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Twenty Dollars Reward. The Subscriber’s carpenter FELLOW, Somerset, took himself off on the 24th of January last; he is a likely fellow, upwards of forty years of age, very black, about ve feet eight inches high, Roman nose, and has a remarkable indolent tumour, about the size of a pigeon’s egg, directly beneath the hair, but which ca- not be perceived unless his hat is off – had on when he went away, a white negro cloth coatee, turned up with blue; but as he had a plenty of other cloths, no doubt he has changed his dress. There is good reason to believe that he is harbored by some person in Charleston, and carries on the trade of a sherman, he having acted in that capacity several months, when he ran-away seventeen years ago.