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irely on i^eiriou t sub;*crip-■ ylt; ar to jniun ot pme oneto itistu { Ls of 111-asWo ran artely a sly in v i-ur read-iinurrn u*1 simply \vrite/s.iseruenls lung udI Ulljlltilnothing, y, with no i liter-nuli.so, byo a largoInch, injo makebeingoluPifrrii paid for, imniuni-we arexaisimi tiii; wind ur tiik IHack Aiit.— On a d iy last work, a well dressed genteel looking stranger, accompanied by a black servant, arrived in this city from .Norfolk, and put up at the City Hotel, lie called on sevcrul slave dealers, and calling himself Mr. George W. King, represented tbe black servant to be his slave, and oifoied him for sale. Some circumstances exciting suspicion that all was not right, Messrs. Cook, Zell eV Kidgely kept their eyes upon the gentleman, and he finding himself wfltche h hr*.st •% procipi'ate retreat from hi- hotel, and wi’h the black, took passage in the cars for V\ ashington. Cook Go. however, put a slop to their joiiin y, hv arresting him as they were ahoul starling, and be ing taken before a rnagis, •rale, ihe white rnan gave his name as Anson U. Cook, and the black cubed himself Henry Ash. l'roof was adduced that Ash was not the slave of King, alias Look, and further devclopcinontshIiowcJ (hat ti'- MviH't psir hud eiilerH in in anagreement in Norlolk, tli.it the white man should sell the black as u slave, and they would share the profits. They were both committed for trial. From some papers found upon the person of King, it appears he has been travelling in the Southern Stat s us an agent for periodical!}.—lialtimoreSun.wouldscrape. ‘•I hat. uon i heand atewhite J tered o Lewis,Thetalion,slutrphat—a Hat ion Ins ini rti I u o* and CIII lilH iili III lt;11I llO He*J;than ICOlJCOltiny thwink? •Ijaltimoui: Insfkctions.—The City Register announce-; the b,lb».\ imr »w iho :uniiiini idVIC I ri aand lolt;eves aVIn eat hiresiiiii*th serilThu picd will
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Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
Augusta, Georgia, US
Thu, Oct 18, 1838
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