In the “New Orleans Bee,” May 31, 1837, MR. P. BAHI, gives notice that he has committed to JAIL as a runaway ’a little negro AGED ABOUT SEVEN YEARS.’

In the “Mobile Advertiser,” Sept. 13, 1838, WILLIAM MAGEE, Sheriff, gives notice that George Walton, Esq.  Mayor of the city has committed to JAIL as a runaway slave, Jordan, ABOUT TWELVE YEARS OLD, and the Sheriff proceeds to give notice that if no one claims him the boy will be sold as a slave to pay jail fees.

In the “Memphis (Tenn.) Gazette,” May 2, 1837, W.H.  MONTGOMERY advertises that he will sell at auction a BOY AGED 14, ANOTHER AGED 12, AND A GIRL 10, to pay the debts of their deceased master.

B.F.  CHAPMAN, Sheriff, Natchitoches (La.) advertises in the ‘Herald,’ of May 17, 1837, that he has “committed to JAIL, as a runaway a negro boy BETWEEN 11 AND 12 YEARS OF AGE.”

In the “Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle,” Feb. 13, 1838.  R.H.  JONES, jailor, says, “Brought to jail a negro woman Sarah, she is about 60 or 65 years old.”

In the “Winchester Virginian,” August 8, 1837, Mr. R.H.  MENIFEE, offers ten dollars reward to any one who will catch and lodge in jail, Abram and Nelly, about 60 years old, so that he can get them again.

J. SNOWDEN, Jailor, Columbia, S.C. gives notice in the “Telescope,” Nov, 18, 1837, that he has committed to jail as a runaway slave, “Caroline fifty years of age.”

Y.S.  PICKARD, Jailor, Savannah, Georgia, gives notice in the “Georgian,” June 22, 1837, that he has taken up for a runaway and lodged in jail Charles, 60 years of age.

In the Savannah “Georgian,” April 12, 1837, Mr. J. CUYLER, says he will give five dollars, to anyone who will catch and bring back to him “Saman, an old negro man, and grey, and has only one eye.”

In the “Macon (Ga.) Telegraph,” Jan. 15, 1839, MESSRS.  T. AND L. NAPIER, advertise for sale Nancy, a woman 65 years of age, and Peggy, a woman 65 years of age.

The following is from the “Columbian (Ga.) Enquirer,” March 8, 1838.

“$25 REWARD.—­Ranaway, a Negro Woman named MATILDA, aged about 30 or 35 years.  Also, on the same night, a Negro Fellow of small size, VERY AGED, stoop-shouldered, who walks VERY DECREPIDLY, is supposed to have gone off.  His name is DAVE, and he has claimed Matilda for wife.  It may be they have gone off together.

“I will give twenty-five dollars for the woman, delivered to me in Muscogee county, or confined in any jail so that I can get her.  MOSES BUTT.”

J.B.  RANDALL, Jailor, Cobb (Co.) Georgia, advertises an old negro man, in the “Milledgeville Recorder,” Nov. 6, 1838.

“A NEGRO MAN, has been lodged in the common jail of this county, who says his name is JUPITER.  He has lost all his front teeth above and below—­speaks very indistinctly, is very lame, so that he can hardly walk.”