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d not get down to the coosa till day clear; so I landed on a little hammock close by the mouth of the creek, and hid the boat and myself for another day. But before nine oa clock, the next night, I put out and paddled over to Port Royal, too glad to get away. The Yankee picket wasn't asleep, but challenged me before I got near the shore, and I told him right off, that I was a runaway nigger coming ashore for freedom. The secesh picket heard me, and after I got up the bank he hailed across, Yanks, who have you got? Yankees say, One of your fellows. What you going to do with him? Don't know: what you think best? Cut him up for fish-bait. He ain't good for nothing else. The gentleman who furnished the Governor with this narrative, said,— If there is a little of intelligence left in this degraded, slaveryrid-den State, I am very sure that such men—yes, men, God's freemen —as Jack Flowers possess more than a moiety thereof. We have given the foregoing extracts from the<