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The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], Sale of negroes in Tennessee . (search)
Sale of negroes in Tennessee.
--The following account of a sale of negroes in East Tennessee was sent to a gentleman of this city from a friend in that State:
Morristown, Tenn., Jan. 21, 1862.
To-day there was an auction sale, at this place, of forty-six negroes.
The following are the ages and prices of some of the sales:
One negro girl, age 17 years, brought $1,505.
Another girl, age 17 years, brought $1,570.
Negro fellow, age 28 years, brought $1,880, blacksmith.
Negro fellow, age 29 years, brought $1,800.
Negro girl, age 13 years, brought $1,805.
Negro girl, age 15 years, brought $1,500.
Negro girl, age 12 years, brought $1,100.
All of them were purchased by citizens of the neighborhood and country.
They were a lot of negroes belonging to the estate of L. D. Franklin, deceased, and before and at the time of his death a resident of an adjoining neighborhood, and was one of our wealthlest citizens.
His estate, clear of liab
[for the Richmond Dispatch.]cotton advancing — important movement — literary Institutions, &c. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 21, 1862.
King cotton seems to be again resuming his throne, which he has vacated a little while only to show how supreme is his away.
I have just conversed with a distinguished planter who has been offered eight cents a pound for his entire crop.
A little while ago it was six cents a pound.
Every intelligent man with whom I have conversed thinks that the war will be closed within a few months, and thus the advance in this great staple.
The Legislature has appointed a Council of three to aid Gov. Pickens. Ex-Governor Gist and Col. Chesnut are two of the Council.
Upon the arrival of the Council the Governor committed to them the affairs of State, and went out recuperating into the country.
The State College, located here, has fifty students.
The Southern Presbyterian Seminary has thirty.
The Methodist Female College and the Military Institute, al