67 00 County Judge P. Barron County--Richard Garnett, Nelson County-Collection in Bap. $10, collection in Meth. Epis. ch. in Lexington, $17.. Mercer County-James Taylor... Boyle County-Mrs. Lucinda Yeizer, for school in Ken. settlement, Africa.... Mercer County--Geo. C. Thompson, $5, Isaac Gray, A. Downing, F. G. Matheny, Henry G. Lynn, Joseph Armstrong, J.W. Daviess, Jr., Wm. Ryan, J. L. Armstrong, W. Springgatt, each 50 cents,-$9,50, less 75 cts. overcharged in Jan. No, 1847. OHIO. Warren--Mrs. Nancy Perkins, annual subscription by Hon. Jno. Crowell.. Total Contributions.... FOR REPOSITORY. 10.00 10 00 35 00 27 00 10 00 8 75 431 25 10 00 1849, $2, Dr. J. B. Andrews, to PENNSYLVANIA.--Bethlehem-Miss $1,278 25 INDIANA.-Napoleon-R'd. Fletch- NEW HAMPSHIRE.-Lyndeborough 86 50 1 50 7 30 2.00 16 00 3 00 Total Repository........$124 00 3.00 RECEIPTS FROM OTHER SOURCES. 1 50 3 CO Received from the estate of Rev. For outfit and passage of slaves From Henry Patterson, Esq., of From Mr. Peal, for the passage of THIS interesting vessel, so long and so anxiously looked for, arrived at Baltimore on the 2d ult., having sailed from Monrovia on the 9th of Jan., and from Sierra Leone on 18th do. She reached Monrovia on the 23d of Nov. having had a succession of calms on her voyage out. The emigrants were all in good health. The intelligence which the Packet brought of the condition of affairs in Liberia, is very encouraging. The first Legislature of "the Republic of Liberia" convened in Monrovia on the 3d day of Jan. His Excellency, J. J. Roberts, President of the Republic, delivered an appropriate inaugural address, before being sworn into office, after which the oath of office was administered to him, and to each of the Senators and Representatives. The Inaugural of Pres't Roberts is a temperate, dignified aud modest document, breathing a spirit of generous devotion to his country, and fraught with sound sense and liberal sentiment. It will doubtless be con sidered one of his most important and noble State papers. We publish it entire in another column, and hesitate not to place it alongside of any document of the kind which has issued from any source for the last fifteen years, knowing that it, and he, will not suffer by the comparison. The names of the gentlemen who compose the Legislative body, are mostly familiar to our readers; and are as follows: viz. SENATORS.--For Montserrado county-John N. Lewis, Hilary Teage.* For Grand Bassa county-John Hanson, William L. Weaver. For Sinoe county-James Brown, Edward Morris. REPRESENTATIVES.--For MontWilliam Draper, James B. McGill, serrado county-Dixon B. Brown, Daniel B. Warner. For Grand Bassa county-Edward Lyles, Matthew A. Rand, Henry B. Whitfield. For Sinoe county-Daniel C. McFarland. One of the most gratifying items of intelligence which we have received from any source for a long * Elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. J. B. Gripon. girls. It is hoped that old King Gray and his people will duly heed the warning which has been administered to them by the authorities of Liberia in this case. They have been given distinctly to understand that having taken shelter under the laws of Liberia, they must demean themselves accordingly, or else abide the terrible consequences. time, is the fact alluded to in the || laws of Liberia. They are boys and dispatch of President Roberts, viz: THE PURCHASE OF NEW CESTERS! This is a point which we have long desired. Here was located the only remaining slave factory between Cape Mount and Cape Palmas. Every obstacle had been thrown in the way of our getting possession of it. But we have finally succeeded, and now to the many good acts performed by the colony, another of no small import is to be added, the destruction of the last vestige of the slave trade on that coast! Our readers will not fail to notice the letter to President Roberts of the owner of the slave factory at New Cesters, and Mr. Roberts reply, both of which will be found in another column. It is much to be regretted that the officers did not succeed in capturing the owners of the slaves. They knowing that they were on a free soil, and liable to be taken and executed, were on the look out, and were cunning enough to make their escape. We are informed in our letters, and by the Liberia papers, that the state of things among the recaptives of the Pons continues very interesting. They are making great pro civilized life; while at the same time the Gospel is winning many trophies from among them. The influences of the spirit have been spreading with great effect, and ma About the middle of December last it was reported at Monrovia that a number of slaves were collected at King Gray's town, ready to be ship-gress in education, and the arts of ped by a slaver that was lying off the town, waiting his opportunity. The authorities immediately despatched officers, duly appointed, to ascertain the facts, and to capture the unfortunate slaves and their own-ny of these poor Congos, from a ers. King Gray resides within the territory of Liberia and has put himself under its jurisdiction, and is therefore amenable to it for any attempt to sell slaves. The officers on their arrival found the slaves, ready to be shipped next morning. They captured them and took them to Monrovia, where they will be apprenticed according to the depth of wretchedness, ignorance, and misery, revolting to the sensibilities of the most obdurate, are emerging into the joys of the Christian religion. We should think that these tidings from Liberia would greatly cheer the hearts of all the friends of Colonization, and at the same time awaken regrets in some good people on ac count of their apathy or opposition to the Society. These are some of the humane and Christian results of Colonization, as they are developed on the continent of Africa. In Africa's Luminary we find the following account of a canoe of native construction: NATIVE ENTERPRISE.