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To slon-Subscribers $18, 00 9. 50 5,00 To Subscribe: a. $15, 00 8 , 00 -t, 50 1 year 6 mouths 3 do. 1 year d months SW llM'S PANACEA. mm m I \ 1 i K mM fjy Fur the cure of Scrofula, ur King's Evil, Ulcers, II lie tint at ism, Syphilitic, Mercurial and Fiver I' imptaiuts, anti most I liseuses arising in de.hil ifilled constitutions, or from an impure state of the litoud, #c. ijv. 1IIIS Medicine lia» acquired a very cx'endetl anil cstab li bud celebrity both in hospital and privait practice, hieb il» efficacy alone lias supported upwards ol eight constitutions lllooil that such T /u.Vpurifier, it lias given ne to thousands, it is by ils operation oath siirpi i»ing CHICS bave been performed on those who wee supposed to ne laboring under pulmonary affections, Sec. The effect of Ibis medicine is such as nnt to interrupt eiilu-r business nr pleasure, and requires only the common restraint of moderation in diet. I< is conveyed by the circti- l.iiing fluids, and corrects their tendencies to the -, diseases which originate in vitiated blood, diseased liver Or depraved appetite. It is a safe niedu me, and enlèves all those evils which an unsuccessful corv Sil often occasions. No one, however, is advised to tints- it, without first fully convincing himself of the truth "J what is here ..Idled and'the rectitude tf the Proprietor's in As f-ing. -unier- ou - nf nier- lections. -phis medicine has the singular fortune, a just tribute to its great merit, of being recommended by the most cele- brated I'raclitionet's of Medicine in the United States and elsewhere, whereas not one of the spurious mixtures made in imitation of it, lias the least support from the medical facility. This tael oilers an argument so plain and conclti- sivc, thaj. it needs only to be mentioned to enforce con union. Dr. \Ym. Price, Liverpool, England, formerly Sur geon of the Penn») Ivan a Hospital, &.C The Vegetable Syrup, called Sw aim's Panacea, prepared In Mr S tv ai in, of Philadelphia, has recently been intr-du, : ,l lu re by Dr. Price, fiom the United States ot America, v.heic it is now extensively u-.ed in the treatment of a va riet v of Chronic Diseases. Ilf ilieellicacy of this preparation Dr. Price lias had abun dant and must satisfactory evidence, during a Course ot ex perimeiits made under Ills direction, whilst Surgeon ot toe , istIvania Hospital; and since Ids arrival in England, he has had die good fortune ot witnessing many additional instances of its stiacesslul admini-traiion liich this Me Heine has been particular alcauses From 1-1 file diseases in lsetiil, are those arising fiom constitutin' forms of Scrofula, whether all. cling ■ he bone-, cases wlice a disposition to s as a 39 in he tarions -nints, nr soft parts ; and i diisdisease is manifested bv debility only, it opera ventive to the local disease by ns beneficial .-fleets on ih.- cotisiilutioii. It IS equally efficacious m Mercurial fits , and ill the secondary forms ot Syphilis, ai d has late lv been given with inaiked success in chrome diseases i t t'|,e Liver, which had .esisled the careful er.liibiu mcrcurv. It lias, likewise very ucenlly hern administer ed with' decided advantage I»'one of I he most distinguish €(l S'lr^eons in London, i• • a cast* uhich liad entirely des troved the right eve of the patient, and a grea portion of the side of the face. WM 1'lllCE, M. D. I "I to viiin n isi:lis. This medicine had been used lor more than seven years before an elfoi t was made to imitate it : but the great de mand fur it, and its wondevl.il success, have induced a great number of persons to imitate it ill various wavs—up«arils ol liftv different mixtures have hcen got up in imitation ol it, which is a convincing proof of its being a medicine oj great Some are selling Sarsaparilla and other syrups, in, posing them on the ignorant for the Panacea ; others arc mixing the genuine medicine with molasses, S»c. making three bottles out nf one; thus retaining snmeot Us virtues: others are using the genuine Panacea m their bottles to per. fin 111 cures, to obtain eertif cates to give their own a reputation Uc. These imitations and adulterations have, in many m stances, protracted the suffering« of patients in disease where the genuine Panacea would have proved instantly efficacious. I therefore deem it a duty I owe the public to assure them, that the composition of my Panace a is not known nor was it communicated to any other person in any Way Whatever; and consequently, that all other mixtures represented to be mine, are fraudulent 1 wnT' sVPA!M No 221 Cbesnut street, between Seventh and tsonic Hall, Philadelphia CAUTION Value. Eighth street!., near rf y- Communications, post paid, and orders from any part Dit tie world, will receive immediate attention. It j" Sold in Wilmington at M. JOHNSON'.