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TO AFRICA:

BY REV. ALEX. CRUMMELL, B. A.,

Of Cape Palmas, Liberia.

Published by Lockwood & Co., Hartford, Conn.

"It is in Africa that this evil must be rooted out-by African hands and African exertions chiefly that it can be destroyed."-MCQUEEN'S VIEW OF NORTHERN CENTRAL AFRICA.

"We may live to behold the nations of Africa engaged in the calm occupations of industry, and in the pursuit of a just and legitimate commerce; we may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their land, which at some happier period, in still later times, may blaze with full lustre, and joining their influence to that of pure Religion, may illuminate and invigorate the most distant extremities of that immense continent."-WM. PITT.

It is evident that a few free men of color, trained by thorough education, and sanctified by Divine Grace for their work, may, on the shores of Africa, work out most effectually the moral and intellectual renovation of their race. A Republican Government founded and well administered there under their authority, cannot fail to send its quickening and reviving influence to the centre of Africa, and to elevate the people it represents in the judgment of mankind. It will attract to itself the respectable and thoughtful free men of color from many States and Nations, and inspire them with heroic desires, and unveil to them the widest and noblest prospects. It will not only enlighten and bless Africa with civilization and Christianity, but reward its American Benefactors with the stores and treasures of its industry and commerce.

which no one seems to object to, viz: preparing some of their number as Missionaries and Teachers in Africa, and as Ministers of the Gospel in this country.

There have been fifteen pupils connected with the Institution within the past year, coming from six States of the Union, and some of them lately liberated from slavery, all promising young men. Two have been sent from Liberia, no doubt influenced by the three Missionaries already in Africa, graduates of the Institution.

Since November 1, another professor has been associated with Rev. J. P. Carter, the principal, viz: Rev. J. W. Martin, D. D., whose abilities and scholarship, as well as success as a teacher, promises good results.

The trustees find much difficulty in securing funds for the payment of salaries of teachers and the support of the boarding house for the pupils, the necessities of the class requiring that they both be gratuitous. There has been received the income of $2.000 given through Mrs. Miller, of Princeton, and also $1,000 by Mr. Guy, of Ohio. Various Churches and individuals contribute to the support of particular pupils. The library has received a valuable addition by the will of the late Rev. Dr. Neill.

Many are making application for admittance, whom our funds do not allow us to receive, and were the way open, a large number of those already preaching to colored Congregations would gladly spend a session or two in the Institution, the benefit of which, to the people who sit under their Ministry, could scarcely be estimated.-Colonization Herald.

KELLY LOW, OF AUGUSTA.

The Augusta, (Ga.,) papers announced some days ago, the decease of Kelly Low, a pious, venerable, and intelligent colored Clergyman of the Baptist Church, in that city. What Andrew Marshall was to Savannah, Kelly Low was to Augusta. We copy the following account of his funeral:

Circumstances beyond our control have precluded an earlier notice of the death of Kelly Low, colored Pastor of Springfield Baptist Church. This event, so deeply regretted by all classes and conditions of persons in our community, took place on the 3d instant, at his residence in this city. In 1835 he was ordained a Minister of the Gospel, and from that time to his death, he has been constant, zealous and efficient in his labors.

His funeral on Sunday afternoon was very largely attended by both black and white. The number of the latter in procession has been estimated from 1,000 to 1,500, and the number in attendance at the grave, in the Church yard, was not less than 4,000 persons. We forbear any comments of our own upon the character of the de

ceased, and give place to the following tribute from his former owner, one of our most intelligent and prominent citizens. It reflects the sentiments of our entire community:

"From my own knowledge of Kelly Low, I can truly say that he was no ordinary man in intelligence, and in all that constitutes an honest, truthful, and reliable man. He was raised in my family from early boyhood, and was my property for over twenty-five years, and I knew him to have been as near a perfect man as any I have ever known of any color. Indeed, I have always viewed him to be without a spot or blemish in character and disposition, beginning even in his youth, and continuing up to the day of his death."-Colonization Herald.

REV. S. J. MATTHEWS.

