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Andy Johnson Among the Negroes. --The Vice-President elect of the "universal Yankee nation" has been making a speech to his brethren, the only difference being that the one has a black skin and the other a black heart: "The colored people in Nashville had an immense torchlight procession in honor of Lincoln and Johnson's election. The procession was very near a half mile long. The Vice-President elect, Colonel Muzzy, and Lieutenant Smith, of New Jersey, addressed the throng in front of the capitol. Governor Johnson counseled his hearers to industry, forbearance, moderation and virtue. He earnestly warned them against the vice of loafing and immoral practices, and advised them to spend their surplus earnings in the education of their children. 'If you are not true to yourselves in this great struggle,' he said, 'you do not deserve to be free.' "I regret to say that two persons (soldier and citizen) lost their lives during the meeting. The first was a member of the T
Notice. --Committed to jail, in Charlotte county, Virginia, on the 23d of October, 1864, a Negro Man, claiming to be free, but without any free papers, who calls himself John Evans and says he lives in Orange county, North Carolina. Said negro is about twenty-two years old; brown complexion; five feet ten inches high, and weighs one hundred and forty or one hundred and fifty pounds. Parties claiming must come forward and prove property, else he will be dealt with according to the law. Thomas H. Smith, Jailor. no 19--1aw6w