Runaway Slave in Jail.
ENTERED in the Police Jail of this city on the 7th of November
last, a negro wench named PEGGY, who appears to be in
a state of insanity, speaking English, of the height of four feet
and eleven inches, born in the State of Tenessee. She wears an
iron collar with three branches. She has lost several teeth of
her upper jaw. The said wench pretends to belong to Mr. Weddis,
a sugar planter, some where up the river and on the left
bank. She has on an old petticoat and blanket coat.
BLAS PUCHE.
December 10.