4pp., folio, 12 x 18 in. (fully separated at central fold, chipping, creasing, short tears, and some loss at edges, toning and occasional spotting). The issue contains at least two advertisements for self-emancipated freedom seekers as well as advertisements promoting the sale of enslaved individuals. It also includes a page 2 headline and news of Maine becoming a new state in the Union in the compromise of 1820.

RARE: Very early newspaper published in Alabama, which had just achieved statehood in December 1819.