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A Run-Away stopped. A NEGRO FELLOW, in sailor’s dress, with a blue jacket with white pearl buttons, and trowsers, both of superfine cloth, was apprehended at this place on Sunday evening last; he is a stout well made fellow, near six feet high and about thirty years of age, has a remarkable scar extending from the edge of his under lip, appears to be an artful fellow and speaks slow, with a kind of lisp; he had a forged pass signed James Jack, to go to Augusta, in Georgia; says his name is Jim Stephens, tells many contradictory stories, in one of which he says he came about four or five weeks ago from Wilmington (N.C.) in the schooner Easte [?], captain Nix, and that he belonged to Mrs. William Lee, of said place; but it appears that no dependance can be placed in what he says.