The subjoined obituary of this popular member of the Liberia Methodist Conference is furnished by the Rev. J. W. Horne:

I was deeply affected by a notice of the death of the Rev. S. J. Matthews, of the Liberia Conference. I knew Brother Matthews intimately. For a couple of years, in Monrovia, our homes were within a few minutes' walk of each other. Many a time have I preached for him; many a time met him at the prayer-meeting; many a time have our hearts burned within us while we talked together of the work of God in Africa; but never did it enter my mind that Brother Matthews, so full of health and sound of constitution, could possibly be called to his rest and reward before I should be, who, while in Liberia, was so often sick and feeble. "But God's ways are not our ways, neither his thoughts our thoughts."

I always regarded Brother Matthews as one of the most promising of the young Ministers of Liberia. He was born in the colony, and had never been beyond the bounds of the Republic; but so had he improved the opportunities of our Mission and of the country as, by the help of God, to have made himself an able and acceptable Minister of Jesus Christ. He was pious, devoted, exemplary, conscientious-a firm but judicious disciplinarian-and had the confidence of the membership and Ministers of his own and other denominations. In proof of this I may mention that for five or six years he had held continuously, though only a young man of thirty-five or six years, the most important charge in our mission--that of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, and for the last year or two had been besides presiding Elder of the district.

INTELLIGENCE.

A venerable friend in New York, expresses the wish that in our notice of the "Mendi," in last number, we had added from Monrovia, arrived at New York, January 18." He also favors us with the following notice of the Rev. George L. Seymour:

"Rev. George L. Seymour emigrated from Hartford, Connecticut, with his family about 1838, and settled at Bassa. In July, 1857, he mainly founded the settlement of Paynesville, on the Junk river, Pessa country, over 80 miles northeast of Monrovia. In July, 1858, he went on an exploring journey to the Kong Mountains, two or three hundred miles behind Liberia. On his return in the following autumn his journal was published in the Liberia Herald, which was republished in several publications in this country.

"He died at his house in Paynesville, September, 1860, from sickness caused by a severe cut in his left, hand, from a cutlass from some nativés, in a clandestine attack upon him in the Kong Mountains, the 30th August, 1858. He made his escape and got back to the town he had left and received the protection of the King, but he never wholly recovered from the effects of the wound. The death of such a man as Mr. Seymour, of courage, energy, talent, and piety, is a great loss to a new country. May others be found to replace him."

CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.

The Espoir, a screw, Commander S. Douglas, succeeded in capturing a valuable prize on the 4th of December last. The Espoir was on her way to Ascension under canvas, and had arrived within 200 miles of the island, but being rather to leeward steam was got up to get her into the anchorage.

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At 3.20 p. m., the Espoir was up with the chase and captured her. proved to be the bark Clara Windsor, of New York, without colors or papers, 260 tons burden, 727 slaves stated by her crew to be on board. The Espoir kept on under steam, but her engine broke down the same night, and it was consequently a week before she reached the island.

The prize arrived two days afterwards, short of water, and with twenty deaths among her cargo. This latter must be regarded as a small average, when it is considered that the slave deck of the ship on which these 720 human beings had been packed, was only four feet in height! The prize was supplied with water and sent on from Ascension to Sierra Leone for adjudication. Slaves at Cuba were stated to be fetching six hundred dollars each, therefore the Clara Windsor's freight represented a market value of £86,400.

The cost of the "article" was $60 each, or £8,000. £5 10s per head is allowed for each slave captured by our cruisers and delivered alive, and half that sum for each slave who may die after the capture of the vessel.

The proceeds of the sale of the vessel's stores and outfit are reckoned in the present instance to cover the expenses, leaving the sum allowed for the hull to be added to the spoil to be shared by the lucky captors.-English Paper.

AFRICA.

The latest date is November 27. Bishop Burns informs us of the continued improvement of his health; the same in relation to Rev. M. M. Clark, whose wife returned in the "Mendi" last week, with a purpose to gather up her children in this country, and take them with her upon early return. Brother Burns also gives account of the improved health of Rev. James Thompson, who had been on a visit to Cape Mount to supply the lack of service caused by the death of Rev. Brother Williams.

Bishop Burns further writes that their work, both among the civilized and heathen, increases in interest and promise: "We have laid the corner-stone of