We do not deem it incumbent upon us to publish this communication, but, since Mr. Tukey has shown a disposition to act with fairness to our people and feels called upon to notice this affair, we give it an insertion. But in inserting Mr. Tukey's article we also feel called upon to prevent any erroneous impressions it might make. Our atticle was not entitled "Miscegenation in Staunton." That our article was personal we do not deny, for the occurrence in our view justified it and we intended it so to be. We knew of what we wrote, and the fact of the gallantry exhibited, as we described it, viz. that the teacher came down on one side of the street side by side with the negro woman, pointed the way, when she hestitated, and walked across the street with her, and having reached the other side, in a very gallant manner have her the inside of the pavement, has not been controverted, nor even sought to be palliated, and surely the want of a hymn book on the part of the woman is not excuse for the scene witnessed by us. Mr. Tukey seems to think that under the circumstances the teacher did nothing improper, and that he would have acted precisely as the teacher did. Of this we need not speak, but we will say, that if the two intelligent and influential citizens, spoken of, had witnessed teh specimen of gallantry, as we did, they would be far from saying that they would have acted as did the teacher, and should they ever act thus we promise they that they shall be handled with gloves off.

As to Mr. Tukey's belief of what the Editor would have done, place in the same circumstances, we can only say, that it would require all the circumstances attendant on thsi case, an entire uprooting of our sentiments and feelings, an utter abnegation of self and self-respect, and a total disregard of the feelings and sentiments of the community at large, ere we could be quite so gallant.

Before this occurrence, we had been led to regard the teacher very favorably, from the fact that, in one instance which came to our knowledge, he would not permit his pupils to do an act calculated to wound the feelings of our people, and from his remarks since are charitable enough to give him the benefit of the assertion that he did not think that he was doing any thing wrong, (though at the time, after signs of disapprobation were shown, he acted in a manner which we characterised as "brazen effrontery,") yet that he did act in such a manner as to disgust every witness of the affair, and would not be sanctioned as proper by the two intelligent gentlemen, or even Mr. Tukey himself, had he witnessed it, we do not hesitate to assert. With this brief statement, we publish the communication in another column, not that justice requires us to publish it, after giving publicity to Mr. Scott's explanation without cmment, but from the fact that Mr. Tukey has been actuated by a spirit of fairness to our people and desires its insertion.