- -A few days since we saw a vessel in the harbor 39 feet long, five feet four inches beam, and two feet eleven inches deep, rigged as a schooner, carrying about four tons, and owned by Capt. Bokah, a native of this part of the coast. Some of our readers will be surprised to learn that she was made of a single cotton tree, and more still to learn that this is but a small canoe compared to many of the same description to be seen at Sierra Leone. She has now made her second successful trip to the leeward for lime. Several Americans being present, named her Enterprise, with which the native sailors seemed quite flattered, and one of them, to our surprise, asked how we spelled the name, as he wished to write it. HEALTH OF THE MISSIONARIES.— The Luminary of the 8th of December says that Mr. Wilson was ill with intermittent fever; Mr. Morris had gone to Cape Palmas for his health's sake; Mr. Williams continued quite feeble. But no mention of this subject is made in the paper of January 12th. Mr. Levi D. James, a printer in the office of the Liberia Herald, had been shot and mortally wounded by a Congo, but it seems probable that the injury was accidental. The deceased had gone out before day break, to his farm to wait for deer which had been very destructive to his produce, and was shot while at his stand waiting for the animal. The Congo had been arrested. Mr. James was a member of the Providence Baptist Church, he has left a promising and increasing family. The Hon. J. B. Gripon, the prin cipal of the Liberia Conference Seminary, died very suddenly at his residence in Monrovia on the 27th of November. He fell from his chair without warning and died in a few moments. He had been elected Senator under the new constitution, which he assisted in framing, and was associate judge of Montserrado We have received by the Packet a bag of Liberia coffee, from the plantation of Mr. Moore. Such coffee is in demand there, we should think, as we find fifteen cents a The Rev. J. B. Benham, Superintendent of the Missions of the Me-county. thodist Episcopal Church, returned in the Packet, with his wife, both in delicate health. Dr. M. B. Beck, of the U. S. Navy, was also a passenger, and we understand he brought two African canes of Liberian man-pound are offered in specie for clean ufacture with him, one for the Pre- dry Liberia coffee, by advertisement sident of the United States, and one in their papers! for the Secretary of the Navy. May they remember, as they lean their weight upon them, that they owe something to Liberia and the African race! The slave trade is still prosecuted with vigor on some parts of the African coast. We observe that several vessels have been lately seized with large cargoes on board. 814162 At Sierra Leone it was said that || ty, concluded several years ago, bewithin the week previous two brigs, tween the British Government and under Brazilian colors, were made the Chiefs of Gallinas for the supprizes to the English government; pression of the slave trade, which one having on board 800 slaves and treaty the said Chiefs have violated. the other 750. Neither of these vessels are over 150 tons. The slaves were landed and preparations were made to cut the vessels up. The schooner Henry Clay, formerly the pilot boat of the same name, of Baltimore, was closely pursued by English men-of-war, on two different occasions, and fired into, but she finally made her escape with a cargo of slaves. This is her second voyage to the coast. The English and French cruisers are very active in chasing and capturing slavers. The U. S. sloop-of-war Jamestown, Com. Bolton, sailed from Monrovia, the 30th November, for Prince's Island-officers and crew all well. On the 9th of December the brig Louisa arrived at St. Helena, a prize to Her Majesty's steamer Heroine, with 640 slaves on board, mostly ehildren. Between seventy and eighty had died on the passage, and others continued to die at the rate of four per day. Seven other vessels had been taken prizes within two months, for being engaged in the slave trade, and had arrived at St. Helena. We have not received any thing touching the intention of Com. Hotham to destroy the slave factories at the Gallinas. We hope that ere this he has carried it into execution. The measure is authorized by a trea Still further progress has been made in the purchase of territory, and the prospect of soon securing all the unpurchased tracts between. Monrovia and Cape Palmas was good. In view of all the intelligence brought by this arrival, we can but congratulate our friends on the present condition of our affairs in Liberia. The free Republic, while in its infancy, has fairly started, with vigorous steps, in its career of industry and enterprise. According to the best estimate which can be made, and which is believed to be correct, the population of Liberia, including the natives who have subscribed the Constitution, and incorporated themselves into the government of the Republic, is upwards of eighty thousand! We transfer to our columns, from the Journal of Commerce, the following editorial remarks on this subject, and commend them to our readers for their truthfulness and their wisdom: THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.-The existence of an independent Republic of free blacks on the continent of Africa, comprising a population of 80,000 souls, including natives who have been incorporated into the Colony, is one of the most remarkable phenomena of modern times. The above estimate of po |