Arkansas Intelligencer

"Fancy or Habit."--A gentleman recently from Africa, while at one of the civilized colonies on the coast met a colored woman whom he had known in old Virginia, who had obtained her freedom for good conduct, and had emigrated to Liberia.

"Where are you traveling to, Mary?" said the gentleman.

"I am going down town to the village on the sea shore. I'm tired of seeing nigger, nigger, nigger! I want to see some white folks."

"But are you doing well here?"

"Oh, very well. I make many things and sell 'em--I have four slaves who make palm leaf hats."

"Slaves, Mary? You, emancipated, to have slaves in your own land?"

"Oh, yes," said she with great simplicity, "must do as they do in old Virginny."