this country indebted for its organization, peace and prosperity; than Mr. Ralston, the Charitable Institutions of the age had no firmer or more generous friend; both were friends and benefactors of this Society, and in expressing their sense of the loss which humanity and religion have sustained by their death, the Managers but respond to the voice of widespread bereavement and general public regret.

In submitting to the Society a concise statement of their proceedings during the year, the Managers commence with an account of expeditions.

EXPEDITIONS.

The Brig Luna, Capt. Bears, having on board eighty emigrants and two recaptured African children, under the care of the U. States Government, with liberal supplies of provisions, agricultural implements and trade goods, sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, on the 3d of March, and completed her voyage on the 7th of April. Of these emigrants forty-four were manumitted, on the condition of Colonization, by the will of the late General Blackburn of Staunton, Virginia; seven by the late Rev. John Allemong; and five by the late Mrs. Washington of Frederick county, Virginia; while four were emancipated by the Rev. C. W. Andrews of Frederick county; six by the late Jedediah Atkinson of Petersburg; seven by Thomas S. King, Esq. of Portsmouth; one by Mr. Davidson of Charlotte county; one by Mr. S. O. Moon of Albemarle county, Virginia; and two by M. A. M'Neill of Mecklenburg, North Carolina. Several others were free persons of colour from Norfolk. A number that were expected (as stated in the last Report) failed to embark in this expedition. Most of this company were young men, several of them preachers of the Gospel, and one a minister and Missionary of the Methodist Church, the Rev: Beverly R. Wilson, well known to many of our countrymen as having after a visit and examination of the Colony during fourteen months, returned to the United States for the purpose of concluding a final settlement of his affairs in Virginia and removing with his entire family to Liberia. His statements concerning the Colony, made in sundry places and before large audiences in the Northern and Middle States, convinced many that the scheme of African Colonization merited their decided and earnest support. The effects of these impressive statements were manifest at the time, and we doubt not will be permanent.

The Schooner Swift left New Orleans on the 28th of April with forty-three emigrants, recently emancipated, mostly from the State of Mississippi, and arrived (after a long passage of 46 days) at Monrovia on the 7th of July. Among these were about twenty slaves liberated for Colonization by Edward B. Randolph, of Lowndes county, Mississippi. The expenses

of this expedition were paid by the Mississippi Colonization Society, assisted by an advance of $2500 by the liberal Executor (James Railey, Esq.) of the estate of the late James Green, by whose will provision was made for the manumission of a part of his slaves (26 in number, whose removal to the Colony was mentioned in the last Report) and the application of a generous portion of his large estate to aid the object of the Society. A majority of these emigrants were young, accustomed to labor on plantations in the South, and well furnished with the utensils and stores necessary to a comfortable settlement, and the successful cultivation of the soil, in the Colony. They are represented as intelligent, moral and industrious, several of them adorning by their lives their professions of christian faith, and all as inclined before their departure from our shores to organize themselves into a Temperance Society on the principle of total abstinence from ardent spirits.

The emigrants by the Luna were landed at Monrovia, but subsequently removed to a new settlement on the Junk river, called Marshall, after the late Chief Justice of the United States. The Managers regret to add that soon after their arrival, the fever of the country prevailed among these emigrants, and that several of them fell victims to the disease.

The company by the Swift proceeded forthwith to Millsburg, about twenty miles from the coast, on the river St. Paul's, a settlement enjoying great advantages for health and agricultural pursuits.

A select company of emigrants is now preparing to sail in the Brig Rondout, chartered by the Society, from Wilmington, North Carolina. These people are from Virginia and North Carolina, and among those from the latter State is Lewis Sheridan, a free man of colour of respectability, education and property, who goes accompanied by his family and a number of his relatives, with the means and the view of devoting his time and exertions to the developement and improvement of the Agricultural resources of Liberia.

There will also go in this vessel, eighteen coloured persons, consisting of men, women and children, late the property of Dr. Shuman, of Stokes county, North Carolina, who not only generously manumitted them that they might go to Africa, but also gave them one thousand dollars in money, to be employed in their comfortable establishment in the Colony of Liberia.

The Brig Luna, Capt. Hallet, with eighty-four emigrants, fifty of whom were slaves recently liberated (on condition of their removing to the Colony) in Kentucky and Tennessee, sailed from New York on the 5th of July and arrived at Monrovia on the 19th of August. This expedition was fitted out under the direction of the Auxiliary Colonization Society of