® Bur g and Medicinal Store, No. 90, Market Street; and aLo, by J. BRINGHLRS1. 97—lv Oct lti, 1827. NOTICE. i VF.ÜY trusty Colored Girl, 18 years old, who to i\ de, -stand»cooking, and all kinds of liouse-woik,to be disposed of, for 12 years, to some respectable family, in this State. Inquire at this Office. Sept. 14, 1827, 88—if ■it;en for D.l U id at this Office. f\t sis SHERIFF'S HALF. B Y virtue of a writ of Levari Facias, to me directed, will lie exposed to public side, at the house of Peter Hendrickson, (Buck Tavern,) in Chrisiiana hundred, on Wednesday the sixieci th of January next, at two o'clock, P M., all that tract or parcel of land, situate in Christiana hundred, butinded by lauds of K. I Dupont Sr Company, McLutie, Miligan and others; whereon is erected a cotton faemry of stone, and the necessary buildings to accommo date the hands ; containing ten acres, more or less, with a water rip lit to cover half an acre of ground for the bene fit of the factory. Also, three quartets of an acre ot land adjoining the above ien acres, and particularly described as follows, (to wit :) Beginning at an iron pin in a roca by Squirrel creek, a corner now or late of E. I Dupont Sc co., thence thereby toastone corner of Alfred Do Pont»' land, thence tlieieby tu a stone, thence to a atone in William Dun nan's line, thence therewith crossing said creek to a stone. thei.ee by other land now of,Samuel Love,to the middle of the creek in the direction of side of the creek, thence down the creek the several cour ses thereof, to the place of beginning, containing nine acres and one hundred and twenty-four perches, being the same 'tact and premises conveyed by Samuel Love and M Love his wife, by Indenture bearing date the nineteenth dav of July, A. 1) 1S23 to John D. Carter:—Together with all und singular the houses, buildings, barns, stables, gardens, orchard, improvements, ways, woods, waters, wa ter courses, tights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances, whatsoever, thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining. Seized and taken in execution as the properly of John D. Carter , and to he sold by WILLIAM IIEKDMAN, Sh'ff 19—6'p a a : ; j , I I j ' i asli tree, by the north east Newcastle, T)t*c.29tli, 1827. THE DYING BLIND-BOY TO HIS MOTUEtt. ('From the World. J Mother, I am dying now, Death's cold damps are on my brow ! Leave me not—each panir grows stronger, Patient watch a little longer. Sweet it is your voice to hear, Though dull and heavy grows mine ear ; Wait and take my last adieu, Never Mother loved like you I Though vont form I ne'er might see, Your image was not hid from me— Slam- M on my adoring mind, Beautiful but ondefiuM ; Ever fair and ever bright, 1 hat vision fill'd me with delight. Well I knew whate'er might be, Those oft-prais'd forms I could not see* Might I all their beauty view, None of them would rival you.* Life to me was sweet and dear, While I liv'd the tales to hear, Told hy you oh wintry hearth. All to make your blind-boy mirth And 1 lov'd my voice to join Tu chorus of those hymns divine, By which you fondly taught your boy „ To look to Heaven with hope and joy Sun or moon I could not see, But love measured time for me, When your kiss my »lumber broke, Then I knew the morn had woke * And when came the hour to pray, Then I knew 'twas close «»f day. When I heard the loud winds blow, And I felt the warm fire glow, Theo I kne * 'twas winter wild, And kep* at home—your helpless child 1 When the air grew mild and soft, A- d die gay lark sang aloft ; And I heard the streamlet flowing. And I smelt the wild flow'r blowing And tin* bee did round me hum. The" 1 knew the spring was come. Furth I wander'd with delight. And I knew when days were bright When I climbM the green hill's side Fancy traced the prospect wide ; And 'twas pleasant when I press'd '1'he warm and downy turf, to rest-** Now, I never more shall roam The many paths around my home And you will often look in vain, Nor hail your wanderer e'er again , Never more on tiptoe creep. Where he lay as if asleep, Or with low and plaintive moan. Humming to himself alone, On a bed of w ild flowers stretch'd. Starting when a ki^s you snatch'd. Till nature whisper'd 'twas my mothc:, And affection gave another! But 'tis