A correspondent out at Manassas writes: – Contrabands, like the magnetic needle, “incline to the pole,” and make fast time toward the regions explored by Sir John Franklin. We accosted one whose intense blackness commended him as a genuine, unadulterated scion of Africa; “Where do you hail from?” “Culpepper Court-house, Sah.” “What news do you bring?” “Nothing, massa, ‘cept dars a man lost a mighty good nigger dar this morning’, and I guess he dun lose some more ‘fore night.” – Chicago Tribune.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 28, 1862, p. 2
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