...things in a very deplorable condition in that section. According to a correspondent of the Atlanta Appeal, he says that a villain by the name of Blackburn, formerly a stage driver, now a Captain in Stoke 's cavalry, leads about two hundred out-throats, who range through Davidson, Wilson, Sumner, and DeKalb counties, robbing, pillaging, and murdering in a manner that would disgrace the Thugs of India, ...