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Ran away.--$100 reward. --Ran away, on Monday, a Negro Boy, named Essek. about five feet eight inches high; black; stammers slightly, about twenty or twenty-two years old, weight about 150 pounds; formerly belong to Capt. John Wright, of Plain View, P O., King and Queen county, Va. The above reward will be paid on his delivery to me at my office, in this city. He may be making his way to West Point Va. He has a wife in that neighborhood. H upper teeth are dark, from tarter on them. oe 12-- Benjamin Davis.
en in the attempt to enslave a people who have so often honored him far above his merits, and now, a "driveller and a show," he will pass away from life, leaving behind him a name that will become a synonym for weakness and treachery. Garret Davis. Garret Davis, a small man of little intellect and violent and ungovernable passions, of no courage and vast ambition, was crammed away in a pigeon-hole with other refuse matter by his fellow-citizens, for about a score of years, during the whDavis, a small man of little intellect and violent and ungovernable passions, of no courage and vast ambition, was crammed away in a pigeon-hole with other refuse matter by his fellow-citizens, for about a score of years, during the whole of which time was an aspirant for public favor in a community and district in which his party was in a large majority, and has now struggled into notice and upon the stage of action as a party to the vilest and most inexcusably wicked conspiracy ever planned for the enslavement of a free people, and aspires to distinction as the most cruel, vindictive, and bloody-minded of all the enemies of freedom in Kentucky. James Guthrie. James Guthrie deliberated a long time before his opinion