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High Price for negroes.

--The Charleston Courier, of the 5th, says:

‘ At a in Abbeville District a few days ago of the personal and real estate of John Smith, deceased, 130 negroes brought the handsome sum of $85,500. Among these there was a boy seven years old that brought $1,400.

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