The Liberator

Manumission of a Beautiful Slave. A young female, of almost classic beauty, about eighteen years old, so nearly white that the tinge of African blood in her veins was scarcely perceptible, and perfect enough in form and feature to have served as a model for a Praxiteles or a Powers, was yesterday manumitted in the Probate Court by a well-known New Orleans merchant. Her countenance was beaming, expressive, intelligent, her dark eye brilliant, melting, and her general appearance quite spirituelle, owing partly to the worm of consumption that was evidently feeding on her cheek. She was elegantly attired, and in point of personal appearance would contrast favorably with most fashionable Fourth-street belles.—Cincinnati Enquirer.