sweeter thus to die # With my tender mother by, Than to be in life alone. When she and every friend were gout Mourn not o'er me broken hearted:. Not for long shall we be parted , Soon in vales uhich ever bloom, Which unfading flow'rs perfume. In realms of life, of light, and joy, You will meet your poor blind boy I * It bus been related of some, w ho were recovered from early blindness, that they evidently expected to find those w hom affection and kindness had endeared to them, the most beautiful to the eye. I ! ■ N. From the National Intelligencer. UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION—No. IT. Fact and experience arc, in all cases, the safest guides. Let us, then, examine what has been dune in States which have labored under the evil of slavery, and have adopted measures for allevi ating or removing it altogether; premising that there is an immense difference between the mca tliat would be safe and proper in a State in hu res which the free People are six, ten, twenty, or one hundred to one of the slaves, and those which uld be proper in States in which the latter are equal, or nearly equal, to the former. Before, in the new-born zeal on this subject, we sentence uf condemnation on our South u pronounce n brethren for not adopting measures for an im mediate emancipation, let us " take the beam out of our own eyes," and then we " shall see clearly to cast the mote out of our brother's eye." In the year 1790, the numbers of free whites and slaves, in the Middle and Eastern States, were as follow: e Free White*. 141 077 64.470 232,. 74 85 298 424 099 Staves. 158 N< vv Hampshire Hiiode Island i. cticut Vet mont I'ennsylvania 918 2,764 C-i 16 3 733 7.619 947,31» In these five States, the proportion of slaves to the free inhabitants \vas only as oue to 124. 1 Of course, whether the former were to be emancipat ed by law, without the consent of the owners, paid for by the States, there could be neither dau ber nor an oppressive burden in the operation. Free Whites. 314.154 163,954 46,310 530„4Q9 or of as I to to I Slaves. 21,321 31 423 8,887 New York New Jersey Delaware 41,031 fn theäe three States, the proportion was as 1 to 12 . The first anti most obvious reflection that arises from these views of the subject, is, that, if the same holy zeal in favor of the oppressed Africans, that prevails among many of the citizens of what are now called, by way of distinction, the non-slave holding States, hail existed in 1790, it might have been indulged without any of those consequences which could not possibly be avoided in the event of universal emancipation in the Stales, where the slaves are in the proportion of two to three; three to seven ; or twelve to eleven of the whites, as is the case in South Cartdina. It is, therefore, fair to say, that, whatever censure attaches to Virginia, or North and South Carolina, for not proceeding immediately in the liberal plan of emancipating their slaves, who are as two to three, the censure of Pennsylvania, where they were, in 1790, only as 1 to 113, or of New Hampshire, where they were only as 1 to 880, was incomparably greater. Slavery never made much progress in Pennsyl vania. The total number was probably never inure than 4 or 5000. In March, 1780, during the hor rors of a raging warfare, this State passeil a memo rable act, which reflects the highest honor on her humanity and her prudence. By this act, it was declared that, after the passing of the same, no per »on born in this State, whatever might be the con dition of the parents, should be a slave; that the children of slaves, born after that time, should be servants to the owners of their mothers, until lin age of 28. By a clause in this law, all the slaves in the State were ordered to be registered in the pro per office, before the following November, ami in case of failure, they were declared to be free Pennsylvania did not then, nor since, emancipate a single slave by law. And even those born after the date of the act, were, as we have seen, subject to a long ami tedious servitude, which was a sort of temporary slavery. It is probable that this State is not even at this hour free from the stain of sla tvery. At the date of the last census, there re mained 211 slaves, some of whom, very likely, are still living. It therefore ill becomes Pennsylvania to reproach her sister Stales with the existence of an evil of which the cure is almost hopeless, when a similar evil hail so long existed within her own borders, susceptible of an easy cure. An addi tional reason why the citizens of the Middle and Eastern States stiould not be so strongly vitupera tive of those of the Southern States, may be found in the strung fact, that much of the evils of slavery have been entailed on the latter States, by the slave-traders of the former. In four years, from 1804 to 1807, inclusive, no less than fifty-nine : slave ships, belonging to Rhode Island, and con itaining 7,958 slaves, entered the port of Charles iton. The trade in slaves was then carried on in ; Rhode Island, and as vigorously and ardently as at j present is the trade in cotton yarn anil calicoes.