NOTICE.--A NEGRO MAN WHO CALLS HIMSELF WM. [William] CURTIS, was committed to the jail of this city in December last, for want of a copy of his Registry. He says that he is free, that he was raised, as he believes, in the county of Orange or Granville, in the State of North Carolina, by an old gentleman named Thomas Jordan, (a Scotchman,) whom, he says, gave him his free papers. He left there about twenty years ago for the State of Georgia with Mr. John Tuttle, a Railroad Contractor, and has not resided in N. C. since that time. He is about 41 or 42 years of age, black complexion, five feet 7 1/2 inches in height, tolerably likely, has small whiskers, and is ruptured. He gives such a lame account of himself that the Hustings Court of this city authorized me to advertise him, thinking it probable that he may be a runaway slave. Any person who may see this notice, and knows any thing about the above named man, will please give me the information.
J. BRANCH,
Serg't and Jailor of Petersburg, Va.
Feb. 29, 1856. 29--4ws