CLAIBORNE, June 8, 1881.
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CLAIBORNE, June o. i0oi.

 Dear Sir Yours of date the 18th ut. and in which you say circumstances which it is unnecessary 10 detail, in witch particularly interested, induces me to ask that you will answer the following inter rogatorie, nsuch form as you may think proper, to wit: Haye Bou or have you not, known me in N. Carolina snd Alabama, for twenty years or more If yea-pelse state whether or not my standing and charact.r has not been that of gentleman. " came to hand this day.

 In reply your first nterrogatory, have to state, that our acquaintance commenced in North Carolina more than ttenty years since, and has continued up to this period at intervals and for much of this time have know you intimately. To your second in, terrogatory asswer that have always considered your standing and character that oa gentleman, and such has ben the uncontroverted belief entertained of you by al those who know you best, so far as know or believe.

 beg lea,e to add that while I disclaim all wish or ntentionto interfere in any personal difficulty and which pay have produced the circumstances to which you alude feel that it is but an act of justice towards youo say that you at liberty to use this letter. shoult you think proper. Respectfully, your ob't serv't. JAMES H. DRAUGHAN. Mai M JKrNAN