ter, and Strander Goff, each $20, Judge James Simpson, and R. C. Clark, Esq., each $10, Dr, Thomas M. Taylor, $5, A. M. Preston, $4. L. Hampton, $1. 110 00 Jessamine Co.-Daniel B. Price, $20, Ellis Corn, and Thos. E. Wirt, ea. $10, John Butler, and William Clark, each $5... Shelby Co-Joseph L. Fore, $10, Miss Anna Allen, $5, Gilbert Jarvis, $2....... INDIANA. Princeton-Mrs. Jane Kell, (of which $30 is to constitute her a L. M.)... 50 00 17.00 403 50 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington-H. L. Ellsworth, 12 50 Total Contributions........$1,759 85 FOR REPOSITORY. VERMONT-Norwich-E. Spear, and J. Burnam, $1 50 each. Thetford Port Mills-E. Bartholomew, $150. Newbury-F. Keys, D. Johnson, each $1 50. Wells River-E. Hale, $1 50. St. Johnsbury Centre-J. Bacon, 75 cents. Wethersfield-J. W. Colburn, $150, O. M. Whipple, 75 cents. Windham--Wm. Harris, jr., 75 cents. West Townsend-Hon. C. Thelps, $150. Townsend-W. B. Bunnell, $1 50. Bellows FallsWm. Henry, Green, and Fieming, and A. Wentworth, each $1 50, Putney I. Grout, $1 50. Dummerstown-Asa Boyden, $1.50. Brattleboro-C. H. Cune, $150.... NEW HAMPSHIRE.-Pelham- Mrs.H.G.L.Richardson, to date, MASSACHUSETTS.-Unionville---Rev. Joseph Havens, jr., $2, Dea. C. Shepard, Dr. J. C. Harris, Calvin Dyer, each $1.50. South Brookfield--O. Kimball, Sumner Bartlett, Henry D. Fales, each $1 59. Worthington-Col. Wm. Ward, $2. NEW YORK.-Rev. J. H. Eaton, on account of collections made by him, $75.................. GEORGIA. Columbus--Dr KENTUCKY.-Louisville-Robert Jarvis, to Dec., 1845, $4 50, T. Anderson, to Dec., 1845, $3. Lexington-M.T. Scott, to Dec., 1844, $3, H. J. Bodley, to Dec., 1845, $3. Frankfort-J. Swigert, to Dec., 1845, $11. Harrodsburg-Mrs. S. S. Thompson, to Dec., 1844, $10. Helena-Dan'l Fitzgerald, to Dec., 1844, $11 50..... INDIANA.-Princeton-I. Montgomery, to date. Total Repository..... 46 00 7 00 182 75 100 00 By the REV. J. B. PINNEY on his southern tour, in addition to those before acknowledged, and not including a large amount of subscriptions payable at a future day: Louisville-Ky.-J. C Coleman, $5. Memphis-Tenn.-A. Porter and G. Farkinson, each $10, Miss Boyd, C. A. Leath, and L. Banks, $5 each, J. Test and Rev. Mr. McNutt, each $I. Natchez-Miss.--A. Fisk, Esq., Alex. C. and Thos. Henderson, Esqrs., L. R. Marshall, Esq., each $100, Miss Margaret Overaker, per Thos. Henderson, $300, collection in the M. E. church, $57 11, E. B. Fuller, $20, Mrs. Dr. E. Taylor, A. H. Barrow, Esq., H. Tooley, Esq., cash, cash, cach $5, cash, $2, A. W. McGowan, $10, G. W. Dougherty, $5. Port Gibson-Win. Young, Esq., $100. New Orleans--La.--J. S. Peters, Esq., $100, Recorder Baldwin, $5, Mr. Sloo, $10, A. Hennen, Esq., $25. Mobile-Ala.-H. B. Gwathney, Esq., $100, Dr. J. A. Tait, $20, collection in the steamboat Dallas, Capt. Adams, on the Alabama river, after an address, $17. Columbus-Geo.-John Allen, $20, Pond and Wilcox, C. B. Inslee, Ives and Brother, A. G. Reed, J. C. Cook and James Johnson, each $5. Charleston-S. C.— James Adger, Esq., $100. Georgetown S. C.-per Rev. S. Proctor Taylor, from four persons, $20.... .....1,302 11 From the sale of camwood.. 25 23 7.00 13 00 75.00 A. 4.00 Pond, $1 50, James Johnson, $1, Dr. A. M. Watson, $1 50. ALABAMA.-Mobile--John Hunt, $1 50, A. F. Edwards, $1 50, and James Dodridge, $1 50... LOUISIANA.-New Orleans-Mrs. Theresa Canon, $1 50, A. B. Noble, $1 50.. 469 48 .1,759 85 .182 75 $3,714 19 Late Intelligence from Liberia. By a late arrival at New York we received one letter and one newspaper from a private citizen in Liberia, dated the 15th March.* This is some two months later than any thing previously received. But we are unable to imagine the reason why we did not receive despatches from Governor Roberts, and other correspondents who are accustomed to embrace every opportunity of sending letters to us, As soon as the Liberia Packet commences running, which we presume will be next fall, we shall be certain of regular communication with Liberia at least twice a year. From the letter and paper above alluded to, we gather the following facts: siana will be glad to hear of this, as it gives their settlement all the territory that is desired, and insures the settlement against the many interruptions to which it has been subject heretofore. The health of the colonists was generally good. There had been considerable sickness on board the U. S. man-of-war "Preble,”—the last intelligence giving seventeen as her loss by death, and seventy still on the sick list. The commissioners appointed by the Governor to settle some disputes between the various chiefs and head men of the Little Bassa country, and to negotiate with them for the purchase of their whole territory, had returned to Monrovia, having fully succeeded in carrying