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ROMANCES OF SLAVERY TIMES. letter was read from the pulpit of one of the colored Baptist churches of this city, in which a brother asked about a sister, from whom he had been separated for over twenty years. The same letter had probably been read, as it is the custom, in nearly all the colored churches in the country. This one found an answer, the sister being Louisa Smith, a worthy colored woman, who has lived in this city many years, and is now in the family of Dr. J. L. Thompson. The brother is a preacher in St. Joseph, Mo., and they were separated in Kentucky when the war was in progress,