* In New jersey the decrease of slavery lias been , very slow aud gradual. The numbers actually in I creased between the fit at aud second census. They I were as follow : 1790, 1800 , 1810, 1820, j In New Yoik, by a îavv enacted in 1817, and ' which came into operation July 4, 1827, the whole of the Slaves were emancipated. The decrease i before that period was very slow. 1790, 1800 , 1810, 1820, In New Hampshire slavery existed in 1790, when there were 151 slaves—anil in 1800, when they were reduced to 8. Slavery was extinguished be tween 1800 and 1810. To this time it exists in Delaware, and very pro bably ill Connecticut and Rhode-Island. The num bers in these States, at the dates of the dillereut periods, of taking the census, were : 1790 1800 1810 1820 ll.423 Slaves. 12,422 do. - 10 851 do. 7,5u7 do. I ! ■ 21,321 Slaves. • 20.613 do. 15,017 do - 10,u8S do. 4177 8887 2704 6153 4509 Delaware, Connecticut, lthode-Isiand, From the above it appears that the number of slaves in Delaware increased nearly ten per cent, between 1810 and 1820. After this imperfect discussion of the subject it remains to consider what is the proper course to be pursued in this unhappy state of things, so as to renncile, as far as possible, the demands of humanity towards the slave, with the secuiit»- and the claims of the masters, and the welfare oi the States interested. Can it answer anv benevol. nt or valuable purpose to render the slaves restless, discontented, unhappy, and ripe for revolt, by an unceasing declamation on the oppression under which they labor ? To make them long after a state, which, in the present situation of affairs, is. at least for a long time, entirely hopeless ? Is tin situation of the free negroes so very enviable, com pared with that of the slaves, as to render it advi sable to incur the risk of convulsion for the eman cipation ol the latter ? Are we to keep the masters in a constant state of feverish anxiety and apprehension." To deter them, however humane, from relaxing the ligoi of the slave code? to sow the seeds of jealousy, and distrust, and hostile feelings, between the dif ferent sections of the Union ? Certainly, these are not the courses to be pursu prudence, policy,common sense, and human 950 310 97 48* 388 103 ed if v, equally forbid. I will \entuie to sketch a plan that appears likely to produce salutary re sults, for master and slave. Let the friends of the slaves, while they freely admit the evils of slavery, place in strong relief before that class the alleviating circumstances in their situation, compared with that of the work ins: part of the population of most of the counties in Europe; that, at the period of life when naturo prompts to enter on the marriage connexion, t. ry need not be deterred from it, by the apprehension of being burdened with the support of children, as prudence would dirtate to half the labouring cla-s throughout the world ;J that they are not haunted by the spectres of poverty and misery in old ago and sickness, which in Europe are constantly pre sent to the view of the woe king people : that they are not liable to softer the pressure of want, by the deficiency of employment : that tiie situation of many of the emancipated slaves has by no means been improved ; in a word, let the cour e pursued hitherto, of which the tendency has been to render them miserable, be wholly changed, and the un ceasing eft'orts of their friends be directed to recon cile them to their lot, but to meliorate that lot as far as possible. On the other hand, what is the course the friends of the slaves ought to pursue with regard to the masters ? They ought to urge them, by alt the claims of humanity and religion, to soften, as lar as practicable with safety, the ligor of the state of slavery; to revise their codes; to expunge from them manv severe clauses, enacted in times of a lartn, a great proportion of which have probably become obsolete, and yet remain as a stigma on the codes in which they are contained ; to attach »laves to the soil, so as to he no longer chattels; to prohibit, above all things, the separation of pa rents and children, and husbands ami wives; and to make provi ion for the gradual abolition of sla very, un some of the plans pursued in the other States. The system proper to be pursued towards the free blacks, would require a separate discussion. I do not, therefore, enter on it for the present. Many of the laws regaiding slaves are liable to the strongest objections, and require an immedi ate and radical alteration whatever order may be taken on the subject of slaves generally, can hear, w ithout horror, that, in the sissippi, there are no less than thirty-eight crimes punished capitally, if perpetrated bv slaves, of which twenty are nut punishable by statute, if per petrated by whites, and the remaining eighteen are only punishable by fine and imprisonment ') And, further, that, in the trial ol a negro in a court of Louisiana, composed of »ix pet soils, if the court be equally divided, the accused party is pronounced guilty ! Various other cases, requir ing immediate reform and alteration, me to be. found in the codes of the other Slates, but none so flagrant or revolting as tie Philadelphia, November 36, 1827. Who Slate of Mis- !f Will, TON. "See speech of Win. Smith, of South Carolina, on the Missouri question j-I.etit nut be supposed that the reduction of the num ber of slaves in he Middle and Eastern States, lias arisen altogether from manumission : That would be a gum error. In many cases slaves have been conveyed fiom tho»n Stines, and sold in the Southern S-afes ;lf passion did not overrule the dicta'es of prudence, not more than one operative in live would mai-rv ui E To most ol them children are a source of distress and poverty. tj\ valuable w ork has recently been publish'd, by C.i orge M. Stroud, Esq., entitled "A ske'cli of the law» rvh.t.u;, to slavery in die several States of the Uni'cd Sta-es of America," which con'ains slalcinentsof Severnies, many ..f ght not to be lolerated for a single day, and which are totally unnecessary for the security of die person or properly of the master. 1 Ids work is earnestly rec-.in. mended to the dispassionate consideration of sljru owners generally. _ ■'i' Which The London John Bull gives the fl llo-.ving specimen of French English, brought by a gentleman just returned from the continent. Mr. Delcroix, who is uuiversadv allowed tv he a man of good scents, lives in Bund street, London, an.I his agent in Pari*translates his French advertisement ini.* English for the bentlit of his English customers. ••PALM SOAP, Manufactured and sold hy J. D . leroi r. Parfumer to Family, London. "The Palm Soup is compounded and prepared with oil taker! out of almond» of the palm-fruit (dlis tree original ofGuinec-rib and Green cap-island, transplanted in Baibad » Islands;) this oil softening. III Jamaïque and many Wesie strengthening, and preserving the skin uf aident neat the sent, particularly is into the highest estimation among astatic nation. " Inhabiting» the north climes make use of it to the end that remove the chilblains and chops. " The Palm Snap has the agreeable fmgrance of yellow clove-tree, that im lease its incomparable quality : delicate composition of this Soup can to alter and same whiten his color, but lie conserve yet ils qualifie i Iris article of the toi let is of use again for shaving; and he is knew by its ef fects the best european Snap. " He is sold much with MM. Parfumera, London. - It clmuld be in» if no signed wbh ins name « Depot fur Soaps at Brothers Delcroix, Parfümen», over against the Square, No. 2oî, L " Ma- also be had made by same Poo atuins of variores qualities " f Mticeil nun« of Hiif> S« up's YVil l>e genu.. .1 DK.I. CHOIX. ■ze. l beral «■ e do not Whether this may be called literal nietend to snv—as a genuine murcc-ait it is urn quailed. Pen. Gas. The British army in India consists nt ptcsc'it o: 300 00') men—ot whirl. 2ÜU.0U0 are mmtly native iroups In v. tile East India Gum.taii', and c< minamUd bv It J.t-O'l are King's tr .r-inoition between the luriuiraii.l the iatt to one. 'gu'g ,1. Il.li Il.e licers— the reman >|>K, * is ont) tu eh e .- who leaves this who bailil» liis »e Tlierc are three v. i»e men : orld before it leaves him : lie pulthre before bis de l'reator before entering I'is pi e Endeavor to need nobody,and thou wilt be equal to any body. Examine the inside and outside of all business. h ; and l-e who pleases liis elite. The truth wiiiuh injures ij better than !he lit which please».