This newspaper states that it is ‘published every morning, by Joseph B. Morss and Wm H. Brewster at No. 11, Cornhill,” consists largely of ads for eduction such as schools for young ladies.
An article on p. 2 titled “Free Negroes” reads “The Legislature of Alabama have passed an act prescribing that every free person of color arriving in that State on board a vessel as cook, steward, mariner, or in any other employment, shall be immediately lodged in prison, and detained until the departure of the said vessel, when the captain thereof shall be bound under a heavy penalty, to take him away. If any free person of color thus sent away, shall return, he or she shall receive thirty-nine lashes, and if found within thet State twenty days after such punishment, he or she shall be sold as a slave for any term not exceeding one year. The captain of any vessel in which such free person of color shall arrive, shall give security in the sum of two thousand dollars, that he will take away the said free person of color. the 6th section makes it lawful for any person to seize and make a slave for life, to his own use, any free person of color, who may have come into the State of Alabama. (New-Orleans Bee).