FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD!
Runaway from the Subscriber, on the night of the 1st instant, three negro boys; the eldest JIM, is 23 years of age, five feet eight or ten inches high, of a copper color, a bold, impudent , swaggering air; had on when he left a black wool hat, dark copperas-colored cotton pants, old dark plaid cassimere coat, new shirt and pair a[sic] of boots.
TOM, sixteen years of age, light copper color, five feet five or six inches high, sharp featured, quite intelligent, and having been with the army, has something of a military air in his address; had on when he left, a black slouch hat, gray round-about, white woolen pants well worn, new shirt, and was either barefooted or had on a very inferior pair of shoes.
ALBERT, eighteen years of age, ebony color, stout built, five feet four or five inches high; had on when he left, an old black slouch hat, new shirt, blue navy cloth pants well worn, barefooted, and rather of a sullen look.
These negroes were purchased a few weeks since in Augusta Ga. Jim and Tom having been connected with the army, are evidently endeavoring to either make their way to the army of Virginia, or to get within the Yankee lines.--Five hundred dollars reward will be given for their delivery in Shelby, Cleaveland[sic] county, N. C., or one hundred dollars a head for their capture and confinement in any jail where I may get them.
C. P. CULVER,
Shelby, N. C.
June 13, 1864. 28--3t.