$50 REWARD--Will be given for negro man named STEPHEN, who broke Jail in Sampson county, N. C., on the night of 29th ultimo. The said negro STEPHEN is about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, dark complected, slender built, and about 29 years of age. He passed for free negro while in Newbern Jail, and called himself when taken, and afterwards, JOEL SIMMONS. He is very intelligent, and writes a fair hand.
The above reward of Fifty Dollars will be given to any person who will apprehend said Stephen and confine him in any Jail so that I can get him again.
All masters of vessels, and other persons, are particularly cautioned against concealing or harboring said negro, under the penalty and rigor of the law. The said negro Stephen will probably try to pass for a free man, and will, if possible, make his way to some one of the non-slaveholding States.
ELIAS F. SHAW.
January 11, 1850. 17-4t
Newbern Republican, Goldsboro' Patriot, and Fayettville North Carolinian, will please give the above four insertions in their respective papers, and forward their bills to Spring Vale, Sampson county, N.C.
E. F. S.
