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[for the Richmond Dispatch.]Yankees selling Virginia negroes. It is said that two hundred and forty negroes have been sent from Fortress Monroe to Cuba. This is moreover, but carrying out the act of the Yankee Congress for the confiscation of the negroes belonging to Southerners. In the present bankruptcy of their Government, we see no resource they have, except to pay themselves by the capture and sale of our slaves. It may be easy for us to prove what number may have been stolen at this or that farm, or sent off and sold from this or that fort. It is not so easy, however, to identify what particular negroes were stolen by what particular Yankee. In enforcing reparation for our stolen property, the evidence as to the above most important points may be difficult to obtain — It is feared almost impossible. It seems that enactments might be so framed as to allow our negroes to bear witness in the cases above referred to. Laws for admitting their evidence might be so g