Runaway Negro.
GEORGE Conner, and sometimes going by the name of George
Johnston, a negro aged from 35 to 40 years, of the height
of five feet and three or four inches, strong built, having high
shoulders, a slow walk and much in the habit of chewing tobacco.
He pretends to be free and has for a long while passed
as such in the parishes of Attakapas, La Fourche, Plaquemine
and Baton-Rouge ; he absconded on the 19th May of last year.
He is a carpenter by trade, and is believed to be now in the upper
country. A reward of twenty dollars will be given besides
other charges, if there be any, to whomever will stop said ngro
and send him to the police jail of New-Orleans.
Jacques Lamothe.
July 8.