New York City; and the emigrants proceeded forthwith to the settlement founded by the joint endeavours of that Society and the Young Men's Auxiliary Society of Pennsylvania, at Bassa Cove. Of those who liberated slaves that they might embark in this vessel, Mr. G. W. M'Elroy, the zealous and successful Agent of the New York Society,who was employed for several weeks in collecting these slaves and other emigrants together, and conducting them to the port of embarkation, records the following names, with the number manumitted by each:--From Kentucky-Mr. Marks, one; George Hailen, Esq., eleven; Thomas Hopkins, Esq., six; Benjamin Major, Esq., eleven; Col. Andrew Muldrow, ten.--From Tennessee-Mr. Alexander Donelson, eleven; Mr. Peter Fisher, six. It is to be regretted that the influence of the enemies of the Society at Pittsburg was sufficiently powerful to induce fourteen of these slaves, liberated by Messrs. Donelson and Fisher to leave the company on their way to New York, although eight hundred dollars had been placed at the disposal of the Agent for the benefit of those of Mr. Donelson after their arrival in the Colony, and four hundred for those of Mr. Fisher. Of this company nearly all were members of a Temperance Society, most of them were by profession Christians, and several preachers of the Gospel. When about to embark, in reply to an address by the Secretary of the New York Society and the encouraging remarks of other Friends of the cause, the Rev. Mr. Hening, a coloured Methodist Missionary who accompanied the expedition, responded in behalf of the Colonists in a very pertinent and impressive manner. declared himself indebted to the Colonization Society for his personal freedom, having been manumitted for the purpose of going to Liberia by his humane master in Virginia. He had been to the Colony, and after making his observations and laboring for a time as a preacher of the Gospel both among the Colonists and the Natives, had returned to the United States to improve his education and qualify himself for more extensive usefulness. Having for two years past pursued hisstudies at the Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Mass., and in other parts of New England, he was about to return and spend his life in the Colony, proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ on the shores of Africa. He expressed his heartfelt gratitude for the kindness and sympathy he had experienced, and especially for the interest then manifested in the welfare of those with whom he was about to take his departure, and in conclusion offered a fervent address to the throne of grace, which (remarks one who was present) melted all hearts and gave evidence of his high qualifications for usefulness in the field to which he is devoted."

"He

Mr. James B. Herron, a citizen of Nicholasville, Kentucky,

much interested in the welfare of the people of colour and the success of their Colonies in Africa, took passage in the Luna, resolved even without compensation to visit and examine for himself the condition and prospects of those settlements.

CONDITION AND AGRICULTURE OF THE COLONY. Although the number of applicants to the Society for the means of removal to Liberia continues to be great, the Managers have sought rather to improve the condition than increase the numbers of the Colony. They regret that causes unexpected and beyond their control have delayed the execution of some important measures and cherished purposes. Several vessels which were directed to touch at the Cape de Verds and convey thence to the Colony a number of mules and other animals, have failed to effect the object. The Captain of the Brig about to sail from North Carolina is instructed to neglect no means of introducing these animals into the Colony. The ill health of the Colonial Agent and his multiplied cares and labors have not permitted him to devote the time and thought to Agricultural improvements which were demanded by the obvious connexion of such improvements with the health, industry, and general prosperity of the Colonists. The public Farm and workshops, which are intended to give employment and support to the infirm and destitute, have not been opened, nor a Superintendent of Agriculture appointed. The Managers are assured, however, from the best sources, that on the subject of Agriculture a new spirit animates the settlers; that it prevails throughout the Colony; that this interest is regarded as one in which the well being of the people is involved; that those who have funds refuse to engage in trade, and are resolved to apply all their means to advance this interest; and finally, that should the Colonists exhibit the same zeal and energy in the cultivation of the soil during the future as during the last year, a short time only will elapse before the rich products of tropical agriculture will be exported from the Colony. We have often declared, says the intelligent Editor of the Liberia Herald, and we repeat the assertion, "that no reasonable man can desire greater facilities for an honorable living than are to be found in this country. The principal articles that are in foreign demand, if not indigenous to the country, are found springing up spontaneously through our mountains, hills, and valleys. Millions of coffee trees of sufficient sizes and ages may be gathered from the woods between this and Junk; we know from experiment that they will bear in three years from the time of transplantation; so that a man who will commence with spirit and set out 15 or 20 thousand plants, may calculate, with a good degree of certainty, on a large quantity of coffee in three years from the time he commences operation." It is, he very justly

adds, absolutely a disgrace to us to have to inquire of foreigners when they arrive, "Have you any Coffee? or can you spare me a little Sugar? It must give them a most unfavorable opinion of our good sense and industry, when they hear that the trees and plants that produce these articles are scattered with a liberal profusion through our woods, almost within our very doors."

TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE COLONY.

Of the general aspect and state of things in the Colony the Managers have nothing of very special interest to communicate since the last year. Thomas H. Buchanan, Esq. commissioned by the New York and Philadelphia Societies to superintend their settlement and concerns at Bassa Cove, on his arrival in the Colony at the commencement of the year, writes;

"I find a state of things here altogether better than I had ever anticipated, even when trying to imagine the brightest side of the picture; but with my present imperfect ability to detect the errors of first impressions, shall withhold the remarks which my feelings would prompt. I visited New Georgia, Cape Town, and Caldwell, on Tuesday last. With all these towns I was much pleased, but this term is too feeble entirely to convey the delightful emotions excited by the appearance of things in the two first named villages, which are the residences of the recaptured Africans. Imagine to yourself a level plain of some two or three hundred acres, laid off into square blocks, with streets intersecting each other at right angles, as smooth and clear as the best swept sidewalk in Philadelphia, and lined with well planted hedges of cassada and plum; houses surrounded with gardens, luxuriant with fruit and vegetables; a school-house full of orderly children, neatly dressed and studiously engaged; and then say whether I was guilty of extravagance in exclaiming as I did after surveying this most lovely scene, that had the Colonization Society accomplished nothing more than had been done in the rescue from slavery and savage habits of these three hundred happy people, I should be well satisfied." Again he remarks, "Liberia far exceeds, in almost every respect all that I had ever imagined of her-nothing is wanted, I am persuaded, but a better system of Agriculture, and the permanent establishment of schools, to bring the people of Liberia at a very early day to the very highest point of the scale of intellectual refinement and political consequence."

The Rev. Beverly R. Wilson, (whose name has been already mentioned) under date of April 26th, writes; "When I was in the U. States, I said many things in favor of the Colony; but I find that I said not half enough-Here is our home, the Colony is in good health. Farming is going on well, and all