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EXTRAORDINARY MUNIFICENCE.

Captain Russell informs, that there were put on board the Hannah and Elizabeth, eighty-seven colored people of different ages, from three months to forty years, being all the slaves of Mr. Minge owned, except two old men, whom he had likewise manumitted, but who being past service, he retains and supports them.
4. The value of these negroes, at the prices now going, might be estimated at about twenty-six thousand dollars! and Mr. Minge expended, previous to their embarkation, about twelve hundred dollars in purchasing ploughs, hoes, iron, and other articles of husbandry for them; besides providing them with several suits of clothes to each; provisions, groceries, cooking utensils; and every thing which he supposed they might require for their comfort during the passage, and for their use after their arrival out.  He also paid sixteen hundred dollars for the charter of the vessel.
5. But Mr. Minge's munificence does not end here.  On the bank of the river, as they were about to go on board, he had a peck of dollars brought down, and calling them around him, under a tree, he distributed the hoard among them, in such sums, and under such regulations, that each individual did, or would, receive seven dollars.
6. By this provision, Mr. Minge thought his emigrants would e enabled to commence the cultivation of the soil immediately after their arrival, without being dependent on President Boyer for any favor whatever, unless the permission to improve the government lands be so considered.
7. Mr. Minge is about twenty-four or twenty-five years of age, unmarried, and unincumbered in every respect; possesses an ample fortune, and has received the benefits of a collegiate education at Harvard University.  He assigned no other motive for having freed his slaves, and for his subsequent acts of generosity toward them, than that he conceived it would be doing a service to his country to send them out of it; that they had been good servants, but that he was rich enough without them.
8. We have heard of splendid sacrifices at the shrine of philanthropy; aged men, on quitting the stage of mortal existence, have bequeathed large endowments to public charities, and princely legacies to religious and moral institutions.  But where shall we find an instance of the kind attributable to a man of Mr. Minge's age?  The case we believe is without a parallel.
9. In addition to the fact of the emancipation of eighty slaves, by Mr. Minge, of Virginia, the Richmond Whig of Friday last, says, that two instances of the triumph of philanthropy and patriotism, over the sordid selfishness of our nature, can be recited, equally meritorious and splendid as that act of distinguished munificence.
10. The Rev. Fletcher Andrew, an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, received

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