"NEGROES WANTED.

- O. C. & S. Y. Harris, of Upper Marlboro', wish to purchase any number of negroes, for which they will give the highest market price in cash. They will be in Port Tobacco once in every week. Any communications left in their absence with Mr. Lyne Shackelford will be promptly attended to."

"NEGROES WANTED. The highest market prices will be given for negroes at all times. Persons having negroes for sale will please call at my office, No. 26, Conway-street, between Charles and Hanover. Communications promptly attended to. "Also negroes will be received and kept at twenty-five cents per day. B. M. CAMPBELL.

"April 7, 1846."

"NEGROES WANTED.

Persons wishing to sell their negroes

will find it to their advantage to give me a call before selling elsewhere. I have all the facilities that the trade will admit of in the New Orleans and other markets. Such being the case, I can give as much as any one else, which I am determined to do. Any communication addressed to me, either in Baltimore or Port Tobacco, will be attended to immediately. JOHN G. CAMPBELL, Agent for B. M. Campbell."

"Jan. 1, 1847.

"TAKE NOTICE.

- Persons wishing to dispose of their servants would do well to give me a call before they sell to the traders. By paying a small commission to an agent, they can get from $75 to $100 more; as I receive monthly from New Orleans, Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, S.C. the full market prices for slaves. "SCOTT's Intelligence Office, No. 10, Exchange Place."

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The following is taken from the "Wilmington (Va.) Journal" of Sept. 3, 1847:

"NEGROES Wanted. I wish to purchase a large number of negroes, of both sexes, from the age of 14 to 30, for which I will pay the highest cash market price. As I intend making a long stay in Wilmington for that purpose, persons from the country would find it to their advantage to bring such slave-property to town as they have to dispose of. Also wanted some good carpenters, blacksmiths, coopers, and bricklayers. Apply to me, at the Carolina Hotel. ANSLEY DAVIS, of Petersburg, Va.

"Wilmington, May 7, 1847."

The following is extracted from an advertisement of Lewis A. Collier, a trader in Richmond, Va. :

"NOTICE. This is to inform my former acquaintances and the public generally, that I yet continue in the slave-trade, at Richmond, Virginia, and will at all times buy and give a fair market price for young negroes. Persons in this State, Maryland, or North Carolina, wishing to sell lots of negroes, are particularly requested to forward their wishes to me at this place. Persons wishing to purchase lots of negroes are requested to give me a call, as I keep constantly on hand at this place a great many for sale; and have at this time the use of one hundred young negroes, consisting of boys, young men, and girls. I will sell at all times at a small advance on cost, to suit purchasers. I have comfortable rooms, with a jail attached, for the reception of the negroes; and persons coming to this place to sell slaves can be accommodated, and every attention necessary will be given to have them well attended to; and, when it may be desired, the reception of the company of gentlemen dealing in slaves will conveniently and attentively be received. My situation is very healthy, and suitable for the business. LEWIS A. COLLIER."

The "St. Louis Daily Union" of August 26, 1847, contains the following:

"ONE HUNDRED NEGROES WANTED. The subscriber wishes to purchase one hundred negroes, of both sexes, for which I will pay the highest price, in cash. I can be found at all times at No. 104, Locust-street, by Gerard's stable. WM. JOHNSON."

"NEGROES WANTED. For two hundred negroes, the highest prices will be paid by B. W. POWELL, City Hotel, or

51, Front-street."

The "Daily Reveille " (St. Louis), of the same date, contains the following:

"WANTED to purchase, thirty or forty young negroes, by CURLE & GODDIN, 79, Olive-street."

The following is taken from the "St. Louis Republican :

"NEGROES Wanted and BOARDED. The highest cash price paid for young likely negroes, at 104, Locust-street, between Third and Fourth, adjoining Gerard's stables.

“N.B. Our house will be well secured, and afford the advantages of a jail surrounded by walls, and a basement cell in it.

WHITE & TOOLY."

The following two are found in the "Evening Mercury" of Jan. 14, 1848, published in New Orleans:

"SLAVES WANTED. Wanted to purchase, slaves of every description, at the New Orleans depot, No. 156, Common-street, for which liberal prices will be paid. Slaves will also be sold on commission, and purchasers are invited to call and see a wellselected lot of slaves offered at low prices.

ELIHU CRESWELL."

"SLAVES WANTED. E. Creswell, No. 163, Gravier-street, will pay the most liberal price for slaves of all descriptions; and those who have slaves for sale will do well to give him a call before selling to others. He will also exchange slaves, sell slaves on commission; and those who wish to purchase will do well to give him a call before buying elsewhere, as he keeps on hand a good selection of slaves, sold under full, guarantee, and good reference for titles given."