out their in Governor Roberts had returned from his visit to the leeward settle-structions. We have here another ments, where he found things generally in a prosperous condition. While at Sinou he completed the purchase of the whole Sinou country. Our friends in Mississippi and Loui undeniable proof of the powerful and happy influence which the "Liberian settlers" have gained over the native tribes. But for this influence, a most bloody and exterminating * For still later intelligence sce on page 214, which has been received since the above was in type. war would have raged among those || by toilsome efforts in resisting oppokindred tribes. But now they are sing circumstances, and by bold and all at peace;—their troubles and dif- daring energy in seizing upon the ficulties are at an end; and their elements of life and power, that they whole territory is now put under the can ever command distinction and government of the commonwealth of acquire everlasting fame: Liberia, having been purchased at a fair price. Our friends will thus see that we are pushing ahead the purchase of the territory as fast as possible, although we are yet without the means of paying for it. Will they not be thus stimulated to make up "that $15,000" without delay ? Most of what is already pledged, remains totally unavailable to us, for the want of a few more names being added to the list! We do not find any intelligence of the purchase of New Cesters; and from the entire silence on the subject, we fear that Governor Roberts was unsuccessful in his endeavors there. Still, we do not doubt the possibility of obtaining possession of it, and thus breaking up the slave barracoon established there. The following remarks by the editor of the Liberia Herald, under the head of "OUR AFFAIRS," show that they understand the great fact, that the road to dignity and honor, and high national character, is open before them, and that by their own efforts they must push their way upward that they never can be made great by others that it is only : "OUR AFFAIRS." "Our last letters from America present us with encouraging prospects in regard to African Colonization. Colonization apattention than was given to it the three or pears to be attracting somewhat more of four years last past; and the attention now paid to it is of a more favorable character. Connected with this, however, is a fact of which the people of these colonies should never lose sight: and that fact is, that cautiousness should ever be observed in placing reliance upon a cause which depends for its onward movement upon a foreign popular favor. Such are the fickleness and versatility of the multitude-such their anxiety and burning for something new and striking-that many regard them unworthy and unsafe arbiters of even their own destinies. The object of ardent pursuit tothe morrow. Colonization should not take day, will likely be among the forgotten of these irregular and spasmodic impulses as the prelusive movements of a regular and abiding force, but should regard them as indicating for the time the direction of the public mind, whose most striking characteristic is ceaseless change. Whilst we should of the conceit which would effect to disever close our minds against the entrance dain the sympathy and aid of others, let us remember that to expect to be made a people' solely by the efforts of others, or even to desire it, would prove defacto that we are unworthy of the boon we desire. A name and a place are among Heaven's brightest gifts, and Heaven rarely bestows its benisons upon the enervate and irresolute. While, therefore, we should never be insensible to the efforts of our friends abroad, nor to any indication of a favorable public regard of our cause and condition, but receive with grateful hearts every emotion of sympathy; let us yet recollect the heat and burden of the day are to be borne by us. The "The lesson fraught with the greatest bone and sinew are ours-others can only blessing to us we have yet to learn. advise the direction of their movement. The eager anxiety and the numerous enquiries on the arrival of letters from America, to know what the Society is doing, indicates too truly, we fear, an unworthy and unmanly reliance on the efforts of others; while the great objects to which our friends abroad direct our attention as the certain highway to independence, because they involve in their accomplishment difficulty and labor, are too systematically neglected. "That we have recently made some improvements, and that there have been some development of capacity among us, there can be no doubt; but these have not been commensurate with our opportunities." empire. Escaped from the despotism of the mind, they feel that liberty of soul, which is the parent of greatness, which turns adverse events, the rigor of discipline and the shocks of calamity, to the account of wisdom, and makes nature There are undoubtedly many in in all her forms tributary to its the commonwealth who have very power; that mental liberty which inadequate notions of the immense admits in all their force the influence responsibility which rests upon them, of all the motives which strengthen and of the "exceeding weight of and ennoble our immortal faculties, glory" which awaits them if they give clearness and comprehensiveprove faithful to their trust. They ness to reason, vigor to imagination, are not yet emancipated from that and invincible energy to will:laziness, improvidence, and mental which arm fortitude, elevate hope, bondage which long depression in make courage resistless, and, guardthis country had brought upon them. ing and cherishing the domestic and They have not yet conceived ideas social affections as the seeds of pubof their national redemption; they lic virtue, by ties of patriotism, inhave not yet lifted their eyes to the dissoluble because sacred, bind man orient star which already hangs over to his country, and by the golden the place of their race's coming dis- chain of an all-circumscribing phitinction on earth! But we are hap- lanthropy, link him forever to the py to know that this is not true of They reall the citizens of Liberia. They, mained long enough in this country in some good degree, appreciate the to learn something of the nature of fact that they have been summoned our government and our civil instiby the providence of God, " to hold," tutions, and to become inspired with a laudable ambition "to make Libeas a friend has expressed it, "in rightful possession, the wide, ria to their country what Plymouth nificent, but depopulated, territory and Jamestown have been to this! of their mother country, awe-struck to do for themselves what all the by no superior power, subdued by world can never do for them! to do no mighty competition, restrained for their race what can only be exby no force of prejudice, custom, or pected from their prayers and their law, depressed by no sense of weak-labors! They have gone to Africa ness or of wrong, and in the con- for great purposes, to build up their sciousness of freedom of all human own fortunes, redeem the character power, to build up among barbarians of their people, and thus command the church of God and a republican the respect of the world; to estab mag. destinies of mankind." lish upon her shores civilization and free government; to lift the covering of night from her face, and call forth her ignorant, savage, enslaved children, from the desert where the lion roars, or the wilderness where he slumbers, from clay-built huts, from dens and mountain caves, to a purer, nobler life; to re-kindle the gone-out glories, to rear anew the prostrate, decayed, but giant monuments of her ancient might; to wave the torch of wisdom in the face of superstition and amid the haunts of ruin; to carve their names as benefactors in her eternal rocks, and bring back that quarter of the earth, long lost to science, liberty, humanity, and religion, to the empire of reason and God." They have gone to Africa, not to seek a life of ease in "the castles of indolence;" not merely to better their own individual fortunes and their children's; not merely to alleviate the general sufferings of frail humanity. No They have learned that "The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore." And they have made up their minds to a life of toil, and energy, in laying deep and broad the foundations of republican institutions for their numerous but afflicted race! They know that "by toilsome effort only, do the bold and daring gain the Alpine heights, and the eye that thence sees the sun, hidden to all eyes below, beams as bright with health as honor: " and they are determined to make the efforts adequate to the desired and glorious result! We may with appropriateness apply to their self-sacrifice and determination what was said of the "bounty" of another "There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping." They have shown no marks of discouragement, no disposition to resign the work in despair. And in their past history and present character we have the assurance that they never will! They are pledged to the work, and have no intention of losing the forfeit. They have put the armor on, and cannot be induced to put it off, till "They their work have done Here then is a strong appeal made to us for assistance. We are assured by their very character and present condition, that what we do for them will not be thrown away upon the recklessly indolent, and hopelessly inactive. They have about them bone and musele and sinew; but they are yet in an infant |