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MR. EDITOR ---- I desire some information about my mother. The last time I saw her I was in Alexandria, Virginia, about the year 1852 or 1853. Her name was Hannah. She belonged to Lawyer Tibbs who sold her when I was quite young to a trader named Bruthing. Lather Tibbs lived at Leesburg, Va., when he sold mother to Bruthing, and afterwards Tibbs moved to Alexndria, Va., and swapped me to Bruthing for another boy. Bruthing put me in jail and I cried, so he told me if I would hush he would bring my mother there next morning, which he did ; but I was so young mother hardly knew me, so Bruthing stood four or five boys in a line and asked her which one of them was her boy. She stood a few moments and then said I was the boy. Mother then brought me some cake and candy, and that was the last time I saw her. I now go by the name of Henry Tibbs. I remember the names of two of Tibbs' sons, Abner and Kennedy. Bruthing brought me to New Orleans, La., and sold me to a man named M. Pickett. If mother is found please address me at Deasonville, Yazoo county, Miss., in care of Rev James Allen. HENRY TIBBS.