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Show AFlorian Kip Atan Winkle. While Clark of this city was in Jacksonville Jack-sonville (Fla. ), during his recent sojourn so-journ in that laud of orange groves, there came into town one fine morning morn-ing in February, a planter from the back country, having with him a negro ne-gro he wanted to sell. He said he wanted to raise a little ca-di, and so he brought "the boy" along to sell, and wanted 'o get about $1,000 fur him. He was utterly umware that there had been a war and that slavery had been abolished, and when told that such was the case thought that his informants were playing a joke on him, and tor a while refused to believe it. His plantation was in the interior, his nearest neighbor was fifty miles distant, and in all the years that have elapsed since umier's gun he had not heard from the outer woild knew nothing of the changes that had taken place, and came into Jackson-vibe Jackson-vibe in this year of our Lord, 1S70, in good faith to sell a slave. Other negroes ne-groes speedily informed tbeir fellow that he was a free man, and at last the master that was let him go and departed de-parted for his plantation a sadder and wisr man. Hartford Post. . |