The foregoing advertisements give us some faint idea of the demand for slaves. Those which follow are of slaves for sale. We cannot commence more appropriately than with these, taken from the "New Orleans Picayune:"—

"SLAVES FOR SALE.

Hope H. Slatter, who has retired from the trade, has sold to me his establishment in Baltimore, and leased for a number of years his old stand at the corner of Esplanade and Moreau-streets, at which place I shall keep up a large and general assortment of slaves for sale, imported direct from Maryland and Virginia. WALTER L. CAMPBELL, Successor to Hope H. Slatter."

"NEGROES, NEGROES. Just received, and for sale at No. 0.7, Moreau-street, Third Municipality, a large and likely lot of negroes, consisting of field-hands, house-servants, and mechanics. Will be receiving new lots regularly from Virginia during the WM. F. TALBOTT."

season.

The same paper of Oct. 18, 1846, contains the following

"SLAVES FOR SALE, No. 165, Gravier-street. The subscriber has always on hand a number of slaves, consisting of house-servants, field-hands, and mechanics, which will be sold low, for cash for

negotiable paper. Persons desirous of purchasing will find it to

their interest to call and examine. The subscriber will also receive and sell on consignment any negro that may be entrusted to his

care.

"He would also respectfully notify persons engaged in the slavetrade, that he is prepared to board them and their slaves on the most reasonable terms.

"Reference: J. Barelli, C. J. Mansoni."

WM. H. MERRITT.

"NEGROES FOR SALE. We, the subscribers, have for sale, at our establishment, No. 159, Gravier-street (block in the rear of St. Charles Exchange), a large lot of valuable slaves, suitable for plantation, house-servants, &c. &c. Persons desirous of purchasing will find it to their interest to call and examine.

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"We will also receive and sell on consignment any negroes that be entrusted to us. We would also respectfully notify owners of negroes, and persons engaged in the slave-trade, that we are prepared to board negroes, and furnish traders with rooms, &c. "Our house is roomy, airy, and dry.

Terms reasonable.

JOHN BUDDY.

WM. H. MERRITT."

Mr. Wm. H. Bolton, whose name is appended to the next advertisement, is from Tennessee:

"NEGROES FOR SALE. I have again returned to this market, with eighteen or twenty likely negroes. I have located on the corner of Main and Adams-streets. I have plough-boys, men, women, and girls, and some very fancy ones. I intend to keep a constant supply through the season, and will not be undersold by any in market. My motto is, the swift penny; the slow shilling' I never get.

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"I will also pay the highest cash price for young negroes. "November 21, 1846.

W. H. BOLTON."

To what uses these " very fancy" girls are put may be inferred from the following advertisement,* taken from the "Norfolk Herald: "

* We cut this advertisement from the "Boston Daily Republican" of Aug. 30, 1849. It previously appeared in the "Providence Journal."

"NOTICE.

For sale, a colored girl, of very superior qualifications, who is now in Mr. Hall's jail in Norfolk. She is what speculators call a fancy girl; a bright mulatto, fine figure, straight, black hair, and very black eyes; remarkably neat and cleanly in her dress and person. I venture to say, that there is not a better seamstress, cutter and fitter of ladies' and children's dresses in Norfolk, or elsewhere, or a more fanciful netter of bead bags, money-purses, &c.

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Any lady or gentleman in Norfolk or Portsmouth, who may wish to purchase a girl of this description (whom I consider the most valuable in Virginia), may take her and try her a month or more at my risk, and, if she does not suit and answer the description here given, may return her to Mr. Hill.

"The cause of offence for which I intend, though reluctantly, to sell her, is, that she has been recently induced by the persuasions of some colored persons to make her escape with them to the North, in which she failed, and is now for sale. Apply to the subscriber, in Suffolk, or to James Murdaugh, Esq. or to C. C. Robinson, of Portsmouth, for further information.

JOSEPH HOLLADAY.”

Tennessee can also claim the honor of having such careful traders as Mr. J. S. Curtis:

"ONE HUNDRED "A No. 1" NEGROES. I have on hand one hundred negroes, men, women, boys, and girls, at my depot, in Gaine's brick building, immediately back of Howard's Row, between the Gayoso and Herron House. I have judicious men purchasing in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Middle Tennessee, and will keep constantly on hand a large number.

"Persons wishing to purchase will do well not to trade, without first calling to see my stock. J. S. CURTIS.

"Memphis, November 20, 1846."

The "Spirit of Liberty" contains the following:

"SOUTHERN PLANTERS, wishing to purchase negroes, would do well to give me a call before they make their purchases, as it would be greatly to their advantage. Negroes purchased and sold on reasonable commission. Apply at

SCOTT's Intelligence Office, No. 10, Exchange Place."

In the "Daily Richmond Enquirer," Sept 1, 1847, we find this: