have been paid for by the Government when she has been employed to watch the coast against slavers, or to take troops to points where they were needed to settle the strifes of native tribes. "On her first arrival, some difficulty was experienced in securing sufficient fuel; but a little time and effort soon remedied this difficulty, and at the date of our latest advices, she was giving her owners and the public satisfaction. "The assistant engineer, Horace Hawley, (colored,) at the expiration of his contract for six months' service, returned to the United States in the bark Mendi. He was so much pleased with Africa as to be at this time in negotiation to go to Lagos in the employ of English capitalists. "The chief engineer, Andrew Ryers, (colored,) contracted to remain a year, and was faithfully fulfilling his contract when last heard from. As he may desire to return, the owners of the steamer have taken with them in the bark Edward a highly recommended engineer, George Brown, under a contract for service for one year after his arrival in Liberia. It is gratifying to know that among our free colored population, at this first call for engineers in Liberia, three men so competent and of such sober habits have been found willing to offer their services." Emigrants.-At our last anniversary meeting, notice was taken of the then recent departure of the Mendi from this port, with eight emigrants, and the Colonization packet ship M. C. Stevens from southern ports, with two hundred and twenty-eight. "In the month of August, Mr. Vonbebber, recommended as a Methodist preacher in good standing, was aided to a support after his arrival, he finding employment as a nurse of the recaptured Africans, in one of the vessels chartered by the American Colonization Society, for the purpose of taking them from Key West to Liberia." "The firm of Johnson, Turpin & Dunbar, Liberian merchants, having chartered the bark Edwin, to sail from this port April, 1861, the New York State Colonization Society provided for the passage of seven emigrants, all of them of this city and Williamsburgh. "Peter W. Downing, one of these, accompanied by his wife, broke away from many obstacles, and if his life is spared may be the pioneer of others, who like him sigh for a better field for self-elevation than is offered to them in the United States. He will have many desires for his success. "There has, it thus appears, been a smaller emigration in 1860 than for many previous years. This is due mainly to the peculiar political condition of the nation. It has in a measure, however, resulted from the sickness and death of some prominent emigrants, and from the fear of danger arising from the landing in Liberia of nearly 4,000 barbarous recaptured Africans. So great an element of ignorance and heathen vice excited apprehension of danger, and easily destroyed thoughts of emigration not firmly rooted. Perhaps another hindrance of emigration to Liberia arose from the diversion to Hayti. President Geffrard has, with liberality and energy, sought to benefit his nation by securing immigration to it of the free colored people of the United States; and during the year several hundred have gone there, at first from New Orleans, and subsequently from the North. On the 1st and 2d of this month, the British brig Madeira, and schr. Usher, sailed from New Haven with one hundred and sixty passengers. While emigration has been small, the disposition to emigrate. has been more generally manifested than ever before. Nor can we doubt that one result of our present political convulsions will be a rapid increase of this disposition for the future. The good to Africa, by communities like Liberia, and the mitigation of evils in our own land, so strongly recommend our scheme that eventually it must obtain universal favor, and passing from the feeble condition of a mere voluntary benevolence, become an acknowledged instrument to accomplish great governmental policies." We omit what is said of the Recaptured Africans, since the subject is given at large in the Report of the Parent Society. "Education.-The Board have continued to support, in a course of education, a number of children in the Liberia schools. They have also aided one of their former Liberia scholars to complete a regular course of law studies in the office of Messrs. Rice & Nelson, at Worcester, Massachusetts, from whom he received a certificate highly eulogistic of thoroughness and competency in his profession. The young man referred to, William M. Davis, has lately returned to Liberia in the bark Edward, and we confidently hope, that, like other beneficiaries of the Bloomfield Education Fund, he will justify the wisdom and goodness which provided such a source of perpetual use fulness to Africa." "The College. It is understood that all hindrances to the progress of the Liberia College building have been removed, and that every effort would be made to complete it during the dry season, ending in April, 1861. "By the final decision of the Court of Appeals, the liberal bequest of $50,000, intended by our former President, Anson G. Phelps, sr., to aid in the endowment of this Liberia College, has been declared invalid, because no definite time was limited in which the $100,000 was to be secured, and no permanent trustees named to receive the bequest and administer it. It is most gratifying to believe that the noble intentions of the will, thus defeated for lack of technical precision, will be held sacred by his children, and that if the College progresses, and secures the proposed endowment, his liberal intentions will be realized by the institution. "Let this hope, and the prospect of a speedy commencement of the College classes, animate all who value education to co-operate in completing the endowment. "As intimately related to this subject, it may be allowed us to refer to the actual receipt by a benevolent association in this city of over $150,000, from the estate of a former friend of Colonization, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mr. Avery, for the purpose of education in Africa." "The progress of agricultural operations has been encouraging. This Society, having in previous years aided Mr. Jesse Sharp and Judge More to obtain small sugar-mills, by advancing the money for a limited time, have been gratified by their attention to meet its just claims. Honorable mention may especially be made of Mr. Sharp, from whom they have received, in three consignments from his little farm, over seventy barrels of syrup, to be sold, and avails applied to pay for his mill. Samples of cotton have been sent to us from Messurado and Bassa Counties, which are pronounced by brokers equal to New Orleans good middling, and worth, in Liverpool, 14 cents per pound. "The great demand for cotton, and the higher prices which our national troubles will cause, may develope in Liberia, as well as other portions of Africa, increased attention to its culture, and thus a new source of wealth be developed." "Commerce. The exports of Liberia have been rapidly increasing for two or three years past. The tendency is to Europe instead of America, as offering a better market and more honorable intercourse. It is repelled from the United States by the refusal of our Government to recognize them as a nation, and by the burden laid by our laws their ships." * It is hoped that the time is near by when the cause of such legislation will be removed, and the United States will extend to the colored people, who, at her own invitation, have set up a government on the barbarous shore of Africa, a friendly recognition and commercial treaty." upon * "Missions in Africa. The year has been one of more than usual progress, and revivals of religion have occurred in several churches in Liberia, and conversions more than usually interesting from among the natives have occurred at Corisco, Gaboon, and Port Natal. The mission which went out a year ago to the Makololo from the Cape of Good Hope, met with disastrous loss, and but one or two of a large company survived to return. The African climate at first was charged with this great mortality, but it is now feared, and by many believed, that the missionaries were poisoned, that the chief might secure their property. Dr. Livingstone, who arrived with his Makololo soon after these disasters, will doubtless learn and report the truth in this case. Such trials of our faith and courage are not infrequent in this great work, and will serve only to increased prudence in subsequent efforts." "Mortality.-Co-laborers, whose time and talents have been zealously devoted to the Colonization work, have finished up their work during the past year, both in Africa and our own country. In Liberia, the deaths of George L. Seymour, Anthony D. Williams, and John Hanson, have been felt as a heavy public loss. Their lives of Christian integrity have reflected honor upon the Republic and on their race; and as they were highly honored in their lives, they were deeply mourned at their death. In the United States, the names of Joseph Gales, sr., of Washington City; Rev. Robert S. Finley, formerly of New Jersey; Rev. Hugh McMillan, of Xenia, Ohio, are on the list of departed friends, from whom a life-long support had been received by this Society. All of these died bearing testimony to their confidence in the value of their enterprise. "Admonished by their departure, we continue their labors with renewed diligence, till the same voice shall bid us rest." ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COLONIZATION SOCIETY. This meeting was held on the 30th ult., in the Winter Street Church, Boston; WM, ROPES, Esq., President, (in the chair,) made a brief and encouraging address. The Rev. JOSEPH TRACY, D. D., read a brief abstract of the Annual Report. The Rev. ALEXANDER CRUMMELL, who has been an Episcopal minister in Liberia, made an eloquent address. He said, among other things: "Millions of that race were waiting for enlightenment here and in Africa. For 1800 years the Christian religion had been spreading everywhere, but Africa had remained under the mysterious spell of paganism. The efforts for her recovery, for raising her unto the full light of civilization, were strengthening now, however. Among the agencies to this end none were more effective than the colony of Liberia. Ten "In the colony of Liberia, as in any other colony, the foundations of empire were laid in doubt. Slavers would come into Monrovia and overawe the few and simple people; emigrants were decimated by fever; wars by the neighboring governments were incited by slavers and all was doubt. Now that has passed, men are investing their means in agriculture, in manufactures, in commerce. years has made a great change, and there are important staples which then were unknown. There are half a million coffee trees in the colony, and the coffee trade of Bassa will become very important. 1853 no sugar was manufactured, and now for 18 miles on one river are plantations of sugar cane, and some farmers have their own coopers to make sugar barrels. One farmer made last year 55,000 pounds. In "Cotton is cultivated extensively in the interior, and manufactured by the natives into pieces of three feet wide by six long. Probably from 50,000 to 100,000 of these are exported every year, equal to half a million pounds of cotton, much of which is exported to Brazil. The English are rapidly opening up a trade in raw cotton, by making these cloths themselves and exchanging them for cotton at Monrovia. Many farmers will this year increase the land they have under culti vation. The avidity with which the native Africans enter upon trade and barter is singular. Liberian citizens go back into the interior, and by barter get gold, ivory, palm oil, &c. The exports of Liberia were something like $400,000 last year-far more than the imports. The trading qualities of the people may be seen in the fact, that although there are but 15,000 emigrants there, some 20 or 30 vessels are owned by them. "The native tribes for two centuries have made war on each other, and now many tribes have come under the government and received its protection, and consented to be taxed therefor. Those who become civilized are admitted to the franchise. Domestic slavery is extensively carried on in Africa, and numbers of the slaves escape to Liberia, and President Benson has given the foreign tribes to know that wherever the Liberian flag floats every man is free. For one hundred and fifty miles from the coast, American civilized habits are coming more and more into use. "The English language is the language there. Thousands and thousands of native Africans are becoming assimilated to American habits. English and American literature prevails, Shakspeare and Milton, and the Review, and the illustrated papers are read there. In all these results, religion and missionaries have had their share. And now, crowning the heights near Mesurado, is springing up a college, whither the African chiefs will learn to send their children for education, instead of to Scotland or America, where the cold kills many of them. This college is indeed the crowning benefaction of American philanthropy." The Boston Traveller considers Mr. Crummell's address one of the best delivered at the late anniversary meetings in that city. From the New York Colonization Journal. We present some resolutions passed by the Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New York, at their recent meetings. It is most encouraging to have this evidence that this powerful Church cherishes for the Colonization cause increasing regard. The retirement of Rev. V. Buck from the agency of our Society in the Methodist Churches, to assume a pastoral charge, will not, we trust, deprive the Society of an active support from many of their pastors and churches. While, as patriots and philanthropists, all have an interest in the success of Colonization, owing to its large colored membership, the Methodist Church, as a denominational in |
