Letter speaks of slaves setting fire to houses: "Our neighborhood is thrown into great excitement by Dr. Hove's house having been deliberately fired. They might have been burned in it, for it is an old wooden building - but that a visitor was unusually wakeful and smelt the fire - it was a wonderful escape - supposed to be the act of a half grown girl, incited to it by the dining room servant. This is the fourth case within a little more than a year in this County. Dr. Stuart's summer house, a Mr. Brown's stables from which the dwelling house caught, and a Mr. Corbin's--plainly the work of incendiaries....It is said that a girl at Dr. Hove's told some of the family that "Lincoln is to set all the black people free." We were at Church today, but had not time to ask the particulars - they all looked so pale and sad however, that my heart sinks when I think of their trouble -the servants are in jail- I would go down to see them but the roads are nearly impossible even to Church."