I appreciate and _like_ you.'